Hmm. In the piano parts, where Gould plays, the tempo has some potential, perhaps. But the orchestral parts seem messy, uneven, and sluggish to me, like the orchestra members did not yet have the tempo in their mind heart and bones, the way Gould did. I feel like Gould had an idea in his head, for which this performance was just a rough draft. I don't think it's fair to judge his vision as good or bad without hearing a more polished version.
The tempo is just amazing! It gives every listener a wonderful and rare opportunity to hear and savor the notes, the melodies and counter melodies that Brahms employed in the piano part and also the counterpoints between soloist and orchestra. I've never heard this concerto played like this and it's just so amazing, it's a revelation. In my ignorance I never thought that a Gould-Bernstein collaboration could be possible at all. It may be true with Karajan though.
Wilhelm Kempff is a perfect case study of using moderate tempi on colossal works which are normally played by pianists for virtuosic exhibitions. Kempff kept a steady and moderately slow tempi in his Beethoven and Schubert sonatas which really makes the music 'listenable' and the melodies come out like characters in a play making vivid appearances. Gould in his unpredictable part, made a trailblazing move here with his preferred tempi for this concerto and it's really beautifully done.
Might as well get rid of the studio monitors for this one and listen to it through some crappy radio speakers. Gould's humming is one thing, the disrespectful sounds of people coughing up their lungs is just awful. How hard is it to cover your mouth... really...
I find everything absolutely right and so much more Brahms in this tempo!! The first entry of the piano has a wonderful singing quality, one hears all of a sudden how beautiful the section starting at 6:53 is - like in the e minor cello sonata! - and many other things! No, for me there isn't one single thing that sounds "too slow" here!
A definite, clear and without the shadow of a doubt "thumbs up" from me!
Glenn Gould simply took very seriously, unlike so many, what Brahms himself wrote above the first movement: MAESTOSO! And he is not the only one to have taken this point of view! Claudio Arrau said very clearly, in context with the first movement of this concerto: "It is a mistake to confuse fastness with passion. In music that is meant to be played slowly, fastness is the contrary of passion. (to be continued)
This was a very controversial performance, given Bernstein's rather bizarre, rambling remarks before the performance. The performance itself is also bizarre, if not totally incompetent.
@QMPhilosophe It's good our opinions are subjective. How in all the World can we ever attempt to measure a true genius' interpretation of a Master's work?
If art was ever left to lay in the hands of critics, I think nothing would ever come to fruition. Thank God (or whomever...) that most true artists are far too deep in their own World to ever pay any heed to the whims of those who cannot do but criticize. And I surely never thought I'd see "Incompetent" and Gould in the same sentence.
The orchestral introduction is grotesquely unmusical and coarsely played; everything Gould played sounded like the way he played Bach, and his grotesque mumbling and singing along is juevnile; the audience is the worst of all, coughing incessantly; they should have all been shot. I NEVER want to hear this again!
So, if the performance is so awful, why is it a problem that the audience is coughing through it? Seems to me that that would only be a problem with a performance that you considered worth hearing.
As far as I'm concerned, the piano entrance is perfectly phrased - senza rubato - better than any other pianist out there. Sometimes, straighforward playing works better than all the contrived attempts at manipulating the rhythm. Bravo Glenn!!!
Did the audience all have TB? Probably all smokers. Wonderful passionate performance, can hear so much more detail with the more gracious tempo Apart from the bloody coughing of course.
Hmm... I've heard many things about this "infamous" interpretation, but the only possible problem is that some may consider it slow. Depends on how you interpret "Maestoso"
Well, I'm wrong. There is one more problem... People cough so much!
