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Glenn Gould assessing his own piano recording 🧠 🎹 🤩 Do you think he ever impressed himself?

#Repost from @/young.brando on IG A stunning portrait of a young Glenn Gould in 1956. The Canadian pianist wears the Omega watch that was presented to him by the City of Toronto for his prodigious achievements at the age of 23.

This excerpt from Bach’s Piano Concerto No. 7 aired in a November 1967 CBC broadcast! Amazing ✨🤩

Bach's Goldberg Variations [Glenn Gould, 1981 record] Which version of Glenn's Goldberg Variations do you prefer? 1955 or 1981? Tell us in the comments! ☺️

Glenn Gould 1981. It's like seeing this amazing sculpture and taking the time to walk around it, see it from every angle, and really think about it.

Glenn Gould 55 is technical precision and prowess, 81 is poetry and learning you can take time to savor it. Both are amazing but if I had to pick one it would be the 81

Who's your favorite composer from the Classical era?

Glenn Gould Love em both, but if I had to choose one...

Glenn Gould on playing in Toronto... "For most people and certainly for me the most difficult place to play in is one hometown I go through agonies have to play in Toronto New York bothers me almost not at all but Toronto is sheer hell" Any Toronto natives in the comments 💪?

Glenn Gould leading the "The Bicentennial Concert“, produced by Mario Prizek and originally broadcast on 9th December, 1970. A magical moment ✨

Musical rule breakers: 15 artists who redefined the possible: "Whether through sound, silence, style, or spectacle, these musical mavericks dared to defy expectations...." classical-music.com/features/artis…

#OnThisDay in 1960 May 14, 1960 (65 Years Ago) “Apollonian,” a profile on Glenn Gould by Joseph Roddy, was printed in The New Yorker

#OnThisDay in 1966, Glenn Gould and Yehudi Menuhin perform Johann Sebastian Bachs „Sonata for Piano and Violin No. 4 in C minor BWV 1017 on CBC’s Festival program “Duo”

"Glenn Gould conquers western Canada." Publicity flyer issued by Glenn Gould's manager, Walter Homburger, that includes excerpts of reviews of Gould's concerts in Vancouver and Calgary, 1951 #MaverickMonday

#OnThisDay 69 years ago (May 21, 1956), Glenn Gould's "String Quartet" was first performed by the Montreal String Quartet.

You know it's Glenn Gould when he hums along with every note 🤩🎶

May 24 – 26, 1957 (68 Years Ago) Glenn Gould makes his Berlin Philharmonic début, with Herbert von Karajan conducting, in Beethoven’s Concerto No. 3 Have you heard this special concerto?

Best known for his interpretations of Bach, pianist Glenn Gould was laid to rest in Toronto’s Mount Pleasant Cemetery after his death in 1982. 🎹 #Repost Classic FM

Glenn Gould plays (and hums 😉) J.S Bach prelude and fugue in F-sharp minor 🎶