Goldberg Variations Glenn Gould 1981 Free Delivery Australias
15.98.This recording of the Goldberg Variations is quite a stark contrast from the renowned version that brought Gould his initial notoriety. He retains the clarity of the many voices, but the tempi are set in a much broader range, a deviation from his earlier recordings (both live and in studios) of this piece.Buy Glenn Gould Bach Goldberg Variations (1981) 180gm vinyl LP gatefold today from Discrepancy Records with Fast & Free Delivery Australias Top Rated.The two contrasting interpretations of Bach's Goldberg Variations were the bookends to his great career and they became his most famous recordings. There's even a phrase from the opening section of the music carved into his grave stone.On 5 December 2018 Bonhams in New York is auctioning the sheet music that Gould used to record the piece.
Gould revered the composers he recorded and expounded on their virtues at length in written, televised, and broadcast commentaries. His debut became one of the best-selling classical albums of all time.Famously Gould made another recording of the “Goldberg” in 1981, the year before his early death at 50, “leaving the two Bach statements as bookends to his career,” writes Michael Cooper at The New York Times. Bach, who provided Gould with the material that would launch his career, the “Goldberg” Variations, which he first recorded at 22 in 1955 to widespread acclaim and admiration.
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“He immortalized his phobias,” his passions, and his personal eccentricities, Denk writes, “by grafting them onto Bach,” with the effect that his recordings “erase the distance of centuries they dissolve the varnish that has piled up, and make Bach one with the anxieties of the present.” See Gould recording his 1981 “Goldberg” Variations further up, and read about the 2015 transcription of the recording by Nicholas Hopkins here.How Glenn Gould’s Eccentricities Became Essential to His Playing & Personal Style: From Humming Aloud While Playing to Performing with His Childhood Piano ChairWatch a 27-Year-Old Glenn Gould Play Bach & Put His Musical Genius on Display (1959)Glenn Gould: Off and On the Record: Two Short Films About the Life & Music of the Eccentric MusicianListen to Glenn Gould’s Shockingly Experimental Radio Documentary, The Idea of North (1967)Josh Jones is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC. As pianist Jeremy Denk writes, each score is “at once a book and a book waiting to be written.” (Tommasini points out that “Bach’s scores leave much to the choices and tastes of performers,” and in the case of “Goldberg,” we have only reconstructions of the original.) The Variations, after all, are not named for Bach, but for virtuoso harpsichordist Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, likely the original performer of the piece.The particularly idiosyncratic approach of a pianist like Gould, writes Denk, with much ambivalence, “found perversity in the music and teased it out, but mostly he just slathered it on piece after piece, he made brilliant but deeply unintuitive, ‘unnatural’ choices, and made them work through sheer force of will.” Now, in his 1981 “Goldberg” score, fans and scholars can see for themselves how much deliberation was involved in his apparent willfulness.In Gould’s interpretations, we cannot separate the player from the work. But we should also consider him—and all great classical interpreters—as at least a co-composer, a role as old as classical music itself. “I bet, without any interference,” he says, “Glenn would have recorded three or four different versions of the same piece and put them all out there for people to listen to and even chose from.” He took to modern techniques and technologies without reservation.Gould’s friendliness to modernity, and its enthusiastic embrace of him, makes him seem like so much more than a pianist, and of course, he was.
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