Pianist of great prestige and recognizable personality whose participation in the world of the film music was limited to the titles here included, Glenn Gould was always a special performer that, even today, continues maintaining a legion of followers and detractors; his performances of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach for Slaughterhouse Five (1972), George Roy Hill's original film on the homonymous novel by Kurt Vonnegut, helped in a special way to the peculiar flow of the images of the film, as well as to its avant-garde dimension. It is Bach, in fact, the most included composer in this compilation of recordings registered between 1955 and 1979, including entire versions of two of his piano concerts (numbers 3 and 5), but we also find Richard Strauss, Johannes Brahms, Jean Sibelius and Alexander Scriabin. M.A.F.

SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE (1972)
THE WARS (1983)
THIRTY TWO SHORT FILMS ABOUT GLENN GOULD (1993)
/ SONY CLASSICAL SK66532 / 76'

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