The Glenn Gould Silver Jubilee Album

Johann Sebastian Bach (Artist), Domenico Scarlatti (Artist), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Artist), Glenn Gould (Artist), Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin (Artist), Ludwig van Beethoven (Artist), Vladimir Golschmann (Artist), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Artist), Juilliard Quartet (Artist), Elizabeth Benson-Guy (Artist), Charles Brezzler (Artist), Anita Darian (Artist), Margaret Pacsu (Artist), Byron Rossiter (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 22, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000C28N
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #328,096 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This CD opened Glenn Gould for me, August 4, 2002

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Vagif Abilov "Vagif Abilov" (Kolbotn Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Glenn Gould Silver Jubilee Album (Audio CD)

I must admit I knew very little about Glenn Gould until I received this CD as a present. I put it into my car's CD player (not the best place to listen to classical music), and for several weeks I didn't change CDs - I just listened to this one! My absolute favourite is C.P.E. Bach's sonata.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Insight into the real Glenn Gould, February 9, 2005

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R. Rosso "devotee of the decadence of dodecap... (trackless terrain, the North) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Glenn Gould Silver Jubilee Album (Audio CD)

Glenn Gould was highly sensitive to criticism. Yet he often was the recipient of it, critiqued for playing Bach on the piano, for playing Mozart too fast, or too slow, or both. In "A Glenn Gould Fantasy," Mr. Gould creates for himself the opportunity to respond to his critics (most played by himself in amusing voices) - who have names like Karlheinz Kloppweiser (an eager German proponent of polyphony) and Theodore Slutz (a mellow New York beatnik). Mr. Gould was also famous for giving up concertizing, a result of his fear of leaving even the tiniest detail to chance. So the fantasy concludes with a mock performance by Gould on a sinking oil tanker in the arctic.

Glenn Gould is usually presented to us as an intensely serious Artist. This is a wonderful reminder of his humanity and silly sense of humor.

Listeners should be warned that the fantasy is chock full of inside jokes and musicological silliness that may be lost on them if they are not familiar with Gould's idiosyncracies, the criticisms of his style, or 20th century musical trends. (For example, if the idea of a "Kodaly Kindergarten" is funny to you, as it is to me, you'll like this. If not, save your money.) In keeping with his personality, Glenn Gould is not concerned here with whether anyone else gets the joke. But if you do get the joke, it's pretty funny. It's also a fascinating window into Mr. Gould as a man and an artist.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars the great glenn gould, February 22, 2001

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M. Mclain "liqwidfrog" (VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Glenn Gould Silver Jubilee Album (Audio CD)

The main attraction for me to this album was the Beethoven transcription and the assorted works by Strauss, Scriabin and others, and of course my intense love of the music of Glenn Gould. Gould seems to have fallen out of public favor now, but his music remains just as intense and insightful as ever. The performance of the first movement of Beethoven's sixth is amazing... it is a work that stands up well as a fully realized piece in its own right. Ophelialieder is a wonderful work of melancholy songs, and here the work really shines. This is a wonderful and eccentric work, which describes Gould perfectly.