Glenn Gould became famous in the classical music world largely through his performance of an obscure group of pieces by J.S. Bach. At the time of Gould's American debut in January 1955, the "Goldberg ...

Our view of a composer is a mosaic, whose tiles are the insights drawn from hearing dozens, perhaps hundreds, of performances — in concert, through headphones, in our memory. Every musician — every ...

The classical-music world seems to run on birthday celebrations plucked from its endless roll call of dead masters (is this The classical-music world seems to run on birthday celebrations plucked from ...

Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828: I. Overture Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828: II. Allemande Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828: III. Courante Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828: IV. Aria Partita No.

It began, unpromisingly, with music written to put you to sleep. But when the dashing 22-year-old Glenn Gould recorded a little-known piece Bach had come up with to soothe an aristocratic insomniac, ...

Just as Miles Davis' Kind of Blue was one of those jazz albums you saw in the collections of people who otherwise didn't listen to jazz, Glenn Gould's 1955 LP of Bach's Goldberg Variations stuck out ...