Glenn Gould- Bach's Piano Concerto No.1 in D minor (BWV 1052)

[hohenbalken]

Die Aufnahme-Tonqualität der Streicher ist leider unbefriedigend.

[IngridAtenea]

Very nice Glenn! I love you!

[toogoodbw]

I hope everyone commenting knows this piece was originally a violin concerto that was transcribed into an organ concerto (BWV 146) and then much later transcribed into a harpsichord concerto. Oh yeah and the violin concerto was lost. It was never transcribed into a piano concerto. Bach did not even see anything piano like until he visited Fredrick the Great in his old age. The title of this video is very misleading.

[Titian343]

He's amazing!!!!!

[VamLoveAndKisses]

Does anyone happen to know the orchestra he's playing with?

[hbcser]

is it just me or do you hear an erroneous G at 0:08, too?

[kamihx7]

@hbcser you right!

[andyloll]

Perfetto!

[Nibelungenfrau]

still-outstanding...!!!! 

[vivascargill1]

in many ways like richter (here) who Gould so admired

[millriv]

Gould has a mystique that frankly baffles me. Anyone who can hear properly should listen to Edwin Fischer's performance of this: it is a revelation and in my opinion far, far more beautiful in every way

[nicolasuisse]

Comparé avec Hélène Grimaud, il joue plus lentement mais combien les phrases se détachent elles d'une manière plus ciselée!

[celleska17]

Gould trăieşte muzica...

[jasquilaria]

I prefer the 2nd movement performed by Lipatti.

[judeh101]

@jasquilaria Thanks for telling all the youtubers what you prefer..

[colourfulwithaU]

In the main theme, when the entire orchestra plays a very forceful G#, A, D, what harmony is being implied? Is it E (II), A (V), D (i); or a Bb (gerVI), A (V), D (i)?

Not that it matters much, just curious what people think.

[Piyanistcan5]

İts Bach because I can hear many voices =)

[colourfulwithaU]

The way Gould plays the passage from 0:17-0:33 gives me chills!

[starrymushroom]

I did a psychology case study on Glenn Gould and his Hypochondriasis. :D

[kiwimatt1]

I think it sounds better on a piano because it's a more sophisticated instrument... compared to the skittery jangle of the harpsichord, which to me is reminiscent of a broken screen door slamming in the wind.

But hey, Bach would probably sound ok whatever it was played on...

[toddemartin]

Thank you.



[classicforever1]

In German, the word "Bach" means a small stream. But "Bach is not a small stream, he is a large ocean"...(Beethoven). And that's the truth!

[SoUnDoLe]

I think people just need to accept that this is a completely different work when played on piano. Compare it to harpsichord recordings and it's like comparing a romantic concerto to a heavy metal band. Everybody can have perfectly valid preferences, but one can't be declared definitively better - they appeal in different ways.

[judeh101]

@SoUnDoLe couldn't have said it any better myself. thanks! :D

[polymath7]

@SoUnDoLe "I think people just need to accept that this is a completely different work when played on piano..."

I accept this unreservedly, but this is nonetheless one the *very* few Gould performances I don't much enjoy -and that includes his wildly idiosyncratic (but always fascinating) interpretations of Mozart,Chopin, Hindemith...

But his particular piece it seems to me is tenaciously resistant to transcription for piano, and just works much much better on harpsichord.

[gubbbies]

@SoUnDoLe

Nothing wrong with a little critical examination. Why is youtube so anti-intellectual?

[merdacalcio]

@gubbbies it's not youtube, it's the democratic mass. The internet has a dark side too :(

[classicforever1]

The bass is too strong indeed, I can't hear the piano clearly. I prefer Harpsichord. In my own opinion, some Bach's masterpieces need a little chaos which will makes it more exciting. That's why we should use harpsichord here. Moreover, this masterpiece is only suitable for Harpsichord...

[judeh101]

@classicforever1 i can hear it perfectly fine. my speakers play just fine.

[hatstalker]

Bach's WHAT concerto? This is a harpsichord concerto performed on piano. it was always written fro harpsichord.

[judeh101]

@hatstalker no one calls it keyboard or harpsichord anymore. don't get me wrong, i like harpsichord.

