Glenn Gould Edition (Sony)

Well, I finally woke up and realized I missed the opportunity of a lifetime to get the Glenn Gould Complete Original Jacket box last year (unless I want to pay upwards of $1000 for it now). So, now I want to go back and start filling in volumes in Sony's Glenn Gould Edition. However, I cannot seem to find a comprehensive listing anywhere of the releases in that series.

Can anyone help? And, if anyone has the both the big OJC box and the complete run of the GGE, there's precious little discussion that I could find about the differences between the two (i.e., releases/recordings that are found in one but not the other).

Thanks,
Dave

 

I'd be interested in knowing more about this too; I have huge gaps in my Gould collection, although I think I have all his Bach releases from the GGE of around 2000; I'll have to check.

What puzzles me is the lack or archival/outtakes/new stuff releases since his untimely demise... Stipulations of his will, didn't he leave any unreleased stuff lying around, or has Sony dropped the ball big time?

 

As for sound and masterings, I think (but don't know for certain) there's nothing unique here, that the most recent previous masterings were used.

Whoops, I had added a link to a page that I didn't realize at first offered free illegal downloads of the material.

This page may help to decipher all the different Sony sets and releases:

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Glenn+Gould#p=4&t=Releases_All

I did find this listing of the 71 cds from the OJC set and their contents. . . . The last two discs are bonus material I don't think had separate release prior to the set.

CD 1 Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 (1955)
CD 2 Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 30-32 (1956)
CD 3 Bach: Concerto No. 1 in D minor BWV 1052; Beethoven: Concerto No. 2 in B flat Major Op. 19 (1957)
CD 4 Bach: Partitas Nos. 5 & 6; Fugues in F-Sharp Minor and E Major (1957)
CD 5 Haydn: Sonata No. 3 in E-Flat Major; Mozart: Sonata No. 10 in C Major, K.330; Fantasia and Fugue in C Major, K.394 (1958)
CD 6 Beethoven: Concerto No. 1 in C Major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 15; Bach: Concerto No. 5 in F Minor For Piano and Orchestra (1958)
CD 7 Berg: Sonata for Piano, Op. 1; Schoenberg: Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11; Krenek: Sonata No. 3 for Piano, Op. 92, No. 4 (1959)
CD 8 Beethoven: Concerto No. 3 in C Minor for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 37 (1960)
CD 9 Gould: String Quartet No. 1 (1960)
CD 10 Bach: Italian Concerto in F Major & Partita Nos. 1 & 2 (1960)

CD 11 Brahms: 10 Intermezzi Op. 76, 116, 117, 118, 119 (1961)
CD 12 Beethoven: Concerto No. 4 in G Major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 58 (1961)
CD 13 Bach: The Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080 Volume I Fugues 1-9 (1962)
CD 14 Mozart: Concerto No. 24 in C Minor for Piano and Orchestra, K. 491; Schoenberg: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 42 (1962)
CD 15 Strauss: Enoch Arden (Tennyson), Op. 38 (1962)
CD 16 Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Nos. 1-8 BWV 846-853 (1963)
CD 17 Bach: Partita No. 3 in A Minor, BWV 827 & No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828, Toccata in E minor, BWV 914 (1963)
CD 18 Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Nos. 9-16, BWV 854-861 (1964)
CD 19 Bach: Two and Three Part Inventions and Sinfonias Nos. 1-15, BWV 772-801 (1964)
CD 20 Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 5-7, Op. 10/1-3 (1965)

CD 21 Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Nos. 17-24, BWV 846-869 (1965)
CD 22 a+b Schoenberg: Songs for Voice and Piano Op. 1, Op. 2 Op. 15 & Solo Piano works Op. 11, 19, 23, 25, Op. 33a & b (1966)
CD 23 Beethoven: Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat Major for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 73, “Emperor” (1966)
CD 24 a+b Schoenberg: Fantasy for Violin and Piano Op. 47, Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte Op. 41 et al. (1967)
CD 25 Beethoven: Sonatas for Piano No. 8-10, Op. 13 “Pathetique”, Op. 14/1 & 2 (1967)
CD 26 Bach: Keyboard Concertos Nos. 3, 5 & 7, BWV 1054, 1056 & 1058 (1967)
CD 27 Canadian Music in the XXth Century: Anhalt, Hetu and Morawetz (1967)
CD 28 Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-5, K. 279-283 (1968)
CD 29 Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, Nos. 1-8, BWV 870-877 (1968)
CD 30 Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 (transcribed for Piano by Franz Liszt) (1968)

