Really impressive Gould. Each time that I listen him I always am impressed and blessed by his powerful presence and powerful playing. I think he's really really good at piano and not only to play Bach but also the other composers. Great Gould and thanks to demonstrate that musicians like you can exist.
Never were that piano stroked with such clarity, and sense of direction again.. he just knows, no matter how much study or practice done, most people will just never know...
As true as that would be for any piano Glenn played throughout his life, the particular one featured in this video was his personal Steinway that he played throughout the rest of his career. It’s on display at the CBC in Toronto :)
This is what makes you tube great, Reaction videos and other crap while mildly entertaining just pale in comparison to this kind of glorious video footage.
But in a true classical sense Glenn Gould is just another reaction artist with the significant difference in that he actually can play what he reacts to. Maybe that is what you meant and i simply missed your joke good Sir!
I love the way he thinks about the music with the piano at hand to complete his arguments for his positions. You want to know why, he'll tell you why then show on the piano -just listen! You don't see that much these day if at all from our current get pianists. You may not agree with his positions but at least you know there's depth to his playing.
i understand his singing completely. i sometimes find myself singing without thinking about it. i think with him he's much more sensitive to the sound and music in general so it fills him up and his voice lets it out. it's a wonderful cycle of input through the ears and output from the voice, like breathing. one of my favourite examples of his singing is at 7:49 .
I find it absolutely facinating and marvelous that he had a much lighter sound with all these overtones, very similar to the piano forte sound of the period instruments we hear nowadays. So very different from all the other pianists from his time. And it's not only beautiful but also much more historically correct.
I think that is sound, his playing of Beethoven is abysmally inferior to the playing of Wilhelm Kempff, one example among a hundred pianists who play and played better than him.
It's not the pianist to make the difference, but the piano. Gould played a lighter piano, more defined in colour and tonality than those for great concertos played by Kempff...
Oh his singing.... this is fantastic!!! Thank you for my 'daily fix' of this wonderful, remarkable man. The gorgeous Glenn Gould.....By the way, was there something over his chair?
I agree with the intervewer in the last sentence about listening to the same music in a slightly different way. And it's not about missing a line like Gould said.
Considering Gould's observations, it is worth wondering whether the piano concerto was originally intended as a new kind of symphonic form, with the piano truly obbligato as a part of the orchestral fabric but hardly in some Romantic "adversarial" role. It would certainly validate his point that the piano and orchestra should be on the same page more or less in terms of tempo, and given that orchestras of the early 19th century were hardly capable of post-Lisztian virtuosity. I imagine the Emperor did originally sound something like this.
Here's the piano now...now the orchestra...[seamless playing]...now the piano...[commentary with more seamless playing]...now the orchestra...no cessation of tone....and yet I've changed color many times without changing tempo...HA HA HA
Tempo consistency would destroy Beethoven's music as we know it because it is music set in the Romantic style. But It's such fun listening to Gould talk about his view, showing an artist constantly in experiments, and reassuring to know that he can play Beethoven the way any maestros can, marvelously. He simply is unwilling to give in to the general way of playing good Beethoven. His eccentricity leaves us a narrow window to another universe of appreciating Beethoven.
On a more general note: Gould's contention that listeners find eccentricities increasingly annoying on repeated listenings is one I'm extremely familiar with -- here he's actually expressing a common, banal view (as he tacitly acknowledges). But my experience has actually been the reverse. Performances that initially strike me as refreshingly straightforward become increasingly boring the more I listen to them; whereas many performances that initially strike me as eccentric, even incomprehensible, gradually make more and more sense, so that my enjoyment of them *increases* upon repetition.
I was struck by how well Gould presents the interpretations he does *not* believe in. It's not a parody; I don't think anybody would guess, hearing him play in what he calls the 'wrong' way, that he doesn't wholeheartedly believe in those interpretations -- until you hear him speak about it. I also feel there's nothing in his interpretations in this particular video that's eccentric or provocative. Gould often *is* provocative (this description applies, for me, both to some performances of his that I admire and to some that I can barely listen to); but I don't feel there are any major examples of his eccentricity in this particular video, with the possible exception of the second subject Opus 10/2.
