Glenn Gould — The Complete Original Jacket Collection [80 CD Box Set] (2007) APE

APE, Lossless | Classical, Piano | 13.69 Gb

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 . Even today, the idiosyncratic interpretations and the eccentric personality of the \»James Dean of the piano\» exert a continuing fascination.

In good 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 01 — Bach. Goldberg Variations (1955)

CD 02 — Beethoven. Piano Sonatas Nos. 30-32 (1956)

CD 03 — Bach. Beethoven (1957)

CD 04 — Bach. Partita No. 5. Partita No. 6 (1957)

CD 05 — Haydn. Mozart (1958)

CD 06 — Beethoven. Bach (1958)

CD 07 — Berg. Schoenberg. Krenek (1959)

CD 08 — Beethoven. Piano Concerto No. 3 In C Minor (1960)

CD 09 — String Quartet No.1 (1960)

CD 10 — Bach. Italian Concerto. Partitas No.1-No. 2 (1960)

CD 11 — Brahms. 10 Intermezzi For Piano (1961)

CD 12 — Beethoven. Concerto No.4 In G Major (1961)

CD 13 — Bach. The Art Of The Fugue. Vol. 1 (1962)

CD 14 — Mozart. Schoenberg. Concertos For Piano And Orchestra (1962)

CD 15 — Strauss. Enoch Arden (1962)

CD 16 — Bach. The Well-Tempered Clavier. Book I (Preludes And Fugues1-8) (1963)

CD 17 — Bach. Partita No. 3-No. 4. Toccata No. 7 (1963)

CD 18 — Bach. The Well-Tempered Clavier. Book I (Preludes And Fugues 9-16) (1964)

CD 19 — Bach. The Two And Three Part Inventions (Inventions & Sinfonias) (1964)

CD 20 — Beethoven. Piano Sonatas (1965)

CD 21 — Bach. The Well-Tempered Clavier. Book I (Preludes And Fugues 17-24) (1965)

CD 22 — Schoenberg. The Music Of Arnold Schoenberg. Vol. 4 (2 CD) (1966)

CD 23 — Beethoven. \’Emperor\’ (1966)

CD 24 — Schoenberg. The Music Of Arnold Schoenberg. Vol. 7 (2 CD) (1967)

CD 25 — Beethoven. Sonatas (1967)

CD 26 — Bach. Three Keyboard Concertos (1967)

CD 27 — Canadian Music In The XXth Century (1967)

CD 28 — Mozart. The Piano Sonatas. Vol. 1 (1968)

CD 29 — Bach. The Well-Tempered Clavier. Book II (Preludes And Fugues 1-8) (1968)

CD 30 — Beethoven. Symphony No. 5 (1968)

CD 31 — Concert Dropout. In Conversation With John McClure (1968)

CD 32 — Scriabin. Prokofiev (1969)

CD 33 — Mozart. The Piano Sonatas. Vol.2 (1969)

CD 34 — Bach. Keyboard Concertos. Vol. II (1969)

CD 35 — Beethoven. Beethoven Sonatas (1970)

CD 36 — Bach. The Well-Tempered Clavier. Book II (Preludes And Fugues 9-16) (1970)

CD 37 — Beethoven. Variations For Piano (1970)

CD 38 — Bach. The Well-Tempered Clavier. Book II (Preludes And Fugues 17-24) (1971)

CD 39 — A Consort Of Musicke Bye (1971)

CD 40 — Mozart. The Piano Sonatas. Vol. 3 (1972)

CD 41 — Bach. Music From Kurt Vonnegut\’s Slaughterhouse-Five (1972)

CD 42 — Schoenberg. Complete Songs For Voice And Piano. Vol. 2 (1972)

CD 43 — Handel. Suites For Harpsichord (1972)

CD 44 — First Recordings Of Grieg And Bizet (1973)

CD 45 — Bach. The French Suites (1973)

CD 46 — Mozart. The Piano Sonatas. Vol. 4 (1973)

CD 47 — Hindh. The Piano Sonatas Complete (1973)

CD 48 — Wagner. Piano Transcriptions Of Orchestral Showpieces (1973)

CD 49 — Beethoven. Piano Sonatas, Op.31, Complete (1973)

CD 50 — Bach. The French Suites. Vol. II (1974)

CD 51 — Bach. The Three Sonatas For Viola Da Gamba And Harpsichord (1974)

CD 52 — Beethoven. Bagatelles (1975)

CD 53 — Mozart. The Piano Sonatas. Vol.5 (1975)

CD 54 — Hindh. The Complete Sonatas For Brass And Piano (2 CD) (1976)

CD 55 — Bach. The Six Sonatas For Viola Da Gamba And Harpsichord (2 CD) (1976)

CD 56 — Bach. The English Suites (2 CD) (1977)

CD 57 — Sibelius. Three Sonatines For Piano — Kyllikki (1977)

CD 58 — Hindh. Das Marienleben (2 CD) (1978)

CD 59 — Bach. Toccatas. Vol.1 (1979)

CD 60 — Bach. Toccatas. Vol.2 (1980)

CD 61 — Bach. Preludes, Fughettas And Fugues (1980)

CD 62 — Beethoven. Sonatas (2 CD) (1980)

CD 63 — Silver Jubilee Album (2 CD) (1980)

CD 64 — Haydn. The Six Last Sonatas (2 CD) (1982)

CD 65 — Bach. The Goldberg Variations (1982)

CD 66 — Brahms. Ballades — Rhapsodies (1983)

CD 67 — Beethoven. Sonatas (1983)

CD 68 — Strauss. Sonata For Piano — Five Piano Pieces (1984)

CD 69 — Schumann. Piano Quintet — Piano Quartet (1984)

CD 70 — Bonus CD (2 CD)