On October 23, 2020, the album Uninvited Guests was released in the name of Glenn Gould. Works of the departed artist kept being released during 38 years after his death, but this new album surprised almost everyone who listened to it. It wasn’t another record accomplished by Gould in the studio, but ‘an adventurous compilation of nine tracks using Gould samples in pop, electronic and hip hop settings’. For one of those nine tracks of the remix album, the production team from Canada took samples from Sonata No. 1 in C Major for Piano, K. 279:I. Allegro of Mozart played by Gould to make a hip-hop song, in which the vocalist sang ‘better than the rest because I’m Baetoven, put up all my strength like I’m Baetoven, bet she let me in cauz I’m Baetoven……’
在2020年10月23日，一张名为Uninvited Guests的专辑》以格伦·古尔德的名义发行了。 这位已故艺术家的作品在他去世后的38年里一直在发行，但这张新专辑仍惊讶了几乎它的每一个听众。 这不是古尔德在录音室里完成的另一项唱片，而是“提取古尔德样本来制作的流行音乐、电子音乐和嘻哈音乐的大胆的合集”。来自加拿大的制作团队采样了古尔德演奏的莫扎特钢琴奏鸣曲No.1,第一乐章，将其制成一首嘻哈歌曲，歌手在这首歌中唱到：“我比大家都强因为我是贝抖芬；我竭尽全力因为我是贝抖芬；她一定会接受我因为我是贝抖芬......”
Some Gould’s fans consider the newly released album as a piece of art that started something new, while others find it quite offensive, one fan even shouted bluntly in his comment, ‘god, this is sacrilegious!’
一些古尔德的粉丝认为新发行的专辑是一个别开生面的尝试，而另一些人则认为它相当令人不快，一位粉丝甚至直言不讳地评论道：“天啊，这可是要遭天谴的 !’
The album got its name from one of the interviews of Glenn Gould in which he referred to future artists as ‘uninvited guests’. Would Gould also feel uneasy or offended about the album just like many of his fans?
这张专辑的名字来自格伦·古尔德的一次采访，他在其中将未来的艺术家称之为“不请自来的客人’。 那么古尔德是否也会像他的许多粉丝一样对这张专辑感到不满或生气？
Well, Glenn Gould himself, was once regarded as a iconclaster, an eccentric genius, someone that didn’t follow the common template. In 1955, he gave performance in the US, playing The Goldberg Variations, and thus bounded into fame. Gould gave concerts all over the world in the following 9 years, but had never come back to the stage after his concert at LA in 1964. Glenn Gould gave up giving concerts altogether, and chose to record complete sets of piano works in studios, which is incredible for an pianist.
格伦·古尔德自己，曾经被认为是一个打破旧习者，一个怪才，一个不按常理出牌的人。 1955年，他在美国表演，因演奏《哥德堡变奏曲》而一举成名。 在接下来的9年里，古尔德在世界各地举办了音乐会，但在1964年他在洛杉矶的音乐会后，他再也没有回到舞台上。 格伦·古尔德彻底放弃了举办音乐会，并选择在工作室录制成套钢琴作品，这样的行为对一个钢琴家来说是不可理喻的。
Gould also surprised people with his special interpretations of Mozart. Many consider his playing of Mozart very Bach-like, very destructive in comparison with other versions given by other pianists. But Gould played this way not to steal the spotlight, on the contrary, he had an insightful study of music and took every piece needed to be played very seriously.
古尔德对莫扎特的特殊诠释也使人们感到惊讶。 许多人认为他演奏的莫扎特非常像巴赫，与其他钢琴家的其他版本相比非常具有颠覆性。 但古尔德这样演奏并不是为了哗众取宠，相反，他对音乐有深刻的研究和独到的见地，并非常认真地对待每一首需要演奏的作品。
The eccentric artist, if he’s still alive, may probably express his abomination to the remix done by his ‘uninvited guests’,for he really cherished his works; or he may just happy to meet other iconclasters from the younger generation? We would never know.
这位古怪的艺术家还活着的话，很可能会表达他对他的“不速之客”所做的混音的憎恶，因为他真的很珍视他的作品；又或许他也乐于见见这些像他一样不走寻常路的年轻艺术家？ 只可惜我们永远不会知道了。
Author: Qin Hailan
Date: October 28, 2020
