Glenn Gould's Goldberg Variations

The first recording by Glenn Gould of Bach’s Goldberg Variations was in 1955; in it he emphasized the notes, during the second in 1981, silence between the notes.

Silence is never the same; it gets contaminated by what surrounds it. The silence among sad people is not the same as among happy ones (the same applies to different and differing notes or colors).

Changes in the duration of silence contaminates and changes the meaning of elements surrounding it. Too long a silence can express anger, shyness, something going right, something going wrong.