In a World Made of Sound, a Medium in Search of a Role
New York Times' Arts & Leisure, August 17, 2003
"It took a decade to assemble and remaster the historic material presented in EMI's Classic Archive series, 17 discs (to date) of performances by the likes of Sviatoslav Richter, Leopold Stokowski, Jascha Heifetz and Teresa Berganza. As an extra, in lieu of fancy videos, each disc offers a bonus track or two: on the Régine Crespin video, Denise Duval singing Poulenc, with the composer at the piano in 1959 and 1961; on the Igor Markevitch video, Stravinsky conducting his "Firebird" Suite in 1965... [these films] bring a generation of performers to life for those of us who never saw them."
By ANNE MIDGETTE
New York Times

LA Times, August 10, 2003
The Cult of Gould
"Glenn Gould: The Alchemist": A French documentary by Bruno Monsaingeon, made in the 1970s and newly issued on DVD by EMI Classics. Besides interviews, in which the pianist is both charming and mischievous, the film includes performances of Gibbons, Berg and, most impressively, Bach's Sixth Partita.
By SCOTT TIMBERG

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