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Radio Broadcasts


1945-1955
1956-1966
1967-1977
1978-1983


1945-1955
 
March 10, 1945   CFRB (Toronto)
Works performed:   - Glenn Gould's radio debut, at age twelve, on a show featuring Kiwanis Music Festival winners. View cheque stub for $10, Gould's payment for this performance
 
December 24, 1950   CBC
Works performed:   - Mozart's Piano Sonata, K. 281 and Hindemith's Piano Sonata, No. 3
 
January 23,1951   CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 (live broadcast with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Ernest MacMillan)
 
March 6, 1951   CBC
Works performed:   - Weber's Konzertstück
 
April 1, 1951   "Startime". CBC
Works perfomed:   - Beethoven's Piano Concerto, No. 2 (3rd movement)
 
August 15, 1951   "Distinguished Artists", "Wednesday Night". CBC
Works performed:   - Gibbons' Pavane and Galliard for the Lord of Salisbury
- Scarlatti's Sonata in B Minor, Sonata in F Minor
- Bach's Partita No. 5
 
October 29, 1951   CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Opus 58 (with Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, conducted by William Steinberg). View the program for this concert
 
December 12, 1951   "CBC Wednesday Night". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven
 
September 28, 1952   "Distinguished Artists". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Six Bagatelles, Opus 126
- Beethoven's Variations in F Major, Opus 34
 
October 5, 1952   "Distinguished Artists". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Eroica Variations, Opus 35
- Beethoven's Sonata in G Minor, Opus 49, No. 1
 
October 12, 1952   "Distinguished Artists". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Sonata No. 28 in A Major, Opus 10 and Sonata No. 4 in E flat Major, Opus 7
 
October 14, 1952   "CBC Concert Hall". CBC
Works performed:   - Berg's Sonata, Opus 1
- Schoenberg's Suite for Piano, Opus 25
 
October 21, 1952   "CBC Concert Hall". CBC
Works performed:   - Sweelinck's Fantasia in D Minor for Organ (arr. for piano)
- Bach's Prelude and Fugue in E Major; Italian Concerto, BWV 971
 
November 9, 1952   CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 (with CBC Little Symphonies Orchestra, conducted by Roland Leduc)
 
April 7, 1953   "CBC Recital". CBC
Works performed:   - Brahms' Sonata for Violin No. 2, Opus 100 (with violinist Morry Kernerman)
- Bach's Violin Sonata No. 4 (this work possibly not broadcast)
 
December 21, 1953   CBC
Works performed:   - Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, Opus 42 (with CBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Jean-Marie Beaudet)
 
February 28, 1954   "Distinguished Artists". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Prelude and Fugue in F-sharp Minor; Prelude and Fugue in B-flat Minor; Prelude and Fugue in E-flat Major
- Bach's Sinfonias: F Major, BWV 794; G Minor, BWV 797; B-flat Major, BWV 800; D Minor, BWV 790; E Minor, BWV 793
 
June 7, 1954   "Distinguished Artists". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Partitas No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829; No. 13 in A Minor, BWV 799
- Hindemith's Ludus Tonalis, Fugue in C
- Hindemith's Piano Sonata No. 3 in B-flat Major
 
July 18, 1954   "Summer Festival". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Trio in B-flat Major, WoO. 39
- Beethoven's Trio in D Major, "Ghost," Opus 70, No. 1
 
February 21, 1955   CBC Symphony Orchestra. CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Opus 37 (with CBC Orchestra, conducted by Heinz Unger)
 
March 1955   CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Sinfonias, BWV 787-801
 
March 29, 1955   Toronto Symphony Orchestra. CBC
Works performed:   -Bach's Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052 (with Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Ernest MacMillan)
 
October 19, 1955   "CBC Wednesday Night". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Opus 111

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1956-1966
 
January 1956   CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Partita No. 5
 
January 17, 1956   "CBC Concert Hall". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Partita No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 830
- Gibbons' Pavane and Galliard for the Lord of Salisbury (this work possibly not broadcast)
 
February 1956   CBC
Works performed:   - Gould's String Quartet, Opus 1 (world premiere, performed by the Montreal String Quartet)
 
April 17, 1956   CBC
Works performed:   - Schoenberg's Book of the Hanging Gardens, Opus 15 (Roma Butler, soprano)
 
April 25, 1956   CBC
    - Glenn Gould Interview
 
May 21, 1956   CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Ernest MacMillan; broadcast of symphony concert, concerto possibly not included)
 