Another classic "one and only" Gould performance of a particular composer's repertoire is his Mozart concerto #24 in c minor. Also somewhat slower tempi than usual, but also attention to the counterpoint (as in the Brahms) that reveals the brilliance of the composition, which so many other artists miss. I've not found any complete recordings on the internet, but here's a comparison between Gould's 1958 record & Perahia's 30 years later
“You are about to hear a rather, shall we say, unorthodox performance of the Brahms D minor Concerto,” Bernstein began, “a performance distinctly different from any I’ve ever heard, or even dreamt of for that matter, in its remarkably broad tempi and its frequent departures from Brahms’s dynamic indications.”
@luridplanet Fifty years ago, all live radio concerts had a background of audience coughing. I remember listening to one and asking my father why the people went to the concert if they were sick. He explained they weren't really sick; they had "smoker's cough", and since so many people smoked, coughing was quite normal. I'd forgotten how bad it was until I heard this recording. Back then, we just got used to it. It's like living near a highway. After a while, you don't even hear the traffic .
@luridplanet Interesting theory, that the coughing is deliberate. Makes one wonder... I must say I've never heard anything like it. That goes for the coughing and the interpretation (which I find very convincing).
This honestly doesn't seen THAT slow to me, compared to the ponderous performances I hear of Brahms these days... I was expecting this to be much more scandalous.
I love the slow tempi. Gould's devotional commitment to counterpoint expresses a characteristic of Brahms' composition that faster treatments and less contrapuntally oriented artists miss.
Great collection of Brahms images. I think he would classify as one of the half dozen or so greatest musical creators in Western music. All of his music is wonderful but early Brahms piano works are particularly unique, if not as developed as later works.
Thank you for posting this, I am hearing this after listening to the introductory remarks. Interesting pictures too..Glenn Gould is not conventional and for some time i just liked him playing Bach but the more I listen to it the more i enjoy it now
If you coud verify, you'd notice this performance of the 1st Brahms Concerto is not slower than the Zimerman-Bernstein one. The (very big) difference is that Gould manteins the tempo till the end, while KZ uses little tempo variations in the various sections of the piece.
LB told the audience he did'nt agree with the "very slow" tempi of "Mr. Gould", but that he identified him as such a valuable artist that he accepted to conduct the concert. GG did totally agree LB spoke to the public.
I can't agree with the tempo here but I can say that I generally love the collaborations between these two great artists. Check out their Beethoven 4 performance. It's wonderful and unothodox and you get to hear what a bad hummer Gould was. It's my favorite actually
Bernstein found this really too slow. He started a performance in NY ( im not sure of the place), talking to the audience " it's not my fault, i don't agree with the tempo you will hear, so don't blame me" or something like that. ^^
He told the audience that he assumed no responsibility for what they were about to hear, since Gould insisted on playing it at half the indicated tempo.
(end) first you don't know personaly the composer's vision, secondly when you happen to listen to the composer performing, often you find actually that his performance is not that appealing !!
Music happens between you and what you hear , not with something else in between...
what's the hell with tempi ? too fast, too slow...what do you mean ?
I love Walter and Horowitz, I love Bernstein and Gould, for many different reasons....
Just listen to the music.... and feel...
We are listening to "Masters" who were deeply involved oin their Art with faith and conviction !!
Then you feel whether you appreciate or not this or that performance, but please stop saying it should be played like this, or "the composer wanted this ".
@brunoparis12 Absolutely!!! If great pieces of music were only interpreted one way, this World would be an extremely melancholy and tedious place. I think the suicide rate the World over would greatly increase. And I know I'd be nothing more than dead weight, with an extra hole in my head.
@brunoparis12 Absolutely!!! If great pieces of music were only interpreted one way, this World would be an extremely melancholy and tedious place. I also think the suicide rate the World over would greatly increase. And I know I'd be nothing more than dead weight, with an extra hole in my head.
It's interesting this way but yes, too slow?...i think bernstein addressed the audience about the difference of opinion he and mr.Gould had on this point.None the less.....Gould is allowed and Lenny respected that and went along with this funeral march tempo. This concerto was disliked at it's premiere for it's cold wintery blasts and Brahmsian sterness....it is sublime though.
