J.S. Bach: The Goldberg Variations (studio album) by Glenn Gould

J.S. Bach: The Goldberg Variations by Glenn Gould
Year: 1956
Overall rank: 1,971st   Overall chart historyOverall chart history
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81/100 (from 108 votes)
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Award Top 10 albums of 1956 (9th)
Award Top 50 albums of the 1950s (48th)
Award Best albums of all time (1,971st)
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This album is rated in the top 1% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 80.7/100, a mean average of 80.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 81.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.9.

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From 02/15/2023 23:16
Prefer the latest version.
Guess he was just a virtuoso kid and lacked that depth and maturity to play it like he did in '81.
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From 11/07/2020 22:20
Grande pianista. Apesar da dificuldade técnica há sentimento!
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From 08/15/2019 19:08
Really good stuff. I found it hard to get into classical music because the pieces were too long. No such issue here.
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From 01/29/2016 05:01
I agree with the GoodSir. Reminds me a bit of some of Mozart's music... I felt it ran through algorithms of a scale instead of something emotionally moving. Still quite impressive and beautiful.

I think if I saw someone perform this live, it would move me differently... I've noticed this with "classical" music recordings.
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From 05/20/2015 04:57
I'm a pianist, and this is my favorite piano music of all time. Really tough to play stuff. Holding all of the counterpoint in your head is difficult stuff.
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From 11/14/2014 02:45
Obviously very technically impressive, though it doesn't do anything to particularly move me emotionally. I did enjoy it thoroughly despite that.
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