Glenn Gould — in his usual stage posture with his legs crossed and seated at a chair built by his father — performs in New York in 1960, four years before he played his final public recital in Los ...

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 ...

This evocative, detailed account of the compulsive search for a sensitive, highly responsive concert piano by Canadian musical wunderkind Glenn Gould combines the parallel histories of one of the most ...

Pianist Glenn Gould rocketed to fame in 1955 with his startling and original take on Bach's Goldberg Variations. Gould's fans were treated to a remake of Goldbergs in 1982, when he released a ...

Hear two brilliant musicians with famously idiosyncratic personalities come together today at 2:00pm. Pianist Glenn Gould and composer Alexander Scriabin. Gould was known to hum and sing while he ...

Filmmaker Bruno Monsaingeon visits piano virtuoso Glenn Gould more than ten years after his selfimposed exile from the stage which results in a mixture of interview ...

A young Glenn Gould’s passion for the piano and a sensitive boy’s view of “Carmen.” By Tim Page Formal education in classical music has largely vanished from many American schools. Yet young people ...

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 ...

On the evening of April 10, 1964 — that is, 60 years ago Wednesday — the Canadian virtuoso Glenn Gould stepped away from the piano at the end of his concert at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los ...