The Goldberg Variations (album) by Glenn Gould
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The Goldberg Variations is ranked as the best album by Glenn Gould.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 79 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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80/100  | 12/03/2019 08:39 | pjerske | | 80/100 |
85/100 | 09/12/2019 04:06 |  colonelchibbers | | 77/100 |
70/100 | 08/15/2019 19:06 | xhitmanx | | 75/100 |
80/100 | 08/02/2019 16:16 |  Lamplighter | | 69/100 |
80/100 | 07/20/2019 15:42 | Lisandro | | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 2% of albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a mean average rating of 80.0/100. The trimmed mean (excluding outliers) is 81.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.4.
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Really good stuff. I found it hard to get into classical music because the pieces were too long. No such issue here.
RoundTheBend 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.
colonelchibbers 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.
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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