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Colin Stetson

The Quietus 11 May 2023
A methodical listener who frequently returns to Glenn Gould's 1981 recording of Bach's Golberg Variations, as well as Irish and Scandinavian folk, all these inspirations are made very clear by the saxophonist in the album's soundscape, which also features Iarla Ó Lionáird on ...
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John Frayne | 'Goldberg Variations' a testament to Lang Lang's seriousness as an artist

The News-Gazette 13 Mar 2023
Bach’s famous “Goldberg Variations” in September 2020 for Deutsche Grammophon, and then to take the “Goldberg” on the road with a series of performances ... In the more brilliant of the Bach variations, Lang Lang can produce a dazzling flood of notes ... A later Gould recording with more repeats ran about 13 minutes longer.).
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Author Jennifer Boylan Discusses Experience with Gender Transition at Harvard Radcliffe Lecture

The Harvard Crimson 22 Feb 2023
Boylan later discussed Canadian classical pianist Glenn Gould and Johann Sebastian Bach’s musical composition, Goldberg Variations, referencing the Heisenberg principle once more. “In 1981, at the age of 49, Gould returned to the Goldberg Variations ... Bach wrote the Goldberg ...
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Meet Mandalic Systems Artist David Orr

LA Weekly 02 Jan 2023
But Bach never fails to astonish me. The Goldberg Variations as performed by Glenn Gould, or the Cello Suites (there are many superb recordings and interpretations, but I keep coming back to Pablo Casals and Yo-Yo Ma) remain my favorite deadline/focus soundtracks.
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Art that made me cry: ‘It’s a Wonderful Life is a ruthless machine for the extraction of the biggest, saltiest tears’

The Irish Times 24 Dec 2022
Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould ... A postscript notes that the Voyager Golden Records – two phonograph records that were included aboard both Voyager 1 and 2 when launched in 1977 – contain Gould’s recording of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 2, Prelude and Fugue in C, No 1.
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The best classical box sets to buy for Christmas

The Times/The Sunday Times 07 Dec 2022
Shaped as a heavyweight book (216 pages), this prefaces Gould’s award-winning version of Bach’s keyboard masterwork with ten discs of the recording sessions, ...
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Bach’s accidental masterpiece

New Statesman 30 Nov 2022
He’s playing Bach’s Fugue in E-flat major on the organ, initially off-camera ... Contained on the golden records that were launched with both the Voyager spacecraft in 1977 is a selection of compositions by Bach – including the first prelude and fugue from the second book of The Well-Tempered Clavier, played by Glenn Gould.
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The week in classical: Teyber Trio; Quartet for the End of Time; King’s Singers

The Observer 27 Nov 2022
Tease apart the tight strands of Bach’s Goldberg ... This is what the Russian violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky did in his 1985 arrangement, made to mark the 300th anniversary of Bach’s birth, as well as to pay homage to one of the work’s supreme interpreters, the pianist Glenn Gould.
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Renowned pianist and conductor Jo�o Carlos Martins to celebrate 60th anniversary of Carnegie Hall debut ...

AM New York 11 Nov 2022
19 and includes two Brandenburg Concertos, one Aria from Bach, and two Brazilian composers, Villa-Lobos and Andr� Mehmari.�. Martins is considered one of the greatest interpreters of Bach of the 20th century ... The Boston Globe characterized him as “The most exciting player of Bach on the modern piano to emerge since Glenn Gould.”�.
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Renowned pianist and conductor João Carlos Martins to celebrate 60th anniversary of Carnegie Hall debut next week

Metro USA 11 Nov 2022
19 and includes two Brandenburg Concertos, one Aria from Bach, and two Brazilian composers, Villa-Lobos and André Mehmari. Martins is considered one of the greatest interpreters of Bach of the 20th century ... The Boston Globe characterized him as “The most exciting player of Bach on the modern piano to emerge since Glenn Gould.”.
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Renowned pianist and conductor João Carlos Martins to celebrate 60th anniversary of Carnegie Hall debut ...

The Villager 11 Nov 2022
19 and includes two Brandenburg Concertos, one Aria from Bach, and two Brazilian composers, Villa-Lobos and André Mehmari. Martins is considered one of the greatest interpreters of Bach of the 20th century ... The Boston Globe characterized him as “The most exciting player of Bach on the modern piano to emerge since Glenn Gould.”.
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The Genius of Glenn Gould’s ‘Goldberg Variations’

The Epoch Times 07 Nov 2022
Bach’s “Goldberg Variations,” it is impossible not to think of Glenn Gould’s interpretations ... The battered chair of pianist Glenn Gould, which he carried with him to perform.
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How Eunice Waymon became Nina Simone

RTE 28 Oct 2022
Imprints of Simone’s "beloved Bach" can be heard throughout her songs ... If born in a white man in neighbouring Canada, one wonders whether Simone’s virtuosity would have seen her signed to Columbia Record’s classical label, like Glenn Gould, just one year her senior, famed for his recordings of Bach's "Goldberg Variations".
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Stelios Kerasidis, Child Prodigy

Greek City Times 16 Sep 2022
Stelios says his favourite pianist is the late Canadian Glenn Gould, best known for his technically demanding renditions of Bach variations ... I admire Bach and Chopin, but collaborating with them now seems a bit difficult (laughs)! We know that a pianist needs several hours of study.
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Records show Trudeau is routinely offered portraits of himself as gifts

Moosejaw Today 01 Aug 2022
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been offered the gift of his own likeness some 17 times since becoming prime minister, including once by the president of China ... Former German chancellor Angela Merkel was a Bach fan, so she got a box set of concertos performed by Glenn Gould, he said, while one of Trudeau's gifts to former U.S ... Abrams ... .

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