The classical-music world seems to run on birthday celebrations plucked from its endless roll call of dead masters (is this The classical-music world seems to run on birthday celebrations plucked from ...

Few classical recordings have aroused as much fascination as Glenn Gould’s 1981 take on Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. Gould, whose first major-label recording was a classic 1955 account of the ...

Concert pianists are notoriously temperamental, but with good reason: Their pianos are, too. Why else would J.S. Bach specify a "well-tempered clavier"? The modern piano is a jury-rigged contraption ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Forty years ago, on September 2, 1982 - the year of Michael Jackson's ...

Pianist Glenn Gould rocketed to fame in 1955 with his startling and original take on Bach's Goldberg Variations. Gould's fans were treated to a remake of Goldbergs in 1982, when he released a ...

Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” framed Glenn Gould’s recording career and came to define him in ways that he would not have foreseen when he chose the work in 1955 as the vehicle for his Columbia ...