Today would have been Glenn Gould’s eightieth birthday. He was a true musical genius—not just a talented performer but also a great musical intellectual. He was an important aesthetic philosopher ...

Bach: Three Part Inventions; Berg: Allegro form Piano Sonata No. 1; Webern: Piano Variations, Op. 27; Krekek: Allegretto piaceovole & Adagio for Piano Sonata No. 3; Bach: selections from The Art of ...

Glenn Gould, the Canadian-born pianist, was as renowned for his eccentricities as for his dazzling, idiosyncratic piano work. Twenty-five years after Gould's death at the age of 50, his performances ...

Are we too fixated on Canada’s most famous pianist? And to what extent is Gould, an iconoclast back in the 1950s, truly relevant now? Eighty-five years after his birth, and 35 years after his death, ...

Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1/I. Allegro Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1/II. Adagio Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 2, No. 1/III. Menuetto. Allegretto ...

Glenn Gould did not like to be touched. It was partly that neurasthenic fear of physical contact that led him (at the age of 31) to abandon the stage in 1964. But the great Canadian pianist did not ...

James Rhodes makes a personal selection of some of the idiosyncratic and often controversial recordings by his boyhood hero, Canadian pianist Glenn Gould. Show more James Rhodes has been obsessed with ...

Last week in Toronto, that happy hypochondriac Glenn Gouldwas busy coming down with the flu, having dizzy spells, getting massaged, guarding his private life, and communicating with the world, as ...

“As close as I get to having a religious experience through music,” is how Thomas Gould has described playing Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. The lanky, long-haired violinist has become a familiar figure ...