It sounds like the audience is dying. I sincerely hope they weren't trying to get on to the recording. If someone is that bad they should leave, no matter how MUCH they may have paid for the ticket. Shame because I love this interpretation
PS. Maestoso can be slow. There is no rules about the tempo of Maestoso. As long as it is "dignified and majestic", it works. So there is actually nothing wrong with this "twice as slow" tempo.
Is he playing in an hospital? Jesus Christ they are making noises all the time,if i were Gould i would have stopped to play and went away.I have never heard something terrible like in this hall!! Stupids who go to concerts with cough are to be cast out,really!
What's with all of the coughing and sneezing, did EVERYONE in the audience have a goddamn cold? Brilliant interpretation. Won't replace my Richter and Rubinstein recordings, but I will definitely enjoy coming back to this one.
thank god for gould and his ilk-who wants to listen to infinite museum pieces,innovation and experiment are the life blood of true musical culture,this is great,many thanks
I don't care how much everybody worships Gould. I think this wasn't good interpretation.
With classical music, unless it is specified, you're not really supposed to be innovative. That's why the composer writes dynamics, tempos, etc. To convey what they want in their music. It's not so you can just throw it out the window and do it however you feel like.
did you know that the dynamics, tempos and the like oftentimes are written in by the editors and publishers of the scores. For instance, Bach had never written in such stuff, and in order to get one like that (the original, more or less) you have to look for it especially.
Bach did actually use dynamics in some of his works, though rarely. Any WORTHY edition will make it clear that any added dynamics, tempo indications, etc. are just that...added by the editor as they would with any composers' work. But if you're using Schirmer for Bach then I suppose you may think it's the norm for publisher/editor additions.
As for Gould, he wasn't just anybody off the street who just decided to maim the great works. He had a special gift, and wasnt going to apologize for it just to conform to "the standard". He was out of the box, the BOX that classical music has been put into. Lenny worked hard on letting the classical music out of its cage as well.
Slow, fast, doesn't matter. The most important is create one new interpretation. We have here two great musicians, all that cames after this is inspiration.
For regular listening, I don't care for this performance. But every once in a while it's good to listen to to be able to pick out details overlooked in a "normal" performance. For all Gould's eccentricities, he made you listen to familiar pieces with new ears.
Hmm. In the piano parts, where Gould plays, the tempo has some potential, perhaps. But the orchestral parts seem messy, uneven, and sluggish to me, like the orchestra members did not yet have the tempo in their mind heart and bones, the way Gould did. I feel like Gould had an idea in his head, for which this performance was just a rough draft. I don't think it's fair to judge his vision as good or bad without hearing a more polished version.
hymntonight 1 month ago
The tempo is just amazing! It gives every listener a wonderful and rare opportunity to hear and savor the notes, the melodies and counter melodies that Brahms employed in the piano part and also the counterpoints between soloist and orchestra. I've never heard this concerto played like this and it's just so amazing, it's a revelation. In my ignorance I never thought that a Gould-Bernstein collaboration could be possible at all. It may be true with Karajan though.
tuberobotto 1 month ago
Wilhelm Kempff is a perfect case study of using moderate tempi on colossal works which are normally played by pianists for virtuosic exhibitions. Kempff kept a steady and moderately slow tempi in his Beethoven and Schubert sonatas which really makes the music 'listenable' and the melodies come out like characters in a play making vivid appearances. Gould in his unpredictable part, made a trailblazing move here with his preferred tempi for this concerto and it's really beautifully done.
tuberobotto 1 month ago 2
Was this the Apr 6 1962 concert with the NY Phil?
liug2012 2 months ago
Coughing people SHOULD NOT BE in concert halls. Stay home and take care of yourselves first. Please.
OregonDreams 2 months ago
At this tempo, one can really hear the counterpoint at 3:23. Beautiful!
