Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould was a fascinating and exceptional artist with an unparalleled musical imagination, as well as extraordinary technical precision, a genius pianist, and the greatest interpreter of Bach's works. His creations are timeless and delight not only critics and enthusiasts of classical music but also novice listeners. Despite deciding at one point in his life to stop performing, he continued to win the hearts of music lovers. He was called an eccentric master, 'the James Dean of the piano,' a genius, a nonconformist, and a world-class musician. A madman and a perfectionist, who hummed to himself while playing Bach, because he lived and breathed the music of Bach. Full of passion and obsession. Lost in music, in the process of creation. The world was his stage, and the studio was his entire universe. Sitting at his small piano desk, he did not simply play the works of Mozart, Beethoven, Schönberg, Hindemith, Brahms, or his beloved Johann Sebastian Bach – he gave them a new form in a delicate, individual, and wonderful way. This year, this genius would have celebrated his 80th birthday. His legacy is a collection of historical masterpieces that will never be forgotten.

GLENN GOULD'S RELEASES

1. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Bach: Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - The Historic 1955 Debut Recording; The 1981 Digital Recording

Premiere 28.08.2012
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2 CD 88725411822 887254118220
The legendary debut album of pianist Glenn Gould, who gained worldwide fame and recognition thanks to his interpretations of Bach's works.


2. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Bach: Two-Part Inventions & Three-Part Sinfonias BWV 772-801; Toccatas BWV 910-916

Premiere 28.08.2012
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3 CD 88725411882 887254118824

The release 'Glenn Gould plays Bach: Two-Part Inventions & Three-Part Sinfonias BWV 772-801; Toccatas BWV 910-916' is another proof of the genius of Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, who continually delights with his musical imagination and inventive interpretations of Bach's works.


3. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Bach: English Suites BWV 806-811; French Suites BWV 812-817; Overture in the French

Premiere 28.08.2012
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4 CD 88725411892 887254118923

The wonderful pianist Glenn Gould in incredible interpretations of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach.


4. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Books I & II, BWV 846-893

Premiere 28.08.2012
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4 CD 88725412692 887254126928

Preludes and fugues by J.S. Bach in the interpretation of the wonderful Glenn Gould.


5. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Bach: 6 Partitas BWV 825-830; Chromatic Fantasy BWV 903; Italian Concerto BWV 971; The Art of the Fugue BWV 1080 (excerpts); Preludes, Fugues & Fantasies

Premiere 28.08.2012
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4 CD 88725412772 887254127727

A four-disc edition presenting Bach's creativity, performed by the world-renowned pianist - Glenn Gould.


6. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Bach: Piano Concertos Nos. 1–5 BWV 1052-1056 & No. 7 BWV 1058

Premiere 28.08.2012
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2 CD 88725412802 887254128021

Beautiful piano concertos by J.S. Bach in the masterful performance of Glenn Gould.


7. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Bach: The 6 Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord BWV 1014-1019; The 3 Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord

Premiere 28.08.2012
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2 CD 88725412822 887254128229

Wonderful Bach sonatas in arrangements by Glenn Gould.


8. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3; 5-10; 12-14; 15-18; 23; 30-32

Premiere 28.08.2012
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6 CD 88725412862 887254128625

Piano sonatas by Ludwig van Beethoven composed between 1795 - 1822 in the arrangement of the wonderful Glenn Gould.


9. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Beethoven: 32 Variations WoO 80; 'Eroica' Variations op. 35; 6 Variations op. 34; Bagatelles op. 33 & op. 126; Piano Sonata No. 24 'À Thérèse'

Premiere 28.08.2012
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2 CD 88725412872 887254128724

Glenn Gould presents his amazing interpretations of Beethoven's piano variations.


10. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Beethoven: The 5 Piano Concertos

Premiere 28.08.2012
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3 CD 88725412882 887254128823

Piano concertos by Ludwig van Beethoven in the interpretation of Glenn Gould.

11. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 & Symphony No. 6 (Mvt. I); Glenn Gould conducts & plays Wagner: Siegfried Idyll; Gould's Transcriptions of Meistersinger: Prelude Act. I, Götterdämmerung: Dawn & Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Siegfried Idyll

Premiere 28.08.2012
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2 CD 88725412892 887254128922

The legendary 5th Symphony of Ludwig van Beethoven, as well as Siegfried Idyll by Richard Wagner in the performance of Glenn Gould.


12. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Brahms: 4 Ballades op. 10; 2
Rhapsodies op. 79; 10 Intermezzi

Premiere 28.08.2012
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2 CD 88725412902 887254129028

Wonderful Brahms ballades, composed in 1854 and rhapsodies from 1879 in the performance of Glenn Gould.

13. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Haydn: 6 Late Piano Sonatas - Hob. XVI Nos. 42 & 48- 52; No. 49 (Recordings of 1958 & 1981)

Premiere 28.08.2012
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2 CD 88725412932 887254129325

Piano sonatas by Haydn in the interpretation of Glenn Gould .


14. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Hindemith: 3 Piano Sonatas;
5 Sonatas for Brass & Piano; Das Marienleben

Premiere 28.08.2012
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4 CD 88725413572 887254135722

Works by Paul Hindemith - a famous German composer, in the arrangement of Glenn Gould.


15. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Mozart: The Piano Sonatas (No. 10: Recordings of 1958 & 1970); Fantasias K. 397 & K. 475; Fantasia & Fugue K. 394; Piano Concerto No. 24 K. 491

Premiere 28.08.2012
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5 CD 88725413592 887254135920

Wonderful piano sonatas by Mozart, performed by the incredible Glenn Gould.


16. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Schoenberg: Klavierstücke opp. 11, 19, 23, 33; Piano Suite op. 25; Piano Concerto op. 42; Fantasy for Violin & Piano op. 47; Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte op. 41; Lieder opp. 1; 2; 3; 6; 12; 14; 15; 48

Premiere 28.08.2012
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4 CD 88725413642 887254136422

Glenn Gould presents the works of Arnold Schoenberg - an Austrian composer, a pioneer of dodecaphonic and atonal music, considered part of the esteemed second Viennese school.


17. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Richard Strauss: Ophelia Lieder op. 67; Enoch Arden op. 38; Piano Sonata op. 5; 5 Piano Pieces op. 3

Premiere 28.08.2012
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2 CD 88725413702 887254137023

Works by Richard Strauss, including Ophelia Lieder and piano sonatas in arrangements by Glenn Gould.


18. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Renaissance & Baroque Music: Byrd; Gibbons; Sweelinck; Handel: Suites for Harpsichord Nos. 1-4 HWV 426-429; D. Scarlatti: Sonatas K. 9, 13, 430; C.P.E. Bach: 'Württembergische Sonate' No. 1

Premiere 28.08.2012
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2 CD 88725413722 887254137221

On two discs, the most wonderful Renaissance and Baroque works performed by Glenn Gould can be found.


19. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould in Concert: Live in Salzburg 1959 - Bach: Goldberg Variations BWV 988; Live in Moscow 1957 - Bach: Three-Part Sinfonias BWV 788-801; Live in Leningrad 1957 - Bach: Piano Concerto No. 1 BWV 1052; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 op. 19

Premiere 28.08.2012
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2 CD 88725413732 887254137320

Concert recordings of the wonderful Glenn Gould. On two discs, you can find, among others, his performances in Moscow from 1957 and also from Salzburg in 1959.


20. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould plays Sonatas, Fantasies, Variations: Scriabin; Prokofiev; Grieg, Sibelius; Berg; Krenek; Schumann; Bizet; Morawetz

Premiere 28.08.2012
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4 CD 88725413742 887254137429

Sonatas, fantasies, and piano variations by artists such as Prokofiev, Berg, or Schumann performed by Glenn Gould.


21. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould Plays Strauss

Premiere 04.09.2012
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1 CD 88725441362 887254413622

The recordings of 'Ophelia-Lieder' were made in January 1966. Glenn Gould was accompanied by the world-renowned soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Although Gould was greatly impressed by her vocal skills, the recording session almost ended in failure: Schwarzkopf was known for her strict reading of the score, while Gould had a rather free approach to the composer's instructions. Nevertheless, the result of this collaboration is an extraordinary recording of Strauss's work.


22. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE This is Glenn Gould - Story of a Genius

Premiere 18.09.2012
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2 CD 88725423932 887254239321

A wonderful introduction to the creativity, life, and musical style of Glenn Gould. The two-disc album contains the artist's biography and almost two hundred pages of a booklet with many previously unpublished photographs. CD1 contains recordings of Bach, while CD2 features amazing interpretations of works by various composers, including Liszt, Mozart, Brahms, and Scriabin.


23. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould Bach Edition

Premiere 18.09.2012
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38CD+6DVD 88691961142 886919611427

An exceptional, exclusive box presenting the complete collection of Bach: all albums and videos. The first complete edition, containing the entire legacy of Bach in a Deluxe box containing 38 CDs + 6 DVDs along with complete, original booklets, partially written by Glenn Gould himself and with a new introduction by an expert on Gould's creativity - Michael Stegemann. The DVDs contain 40 minutes of previously unpublished conversation between Glenn Gould and Curtis Davis. Gould discusses his ongoing discovery of Bach, what his works mean to him, and the change in his attitude towards music and its performers.


24. PERFORMER Glenn Gould
TITLE Glenn Gould - The Acoustic Orchestrations - Works by Scriabin and Sibelius

Premiere 25.09.2012
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2 CD 88725406572 887254065722

The Acoustic Orchestrations presents the virtuosic Piano Sonata No. 5, recorded by Gould in 1970, and for the first time, fully 'orchestrated' but never fully realized during his lifetime. The reconstruction and realization of the Scriabin recording is the work of Gould's student, Paul Théberge, who says: 'Sonata No. 5 was Gould's first and most ambitious multi-channel experiment: many microphones were placed throughout the studio, Gould planned his final mixes like a film editor assembling a series of close-ups and distances, sharp cuts, and dispersions. The results, in turn, are subtle yet dramatic, giving an acoustic dimension to musical recordings that truly possess an 'orchestral' character.' The release also includes a new multi-track mix of two preludes by Scriabin and a previously released recording of Sibelius, allowing for a closer insight into Gould's technique.