Thread: Charles Rosen's performance of the Goldberg Variations on SACD

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Post by samboy June 16, 2009 (1 of 5)
I've done a bunch of searches and can't find a link to Charles Rosen's performance of the Goldberg Variations on SACD. Can anyone confirm or deny if this SACD exists? If it does exist, can anyone point to a webpage describing the recording?

Thanks,

- Sam
Post by FullRangeMan June 16, 2009 (2 of 5)
samboy said:
I've done a bunch of searches and can't find a link to Charles Rosen's performance of the Goldberg Variations on SACD. Can anyone confirm or deny if this SACD exists? If it does exist, can anyone point to a webpage describing the recording?
Thanks,
- Sam
Looks this SACD do not exist or is not in this Site databank.
I do not know this Charles Rosen's Vars performance, but personaly I feel the Goldberg Vars do not fit well for a piano performance, the Goldberg partiture are suited for a organ performance, not a piano one.
And the only Goldberg organ performance I like is the Gunther Rost on Oehms Classics OC-636 Bach: Goldberg Variations - Gunther Rost
This is a new arrangement, with a fast tempo, with only 44m54s, not the long, slow performance 74minutes. This is the only Goldberg performance I can listen to the end, this new fast tempo arrangement
turned the Goldberg Vars on a piece of easy listening music, a hit, you can listen the samples on JPC or Amazon links.
Regards,
Post by tream June 16, 2009 (3 of 5)
samboy said:

I've done a bunch of searches and can't find a link to Charles Rosen's performance of the Goldberg Variations on SACD. Can anyone confirm or deny if this SACD exists? If it does exist, can anyone point to a webpage describing the recording?

Thanks,

- Sam
Were you possibly thinking of Glenn Gould? Both recorded for Columbia/Sony, of course.
Post by Claude June 16, 2009 (4 of 5)
A Google search digs up this sentence, which was written for the Wikipedia article on SACD, but deleted later:

"in 2005 Sony Music Entertainment (Germany) GmbH released Charles Rosen's performance of the Goldberg Variations as a hybrid SACD with 16-bit PCM and DSD 5.1 surround but no DSD stereo)"

http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:9qGTRqzr034J:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Audio_CD+%22Charles+Rosen%22+goldberg+sacd&cd=9&hl=en&ct=clnk&client=opera

http://www.psaudio.com/ps/wiki/sacd/

This is either an error, or it was one of those strange limited edition releases for the german BMG music club, having no SACD stereo layer and a multichannel layer which was processed artificially from the stereo master.

Here's a discussion about these SACDs:

http://ww.sa-cd.net/showthread/4588/4599
Post by Claude June 16, 2009 (5 of 5)
Hmm, looks like samboy deleted that sentence from Wikipedia.

Anyway, he's no longer interested in this thread. Read his user profile ...

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