Glenn Gould - Beethoven,Piano Concerto No. 1 Op 15 - I (2/2)

[renoraider2]

The director seems to have had an inkling of what a genius he was observing, which is sadly not the case so often.

[renoraider2]

The beautiful part about Gould renditions is that technique doesn't seem to be a consideration.

[maxreger100]

This is just a superb tempo. Rarely does anyone play this movement as marked: Allegro CON BRIO. One could argue that this is really being played in cut time, but the pulse and the energy seems absolutely correct.

I can imagine the young, volcanic firebrand, Beethoven, playing it similarly.

Too bad the "band" accompanying Mr. Gould is so mediocre.

[0theartofverve]

Mitusko Uchida does a great job, too.

[maximea2m]

does he improvise his cadence?

[U2raven]

Hitting the thumb's up icon is becoming rather repetitive for GG. Consider adding a two hands together icon: worship. Limit members to ten applications of the icon. I would like to use up two on this piece please.

[cerberusdest]

@U2raven I agree, this was just that good

[ngpiano72]

Really people? This is Beethoven's piano Concerto No.1 (which was written after his 2nd. This is because he wanted a more grandeur concerto to appear first).

[MrJianghanchao]

maybe the piano was his CD318....

[TROW1000]

geertdehoux: I believe this is number 2! Number "2" being the actual number 1?

[geertdehoux]

Anyhow, this is a PHENOMENAL performance by the young Gould!!

[geertdehoux]

Actually this is van Beethovens THIRD Piano Concerto, but not many people know this.

Geert Dehoux, pianist.

Belgium.

[Sylvain894]

Thanks Stravinskij0 for this fifties rare performance !

[Stejarovic]

i can't think about what kind of person could press the dislike button... oh my god... he must be from other planet.. Incredible...

[coritiba1909]

Tico Tico no Fubá (from brazilian composer Zequinha de Abreu) is strongly inspired on this, isn't?

[1Janny1]

This is Gould's own cadenza and of all things it is a FUGUE. Doesnt sound one bit easy either. What a genius.

[pianovirtuoso1000]

Gould is an awesome pianist! He inspired me in Bach's Preludes & Fugues a lot!

[tjamml]

the tempo is too fast for my liking

[newenglandsavages]

Not your run-of-the-mill extraordinary pianists--Gould's genius was stratospheric--few could play with such precision, such passion, and such abandon...

[tausendgold]

Wir werden sooft,auch mit neuem Klassikmüll,von angeblich neuen Klassikstars überschwemmt,es tut gut,mal wieder an die Wurzeln zurückzukehren,ja so muß er klingen!!!!!,und nicht anders,intelligent,stark,forsc­h,zart-eben unser Beethoven!!!!!

[712Stephen]

He's wiithout his chair AND he isn't singing. I'm amazed.

[yenhoho]

I love Gould's Candeza !!!!

[Laurentpiano9]

1:19 = great

[gronker4]

matwil74 ... nice that you made the comparison to

Perahia. Gould was an eccentric piano genius, but

for Beethoven I think Perahia is the best.

[AnarchoHumanist]

What do you mean "where do you think?"? I was asking a serious question. I was led to believe that he would not perform without HIS chair. All I see is a regular stool where a ratty old (or at that time, perhaps fairly new-looking) handmade chair should be.

[AnarchoHumanist]

Where's his chair?

[werq34ac]

That's so cool! A theme by Beethoven in the style of a Bach WTC fugue!

[Aileenk8]

a genious

[iadopin]

increible... y la cadenza parece mas una fuga del clave bien temperado que Beethoven... este tipo no es humano.

The Cadenza is like a WTC Fugue than Lvb... this guy in not human.

Bravo.

[matwil74]

This recording destroyed my love of other artists playing this piece. Perahia, Barenboim almost sound lame after hearing this. who can compare to this guy? insane!

[mestreliszt]

@matwil74 I think that, after to listen gould, playing some pieces, of bach, or beethoven, I don't like the other version, for example, Italian concerto, or this one.

