Hear the iconic pianist play a wide range of music, from Brahms and Gibbons to Schoenberg and Strauss. Glenn Gould: Beyond Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' Glenn Gould: Beyond Bach's 'Goldberg Variations' ...

Our view of a composer is a mosaic, whose tiles are the insights drawn from hearing dozens, perhaps hundreds, of performances — in concert, through headphones, in our memory. Every musician — every ...

The classical-music world seems to run on birthday celebrations plucked from its endless roll call of dead masters (is this The classical-music world seems to run on birthday celebrations plucked from ...

Just as Miles Davis' Kind of Blue was one of those jazz albums you saw in the collections of people who otherwise didn't listen to jazz, Glenn Gould's 1955 LP of Bach's Goldberg Variations stuck out ...

Concert pianists are notoriously temperamental, but with good reason: Their pianos are, too. Why else would J.S. Bach specify a "well-tempered clavier"? The modern piano is a jury-rigged contraption ...

What's going on here, I can only guess, but here's what you're about to see: In the video below, the great musician Glenn Gould, supreme interpreter of Bach, is sitting at his living room piano on a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Classical music has always made room for eccentrics, but even in that company Glenn Gould stood out. In the middle of summer, he wore scarves, coats and gloves. He was a hypochondriac, a germ nut who ...

What's going on here, I can only guess, but here's what you're about to see: In the video below, the great musician Glenn Gould, supreme interpreter of Bach, is sitting at his living room piano on a ...