Glenn Gould practising Beethoven's Concerto No.3
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Gould could go days, even weeks without playing or practising the piano and he claimed that the "best playing I do is when I haven't touched the instrument for a month". According to Kevin Bazzana (Gould biographer) he practised less than most virtuosos during his concert years, and after he retired from the concert stage he needed an even smaller amount of time at the piano. From the mid-seventies, he was practising, when at all, as little as half an hour a day, usually about one hour, never more than two.
From Gould's private recordings collection here he is going through Beethoven's Concerto No.3 in C minor (first and last movements). He plays the piano part AND some of the orchestra accompaniment, plus of course the typical humming, loud and clear. The exact date of the session is not known but an educated guess would place it in the mid-fifties, more than likely 1956, the year he resumed playing it in concert. The piano sounds very much like his beloved Chickering, located in his cottage, near Lake Simcoe (Ontario).
Gould is a like a one-man-orchestra. Best orchestra ever. Best conductor ever. Ten fingers. Humming/singing all the notes he can't do with fingers. He is the orchestra. Gould's singing is also very interesting. It seems to me that he often sings somehow the average pitch of multiple polyphonic lines. HMMM MMMMM something in between, hearing everything and having only one voice
Golden words! 💛
The more I learn about Glenn Gould, the more I listen and read, the more deeply I love and admire him. He is the best teacher -- music, perfection, exuberance -- he's enthralling every moment.
While he probably "practiced" very little, I have a feeling he played often, or at least I hope he listened to his records because there is nothing more glorious than this music.
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Such passionate humming/singing!
This morning I focused more on the piano (of course I couldn't ignore the singing) and this time through I'm focused on the singing. It is incredible. Such intensity. So uninhibited. Marvelous!
This is definitely the Chickering!
This upload is the best thing to wake up to. I feel exactly like I'm seven and it's Christmas morning, lol.
Hahahaha I feel exactly the same :))
Imagine running across it just a few days before his birthday!?
I like the little sidetrack into Beethoven's op. 110 at 8:10
I think this is my favorite part.
did I hear correctly? He breaks into the 31 sonata opus110???? fabulous
Yes. At 8:10
@@citzie thank you.
It is so amazing to me how Mr. Gould could memorize musical scores so quickly, and hardly practice. An amazingly gifted artist, truly! He recorded so much music in his short life yet classical music stations appear to play so little of his works.
The Toronto classical music station plays quite a bit of it
Perhaps because he signs the pieces he plays (i.e. doesn't follow the composer's directions strictly).
@@DariusSarrafi actually the 96.3 toronto fm plays glenn like every day
I mean Glenn does hail from toronto so yeah
When I was younger in the 80s the PBS station and classical station in Houston used to play some of Monsaingeon's docus, and other music, usually very late at night. I had a chance to thank the program director at the TV station and ask her to step up the Gould programming some more. Coming from a junior high kid, she seemed very surprised.
Genio Assoluto! Questa non è solo un'interpretazione, è anche immedesimazione : Gould ha fatto quello che probabilmente fece Beethoven mentre componeva il concerto, lo canticchiava per accertarsi della sua validità. Magnifico, grazie !
Музыкальный гений. Абсолютное мастерство. При этом интересно, что Гульд всегда играет с минимальной педалью и открытым звуком, но при этом владеет огромной палитрой выразительности.
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Песнопения просто великолепны! Таинство гения. Повезло нам подслушать! 😍
His passionate humming.
This is amazing! I heard a tiny bit of this in the background in one of the documentaries and I have always wanted to hear the whole thing. Oh thank you, Daniel!!! Opus 110 adagio is right in the middle- at 8:10. Oh, what a gift.
Yes me too, it's been over 10 years! Finding this at this time of year is a godsend.
Merci toujours, Maestro Poulain. Je vous pense.
I love to hear Glenn singing in the orchestral parts.
first, happily so.
I remember reading that Gould would play along with Schnabel recordings.
