Glenn Gould discography
In progress
The following is a chronological list of the original studio recordings made by the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould in the years 1956 – 1982.
Year of Issue | Title | Recorded | Label, serial number |
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1956 | Bach: The Goldberg Variations | June 10 – June 16, 1955 in CBS 30th Street Studio | Columbia Masterworks, ML 5060 |
1956 | Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 30-32 | June 20 – June 29, 1956 in CBS 30th Street Studio | Columbia Masterworks, ML 5130 |
1957 | Bach: Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052 & Beethoven: Concerto No. 2 in B-flat major, Op. 19 | April 9 – April 11, 1957 and April 30, 1957 in CBS 30th Street Studio | Columbia Masterworks, ML 5211 |
1957 | Bach: Partitas Nos. 5 & 6; Fugues in F-sharp minor and E major
|
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5186 | |
1958 | Haydn: Sonata No. 3 in E-flat major; Mozart: Sonata No. 10 in C major, K.330; Fantasia and Fugue in C major, K.394 | Columbia Masterworks, ML 5274 | |
1958 | Beethoven: Concerto No. 1 in C major; Bach: Concerto No. 5 in F minor
(with Vladimir Golschmann / Columbia Symphony) |
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5298 | |
1959 | Berg: Sonata for Piano, Op. 1; Schoenberg: Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11; Krenek: Sonata No. 3 for Piano, Op. 92, No. 4
|
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5336 | |
1960 | Gould: String Quartet No. 1
(performed by The Symphonia Quartet) |
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5578, MS 6178 | |
1960 | Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37
(with Leonard Bernstein / Columbia Symphony) |
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5418 | |
1960 | Bach: Italian Concerto in F major & Partita Nos. 1 & 2
|
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5472 | |
1961 | Brahms: 10 Intermezzi
|
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5637 | |
1961 | Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
(with Leonard Bernstein / New York Philharmonic) |
Columbia Masterworks, ML 6262 | |
1962 | Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491 & Schoenberg: Piano Concerto, Op. 42
|
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5739 | |
1962 | Bach: The Art of the Fugue, Volume I
(played on organ) |
Columbia Masterworks, ML 5738 | |
1962 | Strauss: Enoch Arden (Tennyson), Op. 38
(with Claude Rains, speaker) |
Columbia Masterworks, MS 6341 | |
1963 | Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I Volume I, BWV 846-853
|
Columbia Masterworks, MS 6408 | |
1963 | Bach: Partitas 3 & 4, Toccata 7
|
Columbia Masterworks, MS 6498 | |
1963 | Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I Volume 2, BWV 854-861
|
Columbia Masterworks, MS 6538 | |
1964 | Bach: Two and Three Part Inventions, BWV 772-801 (Inventions & Sinfonias)
|
March 18 & 19, 1964 in CBS 30th Street Studio | Columbia Masterworks, MS 6622 |
1965 | Beethoven: Sonatas No. 5-7, Op. 10, No. 1-3 | Columbia Masterworks, ML 6086, MS 6686 | |
1965 | Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I Volume 3, BWV 862-869
|
Columbia Masterworks, MS 6776 | |
1966 | The Music of Arnold Schoenberg
|
recorded between 11 June 1964 and 18 November 1965 | Columbia Masterworks, M2S 736 |
1966 | Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, "Emperor" | Columbia Masterworks, ML 6288, MS 6888 | |
1967 | Beethoven: Sonatas for Piano No. 8-10, Op. 13 "Pathétique", Op. 14, No. 1 & 2 | Columbia Masterworks, ML 6345 | |
1967 | Bach: Three Keyboard Concertos, BWV 1054, 1056 & 1058
(with Vladimir Golschmann / The Columbia Symphony Orchestra) |
Columbia Masterworks, ML 6401 | |
1967 | Canadian Music in the XXth Century | CBS Masterworks, 32 11 0045 | |
1968 | Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 (Transcribed for Piano by Franz Liszt)
|
Columbia Masterworks, MS 7095 | |
1968 | Bach: The Goldberg Variations | June 10 – June 16, 1955 in CBS 30th Street Studio, rechanneled for stereo 1968 | Columbia Masterworks, MS 7096 |
1968 | The Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 1 | Columbia, MS 7097 | |
1968 | Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II Volume I, BWV 870-877
|
August 8, 1966; January 24, 1967; February 20, 1967 in CBS 30th Street Studio | Columbia Masterworks, MS 7099 |
1968 | Glenn Gould: Concert Dropouts - In Conversation with John McClure
(John McClure, interviewer) |
Columbia Masterworks, BS 15 | |
