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Glenn Gould in Russia: Bach, Beethoven, Berg, Webern, Krenek

Label: Urania Arts
Released: 2017
Track listing: Bach: Three Part Inventions; Berg: Allegro form Piano Sonata No. 1; Webern: Piano Variations, Op. 27; Krekek: Allegretto piaceovole & Adagio for Piano Sonata No. 3; Bach: selections from The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080, selections from The Goldberg Variations, Piano Concerto No.1; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2., Op. 19.

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Glenn Gould: Glenn Gould in Russia: Bach, Beethoven, Berg, Webern, Krenek

Read "Glenn Gould in Russia: Bach, Beethoven, Berg, Webern, Krenek" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
September 16, 2017

Examples of Johann Sebastian Bach played on piano are a dime-a-dozen today, but it was not always this way. Before Glenn Gould's seismic debut with the Goldberg Variations (Columbia) in 1955, Bach's masthead keyboard composition was considered beyond the capabilities of the modern piano. While Gould was not the first to record the Goldbergs on piano ...