Glenn Gould's 1981 Goldberg Variations
1981 · Work
Gould returns to the work that made him famous with a slower, more inward reading; released in 1982, weeks before his death, it bookends a career.
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- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770)
- Handel's Messiah (1742)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840)
- Giuseppe Verdi (1813)
- Johannes Brahms (1833)
- Claude Debussy (1862)
- Dvořák's New World Symphony (1893)
Around 1981
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Gulf War (1990)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)