October 23, 1956   CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Major, Opus 19 (with Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Walter Susskind)
 
1957   "Glenn Gould Interview". CBC
 
May 26, 1957   [German Network] (broadcast live possibly)
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Opus 37 (with Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Herbert von Karajan)
 
September 11, 1957   "International Geophysical Year Concert". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056
- Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4
 
September 26, 1957   CBC
Works performed:   - Mozart's Symphony in E-flat, K. 16 and Schubert's Symphony No. 4 (CBC Vancouver Orchestra conducted by Glenn Gould)
 
July 15, 1958   "Assignment". CBC
    - Interview with Gould
 
April 7, 1959   CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 (with Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Igor Markevich)
 
April 11, 1959   CBC
Works performed:   - Mozart's Piano Concerto, K. 491
 
April 14, 1959   CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 (with Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Walter Susskind)
 
August 1959   "Glenn Gould at Salzburg Festival, 1959". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Goldberg Variations, BWV 988
 
December 4, 1959   "Project 60 / At Home With Glenn Gould". CBC
 
December 30, 1959   "Glenn Gould Interview". CBC
 
July 31, 1960   "Summertime / Vancouver International Festival". CBC
Works performed:   - Schoenberg's Book of the Hanging Gardens, Opus 15; Eight Songs: Opus 6: "Traumleben"; Four Songs: Opus 2: "Waldsonne" (with Kerstin Meyer, soprano); Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte, Opus 41 (with Donald Brown, narrator, and the Vancouver String Quartet); Suite for Piano, Opus 25
 
March 23, 1961   [New York Radio Station]
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 (with Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic)
 
June 21, 1961   "CBC Wednesday Night". CBC
Works performed:   - Gould's String Quartet, Opus 1 (Symphonia String Quartet)
 
1962   "Stratford Music Festival 1962". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 3 in A Major, Opus 69 (with Leonard Rose, cello); Trio in D Major, "Ghost," Opus 70, No. 1 (Oscar Shumsky, violin and Leonard Rose, cello)
 
March 13, 1962   "Ten Minutes With... / National School Telecast". CBC
 
August 8, 1962   "CBC Wednesday Night / Arnold Schoenberg: The Man Who Changed Music". CBC
    - Documentary on Schoenberg written and hosted by Gould
 
September 4, 1962   CBC
Works performed:   - Brahms' Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Opus 15 (with New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Bernstein)
 
December 5, 1962   "CBC Wednesday Night / Glenn Gould Recital". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828
 
January 1963   CBC
Works performed:   - Gould's So You Want to Write a Fugue?
 
July 30, 1963   "CBC Music Diary". CBC
    - John Beckwith interviews Gould
 
January 10, 1965   "CBC Sunday Night / Dialogues on the Prospects of Recording". CBC
    - Documentary, written and hosted by Gould, about recordings and the future of live concerts
 
January 27, 1965   CBC
    - Patricia Moore's interview with Glenn Gould
 
July 31, 1966   CBC
Works performed:   - Brahms' Piano Quintet, Opus 34 (with the Montreal String Quartet)
 
August 1, 1966   "Masters of the Piano". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Prelude and Fugue in A Minor; Italian Concerto, BWV 971
- Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Opus 110
- Schoenberg's Piano Pieces, Opus 11
 
November 13, 1966   "The Art of Glenn Gould No. 1". CBC
Works performed:   - Series of programmes produced by Richard Coulter, presenting all the recordings of Glenn Gould including some unreleased items. Glenn Gould discusses the recordings. View the publicity poster for this series
- On Records and Recordings (documentary by Gould)
- Bach's Fugue No. 3 from the Art of the Fugue; Preambulum from Partita No. 5; Aria from Goldberg Variations; Prelude No. 8 in E-flat Minor
- Strauss' Enoch Arden (excerpt) (Claude Raines, narrator)
- Schoenberg's Three Pieces, Opus 11 (excerpt); Klavierstücke No. 2, Opus 23
- Beethoven's Concerto No. 5 (mvts. 2 and 3)
 
November 20, 1966   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 2". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Goldberg Variations
- Morawetz's Fantasy in D Minor
 
November 23, 1966   "Ideas / The Psychology of Improvisation". CBC
    - Documentary on improvisation in music
 
November 27, 1966   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 3". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Opus 110
- Brahms' Piano Quintet, Opus 34 (with the Montreal String Quartet)
 
