4.4 out of 5 stars 76 ratings. [29] He associated this drift towards hedonism with the emergence of a cult of showmanship and gratuitous virtuosity on the concert platform in the 19th century and later. Gould revered J.S. A new recording of the Goldberg Variations, made in 1981, would be among his last albums; the piece was one of only a few he recorded twice in the studio. Both his parents were musical, and his mother, especially, encouraged the infant Gould's early musical development. When asked in a radio interview whether he did not find himself wanting to play Chopin, he replied: "No, I don't. This became "an unbreakable (and notorious) habit". Extracts from "The art of Piano" documentary show Glenn Gould playing J.S.Bach's Partita #2 "[49] Specifically, Bernstein was referring to their rehearsals, with Gould's insistence that the entire first movement be played at half the indicated tempo. After his retirement from concert performance, he was increasingly interested in other media, including audio and film documentary and writing, through which he mused on aesthetics, composition, music history, and the effect of the electronic age on the consumption of media. Glenn Gould. I was enchanted. The temperature of the recording studio had to be precisely regulated. グレングールド バッハ Glenn Gould - Bach - BWV 891 - Prelude and Fugue. The piano had to be set at a certain height and would be raised on wooden blocks if necessary. [9] The diagnosis was first suggested by psychiatrist Peter Ostwald, a friend of Gould's, in the 1997 book Glenn Gould: The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius. The 1981 release was one of CBS Masterworks' first digital recordings. Gould won four awards, but, as with the Junos, accepted only one in person. For a pianist such as Van Cliburn, 200 concerts would have amounted to about two years' touring.[41]. This profoundly affected him. The cover shows Gould in the corner of a bare dilapidated room – more like the snapshot of a vagrant than the portrait of a pianistic genius. Gould and jazz pianist Bill Evans were mutual admirers, and Evans made his seminal record Conversations with Myself using Gould's celebrated Steinway model CD 318[75] piano. He was attracted to the technical aspects of recording, and considered the manipulation of tape to be another part of the creative process. Despite a certain affection for Dixieland jazz, Gould was mostly averse to popular music. [91] He was fond of a number of lesser-known composers such as Orlando Gibbons, whose Anthems he had heard as a teenager,[92] and whose music he felt a "spiritual attachment" to. The 1955 interpretation is highly energetic and often frenetic; the later is slower and more deliberate[86][87]—Gould wanted to treat the aria and its 30 variations as a cohesive whole. ", In "Bach the Nonconformist"; Roberts (ed. 3 in D major, BWV1054. Their affair lasted until 1972, when she returned to her husband. [17] He used this famous chair for the rest of his life and took it with him almost everywhere. In 1957, Gould undertook a tour of the Soviet Union, becoming the first North American to play there since World War II. [97] His 1966 collaboration with soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, however, recording Richard Strauss's Ophelia Lieder, Op. Although his recordings were dominated by Bach and Beethoven, Gould's repertoire was diverse, including works by Mozart, Haydn, and Brahms; pre-Baroque composers such as Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, William Byrd, and Orlando Gibbons; and 20th-century composers including Paul Hindemith, Arnold Schoenberg, and Richard Strauss. His only significant work was a string quartet, which he finished when he was in his 20s (published 1956, recorded 1960), and perhaps his cadenzas to Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. His String Quartet (Op. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Volume 3. Gould was the first pianist to record any of Liszt's piano transcriptions of Beethoven's symphonies (beginning with the Fifth Symphony, in 1967, with the Sixth released in 1969). He may have spoken ironically about his practising as there is evidence that, on occasion, he did practise quite hard, sometimes using his own drills and techniques. Discogs で Glenn Gould, Bach* - Preludes, Fughettas And Fugues に関するリリース、レビュー、トラックリスト、おすすめなどを発見し、Glenn Gould, Bach* のコレクションを完成させましょう。 A CBC profile noted, "sometime between two and three every morning, Gould would go to Fran's, a 24-hour diner a block away from his Toronto apartment, sit in the same booth, and order the same meal of scrambled eggs. He founded the Festival Trio chamber group in 1953 with the cellist Isaac Mamott and the violinist Albert Pratz. 