Glenn Gould's U.S. Television Debut: Bernstein Conducting Bach's Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2024
- Performing the first movement of Bach's Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV 1052, with Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic. Gould's performance begins at 18:03.
Originally aired on January 31, 1960 on CBS Television as part of its Ford Presents series, this program was entitled "The Creative Performer." The entire show is actually three performances - by Gould, the soprano Eileen Farrell (singing the "Suicidio!" aria from *La Gioconda*), & Igor Stravinsky (conducting the last three scenes of his ballet *The Firebird*) - punctuated with scintillating musicological lectures by Maestro-Professor Bernstein, who is arguably the star of the show.
Though I recommend watching the program in its entirety, here's a time-stamped playlist, in case you'd like to jump to any given section:
1. Leonard Bernstein, on the vagaries of score notations: 0:00 - 12:56
2. Leonard Bernstein, intro to Gould: 12:57 - 18:02
3. Glenn Gould: 18:03 - 27:08
4. Leonard Bernstein, intro to Farrell: 27:09 - 33:46
5. Eileen Farrell: 33:47 - 38:24
6. Leonard Bernstein, intro to Stravinsky: 38:25 - 40:05
7. Igor Stravinsky: 40:06 - 51:06
8. Closing Credits: 51:07 - 52:24
Thanks go to two intrepid Gouldians who did the heavy lifting to track down, acquire, & beautifully digitize this rare masterpiece. Without them, we wouldn't be here enjoying it. 
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I saw Glenn Gould play the same Bach D Minor concerto with the Columbus (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra. Out of the hundreds - maybe thousands - of concerts I have attended in my life (I'm 78) this is the only one that I can still "hear" in my head. This was some time in the sixties when he toured the US. I was in high school and a volunteer usher for the Symphony. I got the pick of empty seats when the concert began so I sat in the first row. Besides his electrifying playing I remember three idiosyncracies: (1) he hummed along (well known from some recordings, but a little jarring when you hear it live); (2) he kept a small bowl of water beside the keyboard to dip his hands in during stretches where he was not playing; (3) he followed the score using pages cut out from a miniature score edition, pasted on large pieces of cardboard which he placed on the music stand that is ordinarily removed since most soloists play from memory.
Can you imagine: a tv programme with Leonard Bernstein AND Glenn Gould AND Igor Stravinsky performing live with the New York Philharmonic? Here it is!
svrfan AND Eileen Farrell!!!
The only great one here is Stravinsky. End of story. No one compares.
@@organboi nope.
@@organboi Stravinsky is in a different league entirely. Its like comparing apples and oranges.
@@IgnacioClerici-mp5cy Of course, in 100 years no one will remember the performers (except music historians) and Stravinsky will still be a legend, but without those performers he would be just another old bald guy waving his arms and making faces. And without an appreciative (read: paying) audience, this won't be on RUclips, or recordings, or anywhere else. Each of us has a part to play. Don't screw it up.
This is the sort of footage that makes RUclips so incredibly valuable.... and indispensable.
You're not kidding...
Can you believe this was once on mainstream network television?
Agreed.
Right onto that
I truly think with the tuning being 4:32 lower than 440 I should say I'm truly convinced chopins music doesn't seem to be so as if the soloist agitated they showed an example of Chopin's music tuned lower they seemed music is played faster and it seems that all agitation is freed from. Back then one could do their own cadenzas why not have an idea of what Allegro or Adagio is to them for the Cadenza they wrote or performed others back then for the composes they played gives them the freedom to embellish remember the metronome came out right around the time Beethoven passed cuz he put metronome markings to his symphonies romantic period played in a gypsy type manner with rubato I think a great player authenticates from the past is S. Richter playing Franz Liszt or the Gypsy player Georges Cziffra. I have a feeling paganini's concertos did not sound mechanical as they today
RUclips is a drug when such overwhelming moments can be realised at the press of a button. Magic lives
Glenn Gould really brought Bach's music to life and brought passion and emotion to it.
What is so amazing about the Gould piano performance is that he savors every note and doesn't rush-rush-rush like so many pianists as Lang Lang. This is an ethereal performance...
Like in his interview with Tim page, he doesn’t aim to savor the notes, but to adhere to a strict rhythmic pulse or tempo. He’s incredibly consistent and clear with each note indeed.
In a lot of his recordings Gould was rushing-rushingggg. Like 80% haha
@@pianosbloxworld4460 that’s bc anything prior to mid 60s, you had to conserve the tape bc it cost a lot so many would try to speed it up to fit it on one roll.
