Glenn Gould´s commercially released Bach recordings for Columbia.
Remastered 2015 using DSD.
30 CDs with original LP sleeves and labels.
240 page booklet with original liner notes and an essay by Michael Stegemann.
"I think that if I were required to spend the rest of my life on a desert island, and to listen to or play the music of any one composer during all that time, that composer would almost certainly be Bach." (Glenn Gould)
The fitful tracing of a portal;
But in the flesh it is immortal.
The body dies; the body's beauty lives.
So evenings die, in their green going,
A wave, interminably flowing.
So gardens die, their meek breath scenting
The cowl of winter, done repenting.
(Peter Quince at he Clavier/ Wallace Stevens)
But in the flesh it is immortal.
The body dies; the body's beauty lives.
So evenings die, in their green going,
A wave, interminably flowing.
So gardens die, their meek breath scenting
The cowl of winter, done repenting.
(Peter Quince at he Clavier/ Wallace Stevens)
CD 1
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 [1955 Recording]
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat Major, Op. 19
Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052
Columbia Symphony
Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052
Columbia Symphony
Leonard Bernstein
Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Fugue in F-Sharp minor, BWV 883
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Fugue in E Major, BWV 878
Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 C Major, Op. 15
Bach: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056
Columbia Symphony
Bach: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056
Columbia Symphony
Vladimir Golschmann
Italian Concerto in F Major, BWV 971
Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825
Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826
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Partita No. 1 in B-Flat Major, BWV 825
Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826
CD 6
The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080: Contrapunctus I-IX
CD 7
The Well-Tempered Clavier I BWV 846-853
CD 8
Partita No. 3 in a Minor, BWV 827
Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828
Toccata in E minor, BWV 914
CD 9
The Well-Tempered Clavier I BWV 854-861
CD 10
Two-Part Inventions and Three-Part Sinfonias BWV 772-801
CD 11
The Well-Tempered Clavier I BWV 862-869
CD 12
Keyboard Concerto No. 3 in D Major, BWV 1054
Keyboard Concerto No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1056
Keyboard Concerto No. 7 in G minor, BWV 1058
Columbia Symphony
Vladimir Golschmann
CD 13
The Well-Tempered Clavier II BWV 870-877![]()
CD 14
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (1955 Recording, Re-Channelled for Stereo)
CD 15
Keyboard Concerto No. 2 in E Major, BWV 1053
Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in A Major, BWV 1055
Columbia Symphony
Vladimir Golschman
CD 16
The Well-Tempered Clavier II BWV 878-885
The Well-Tempered Clavier II BWV 886-893
French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812
French Suite No. 2 in C minor, BWV 813
French Suite No. 3 in B minor, BWV 814
French Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 815
CD 19
French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816
French Suite No. 6 in E Major, BWV 817
Overture in the French Style, BWV 831
Sonata for Viola Da Gamba and Harpsichord No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1027
Sonata for Viola Da Gamba and Harpsichord No. 2 in D Major, BWV 1028
Sonata for Viola Da Gamba and Harpsichord No. 3 in G minor, BWV 1029
Leonard Rose violoncello![]()
CD 21 & 22
Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1014
Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord No. 2 in A Major, BWV 1015
Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016
Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord No. 2 in A Major, BWV 1015
Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord No. 3 in E Major, BWV 1016
Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord No. 4 in C minor, BWV 1017
Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord No. 5 in F minor, BWV 1018
Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord No. 6 in G Major, BWV 1019
Jaime Laredo violin
CD 23 & 24
English Suite No. 1 in a Major, BWV 806
English Suite No. 4 in F Major, BWV 809
English Suite No. 5 in E minor, BWV 810
English Suite No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 807
English Suite No. 4 in F Major, BWV 809
English Suite No. 5 in E minor, BWV 810
English Suite No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 807
English Suite No. 3 in G minor, BWV 808
English Suite No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811
English Suite No. 6 in D minor, BWV 811
CD 25
Toccata in D Major, BWV 912
Toccata in F-Sharp minor, BWV 910
Toccata in D minor, BWV 913
CD 26
Toccata in C minor, BWV 911
Toccata in G minor, BWV 915
Toccata in G Major, BWV 916
Toccata in E minor, BWV 914
Toccata in G minor, BWV 915
Toccata in G Major, BWV 916
Toccata in E minor, BWV 914
CD 27
6 Little Preludes, BWV 933-938
Prelude and Fughetta in D minor, BWV 899
Prelude and Fughetta in G Major, BWV 902 & Prelude BWV 902A
9 Little Preludes, BWV 924-932: Nos. 1, 4, 3, 2, 5, 7Prelude and Fughetta in D minor, BWV 899
Prelude and Fughetta in G Major, BWV 902 & Prelude BWV 902A
Three Little Fugues from "Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Bach"
Prelude and Fugue in A Minor, BWV 895
Prelude and Fughetta in E minor, BWV 900
CD 28
Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 [1981 Recording]
CD 29
The Little Bach Book [Compilation Album]
Glenn Gould discusses his performance of the
Goldberg Variations with Tim Page
Sony Columbia 2020
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