In my view after listening to this video, Gould was a far greater Beethoven artist than Bach artist. His Beethoven is magnificent, his Bach to my ears sounds harsh.
He's a proletatian. Not a filthy Bourgeois and you should not be proud about the violence the European Bourgeois brought upon the world. But well, what do you care about morals.
@• Zarathustra • The funny part is, the only country that lifted millions upon millions out of poverty is china. Capitalist countries on the other hand saw a steady decline in living standards for the past few decades. So according to your logic, china practices the most efficient economic model we've ever had, and I agree with you!
@• Zarathustra • The same is true for a large chunk of the USA, Australia, New Zealand. In fact, it's true for the majority of the whole New World (as of today, of course). Not very helpful as an explanation for Gould's civility. He's a Canadian (like me), and Canadians have the reputation of being gentler and less prone to violence than, let's say, Americans or British. I think it's a Canadian trait - although I can't be much objective about it, obviously.
Not necessarily, but I think this one was. He did the scripting more often towards the end of his life, with the exception of his shows with Bruno Monsaingeon, who he trusted. In that case, they were discussed at length beforehand, but not scripted, according to Monsaingeon.
@@matheusfay6082 Well yes, but not only that. In fact, he played excerpts from two concertos and two sonatas: 1:09 3rd piano concerto, 6:29 5th piano concerto 11:00 sonata #5 in C minor (op. 10-1), 15:08 sonata #6 in F maj (op 10-2)
Well what does it mean to "sound like Bach"? That's simply a bias. Gould popularized a certain style, which he himself didn't even believe was the only authentic approach.
Glenn Gould is completely wrong in saying that music of the classical period has to be played with what he calls a backbone but what he means is without any tempo flexibility. We do not have any historic sources confirming that, on the contrary, sources devoutly call for tempo flexibility. Even with the invention of the metronome in 1813 authors of treatises and composers alike warn against playing entire pieces with metronome, it should be applied only to the beginning. Gould likes mechanical playing which he demonstrates (and does so in playing any style of music) and is mislead by his personal bias into advocating this sort of playing as the right way. If anything, this is the wrong way. Not to mention the way he violates Beethoven's articulation by pedalling all the way through... You must not allow yourself to be mislead by the persona of this man, you may like his playing or not, that is up to you, but he constantly gets his facts wrong and that's troubling.
@@AhimSaah he never ever said his was the right way, he said thats what he felt and liked, and his playing is much more emotional than other pianists, playing with rubato doesnt make you a better pianist, it makes you a cliche unintelecttual pianist who doesnt even understand in depth what hes playing, gould here demonstrated the great depth of his knowledge and he also explained that he compensated the straight tempo with a lot of colour (dynamic) variety, Honestly you just seem like one of those very close minded old professors who think they have all the right answers for everything just becase thats what they were taught , but they never thought for themselves like gould And for the pedalling is a matter of interpretation, there are no rules, this is art, its up to you how much pedal you are going to use and when and why, there is no right way, how boring music would be if there were
@@IgnacioClerici-mp5cy feeling music as something mechanical is a sign of either lack of emotional identification with the world around you or a sign of autism. Playing with rubato (various shapes and degrees of it) is an inseparable part of musical expression just as melodic variations is an inseparable part of speech. Ignacio, you're getting slightly ahead of yourself. If you like GG', playing that's fine, please enjoy it. But to have an academic discussion you need to have a certain background of knowledge.
I could certainly do without Gould's annoying humming or quasi-operatic singing. Even in the informal context of an interview, I find it supremely irritating, notwithstanding his incredible talent. I cannot even listen to Gould with earplugs. It is said that sound engineers silence or eliminate the pianist's humming on his recordings. Wrong !! One important such release, Gould's re-recording of the Goldberg Variations for the 25th anniversary of the recording that had made him famous almost overnight, is plagued by that most unnerving idiosyncrasy. If they tried to reduce it, it was a job poorly executed, because it's definitely there, especially if you're listening with earplugs. To me, it's a real tragedy, because I love his style and I'm often in the obligation to listen to music in silence...
