Extractions: A CONTAPUNTAL REVIEW Voice One: Gould as Pianist Gould is a legendary pianist and Kevin Bazzana faced a massive subject when he approached the nature of Gould's pianistic skill. But he does take it on and delves into significant areas that deserve consideration. First, Bazzana has tracked down the obscure facts of Gould's only professional teacher: Alberto Guerrero. Contrary to Gould's assertions that he was self-taught, he actually studied for a significant amount of time with this excellent, though forgotten, Chilean-born teacher. What Bazzana has discovered closes the case on Gould's claim. Guerrero (who also taught a significant collection of other Canadian musicians) was a superiour musician-pianist and had a large influence upon Gould. Second, Bazzana has tracked Gould's experience with other pianists. Most significantly is the tidbit that Gould heard the pianist Josef Hofmann and was 'awe struck.' Gould did not grow up in total isolation and he heard many of the best pianists of the 1940s in concert in Toronto. Also significant is the 'relationship' with Vladimir Horowitz who had a considerable influence as well Gould was one with a whole generation who aped the master. Bazzana also asks very pointed questions about Gould's technique and its impact upon his interpretations and repertoire choices. Gould had a brilliant technique, but he may have been more than personally uninterested in the big war-horses of the repertoire. He may have fully realized that it was not physically in his best interests to regularly perform such works (though without question he could do it).
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Extractions: Globe and Mail , March 11, 1998) The great hall of the Moscow Conservatory was only half filled on May 7, 1957, the first night of Glenn Gould's first European tour. At the age of 24 Gould was already well launched in North America, having played with the New York Philharmonic under Leonard Bernstein and recorded Bach's Goldberg Variations. But in Russia he was largely unknownuntil the May 7 concert changed everything. News of his talent flashed around Moscow, and tickets for his remaining concerts sold out the next day. He "became famous literally overnight," according to Sofia Moshevich, a pianist who grew up in the Soviet Union and now lives in Toronto. She discusses Gould's Russian trip, a great event in Canadian cultural history, in an article for GlennGould , the twice-yearly magazine of the Gould Foundation (P.O. Box 190, 260 Adelaide Street East, Toronto M5A 1N1). An engaging combination of scholarship and nostalgia, GlennGould resurrects obscure Gould interviews and reviews, covers new Gould books, announces events like the international Gould conference in Toronto in September, 1999, and charts the progress of his reputation around the world. The issue containing the Russian piece also has a fascinating article about Gould's status in Japan, written by Junichi Miyazama, the writer and critic who regularly translates Gould material into Japanese.
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Extractions: Out now on Sony Classical/Legacy That Glenn Gould was both a child prodigy and a musical genius no one disputes. His brilliance was manifest as early as age 3, at which point he read music and demonstrated absolute pitch. To reach the top echelons of classical music, one pretty much has to be a child prodigy, it seems. The classical bins at your local record store are filled with them: Emanuel Ax, Joshua Bell, Itzhak Perlman, Midori, etc. Yet few have been able to achieve the rock-star status Glenn Gould knew from the start of his career to its finish. Gould burst onto the scene in 1955 at the age of 22 with his first recording Bach's "Goldberg Variations." The youthful vigor with which Gould played Bach was more important than his gorgeous technical proficiency in turning this eccentric, skinny pianist into a pop idol. In this breakthrough recording, we hear 18th century odes to God that were written for the harpsichord instead played on piano with bebop influences by a quirky hipster. It was a breathtakingly original interpretation of Bach (who knew the dowdy old German could swing?), and it helped introduce the great composer's work to the Beat Generation.
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Extractions: By Patrick Giles April 4, 2000 D iscovering the recordings of Canadian pianist Glenn Gould (1932-1982) might be one of the most important moments of any listener's life. No other 20th century performer conveys a musical wisdom so peerless, a communicativeness so all-encompassing and a beauty so unquenchable. Sony's recent "Glenn Gould Plays Bach" collects 12 recordings and their original art in a handsome boxed set. Gould's original label, Columbia, had some of the smartest cover art in the LP business, and his releases included striking album covers and notes. (I purchased my first Gould LP when I was 16 because the young man pictured, with his long hair, white shirt and supremely graceful face, was so androgynously beautiful that I just had to take it home I still have it.) The new collection also features a graceful introduction by Tim Page and reproductions of some of the albums' original liner notes. One of the discs goes even further, doubling as a CD-ROM with complete original notes and multimedia doodads.
