Still in original shrink wrap & in perfect condition

Glenn Gould Remastered – The Complete Album Collection – USB Edition refurbishes Gould’s complete approved studio recordings using state-of-the-art Direct Stream Digital (DSD) technology in a 78 albums limited USB-edition. The 404 page digital book includes complete original liner notes (many penned by Gould himself), a wealth of facsimile documents, rare photographs, full discographical information, and a newly commissioned introductory essay by Gould scholar and biographer Kevin Bazzana.

In 1955 Glenn Gould signed his exclusive contract with Columbia Masterworks, and remained with the label until his untimely death in 1982. Gould’s first release, Bach’s Goldberg Variations, released in January 1956, took the music world by storm, and immediately established the 22-year-old Canadian pianist as one of the most brilliant, original, charismatic and provocative classical performers of his time.

Born in Toronto on September 25, 1932, Gould studied at first with his mother, and subsequently with Alberto Guerrero at the Toronto Conservatory of Music. He began performing concerts as a teenager, while his first CBC radio recital in 1950 launched his “love affair with the microphone”. By his late teens Gould’s artistic persona was fully formed. Right at the start he favoured unusual programs, with Bach, Byrd, Gibbons, Sweelinck, Haydn and Beethoven on one side, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern and Hindemith on the other, broaching the Romantics selectively. In 1957 Gould became the first North American to perform in the Soviet Union since World War II. After less than a decade of international concertizing, Gould retired from the stage at 31 in 1964 to focus on recording, television work, creating innovative radio documentaries, and writing articles and essays.

Few pianists are so easily identifiable as Gould, whose rhythmic acuity, breathtakingly clean articulation, and scintillating technical aplomb still leave a formidable individual imprint, from his brashly controversial Mozart Sonata cycle and spacious Brahms Intermezzi to his fiercely committed 20th-century music interpretations and, of course, his bracing, joyous and highly influential Bach.

FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) is an audio format similar to mp3, but lossless. Music encoded in FLAC comes without any loss in quality. All information from the original files are kept. FLAC files in 24bit / 44.1kHz format can be found in the music/flac directory of this USB stick. To play back these high quality FLAC files, you need to have a player with a FLAC decompressor installed. More info on https://xiph.org/flac/

mp3 is an audio coding format for digital audio which uses data compression and reduction. It is a common audio format for digital audio compression and for consumer audio streaming or storage. mp3 files with 320kbps can be found in the music/mp3 directory of this USB stick. The folders containing mp3 can easily be imported in your local media player library.