Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:56:56 GMT

Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould. Directed by Michèle Hozer and Peter Raymont. World Premiere at 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.

White Pine Pictures is proud to announce its new feature documentary, Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould will have its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2009.

For more information, read the full press release.

Glenn Gould Candid Portrait Available at Icon Collectibles

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:29:05 GMT

In 1980, Columbia Masterworks released the"Glenn Gould Silver Jubilee Album," a monumental double-albumcelebrating the artist's quarter century of the recording for thelabel. In June of that year, Don Hunstein sat with Gould for his firstphoto shoot with Gould in more than a decade. Here Hunstein capturesGould, notorious for his eccentric posture and oddly graceful physicalmovements while performing, literally defying gravity as he leansprecariously backwards in a director's chair, his body ready to springinto thin air as he pushes up on the ball of his right foot, one shoemysteriously absent.

ICON-Collectibles, a unique website powered by SONY BMG which offers music fans from all over the world an opportunity to bid on extraordinary music memorabilia including museum quality fine art photographs of your favorite artists, is happy to make available six limited edition professionally printed photographs from the historic SONY BMG photo archives. Each print is individually created using premium fiber-based paper and includes a Certificate of Authenticity.

The Glenn Gould Trilogy - A Life

Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:43:44 GMT

“The Glenn Gould Trilogy “, a unique radio play 'composed' by Michael Stegemann,
provides on 3 CD's a unique insight into the life, music and thoughts of Glenn Gould, the brilliant pianist who would have turned 75 on 25th September 2007.

Berlin/London, July 2007: The Canadian musician Glenn Gould (25th September 1932 – 4th October 1982 in Toronto, Canada) was without any doubt one of the leading pianists of all time. Even today, the unconventional interpretations and eccentric personality of the "James Dean of the piano" continue to exude an unbroken fascination.
In good time for Glenn's 75th birthday on 25th September and the 25th anniversary of his death on 4th October, Sony Classical will be releasing a special 3-CD box on 4th September 2007 to mark this double jubilee: "The Glenn Gould Trilogy – A Life" is a fascinating journey through the life, the music and the thoughts of Glenn Gould. Radio play, biography, talking book, music and original spoken commentaries are blended on the three CD's to create an enthralling portrait, as unusual and gripping as the charismatic and eccentric artist himself.

"The Glenn Gould Trilogy" was designed by Gould biographer Michael Stegemann, with Gould's own Solitude Trilogy serving as the source of inspiration. For Gould was not only a brilliant musician, he was also a visionary radio and media pioneer: his idea of 'contrapunctal radio' and the Solitude Trilogy that he created, based on this idea, for CBC between 1967 and 1977 served as the basis for Stegemann's work. Gould's Solitude Trilogy consists of three revolutionary radio plays, which Gould himself called 'docudramas', about life in northern Canada (The Idea of North, The Latecomers and The Quiet in the Land). Not dissimilar to a Baroque fugue, each of the three parts of the Solitude Trilogy is composed as a collage of overlapping texts (spoken by different narrators), sounds and noises that complement each other in terms of content. CD 1: The Idea of Music takes us up to Gould's first recording of Bachs Goldbergvariations for the CBC in 1954. CD 2: The Drop-Out describes his legendary record début with Bach's Goldberg Variations (1955) and follows the years when he gave regular recitals until the 'concert drop-out' in 1964, when he retired from the concert platform completely, while CD 3: The Quiet in the Studio is devoted to the years up to his death, years when Gould only communicated with his public through the media of records, radio and television.

The Glenn Gould Trilogy – A Life was produced jointly by West German Radio (WDR/Cologne), Studio Akustische Kunst (editor: Markus Heuger) and SonyClassical/SonyBMG in studio sessions that stretched over several months. A English language version was made, and a separate German one for the German-speaking market. For the narrators of the English version, we were fortunate enough to engage the services of Tom Zahner and Leslie Malton among others.
The Glenn Gould Trilogy is one of the few radio plays designed not only to yield stereo, but also surround sound, thus enabling the special character of this collage-like composition to be enjoyed to even more realistic effect.
The CD's will therefore be released in the Hybrid Super Audio CD format, which, in combination with a Super Audio compatible CD player and equipment able to reproduce surround sound, enables the listener to enjoy a fascinating, multidimensional experience. But the CD's can also be played in stereo on any normal CD player.

The Glenn Gould Trilogy takes us on a trip into the life and mind of a charismatic and shrewd eccentric who anticipated the potential, and also the limitations and dangers, of total media networking as scarcely any other musician of his time did. Glenn Gould was always in search of a perfect interpretation. A unique genius, enduringly controversial and ever eager to argue his point, he remains unsurpassed to this day.

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Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

Glenn Gould Candid Portrait Available at Icon Collectibles

The Glenn Gould Trilogy - A Life