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Extractions: This year marks the 70th anniversary of the birth of enigmatic pianist Glenn Gould. The Canadian became legendary for his performances of J. S. Bach's Goldberg Variations. The rigors of touring prompted Gould to make his last concert appearance in 1964. From then on, he focused on studio recordings, writing and lecturing. Shortly before his death in 1982, he formed a chamber orchestra and led the group in a recording of Wagner's Siegfried Idyll. To learn more about Gould, explore these resources:
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Extractions: @import url("http://www.blogger.com/css/blog_controls.css"); @import url("http://www.blogger.com/dyn-css/authorization.css?blogID=6629664"); Friday, October 08, 2004 Some friends in graduate school introduced me to Glenn Gould, initially through a biographical film called 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould , and then through his many recordings of Bach, Mozart, and Brahms. Gould was the first classical pianist I really clicked with, partly because his style seemed so radical. He sharp anti-romantic tendencies are evident in his approach to Bach in particular, and were made famous by his 1955 recording of the Goldberg Variations . It appealed to the electronic music aesthetic; I still think there is a kind of unconscious affinity between radical electronic music composers like Autechre, Squarepusher, and Aphex Twin, and Gould's Bach. Since then, my taste has broadened some (I like more conventional players), but I am still pretty much a dodo when it comes to classical music. He was born Glenn Herbert Gold on September 25, 1932, an only child in a Protestant family of furriers who by the late 1930s had begun to call themselves Gould, perhaps to avoid being mistaken for Jews. The Toronto where Gould grew up, Bazzana recounts, was a small, peaceful, puritanical, Anglophilic city. Canada was achieving a degree of cultural independence in those decades, increasingly through the radio and television. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was pioneering and experimental. Gould was among the few classical musicians (Toscanini and Leonard Bernstein were others) who, early on, recognized and exploited the potential of the new technologies.
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Extractions: The Canadian pianist Glenn Gould burst onto the aural scene in 1955 with his ear-opening recording of the Bach Goldberg Variations. Now jocular, now limpid, by turns pensive and danceable , Gould's performance was a young man's discovery and celebration of life in one of the monuments of human art. As often happens with such monuments, so much serious scholarship and reverential playing had accreted to the Goldberg Variations that, until Gould, people had forgotten that it was a work of profound, though not unalloyed, joy. Thirty years later, shortly before his death, Gould recorded the variations again. If the 1955 version was a spring day in the Bavarian Alps, the 1985 version was a winter night beside the frozen Baltic Sea. Same music, same pianist, same world. But. But. In that "but" lies mystery, much the same mystery that we encounter in quantum physics, observing the electron just before and just after a quantum leap. What happens in that interim? Where does it happen? How? Why? Since Gould showed the listening world that there was a great deal more to Bach than stereotypical teutonic stoicism, other pianists, generally possessed of more bravado and a lot less talent, have had a go at the piece with decidedly mixed results.