OregonDreams 2 months ago
Might as well get rid of the studio monitors for this one and listen to it through some crappy radio speakers. Gould's humming is one thing, the disrespectful sounds of people coughing up their lungs is just awful. How hard is it to cover your mouth... really...
legendarypwnerv2 3 months ago
why didn't they give antibiotics to the ones that were coughing?
violetavalery 5 months ago
OMFG
stop coughing
BasileusR 5 months ago
it's a lack of respect to be coughing like that, spoiling the performance, why don't they just leave the theatre?
violetavalery 5 months ago
dang it, must the new yorkers never stop coughing?!
imaoldkidnow 7 months ago
What's this talk about coughing? I was too busy listening to good music.
yoshimitsu200 8 months ago
@yoshimitsu200 would love to hear it without all the coughing racket
SirWWW 6 months ago
cough cough
renatoaranha 8 months ago
I was particularly moved by the second coughing section.
max31416 8 months ago 2
@max31416was it a benefit concert for influenza patients?
SirWWW 6 months ago
@SirWWW No. But there was a 50% discount for terminal smokers.
max31416 6 months ago
As good as any ever recorded.TY anfalagu for posting.
paulostroff99 8 months ago
blablabla
TheAlonetogether 9 months ago
I find everything absolutely right and so much more Brahms in this tempo!! The first entry of the piano has a wonderful singing quality, one hears all of a sudden how beautiful the section starting at 6:53 is - like in the e minor cello sonata! - and many other things! No, for me there isn't one single thing that sounds "too slow" here!
ericchumachenco 11 months ago
A definite, clear and without the shadow of a doubt "thumbs up" from me!
Glenn Gould simply took very seriously, unlike so many, what Brahms himself wrote above the first movement: MAESTOSO! And he is not the only one to have taken this point of view! Claudio Arrau said very clearly, in context with the first movement of this concerto: "It is a mistake to confuse fastness with passion. In music that is meant to be played slowly, fastness is the contrary of passion. (to be continued)
ericchumachenco 11 months ago 3
Wait until you listen to a recording of Ravel's Pavanne by S. Richter, before you complain again about coughings and surrounding noises! lol
minasgekos 11 months ago
To all you Gould haters commenting on this: lol u mad broskies?
ProkofievRules 11 months ago
Good lord, the coughing ruins this beautiful piece.
Kashmirbonzo 1 year ago
They were both, without any doubt, great performers, that's the only reason why one can accept this 'strange performance'.
tasteism 1 year ago
This was a very controversial performance, given Bernstein's rather bizarre, rambling remarks before the performance. The performance itself is also bizarre, if not totally incompetent.
QMPhilosophe 1 year ago
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branded72 1 year ago
@QMPhilosophe It's good our opinions are subjective. How in all the World can we ever attempt to measure a true genius' interpretation of a Master's work?
If art was ever left to lay in the hands of critics, I think nothing would ever come to fruition. Thank God (or whomever...) that most true artists are far too deep in their own World to ever pay any heed to the whims of those who cannot do but criticize. And I surely never thought I'd see "Incompetent" and Gould in the same sentence.
branded72 1 year ago
The orchestral introduction is grotesquely unmusical and coarsely played; everything Gould played sounded like the way he played Bach, and his grotesque mumbling and singing along is juevnile; the audience is the worst of all, coughing incessantly; they should have all been shot. I NEVER want to hear this again!
billyguns2 1 year ago
@billyguns2
So, if the performance is so awful, why is it a problem that the audience is coughing through it? Seems to me that that would only be a problem with a performance that you considered worth hearing.
kcmccloskey 11 months ago
@billyguns2 lol
violetavalery 5 months ago
What a wonder symphony of coughing
cerberusdest 1 year ago
@cerberusdest Seriously...
TheAtma 1 year ago
WHAT THE FUCK IS WITH THIS AUDIENCE?!?!?! im a smoker too but WHAT THE FUCK!?!?!?!
