Excerpted from booklet notes, page 2: Except for the Partita No.5, which was recorded for the CBC's international service, all the performances presented here are taken from radio broadcasts, almost always in Toronto, from 1951 to 1955. Early in May Gould signed the recording contract with Columbia Records that was quickly to make him an international celebrity but as these broadcasts make clear, he was already a mature and seasoned artist by the time the world outside Canada discovered him.
Excerpted from booklet notes, page 4: A dozen years before he retired from public concerts Gould, by anticipation, set his seal of approval on studio performances and these recordings. In a CBC TIMES interview of 1952 he said: "To me, the concentration on purely musical detail is of utmost importance for any performance, a concentration which is much easier to achieve when there is no need to feel responsibility for the visual pleasure of the listener."
Timings:
Disc 1: 65:40
Disc 2: 73:42
Disc 3: 66:49
Disc 4: 74:02
Disc 5: 65"56
Disc 6: 64:52
Recording/Broadcast Data:
Disc 1: Tracks 1-32 (Goldberg Variations, BWV 988) recorded June 21, 1954; Tracks 33-38 (BWV 883, 876, 891) recorded February 28, 1954, and tracks 39-40 (BWV 878) recorded October 21, 1952.
Disc 2: Tracks 1-7 (Partita No.5, BWV 829) recorded October 4, 1954; Tracks 8-22 (Sinfonias, BWV 787-801) recorded March 15, 1955; Tracks 23-25 (Concerto, BWV 971) recorded October 21, 1952; Tracks 26-28 (Concerto, BWV 1052) recorded March 29, 1955.
Disc 3: No information supplied.
Disc 4: Tracks 1-6 (Six Bagatelles Opus 126) broadcast September 28, 1952; Tracks 7-9 (Sonata 28 Opus 101) broadcast October 12, 1952; Track 10 (Sonata 4 Opus 7 excerpt) and Tracks 11-12 (Sonata 19 Opus 49, no.1) broadcast October 12, 1952; Track 13 (Allegretto WoO39) and Tracks 14-16 (Piano Trio Opus 70) broadcast July 18, 1954.
Disc 5: Track 1 (Six Variations Opus 34) recorded September 28, 1952; Track 2 (Eroica Variations Opus 35) recorded October 5, 1952; Tracks 3-5 (Concerto No.3 Opus 37) recorded February 21, 1955.
Disc 6: No information supplied.
Recorded and edited in Canada. Manufactured in Canada.
6 CDs packaged in a cumbersome 6-chambered, multi-hinged double-wide "fat box" plastic black-trays jewel case, along with a 16 page booklet, notes in English and French.
Annotation last modified on 2021-05-13 15:05 UTC.
