Glenn Gould's recordings with orchestra

Glenn Gould performed with orchestra on several recordings.

With Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein described his working together as a conductor with Gould as a pianist as "submit[ting] to a soloist's wholly new and incompatible concept".[1]

Studio albums
Beethoven: Concerto No. 2 in B flat Major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 19
Bach: Concerto No. 1 in D Minor for Piano and Orchestra
The original Columbia Masterworks album cover.
Studio album by
Glenn Gould, Leonard Berstein and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra
ReleasedOctober 1957 (1957-10)
RecordedApril 9, 1957 (1957-04-09) – April 11, 1957 (1957-04-11) and April 30, 1957 (1957-04-30)
GenreClassical
Length51:48
LabelColumbia

Beethoven: Concerto No. 2 in B flat Major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 19 - Bach: Concerto No. 1 in D Minor for Piano and Orchestra is the third album of the Canadian classical pianist Glenn Gould. It contained a 1957 recording of Ludwig van Beethoven's second Piano Concerto and Johann Sebastian Bach's Keyboard Concerto BWV 1052, with Leonard Bernstein conducting the Columbia Symphony Orchestra.

The recordings were made in 1957 at Columbia Records 30th Street studio in Manhattan over four days between April 9 and April 11 and April 30. Columbia Masterworks Records, the company's classical music division, released the album in October 1957. The album was produced by Howard H. Scott. This record is now in the catalog of Sony Classical Records.

Side A: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B♭ Major, Op. 19 (Beethoven)
No.TitleLength
1."I. Allegro con brio"12:59
2."II. Adagio"9:18
3."III. Rondo. Molto allegro"5:33
Side B: Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052 (Bach)
No.TitleLength
1."I. Allegro"8:34
2."II. Adagio"7:07
3."III. Allegro"8:17

The next studio album where Gould, Bernstein and the Columbia Symphony orchestra worked together was the 1960 recording of Beethoven's third piano concerto.

In 1961 Gould and Bernstein recorded Beethoven's fourth piano concerto with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.

1962 concert
Further information: New York Philharmonic concert of April 6, 1962

Glenn Gould conducting

On September 8, 1982, a few weeks before his death, Gould conducted a chamber orchestra in Wagner's Siegfried Idyll.[2] Sony later released the recording together with three piano transcriptions of Wagner music by Gould, played by himself, from a 1973 album.[3] Gould's performances of the Siegfried Idyll, both the piano and orchestral version, have an extremely slow tempo.[4]

See also

References
  1. Vladimir Konieczny. Glenn Gould: A Musical Force, p. 100. Dundurn, 2009 ISBN 9781770704701
  2. Carl Morey. "Preface" of Richard Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll in a transcription for piano by Glenn Gould. Schott, 2003. ISMN M-001-13370-8
  3. Glenn Gould Conducts Wagner's Siegfried Idyll. Sony Music Entertainment. 1991.
  4. Steven E. Ritter. Review in "Hall of Fame" section of Fanfare Volume 32 No. 3. January–February 2009
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