6 Little Preludes, BWV 933-938: Praeludium in C Major, BWV 933, 6 Little Preludes, BWV 933-938: Praeludium in C minor, BWV 934, 6 Little Preludes, BWV 933-938: Praeludium in D minor, BWV 935, 6 Little Preludes, BWV 933-938: Praeludium in D Major, BWV 936, 6 Little Preludes, BWV 933-938: Praeludium in E Major, BWV 937, 6 Little Preludes, BWV 933-938: Praeludium in E minor, BWV 938, Prelude and Fughetta in D minor, BWV 899: Praeludium, Prelude and Fughetta in D minor, BWV 899: Fughetta, Prelude and Fughetta in G Major, BWV 902, Prelude in G Major to the Fughetta No. Glenn Herbert Gould was born at home in Toronto, on 25 September 1932, to Russell Herbert Gold (1901–1996) and Florence Emma Gold (née Grieg; 1891–1975),[4] Presbyterians of Scottish, English, and Norwegian ancestry. (Gould grew up in Toronto at the same time that Canadian theorists Marshall McLuhan, Northrop Frye, and Harold Innis were making their mark on communications studies. The Well-Tempered Clavier Book II : Prelude And Fugue No. Glenn Gould Edition - Bach: The Art of the Fugue (Excerpts), Prelude and Fugue on BACH, BWV 898 1997 Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Books I & II, BWV 846-893 He was progressive in many ways, promulgating the atonal composers of the early 20th century, and anticipating, through his deep involvement with the recording process, the vast changes that technology would have on the production and distribution of music. Glenn Gould (Artist), J.S. Gould won three awards out of his six nominations, but accepted only one in person. No performer after him can avoid the example he sets ... Now, everyone must perform through him: he can be emulated or rejected, but he cannot be ignored. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1987 CD release of The Partitas, Preludes, Fugues & Fughettas on Discogs. "[82], In creating music, Gould much preferred the control and intimacy provided by the recording studio. Although Gould was known chiefly as a pianist, he capped off his musical career with a recording of Wagner's Siegfried Idyll as conductor. Glenn Gould plays Johann Sebastian Bach's Partita no.6 in E minor, BWV830.I. Gould was shocked by this, and complained of aching, lack of coordination, and fatigue because of the incident. As a teenager, Gould was significantly influenced by Artur Schnabel,[fn 10] Rosalyn Tureck's recordings of Bach (which he called "upright, with a sense of repose and positiveness"), and the conductor Leopold Stokowski. [73] While offering "brilliant insights" and "provocative theses", Gould's writing is often marred by "long, tortuous sentences" and a "false formality", Bazzana writes.[74]. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I; Preludes and Fugues 1-8. D3S 733. 1.2M . He felt that he could realize a musical score more fully this way. [85] Gould became closely associated with the piece, playing it in full or in part at many recitals. [31][32] In 1945, at the age of thirteen, he made his first appearance with an orchestra in a performance of the first movement of Beethoven's 4th Piano Concerto with the Toronto Symphony. [20], Gould passed his final Conservatory examination in piano at the age of 12, achieving the highest marks of any candidate, and thus attaining professional standing as a pianist at that age. In a lecture and essay titled "Forgery and Imitation in the Creative Process", one of Gould's most significant texts,[81] he makes explicit his views on authenticity and creativity. [58], One piece of evidence arrived in 2007. In his writing, Gould praised certain composers and rejected what he deemed banal in music composition and its consumption by the public, and also gave analyses of the music of Richard Strauss, Alban Berg and Anton Webern. Glenn Gould Discusses His Goldberg Variations With Tim Page ((Gould Remastered)) Glenn Gould… When presented with a piano, the young Gould was reported to strike single notes and listen to their long decay, a practice his father Bert noted was different from typical children. Released: 1965. ", In his liner notes and broadcasts, Gould created more than two dozen alter egos for satirical, humorous, and didactic purposes, permitting him to write hostile reviews or incomprehensible commentaries on his own performances. [111] He was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in Toronto in 1998, and designated a National Historic Person in 2012. The Royal Conservatory of Music Professional School in Toronto adopted the name The Glenn Gould School in 1997 after their most famous alumnus. "[64] In 1956, he was also taking Thorazine, an anti-psychotic medication, as well as reserpine, another anti-psychotic, but one that can also be used to lower blood pressure. He later described the experience: It was Hofmann. [114] The Glenn Gould Studio at the Canadian Broadcasting Centre in Toronto was