[BlackIsOut]

on harpsichord definitely better

[Sylvain894]

Are you steady Glenn Gould piano music listeners ??Anyway, i did compare : there's no others !!

[Sylvain894]

Are you steady Glenn Gould piano music listeners ??

[angelito928]

cant wait to play this maybe in 3 years.....

[werq34ac]

what a fantastic piece.

[Veritodiaz]

Chapeaux!

[solarsification]

when i listen Gould playing Bach is like we feel in those moments on the highest Mountain of Evolution in Creation before we drive down the mountain - enjoy the ride to the valley ;), maybe its enough to drive with this kinetic energy to another peak , of course not so high but still beautiful sight. peace

[12345qazx1]

the bas is too strong..

[judeh101]

@12345qazx1 turn it down! :)

[Regina555100]

'ЭТО  ВЕРШИНА!

[Olgaprins56]

Thank you for Gould and for the Bach! how  I horobly miss it! This just only real this just only life

[edro3638]

I love you guys, and Glenn and my man Bach! Keep on talking and teach me!

[TheDavid2222]

This is really a Harpsichord Concerto, but I'm not complaining! This is great!

[andreidarvasan]

The BEST interpretation EVERRRRRRRRRR!!!!!

[jonatev00]

Listening to this master piece is like watching roger Federer play ... magic

[keekee1981]

Four people were so completely mesmerized by this performance that they mistakenly hit "dislike"...

[RainhadoCanto4]

Growing up in Brazil quasi dirt poor through my teens, this after having lived a life of riches when living in Bombay and Goa, India, my "moments of culture" came when visiting a family friend, Sr. Filomeno, who was a Bach aficionado, for never do I remember being in his house when Bach wasn't playing such beautiful music!

Thank you, Joe, for sending me down memory lane so very often!

[formerlyaskeptic1]

My favorite part begins at 3:35 which is a is like a momentary sentimental departure from the relentless severity of this movement.

[malditocalvo]

¡magistral!

[bunbun5877]

This MUST play at my wedding!!

[raindropsofhope]

I let the experts talk about it, you guys obviously know more about music than I do. So I am just going to feel the music...

[LinTzuYoung]

讚啦！

[templedread]

This is a recording from 1957. I have the CD. Glenn Gould died in 1982 and re-recorded the Goldberg Variations in 1981.

[Mamasan41]

I practiced this for a long time years ago as a beginning student, at VERY slow speed,( without an orchestra, of course) and it was such FUN!!! It is a really good piece of piano homework. 6:48 was my favorite part, just loved singing with it!!!

[ca6pe10sa47]

BACH POR SIEMPRE Y PARA SIEMPRE

[ToasterKarl]

The whole thing is already amazing; then 6:34 comes and manages to propel a stellar movement into a whole new dimension. Love it.

[simcha181818]

Thank you for the download. Could you download the 2nd and 3rd movements as well?

[Gorrddo]

perfect! but i more like tempo of older video recording..

[RuFFssibal]

I dont understand why nobody mentions the part of 7:25, in my opinion its rare to hear such a romantic "movement" by bach.(its my favourite part btw) What do you think?

[judeh101]

@RuFFssibal I think it's awesome, favorite parts are all based on opinions :D

[SpittinGlitter]

@RuFFssibal I have always felt this piece was extraordinary (maybe not in pushing the limits of theory) but it is certainly the most EMOTIONALLY complex for me of all his works. Some of the passages have a Pagannini-esque bowing technique for the player that blows the mind. Bach is always genius, but usually reserved genius. I can't think of another piece in which he allows himself to express such conflict and freedom of range in expression and emotion. Just when you think you know him... :)

[SukiBalls]

@SpittinGlitter totally agree. then you add Glenn Gould at the piano and you have genious enhanced, and a chaneling of Bach, and two souls mingling in truth and beauty. fantastic. thanks.

[steamednotfried]

@RuFFssibal Do you (or anybody else) know who the conductor is? Is it Bernstein or is it the other recording? Cheers.

[Rostropovich3061]

@RuFFssibal

 i only feel smooth in that part

[kourosh89]

@RuFFssibal i din't even get that far. bach is soooooooooooooooooooo boring!!!!