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How safe you feel in this man's intellectual company. Lovely
What a beautiful thing to say.
Completely agree!
That is how I have always felt, never inferior. Thank you for putting it into words.
How safe you feel in his company
His mind is like AI. Could he play Beethoven in reverse?
in everything he plays he gets excited. you can see that from the way he breath after every plays.
love you glenn
PURE TALENT AND GRACE AND INTELLECTUAL PROWESS...JUST WONDERFUL R.I.P BRILLIANT MAN.
Makes me just feel happy to see such a man play. And his whole body-voice is part of his music.
No comments. Admiration only. There is a piece of my beloved 5th concerto, with charming humming.. 🥰.. Bless you, Glenn! Hallelujah! 🔥
Unparalleled genius and pianist
So eccentric. Love his humming along with his playing, but so wonderful.
How much one can learn on his playing and he’s highly articulate
Among other things, Gould's amazing memory also stands out in addition to his playing.
Gould had great memory, however you may like to know that these were scripted interviews featuring prepared excerpts
How fresh the genius always is.... Both of them, Glenn and Beethoven
4:23-4:29 Bless the boom operator who made sure to pick up that sound Glenn is making. It gives me a reason to live.
Does he not make an actual "vrrrr" sound at 8:45?
💙💙💙
My god this man was a genuis.
I miss Glenn, need to visit the Toronto museum.
Amazing player and person, genius. He almost is the music.
This is definitely one of the best things I've come across on youtube. Thank you so much for sharing this gem.
Here exists the kind of brilliance that is indescribably eternal, a perfection in a medium that shouldn't ever be so
Really impressive Gould. Each time that I listen him I always am impressed and blessed by his powerful presence and powerful playing. I think he's really really good at piano and not only to play Bach but also the other composers. Great Gould and thanks to demonstrate that musicians like you can exist.
Never were that piano stroked with such clarity, and sense of direction again..
he just knows, no matter how much study or practice done, most people will just never know...
As true as that would be for any piano Glenn played throughout his life, the particular one featured in this video was his personal Steinway that he played throughout the rest of his career. It’s on display at the CBC in Toronto :)
Love it. Genius is beyond discussion.
Simply astonishing!
This is what makes you tube great, Reaction videos and other crap while mildly entertaining just pale in comparison to this kind of glorious video footage.
RUclips is the best
OK as bad hahap
But in a true classical sense Glenn Gould is just another reaction artist with the significant difference in that he actually can play what he reacts to. Maybe that is what you meant and i simply missed your joke good Sir!
What an amazing dude
Guold humming while playing, sings the music. An artist
I love the way he thinks about the music with the piano at hand to complete his arguments for his positions. You want to know why, he'll tell you why then show on the piano -just listen! You don't see that much these day if at all from our current get pianists. You may not agree with his positions but at least you know there's depth to his playing.
The C minor is my favorite Beethoven concerto. I wish I’d heard him play the whole thing
4:07 when he sings and plays the orchestra parts when he can as well as the piano
8:45 "brrrrrrrr"
I totally did not expect the Schnabel tribute. Without question one of the giants, but coming from Gould that says something.
Amazing lesson
"Yes, but you have this lust for blood, Humphrey..."
@@LuluBodhi "I know you resent the way I play this piece. . . Bertoniana, I call it." 10:55. Lol
19:04 for people wanting a timestamp
Additional parts to this amazing broadcast? Lovely quality. Thank you!
simply amazing. true obedience to music itself
There are parts of Beethoven's sonatas where the urge to speed up is so strong, that you have to use a metronome to keep the rhythm SLOWER.
"Egad! Heifetz has done it again, straight through to the end." ...I laughed out loud.
