Credits:

Glenn Gould (piano)

Description:

Gould made a tremendously unique album very early in his career, "Inoch Arden" for narrative and piano on poems by R. Strauss' Tennyson, and this collection of Hindemith's songs on Rilke's poems, "The Life of Mary," reminds one of it. Gould described it as "the best cycle of songs ever written," and his use of the original version in this recording, rather than the popular revised version, reveals the true originality of this work. This is a moving masterpiece that could only have been possible with the enormous talent of Gould. When this album was first released, it became a hot topic as the first domestic release of this piece. (C)RS