Buy For HimA guide to buying gifts for the man in your life |
| Add our site to IE favourites | Add our store to your IE favourites | Add Bach: Partitas, Preludes Fugues (Glenn Gould Edition) Music to IE favourites |
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Our Recommendations
Books
|
Music : Bach: Partitas, Preludes Fugues (Glenn Gould Edition)from: Sony Classics
Related Items:
Average Rating:
![]() Rating: - Touchstone of Bach playingThis is a cornerstone of Bach playing which can stand as its own until the end of time. Very few pianists can match clarity & delicacy of these performances. Rating: - music for the soul and the heartFrom all of bach's works, this (the partitas) is my favourite one. Compared to similar compositions i'd say that it's not as simple as the french suites neither strict and cerebral as the english suites. There are of course greater works but to me this speaks straight to the soul and the heart. Each partita is different from the other, with the even-numbered ones going further than the odd-numbered. For me, the best is the fourth, especially in this rendition by glenn gould (the allemande here seems ... Read More Rating: - A Superabundance of NotesI have listened to this CD perhaps two hundred times and I am sad to say that the return for so doing has been distinctly Sibylline. Gould's incontinence as a pianist is all-weaning and poor old Johann barely gets a look in. These diachronic duets are an interesting idea but perhaps emerge more from the desire of record companies to bolster falling fughetta sales than out of an authentic spirit of collaboration. Gould constantly reproves Bach, sotto voce, and one does not have to work hard to picture ... Read More Rating: - There is SO much of value on this CD.This great-value double CD contains over 140 minutes of Glenn Gould playing unaccompanied pieces by Bach on the piano. There are 6 partitas (an old form of the sonata) recorded in 1957, just 2 years after his astonishing debut, and then a considerable number of preludes, fugues and fughettas recorded in 1980, at the end of Gould's career, just before he died. So what you get is a nice broad sweep of the Canadian genius' career, and an awful lot of Bach. The playing, as one expects from Gould, is charming, ... Read More
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
(opens in a new window - please enable pop-ups) Alternatively: Buy direct from Amazon.co.uk Browse for similar items by category:
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The 'buy for' shopping network: BuyForHim | BuyForHer | Get a store like this | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||