Glenn Gould's Bach in Thought, Sound & Video
The documentary, Glenn Gould - The Alchemist 1974 contains a scene where Gould describes his radio composition, "The Idea Of The North" Glenn Gould: The Radio Artist. Essentially, this is a spoken dialogue piece where various voices interact and weave in and out of one another through the magic of studio editing. Gould is seen with Bruno Monsaingeon in the studio - the music playing in the background - while he amusingly conducts the spoken voices as they overlap and at times interact in the manner of a subject or countersubject in a fugue. His depth of understanding and commitment to fugal procedure is also seen in his humorous 4-part vocal composition, "So You Want To Write A Fugue?" while his demonstration of how the piano is capable in expressing music that is less instrument-specific, is revealed in his solo piano adaptation of Carl...
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