CD 31 The Concert Drop-Out . Glenn Gould In Conversation with John McClure (1968)
CD 32 Scriabin: Sonata No. 3 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 23; Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7 in B-Flat Major, Op. 83 (1969)
CD 33 Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 6, 7 & 9, K. 284 (205b), 309 (284b) & 311 (284c) (1969)
CD 34 Bach: Keyboard Concertos, Nos. 2 & 4, BWV 1053 & 1055 (1969)
CD 35 Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 14 & 23, Op. 13, 27/2 & 57 (1970)
CD 36 Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, Nos. 9-16, BWV 878-885 (1970)
CD 37 Beethoven: Variations for Piano, WoO. 80, Op. 34 & 35 (1970)
CD 38 Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, Nos. 17-24, BWV 886-893 (1971)
CD 39 A Consort of Musicke Bye William Byrde and Orlando Gibbons (1971)
CD 40 Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 10, 12 & 13, K. 310 (300d), K. 330 (300h), K. 332 (300k), K. 333 (315c) (1972)

CD 41 Music from Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five (Original Motion Picture Score) Bach: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 & 5 BWV 1054 & 1056 (1972)
CD 42 Schoenberg: Songs for Voice and Piano, Op. 3, 6, 12, 14, 48, 2 Lieder Op. post. (1972)
CD 43 Handel: Suites for Harpsichord, Nos. 1-4, HWV 426-429 (1972)
CD 44 Grieg: Sonata in E Minor for Piano, Op. 7; Bizet: Premier Nocturne in F Major, Variations Chromatiques (1973)
CD 45 Bach: French Suites Nos. 1-4, BWV 812-815 (1973)
CD 46 Mozart: Piano Sonatas, Nos. 11, 15 & 16, K. 331 (300i), K. 533 / K. 494 & K. 545, Fantasia in D Minor, K. 397 (385g) (1973)
CD 47 Hindemith: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3 (1973)
CD 48 Wagner/Gould: Piano Transcriptions of Wagner Orchestral Showpieces: Die Meistersinger, Gotterdammerung, Siegfried-Idyll (1973)
CD 49 Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 16-18, Op. 31/1-3 (1973)
CD 50 Bach: French Suites Nos. 5 & 6, BWV 816 & 817; Overture in the French Style, BWV 831 (1974)

CD 51 Bach: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord, Nos. 1-3, BWV 1027-1029 (1974)
CD 52 Beethoven: Bagatelles, Op. 33 and Op. 126 (1975)
CD 53 Mozart: Piano Sonatas Nos. 14, 17 & 18, K. 457, K. 570 & K. 576, Fantasia in C Minor, K. 475 (1975)
CD 54 a+b Hindemith: The Complete Sonatas for Brass and Piano (1976)
CD 55 a+b Bach: Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord, Nos. 1-6, BWV 1014-1019 (1976)
CD 56 a+b Bach: English Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV 806-811 (1977)
CD 57 Sibelius: Sonatinas for Piano, Op. 67/1-3, “Kyllikki”. Three Lyric Pieces for Piano, Op. 41 (1977)
CD 58 a+b Hindemith: Das Marienleben for Soprano and Piano (1978)
CD 59 Bach: Toccatas, BWV 910, 912 & 913 (1979)
CD 60 Bach: Toccatas, BWV 911 & 914-916 (1980)

