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1.Bach: The Art of the Fugue by: Glenn Gould
September 09, 2002
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The Church that Gould recorded the first nine works in Bach's seminal 'Art of the Fugue' burned down before he got round recording remaining pieces: a great shame given the masterful playing on this CD. People forget (or simply have no idea) that Gould studied organ alongside piano at Toronto Conservatory. He graduated in both instruments aged 12! Gould's mother was organist at a Toronto Anglican church, so not surprisingly organ playing was very much in Gould's blood and may go a long way to explaining his remarkable abilities in contrapuntal music.

Original reviews of this set (when it came out on LP) complained about the closeness of the recording, the microphones shoved close-up to the pipes. This was part of the Gould plan, ... Read More:

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Comments: The Art of Fugure, BMV 1080 (excerpts). Contrapunctus I-IX (organ); Contrapunctus I, II, IV, IX, XI, XIII and XIV (piano); Prelude & Fugue on the name of B-A-C-H, BWV 898.

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