Chart: Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by CellarDoor Rank on User's Chart: 2
Year: 1956
Rank on BEA Overall: 2,722
Average Rating: 72/100
Summary Info: The debut album of Canadian classical pianist, Glenn Gould. It contains an aria and 30 contrapuntal variations, all composed by Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Funny enough, a friend of mine linked me to this article today where classical pianists discuss Gould. The highlight of the article by far is
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The apparent weirdness of this reclusive genius has only added to the mystique as much as the iconoclasm of the recordings – his brilliant Bach, for sure, but also his wilfully idiotic Mozart and tortuous Beethoven. But underneath the eccentric control-freakery was a much more normal person than has often been portrayed. He was a loner, certainly, but Gould was also one of the funniest and most playful musicians there has ever been, he was an irrepressible and essential thinker on music, and his records and radio documentaries are fuelled by a ceaseless curiosity about the world and music's place in it.
I also was very happy to read and learn about his pioneering of studio techniques and his very radical views on how recording technology could not just be utilized by performer but by music consumer as well. I really respect his willingness to allow studio techniques to become an organic portion of his expression toolbox.
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