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Just listened to Gould’s unusual Brahms Intermezzi (See Music Board) via the Loudspeakers for the first time. The speakers were powered by the MA-9S2s. Of course I’ve noticed before how Gould deconstructs these pieces. Today I took advantage of the refined, natural sound and I really relaxed and let the Sound and the Music come to me. Naturally, the structure is unusual, and The Loudspeakers certainly reveal that. I could also hear how Gould re-built these pieces temporally, with some surprisingly long and meandering expositions, and how he managed to re-time the notes without losing the emotional melodic threads that join them. The Loudspeakers have no trouble making Music from the sometimes jumbled or "isolated" notes, and they clearly re-create the tumultuous sections, where Gould holds the sustain pedal as he pours forth the notes, which ring and continue ringing as more notes are added, growing into bell-like sonorities, which are sometimes downright thunderous. Folks, this is the sort of thing one might hear from a good seat at a live Gould concert in a nice venue. It’s a great LP/recording, with more attention paid to Gould’s playing than his humming, and The Loudspeakers put the icing on the Musical Cake. Got an "unknown error" code when I tried to upload a photo of the album sleeve,  but I think I listed it on the Music board "review".>>

Paul S

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