Glenn Gould - French Overture BWV 831 Live Broadcast

00:00 Overture 07:08 Courante 10:17 Gavotte I 11:17 Gavotte II 12:48 Passepied I 13:48 Passepied II 15:22 Sarabande 17:57 Bourrée I 18:57 Bourrée II 20:54 Gigue 23:43 Echo Live broadcast at CBC Radio, Toronto March 13, 1969 Images from Devianart From Booklet: It is interesting to compare this performance of the Overture with the CBS recording that Gould made in 1971 and 1973 and released in 1974. While the two interpretations are broadly similar in terms of stylistic approach to Bach - this changed little throughtout Gould’s career - there are important interpretative differences of both detail and structure. In some ways, the radio performace seems to have been a kind of rought draft for the recording Gould must have been contemplating making (Indeed, Gould often tried out pieces on radio or television before recording them). In this performance of the opening movement in French Overture style, for example, Gould follows closely the rhyt