Liptonical 1 year ago
As far as I'm concerned, the piano entrance is perfectly phrased - senza rubato - better than any other pianist out there. Sometimes, straighforward playing works better than all the contrived attempts at manipulating the rhythm. Bravo Glenn!!!
violinhunter2 1 year ago 3
The opening seemed vaguely like the opening of Rachmaninoff's first symphony. Or maybe it's just me.
LordCalvinHastings 1 year ago
These peoples are coughting on one of the most important page of the history of music - stfu smokers! And go home!
str3123 1 year ago
Did the audience all have TB? Probably all smokers. Wonderful passionate performance, can hear so much more detail with the more gracious tempo Apart from the bloody coughing of course.
angietihi 1 year ago
Hmm... I've heard many things about this "infamous" interpretation, but the only possible problem is that some may consider it slow. Depends on how you interpret "Maestoso"
Well, I'm wrong. There is one more problem... People cough so much!
OrangeSodaKing 1 year ago
Another classic "one and only" Gould performance of a particular composer's repertoire is his Mozart concerto #24 in c minor. Also somewhat slower tempi than usual, but also attention to the counterpoint (as in the Brahms) that reveals the brilliance of the composition, which so many other artists miss. I've not found any complete recordings on the internet, but here's a comparison between Gould's 1958 record & Perahia's 30 years later
citzie 1 year ago
LOL What is the deal with classical music audiences??
Anyways, I'm usually not all that sympathetic to "unorthodox" interpretations, but this is really nice.
rumpranger65 1 year ago
“You are about to hear a rather, shall we say, unorthodox performance of the Brahms D minor Concerto,” Bernstein began, “a performance distinctly different from any I’ve ever heard, or even dreamt of for that matter, in its remarkably broad tempi and its frequent departures from Brahms’s dynamic indications.”
ahsmusicman 1 year ago
I hate live recordings of classical music, but I had to hear this. I could strangle the rude audience coughing - probably deliberate
luridplanet 1 year ago
@luridplanet Fifty years ago, all live radio concerts had a background of audience coughing. I remember listening to one and asking my father why the people went to the concert if they were sick. He explained they weren't really sick; they had "smoker's cough", and since so many people smoked, coughing was quite normal. I'd forgotten how bad it was until I heard this recording. Back then, we just got used to it. It's like living near a highway. After a while, you don't even hear the traffic .
ishouldntbeyoutubing 1 year ago
@luridplanet Interesting theory, that the coughing is deliberate. Makes one wonder... I must say I've never heard anything like it. That goes for the coughing and the interpretation (which I find very convincing).
camaysar222 1 year ago
Jesus was this recorded during the black death? All the bloody coughing's ruining it. Stupid, selfish prats.
harryhume 1 year ago
This honestly doesn't seen THAT slow to me, compared to the ponderous performances I hear of Brahms these days... I was expecting this to be much more scandalous.
formersk8ter 1 year ago
I love the slow tempi. Gould's devotional commitment to counterpoint expresses a characteristic of Brahms' composition that faster treatments and less contrapuntally oriented artists miss.
citzie 1 year ago
@citzie well put
dialecticon 1 year ago
@citzie Yeah that's true. I never realized how masterful Brahms' counterpoint was until now. That's *really* cool to me.
rumpranger65 1 year ago
I am sure that young Johannes was every bit as petulant as Glenn Gould!
KeyGordy 1 year ago
Great collection of Brahms images. I think he would classify as one of the half dozen or so greatest musical creators in Western music. All of his music is wonderful but early Brahms piano works are particularly unique, if not as developed as later works.
davidgee100 1 year ago
Thank you for posting this, I am hearing this after listening to the introductory remarks. Interesting pictures too..Glenn Gould is not conventional and for some time i just liked him playing Bach but the more I listen to it the more i enjoy it now
gybemm 1 year ago
amazing!
annavsd 1 year ago
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michellelynne8 1 year ago
glenn gould è ridicolo!! Peccato! Suona così bene orlando gibbons o bird
giampieroification 1 year ago
cough cough cough... GO HOME!!!!!
phospholipasec 1 year ago 7
Great post, thank you, very interesting!
quinto34 2 years ago
If you coud verify, you'd notice this performance of the 1st Brahms Concerto is not slower than the Zimerman-Bernstein one. The (very big) difference is that Gould manteins the tempo till the end, while KZ uses little tempo variations in the various sections of the piece.
