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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:

2.Hannibal from: Universal Classics March 11, 2002
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There are few occasions these days where music will take your emotions to the depths of despair and up to the highest cloud and back before the album is finished. Mostly this happens in film soundtracks and Hannibal is easily one of the finest. There is humour, sadness, heart-pounding atmosphere and some pieces that will make your heart sing and sent your soul alight as the finest music does, and should. The highlight of the album is Vide cor Meum by Patrick Cassidy - the album is worth buying for this alone. When I first watched the film I became determined to discover which great opera that piece was from, not realising that it was written specially for the film. Rarely will you find a piece of music that makes you want to simply sit back, ... Read More:

3.Bach - Goldberg Variations (1955) from: Sony Classical July 26, 2004
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Sony's earlier release of this set, dating from as lately as 1992, is still available, but I'm sure they have some terribly good reason for reissuing it now. There is a reference to remastering of the sound, but I can't find out whether this is against the 1992 issue or the original one from 1955. The new disc sounds much like the old one to me, the sound of that was excellent (particularly for engineering now half a century old), and as for the performance... This is the recording that first announced the Gould supernova to the musical world. He was 22 years old in 1955, he disavowed this account when he recorded the work again in1981, but much as I admire the latter this is the one for me. It is historic in more ways than one. In the first place ... Read More:

4.Glenn Gould: A State of Wonder - The Complete Goldberg Variations from: Sony Classical September 09, 2002
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Glenn Gould plays the music beatifully on both recordings. He plays more slowly and smoothly in the 1981 recording than in the 1955 recording. The 1955 recording is really exciting and the 1981 recording is so elegant. The 1955 recording is dramatic and so fast that it lasts for half an hour. The 1981 recording is extremely slow that it last for an hour.

5.Brahms - Piano Works from: Sony Classics March 08, 1993
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Gould was not too sure about Beethoven and downright contemptuous of Mozart, but about Brahms he entertained no doubts at all. Let me say without more ado that this disc has some of the greatest Brahms-playing I ever heard or ever expect to. If one thing more than any made an impression on me, it was his handling of the central part of the G minor rhapsody. This sequence is in a uniquely Brahmsian mood and tone, like the passages marked 'tranquillo' in the middle of the finale of the second symphony and in the slow section of the tragic overture. None of these are lyrical in style and Brahms doesn't actually say 'tranquillo' here in the rhapsody, but the feel is the same. The one thing I can put my finger on explicitly is the way Gould gives the right prominence to the ... Read More:

6.Bach - Keyboard Concertos from: Sony Classics June 19, 1995
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Glenn Gould's view of concerto form was largely negative, but the baroque concerto with its less flamboyant solo role was more acceptable to him. Here we have 6 concertos, wonderfully integrated between orchestra & soloist. No.1 is the most substantial & achieves transcendental levels even for Bach. Gould's playing is equal to the greatness of the music, displaying fluidity in the outer movements & intensity in the adagio. The other concertos meet with similar success: try the largo from no.5 where Gould plays a single note melody against plucked string background...who else could achieve such a poignant result? Concertos 3&7 will be familiar as violin concertos but they succeed equally well in Gould's performances. All the orchestral parts come from a time ... Read More:

7.Bach: Two- and Three-Part Inventions (The Glenn Gould Edition) from: Sony Classics March 08, 1993
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I somehow seem to have caught a certain negativity of feeling towards Gould. People told me he was a showman, not really a musician, too egotistical to let the music really shine through. So it was with trepidation that I listened to this recording for the first time (the first time I had heard Gould. All of my other recordings of Bach are by women, namely Roslyn Tureck and Martha Argerich. I somehow believed that only a woman could really have the patience to devote their time to such unpretentious music (well, unpretentious compared to someone like Prokofiev, which Argerich plays so I don't know what I was thinking!) And yet somehow my Roslyn Tureck recordings never seemed to hit the spot. Now I have heard Gould, and I shall never look back!! What ... Read More:

8.Bach - (6) French Suites by: Johann Sebastian Bach, Glenn Gould September 09, 2002
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I somehow seem to have caught a certain negativity of feeling towards Gould. People told me he was a showman, not really a musician, too egotistical to let the music really shine through. So it was with trepidation that I listened to this recording for the first time (the first time I had heard Gould. All of my other recordings of Bach are by women, namely Roslyn Tureck and Martha Argerich. I somehow believed that only a woman could really have the patience to devote their time to such unpretentious music (well, unpretentious compared to someone like Prokofiev, which Argerich plays so I don't know what I was thinking!) And yet somehow my Roslyn Tureck recordings never seemed to hit the spot. Now I have heard Gould, and I shall never look back!! What ... Read More:

9.Bach: Partitas, Preludes Fugues (Glenn Gould Edition) from: Sony Classics December 06, 1993
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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 assure you that although there may be ... Read More:

10.Byrd/Gibbons/Sweelinck: Keyboard Works from: Glenn Gould Edition July 05, 1993
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Gould's often cited his favourite composer was Orlando Gibbons. I think he found the uncluttered simplicity of Gibbons very close to his own aesthetic. Discussing Byrd, he saw him as the dashing, exuberant cousin, very much a public man contrasting Gibbons' intimate modesty. Having been brought up in the Anglican tradition Gould no doubt was exposed to Elizabethan music in the church services of his youth. He said he wore out two LP copies of Alfred Deller's recording Gibbons' Services. This for him was music stripped of all the stresses of the modern world, a place to seek refuge. That he came to record a disc of Elizabethan music is hardly surprising. Byrd's flashing counterpoint sits so perfectly in Gould's hands, as ever the crystalline precision of playing sounds thrilling ... Read More:

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