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24 hours of GG

Coming up May 30-31, 24 hours of Glenn Gould broadcast by WHRB in Cambridge, MA, at 95.3 FM in Boston, and streamed live on the internet. Here's the website and the playlist:

http://www.whrb.org/

Thursday, May 30
8:00 pm THE GLENN GOULD ORGY
The most intriguing of the generation of post-war North American pianists, the Canadian Glenn Gould (1932-1982) has not lost any of his media appeal even today, twenty years after his death. In this orgy we will look at the fascinating career of Gould, from his 1955 recording of Bach?s Goldberg Variations that forever tied him to the piece (and it to him) through his much-discussed retirement from the concert stage at the age of thirty-one, and into the projects of his later years that began to take him away from the piano and into other channels to explore his obsession with media, plus his conducting, radio documentaries, and more.
Times listed below are only approximate.
Early Recordings and Concerts
Bach: Goldberg Variations, S. 988 (Sony, 1955)
Beethoven: Sonata No. 31 in A-flat, Op. 110 (Sony, 1957)
Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in d, S. 1052; Bernstein, New York Philharmonic Orchestra (Sony, 1957)
Brahms: Piano Quintet in f, Op. 34; Montreal String Quartet (Sony, 1957)
Bach: Partita No. 5 in G, S. 829 (Sony, 1957)
Bach: Partita No. 6 in e, S. 830 (Sony, 1957)
Schoenberg: Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11 (CBC Records, 1952)
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat, Op. 19; Slovák, Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Leningrad Conservatory (Sony, 1957)
Berg: Sonata, Op. 1 (Chant du Monde, 1957)
Bach: Goldberg Variations, S. 988: Nos. 3, 18, 9, 24, 10, 30 (Chant du Monde, 1957)
Friday, May 31
midnight THE GLENN GOULD ORGY CONTINUES
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in d, Op. 15; Bernstein, New York Philharmonic Orchestra (Sony, 1962)
1:00 am Into the Studio
Haydn: Sonata in E flat, H. XVI:49 (Philips, 1958)
Bach: The Well Tempered Clavier, Book I, Nos. 1-8, S. 846-853 (Sony, 1962)
Schoenberg: Piano Concerto; Craft, CBC Symphony Orchestra (Sony, 1961)
Bach: The Art of the Fugue, S. 1080, Contrapuncti I-IX (performed on the organ) (Sony , 1962)
3:00 am
Bach: The Well Tempered Clavier, Book I, Nos. 9-16, S. 854-861 (Sony, 1963)
Gould: A Glenn Gould Fantasy; Gould, Pacsu (Sony, 1980)
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, Nos. 17-24, S. 862-869 (Sony, 1965)
Strauss: Ophelia-Lieder Op. 67; Schwarzkopf (Sony, 1966)
Schoenberg: Das Buch der hängenden Garten, Op. 15; Vanni (Sony, 1966)
Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II, Nos. 1-8, S. 870-877 (Sony, 1967)
7:00 am
Prokofiev: Sonata No. 7 in B-flat, Op. 83 (Sony, 1967)
Schoenberg: Suite for Piano, Op. 25 (CBS LP, 1967)
Beethoven: Sonata No. 29 in B-flat, Op. 106, "Hammerklavier" (Sony, 1967)
Mozart: Sonata No. 6 in D, K. 284 "Dürnitz" (Sony, 1968)
Gibbons: Fantasy in C; Allemande (Italian Ground); "Lord of Salisbury" Pavan and Galliard (Philips, 1968)
Bach, C.P.E.: Württemberg Sonata No. 1 in a, Wq. 49 (Sony, 1968)
Scarlatti: Sonatas: in D, K.430; in d, K. 9; in G, K. 13 (Sony, 1968)
Beethoven: Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp, Op. 78, "À Thérèse" (Sony, 1968)
Schumann: Piano Quartet in E-flat, Op. 47; Juilliard Quartet (Sony, 1968)
Bach: The Well Tempered Clavier, Book II, Nos. 9-16, S. 878-885 (Sony, 1969)
Scriabin: Sonata No. 5 in F-sharp, Op. 53 (Sony, 1970)
10:30 am
Mozart: Sonata No. 11 in A, K. 331 (Sony, 1970)
Grieg: Sonata, Op. 7 (CBS LP, 1971)
Bach: The Well Tempered Clavier, Book II, Nos. 17-24, S. 886-893 (Sony, 1971)
Bizet: Variations chromatiques (de concert) (Philips, 1971)
Byrd: Hughe Ashton?s Ground; Sellinger?s Round (Philips, 1971)
Bach: French Suite No. 5 in G, S. 816 (Sony, 1971)
Bach: French Suite No. 6 in E, S. 817 (Sony, 1971)
1:00 pm Gould the Composer
Two Pieces for Piano; Naoumoff (Sony, c. 1951)
String Quartet, Op.1; Monsaingeon, Apap, Caussé, Meunier (Sony, 1955)
"So You want to Write a Fugue?"; Golschmann, Benson-Guy, Darian, Bressler, Gramm, Juilliard Quartet (Sony, 1963)
Radio Documentary excerpts: The Idea of North, The Latecomers, The Quiet in the Land (1967)
2:30 pm The Last Decade
Hindemith: Sonata No. 2 (Sony, 1973)
Wagner (trans. Gould): Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Sony, 1973)
Beethoven: Six Bagatelles, Op. 126 (Sony, 1974)
Bach: English Suite No. 4 in F, S. 809 (Sony, 1976)
Bach: English Suite No. 5 in e, S. 810 (Sony, 1976)
Bach: English Suite No. 6 in d, S. 811 (Sony, 1976)
Sibelius: Kyllikki, Three Lyric pieces for Piano, Op. 41 (Columbia LP, 1976)
Bach: Preludes and Fugues (Sony, 1979)
5:30 pm
Strauss: Five Piano Pieces, Op. 3 (Philips, 1979)
Bach: The Art of the Fugue, S. 1080: Contrapunctus XIV (Fuga a 3 soggetti) (Sony, 1981)
Brahms: Two Rhapsodies, Op. 79 (Sony, 1982)
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll (original version for 13 instrumentalists); Gould, Toronto Symphony Orchestra (Sony, 1982)
Bach: Goldberg Variations, S. 988 (CBS, 1981)

What is a WHRB Orgy®?
Legend has it that the WHRB Orgy® tradition began over fifty-five years ago, in the Spring of 1943. At that time, it is said that one Harvard student, then a staff member of WHRB, returned to the station after a particularly difficult exam and played all of Beethoven's nine symphonies consecutively to celebrate the end of a long, hard term of studying. The idea caught on, and soon the orgy concept was expanded to include live Jazz and Rock Orgies, as well as a wide variety of recorded music.
The Orgy® tradition lives on even today at WHRB. Each January and May, during the Reading and Exam Periods of Harvard College, WHRB presents marathon-style musical programs devoted to a single composer, performer, genre, or subject. The New York Times calls them "idealistic and interesting," adding, "the WHRB Orgies represent a triumph of musical research, imagination, and passion."