Lil' Wayne is much better IMO

[judeh101]

@kourosh89 they're entirely 2 different genres... you can't compare them.

[losermonster]

@kourosh89 It's like Lil Wayne just has a better grasp of what works. He's a genius, plain and simple. Beethoven's not bad though. I'd put him on about par with Jay Z.

[dwayne515]

@kourosh89 bach is better than your mom..

[SirWWW]

@kourosh89 Lil Wayne is humming way too much in my opinion.

[VERITS99]

@RuFFssibal You may want to compare with the third movement of BWV 1060.

[colourfulwithaU]

@RuFFssibal

It is beautiful, but I don't think it's necessarily unlike Bach at all. It may only sound romantic because it's played on a modern piano.

[mrjkdeyoung]

@RuFFssibal I completely agree. Thats my favorite part. Haha.

[isabellyaoyao]

What a master piece! Listening to this is the only inspiration for me to continue practicing it!

[Mamasan41]

@isabellyaoyao Yes!! Have fun at whatever speed!!!

[naydentodorov]

fantastic!

[EricTheRed03]

I'm proud to be Canadian

[1AdrianR]

From 6:49 - 7:14 you can hear the influence Bach had on Mozart, who further developed this chromaticsm.

Bach is the father of us ALL - W. A Mozart

[judeh101]

@1AdrianR what a wonderful way to put it :)

[1AdrianR]

@judeh101 Thanks!

[Bruceforge]

@1AdrianR and then Mozart took on the role as the Father of music after that.

[MusicisLife373]

@Bruceforge and then beethoven took over :) well he did in my Opinion

[Bruceforge]

@MusicisLife373 Very much so. Thought they are all on a different level of genius, not one is better then the other.

[NimbleTurtle13]

@1AdrianR Mozart was referring to C.P.E. Bach at the time when he said that. I wouldn't be surprised if Mozart called J.S. Bach the "god of us all".

[SPACETIMEBEAUTY]

@1AdrianR Thanks for sharing that information.

[guitarfan1979]

@1AdrianR Get it right.Mozart said : "He is the father, we are the children" about Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach 1714-1788 - second surviving son of J.S. Bach.

[KajiXD]

<<<3333

He's so precise. All the notes sound son clear an beautiful thnx for posting this, Bach+Gould=perfection

[TheEnormousPianist]

Superb! Great recording of remarkable performances by Gould, Bernstein, and the Columbia Orchestra. I've seen the excerpt of a live videotaped performance of this - does anyone have the whole thing?

This is the right music for the "planning a perfect murder" montage. Or, as in my case today, for just getting carried away secretly via you tube and ear buds in cube-land on a Friday afternoon...

[judeh101]

@TheEnormousPianist haha nope, I don't have the videotaped version sorry :P

[markov2b1]

trademark bach, and glenn gould's delicate and sharp playing

[jcsorez]

I am in heaven!!!

[rolldito]

My favourite moment is 6:20 - 7:41

Thanks for sharing this video!!

[judeh101]

@rolldito no problem :)

[gerow59]

Have listened to this concerto every day for many years, sounds better every time I hear it

[natia56]

perfect concerto! this concert is stronger, than beethoven's concerts and I can't compare it with other concerts. It's BACH.

[TheOtherMusicMan]

Thanks for the enhancement judeh101 I feel like I've put some new naural grooves in my brain today. There are a few videos out there of him playing this. I am absolutely mesmorized by watching Gould;s upper body pulsate and heave in places where he's playing this. You can tell he is so locked in and ascending along with the beat.

[judeh101]

@TheOtherMusicMan anytime :)

I also made a super bassy version, I like it, but this one sounds more "flowing"

[HammerOvThor]

He never wrote a piano concerto.

[judeh101]

@HammerOvThor no he never did, overtime, piano overtook harpsichord. Now it has been changed to Piano concerto for this reason. I've said this before in my other comments, plz feel free to browse through.

[TheOtherMusicMan]

I can remember listening to Bach when I was too young to know much, but I was in fact able to pick out Glen Gould's recordings from any of 4 artists my mother would play. We're talking 33 vinyls.

[Kishida06]

When I first heard this years ago I couldn't stop listening to it several times in a row for days.