November 29, 1966   "CBC Tuesday Night / Glenn Gould in Recital". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Fugues No. 1 in C Major, BWV 870; No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 871; No. 6 in D Minor, BWV 875; No. 7 in E-flat Major, BWV 876
- Hindemith's Sonata No. 1 in A Major
- Mozart's Fantasia in C Minor, KV 475
 
December 4, 1966   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 4". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Partita No. 5; Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052; Well-Tempered Clavier, Fugue in E Major
- Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Opus 109
 
December 11, 1966   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 5". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Opus 111
- Bach's Partita No. 6; Concerto in F Minor, BWV 1956 (with Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Golschmann)
 
December 18, 1966   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 6". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 (with Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Golschmann)
- Mozart's Fantasia and Fugue in C Major, K. 394
 
December 25, 1966   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 7". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Italian Concerto, BWV 971
- Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Bernstein)
- Schoenberg's Three Pieces, Opus 11

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1967-1977
 
January 1, 1967   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 8". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 (with Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Bernstein)
- Bach's Fugue in E Major
 
January 8, 1967   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 9". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Opus 13 (Pathétique); Piano Concerto No. 4 (with Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Bernstein)
- Brahms' Intermezzo, Opus 116 in E Major
 
January 15, 1967   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 10". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Piano Sonata Opus 14, No. 1 (with Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Bernstein)
- Brahms' Intermezzo, Opus 119, No. 1 in B Minor
 
January 22, 1967   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 11". CBC
Works performed:   - Haydn's Piano Sonata in E-flat Major
- Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Opus 14, No. 2
- Krenek's Piano Sonata No. 3, Opus 92
 
January 29, 1967   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 12". CBC
Works performed:   - Berg's Piano Sonata
- Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Opus 10, No. 1
- Strauss' Enoch Arden (first part) (Claude Raines, narrator)
 
February 5, 1967   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 13". CBC
Works performed:   - Strauss' Enoch Arden (conclusion) (Claude Raines, narrator)
- Bach's Partita No. 4
 
February 12, 1967   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 14". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Opus 10, No. 3
- Bach's Art of the Fugue (organ)
- Brahms' Intermezzo, Opus 76, No. 6 in A Major
 
February 19, 1967   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 15". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Partita No. 5
- Schoenberg's Two Songs, Opus 1
- Mozart's Piano Sonata K. 330
- Berg's Piano Sonata
 
February 26, 1967   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 16". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Partita No. 2
- Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Opus 10, No. 2
- Schoenberg's Book of the Hanging Gardens, Opus 15
 
March 5, 1967   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 17". CBC
Works performed:   - Brahms' Intermezzo Opus 116, No. 4 in E Major
- Schoenberg's Piano Suite, Opus 25
- Mozart's Piano Concerto K. 491(with CBC Orchestra, conducted by Walter Susskind)
 
March 12, 1967   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 18". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier: Preludes and Fugues Nos. 1-4
- Gould's String Quartet, Opus 1
 
March 19, 1967   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 19". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Inventions and Sinfonias
- Gould's So You Want to Write a Fugue?
 
April 2, 1967   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 20". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier: Preludes and Fugues Nos. 5-8
- Gould's Conference at Port Chilkoot (a satire on the annual music critics' conference)
- Schoenberg's Four Songs, Opus 2
 
April 9, 1967   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 21". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier: Preludes and Fugues Nos. 5-8
- Brahms' Intermezzi, Opus 117 (3 selections)
- Schoenberg's Three Pieces, Opus 11
 
April 16, 1967   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 22". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier: Preludes and Fugues
- Brahms' Intermezzi, Opus 118, Nos. 1-2
- Schoenberg's Piano Pieces Opus 23
 
April 23, 1967   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 23". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier: Preludes and Fugues Nos 20-24
- Schoenberg's Piano Pieces: Opus 19, 33a, 33b; Ode to Napoleon, Opus 41
 
April 30, 1967   "Art of Glenn Gould, No. 24". CBC
    - Gould's "On Records and Recording" (documentary written by Gould)
 
1967   "CBC Tuesday Night / Glenn Gould in Recital". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Sonata No. 29 in B-flat Major, "Hammerklavier," Opus 106
- Mozart's Fantasia in C Minor, KV 396
 
May 7, 1967   "Master Musician / Yehudi Menuhin". CBC
    - Gould introduces series airing Menuhin's complete discography
 
