booklet editor Jochen Rudelt
design [ec:ko] Communications
engineer Fred Plaut
engineer Robert Waller
interviewer Tim Page
liner notes Glenn Gould
liner notes Kevin Bazzana
liner notes Michael Stegemann
liner notes Robert Russ
liner notes [translated by] Daniel Fesquet
liner notes [translated by] Jean-Claude Poyet
liner notes [translated by] Josée Bégaud
liner notes [translated by] Odile Demange
liner notes [translated by] Stewart Spencer
tracks cds 1-5 mixed by, mastered by Martin Kistner
tracks cds 1-5 mixed by, mastered by Matthias Erb
photography by Dan Weiner
photography by Fred Plaut
photography by Jock Carroll
photography by Robert Russ
photography [analog to digital conversion] Che Williams
piano, interviewee Glenn Gould
producer Howard H. Scott
producer Robert Russ
research [document] Michael Panico
research [tape] Anthony Fountain
tracks cds 1-5 transferred by Matt Cavaluzzo
tracks cd 7 transferred by, mastered by Andreas K. Meyer
Distributed By Sony Music Entertainment
Phonographic Copyright (p) Sony Music Entertainment
Copyright (c) Sony Music Entertainment
Product description:
Documenting with unprecedented completeness the events that unfolded in Columbia s 30th Street Studio during those four key days in June 1955, the present release allows listeners for the very first time to join Glenn Gould, his producer Howard Scott and sound engineer Fred Plaut as one of the greatest recordings of all time came into existence.
Glenn Gould: The Goldberg Variations The Complete Unreleased Recording Sessions is probably the most comprehensive special edition ever dedicated to a single classical music album. It features Glenn Gould s complete recording sessions of Bach s Goldberg Variations on 5 CDs (including the studio conversations between him and his producer), restored from the original ¼-inch analogue tapes and re mastered using 24 bit / 96 kHz technology, plus the final album on both CD and heavyweight 180g vinyl, as well as an extra CD Glenn Gould Discusses His Performances of the Goldberg Variations with Tim Page. The edition comes with a 90 x 60 cm (36 x 24 ) poster and a 280-page hard-cover coffee-table book, featuring 45 sensational, newly discovered photos from the recording sessions, the complete musical score, several essays and an extensive documentation including facsimiles of more than 20 archival documents detailing how an analogue vinyl LP was recorded in the mid-1950s.

Produced by Robert Russ
in cooperation with the Estate of Glenn Gould and Glenn Gould Limited,
Stephen Posen and Faye Perkins

Booklet Editor: Jochen Rudelt, texthouse
Design: [ec:ko] communications
Tape Research: Anthony Fountain
Document Research: Michael Panico
Negative Film to Digital Conversion: Che Williams

CDs 1–5: Analogue Tape Transfers by Matt Cavaluzzo, Battery Studios
Mastering by Martin Kistner and Matthias Erb, b-sharp music & media solutions using 24 bit / 96 kHz technology
CD 7: Analogue Tape Transfers using Direct Stream Digital® (DSD) and Mastering
by Andreas K. Meyer, Meyer Media LLC
12′′ black vinyl (180g) produced at GZ Media, CZ

Contains previously released material · CDs 1–5 previously unreleased
Cover/ Backcover Photos and Photos pp. 0, 2/3, 7, 8, 17, 18, 22, 25, 27, 28, 43, 48, 56, 61, 65, 69, 104, 105 top right, 116, 117 top right and bottom left, 119, 124, 128, 132, 139, 140, 146, 154, 178, 200, 206, 209, 210, 234, 244, 253: Dan Weiner (C) John Broderick
Photos pp. 4, 5, 12/13, 38, 44, 52, 54, 62, 66, 70, 75, 76, 82/83, 89, 90/91, 97, 98/99, 105 top left and bottom, 109, 110, 112/113, 150/151, 159, 168, 174/175, 182, 185, 193, 196, 213, 214, 224/225, 231, 232, 239, 240, 248, 267, 269, 272: Fred Plaut, from The Frederick and Rose Plaut Papers MSS 52 at the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, Yale University, with kind support by Richard Boursy, Archivist and Jonathan Manton, Librarian
Photos p. 39: Jock Carroll (C) Carroll Family Archives; pp. 33, 34, 40, 58, 256, 257, 258, 259, 270: Don Hunstein; p. 254 (C) Sony Music Entertainment; pp. 201–203, 220, 260 left: Robert Russ; p. 274 (C) Library and Archives Canada, Estate of Glenn Gould and Glenn Gould Limited
Facsimiles pp. 30, 49, 50, 59, 101, 102, 106/107, 108, 111, 115, 204, 207, 208, 211, 212, 215–219, 221, 223, 226–230, 235–238, 260, 263, 264, 266, 267 (C) Sony Music Entertainment

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Barcode: 888430148826
Label Code: LC 06868