Glenn Gould - Bach: The English Suites Nos. 1-6 (1977 Remaster) (2015)

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Artist: Glenn Gould
Title: Bach: The English Suites Nos. 1-6
Year Of Release: 1977 (2015)
Label: Sony Classical
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 01:51:21
Total Size: 526 Mb
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

CD 1:
1. English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV 806: I. Prélude
2. English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV 806: II. Allemande
3. English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV 806: III. Courante I
4. English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV 806: IV. Courante II
5. English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV 806: V. Double I
6. VI. Double II
7. English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV 806: VII. Sarabande
8. English Suite No. 1 In A Major, Bwv 806: VIII. Bourée I
9. English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV 806: IX. Bourée II (with da capo I)
10. X. Gigue
11. English Suite No. 4 in F Major, BWV 809: I. Prélude
12. English Suite No. 4 in F Major, BWV 809: II. Allemande
13. English Suite No. 4 in F Major, BWV 809: III. Courante
14. English Suite No. 4 in F Major, BWV 809: IV. Sarabande
15. English Suite No. 4 in F Major, BWV 809: V. Menuett I
16. English Suite No. 4 in F Major, BWV 809: VI. Menuett II (with da capo I)
17. English Suite No. 4 in F Major, BWV 809: VII. Gigue
18. English Suite No. 5 in E Minor, BWV 810: I. Prélude
19. English Suite No. 5 in E Minor, BWV 810: II. Allemande
20. English Suite No. 5 in E Minor, BWV 810: III. Courante
21. English Suite No. 5 in E Minor, BWV 810: IV. Sarabande
22. English Suite No. 5 in E Minor, BWV 810: V. Passepied I (en Rondeau)
23. VI. Passepied II (with da capo I)
24. English Suite No. 5 in E Minor, BWV 810: VII. Gigue

CD 2:
1. English Suite No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 807: I. Prélude
2. II. Allemande
3. English Suite No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 807: III. Courante
4. IV. Sarabande - Les agréments de la même Sarabande
5. V. Bourée I
6. VI. Bourée II (with da capo I)
7. VII. Gigue
8. English Suite No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 808: I. Prélude
9. English Suite No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 808: II. Allemande
10. English Suite No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 808: III. Courante
11. English Suite No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 808: IV. Sarabande - Les agréments de la même Sarabande
12. English Suite No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 808: V. Gavotte I
13. English Suite No. 3 in G Minor, BWV 808: VI. Gavotte II (ou la Musette) (with da capo I)
14. VII. Gigue
15. I. Prélude
16. English Suite No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 811: II. Allemande
17. English Suite No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 811: III. Courant
18. English Suite No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 811: IV. Sarabande
19. English Suite No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 811: V. Double
20. English Suite No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 811: VI. Gavotte I
21. English Suite No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 811: VII. Gavotte II (with da capo I)
22. English Suite No. 6 In D Minor, Bwv 811: VIII. Gigue

Performers:
Glenn Gould, piano

There has been no more original genius of the keyboard than Glenn Gould, but this has ¬drawbacks as well as thrilling advantages. He can sacrifice depth of feeling for a relentless and quixotic sense of adventure. Yet love it or deride it, every bar of these lovingly remastered discs tingles with joie de vivre and an unequalled force and vitality. Try the opening of the First Suite. Is such freedom glorious or maddening, or is the way the odd note is nonchalantly flicked in the following sustained argument a naughty alternative to Bach’s intention? The pizzicato bass in the second Double from the same Suite is perhaps another instance of an idiosyncrasy bordering on whimsy, an enlivenment or rejuvenation that at least remains open to question. But listen to him in virtually any of the sarabandes and you’ll find a tranquillity and equilibrium that can silence such criticism. Even at his most piquant and outrageous his playing remains, mysteriously, all of a piece. The fiercely chromatic, labyrinthine argument concluding the Fifth Suite is thrown off with a unique brio, one of those moments when you realise how he can lift Bach out of all possible time-warps and make him one of music’s truest modernists.

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