May 23, 1967   "CBC Tuesday Night / Glenn Gould in Recital". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Bagatelles, Opus 126: No. 1 in G Major; No. 2 in G Minor; No. 5 in G Major; Eroica Variations, Opus 35; Sonata No. 18 in E-flat Major, Opus 31, No. 3
 
June 7, 1967   "Distinguished Artists". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Partita No. 3
- Morawetz's Fantasy in D Minor
 
September 19, 1967   "CBC Tuesday Night / Glenn Gould in Recital". CBC
Works performed:   - Anhalt's Fantasia for piano
- Byrd's My Ladye Nevelle's Booke: Sixth Pavan and Galliard; A Voluntary; First Galliard
- Mozart's Sonata No. 5 in G Major, KV 283
- Prokofiev's Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major, Opus 83
 
November 23, 1967   "CBC Centenary Concerts / Glenn Gould in Recital". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Art of the Fugue: Nos. 9, 11, 13, BWV 1080; English Suite No. 1 in A Major, BWV 806; Toccata in D Minor, BWV 913
 
December 11, 1967   "The Best of Ideas". CBC
    - The Search for Petula Clark (radio adaptation of article by Gould)
 
December 28, 1967   "Ideas". CBC
Works performed:   - Gould's "The Idea of North". View promotional poster for this program.
 
February 8, 1968   "CBC Thursday Night / Glenn Gould in Recital". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Sonata No. 24 in F-sharp Major, Opus 78
- C.P.E. Bach's Würtemburg Sonata No. 1 in A Minor, WQ 49
- Scarlatti's Sonata in D Major, L. 463; Sonata in G Major, L. 486
- Scriabin's Sonata No. 3 in F-sharp Minor, Opus 23
 
March 26, 1968   "Tuesday Night". CBC
    - "Idea of North" (revised version)
 
May 20, 1968   "Ideas". CBC
    - Anti Alea (a discussion of chance in music)
 
June 11, 1968   "CBC Tuesday Night / Glenn Gould in Recital". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven / Liszt's Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Pastoral, Opus 68 (piano transcription)
 
June 11, 1968   "Tuesday Night". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Piano Sonata, Opus 79
- Beethoven / Liszt's Symphony No. 6 (piano transcription)
 
June 11, 1968   "Tuesday Night / The Stratford Festival". CBC
    - Documentary on the Stratford Festival with Gould and Louis Applebaum discussing music festivals
 
November 10, 1968   "Sunday Supplement". CBC
    - A news magazine and public affairs program hosted by Gould
 
December 3, 1968   "CBC Tuesday Night". CBC
Works performed:   - Mozart's Sonata No. 6 in D Major, KV 284; No. 7 in C Major, KV 309; No. 8 in A Minor, KV 310
 
December 26, 1968   "CBC Thursday Music". CBC
Works performed:   - Gibbons' Fantasy in C Major; Pavane and Galliard for the Earl of Salisbury; Italian Ground Bass
- Haydn's Sonata No. 59 in E-flat Major, XVI/49
- Hindemith's Sonata No. 3 in B flat
 
March 13, 1969   "CBC Thursday Music / Glenn Gould in Recital". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Overture in the French Style, BWV 831
- Berg's Sonata, Opus 1
- Brahms' Intermezzo in B Minor, Opus 119, No. 1
 
May 20, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take One". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052; Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829 (with Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Golschmann)
 
May 27, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Two". CBC
Works performed:   - Brahms' Intermezzo in A Minor, Opus 76, No. 7
- Prokofiev's Sonata No. 7 in B-flat Major
 
June 3, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Three". CBC
Works performed:   - Gould's The Search for Petula Clark
- Strauss' Enoch Arden, Opus 38 (Claude Raines, narrator)
 
June 10, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Four". CBC
Works performed:   - Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, Opus 42 (with CBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Craft)
 
June 17, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Five". CBC
Works performed:   - Mozart's Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, KV 491 (with CBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Walter Susskind)
- Mozart's Sonata No. 15, KV 545; No. 3 in B-flat Major, KV 281; No. 5 in G Major, KV 283
 
June 24, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Six". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Concerto No. 7 in G Minor, BWV 1058 (with Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Golschmann)
- Bach's Sinfonia and Invention in B Minor, BWV 786; E Minor, BWV 778; G Minor, BWV 782; G Major, BWV 781
- Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Fugues No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846; No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 847; No. 3 in C-sharp Major, BWV 848
 
