Glenn Gould Plays Bach
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The Original Jacket Collection deluxe box sets celebrate the great legacy that is Columbia and CBS Masterworks in the 20th Century.
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Alfred Frankenstein in High Fidelity Magazine wrote, "The foremost pianist this continent has produced in recent decades," and Jay Harrison of the New York Herald Tribune said, "A pianist of divine guidance." "He plays Bach," wrote the distinguished critic Professor Heinrich Neuhaus, "as if he were one of the pupils of the Thomasaskirke cantor, sharing his meals with him in the refectory and blowing the organ when his teacher played for his parishioners... The music seems to speak through his playing; the composer has been dead long since but his music is alive today and it will live long..."
Such is the praise that greeted Glenn Gould, the distinguished Canadian pianist, throughout his long and storied career. These 12 CDs represent Gould at his finest; widely regarded as an interpretive genius, Gould was especially celebrated for his performances of Bach's keyboard works.
This Original Jacket Collection features 12 of his critically acclaimed Bach LPs, serving as a great introduction to these timeless masterpieces. An introductory essay by Gould aficionado and confidant Tim Page, specially written for this set, and excerpts from the original liner notes complete the deluxe, limited edition booklet and package.
As a bonus, a CD-Extra is included on the disc devoted to the first nine pieces of The Art of the Fugue (MS 6368) -- Gould's only recording on the organ -- offering follow-along scores, complete liner notes from the original LPs, a Glenn Gould discography, video footage of Gould discussing and playing Bach's final masterpiece, and more!
The Original Jacket Collection deluxe box sets offer handsome mini-jacket reproductions at CD size of the original LP jackets, celebrating the great legacy that is Columbia and CBS Masterworks in the 20th Century. Each set is a limited-edition, deluxe item, and each disc recreates the arrangement of repertoire on the original LP, with bonus material and an extensive 72-page booklet in three languages.
The CDs in this set re-create the following original LPs in look and sequence:
- ML 5060 (SK 64228)
Bach: Goldberg Variations
Original 1955 recording, newly remastered for this edition!
- MS 6622 (SK 64260)
Bach: Two and Three Part Inventions (Inventions and Sinfonias)
Newly remastered with Super Audio CD technology
- MS 6408 (SK 64282)
Bach: Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Volume 1
Preludes and Fugues 1-8
- MS 6538 (SK 64283)
Bach: Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Volume 2
Preludes and Fugues 9-16
- MS 6776 (SK 64284)
Bach: Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Volume 3
Preludes and Fugues 17-24
- MS 6141 (SK 64294)
Bach: Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971
Bach: Partita No.1 in B-flat Major, BWV 825
Bach: Partita No.2 in C minor, BWV 826
Newly remastered with Super Audio CD technology
- MS 6498 (SK 64297)
Bach: Partita No.3 in A minor, BWV 827
Bach: Partita No.4 in D Major, BWV 828
Bach: Toccata in E minor, BWV 914
- ML 5186 (SK 64298)
Bach: Partita No.5 in G Major, BWV 829
Bach: Fugue in F-sharp minor, BWV 883 from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II
Bach: Fugue in E Major, BWV 878 from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II
Bach: Partita No.6 in E minor, BWV 830
- M 35144 (SK 64300)
Bach: Toccatas, Volume 1
Toccatas Nos.1-3, BWV 912, 910 and 913
- M 35831 (SK 64311)
Bach: Toccatas, Volume 2
Toccatas Nos.1-3, BWV 911, 915, 916 and 914
- MS 6338 (SK 64312)
The Art of the Fugue
Contrapunctus 1-9
CD-Extra included on this disc! Video interviews of Glenn Gould discussing The Art of the Fugue; video footage of Glenn Gould playing selections from The Art of the Fugue, including a performance on the "harpsipiano", from the Glenn Gould Collection Videos (SHV 48412, 48425, 48426); complete "follow along" musical score to Contrapunctus 1 and excerpts from Nos.2-9, showing Bach's manipulation of his thematic materials; complete liner notes from the original LPs; a biography of Bach, notes on the recording; original label copy and other memorabilia; complete Sony Classical Glenn Gould Edition Discography; web browser connects to Sony Classical home page.
- MS 7001 (SK 64313)
Three Keyboard Concertos, BWV 1054, 1056 and 1058
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Golschmann
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