Our view of a composer is a mosaic, whose tiles are the insights drawn from hearing dozens, perhaps hundreds, of performances — in concert, through headphones, in our memory. Every musician — every ...

Few classical recordings have aroused as much fascination as Glenn Gould’s 1981 take on Bach’s “Goldberg” Variations. Gould, whose first major-label recording was a classic 1955 account of the ...

The classical-music world seems to run on birthday celebrations plucked from its endless roll call of dead masters (is this The classical-music world seems to run on birthday celebrations plucked from ...

It began, unpromisingly, with music written to put you to sleep. But when the dashing 22-year-old Glenn Gould recorded a little-known piece Bach had come up with to soothe an aristocratic insomniac, ...