named after him. All three use a radiophonic electronic-music technique that Gould called "contrapuntal radio", in which several people are heard speaking at once—much like the voices in a fugue—manipulated through overdubbing and editing. [10] She would later teach him the piano. It is likely that this habit originated in his having been taught by his mother to "sing everything that he played", as his biographer Kevin Bazzana puts it. Glenn Gould (Artist) Format: Audio CD. Although there was some controversy at Columbia about the appropriateness of this "debut" piece, the record received phenomenal praise and was among the best-selling classical music albums of its era. To commemorate what would have been Gould's 75th birthday, the Canadian Museum of Civilization held an exhibition titled Glenn Gould: The Sounds of Genius in 2007. [78], The issue of "authenticity" in relation to an approach like Gould's has been a topic of great debate, although diminished by the end of the 20th century. Prelude & Fugue No. He dabbled in composition with few finished works. See all 4 formats … Gould claimed that his singing was unconscious and increased in proportion to his inability to produce his intended interpretation from a given piano. Glenn Gould Edition - Bach: The Art of the Fugue (Excerpts), Prelude and Fugue on BACH, BWV 898 1997 The 1955 Goldberg Variations - Birth of a Legend 2002 Albums You May Also Like. Bach*/ Glenn Gould- The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I Complete (Preludes And Fugues 1–24)‎(3xLP, Comp, RE + Box) Columbia Masterworks. Share. [67] There has also been speculation that he may have had bipolar disorder, because he sometimes went several days without sleep, had extreme increases in energy, drove recklessly, and, in later life, endured deep depressive episodes. Amazon.com. (SATB with piano or string-quartet accompaniment). The claim that Gould "never shook hands" is exaggerated. 902, BWV 902a: Prelude in G Major, BWV 902a, Prelude and Fughetta in G Major, BWV 902, Prelude in G Major to the Fughetta No. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2 - Glenn Gould on AllMusic - 1993 [108] François Girard's Genie Award winning 1993 film, Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould includes documentary interviews with people who knew him, dramatizations of scenes from Gould's life, and fanciful segments including an animation set to music. Philosopher Mark Kingwell writes that "his influence is made inescapable. When Gould was in Los Angeles in 1956, he met Cornelia Foss, an art instructor, and her husband Lukas, a conductor. The disc of recordings was placed on the spacecraft Voyager 1. 1 in A Major, HWV 426: II. He was extremely critical of Chopin. In the case of Bach, Gould noted, "[I] fixed the action in some of the instruments I play on—and the piano I use for all recordings is now so fixed—so that it is a shallower and more responsive action than the standard. [fn 11] Gould performed fewer than 200 concerts over the course of his career, of which fewer than 40 were outside Canada. [39] On 10 April 1964, Gould gave his last public performance, playing in Los Angeles, at the Wilshire Ebell Theater. The speech was interpreted by Harold C. Schonberg, music critic for The New York Times, as an abdication of responsibility and an attack on Gould. He soon signed with Columbia Records' classical music division and, in 1955, recorded Bach: The Goldberg Variations, his breakthrough work. Glenn Gould plays Bach - The Goldberg Variations, BMV 998 (Zenph re-performance) Watch later. [51] He also disliked social functions. A doomsday scenario … He stopped giving concerts at the age of 31 to concentrate on studio recording and other projects. This new release from Sony presents Glenn Gould’s complete Bach recordings for Columbia Masterworks in a neat and handy 30 album set, pulled from the 2015 remastered complete collection. The somewhat muffled sound of this 20th-century instrument is very different from modern recordings that are made using copies of old harpsichords. He would play his own little pieces for family, friends, and sometimes large gatherings—including, in 1938, a performance at the Emmanuel Presbyterian Church (a few blocks from the Gould family home) of one of his own compositions.