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Just as Miles Davis' Kind of Blue was one of those jazz albums you saw in the collections of people who otherwise didn't listen to jazz, Glenn Gould's 1955 LP of Bach's Goldberg Variations stuck out ...

In 1955, a little known Canadian pianist recorded the Goldberg Variations. The album launched Glenn Gould's career and popularized Bach's music.... The Gould That Didn't Glitter: New Box Set Of ...

Disc 1: 1. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria 2. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 1 3. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 2 4. Goldberg Variations, BWV ...

Examples of Johann Sebastian Bach played on piano are a dime-a-dozen today, but it was not always this way. Before Glenn Gould's seismic debut with the Goldberg Variations (Columbia) in 1955, Bach's ...

Prepared, shot and edited over a period of five years from 1976 to 1981, the three-part series Glenn Gould Plays Bach has so far only been seen via the limited parameters of television transmission.

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. I know next to nothing about classical music, so I leave it to our ...

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 ...

With nearly 200 recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations on the market, how do you choose? Beyond Glenn Gould: Five Great 'Goldberg Variations' Beyond Glenn Gould: Five Great 'Goldberg Variations' ...

H. Butin, ed., Gerhard Richter, Editionen 1965-1993, Catalogue Raisonné, Kunsthalle Bremen, 1993, p. 135, no. 50 (another example illustrated in color). H. Butin, S ...