He explains the theory behind his unique interpretations which are illuminating and indisputable. I wonder why some of our contemporary pianist still are not getting it,
La categoría de este pianista para mi humilde opinión traspasa todos los límites . Gracias RUclips por deleitarnos con esta joya.
The single most influential video of my life. This. I hav
e been rewatching this a couple of hundred time over the last two and a half decades. And it doe'snt get old, unlike me.
Listen to and look at them.
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Watching Gould play piano is the most inspirational thing I’ve seen in years
There are lots of great pianists now days but glenn gould had something inside him that made him so special🖤
Yep. You almost can’t take your eyes off him. One of a kind.
I find myself inexplicably fascinated by this programme.
Gould's performance is stellar! A star is was born!
What a treasure. Leonard Bernstein taught me all about classical music when I was a child. It was a gift nearly as good as being taught to read.
Yes, me too, in Romania in comunists time! ♥️🌹🎹🎻👑🎶💗🌞👼 Thank you for posting it!
Glen Gould amazes me every time
In my sober judgement, Glenn Gould was NOT human; he either an angel of The Lord or an emissary from some advanced civilization.
@@JHarder1000 I have watched the DVD "Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould" several times and truly he comes off like a visitor from a distant galaxy. He was preternaturally gifted.
This video has been on RUclips since 2016 and it's from a 1960 television programme... Thousands, possibly millions, have seen it, yet I feel like I've unearthed a treasure! Thank you!!
I remember watching this in August of 2016 on RUclips. This whole video explains so much about human performance and individuality. In 2016 I transcribed most of LB’s teaching in this video it’s a classic of humanity expressing oneself in effort. How lucky am I to have stumbled across this. Thank you for posting
To look in Maestro's Stravinsky's eyes while he conducts the orchestra playing his music. So special!
my father was robert silverman, editor of the piano quarterly. friend of lenny, closer friend of glenn. i recall my phone conversations with glenn as a child vividly. this video brings me right back. it's the humor i miss so much, they had such humor in everything they did.
Did your dad write any books or articles about Glenn? I can't stand those interviews and books where you can tell the person had no sense of humor and just put up with him, only to complain publicly years later how lame and annoying he was. I am grateful to people like your father, John PL Roberts and others who were good friends to him. Did Glenn ever play piano for your family? I bet you got to hear him sing a lot. Can you email me kkicons@gmail.com and I will send u a nice pic I drew of GG last year that has him in his more informal side.
@andrea Do you still own a copy of that recording Gould released in an issue of Piano Quarterly? Can you please tell me the best way to access the Piano Quarterly Archives? I have trouble doing it... Thanks in advance and thanks for responding here.
Which recording? I am curious? The one I want is the alternate versions of Fugue in A minor. Or just anything like that really. I wish I could go to Canada to hear his practice tapes. I'm a would-be composer, and I follow Gould's recordings so closely. I think it would help to not get locked in to just the interpretations he released. It helps to play them back at different tempi though. I guess that's one thing anyone can do. They put "Do you want to write a fugue" in High Fidelity. I got ahold of a little pink record from a High Fidelity magazine about that time. I couldn't read at the time, and I lost it. But I would like to think that was what it was... btw, have you heard his Arts National series on radio? It really is like listening to his favorite records with him for a few hours, so fun. I am thinking about making a YT playlist of the pieces he played in that or mentioned.
Also, Andrea and Twolegsnotail (wish I knew your name), did you hear about the GG interviews Unheard Notes series? You subscribe to it and get great interviews which are funny, insightful, and not derogatory in any way towards Mr. Gould. I joined their FB site and it is small but nice, and we can discuss the videos on there. Andrea, I would strongly encourage you to contact Josh Shapero so they can interview you for that, if they haven't already. Your memories of GG are priceless and really it would be great if you could share them in some way.
Ah! Raised and bred in the shadows of art 😊
After seeing those hands, no wonder he was amazing on the piano.
I was so lucky to watch him on tv on Sunday nights, as required by my dad. We got assigned in 6th grade to write a paper on the "What is a Sonata" episode. My paper got selected to send to him. He wrote back an encouraging letter! It changed my life and made me a musician. (God help us all. Lol). Years later my mother told me he and my father went to Boston Latin together. My dad just said, "Time to watch Lenny!" on Sunday night and we did.
That's when parents told their children what to do. Now it's apparently the other way around.
Gould will always fascinate me. With Bach; It is undoubtedly the meeting of two extraordinary geniuses. Thank you for this video.
Jesus, is Eileen Farrell amazing. She blew the lid off the joint. Gorgeous aria.
