Glenn Gould - The Complete Original Jacket Collection - Box Set 80CDs

Label : Sony
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The Glenn Gould Complete Jacket Collection" is presented to mark the brilliant pianist's 75th birthday and the 25th anniversary of his death. It is a fascinating, limited edition: all the artist's LP recordings in the "look and feel" of the original vinyl discs on 80 CDs.
The Canadian Glenn Gould (born in Toronto 25 September 1932 - died there 4 October 1982) was without doubt one of the most important pianists of all time. Even today, the idiosyncratic interpretations and the eccentric personality of the "James Dean of the piano" exert a continuing fascination.

In good time to commemorate the artist's birth 75 years ago on 25 September and his death 25 years ago on 4 October 2007, the Sony Classical label is launching a special project in honour of the double anniversary: "The Glenn Gould Complete Jacket Collection" transfers all the artist's recordings for LP on to 78 CDs, from Glenn Gould's legendary 1955 recording of the Goldberg Variations to piano works by Richard Strauss released posthumously on 4 April 1984, and of course, not one of the brilliant artist's legendary Bach recordings is missed out.

Each of the 60 single and 9 double CDs consists of the exact recordings as first issued on vinyl and looks like a miniaturised form of the original disc: the CDs are in cardboard slipcases in the original design, and the CD itself is designed to look like a LP.

Supplemented by two bonus CDs, the limited "Glenn Gould Complete Jacket Collection" comprises 80 CDs mounted in a high-quality display case with a booklet of more than 240 pages. This booklet contains a new, detailed essay by the German Gould specialist Michael Stegemann on Glenn Gould and the LP recording era along with texts and repertoire details to all recordings in the edition, plus a listing and depiction of the records with reissue dates for repertoire that has appeared before.

The bonus CDs include the last great interview that Glenn Gould gave the American journalist Tim Page in 1981 and an essay on Johann Sebastian Bach and the fugue that Gould recorded in 1972 for a bonus LP. They also feature a number of late recordings that never appeared on vinyl: fragments of the "Italian Album" and Wagner's Siegfried Idyll in its orchestral version -- Gould's recording debut as conductor and his last recording of all, made on 8 September 1982 with members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Another rarity is Gould's own film music to George Roy Hill's Slaughterhouse Five from 1972.