I love his Beethoven. Everything.
Wow this is very impressive.
Glenn taught me how to sing.
i understand his singing completely. i sometimes find myself singing without thinking about it. i think with him he's much more sensitive to the sound and music in general so it fills him up and his voice lets it out. it's a wonderful cycle of input through the ears and output from the voice, like breathing. one of my favourite examples of his singing is at 7:49 .
I find it absolutely facinating and marvelous that he had a much lighter sound with all these overtones, very similar to the piano forte sound of the period instruments we hear nowadays. So very different from all the other pianists from his time. And it's not only beautiful but also much more historically correct.
I think that is sound, his playing of Beethoven is abysmally inferior to the playing of Wilhelm Kempff, one example among a hundred pianists who play and played better than him.
It's not the pianist to make the difference, but the piano. Gould played a lighter piano, more defined in colour and tonality than those for great concertos played by Kempff...
I Love to Hear Gould make such Authoritive statements on schools of music that existed Long Before He was Even Born !!!
Que bárbaro! Que belleza! Dios y Beethoven estaban en su mente y sus manos escondidos tocando con el.
those trills and ornamentations, wow...so controlled it's crazy
Magnifique! Un VRAI GENIE✌🎗💛🌼🇺🇲
This feels like listening to a god. He has such a powerful presence.
Согласна всей душой
Oh his singing.... this is fantastic!!! Thank you for my 'daily fix' of this wonderful, remarkable man. The gorgeous Glenn Gould.....By the way, was there something over his chair?
Playing two voices on the piano while singing the orchestra's part, holy crap xD
I agree with the intervewer in the last sentence about listening to the same music in a slightly different way. And it's not about missing a line like Gould said.
7:49 - I wish he'd recorded the whole thing like that at least once.
Considering Gould's observations, it is worth wondering whether the piano concerto was originally intended as a new kind of symphonic form, with the piano truly obbligato as a part of the orchestral fabric but hardly in some Romantic "adversarial" role. It would certainly validate his point that the piano and orchestra should be on the same page more or less in terms of tempo, and given that orchestras of the early 19th century were hardly capable of post-Lisztian virtuosity. I imagine the Emperor did originally sound something like this.
Thank You, gorgeous !!!!
Glenn seems like someone you would really like to know.
I love that he slashed the first performance. First time that his playing had alienated me
Hay mucho que aprender de los grandes interpretes
Gould has always been hypnotic to me
Utter Genuis
He says himself and it is so true..........He creates colour
19:00 I lol'd so hard I spat my coffee all over
😅
one criticism i have about some of his playing is there is a lack of resolution in some parts that I feel need it.
8:33 is so so beautiful...
NOBODY has made a "Better recording five years" after HIS recordings!..... NO ONE!!!!!
11:09 RIP headphone users.
Here's the piano now...now the orchestra...[seamless playing]...now the piano...[commentary with more seamless playing]...now the orchestra...no cessation of tone....and yet I've changed color many times without changing tempo...HA HA HA
Yes, like stage magic, changing color can trick one into believing change of tempo! That's certainly clever and revelatory. Politicians take note!
Tempo consistency would destroy Beethoven's music as we know it because it is music set in the Romantic style. But It's such fun listening to Gould talk about his view, showing an artist constantly in experiments, and reassuring to know that he can play Beethoven the way any maestros can, marvelously.
He simply is unwilling to give in to the general way of playing good Beethoven. His eccentricity leaves us a narrow window to another universe of appreciating Beethoven.
I think this man can play the piano and orchestra at the same time. No need to hire a conductor!
Спасибо большое! С любовью из России!
8:00 i cant hear the music
9:21 music gets him all worked up
When he stops playing he sounds as if he'd just sprinted a 100 meters
“Sat with Urtext in hand and scratched their head…” 😂😂😂
Gould was to musical interpretation as Fischer was to chess
19:00 is just great :)
grazie
He is spot on correct about the tempo.