I love gould

[Frozentoes1]

@matwil74 Indeed!

[vanya2309]

is anywhere gould's recording of Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto (B major) ?

[IHappenToBe]

wow, 6 + 7:25 = 12 and a half minutes, that's the fastest tempo I've ever heard on this piece. Baremboim/Kemperer do it in 17 minutes...

[IHappenToBe]

I'm sorry, I just realised the error I made: I shouldn't count the cadenza time, I should've been said: In this version, they arrive to the cadenza at 11:00, while Baremboim/Kemperer arrive there past 14 minutes.

[Dirkovic80]

@IHappenToBe actualle 6 +7:25 = 13:25

[legaertner]

oh my Gould!!

[Lukecash12]

Emotionally, he just attacked that piece. His body jerks as he's playing. My type of pianist, really. Everything he does is distinct, and he sells himself into every part of his interpretation, and with technical perfection and unbeatable clarity. So clear, it's like I'm reading a score in my head of a piece I haven't memorized.

[JohnBradfordMmmartyr]

When I first heard this artist, by cd in my London flat, I was very upset to be disturbed at the same time as there were workers doing repairs to the rooftiles of a nearby building.

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Only after consultation with my pianist brother was I to learn that this particular artist's technique is to at the same time mumble through the entire performance.

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There were no workers at my neighbours' building, it was the charming an copyright savvy G.Gould accompanying himself.

Thanks for posting.

[asianwhitenigger]

glenn gould is a sick asshole....fuck i love him

[MrLedZepper]

Only Gould would create a Bachish fugue-like cadenza in a concerto!!?

[munkybrain]

Glenn Gould wrote that cadenza? It's absolutely stunning i actually physically cannot sit still. wish he had composed more. if he had lived longer i think he may have done some conducting too. i think we would have gained so much had he lived longer. BEST CADENZA EVER

[tedly10027]

in this particular concerto ( along with his bach and many others ) i bow to glenn gould. i've heard plenty of versions - each very interesting ...but I don't think anyone has approached it with such a precise balance of brilliance, elegance, musicality, intimate awareness of the harmonic structure and natural beauty in playing the piano. incredible, imo.

and that cadenza ..what can one say ..proof of his genius really. even at age 19.

[200715209]

when was this performance?

[bernard1422]

I knew Gould from the Royal Conservatory. He was indeed a genius but a rather strange one; he wore a wintercoat and gloves in July. And we laughed at him. He didn't seem to mind.

[ARandomAveragePerson]

wow...lol

[ipmoic]

manuelkatarino--the old tradition was that artists would perform their own cadenzas. But this tradition is almost extinct. Most soloists today perform cadenzas written either by the composer or a distinguished performing artist of the past.

Colleagues of mine have expressed mixed feelings about Gould's cadenza but they all say that it is fiendishly difficult!

[Frozentoes1]

@ipmoic More thant that! They would not only perform their own cadenza, but it would have been improvised! Imagine that. It appears that jazz artists are the only one that have kept improvisation as the corner stone of their art. Very very fiew classical artist improvise. The only ones I could think of are concert/church organists. In fact, teh St. Alban prize is devided into tow categories: 1) improvixationand 2) interpretation.

[musicdivinemusic]

Beautiful, beautiful interpretation!

[ipmoic]

This is remarkable playing, AND a tempo that is close to being as fast as it can be played.

The cadenza sounds more like Busoni to me rather than Bach, but Baroque influences are clearly already there. A marvel--what a talent.

[manuelkatarino]

Please correct me if I´m wrong, but I remember that this cadenza was arranged by Glenn Gould for himself, and that it is, when required, a normal tradition on some pianists to write and perform their own cadenzas...

[rachmaninovpc3dminor]

your 'f ' degrades the whole page please remove it for the sake of all who are already listed on it. tx -r

[karakallatore]

ok i removed my F... it's now F major.

[joyleemorr]

I recently read in the Encyclopedia of Music Canada that he started using The Chair in 1953, and was thereafter never without it.

[MillyProductions]

yeah, his father made it for him after his back injury.