CD 1 Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (1955)
CD 2 Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 30-32 (1956)
CD 3 Bach: Concerto No. 1 in D minor BWV 1052; Beethoven: Concerto No. 2 in B flat Major Op. 19 (1957)
CD 4 Bach: Partitas Nos. 5 & 6; Fugues in F-Sharp Minor and E Major (1957)
CD 5 Haydn: Sonata No. 3 in E-Flat Major; Mozart: Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K.330; Fantasia and Fugue in C Major, K.394 (1958)
CD 6 Beethoven: Concerto No. 1 in C Major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 15; Bach: Concerto No. 5 in F Minor For Piano and Orchestra (1958)
CD 7 Berg: Sonata for Piano, Op. 1; Schoenberg: Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11; Krenek: Sonata No. 3 for Piano, Op. 92, No. 4 (1959)
CD 8 Beethoven: Concerto No. 3 in C Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 37 (1960)
CD 9 Gould: String Quartet No. 1 (1960)
CD 10 Bach: Italian Concerto in F Major & Partita Nos. 1 & 2 (1960)
CD 11 Brahms: 10 Intermezzi Op. 76, 116, 117, 118, 119 (1961)
CD 12 Beethoven: Concerto No. 4 in G Major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 58 (1961)
CD 13 Bach: The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 Volume I Fugues 1-9 (1962)
CD 14 Mozart: Concerto No. 24 in C Minor for Piano and Orchestra, K. 491; Schoenberg: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 42 (1962)
CD 15 Strauss: Enoch Arden (Tennyson), Op. 38 (1962)
CD 16 Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Nos. 1-8 BWV 846-853 (1963)
CD 17 Bach: Partita No. 3 in A Minor, BWV 827 & No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828, Toccata in E minor, BWV 914 (1963)
CD 18 Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Nos. 9-16, BWV 854-861 (1964)
CD 19 Bach: Two and Three Part Inventions and Sinfonias Nos. 1-15, BWV 772-801 (1964)
CD 20 Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 5-7, Op. 10/1-3 (1965)
CD 21 Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Nos. 17-24, BWV 846-869 (1965)
CD 22 a+b Schoenberg: Songs for Voice and Piano Op. 1, Op. 2 Op. 15 & Solo Piano works Op. 11, 19, 23, 25, Op. 33a & b (1966)
CD 23 Beethoven: Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 73, “Emperor” (1966)
CD 24 a+b Schoenberg: Fantasy for Violin and Piano Op. 47, Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte Op. 41 et al. (1967)
CD 25 Beethoven: Sonatas for Piano No. 8-10, Op. 13 “Pathetique”, Op. 14/1 & 2 (1967)
CD 26 Bach: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 3, 5 & 7, BWV 1054, 1056 & 1058 (1967)
CD 27 Canadian Music in the XXth Century: Anhalt, Hetu and Morawetz (1967)
CD 28 Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-5, K. 279-283 (1968)
CD 29 Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, Nos. 1-8, BWV 870-877 (1968)
CD 30 Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 (transcribed for Piano by Franz Liszt) (1968)
CD 31 The Concert Drop-Out . Glenn Gould In Conversation with John McClure (1968)
CD 32 Scriabin: Sonata No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 23; Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83 (1969)
CD 33 Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 6, 7 & 9, K. 284 (205b), 309 (284b) & 311 (284c) (1969)
CD 34 Bach: Keyboard Concertos, Nos. 2 & 4, BWV 1053 & 1055 (1969)
CD 35 Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 14 & 23, Op. 13, 27/2 & 57 (1970)
CD 36 Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, Nos. 9-16, BWV 878-885 (1970)
CD 37 Beethoven: Variations for Piano, WoO. 80, Op. 34 & 35 (1970)
CD 38 Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, Nos. 17-24, BWV 886-893 (1971)
CD 39 A Consort of Musicke Bye William Byrde and Orlando Gibbons (1971)
CD 40 Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 10, 12 & 13, K. 310 (300d), K. 330 (300h), K. 332 (300k), K. 333 (315c) (1972)
CD 41 Music from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five (Original Motion Picture Score) Bach: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 5 BWV 1054 & 1056 (1972)
CD 42 Schoenberg: Songs for Voice and Piano, Op. 3, 6, 12, 14, 48, 2 Lieder Op. post. (1972)
CD 43 Handel: Suites for Harpsichord, Nos. 1-4, HWV 426-429 (1972)
CD 44 Grieg: Sonata in E Minor for Piano, Op. 7; Bizet: Premier Nocturne in F Major, Variations Chromatiques (1973)
CD 45 Bach: French Suites Nos. 1-4, BWV 812-815 (1973)
CD 46 Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Nos. 11, 15 & 16, K. 331 (300i), K. 533 / K. 494 & K. 545, Fantasia in D Minor, K. 397 (385g) (1973)
CD 47 Hindemith: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3 (1973)
CD 48 Wagner/Gould: Piano Transcriptions of Wagner Orchestral Showpieces: Die Meistersinger, Gotterdammerung, Siegfried-Idyll (1973)
CD 49 Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 16-18, Op. 31/1-3 (1973)
CD 50 Bach: French Suites Nos. 5 & 6, BWV 816 & 817; Overture in the French Style, BWV 831 (1974)
CD 51 Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord, Nos. 1-3, BWV 1027-1029 (1974)
CD 52 Beethoven: Bagatelles, Op. 33 and Op. 126 (1975)
CD 53 Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 14, 17 & 18, K. 457, K. 570 & K. 576, Fantasia in C Minor, K. 475 (1975)
CD 54 a+b Hindemith: The Complete Sonatas for Brass and Piano (1976)
CD 55 a+b Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, Nos. 1-6, BWV 1014-1019 (1976)
CD 56 a+b Bach: English Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV 806-811 (1977)
CD 57 Sibelius: Sonatinas for Piano, Op. 67/1-3, "Kyllikki". Three Lyric Pieces for Piano, Op. 41 (1977)
CD 58 a+b Hindemith: Das Marienleben for Soprano and Piano (1978)
CD 59 Bach: Toccatas, BWV 910, 912 & 913 (1979)
CD 60 Bach: Toccatas, BWV 911 & 914-916 (1980)
CD 61 Bach: Preludes, Fugues and Fughettas BWV 895, 899, 900, 902, 924-938, 952, 953, 961 (1980)
CD 62 a+b Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3 Op. 2/1-3 & No. 15 Op. 28 (Pastoral) (1980)
CD 63 a+b Works by Scarlatti, C. P. E. Bach, Gould, Scriabin, Strauss & Beethoven (1980)
CD 64 a+b Haydn: Six Late Piano Sonatas Hob.XVI/42, 48-52 (1982)
CD 65 Bach: Goldberg Variations (1981 Digital Recording) (1982)
CD 66 Brahms: 4 Ballads, Op. 10, 2 Rhapsodies Op. 79 (1983)
CD 67 Beethoven: Sonatas No. 12, Op. 26 & No. 13, Op. 27/1 (1983)
CD 68 Strauss: Sonata, Op. 5; 5 Piano Pieces, Op. 3 (1984)
CD 69 Schumann: Piano Quintet, Op. 44 & Piano Quartet, Op. 47 (1984)
CD 70 BONUS CD 1: Glenn Gould discusses his performances of the "Goldberg Variations" with Tim Page
CD 71 BONUS CD 2: Bach: "Italian Album" fragments & Wagner: "Siegfried Idyll"

Complete tracklist : Glenn Gould - The Complete Original Jacket Collection