Glenn Gould Moments- P.01 Partita no.2 in C minor

[eloyhbermudez]

i want the goulds chair!!!!

[pickasomangoes]

glen gould changed my life.

in this sterile,commodified,mean modern world,

his spiritual gift and raw honesty is soo powerful

he is a true sharman of musical healing.

his music touches my soul so deeply,as others have observed.

his not afraid to be vulnerable,free feeling.

he breathes music in every pore.

he is pure artistic passion,

he has no bull shite persona like most robotic superficial people these days.

glen gould is my religion (along with nina simone of course!)

[auro1001]

I love the tape reel and tea on top of the piano.

[chessfunk]

one of the rare momements he was so relaxed...

[Catherineone]

Interesting how they were taking about the chair and how famous it might become.

Little did they know that Glens chair would become so famous it now sits in a museum where many 1,000s of people have looked at it.

[peetellu]

a rare sensitivity to SOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Kris9502]

is it a movie? cause i can't find the movie art of a piano by glenn gould (the old movie not a 2009)

[carlosj116]

what is he playing at 1:05 before he gets his stool?

[torontoBluejays87]

lol, if only I got to walk around and try out different concert grand pianos! Glenn you are missed. Thankfully you were born in a time when we could record and hear your music forever.

[plvsbpb]

I love how he tried a piano with Mozart's G major concerto considering his dislike for it, He's amazing....

[dfranklin70]

There is some serious brown nosing going on at Steinway. Wow!!!

[VamLoveAndKisses]

I wonder what Gould would be like now...

[Pretendkid]

LOLOL HIS DOG IS CALLED 'BANQUO'

[scout6686]

7:55 epic!

[raleighsquare]

how brilliant and complex he was. So fascinating. A true hero and an ideal to which we should aspire. Thanks for this great video.

[amcint01]

Gould does more in his pajamas than most pianists do all day.

[1h0tsistah]

1:16 is mozart's piano concerto in G major k. 453.. he plays the start of the piano cadenza!!

[OzzyKingofKings]

@1h0tsistah Kind of interesting, actually, as he never so much as hinted at knowing that concerto.

Though to me it sounds more like the initial solo piano entrance of the first movement (he even begins to play the upbeat woodwind snippets along with the solo part before stopping).

[BernardProfitendieu]

could've lived without the pretentious narration

[vortexville]

Who knows de name of the pieces Glenn Gould play on 1:16 and 1:34? Please tell me

[noratranvouez]

the comedian-panist plays Mozart and is so funny...

[KIKEPURIZAGA]

Wow!!!!!!

[dzeljpiano]

is the part at 7:36 also from the partita ?

[netnet135]

@dzeljpiano he is practicing the same part again and again from the partita.

[ZekBlek]

@dzeljpiano yes

[TwelfthRoot2]

I bet Glenn's dog developed absolute pitch considering how much he has probably heard Glenn play

[Curatica]

Sixty years ago they still considered a classical pianist worth a whole documentary... I doubt that they still do today.

[witchcraftlord]

1:20, plays mozart, stops " nope" " what you dont like mozart or the piano"  gould- um both

[t1racyjacks]

thank you!!

[Kitsua]

I'm so gay for Glenn Gould. It's weird.

[orion777temp]

maravilloso

[abelitro12]

This is wonderful!!! Gould not only was a great musician but also a pioneer of baggy clothes lol...

[phospholipasec]

poor old bastard might as well just walk away

[oneofgodsfrozenpeopl]

What piece is he playing at the end? Is it still the partita?

[liquidnature13]

@oneofgodsfrozenpeopl Yes. Still the first section, or "Sinfonia" as it is titled.

[turquoise770]

bought a cd of brahms no 1 i d minor--heard all this humming over the top! was angry at such a recording until i realized who gould was and it was him humming, now i love it.

[DannyWrigley]

Lol at the guy just trying to get a word in edgewise at Steinway and Sons

[Greeney5]

Wonderful

[germzneverdie]

love the dog at the end

[AchilleDebussy]

is this whole documentary available on DVD?

[Matteo7419]

Glenn Gould - On & Off the record - VAI Music

[dmdml]

Thank you for sharing this!

[dbikeguy]

i find it funny, or ironic, that the posters name is thechopinfan, and glenn gould was well known for never wanting to play chopin pieces and completely shunning his pieces. haha. he also did this with liszt and schumann. his bach of course, was practically flawless

[lee4lolo]

What's the name of the fast piece at the end?

