[ Alto / CD ]
Release Date: Sunday 7 July 2024
(Goldbergs) "in terms of sheer keyboard wizadry …a remarkable performance" (Penguin Guide)
"Gould's pianistic skills have been universally and freely acknowledged … he was supremely skilful in showing the patterns woven by its contrapuntal threads….As an exposition of the music's mechanism this is remarkable" (Gramophone)
(Partitas): "the young eccentric who walks on stage with a big handkerchief flapping, who seats himself on a chair only a few inches off the floor, who sings along and makes terrible faces. But he can play the piano. Here we see neither the chair nor gestures nor faces; but we do hear him singing along; and we also hear polished, superbly controlled, rhythmically alert piano playing. Two fugues from the Well-Tempered Clavier are included on the disc." (Gramophone)
Goldberg Variations, BWV988 (rec. 1955)
Glenn Gould (piano)
French Overture in B minor, BWV831 (rec. 1978)
András Schiff (piano)
French Suite No. 5 in G major, BWV816 (rec. 1978)
András Schiff (piano)
Fugue in F sharp minor BWV 883 (Well-tempered Clavier Book II) 3:16
Fugue in E major BWV 878 (Well-tempered Clavier Book II) 4:18