This video is like a diamond.... insights into the heart and soul of music. First Leonard Bernstein with his effortless psychology, then Gould with his holy hands, Farrell with a superbly crafted performance, and then Stravinsky himself. And as someone else said, the NY Philharmonic too. You can learn so much from watching their movements, and their eyes. This is genius-level performing all around. Thanks to the lecture at the beginning, I'm not even so much thinking about the quality of the music as how well they tell their stories. At this highest possible level, it's all about storytelling. I'm trying to imagine what's going through Stravinsky's mind as he conducts. I can look in his eyes as he hears his own music. I think he really brings out the Russian feeling of it.
Gould is like the first player in history to throw the curveball and also turns out to be the best ever at it. He's the genius with a level of genius piled on top.
Aa I would you mind elaborating on this? I love his music, but I come from a jazz background!
Hard to believe that this was presented on American television in 1960. Our culture has deteriorated so much.
Well, that was just brilliant! Glenn Gould and Igor Stravinsky on the same show. Words can't really describe how beautiful that is. Many thanks!
whatever face Glenn Gould made while playing, I never think he was pretentious. He was a genuine artist.
Sure thing, buddy. 🤭
Meth mouth
Always mesmerized by Glenn Gould interpretation!!!!
I am still baffled and astoumnded th at Glenn Gould died/passed away at so relatively a young age as only 49 years old!
It is unclear whether his increasing anxiety caused his retirement from live performance or precipitated out of the increased isolation that followed, but either way his emotional stability began to slip. He turned to an increasingly broad and diverse array of prescription medications, the side effects of which caused his health to deteriorate and ultimately collapse, resulting in his premature death.
That part at 25:00 gives me chills every time, that pulsing note and the perfectly judged decrescendo is soooo good.
Berstein and Gould…. What a treasure. Thanks for uploading… ❤
Gould looks as if he were about to explode. What a riveting performance!. You can't look away even for a second.
Put yourself in the timeframe when this aired. You can't record it, it probably won't be on again any time soon -- you might never see it again (until now). To the people who enjoy this sort of thing, this broadcast would have been an event you remember the rest of your life.
Exactly! Very well said.
I was five years old and I remember it. I imitated Bernstein and Stravinsky conducting with passion. Music has always had a profound affect on me to the point that some music brings me to tears, bringing chills and ecstasy to my being. My mother was involved in music as a performer so I grew up exposed to music. My reaction to music is from my conditioning during my formative years, I believe. BRING BACK MUSIC EDUCATION IN OUR SCHOOLS
25:44 - 26:13 one of the most beautiful passages of music I've ever heard in my entire life. RIP Bach, Gould, Bernstein, members of the orchestra.
The members of the orchestra could be still alive, you know :/
@@glenngouldschair390 heh heh...
Agree. Gorgeous, mesmerizing.
I’ve literally watched this video a 100 times just to see Glenn Gould and Bernstein perform this concerto! Watching Gould from the tips of his fingers to the tips of his toes on the pedals and the humming sound and Bernstein’s ability to adapt to his interpretation mesmerizes every time I see it! OMG, I’m so grateful that this stuff is still available for reproduction! I would never have seen this without Utube. Thanks!
Never heard anything quite like this! Glenn Gould was a true Canadian treasure!
Glenn Gould's Bach, only him can interpret Bach so well.
Бах,Гольдберг
Pure gold! Gould, Bernstein and Bach - the real treasure!
Pure GOuLD!
Farrell is unbelievably fantastic. What a powerful, yet lovely voice.
Si. Però la pronuncia e pessima.
I would still watch TV if this was what was on offer.
Thomas McCormack I would say the same!!!!
Indeed.
So would I !!
Thomas McCormack
Hi
A brilliant musician and pianist who gave every single note in the Bach repertoire, value, respect and color.
A wonderful and historic piece of music television, so great that it not just exists but has been so beautifully restored.
We are indeed fortunate that such fine performances have been recorded for enjoyment by many in posterity...❤
This is great because we get to see Glenn's hands much of the time. I never realized his fingers were so long. All the years I have listened to Gould I just marveled at his fingers the whole time. I get the feeling Bernstein really admired him also.
It's like watching two spiders dancing ballet
Each present were titans in their own category
James Niland. nnnnn
Bernstein resurrected classical music for all to enjoy but especially the young people. If we are to preserve classical music especially, we must begin with children. Music is the universal language that speaks to us all in different ways but with music, all of us can communicate...
If ever I was overwhelmed it was by Bach's d minor concerto, Glenn Gould and Bernstein. I can't even put into words what I'm feeling right now.