I think Burton wanted to say "...but we won't open that 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙨 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮, 𝙤𝙧 𝙬𝙚'𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩." :-)
What was Humphrey doing there? Gould didn’t let him to say 2 phrases and started talking and playing for 30 minutes without pause.
On a more general note: Gould's contention that listeners find eccentricities increasingly annoying on repeated listenings is one I'm extremely familiar with -- here he's actually expressing a common, banal view (as he tacitly acknowledges). But my experience has actually been the reverse. Performances that initially strike me as refreshingly straightforward become increasingly boring the more I listen to them; whereas many performances that initially strike me as eccentric, even incomprehensible, gradually make more and more sense, so that my enjoyment of them *increases* upon repetition.
I was struck by how well Gould presents the interpretations he does *not* believe in. It's not a parody; I don't think anybody would guess, hearing him play in what he calls the 'wrong' way, that he doesn't wholeheartedly believe in those interpretations -- until you hear him speak about it. I also feel there's nothing in his interpretations in this particular video that's eccentric or provocative. Gould often *is* provocative (this description applies, for me, both to some performances of his that I admire and to some that I can barely listen to); but I don't feel there are any major examples of his eccentricity in this particular video, with the possible exception of the second subject Opus 10/2.
❤️
The person who suddenly sticks a random ad into the middle of this should be humanely destroyed.
What's the exact name of the piece at 3:30
Beethoven Third Piano Concerto, first movement, first appearance of piano! :)
Oh gosh, I completely forgot to thank you. Listening to it for a week now.
glad to hear that! :)
Albdruck o
In my view after listening to this video, Gould was a far greater Beethoven artist than Bach artist. His Beethoven is magnificent, his Bach to my ears sounds harsh.
I have never thought that the piano and orchestra are at war. Perhaps it is my lack of education about this aspect of music that is the reason.
Forgive me but whoever said that is immensely stupid. I don't care if it was Glenn himself that said it.
I adore the way he talks and plays. What a gentleman. A testament to the civility of the European people.
He's a proletatian. Not a filthy Bourgeois and you should not be proud about the violence the European Bourgeois brought upon the world.
But well, what do you care about morals.
You know he was Canadian right
@• Zarathustra • The funny part is, the only country that lifted millions upon millions out of poverty is china. Capitalist countries on the other hand saw a steady decline in living standards for the past few decades. So according to your logic, china practices the most efficient economic model we've ever had, and I agree with you!
Are you idiots paying any attention to the music at all? I’m not sure what point you are even making.....?
@• Zarathustra • The same is true for a large chunk of the USA, Australia, New Zealand. In fact, it's true for the majority of the whole New World (as of today, of course). Not very helpful as an explanation for Gould's civility.
He's a Canadian (like me), and Canadians have the reputation of being gentler and less prone to violence than, let's say, Americans or British. I think it's a Canadian trait - although I can't be much objective about it, obviously.
11:09
Poor audio engineer
was this interview scripted by gould??
I thought they all were.
Not necessarily, but I think this one was. He did the scripting more often towards the end of his life, with the exception of his shows with Bruno Monsaingeon, who he trusted. In that case, they were discussed at length beforehand, but not scripted, according to Monsaingeon.
Ethan Hawke should play GG if a biographical movie is made.
Even if we could put him in a time machine, Ethan Hawke is not smart enough
What 's he play?
Beethoven :)
Beethoven third piano concerto.
@@matheusfay6082 Well yes, but not only that. In fact, he played excerpts from two concertos and two sonatas:
1:09 3rd piano concerto,
6:29 5th piano concerto
11:00 sonata #5 in C minor (op. 10-1),
15:08 sonata #6 in F maj (op 10-2)
6:20
YES, indeed!
I don't know why he developed an "obsession" with Bach... he was sooo great at Beethoven!!!
Beethoven had many beautiful and complex keyboard pieces, but Bach I think innately fascinates keyboard players because of all that complexity
Gould makes Beethoven sound like Bach :)
Well what does it mean to "sound like Bach"? That's simply a bias. Gould popularized a certain style, which he himself didn't even believe was the only authentic approach.
