Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 1 A 1 Clav. - 1955 Version
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 2 A 1 Clav. - 1955 Version
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 3 A 1 Clav. Canone All' Unisuono - 1955 Version
Goldberg Variations BWV 988: Variation 4 A 1 Clav.
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 5 A 1 Ovvero 2 Clav. - 1955 Version
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 6 A 1 Clav. Canone Alla Seconda
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Variation 7 A 1 Ovvero 2 Clav.
Overture In The French Style, BWV 831 - I. Ouverture
Prelude & Fugue No. 1 In C Major, BWV 846: Prelude
Prelude & Fugue No. 1 In C Major, BWV 846: Fugue
Prelude & Fugue No. 9 In E Major, BWV 854: Prelude
Prelude & Fugue No. 9 In E Major, BWV 854: Fugue
Italian Concerto In F Major, BWV 971: I. - Version Of 1959
Italian Concerto In F Major, BWV 971: II. Andante - Version Of 1959
Italian Concerto In F Major, BWV 971: III. Presto Version Of 1959
Partita No. 6 In E Minor, BWV 830: I. Toccata
English Suite No. 1 In A Major, BWV 806 - VII. Sarabande
English Suite No. 5 In E Minor, BWV 810 - VII. Gigue
English Suite No. 3 In G Minor, BWV 808: I. Prélude
Toccata In E Minor, BWV 914
Invention No. 1 In C Major, BWV 772
Sinfonia No. 1 In C Major, BWV 787
Invention No. 11 In G Minor, BWV 782
Sinfonia No. 11 In G Minor, BWV 797
Aria Da Capo From Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
Sonata In G Major, K 13 L 486
Lord Of Salisbury Pavan And Galliard
Die Meistersinger, Prelude, Act I Piano Transcription
Four Ballades, Op. 10, No. 4 In B Major - Andante Con Moto
Symphony No. 5 In C Minor, Op. 67: I. Allegro Con Brio
"Kyllikki" - Three Lyric Pieces For Piano, Op. 41: II. Andantino
Variations Chromatiques De Concert : Theme. Moderato Maestoso -
Variations Chromatiques De Concert : Var. 1. Un Pochissimo Piu Allegretto -
Variations Chromatiques De Concert : Var. 2. A Tempo Rubato -
Variations Chromatiques De Concert : Var. 3. A Tempo Risoluto -
Variations Chromatiques De Concert : Var. 4. Con Fuoco -
Variations Chromatiques De Concert : Var. 5. -
Variations Chromatiques De Concert : Var. 6. Agitato -
Variations Chromatiques De Concert : Var. 7. -
Variations Chromatiques De Concert : Var. 8. Con Espressione -
Variations Chromatiques De Concert : Var. 9. Un Peu Plus Vite -
Variations Chromatiques De Concert : Var. 10. Alla Polacca -
Variations Chromatiques De Concert : Var. 11. Andante -
Variations Chromatiques De Concert : Var. 12. Plus Anime -
Variations Chromatiques De Concert : Var. 13. Mouvt. Des Ires Variations -
Variations Chromatiques De Concert : Var. 14. Appassionato -
Variations Chromatiques De Concert : Coda. Semplice: Un Peu Plus Lent: Quasi Recitativo: A Tempo
Sonata No. 16 In C Major For Piano, K. 545: I. Allegro
Sonata No. 16 In C Major For Piano, K. 545: II. Andante
Sonata No. 16 In C Major For Piano, K. 545: III. Rondo. Allegretto
Sonata No. 2 In A Major, Op. 2, No. 2 - IV. Rondo. Grazioso
Deux Morceaux, Op. 57 - No. 2: Caresse Dansée
Sonata For Piano In B Minor, Op. 5: II. Adagio Cantabile
Sonata In E-Flat Major, Hob.XVI: 49 - III. Finale. Tempo Di Minuet
Frogtoon Music Album Info: The Essential Glenn Gould
Published: 06 Jun 2010, 21:38
It May Be That The Best Way To Experience Late Canadian Pianist Glenn Gould Is To Listen To One Of His Classic Bach Recordings Straight Through For In Addition To His Distinctive Not To Say Quirky Approach To Local Textures He Was A Formidable Architectural Thinker. Gould Has Receded Far Enough Into The Past However That There Must Be A Sizable Contingent Of Potential Buyers For This Essential Glenn Gould Collection. There Are A Lot Of Famous Gould Recordings On Here Humming And All. The Question Is Whether The 50/50 Bach/non-Bach Division The First CD Is All Bach The Second Devoted To Other Composers Is The Right One For This Collection. Gould's Bach Was Idiosyncratic But Widely Thought Brilliant. The Same Is Not True For His Readings Of Other Composers Which Start At Idiosyncratic And Decline To Downright Insulting. There Is No Reason To Include Gould's Recording Of Mozart's Piano Sonata In C Major K. 545 In A Set Of This Kind Gould Himself Said That He Recorded Mozart Only To Show That Mozart Died Not Too Soon But Too Late. His Scarlatti Also Marked By Dislike Is Hardly More Listenable And Even With Beethoven There Are Few Who Would Call Gould's Readings Essential. Not All Is Lost On Disc Two However Haydn Curiously Receives More Respectful Treatment And Gould Who Was Full Of Surprises Deliverd Several In The Form Of Little-Known Pieces That One Would Never Have Expected Him To Record. Especially Intriguing Is The Set Of Variations Chromatiques Of Bizet Which Achieves An Unsuspected Rhapsodic Intensity In Gould's Hands The Little Piece From Sibelius' Kyllikki Is Another Mostly Forgotten Find. The Bach Side Is Fine With A Complete Italian Concerto Reasonable Representations Of The Small Keyboard Works That Were Essential Components Of The Classical Listener's Living Room In The 1960s And A Good Chunk Of The Recording That Made Gould Famous The 1955 Version Of The Goldberg Variations BWV 988. The Aria Theme From Gould's Valedictory 1981 Re-Recording Of The Piece Bookends The Bach Program. It May Be That A 75/25 Proportion Would Have Allowed For Some More Extended Bach Excerpts. But It's Also True That Gould Was Nothing If Not Outrageous And That A Basic Collection Of His Music Should Embody That Aspect Of His Personality. Informative Notes Are In English And French And The Remastering Aided By The Fact That Gould's Recordings Were Obsessively Produced In The First Place Is Smooth.