Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Gould, Glenn.
2. Buttenstedt, Fritz.
3. Monsaingeon, Bruno.
4. Sony Classical (Firm)
5. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Description

1. 16 videocassettes : sound, black and white with color sequences; 1/2 in.

Summary

1. A comprehensive collection of videorecordings, mostly complete musical works but also commentaries and interviews, made by Gould alone or with other artists for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1954 to a few years before his death in 1982.

Subject

1. Gould, Glenn
2. Pianists > Canada
3. Piano music

Contents

1. I. Prologue (57:42) -- II. Sonatas and dialogues (58:55) -- III. End of concerts (54:17) -- IV. So you want to write a fugue? (56:24) -- V. The conductor (49:14) -- VI. The earliest decade (53:45) -- VII. A Russian interlude (50:54) -- VIII. Interweaving voices (48:54) -- IX. Mostly Strauss -- X. Rhapsodic interludes (53:50) -- XI. Ecstasy and wit (50:52) -- XII. Epilogue (52:33) -- XIII. The Goldberg variations (58:33) -- XIV. The question of instrument (57:47) -- XV. An art of the fugue (58:10) -- XVI. On the Twentieth Century (58:22).

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. In English.
2. Based on the Revcom series: Glenn Gould plays / written and directed by Bruno Monsaingeon.
3. Accompanying pamphlet in each container (v. 3 has no pamphlet) with commentary by Glenn Gould or Bruno Monsaingeon in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
4. Issued also on videodisc.
5. Sony: SHV 48402 (v. 1), SHV 48403 (v. 2), SHV 48405 (v. 3), SHV 48406 (v. 4), SHV 48408 (v. 5), SHV 48409 (v. 6), SHV 48411 (v. 7), SHV 48412 (v. 8), SHV 48414 (v. 9), SHV 48415 (v. 10), SHV 48417 (v. 11), SHV 48418 (v. 12), SHV 48424 (v. 13), SHV 48427 (v. 16) (on containers).

System details (note)

1. VHS, hi-fi, mono. & stereo.