Mozart: Great Piano Sonatas (Glenn Gould)

I was going to say I'd never noticed Glenn Gould's humming before. Then I found that that's not true: I said the very same thing three years ago.

I bought this the same day as my other Gould album. Both Gould and Mozart are household names, even to classically ignorant people like me; the CD is designed and packaged very nicely; and it was cheap. So I felt I couldn't go wrong, and I don't think I did.

But I really am ignorant about this stuff. The only piece I recognise is the famous and near-ubiquitous Turkish Rondo from the 11th Sonata.

Footnote: I notice the recording on this compilation were all done in the same 30th Street Studio in New York where Kind of Blue was also recorded. I happen still to have Lucy's CD of that on top of my hi-fi, after reading Richard Williams' book about it.

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