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Bach: Partitas, Preludes Fugues (Glenn Gould Edition)
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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 5099705259726
Label: Sony Classics
Manufacturer: Sony Classics
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Sony Classics
Release Date: December 06, 1993
Running Time: 138 minutes
Studio: Sony Classics
Sales Rank: 37568

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- music for the soul and the heart
From all of bach's works, this (the partitas) is my favourite one. Compared to similar compositions i'd say that it's not as simple as the french suites neither strict and cerebral as the english suites. There are of course greater works but to me this speaks straight to the soul and the heart. Each partita is different from the other, with the even-numbered ones going further than the odd-numbered. For me, the best is the fourth, especially in this rendition by glenn gould (the allemande here seems more of an anthem rather than a dance,and probably that's what bach ment it to be). I am not a pianist therefore i can not judge his piano playing. i am a guitarist though and i think i can appreciate his effort from another point of view. And i ... Read More:

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- A Superabundance of Notes
I have listened to this CD perhaps two hundred times and I am sad to say that the return for so doing has been distinctly Sibylline. Gould's incontinence as a pianist is all-weaning and poor old Johann barely gets a look in.
These diachronic duets are an interesting idea but perhaps emerge more from the desire of record companies to bolster falling fughetta sales than out of an authentic spirit of collaboration. Gould constantly reproves Bach, sotto voce, and one does not have to work hard to picture his rough Canadian hands outpacing those of the Teuton and beating him to nearly ever note.
I would cautions listeners from making my mistake and, purely as an aside, suggest they guard against parting with money for Elton John's Sing ... Read More:

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- There is SO much of value on this CD.
This great-value double CD contains over 140 minutes of Glenn Gould playing unaccompanied pieces by Bach on the piano. There are 6 partitas (an old form of the sonata) recorded in 1957, just 2 years after his astonishing debut, and then a considerable number of preludes, fugues and fughettas recorded in 1980, at the end of Gould's career, just before he died. So what you get is a nice broad sweep of the Canadian genius' career, and an awful lot of Bach. The playing, as one expects from Gould, is charming, truthful, clear, fluent, enthusiastic, dazzling. He seems to be able to read the textures of the counter-point so well, and can carry 5 or 6 tunes at once with apparent ease. The 1st and 4th partitas are remarkably beautiful, and the two groups ... Read More:

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