Бесценная запись!!! Спасибо 🙏 Гленн неподражаем))) такой редкий красавчик! 😂😂😂я его обожаю❤❤❤❤❤
Great
He’s not working with a metronome here, which is astounding. Agogic unit variations never compromise his tempo consistency, ever.
14:25
😂😂😂 Это прекрасно! Непременно в хороших наушниках слушайте!
While I was listening the image came to me of Beethoven himself playing his newly composed concerto for his friends on a fortepiano…
Such massive exuberance!
Vielen Dank für dieses ergreifende Tondokument!
Ganz einfach unglaublich, wie Gould musikalisches Material mit absoluter Selbstverständlichkeit interpretiert.
Great upload, thank you! He's playing the orchestral parts too! Forget where I read it but I recently learned that Gould had plans to record and conduct Mozart's piano concertos. What a pity we don't have those!
Yeah and also 35 or 40 more years from him as a conductor and composer tbh
That is surprising. He complained about those, so chances are he would have had fun with them and ruin his argument of how bad they were. The one recorded when he was younger was so good.
Gros merci. Avec en prime un peu de sonate n°31.
I would call this the opposite of practicing, which implies listening and critical distance. He's running through a piece to make sure he still has it.
brilliant!
Wonderful!
Has anyone ever heard gould play a wrong note
Yes.
Yes.
Quel extraordinaire document !
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21:09
Magnificent as always Glenn Gould.
He has beef with you, you know.
Hehe True
grazie
I would love to hear every concerto this way!
Que preciosidad! Gracias Daniel Poulin. Beethoven y Gould,puro amor,belleza,compasion y además entonado por nuestro “ruiseñor “.
Wether he “deserves” this or not, over investing in Bach makes Gould also an ideal Mozart and Beethoven player
What would be the Dancer analogy to Gould's unique noisy pianism?
Wonderful- Thank you ! 🙏🏻
Great. It's true that most practice is trying to bash a square peg into a round hole.
G. G. It's Genius!!
I guess this was made on the recorder in the cabin in Uptergrove?
Ну, что тут скажешь - теперь это моя любимая интерпретация 3 концерта. Оркестр не нужен. Гленн делает все сам, и я это не только слышу, но и вижу. И колли Бэнко в роли слушателя. Прекрасное представление. Браво, Маэстро Гленн! 🔥
Yep--this has to be the Chickering all right.
15:42 my favorite part
my favourite classical singer :D
Listening to this with a big grin on my face … Thanks - made my day ! ❤
grazie di nuovo!!!!
grazie
@@fredericchopin7538 buon anno nuovo!
Buen ano nueno Francesca!
I can't stand listening to Gould's humming and singing while he plays. Who the hell wants to hear that? No different than hearing a dog barking at the same time. Not only that, I also can't stand his personal interpretations of the music. He makes the music about himself, not the other way around. Technically a great pianist, but so what? Just because you know all the notes means nothing. Vastly over-rated, emotionally dead, and only a minor figure in the long list of great pianists. Two thumbs down!
Could you name those "great pianists" you talk about who are supposedly superior to Glenn by objective measures, so I can get a laugh?
@@fredericchopin7538 We were raised on Dinu Lipatti, Emil Gilels and Sviatoslav Richter.
He's practicing. At home. Uninhibited. Of course his singing isn't THIS loud on recordings. Many of us appreciate these private tapes being made accessible. Thanks, in part, to attitudes like yours, few of them are. If you don't like it, don't listen, it's so simple. Why is being cynical such a badge of honour these days?
He's having fun at his home! Since he is an authentic crazy genius there is no pretense within him. The excitement he produces doesn't care about purists' hurt feelings.
A minor figure in the long list of great pianists? Is this why 40 years after his death, he is still so revered, listened to, admired, discussed, written about, the subject of films and documentaries etc? On the contrary, he will be remembered long after many on your list, or anyone's list, have been forgotten.