[GBV1961]

grande!!!!!

[albertusvanwyk]

Wacko cadenza! I love it. We need another Gould.

[joyleemorr]

P.S. I doubt his father had made the chair yet.

[joyleemorr]

This is the 19 year old GG, folks, from a 1951 performance. Awesome kid, wasn't he?

[chislehurstbat]

Sublime.

[airoak]

¿Alguien sabe en que año se grabó este concierto?. Gracias.

[thiri1902]

Bravo Gould!!!

[thiri1902]

4:06 !!!! Ah!

[talonboy5432]

Anyone else noticed that Gould wasn't sitting on that small low chair?

[Frozentoes1]

Amazing technical control...dynamics, touch...poetic, yet not too sentimental. I am convinced that Gould was perhaps the greatest pianist in instrumental history.

[gbisaga]

Wonderful cadenza. Reminds me a little of the Diabelli variations, especially the fugue.

[xboxranger07]

Thank you so much for posting this video clip. It must date from 1959 or so. My God, he was so young. The cadenza is almost Schoenbergian, but fits with the concerto as a whole. This boy was a master.

[yamahabro]

This cadenza at the end is a thoughtful creation, albeit an unconventional one. The world of classical music is a better place because of Glenn Gould's peculiar genius.

[Grigor99]

I think Gould was Bach reincarnated

[HansVonBulow]

Good for him for writing his own cadenza.  As for the rest of the concerto, marvelous playing. Just marvelous. I see why George Szell called him a genius.

[EneasHeroeTroyano]

I enjoyed this performance a lot. It really changed my ideas of Mr. Gould's playing.

[thetrojan01gr]

amazing cadenza!

[zzzzzzzzzzzzander]

This is great!! i also noticed how his cadenza has many of the elements of Bachs music

[anonimomascherato]

During an interview, he said the cadenza was "devilish hard to play and nobody had played it" since he wrote, but he was still waiting...

[sstuddert]

Incredible

[Opoczynski]

Lars Vogt plays Gould's cadenza with Simon Rattle conducting the City of Birmingham Orchestra. Great performance.

[frederickfrederikfre]

Che dire:Un Genio.

La Cadenza da lui composta poi,una Meraviglia!!!

[b1luedot]

no music sheet!

[nicubbon]

Pity the orchestra is so stiff.

[6022JP]

This cadenza was composed by himself.

He is a real genius.

[JohnThePetru]

What do you mean for cadenza?

[jesemus33]

is an arrangement, like improvised solo, ..mmmm. some kind of ego!!!

[JohnThePetru]

Thanks for the answer!

The problem was that in my theory book it's said that Cadenza is used IMPROPERLY for this "virtuoso solo" at the end of a piece, but, asking to my Masters, they told me that it's not the common meaning, but it's not wrong.

Hope you understand my not-perfect-at-all english :)

[gianm73yout]

This is the first video of Glenn Gould. He was 25 years old. Great recording!!!

[repersonudonknow]

The part written by Beethoven sounds like Mozart,and the cadenza sounds exactly GOULD!(more than Bach)

I love this performance!!

ThanQ for sharing

[SEMPRELISZT]

Very interesting! Certainly not my type of pianist, but Gould was a genius.

[Vancouverite39]

My favourite recording of the Beethoven #1. This piece really works extremely well with Gould's style. Great to see a video of it for the first time!

[NagualElias]

unfortunately his cadenzas are not in print anymore

[jeffouNSHS]

the cadenza is truly unique - Gould's genius in working w/ counterpoint is clearly evident in this almost Bach-like rendition: it is driving, metronomic, and fugal. Great blending of baroque vs. classicism.

[aboikov]

Incredible: Gould without his chair! This has to be one of his first appearances on film. Rare indeed.

[weikko79]

Yes, he must be very, very young in this one. Note that even his normal pianist's chair is set at an abnormally low position.

[str3123]

@aboikov Omg! True!

[joyleemorr]

@aboikov - According to my Google research, GG's chair had yet to be made. He was 18-19 at this concert.

joyleemorr