Glenn Gould - J.S. Bach: The Goldberg Variations (1981 Recording)
Album
A quarter-century after his celebrated 1955 debut, Canadian iconoclast Glenn Gould returned to Bach's thirty variations in New York for this solemn, deeply contemplative digital recording. Characterised by slower tempos, profound architectural clarity and Gould's trademark laser-precise articulation without pedal, this interpretation feels like an intimate meditation on time and mortality.