This record really kindled my love of Bach and inspired me to study music history. I remember the night my dad brought it home after work in 1975 and then the experience of listening to it for the first time. (You can read the whole story here.) My father was not a...
A three-record boxed set is a time commitment, so I don't often listen to this collection of Charles Rosen's late Bach. That's too bad, since there is a lot to recommend it, in fact, this record is a favourite of mine – something that I remember every time I listen to...
I grew up with Glenn Gould’s Goldberg Variations. My father had his 1956 debut recording on Columbia Masterworks (ML 5060) that established the then-24-year-old pianist as a virtuoso of note, and he had it on our Sony Music System all the time. (Gould had recorded a...
I'm Canadian, and of a certain vintage, so Glenn Gould is kind of synonymous with Johann Sebastian Bach in my mind. This is what I grew up with, and it is how I expect Bach to sound on the piano. Make no mistake, I love so many other performances just as well –...
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