Oh, yeah. I should have remembered that! I took enough back when they were legal for the all-nighters studying for pcol tests. I didn't know he self-medicated. Thanks.
You say that he changed the way you've listened to the sonatas. Do you like his interpretations (in general)? Or do they enlighten you and cause you to look more skeptically at other interpretations? What do you think of the Appassionata?
Thanks for the ping. I’m already on the Classical Music ping list! Gould actually hated the Appassionata. He said on his own Beethoven poll it would rank somewhere between the Wellington’s Victory Symphony and the King Stephen Overture (at or near the bottom) and was filled with ‘belligerent rhetoric’. For that matter he claimed to dislike almost all music written between 1750 and 1850.