A ROMANCE ON THREE LEGS: GLENN GOULD’S OBSSESSIVE QUEST FOR THE PERFECT PIANO
By Katie Hafner
Bloomsbury, 259 pages, $24.99
More than 25 years after his death, the most iconic and extensively documented pianist of the last century continues to generate enormous curiosity, and no wonder. Glenn Gould is a biographer’s dream, with a career Read More
The classical-music world seems to run on birthday celebrations plucked from its endless roll call of dead masters (is this the year of Arnold Bax?), but few birthdays are more deserving of recognition than that of Glenn Gould, who would have turned 70 on Sept. 25. For the occasion, Sony is releasing a three-disc set Read More
At the close of his astonishing three-concert series at Lincoln Center devoted to the keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Andras Schiff’s first bow was not to the overflow audience in Avery Fisher Hall but to the piano–a little nod of the head that I took to be less an act of recognition of his Read More
