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Glenn Gould

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A reissue by Mark Obert-Thorne. Its certainly a significant event when such renowned performances and recordingsconsidered among the best of the 20th centuryare re-released by a label other than the original Columbia/Sony. Fifty years after the recording, this releasewhich has generated plenty of buzz, including its conversion to surround-sound SACD via computer analysisundoubtedly expands the range of options for comparative listening. The Partita is a release from Canadas CBC label.Canadian-born Glenn Gould burst onto the world music scene when he made his U.S. debut performing the Goldberg Variations in Washington, D.C., in January 1955. The 1955 recording of this work is considered one of the most important and influential piano recordings of the latter half of the 20th century; it not only played a key role in popularizing Bachs keyboard works among the general public but also paved the way