[alf9q]

@lee4lolo It's the Partita in C n. 2 BWV 826

[Irshkboy]

Its not a conversation its all people talking over each other

[juliog80]

Pinche mamon!! seguro Bach era menos pedante que este pinche loco

[mrpossibilities]

He seems so laid back and relaxed and natural at the piano store scene. One would have never guessed this was a man with compulsive obsessive disorders. One who totally freaked out once when his piano tuner, after finishing his work, patted him softly on the shoulder; because he hated being touched.

I wonder at minute 7: 36, why he emphasizes that note with the left hand like that. I just wonder about that tiny detail: Why that note, exaggeratedly emphasized like that and why with the left hand?

[n00belicious]

he had asperger syndrome, (so einstein by the way.)

i think thats a reason for his brilliance, but also for his strange beiing

[Jitpring]

Perhaps those stories aren't altogether true.

[mrpossibilities]

It's a possibility indeed.

[oldaba]

Great!

[Snufkin999]

Great video! thank you! Btw, what was the piece he plays at 1:18 when he tests the piano? It sounds very familiar but I can't place the title...

[huismanq]

Mozart Pianoconcerto No. 17

[samwagstaff]

Never has the term "lucky dog" been so appropriate

[Ltlevim]

The definitive test is to grab a friend (one who knows the notes on a piano), and have them play a note while you face away from the piano (with your eyes closed) and try to guess it. If you get several times in a row, you have it.

[vitisfera]

who is recording him?

[quagapp]

I loved playing the piano and improvising but I had no musical memory at all - I would start playing Bach or Beethoven (not very well - I more or less taught myself again when I was 30+) then I would begin to improvise. I did it for my own love of it but stopped totally and began writing - I could remember words! When I see Gould playing I am entranced - he is so involved - it is seeing him as well as hearing his playing that is so great about Gould. Passion. Others like him? Maybe not...

[internalmethods]

What dvd is this from?

[1haya]

tall me how to download

[dorracc]

he seems so love Bach's PartitaXD

[philateliceun]

absolute pitch is not a gift. It is hell

[spaghettic]

What makes you say that?

[philateliceun]

I study at a composition school and some people here have perfect pitch. They can hear at what pitch a door squeeks. And they can hear how false the pitch is. When they sit behind a piano wich is not tuned perfectly they will anoy themselfs to death. If they hear a piece of music that has a different tuning then the western style it sounds horrible, even if it is not. Everything that is not perfect tuned sounds horrible. Absolute pitch sucks, absolute relative pitch rules.

[Sunderlanding]

That's not true. If you have perfect pitch it means you can tell the difference betweend E Eb and E1/2b, but that doesn't mean that something sounds out of tune if it isn't tuned to concert pitch. As long as everything playing is as far away from concert pitch as everything else it will still sound in tune. Out of tune comes from things not being tuned to each other it and not from things being out from concert pitch.

[jdbrown371]

Absolute pitch is really nothing of the kind. If the musician can't stand the least fast pitch it's more a sign of just being neurotic. Many people with absolute pitch don't crumble if the pitch is too high or too low, they're just aware of it. In my experience absolute pitch is commonplace considering how much rarer indeed is "absolute rhythm". Most musicians, even experienced ones, are horrible time keepers.

[asianboyproductions1]

... i wouldn't really say that, because, not to brag, i have perfect pitch as well, i play piano at the ARCT level, and it's not hell, "Sunderlanding" and "Jdbrown371" are right... but only one thing, there isn't anything as "absolute rhythm", if you can't keep time properly, you might as well not play an instrument at all -.-

[philateliceun]

Well maybe I am taught different defentitions of the words. I was taught that you have absolute pitch and relative absolute. Someone with absolute pitch can hear almost on the freq. Someone with relative absolute knows by the context which note something is (what most people develop after many years of study). I have heard from various teachers who are composing for more then 40 years that absolute pitch really doesn't help at all. relative absolute pitch is what really helps.

[ILikeClassicalGuitar]

I agree.

[1haya]

You can't understand forever.

[ink24571]

They didn't have electronic pitches to tune did they?

[colincomposer]

Every student pianist should watch this documentary regardless of whether he or she agrees with Gould's interpretations, because it so clearly shows the utter dedication and commitment that is possible when approaching music making. He is thinking about every note, every articulation and every phrase, and how they all connect to make a unified whole. This is reinforced by his singing. Truly inspirational stuff. His untimely death at the age of only fifty robbed the world of a unique artist.