Delightful to have had the opportunity to listen and to watch GG performed Bach concerto in D minor with such elegance and flawless technique. Awesome to see how spiritually elevated GG always was when performing Bach. It feels like he is engaged in a conversation with the Composer. L. Bernstein conducts beautifully! A historical clip to store in the musical archive! Thanks for uploading and sharing GG & L. B.; priceless treasure!
Glenn Gould is pure perfection...
It is pretty much impossible for me to express my love and gratitude for what these incredible people of given to me and so many others over so many years and so many years to come.
Why is it that ignorance has such a stranglehold over our little planet when artists like these demonstrate so clearly what humanity is capable off. Thank you so much for posting this video.
There are few singers today who exhibit this firm sort of voice control. Bravissima, Eileen Farrell!
A classic!
Gould, lived the life he was born to live!
This wonderous Gould still leaves me breathless and stricken with awe !
Thank you so much Glenn Gould played with such amazing passion and sensitivity too.
What a gem of a video! Watching Glen Gould is a miraculous experience.
What an amazing aria as sung by Eileen Farrell! Astounding!
I forgot the looooong distance between loud and soft when she sings. My neighbor often complains so I have to 'ride the volume control', darn it.
Music today is 'compressed' which means the loud parts aint so loud and the soft parts aint too soft. RUclips and recordings 'level out' or 'smooth out' peaks and valleys. For once, the youtube compression algorithm left the volume alone, I think.
This recording is one rare beautiful jewel of the history of music. Should be heard and seen many many times.
How far we have fallen.
eileen farrell! wow what a performance! such emotion! you could hear almost a stifled sob at one point... just amazing
My mother was a pianist and we watched this when it happened the week after my 14th birthday. Gould's fingers were heaven sent to play the piano!
23:21 a pianoquake 8 Richter in the history of music. With Gould i rediscovered Bach all that followed, it was like hearing something entirely new. Rest in peace both of them.
You can’t say that any artist, be he or she a composer or executant or both, is greater than another. There are many kinds of greatness. Tchaikovsky was reportedly a lousy conductor and a barely adequate pianist, yet he produced ingenious idiomatic piano writing -- most pronounced in the first Concerto -- and wrote brilliantly for various kinds of orchestral and instrumental groups. Stravinsky, who kept changing his style, always wanted to do what any good composer wants to do: to produce music that didn’t sound like anything that had gone before. Gould was a brilliantly articulate keyboardist who had a beautiful variety of pianistic tone and an arrestingly original way of handling prolonged trills -- “shakes”, in 18th-cen. British usage. Bernstein was one of the best things that ever happened to the NY Philharmonic. Farrell was a great lyric AND dramatic soprano, equally at home in Wagnerian, Italian, modern and early Romantic roles as well as pop and jazz. All of those people, alas, are gone. That’s what makes this program such a treasure.
Stravinsky conducting!! What a gem.
Thank you so much for uploading this. Watching Igor Stravinsky conducting his own brilliant “Firebird” in the flesh…it’s akin to seeing a Mozart or Beethoven in their day play live (a fact Bernstein alludes to). He is one of the giants of music history and I’m left speechless observing him delivering a great performance of his own masterwork.
Gould is able to translate Bach's intension on an instrument foreign to Bach's palette and nailed it. Brought out all parts as if played by a 17th c orchestra.
A beautiful example of synchronicity of expression between conductor and soloist. Bravo.
Gould's breakout performance in the U.S. Exciting moment in the world history of music performance, imo. Perfection. "Not a dull or literal performance" as Maestro Bernstein notes. Bravo!
Five miracles in one program (I'm including the NY Philharmonic). I'd like to know who didn't cry watching this.
I did not. Does not mean the music had less influence on me. Crying is a very individual reaction.
Well, I did. Giants - performing the music of giants. Would they were here now.
@@synonym5 soldier on, just soldier on, peter.
Sorry, but I sure did (got teary-eyed).
I don't cry to recorded music. Live in the concert hall is a whole different story. It often comes when you're not expecting it.
This is truly a gem. Wow. Thank you.
quite simply this is what what Gould was born for, Bach's keyboard music. Nobody comes near him and Bernstein is just a distracting exhibitionist when Glen is playing. Like David Hertzberg below I agree that this type of posting is the greatest reason for RUclips existing.
Glenn Gould - my hero of the piano !!
Bernstein is a great educator and Gould's performance is not overly romantic and affected, nor bland and robotic. Perfect!
goulds quality comes from his musicality and his technic and the precision. thereis no movement which does not participate on the creation , everything is fully efficient. his control of sound is perfect. there is legato in one hand and portato in the other in full independence. he really controls all.