[judeh101]

@Kishida06 I couldn't stop listening to it for a whole year :D

[Missfrizz97]

this is a Must-Put in your favs ;)

[TheShining1976]

this is soooo awesome!!! hard to learn by ear though!! :) gotta love Bach.

[jasena09]

That's fantastic..!!

Thanks for posting.

[henripche]

Starting at 6:00: what a conclusion! Bach is such a genius...

[TheCantabileviolin]

Amazingly done. This is my favorite Piano Concerto of Bach so far by Gould. The tempo and the emotion summoning up with the whole orchestra.

So rich and very harmonize. Each instrument contributes to the greatness of this piece. Also with the pianist-Gould, he gives special enchanting effect that fascinates the listener.

Truly, Gould is a genius. Powerful pressing of the keys, strong personality= Beautiful Bach piece.

[Matteo7419]

GG never recorded this concerto in the 80s. This recording has been don in 1957 with Leonard Bernstein.

[msa1985]

hell yes and it was 10x better than any other

[Nibelungenfrau]

eines meiner Lieblingsstücke - I adore thes piece - thank you soo much for uploading - great - !!!!!

[Nikos11000]

gorgeous, glorious, superb !!!!!

Nikos

Mech. Eng.

Piano player

Greek

[serene06]

Beautiful!!

[Vinefeather]

I love this bass-boosted~ <3 (I've been listening to this over and over again for the last few days. XD)

[judeh101]

Oh yeah, the double bass just kinda magically appears in the background eh?

[Mamasan41]

THANK TOU!!!

[judeh101]

you are welcome

[Mamasan41]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[Chromometron]

This sounds so cool with the bass boosted. Do this with all your vids!

[judeh101]

sure :D

I like it bass-boosted as well :)

[TheCantabileviolin]

Gould's performance is great...the tempo..speed..this show that he is one a very skilled pianist of his time...This is my favorite piano concerto of Bach..I love him for his memorable pieces that I've heard..I wanna hear more of his composition...

[judeh101]

what would you like to hear? I have his brahms, mozart recordings. Any suggestions?

[TheCantabileviolin]

@judeh101 Let's try...Shubert and Debussy? do you have some of them? thanks! :-)

[fritzroy15]

The quality of the sound was superb...could you put up Mozart's concetos in minor as well?

Great job :)

[benjianubis]

tomorrow's my big day with this...as i said i will be performingthis concerto tomorrow....cant wait. im nervous and yet excited

[quinto34]

@benjianubis Cool! How did you do?

[judeh101]

^ second quinto

[benjianubis]

It was a total success thanks God... and I have to perform it tomorrow Monday as well....

[quinto34]

don't forget to thank yourself too, must have been some hours study to be able to play a piece like this ;-)

[benjianubis]

@quinto34 Oh yes...it sure was QUINTO. thousands of hours and instead of going to the shore this past summer i studied it for three hours a day...... I started it in July and later came the memorization, speed, and interpretation for it. I love Bach also and that helped I guess

[quinto34]

Maybe you can ask someone to film and upload your performance?, that would be great! Anyways, have some fun today, cheers.

[cessna221]

GOULD was a jewl in Canadas crown

[madaboutvoice]

Thnks for the info. That is why I asked because GG, as far as I knew, did not record any concertos in the 80s. 

Great performance of this concerto, regardless of its age.

[benjianubis]

Hey judeh101....thanks for uploading this...I will be performing this in 3 weeks from tomorrow.....December 11th and the 14th.....

[judeh101]

is it possible that you could record your recital? I'd be happy to watch it :D

[benjianubis]

@judeh101 I would most certainly do it but the only problem is that I really do not know how this works as far s recoeding things and putting them on youtube

[Ruchfun]

So beautifully plaied!

Great Gould

[madaboutvoice]

Thanks for posting!

I do have a question, though. Are you sure this was recorded by GG in the 80's? And could you kindly tell us who the orchestra and conductor are? Thanks a lot!