CD 61 Bach: Preludes, Fugues and Fughettas BWV 895, 899, 900, 902, 924-938, 952, 953, 961 (1980)
CD 62 a+b Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-3 Op. 2/1-3 & No. 15 Op. 28 (Pastoral) (1980)
CD 63 a+b Works by Scarlatti, C. P. E. Bach, Gould, Scriabin, Strauss & Beethoven (1980)
CD 64 a+b Haydn: Six Late Piano Sonatas Hob.XVI/42, 48-52 (1982)
CD 65 Bach: Goldberg Variations (1981 Digital Recording) (1982)
CD 66 Brahms: 4 Ballads, Op. 10, 2 Rhapsodies Op. 79 (1983)
CD 67 Beethoven: Sonatas No. 12, Op. 26 & No. 13, Op. 27/1 (1983)
CD 68 Strauss: Sonata, Op. 5; 5 Piano Pieces, Op. 3 (1984)
CD 69 Schumann: Piano Quintet, Op. 44 & Piano Quartet, Op. 47 (1984)
CD 70 BONUS CD 1: Glenn Gould discusses his performances of the “Goldberg Variations” with Tim Page

CD 71 BONUS CD 2: Bach: “Italian Album” fragments & Wagner: “Siegfried Idyll”

 

I wouldn't be suprised if there is a new boxset soon.

They recently (they being Sony) released the new Rubinstein box, and the Heifetz last year. They may re-do the Gould box at budget price.

 

I am trying to piece the puzzle together and will repost after I finish researching. I think there are over 40 releases in the Glenn Gould Edition and a handful of other Sony Classical releases with odds and ends. I think the Goldberg set "A State of Wonder" contains the interview on the 1st bonus CD you listed. The GGE has a disc which contains the orchestral version and transcription of the Siegfried Idyll, so I wonder if the second bonus is an alternate version or the same from the GGE.

You'd think Sony would make it easy - the discography on the 'official' page is unhelpful, to say the least.

I think that if one collects every volume in the GGE, one has everything that is in the OJC and more, just obviously repackaged (thematically or by composer instead of in Gould's original programs).

Dave

 

You're probably right.

And after that you can collect the live recordings put out on cd by the CBC (I have two sets of those) and the performances on DVD (20 performances on a ten disc set. . . I'll probably get that one of these days. What an artist. . . .

 

That's a pretty nifty looking image. Where did you find it?

 

Link for this box set please? Not able to find this on Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk. Thanks!

 

Looks mighty $pendy. Can't find a listing anywhere.

 

http://www.amazon.fr/Complete-Album...69&sr=8-4&keywords=glenn gould complete album


Using Google Translate:

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But then, if you scroll down...

CD (August 24, 2015)
Number of Discs: 81

The "Complete Original Album Collection" has 80 CD's.

 

Interesting. I suppose we'll hear more about it soon.

 

http://www.glenngould.com/remastered/the-project/

 

Best price? 154 EURO.

http://www.amazon.it/Glenn-Gould-Co...=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1441975936&sr=1-1

 

One thing to keep in mind if purchasing a copy of the ORIGINAL JACKET box is that it was first issued with a defective disc, the volume of which escapes me. Buyers could request a replacement disc, but we have to assume that every buyer did not do this.

 

IIRC, it was the Beethoven Variations disc.

 

Defective disc #37 was the Beethoven Variations. The defect was two short white noise type sounds. I requested a replacement through an 800 number set up by Columbia and received it in short order. Now days, the entire box would have to be returned. The total price, at that time was less that $100 exclusively through Amazon.

 

I'm familiar only with the early 1990s reissues of Gould's output (Glenn Gould Edition). Have subsequent reissues improved on the sound or have we moved pretty far to the right of the decimal in terms of improvement?

 

I think the improvement since the early 90s editions is pretty substantial.

 

No one has heard the brand bew DSD remasters released this week in Europe.

 

Wow, I didn't know anything about this, and I'm a huge Gould/Bach fan... Is there anything unreleased in these new remasters? I'm not sure if there was anything left unreleased in Sony's vaults after the last round of re-releases...

 

It's stunning - listening now.

 

New box $138 plus $2 shipping to the USA from blowitoutahere.com

 

Don't pass it up - that's an incredible price for what you get!

 

I guess they still don't include the infamous live Bernstein/Gould Brahms #1. It is included in the Bernstein Concerto box. An odd sounding disc as I believe it was mastered from an FM radio broadcast and sounds as if, warts and all.