[trevjr]

Finally an intelligent comment. Compare Gould to so many who upload their own videos. Most are sewing machine Bach. notice how he makes every voice important. He is making music, making Bach come alive. Notice how he paces the slow down at the end, just perfect. Too bad most think playing Bach is just getting the notes right.

[JamesBMotion]

I'm late on this one but I couldn't agree more. I might even add: Yes he does do that but I think he takes it even one step further; which is to say that in his interpretations of Bach (by definition since he's playing a pianoforte) he takes the extra step of limiting his variations to what Bach may have done had he the ability to alter the volume of notes. His timing is very mechanical I think (true to the era) so merely through volume modulation he artfully exposes subtley hidden melodies.

[philateliceun]

@trevjr "Too bad most think playing Bach is just getting the notes right."

Well Bach himself said "playing and instrument is not hard, just play the right notes on the right moment and the instrument will play itself," XD

[zeroxshining]

i was wrong

[DMgirlforever]

Glenn Gould is the really one of the greatest pianists of our times!

[zeroxshining]

was

[musime]

My God! My piano-obsessed then-boyfriend had a crappy VHS copy of this wonderul video years ago. I never thought I would see it again. THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING!!!

[N495QS]

Is 'piano-obsessed' the reason for 'then-boyfriend', hehe?

[laqullu]

Me encanta su aspecto desmañado con los pantalones cayendose...y el subiendoselos de manera totalmente "Gould" es decir sin importarle la camara ,ni absolutamente nada...

[silazioz]

This parts of the video of the live of glenn gould is wonderfull to see im very happy with the video's on youtube

[FredeGF]

hey, this is absolutely lovely!

where can I buy this dvd?

gould is the best for Bach!

[vrv1020]

Which part of partita no. 2 is he playing starting at 7:20?

[CorneliusFractogram]

Allegro part from second half of the 1st part of the partita (Sinfonia).

[munkybrain]

is he improvising on it? because alot of it deosn't match the score

[eliora]

I think he's just practicing parts of passages over and over again..it seems pretty true to the score other than that.

[kokoman21454]

gould is my hero

[thomyss]

stupid snob there...

[sleazebee]

fuckin' ancient...

[sasharocks123]

AMAZING! PERSON! VERY RARE PERSON!

[fricklas]

The piano is a Chickering.

[mrHardc0re]

At 04.35 - What does the narrator say? What kind of piano does Gould prefer above all other? A 70 years old what?

[Irzadi]

"Chickering" - it's a piano make.

[mf2101]

What is your source for this? Can I buy this? Thanks for uploading it.

[Pawnd4]

Their discussion about the chair is amusing, because everyone is talking, but no one is listening.

[lovegould]

What is he playing 1:34-1:52?

[amirabbassabbagh]

J.S. Bach's Partita No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 826

[sunsprite]

This footage is amazing. Ahh! :)...the young Glen Gould. I wish I were a time traveler and I could just go over and talk to him or just be there listening to him play.

[ixcuincle]

Good stuff...I look forward to watching all 6 parts.

[Halispie]

I just wanted to thank you very much for uploading this series of videos. I now watch them on my iPod instead of paying attention in lecture hall. Brilliant!

[salmonroll]

"when it's matched with a large physical endowment???" FANTASTIC VIDEO. I love Glenn Gould - priceless.

[mercoid]

....a fortunate physical endowment."

Not quite as suggestive, but stll....

[salmonroll]

the endowment was fortunate because it was large. Anyway, the way the nerd narrated it, it sounded large.

[mercoid]

"...a fortunate physical endowment"

Not quite as suggestive. But still....

Hey Bevis. His endowment is FORTUNATE. Ahuh ahuh ahuh huh huh.

[paulostroff99]

The greatest Canadian musician of the century,and possibly ever.Sit down and be quiet Celine Dion and Guy Lombardo!

[asantiago88]

is there a place in which this video can be purchased?

[salmonroll]

It's called "On the Record," "Off the Record" I like when the guy says balls and tassels, the 50s narration, the music. Is this the greatest film ever made? It's got everything.

[princeashtonsdad]

great video too much talking from the butt kiss in the black suit got a little nerve wrecking

[dinosgreece]

This video is priceless... I don't know where you got it from but this video is simply amazing. Private moments of Glenn Gould...

[monicaspinosi]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for uploading this!

[thechopinfan]

your welcome, your welcome, your welcome. thanks so much for commenting on this!

[thegoddescomposer]

this video is really gold ( i am the first one)

and by the way . this is very beautifull

[thechopinfan]

thanks soo much!