[14]. "[89] However, in 1970, he played Chopin's B minor sonata for the CBC and stated that he liked some of the miniatures and that he "sort of liked the first movement of the B minor" but never recorded any of Chopin's music. On a visit to Steinway Hall in New York City in 1959, Gould was greeted by the chief piano technician at the time, William Hupfer, with a slap on the back. "[48] Bernstein created a stir at the concert of April 6, 1962 when, just before the New York Philharmonic was to perform the Brahms Piano Concerto No. His last recording as a conductor was of Wagner's Siegfried Idyll in its original chamber-music scoring. Yet it is not the work that has changed but its relation within the accepted narrative of music history. It's rather amazing today, when recordings of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier practically fall of the shelves, to recall just how unusual it was back in the 1960s for a pianist to undertake to record this amazing work. According to another of Gould's biographers, Otto Friedrich, the air-conditioning engineer had to work just as hard as the recording engineers.[44]. Glenn Gould (piano) Bach, J S: Keyboard Concerto No. Gould referred to himself repeatedly as "the last puritan", a reference to the philosopher George Santayana's 1935 novel of the same name. [119], The Grammys are awarded annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. That he was not able, by himself, to fashion a bridge between them is neither surprising, nor, in the end, disappointing. Copyright ©2020 Primary Wave Music IP Fund 1 LP. It was, I think, his last performance in Toronto, and it was a staggering impression. The only thing I can really remember is that, when I was being brought home in a car, I was in that wonderful state of half-awakeness in which you hear all sorts of incredible sounds going through your mind. In 2007, Foss confirmed that she and Gould had had a love affair lasting several years. By 4 October, there was evidence of brain damage, and Gould's father decided that his son should be taken off life support. Compare the 1970 version from the "Complete Piano Sonatas" set (played first) and the 1958 interpretation (second). He performed on television and radio, and produced three musique concrète radio documentaries called the Solitude Trilogy, about isolated areas of Canada. His unique pianistic method, insight into the architecture of compositions, and relatively free interpretation of scores created performances and recordings that were revelatory to many listeners while being highly objectionable to others. [93] He recorded a number of Gibbons's keyboard works, and called him his favourite composer,[94][95] despite his better-known admiration for the technical mastery of Bach. 902, BWV 902a: Prelude in G Major, BWV 902, Prelude and Fughetta in G Major, BWV 902, Prelude in G Major to the Fughetta No. Glenn Gould. 30, selections from Bach's The Art of Fugue, and Paul Hindemith's Piano Sonata No. In outtakes of the Goldberg Variations, Gould describes his practising technique by composing a drill on Variation 11, remarking that he is "still sloppy" and with his usual humour that "a little practising is in order." He also made recordings of the complete piano works Lieder by Arnold Schoenberg. 2 In C Minor 3. These include his famous "self-interview", his book review of a biography written about him (in which he refers to himself in the third person)—not to mention the various appearances of his "alter egos" in print, radio, or TV, including an "extended and rather strained radio joke show", ("Critics Callout Corner" on the, There are two other Gould recordings of the Goldberg Variations. Browse more videos. 1) came in 1953 on the short-lived Canadian Hallmark label. He ate one meal a day which was supplemented with arrowroot biscuits and coffee. Gould, therefore, prefers an ahistorical, or at least pre-Renaissance, view of art, minimizing the identity of the artist and the attendant historical context in evaluating the artwork: "What gives us the right to assume that in the work of art we must receive a direct communication with the historical attitudes of another period? See all formats and editions. 1-15, BWV772-786. Glenn Gould - Bach - BWV 891 - Prelude and Fugue. 1. Towards the end of his life, Gould began conducting. They were all orchestral sounds, but I was playing them all, and suddenly I was Hofmann. On August 25, 2012, the spacecraft became the first to cross the heliopause and enter the interstellar medium.[106]. [35] This was the beginning of Gould's long association with radio and recording. [103] The majority of his work is published by Schott Music. In early September 1982, Gould made his final recording: Strauss's Piano Sonata in B minor.[96]. It tends to have a mechanism which is rather like an automobile without power steering: you are in control and not it; it doesn't drive you, you drive it. [6][15], At the age of 10, he began attending the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto (known until 1947 as the Toronto Conservatory of Music). Disc 1. Performing the first movement of Bach's Keyboard Concerto No. 1-15, BWV787-801. [fn 5] This incident is almost certainly related to the adjustable-height chair his father made shortly thereafter.