The classical-music world seems to run on birthday celebrations plucked from its endless roll call of dead masters (is this The classical-music world seems to run on birthday celebrations plucked from ...

Our view of a composer is a mosaic, whose tiles are the insights drawn from hearing dozens, perhaps hundreds, of performances — in concert, through headphones, in our memory. Every musician — every ...

For our ongoing exploration of the Goldberg Variations this week, we wanted to get the point of view of one of Deceptive Cadence's good friends, Leif Ove Andsnes, to ask about his favorite Goldberg ...

What's going on here, I can only guess, but here's what you're about to see: In the video below, the great musician Glenn Gould, supreme interpreter of Bach, is sitting at his living room piano on a ...

Pianist Glenn Gould rocketed to fame in 1955 with his startling and original take on Bach's Goldberg Variations. Gould's fans were treated to a remake of Goldbergs in 1982, when he released a ...

Concert pianists are notoriously temperamental, but with good reason: Their pianos are, too. Why else would J.S. Bach specify a "well-tempered clavier"? The modern piano is a jury-rigged contraption ...

Today would have been Glenn Gould’s eightieth birthday. He was a true musical genius—not just a talented performer but also a great musical intellectual. He was an important aesthetic philosopher ...

Regarding David Mermelstein's "A Cultural Conversation with Murray Perahia" (Leisure & Arts, March 26): I find Mr. Perahia's assertion that "when I was growing up in the 1950s and 1960s, people didn't ...

Glenn Gould — in his usual stage posture with his legs crossed and seated at a chair built by his father — performs in New York in 1960, four years before he played his final public recital in Los ...

Few classical recordings have aroused as much fascination as Glenn Gould’s 1981 take on Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. Gould, whose first major-label recording was a classic 1955 account of the ...