June 31, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Seven". CBC
Works performed:   - Anhalt's Fantasia for Piano
- Brahms' Intermezzo in A Major, Opus 118, No. 2
- Scriabin's Sonata No. 3 in F-sharp Minor, Opus 23
 
July 8, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Eight". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Opus 58
 
July 15, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Nine". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, Emperor, Opus 73 (with Leopold Stokowski conducting the American Symphony Orchestra)
 
July 22, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Ten". CBC
Works performed:   - Gould's Anti-Alea
- Krenek's Sonata No. 3
 
July 29, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Eleven". CBC
  - discussion of Gould's desert island discography
 
August 5, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Twelve". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven / Liszt's Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Opus 67 (piano transcription)
 
August 12, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Thirteen". CBC
Works performed:   - Schoenberg's The Book of the Hanging Gardens, Opus 15
- Schumann's Quartet in E-flat Major
 
August 19, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Fourteen". CBC
Works performed:   - Brahms' Intermezzo in E-flat Major, Opus 117, No. 1; Intermezzo in B-flat Minor, Opus 117, No. 2
- Hétu's Variations pour piano
- Mozart's Sonata No. 9 in D Major, KV 311
 
August 26, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Fifteen". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Concerto No. 3 in C Minor, Opus 37
 
September 2, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Sixteen". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Partita No. 5 in G Major, BWV 829; Partita No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 830
- Schoenberg's Suite for Piano, Opus 25
 
September 9, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Seventeen". CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Opus 111; No. 4 in C-sharp Minor, "Moonlight," Opus 27, No. 2; No. 8 in C Minor, "Pathétique," Opus 13
 
September 16, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Eighteen". CBC
    - Gould's "The Idea of North" (rebroadcast with commentary by Gould)
 
September 23, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Nineteen". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Art of the Fugue, BWV 1080
- Gould's So You Want to Write a Fugue?
 
September 30, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Twenty". CBC
Works performed:   - Gould's Conference at Port Chilkoot (a satire on the annual music critics' conference)
- Mozart's Sonata in D Major, KV 284
 
October 7, 1969   "The Art of Glenn Gould / Take Twenty-One". CBC
Works performed:   - Gould's On the Moog (discussion about Walter Carlos' recordings)
 
November 12, 1969.    
Works performed:   - Gould's "The Latecomers"
 
November 29, 1969   "CBC Tuesday Night / Glenn Gould in Recital". CBC
Works performed:   - Brahms' Intermezzo in A Major, Opus 118, No. 2
- Mozart's Sonatas in B-flat Major, KV 333; B-flat Major, KV 570
- Pentland's Shadows (Ombres)
- Scriabin's Sonata, No. 5, Opus 53
 
1970's   "European Broadcast Union Recital" (co-production with the CBC). CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's Variations in the Italian Style, BWV 989
- Beethoven's Variations in F Major, Opus 34
- Bizet's Variations chromatiques, Opus 3
- Byrd's My Ladye Nevelle's Booke: Hugh Ashton's Gound; Sellinger's Round
- Webern's Variations for Piano, Opus 27
 
July 9, 1970   "Thursday Music". CBC
Works performed:   - Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words
- Chopin's Piano Sonata No. 3
- Interview with Gould
 
July 23, 1970   "CBC Thursday Night / Glenn Gould in Recital". CBC
Works performed:   - Chopin's Sonata No. 3 in B Minor, Opus 58
- Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words, Opus 19, No. 1; Opus 19, No. 2; Opus 30, No. 3; Opus 85, No. 2; Opus 85, No. 5
 
December 8, 1970   "Tuesday Night" (possibly not broadcast). CBC
Works performed:   - Beethoven's Piano Sonata Opus 106 (Hammerklavier)
- Mozart's Fantasia in C Minor, K. 396
 
February 2, 1971   "CBC Tuesday Night / Encore". CBC
    - On Stokowski
 
September 30, 1971   "Musicscope". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's English Suite No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 807; French Suites No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816; No. 6 in E Major, BWV 817
 
July 18, 1972   "CBC Tuesday Night / Glenn Gould in Recital". CBC
Works performed:   - Grieg's Sonata in E Minor, Opus 7
- Valen's Sonata No. 2, Opus 38
 
August 26, 1972   "The Scene". CBC
    - Discussion of Slaughterhouse-Five soundtrack
 
October 7, 1972   "The Scene". CBC
    - Debate with Harry Brown on competitive sports
 
February 27, 1973   "CBC Tuesday Night / Glenn Gould in Recital". CBC
Works performed:   - Bach's French Suites No. 1 in D Minor, BWV 812; No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 813
- Scriabin's Two Pieces Opus 57: "Désir" and "Caresse dansée"
- Wagner/Gould's Siegfried Idyll (piano transcription by Gould)
 
January 15, 1974   "CBC Tuesday Night". CBC
    - Pablo Casals: A Radio Portrait (includes an interview of Casals by Gould) View the promotional copy for this program.
 