And yet, watch?v=SvWPM783TOE where Bernstein bemoans Gould's excessively wide range of tempi in a concerto!
키스 자렛이랑 글렌굴드 피아노 칠때 입좀 막아주실분...
lol just dawned on me homie looks like timothy dalton aka, for those watching at home, james bond
I see more Ethan Hawke than Timothy Dalton
0047 hmm.. i can see that too ..but still not as much as good ol timmy
Oh yes, definitely Ethan Hawke!
How many of you know that Glenn Gould is directly related to Edvard Grieg?
First Cousins.
better dont mention it to him...
Distantly related. Maternal grandfather was Grieg's cousin.
5, 50, 500? we've yet to will see how long you last
I’m going to meet him some day, even if it takes a knife.
That knife. You know what you need to do. You know where Glenn is. So that knife 🗡️ ........
Glenn was a god for Bach of course, but he was a nut when it comes to Beethoven. I am afraid he never got Beethoven.
Glenn Gould is completely wrong in saying that music of the classical period has to be played with what he calls a backbone but what he means is without any tempo flexibility. We do not have any historic sources confirming that, on the contrary, sources devoutly call for tempo flexibility. Even with the invention of the metronome in 1813 authors of treatises and composers alike warn against playing entire pieces with metronome, it should be applied only to the beginning.
Gould likes mechanical playing which he demonstrates (and does so in playing any style of music) and is mislead by his personal bias into advocating this sort of playing as the right way. If anything, this is the wrong way. Not to mention the way he violates Beethoven's articulation by pedalling all the way through...
You must not allow yourself to be mislead by the persona of this man, you may like his playing or not, that is up to you, but he constantly gets his facts wrong and that's troubling.
You are wrong ! but its your felling !
@@TheTympanist What exactly did I get wrong? I'm open to criticism if you can present your arguments. Be my guest!
@@AhimSaah he never ever said his was the right way, he said thats what he felt and liked, and his playing is much more emotional than other pianists, playing with rubato doesnt make you a better pianist, it makes you a cliche unintelecttual pianist who doesnt even understand in depth what hes playing, gould here demonstrated the great depth of his knowledge and he also explained that he compensated the straight tempo with a lot of colour (dynamic) variety,
Honestly you just seem like one of those very close minded old professors who think they have all the right answers for everything just becase thats what they were taught , but they never thought for themselves like gould
And for the pedalling is a matter of interpretation, there are no rules, this is art, its up to you how much pedal you are going to use and when and why, there is no right way, how boring music would be if there were
@@IgnacioClerici-mp5cy feeling music as something mechanical is a sign of either lack of emotional identification with the world around you or a sign of autism. Playing with rubato (various shapes and degrees of it) is an inseparable part of musical expression just as melodic variations is an inseparable part of speech.
Ignacio, you're getting slightly ahead of yourself. If you like GG', playing that's fine, please enjoy it. But to have an academic discussion you need to have a certain background of knowledge.
Beethoven is believed to say "The metronome marks are just for the first 4 bars"
To me Beethoven is incredibly boring except his chamber music which is divine.
As great as he is. The constant singing while playing drives me nuts.
Understood. It murders me too.
I could certainly do without Gould's annoying humming or quasi-operatic singing. Even in the informal context of an interview, I find it supremely irritating, notwithstanding his incredible talent. I cannot even listen to Gould with earplugs. It is said that sound engineers silence or eliminate the pianist's humming on his recordings. Wrong !! One important such release, Gould's re-recording of the Goldberg Variations for the 25th anniversary of the recording that had made him famous almost overnight, is plagued by that most unnerving idiosyncrasy. If they tried to reduce it, it was a job poorly executed, because it's definitely there, especially if you're listening with earplugs.
To me, it's a real tragedy, because I love his style and I'm often in the obligation to listen to music in silence...