The Man Who Made Bach Cool: Glenn Gould and His ‘Goldbergs’ The classical-music world seems to run on birthday celebrations plucked from its endless roll call of dead masters (is this ...

Beyond Glenn Gould: Five Great 'Goldberg Variations' : Deceptive CadenceWith nearly 200 recordings of Bach's Goldberg Variations on the market, how do you choose?

In 1955, a little known Canadian pianist recorded the Goldberg Variations. The album launched Glenn Gould's career and popularized Bach's music. Now the complete recording sessions have been issued.

Glenn Gould would have turned 80 years old on Sept. 25. His legacy includes much more than the music of J.S. Bach. Image: Don Hunstein/Sony Classical ...

Glenn Gould is playing bits and pieces of J.S. Bach's Partita #2. The scene was shot in 1959 when Gould was a young man. It comes from Bruno Monsaingeon's documentary The Art of the Piano, which ...

As the title suggests, this dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is broken up into thirty-two short films (mirroring the thirty-two part structure of Bach's ...

In Gould's 90th anniversary year and 40 years since the second album's first release, Sony Classical is proud to announce the release of Glenn Gould: The Goldberg Variations - The Complete ...

During that period, the most talented and inspirational interpretation of Bach was the gifted pianist Glenn Gould -- and he played Bach on the piano.

No wonder Glenn Gould, who twisted, warped and tortured himself into a great pianist, had such a love-hate relationship with the instrument that he referred to as an "intriguing mixture of pedals ...

Few classical recordings have aroused as much fascination as Glenn Gould’s 1981 take on Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. Gould, whose first major-label recording was a classic 1955 account of ...

Glenn Gould: Beyond Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' Hear the iconic pianist play a wide range of music, from Brahms and Gibbons to Schoenberg and Strauss.