more
Glenn Gould (1932-1982, piano), live (TV show [CBC]), 1975: Alban Berg (1885-1935), Piano Sonata (Op. 1), c. 1910
**********
lagniappe
art beat: other day, Art Institute of Chicago
Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), Checkered Tablecloth (1939), detail
like nobody else
Glenn Gould (1932-1982, piano), live (studio [CBC broadcast]), 1955: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Fifteen Three-Part Inventions
**********
lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Chicago
more
Glenn Gould (1932-1982, piano), New York, 1981: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Goldberg Variations (excerpt)
**********
lagniappe
random sights
yesterday, Oak Park, Ill.
like nobody else
Glenn Gould (1932-1982, piano), New York, 1981: Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Art of Fugue (excerpt)
**********
lagniappe
random sights
other day, Oak Park, Ill.
Bach Festival
day four
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Partita No. 6 in E minor; Glenn Gould (1932-1982), piano
**********
lagniappe
random sights
other day, Chicago
He played as if his life depended on it.
Glenn Gould (1932-1982, piano), playing Bach’s Partita No. 2 in C minor (The Art of Piano, 1999)
**********
lagniappe
reading table
Happiness has never been one of my great aspirations.
—poet W.S. Graham (1918-1986, quoted in London Review of Books, 7/18/19)
never enough
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Partita for keyboard No. 6, excerpt (Toccata); Glenn Gould (1932-1982, piano), live (studio)
Astonishing performance.
Astonishing piece.
Anton Webern (1883-1945), Variations, op. 27 (1936)
Glenn Gould (1932-1982), piano
**********
lagniappe
reading table
What Miracles the News is!
Not Bismark but ourselves.—Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), Letter 354
more
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), Goldberg Variations (excerpt); Glenn Gould (1932-1982), piano, live (studio performance), 1981
**********
lagniappe
radio
Bach Festival, WKCR-FM (see 12/22/16 post): Day Six.
more
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), The Art of Fugue (excerpts)
Glenn Gould (1932-1982), piano
music clip of the day 