LB told the audience he did'nt agree with the "very slow" tempi of "Mr. Gould", but that he identified him as such a valuable artist that he accepted to conduct the concert. GG did totally agree LB spoke to the public.
Matteo7419 2 years ago 3
Has anyone mentioned Gould's comment after this performance? He said, "I was feeling very baroque".
Bernstein announced that he did not agree with the tempi before the performance. But he said he defended Gould's right to play it this way.
i don't think they ever performed together again after this concert
ipmoic 2 years ago
I can't agree with the tempo here but I can say that I generally love the collaborations between these two great artists. Check out their Beethoven 4 performance. It's wonderful and unothodox and you get to hear what a bad hummer Gould was. It's my favorite actually
aardvaark069 2 years ago 2
Bernstein found this really too slow. He started a performance in NY ( im not sure of the place), talking to the audience " it's not my fault, i don't agree with the tempo you will hear, so don't blame me" or something like that. ^^
Slava69 2 years ago
He told the audience that he assumed no responsibility for what they were about to hear, since Gould insisted on playing it at half the indicated tempo.
Jitpring 2 years ago
Intresting, is it possible to get somehow the other recording of this piece made by Gould & Peter Adler?
alvasch 2 years ago
(end) first you don't know personaly the composer's vision, secondly when you happen to listen to the composer performing, often you find actually that his performance is not that appealing !!
Music happens between you and what you hear , not with something else in between...
as for many things actually in life...
brunoparis12 2 years ago
what's the hell with tempi ? too fast, too slow...what do you mean ?
I love Walter and Horowitz, I love Bernstein and Gould, for many different reasons....
Just listen to the music.... and feel...
We are listening to "Masters" who were deeply involved oin their Art with faith and conviction !!
Then you feel whether you appreciate or not this or that performance, but please stop saying it should be played like this, or "the composer wanted this ".
brunoparis12 2 years ago 27
@brunoparis12 Absolutely!!! If great pieces of music were only interpreted one way, this World would be an extremely melancholy and tedious place. I think the suicide rate the World over would greatly increase. And I know I'd be nothing more than dead weight, with an extra hole in my head.
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@brunoparis12 Absolutely!!! If great pieces of music were only interpreted one way, this World would be an extremely melancholy and tedious place. I also think the suicide rate the World over would greatly increase. And I know I'd be nothing more than dead weight, with an extra hole in my head.
branded72 1 year ago
It's interesting this way but yes, too slow?...i think bernstein addressed the audience about the difference of opinion he and mr.Gould had on this point.None the less.....Gould is allowed and Lenny respected that and went along with this funeral march tempo. This concerto was disliked at it's premiere for it's cold wintery blasts and Brahmsian sterness....it is sublime though.
478493 2 years ago
Gould was doing a good job until about 4:30.
sorry, I could not resist saying that :D I enjoyed it.
morvensky 2 years ago
Purists be damned.
Besides, if this was Bernstein conducting 20 years later he would have taken it even slower and just as majestically.
MisterTahti 2 years ago 3
It sounds like the audience is dying. I sincerely hope they weren't trying to get on to the recording. If someone is that bad they should leave, no matter how MUCH they may have paid for the ticket. Shame because I love this interpretation
predatortocatch 2 years ago 2
Those coughing assholes!
