Cto Fantasia & Fugue: Weimar Works for Harpsichord

On this CD:

1. Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue for keyboard in D minor, BWV 903
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Robert Hill

2. Prelude for keyboard in A minor (doubtful), BWV 922
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Robert Hill

3. Suite for keyboard in A minor, BWV 818a
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Robert Hill

4. Fantasia and Fugue for keyboard in A minor, BWV 904
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Robert Hill

5. Prelude and Fugue for keyboard in A minor, BWV 894
Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performed by Robert Hill

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Cto Italien / Chromatic Fantasy - 70th Anniv Edt
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The Last Bitter Lees in the Cup

Magnificent on Chromatic Fantasy

Lifeless sound, lifeless performance

REALMS OF GOULD

Reissued Gould Leftovers

Cto Italien / Chromatic Fantasy - 70th Anniv Edt
Glenn Gould , and Bach
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006FI9V
Release Date: 2002-09-03

Customer Reviews:

The Last Bitter Lees in the Cup.......2007-05-11

I have a lot of affection for the Italian Concerto; it was the first Bach I ever heard outside a church, as recorded by Wanda Landowska. The piece was intended for a two-manual harpsichord, as were the Goldberg Variations and the Chromatic Fantasy; these are the least suitable of Bach's keyboard works for transcription to piano, and therefore had not been part of the active repertoire until Landowska revived them. They are "large" pieces in conception, with dramatic contrasts of dynamics built in through the use of the keyboard registers. Gould, I fear, imposes his own agenda of dynamic contrast, and that is the chief weakness of his performance; it's no wonder he "didn't like" either piece, since he can't really make them work musically. And no wonder they have been reissued as an afterthought in the remastered complete Gould. For piano fans seeking a "pianistic" performance on harpsichord, I'd recommend the remastered Landowska or the 1988 recording of the Concerto Italien and Ouverture a la Francaise by Kenneth Gilbert

Magnificent on Chromatic Fantasy.......2006-08-12

Personally speaking, this is one of the best interpretation I've ever heard on Chromatic Fantasy. Although Gould did not like so much this piece, he plays contrapuntal parts very transparent. His slow tempo allows to "touch" the concept behind of fantasy theme.
What brilliant pauses!! I think nobody like Gould can better interpret Bach's works.

Lifeless sound, lifeless performance.......2004-04-24

I am a fan of Gould (owning and liking many of his CDs) but occasionally he does disappoint. The Marcello concert is a complete disaster -- dry, emotionless performance as if played by a robot (you literally wouldn't tell the difference from a pre-programmed computer). Gould conveys none of the beauty and sensuality of this music. Reminds me of the terrible thing he has done to Bach's prelude #8 in Clavier I. The CD has generally poor, flat sound.

REALMS OF GOULD.......2003-12-27

Gould's tonal palette, though subtle, is not particularly wide. If he has used the sustaining pedal at all in the 78 playing minutes of this disc, I missed it, and it is patently impossible to use the damper pedal with the left leg crossed over the right, as in the photograph on the back of the box. That said, Michelangeli himself did not have more complete finger-control than Gould did, and the machined perfection of Gould's trills and other ornaments, and the diamond brilliance of his scales and runs, are a phenomenon in a very special class of their own. This disc is the Gould we know and either love or do not love. He is on his familiar 18th-century territory with J S Bach, C P E Bach and Scarlatti. He has a manifest empathy with the 18th-century idiom, or at least the early 18th-century, and I rarely see much point in elaborate comparisons with other interpreters. With Gould in early 18th-century music it is likely that if you admire his manner in general you will simply swallow his performances whole, as I tend to do. This disc contains both the Italian Concerto and the Chromatic Fantasia, and I was astonished to learn from the liner note that Gould disliked both. I was thrilled by his dramatic reading of the Chromatic Fantasia and his high-speed account of the last movement of the Italian Concerto, and I can only wonder what on earth he didn't like about them, so much conviction is carried by his playing. I had not heard him in Scarlatti before, and in all three sonatas he is relaxed and winning, as always his own man and nothing like Michelangeli or Lipatti, still less Horowitz.

There is a certain amount of quiet vocalising, but it is at least tuneful (unlike Serkin's), and it gives me no problem at all. There is also a knowledgeable and instructive liner-note on Gould's recording career, although some contradictions should have been sorted out as between pages 4/5 of the note, the note-writer's text and the back of the record-box as regards what fugues are played with the various fantasias (correct answer `none', a great relief to me personally in the matter of the rather dull effort that usually tags on to the Chromatic Fantasia). The recording technology used is something called Super Bit Mapping, and whatever it is it might have been invented specially for Gould.

Reissued Gould Leftovers.......2003-07-19

Sony has recently decided, yet again, to reissue all of Glenn Gould's recordings for Columbia, this time around in flavor-of-the-month original LP jackets. Make no mistake though, this is the same exact music, with no additional remastering, as its predecessor in the "Glenn Gould Edition," although now at mid-line instead of full price. As far as the content of this CD, the material has always felt like the leftovers of the remaining Bach works that the fickle Gould consented to play, with some Scarlatti and CPE Bach Sonatas tossed in to fill up the disc space. Even though, individually some of these pieces are closer to Gould's heart than other works that Columbia basically made him record in order to have the "Complete" Partitas, Toccatas, Well-Tempered Clavier, etc., overall the CD lacks the consistency and unison of efforts like the French or English Suites. This CD is not to be missed by Glenn Gould fans though, but they probably own one of the earlier CD incarnations anyway.

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