1969 | Scriabin: Sonata No. 3 in F-sharp minor, Op. 23 & Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major, Op. 83 | Columbia Masterworks, MS 7173 | |
1969 | The Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 2 | Columbia Masterworks, MS 7274 | |
1969 | Bach: Keyboard Concertos, Vol. II
(with Vladimir Golschmann / The Columbia Symphony Orchestra) |
CBS, S 72840 | |
1970 | Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II Volume II, BWV 878-885
|
Columbia Masterworks, MS 7409 | |
1970 | Glenn Gould Plays Beethoven Sonatas Nos. 8, 14 & 23 | Columbia Masterworks, MS 7413 | |
1970 | Beethoven: Variations for Piano
|
Columbia Masterworks, M 30080 | |
1971 | Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II Volume III, BWV 886-893
|
Columbia Masterworks, MS 30537 | |
1971 | A Consort of Musicke Bye William Byrde and Orlando Gibbons | Columbia Masterworks, M 30825 | |
1972 | The Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 3 | Columbia Masterworks, M 31073 | |
1972 | Schoenberg: Complete Songs for Voice and Piano, Vol. 1
(all tracks previously released on M2S 736, 1966) |
Columbia Masterworks, M 31311 | |
1972 | Schoenberg: Complete Songs for Voice and Piano, Vol. 2
(with Donald Gramm, baritone; Cornelius Opthof, baritone and Helen Vanni, mezzo soprano) |
Columbia Masterworks, M 31312 | |
1972 | Music from Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five
(OST Slaughterhouse-Five, all tracks previously released) |
Columbia Masterworks, S 31333 | |
1972 | Händel: Suites for the Harpsichord
|
Columbia Masterworks, M 31512 | |
1973 | Glenn Gould's First Recording of Grieg and Bizet
|
Columbia Masterworks, M 32040 | |
1973 | Bach: The French Suites, Vol. 1 | Columbia Masterworks, M 32347 | |
1973 | The Mozart Piano Sonatas, Vol. 4 | Columbia Masterworks, M 32348 | |
1973 | Beethoven: Piano Sonatas, Op. 31 Complete | Columbia Masterworks, M 32349 | |
1973 | Glenn Gould Plays Hindemith's Piano Sonatas 1-3
|
Columbia Masterworks, M 32350 | |
1973 | Glenn Gould Plays His Own Transcriptions of Wagner Orchestral Showpieces
|
Columbia Masterworks, M 32351 | |
1974 | Bach: The French Suites, Vol. 2 & Overture in the French Style | Columbia Masterworks, M 32853 | |
1974 | Bach: The Three Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Harpsichord
(with Leonard Rose, viola da gamba) |
Columbia Masterworks, M 32934 | |
1975 | Beethoven: Bagatelles, Op. 33 & Op. 126 | Columbia Masterworks, M 33265 | |
1976 | Hindemith: The Complete Sonatas For Brass & Piano
(with members of the Philadelphia Brass Ensemble) |
Columbia Masterworks, M2 33971 | |
1976 | Bach: The Six Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord
(with Jaime Laredo) |
Columbia Masterworks, M2 34226 | |
1977 | Glenn Gould Plays Sibelius
|
Columbia Masterworks, M 34555 | |
1978 | Hindemith: Das Marienleben for Soprano & Piano
(with Roxolana Roslak) |
Columbia Masterworks, M2 34597 | |
1979 | Bach: The Toccatas, Vol. 1
|
Columbia Masterworks, M 35144 | |
1980 | Bach: The Toccatas, Vol. 2
|
Columbia Masterworks, M 35831 | |
1980 | Bach: Prelude, Fughettas & Fugues
|
CBS Masterworks, M 35891 | |
1982 | Haydn: The Six Last Sonatas
|
CBS Masterworks, I2M 36947 | |
1982 | Bach: The Goldberg Variations (1981 Digital Recording) | CBS Masterworks, M 37779 | |
1983 | Brahms: Ballades, Op. 10 & Rhapsodies, Op. 79 | CBS Masterworks, IM 37800 | |
1983 | Beethoven: Sonatas No. 12, Op. 26 & No. 13, Op. 27, No. 1 | CBS Masterworks, M 37831 | |
1984 | Richard Strauss: Sonata, Op. 5; 5 Piano Pieces, Op. 3
|
September 3, 1982 in RCA's Studio A in New York | CBS Masterworks, IM 38659 |
- Schoenberg / Ode to Napoleon, with John Horton (narrator) and the Juilliard Quartet; Fantasy for Violin and Piano, with Israel Baker (1964-65/1967)
- Schumann / Piano Quartet in E-Flat major; Juilliard Quartet (1968/1969)
- Mozart / Piano Sonatas, Vol. 5: Nos. 14, 16, and 17, K. 457, 570, and 576; Fantasia in C minor, K. 475 (1966, 1970, 1973-74/1975)
- J. S. Bach / Six English Suites (1971, 1973-76/1977)
- Beethoven / Piano Sonatas, Op. 2/Nos. 1-3 and 28 ("Pastoral") (1974,1976,1979/1980)
- The Glenn Gould Silver Jubilee Album: Scarlatti / Sonatas, L/ 463, 413, and 486 (rec. 1968); C.P.E. Bach / Würtenberg Sonata No. 1 (rec. 1968); Gould / So You Want to Write A Fugue? (rec. 1963); Scriabin / Two Pieces, Op. 57 (rec. 1972); Strauss / Ophelia-Lieder, with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano (rec. 1966); # Beethoven-Liszt / Pastoral Symphony, First Movement (rec. 1968); A Glenn Gould Fantasy