GLENN GOULD On Television. The Complete CBC Broadcasts 1954-1977

 

By the time he reached his mid-20s, Glenn Gould had changed the way the world listened to the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach; by the time of his fatal stroke in 1982, two days after he turned 50, this daring and visionary artist had successfully challenged many of the most cherished conventions of classical music.

 

Now, for the first time, the dozens of film and television programs Gould made with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1954 to 1977 are collected in their entirety in Glenn Gould on Television - The Complete CBC Broadcasts. More than 19 hours of TV specials, concert performances, interviews and discussions collected on 10 DVDs make it possible to discover what Gould always considered some of his most significant and original life’s work, most of which has not been seen since it was first telecast.

•           The complete CBC Broadcasts from 1954 to 1977 in a specially priced 10-DVD set

•           All original broadcasts as conceived by Glenn Gould and the CBC – unedited and uncut

•           Including interviews and documentary parts in full length

•           Contains 3 hours of “Conversations with Glenn Gould”, the legendary Humphrey Burton interviews

•           Includes yet unseen performances by Glenn Gould of works by Scriabin, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Walton, Hindemith, Bartók, Copland, Poulenc and Prokofieff

•           Full coloured booklet with liner notes by Tim Page in E/G/F

•           Spoken language: English – No Subtitles

 

DVD 1 1954–1974

Early TV performances and program excerpts 1954–1966

The Subject is Beethoven

 

DVD 2 1962

Music in the U.S.S.R. / Gould on Bach / from Sunday Concert

 

DVD 3 1962 & 1963

Richard Strauss – A Personal View / The Anatomy of the Fugue

 

DVD 4 1964 & 1966

Duo / Gould & Yehudi Menuhin / Anthology of Variation

from Concerti for Four Wednesdays

 

DVD 5 1966

Conversations with Glenn Gould / Humphrey Burton Interviews / Bach & Beethoven

 

DVD 6 1966

Conversations with Glenn Gould / Humphrey Burton Interviews / R. Strauss & Schoenberg

 

DVD 7 1967

Music for a Sunday Afternoon / Mozart & Beethoven

The Canada Centennial Concert

 

DVD 8 1970

The Idea of North - a film by Judith Pearlman

The Beethoven Bicentennial Concert

 

DVD 9 1974 & 1975

Musicamera – Music In Our Time / The Age of Ecstasy: 1900–1910 / The Flight from Order: 1910–1920

 

DVD 10 1975 & 1977

Musicamera – Music In Our Time

New Faces, Old Forms: 1920–1930

The Artist as Artisan: 1930–1940

 

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