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Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (1981 Recording) [Expanded Edition]
by Glenn Gould
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3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Original Release Date: February 24, 2004
  • Format: MP3, 256 kbps — plays on iPod® and all MP3 players

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listen  1. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Aria 3:05$0.99Buy Track
listen  2. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 1 a 1 Clav. 1:10$0.99Buy Track
listen  3. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 2 a 1 Clav.0:49$0.99Buy Track
listen  4. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 3 a 1 Clav. Canone all'Unisono 1:30$0.99Buy Track
listen  5. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 4 a 1 Clav.0:50$0.99Buy Track
listen  6. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 5 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav.0:37$0.99Buy Track
listen  7. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 6 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Seconda0:40$0.99Buy Track
listen  8. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 7 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav. 1:16$0.99Buy Track
listen  9. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 8 a 2 Clav.0:53$0.99Buy Track
listen10. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 9 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Terza0:59$0.99Buy Track
listen11. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 10 a 1 Clav. Fughetta 1:04$0.99Buy Track
listen12. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 11 a 2 Clav.0:53$0.99Buy Track
listen13. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 12 Canone alla Quarta 1:38$0.99Buy Track
listen14. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 13 a 2 Clav. 2:38$0.99Buy Track
listen15. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 14 a 2 Clav. 1:05$0.99Buy Track
listen16. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 15 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Quinta. Andante 5:01$0.99Buy Track
listen17. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 16 a 1 Clav. Overture 1:38$0.99Buy Track
listen18. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 17 a 2 Clav.0:54$0.99Buy Track
listen19. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 18 a 1 Clav. Canone alla Sesta 1:03$0.99Buy Track
listen20. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 19 a 1 Clav. 1:02$0.99Buy Track
listen21. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 20 a 2 Clav.0:50$0.99Buy Track
listen22. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 21 Canone alla Settima 2:12$0.99Buy Track
listen23. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 22 a 1 Clav. Alla breve 1:03$0.99Buy Track
listen24. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 23 a 2 Clav.0:58$0.99Buy Track
listen25. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 24 a 1 Clav. Canone all'Ottava 1:44$0.99Buy Track
listen26. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 25 a 2 Clav. 6:02$0.99Buy Track
listen27. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 26 a 2 Clav.0:51$0.99Buy Track
listen28. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 27 a 2 Clav. Canone alla Nona 1:21$0.99Buy Track
listen29. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 28 a 2 Clav. 1:03$0.99Buy Track
listen30. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 29 a 1 ovvero 2 Clav. 1:01$0.99Buy Track
listen31. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Variation 30 a 1 Clav. Quodlibet 1:30$0.99Buy Track
listen32. Goldberg Variations, BWV 988/Aria da capo 3:44$0.99Buy Track
listen33. Glenn Gould discusses his performances of the "Goldberg Variations" with Tim Page (Excerpt)23:05$3.96Buy Track

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Product Details

  • Performers: Glenn Gould
  • Composers: Spoken Word, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
  • Original Release Date: February 24, 2004
  • Label: Sony Classical/Legacy
  • Copyright: (P) 1982, 1984 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT (C) 2004 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
  • Genres: Classical/General
  • ASIN: B0013G2QZ2
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #95,585 in MP3 Albums (See Bestsellers in MP3 Albums)
 

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5.0 out of 5 stars wonderful performance with fascinating interview, July 9, 2008
This review is from: Bach: The Goldberg Variations (Audio CD)
beautiful performance and disc quality. and fascinating interview with gould about his previous recording compared to this one. highly recommended
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1.0 out of 5 stars The Most Over-rated Performance in History, February 21, 2007
By Giordano Bruno (Wherever I am, I am.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bach: The Goldberg Variations (Audio CD)
I ordered this remastered Gould Goldbergs because I've been criticized for dismissing piano performances of Bach. When the disk arrived, I listened to it (on high end equipment) straight through. Well, it's as bad as I remembered, but it's not the piano that ruins the music; it's Gould's inept and self-indulgent technique. 1. He exaggerates ornaments in an arbitrary hammer-heavy manner which distorts the melodic line. The unity of Bach has to be rendered melodically rather than harmonically, and each line of polyphony needs to breathe with its own syntax independently. Gould appears to conceive of polyphony as a "top line" ornamented by counter-lines, which have no rhetoric of their own to express. 2. His rubato is excessive and arbitrary. His constant abandonment of the tempo for "romantic" effect also has the effect of disrupting "horizontal" melodic forms. 3. He growls along with his "top" line and contrary to a fan-club myth, he is NOT improvising a countermelody. He is simply singing out of tune. 4. He drops notes! In a vivid live performance, bad notes may pass, but on a studio recording numerous wrong notes are unacceptable. Indifference to the composer's MUSICAL intention is Gould's fatal flaw. 5. He shows no awareness of the historical dance structures that ground the successive variations. Once again, he ignores JS Bach in his adulation of G Gould.
Post-script: I've been taken to task for offering no alternative to Gould.
My first choices would all be harpsichordists, notabaly Bob van Asperen and Pieter-Jan Belder. I have reviewed performances by other pianists elsewhere; none of them are very convincing, but several of them are more pleasing to the ear than Gould's.
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