Glenn Gould - A Consort of Musicke Bye William Byrde and Orlando Gibbons - Gould Remastered '1971/2015

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Artist	Glenn Gould Related artists
Album name	A Consort of Musicke Bye William Byrde and Orlando Gibbons - Gould Remastered
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Date	1971/2015
Genre	Classical Piano
Play time	00:42:50
Format / Bitrate	24 BIT Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
Media	CD
Size	220 / 412 mb
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Tracks list

Tracklist

01. First Pavan and Galliard (Remastered)
02. Fantasy in C Major (Remastered)
03. Allemande (Italian Ground) [Remastered]
04. Hughe Ashton's Ground (Remastered)
05. Sixth Pavan and Galliard (Remastered)
06. Lord of Salisbury Pavan and Galliard (Remastered)
07. A Voluntary (Remastered)
08. Sellinger's Round (Remastered)

â€œOrlando Gibbons is my favorite composerâ€”always has been. I
canâ€™t think of anybody who represents the end of an era better than
Orlando Gibbons does.â€ This profession of faith in the great English
virginalist is more than an act of defiance: it harks back to Gouldâ€™s
early childhood experiences with Puritanism.

â€žThe idea sounded weird even for Glenn Gould - an LP of music, originally
for virginals, by William Byrd and Orlando Gibbons. Originally released in 1971,
the music is now available again as part of Sony's Glenn Gould Jubilee Edition,
which has provided a great opportunity to revisit the Canadian enfant grand et
terrible after all these years. In the event, at a time when few people outside
of specialists played the virginals, Gould's recording was straightforward,
quiet, and nonconfrontational - adjectives that could rarely be applied to his
playing. The program, very short for a CD, alternates between the two composers,
who in the realm of keyboard are not as different as Gould makes them out to be
in his liner notes, reproduced in full (at brutal one-quarter size - but it
hardly matters, because pretty much everything in the notes is off the wall).
Gould's pianistic realization of polyphonic style, however, is well suited to
the music - almost as much as it was to Bach. Gould's tough little ornaments
sound great in the elaborate Hughe Ashton's Ground (track 4) and indeed
throughout, and his playing has the gentle, elegiac quality that marked the best
of his Bach recordings. It's hard to see why the Sweelinck Fantasia Chromatica
included on the 1993 reissue of this material was omitted here, making a short
disc into a really short one. The remastering job is superb, however, and
Gould's notorious humming was, whether through technical or mental means, reined
in here. A nice find, even if a retrospective look at the recordings from
another annotator would have been desirable.â€œ (James Manheim, AMG)