Ltlevim 2 years ago 4
PS. Maestoso can be slow. There is no rules about the tempo of Maestoso. As long as it is "dignified and majestic", it works. So there is actually nothing wrong with this "twice as slow" tempo.
curradinu 2 years ago 2
Ah, so this is the infamous "twice as slow" Brahms performance. Actually sounds interesting LOL
curradinu 2 years ago 2
Is he playing in an hospital? Jesus Christ they are making noises all the time,if i were Gould i would have stopped to play and went away.I have never heard something terrible like in this hall!! Stupids who go to concerts with cough are to be cast out,really!
miliona1re 2 years ago 2
What's with all of the coughing and sneezing, did EVERYONE in the audience have a goddamn cold? Brilliant interpretation. Won't replace my Richter and Rubinstein recordings, but I will definitely enjoy coming back to this one.
brandon71085 2 years ago 4
What a waste of beautiful music. Thanks for posting. A great lesson in how Interesting and Great Music don't always mix
danshorer 2 years ago
where's the speach?
whatthecello42 2 years ago 4
thank god for gould and his ilk-who wants to listen to infinite museum pieces,innovation and experiment are the life blood of true musical culture,this is great,many thanks
Dumplingmaster 2 years ago
I don't care how much everybody worships Gould. I think this wasn't good interpretation.
With classical music, unless it is specified, you're not really supposed to be innovative. That's why the composer writes dynamics, tempos, etc. To convey what they want in their music. It's not so you can just throw it out the window and do it however you feel like.
I'll stick with Rubinstein.
rumpranger65 2 years ago
did you know that the dynamics, tempos and the like oftentimes are written in by the editors and publishers of the scores. For instance, Bach had never written in such stuff, and in order to get one like that (the original, more or less) you have to look for it especially.
kate7smith 2 years ago
Bach did, in fact, write dynamics in for himself. Just not as often and specific as classical composers and, even more, romantic composers.
spector177 2 years ago
Bach did actually use dynamics in some of his works, though rarely. Any WORTHY edition will make it clear that any added dynamics, tempo indications, etc. are just that...added by the editor as they would with any composers' work. But if you're using Schirmer for Bach then I suppose you may think it's the norm for publisher/editor additions.
KennYWooD2 2 years ago
As for Gould, he wasn't just anybody off the street who just decided to maim the great works. He had a special gift, and wasnt going to apologize for it just to conform to "the standard". He was out of the box, the BOX that classical music has been put into. Lenny worked hard on letting the classical music out of its cage as well.
kate7smith 2 years ago 2
gould actually plays this at normal tempo in a baltimore concert, but the recording was never officially released.
MichaelDLC 3 years ago
Slow, fast, doesn't matter. The most important is create one new interpretation. We have here two great musicians, all that cames after this is inspiration.
polskaczech 3 years ago 3
For regular listening, I don't care for this performance. But every once in a while it's good to listen to to be able to pick out details overlooked in a "normal" performance. For all Gould's eccentricities, he made you listen to familiar pieces with new ears.
ishouldntbeyoutubing 3 years ago 4
Yeah, is there no way you can repost it with Bernstein's introductory comments? Thanks for posting anyway though!
AutumnRide86 3 years ago 3
Too bad you left out Bernstein's introductory remarks!
weikko79 3 years ago 31
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amasonsk 1 year ago
Respond to this video...The introductory remarks can be at: youtube.com/watch?v=4gs3TeEUy8g
amasonsk 1 year ago
wow, the tempo is slow as hell.
jeffwads 3 years ago
Breathtaking performance. The passion for the music, the soul - beautiful.
chislehurstbat 3 years ago
btw so lovely those [your] pix thank you!
kajohada 3 years ago
superb!!------>brahms all three mouvements in one impulse....very artistical:)
kajohada 3 years ago
Bellissima interpretazione !!
argerich68 3 years ago
eccezionale .......... 10 ++++++
CucciolodiBach 3 years ago
Thanks for sharing!
pianist626262 3 years ago