Goldberg Variations By Glenn Gould At Jsbach.org glenn gould takes all of his years of practice and talent and pours them all into out glenn gould the person, not just glenn gould the pianist, I think. http://www.jsbach.org/gouldgoldbergvariations.html
Extractions: or Conductor: Glenn Gould Instrumentation: Piano Individual Works: The Goldberg Variations, BWV Format: Compact Disc Record Label: CBS Masterworks Catalog Number: MK 37779 Year Released/Recorded: Comments: David Dodd said: Gould's second recording of the piece, one of the final recordings of his life, sounded an elegant and somewhat spooky coda, as he recapitulated his groundbreaking 1956 performance. Miranda Clark said: Glenn Gould takes all of his years of practice and talent and pours them all into this absolutely fabulous mature recording. Its worth a listen! Jan Hanford said: I can understand how Glenn Gould took the world by storm with his 1955 recording of the Goldberg Variations. It was a starved musical community that heard his first interpretation and it must have been exciting. However, this 1981 re-interpretation is embarrassing. This is one of the ugliest performances I've ever heard of anything anywhere. His harsh and loud playing (while humming along) creates a performance devoid of expression or nuance. Worse, he not only hums, he sings along nearly the entire time like some kind victim of Torette's Syndrome. I think the worship of Glenn Gould is, in part, the need for some people to champion experimentation and to dismiss "the old" in favour of the "the new." To many people it doesn't matter if it's good as long as it's different. I do not share this view. My ears and my heart tell me whether a performance has touched them. This one did not.
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Extractions: Comprising 10 imaginary letters from the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould to an imaginary friend - as if Gould had not died shortly after his fiftieth birthday - interwoven with music from JS Bach. Words by Bruce Charlton Music by JS Bach - From the fifteen Two-part Inventions BWV 772-786 and the fifteen Three-part Sinfonias (inventions) BWV 787- 801. (From the recording Fantasia, inventions, chromatic fantasia and fugue, by Angela Hewitt. HYPERION CDA 66746) TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 40 mins approx. (never broadcast) TWO PART INVENTION 13 IN A MINOR TRACK 14: 1.10 MINS. LETTER 1. Dear Scott, Today I turned fifty and I'm feeling just fine - one of my good days. As of now, everything in my life is under control. Even better, I've had a commission from the Canadian Broadcasting Company to compose a piano sonata. Big bucks; but the project must be completed within the year. The idea is that they will broadcast my first performance while I am still fifty. This would consist of a documentary movie of me miming to a studio recording. It seems a tall order, but it happens that a big sonata is just exactly what I have been wanting to do for some years; only I have not been sure that any work of mine would be recorded - the sales guys at the record company tell me that the public will buy anything I perform, however weird, but this charity would not extend to my compositions.
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Extractions: A man of contradictions, Gould was an accomplished and respected interpreter of Bach, who also apparently enjoyed listening to Petula Clark (her hit song "Downtown" is used here). But Gould is perhaps most famous for abandoning live performances in favor of working doggedly in the studio on his meticulous recordings, a decision that would seem to fly in the face of what most musicians express about keeping music fresh and alive. The number of blackout sequences used here is not random but is based on Gould's 1982 recording of Bach's "Goldberg Variations," a suite of 32 short piano pieces for which he won two posthumous Grammys. And it is fitting that his mesmerizing music laces nearly every one of the film bits here, and dominates a number of them.
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Extractions: You are here: OUP USA Home U.S. General Catalog Music Performance Studies, Applied Music A Study in Performance Practice Kevin Bazzana Add to Cart hardback 328 pages Dec 1997, In Stock Shipping Details This book is a detailed study of the great Canadian pianist, broadcaster, writer, and composer Glenn Gould (1932-82). While looking primarily on his performances, it also situates his work and thought more broadly within relevant musical, cultural, intellectual, and historical contexts. It incorporates most of the existing primary and secondary literature on Gould, as well as many ideas, interpretations, and perspectives that have never before been discussed. It also incorporates ideas from a wide range of literature, both musical and otherwise, and draws from unparalleled access to the Glenn Gould Papers in the National Library of Canada. The book offers a more comprehensive, balanced, and thoroughly researched portrait of Gould as pianist and interpreter than any previous volume in the Gould literature. Following an introduction that summarizes Gould's career and the posthumous interest in him, the book divides into two parts. Part 1, "Premises," focuses on the intellectual and aesthetic ideas that informed his performances, and draws on literature from many fields, including music history and aesthetics, cultural history, the history of performance practice, theatre, literary criticism, and music analysis. Part 2, "Practices," focuses in detail on Gould the pianist, illuminating important features of his style through prose description and critical analysis, and including graphic musical examples, plates, and a supplementary Sony Classical CD of Gould's performances.
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