September 11, 1974   "Music of Today / Schoenberg Series: No. 1, Gould's Favourite Schoenberg". CBC
Works performed:   - Schoenberg's Eight Songs Opus 6: No. 1, "Verlassen" (Helen Vanni, soprano)
 
September 18, 1974   "A Schoenberg Liederabend". CBC
Works performed:   - Schoenberg's Eight Songs, Opus 6: No. 1, "Traumleben"; No. 7, "Lockung"; No. 8, "Der Wanderer" (Helen Vanni, Soprano); Four Songs, Opus 2: No. 4, "Waldsonne" (Ellen Faull, soprano); Six Songs, Opus 3: No. 4, "Hochzeitslied" (Helen Vanni, soprano); Two Songs Opus 1: No. 1, "Dank" (Donald Gramm, bass-baritone)
 
September 25, 1974   "Music of Today / Schoenberg Series: No. 3, Schoenberg the Inventor". CBC
Works performed:   - Schoenberg's Six Little Piano Pieces, Opus 19; Suite for Piano, Opus 25
 
October 2, 1974   "The Crusader". CBC
Works performed:   - Schoenberg's Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte, Opus 41 (with the Juilliard Quartet and John Horton, narrator)
 
October 9, 1974   "Music of Today / Schoenberg Series: No. 5, The Symphonist, Part 1". CBC
Works performed:   - Schoenberg's Pelleas und Melisande, Opus 5
 
October 16, 1974   "Music of Today / Schoenberg Series: No. 6, The Symphonist, Part 2". CBC
Works performed:   - Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, Opus 42 (with CBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Robert Craft)
 
October 23, 1974   "Music of Today / Schoenberg Series: No. 7, Operatic Works". CBC
Works performed:   - Schoenberg's Moses und Aron and Erwartung, Opus 17
 
October 23, 1974   "Musicamera". CBC
    - Gould introduces this series
 
October 30, 1974   "Music of Today / Schoenberg Series: No. 8, The Transcriptionist". CBC
    - Glenn Gould / Denis Stevens interview about Schoenberg's orchestrations of Bach, Brahms, and Monn
 
November 6, 1974   "Music of Today / Schoenberg Series: No. 9, Schoenberg's Pupils". CBC
 
November 13, 1974   "Music of Today / Schoenberg Series: No. 10, An Epilogue". CBC
Works performed:   - Schoenberg's Phantasy for Violin and Piano, Opus 47 (Israel Baker, violin)
 
November 19, 1974   "Schoenberg, the First Hundred Years - A Documentary Fantasy for Radio". CBC
 
January 27, 1975   "CBC Tuesday Night / Music of Schoenberg". CBC
Works performed:   - Schoenberg's Six Little Piano Pieces, Opus 19; Suite for Piano, Opus 25
 
1976   "Documentary: Ernst Krenek". CBC
    - documentary by Gould
 
April 25, 1977   "Ideas". CBC
    - Gould's "Quiet in the Land" (Documentary written and produced by Gould about a Mennonite community). View promotional copy for this program.
 
August 22-26, 1977   "Arts National". CBC
    - Gould hosts and plays recordings
 
September 14, 1977   CBC
    - Stokowski Memorial: Gould interviewed by Karen Wells

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1978-1983
 
May 7, 1978   "From the Masters". CBC
    - Gould interviewed by Andrew Marshall
 
April 2, 1979   "Mostly Music". CBC
Works performed:   - The Bourgeois Hero, Part I
 
April 9, 1979   "Mostly Music". CBC
Works performed:   - The Bourgeois Hero, Part II
 
October 23, 1980   "Mostly Music". CBC
    - Glenn Gould interviewed by Barclay McMillan
 
December 1981   "Booktime". CBC
Works performed:   - Gould's The Three-Cornered World
 
October 3, 1982   "Sunday Morning". CBC
    - News reports about Gould's stroke
 
January 3, 1983   "Gould: The First 50 Years". CBC
    - Documentary about Gould

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