Genius Within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould

At the age of 14 Glenn Gould gained national renown as a pianist in Canada before bursting onto the world stage with an audacious recording of Bach’s Goldberg Variations. Famously eccentric, ostentatiously brilliant – he listened to the Beatles while he rehearsed Beethoven – and a notorious hypochondriac, he eventually eschewed the concert hall, declaring recordings the true métier of the 20th-century musician.

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