Music

Gould’s first release after becoming a “concert drop-out.” For years he had put his Steinway CD 318 through myriad “operations” in order “to try to design an instrument […] which can add to the undeniable resource of the modern piano something of the clarity and tactile facility of the harpsichord.” The result was “a slight nervous tic in the middle register which in the slower passages can be heard emitting a sort of hiccup.” Indeed it can!
Bach: Two and Three Part Inventions, BWV 772-801 (Inventions & Sinfonias)
Released: 1964
- Invention No. 1 in C Major, BWV 772
- Sinfonia No. 1 in C Major, BWV 787
- Invention No. 2 in C minor, BWV 773
- Sinfonia No. 2 in C minor, BWV 788
- Invention No. 5 in E-flat Major, BVW 776
- Sinfonia No. 5 in E-flat Major, BWV 791
- Invention No. 14 in B-flat Major, BWV 785
- Sinfonia No. 14 in B-flat Major, BWV 800
- Invention No. 11 in G minor, BWV 782
- Sinfonia No. 11 in G minor, BWV 797
- Invention No. 10 in G Major, BVW 781
- Sinfonia No. 10 in G Major, BWV 796
- Invention No. 15 in B minor, BWV 786
- Sinfonia No. 15 in B minor, BWV 801
- Invention No. 7 in E minor, BWV 778
- Sinfonia No. 7 in E minor, BWV 793
- Invention No. 6 in E Major, BWV 777
- Sinfonia No. 6 in E Major, BWV 792
- Invention No. 13 in A minor, BWV 784
- Sinfonia No. 13 in A minor, BWV 799
- Invention No. 12 in A Major, BWV 783
- Sinfonia No. 12 in A Major, BWV 798
- Invention No. 3 in D Major, BWV 774
- Sinfonia No. 3 in D Major, BWV 789
- Invention No. 4 in D minor, BWV 775
- Sinfonia No. 4 in D minor, BWV 790
- Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779
- Sinfonia No. 8 in F Major, BWV 794
- Invention No. 9 in F minor, BWV 780
- Sinfonia No. 9 in F minor, BWV 795
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