[judeh101]

yeah, it did say 1980 on the disc. The disc could be wrong, but don't get me wrong :P

I think it's by Leonard Bernstein if I'm not wrong. This is a little over a year now. I don't quite remember. thx for asking

[SR71YF12]

Performer: Glenn Gould (Piano)

Conductor: Leonard Bernstein

Orchestra/Ensemble: Columbia Symphony Orchestra

Date of Recording: 04/1957

Venue:  CBS 30th Street Studios, New York City

Length: 23 Minutes 58 Secs.

[judeh101]

23 minutes and 58 seconds, is that the whole concerto?

[LeySun]

Fantastic. When Glenn plays the piano it is like a poet reciting his own work. In comparison, many others sound as if they were mimicking the sounds of poems, without understanding the language.

What a fantasticly authentic experience it is to listen to Glenn play Bach.

[kitmeyak]

Well said.

[yoss1983]

This is not originally a piano concerto,

Bach didn't have a piano, which came somewhat later, hence he couldn't write any such thing as a "Piano concerto"!

Please change the title, though :)

[judeh101]

definitely not a piano concerto, but it was re-arranged. This was how it's presented on glenn's CD, so I'm gonna keep it the way it is :D

thx for the comment though

[yoss1983]

fair enough ; )

[MrMusicmania67]

Glenn Gould...definitely one of the most prominent pianists of our age. He has such steadiness and clarity! A wonderful rendition of this great concerto! Thank you for posting this.

[judeh101]

hey, thanks for posting a wonderful comment! (1+rep from me!)

[beluska79]

Bach...........the best

[takamiti8]

グールドのバッハはすばらしい。佐東　陽達

[kaypapademas]

Listening to Glenn Gould play this music would be equivalent to watching J.S. Bach write this music.

[judeh101]

agreed.

[talonboy5432]

Do you mind uploading all the other 2 movements?Although there are the others on but the sound quality isn't as good as yours(perhaps because of the bass...)

[TheOtherMusicMan]

@kaypapademas I agree. Likewise if Michaelangelo could paint music... guess where it'd be? Ceiling of the Cistine. The etheral beauty in this are absolutely exhilliarting.

[Mamasan41]

@kaypapademas ABSOLUTELY!!!!!

[japanesesweet]

The accompaniment sounds a bit wooden-a better pairing is Gould and Mitropulous-a live recording with the Concertgbow.That really catches fire.

[pookiehohn]

GOULD!!!!!!

[pookiehohn]

7:00 = Eargasm

[lst9162]

Oh my gosh, this is wonderful, I'm gonna cry!!! Tears of Joy!!!

[judeh101]

LOL! it's beautiful, isn't it?

[lst9162]

haha, Bach's one of my favorite composer, and Gould's his best interpretor!!!

[SonitiVeri]

On which CD is this performance found and who was the conductor? (I was not aware that he re-recorded this in the 1980s).

[judeh101]

Hello there, I forgot, my friend has the CD. But it was a CD full of Bach's music. And this one said it's by glenn gould in 1980s. :S hope that's informative

[Matteo7419]

This is not Glenn in the 80's. GG recorded the D minor concerto with Leonard Bernstein in 1957 and this is the recording.

[ThisIsMe113]

its absolutely beautiful, i cant get enough of it

[judeh101]

same here, I love this piece, I listen to it almost everyday.

[jimmyjamesWang]

can you up load the adagio and the rest, Pleeeeeeeeeeeease!!!!!  :)

[judeh101]

I will try ;) I will upload it soon

[raquelnog06]

awesome...

[hommedelamer]

quelle pointure ce pianiste !

[ANTOONMAKA]

Ha ya... Bach mais Gould joue avec tellement de virtuosité... et puis on a bien adapté d'autres oeuvres pourquoi cherche le morpion sur la tête d'un adjudant chef? Ce quei compte c'est le plaisir d'entendre....

[bertrandlepercq]

Pianoforte did not exist at the time when Bach composed his works. Harpsichord concertos were later adapted to piano, often for the best as proved by Gould.

[AristYdes]

Bach didnt write "piano" concertos. This is fake.

[judeh101]

hey, this is not fake, ok?

it's re-arranged from harpsichord.

think straight next time before you post, please (no offense)

[chislehurstbat]

@AristYdes you are new to classical piano music?

I own a previous recording with G.Gould and

L.Bernstein conducting the Columbia Symphoni

Orch. released in 1957,which has never impressed me.Hon