Bach (1685-1750) - Glenn Gould : The Goldberg Variations Complete Unreleased Recording Sessions June 1955 (+LP) - Import 8 CD Box

Credits:

Martha Argerich & Friend

Description:

How the legend of Gould was born - a complete documentation of the four days that changed the history of piano performance and recording, including all the takes from the June '55 Goldberg sessions, which were never released outside the gate. Glenn Gould's first Goldberg Variations, released in January 1956, is the most successful classical music album of all time. classical music album and an icon in recording history.In commemoration of the 85th anniversary of Gould's birth, the "Glenn Gould/Goldberg Variations Complete Recording Sessions 1955," released in cooperation with Gould Estate, is the first-ever boxed set to include all of the legendary recordings made by the then 22-year-old Gould at Columbia's 30th Street Studios in New York City over a four-day period from June 10-16, 1955, which marked his debut on the Columbia label. The box set is the first to include all of the recording sessions at Columbia's 30th Street Studios in New York City over a four-day period between June 10 and 16, 1955, which resulted in the legendary recording that marked the 22-year-old Gould's debut for the Columbia label in the United States.Portions of this legendary session have been previously released on CD in 2002 in "A State of Wonder Glenn Gould The CompleteGoldberg Variations" (total of 12 minutes and 32 seconds of outtakes) and 2005 in "Glenn Gould's 1955 Goldberg Variations: The Birth of a Legend" (total of 7 minutes and 12 seconds) released in 2005, but this is the first time that the entire work has been made public.■Trace the process of the creation of the legendary album CD1-CD5 contains all the takes of the sessions recorded over the four days, including the interactions between takes between Gould and Scott, the producer, for each variation, from the first sound of the aria that echoed on the morning of Friday, June 10, 1955, CD5 takes us on a journey from the first notes of the aria on the morning of Friday, June 10, 1955, to the last notes of the da Capo aria at about 11 p.m. on Thursday, June 16, 1955, as if we were standing right beside Gould, producer Howard Scott, and engineer Fred Prout as they recount the entirety of what happened at 30th Street Studios during that legendary four-day period. CD6 is a promotional interview organized by CBS for the release of the 1981 re-recording of the Goldberg Variations, which was released in 1984 as a 3-LP set along with the new and old recordings of the Goldberg Variations.CD7 is the latest 2017 DSD remaster of the final edited version of the '55 recording (remastered for the 2015 release of Glenn Gould Remastered The Complete Album Collection); the LP is a Czech GZ The LP will be a 180 gram weight LP pressed by GZ Media in the Czech Republic using the same 2015 DSD remastering as CD7. (1/3) Sony Music

Tracklisting:

1.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 1
2.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 2
3.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 3 [']
4.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 4
5.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 5
6.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 6
7.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 1
8.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 2 (B)
9.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 3 (approved Take)
10.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Remake Take 1 (B)
11.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Remake Take 2 (B)
12.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Remake Take 3 (B)
13.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Remake Take 4 (B)
14.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Remake Take 5 (B)
15.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Remake Take 6 ('B)
16.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Remake Take 7
17.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Remake Take 8
18.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Remake Take 9 [B]
19.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Remake [Take 9A]
20.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Remake Take 10
21.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Remake Take 11
22.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Remake Take 12 (')
23.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Remake Take 13 (B)
24.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 1 (b)
25.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 2 (B)
26.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 2 [A] (B)
27.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 3
28.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 4 (B)
29.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 5 [B]
30.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 6
31.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 7 (B)
32.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 8
33.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 9 [B]
34.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: [Take 9A]
35.Complete 1955 Goldberg Variations: Take 10