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Music : Inventions & Sinfonias - 70th Anniversary EditionIn association with Amazon.com List Price: $11.98 Amazon.com's Price: $8.99 You Save: $2.99 (25%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0696998775428 Format: Limited Edition, Original recording remastered Label: Sony Manufacturer: Sony Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Sony Release Date: September 03, 2002 Studio: Sony Sales Rank: 20552 MPN: 87754 Related Items:
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 Rating: - FOR THE FAITHFULTo get the terminology clear - the 3-part Bach `Inventions' also go by the name of `Sinfonias'. There are 15 2-part and 15 3-part Inventions, and on this disc they are presented grouped in pairs by key, one of each type per pair. The liner-note makes rather a song and dance of its own about the piano used for the recordings. It apparently suffered certain vicissitudes in the course of being transported around north America, and the first attempts at using it for recording these works ... Read More Rating: - Expect excellence, Get geniusI have to smile at the constant complaints over Gould's many eccentricities, especially in this recording of Bach. If one puts on their memory cap, it is Bach who was the iconoclast of his day, the one who went to jail rather than conform, the one who established modern music with his advocacy of a "well-tempered" instrument. (One wonders what he would think of the incredible Symphonic organs that transformed composition and performance so drastically.) I simply choose to ignore (or smile ... Read More Rating:  - Performance versus TechnologyOne can tolerate Glen Gould's grunting and groaning throughout, as his interpretation of the Bach inventions is outstanding. However, despite Sony's reputation the recording is flawed. The first track (Invention 1 in C major) has a "tic-tic-tic" for the first few bars that is unacceptable. Amazon very kindly replaced the disc free of all charges, including freight, but the replacement had the same flaw. I noticed that the disc played OK on my computer so I tried burning a copy. Lo, it was fine on my ... Read More Rating: - benchmark for the initiatedI first heard the Bach Inventions/Sinfonias in a performance by Andras Schiff, which is a terrific album in its own way, should you happen upon it. But nothing could have prepared me for the shock that the Gould performance is. Yet time and repeated listening has made this my own personal favorite performance, as it is one of the most original musical utterances anyone could find anywhere. For the uninitiated Gould listener, this album is eyebrow-raising. Some might even find it vulgar and ... Read More Rating: - This is just great music greatly interpretedI remember what film made me look into classical music and what made my life different. It was the film "A CLockwork Orange". I remember hearing all the Beethoven sections and saying "Hey classical music is cool!!" I found this album in a similar manner. Instead of hearing this music in a film I read about it in Thomas Harris' novel "The Silence of the Lambs". Oh yes the film references the aria from the Goldberg Variations but not only is Glenn Gould's name left out of the film but also another famous ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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