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Glenn Gould: Plays Bach
Release Date: February 25, 1997 SMK52620 CD Longplay Legendary pianist Glenn Gould plays and discusses Bach's The Art of the Fugue, rare chamber music, solo keyboard music of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, and Domenico Scarlatti, as Sony Classical concludes its Glenn Gould Edition of recordings by the late Canadian pianist. These three new volumes include performances of keyboard works by J.S. Bach never before released in any format. The three new releases include Gould's performance of excerpts from J.S. Bach's The Art of the Fugue (SMK 52595); the unreleased J.S. Bach recordings, which includes works by C.P.E. Bach and Domenico Scarlatti; and chamber works by Shostakovich, Poulenc and Gould himself (SMK 52679). All three new Gould Edition releases were released February 25, 1997. Using Sony Classical's 20-bit Super-Bit-Mapping technology, the Glenn Gould Edition has restored the pianist's recorded legacy so successfully that Classic CD wrote, "Gould's recorded oeuvre may well be the single greatest musical monument of its kind this century." The German magazine FonoForum added, "The sonic restoration of these recordings provides near-audiophile quality... these discs sound great. Mono recordings from the 1950s sound as though they were made yesterday... The result, overall, is a big, wide-ranging sound; we seem much closer to the piano, and its tone has all the body and resonance of most recent recordings." For Gould fans, the most important of these three releases will be the disc of Baroque keyboard music, recorded between 1959 and 1980. It includes performances of Bach's music available for the first time, including "Concerto in B-flat major" (after Marcello), BWV 974; "Fugue in B minor" on a theme by Tomaso Albinoni, BWV 951; "Fugue in A major" on a theme by Tomaso Albinoni, BWV 950; "Aria and Variations in A minor" in the Italian Manner, BWV 989; "Chromatic Fantasia in D minor", BWV 903; "Fantasia in G minor", BWV 917; "Fantasia in C minor", BWV 919; and "Fantasia (and Fugue) in C minor", BWV 906. Also included is Gould's 1959 recording of Bach's Concerto in F Major (Italian), BWV 971, as well as recent recordings of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Sonata in A minor (Würtemburg), H 30 (W 49) and three sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, a composer with whom Gould was rarely associated -- in D major (Non presto ma a tempo di ballo), K.430 (L.463); in D minor (Allegro), K.9 (L.413); and in G major (Presto), K.13 (L.486). |
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Track listing for CD Longplay Concerto in D minor after Alessandro Marcello, BWV 974 1 I. [ ] 2 II. Adagio ra wma20 wma32 wma128 3 III. Presto ra wma20 wma32 wma128 4 Fugue in B minor on a theme by Tomaso Albinoni, BWV 951 wma32 5 Fugue in A Major on a theme by Tomaso Albinoni, BWV 950 6 Sonata in D Major, K 430 (L 463) 7 Sonata in D minor, K 9 (L 413) 8 Sonata in G Major, K 13 (L 486) Sonata in A minor "Württembergische Sonate" No. 1, Wq. 49 No. 1 (H. 30) 9 I. Moderato 10 II. Andante 11 III. Allegro assai 12 Aria variata alla maniera italiana in A minor, BWV 989 (Instrumental) Italian Concerto in F Major, BWV 971 (Version of 1959) 13 I. [ ] 14 II. Andante ra wma20 wma32 wma128 15 III. Presto ra wma20 wma32 wma128 16 Chromatic Fantasy in D minor, BWV 903a (Instrumental) wma32 17 Fantasy in G minor, BWV 917 wma32 18 Fantasy in C minor, BWV 919 wma32 19 Fantasy (and Fugue) in C minor, BWV 906 wma32 |
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