A gift from the highest power to see and hear this remarkable performance.
To think it was once made for anyone who owned a television set , elates me and causes great sadness.
Amazing camera job. No waste of time cheese shots. Pure focus on action
I cant believe this exists. This is mindblowing. When Stravinsky stepped on I literally had to take a break
Such fantastic technique does Glenn Gould have in this playing of this piece! I so love watching him perform even after so many years after his death. What genius! I'm hooked on him and will soon be ordering his music.
Thaaaaaank you SO MUCH for sharing these
peace and love from spain
Es increible que esto haya pasado de verdad, y más aún que yo lo esté viendo sentado en mi casa 62 años después, gratis y con alta calidad visual y sonora. Qué gran privilegio poder verlo , escucharlo y apreciarlo. Gracias a los que lo hicieron posible. Bernstein, Gould y Stravinsky: tres adorables extraterrestres.
Simply beautiful moments from the past
Nobody brings out the voices of Bach's pure musical thought quite like Glenn Gould.
His independence and dexterity is remarkable.
Wonder if he took the same chair everywhere..
He played exclusively on that chair until he died. It is now displayed permanently at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, Canada.
Charlotte Rose - Thanks for that. Seen the posts about it now. He obviously liked to sit lower than the conventional stool, plus it was integral to his psyche.
There will never be another Glenn Gould (sadly)
true neither will there another sviatoslav richter
this show restored my sanity
THANKS a million!! this Bach interpretation is GODlike.
Roger H GO(UL)Dlike
Divine composition, sublime interpretation - among the very best of the binomial perfection Bach / Gould. Incomparable.
Love so much the sheer precision and constance of the tempo yet the richness of the Gould's articulation and phrasing! Gem
I love Gould's fingers, so beautiful.
Bernstein, Gould, and Stavinsky were all so incredibly brilliant.
Wasn't familiar with Ms. Farrell until this video. Her voice is sublime!
I'll bet that was the only time Stravinsky's music was ever used as exit music...
I "should" diversify my musical education, but I cannot stay away from Glenn Gould. Everytime I try to listen to another performer, I am drawn back to Gould. There is unmatched clarity in his interpretations, even in these old recordings. He embodied the music yet never played as if the performance was about him. There will never be another Glenn Gould. We are richer because he lived and was himself.
Andras Schiff is very good.
Note, though, Gould, like Pavarotti, performed only works he really liked. He was disdainful of Chopin and probably most 19th-century music, as was fashionable in his generation. You need to go to some of the other greats: listen to Horowitz for Scriabin and Chopin, Rubinstein, Michelangeli. . .
A piano master, no one like him,
galeritaelenora ~ clarity yes, but achieved with too much tension in his arms.
@@oinophilos2109 He did record Chopin's 2nd Sonata ... he played other music even if he didn't "like" it ... but doesn't every performer look for performances that are "in sync" with his/her personality and preferences ?
This is an unbelievable video! I had remembered Glenn Gould, but hadn't remembered the rest of the show. When he wheeled igor Stravinsky out at the end - the real Igor, not a hologram - I was flabbergasted. It's hard to imagine things like this used to be on television.
Gould and Stravinsky. What a program!
These Bernstien lectures from the old TV shows should be worth college credits!!!
The amazing, one of a kind Glenn Gould 😌
I've watched the performance of the concerto for a decade without knowing it was his US telly debut. Thanks for putting this up!
Thank you! My wife met Maestro Bernstein in the 1970's and cherishes the memory of that great man and musician, and his music!
Gould is magical....genius to Bach
This is absolutely astounding!
Filled with great information and an amazingly great and impressive performance of Glenn Gould!
He interprets this piece of Bach beautifully!
One thing from this, a hundred years from now there is not going to be any debate about how stravinksy thinks the firebird shold be played
aksek hiddelll this video is just altogether phenomenal
What an incalculable blessing to hear Gould play Bach's keyboard concerto #1 and Stravinsky conduct music from his "Firebird." Both of them took my breath away. Thank you, Lenny and the great NYPhil. Epochal greatness on one program.
Thank you, erp65, for posting this. I can't imagine what philistines could "thumbs down" this rare treat, but it seems there are four to date. I pity such people.
I don't pity them, I am just troubled that there could be any misunderstanding.
Musicians of the world have access to this, just wow!
I love this Concerto No.1 in D Minor by Bach.What a great combination of talent in the way of Bernstein conducting, the late eccentric Glenn Gould on piano and all the other wonderful musicians as they perform this fantastic music.
Thank-you very much for sharing this, erp65.God bless.
Glenn Gould! Wow! My favorite pianist.