Glenn Gould on Television - The Complete CBC Broadcasts 1954-1977 (10 DVD Set)

For the first time ever, the many film and television programs Gould made with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation from 1954 to 1977 are collected in their entirety in Glenn Gould on Television - The Complete CBC Broadcasts.

Over 19 hours of TV specials, concert performances, interviews and discussions across 10 DVDs make it possible to discover what Gould always considered some of his most significant and original life’s work, most of which has not been seen since it was first telecast. 

This is the first release for the Glenn Gould Anniversary Year 2012. The box-set includes - The complete CBC Broadcasts from 1954 to 1977 in a specially priced 10-DVD setAll original broadcasts as conceived by Glenn Gould and the CBC, unedited and uncutInterviews and documentary parts in full length  

Contains 3 hours of “Conversations with Glenn Gould”, the legendary Humphrey Burton interviews  Unseen performances by Glenn Gould of works by Scriabin, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Walton, Hindemith, Bartók, Copland, Poulenc and Prokofieff Full coloured booklet with liner notes by Tim Page in E/G/F English language – No Subtitles.

By the time he reached his mid-20s, Glenn Gould had changed the way the world listened to the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach. By the time of his fatal stroke in 1982, two days after he turned 50, this daring and visionary artist had successfully challenged many of the most cherished conventions of classical music.

Now, for the first time, the dozens of film and television programs Gould made with the Canadian Broad casting Corporation from 1954 to 1977 are collected in their entirety in Glenn Gould on Television The Complete CBC Broadcasts.

More than 19 hours of TV specials, concert performances, interviews and discussions collected on 10 DVDs make it possible to discover what Gould always considered some of his most significant and original life?s work, most of which has not been seen since it was first telecast.

Includes: The Subject is Beethoven, Music in the USSR, Glenn Gould on Bach, Richard Strauss - A Personal View, The Anatomy of a Fugue, Anthology of Variation, Duo: Gould and Menuhin, all four Conversations with Glenn Gould films, The Idea of North, the four Music in Our Time programs, and more.