Prokofiev Sonata No. 7 in B flat major: Precipitato - Gould

[Fuff0lo]

Troppo pedale!!

Cos'è questa fagiolara??

[binnieb20]

GRAN TURISMO 5!!!!

[Cancrizans]

He manages to blend the jazzy beat Prokofief intended with the brilliant percussive style and a contrapuntal clarity none of the other performances on Youtube can come close to. I am a huge fan of Sokolov's live performance here on Youtube , but criticizing this interpretation bc you have a Gould bias is just ignorant.

[amadorbuda]

Gould,my friend I LOVE YOU..........

[nextren]

Screwed up at 2:53.

[Cancrizans]

@nextren Please spell out which chords he screwed up on.

[konigstephan]

What is it with all that pedal abuse????? Gould????? Didn't know his right foot was working at all. But in Prokofiev, come on, the guy must be kidding.

[Turini2]

Thanks to the producer Kazunori Yamauchi, of Gran Turismo 5, I am brought here to relisten to this amazing piece of music, played by Lang Lang, in the opening cinematic. A fantastic piece of music. Simply stunning.

[ansonyeung825]

@Turini2 LANG LANG IS A BAD PIANIST, so i advise you not to listen Lang Lang's performances anymore.

[wapperott]

@ansonyeung825 well ur a fa*

[slateflash]

whoo hyper music for a hyper me!!^^

[1Janny1]

Don't know why this sounds so much like Gershwin to me. American in Paris maybe? There's a clip of Alexei Sultanov after he won the Cliburn Comp on Letterman. It had a totally different sound. Of other recordings I've heard of this, none of which I care for, this one gets points from me, simply because it's Gould. Could just be my lack of appreciation for Prokofiev's music. Grotesque and tortured

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[wnxg4nd4lf]

I love Gould. I despise this music.

[FutureAbe]

I would like to have seen him play this, he rarely played this energetically

[DesertAnnie]

This is as close to "Boogie-Woogie" as you'll ever hear from GG! Takes me back to the 1940's Zoot Suit and Saddle Oxfords crowd!! ;-D (Sorry, GG ... but that's what it makes me think of)!! ;-)

[meesbroersen]

it sounds more like Jerry chasing tom through the house and almost get that mouse but on the last moment tom makes it to his hole and trow a piano on jerry's head

[BONHZEPPELIN]

My GAWD did he break a piano string or the mic? Do you hear that buzzing? WOW!

[classicon2009]

gould is a the master of articulation and his phrasing is that of a great composer,one can say that he is somewhat a modern version of BACH,but today the interest is more in recording and performing of the classics than in composing new works .IMORTANT he is always original never boring!!!

[argimenes]

Packed with enough percussive dynamite to send Alkan into ecstasies.

[Ravel87]

odd, i didnt hear Glenn's humming in this recording. :D

[MichaelDLC]

@Ravel87 you hear him hum at :30-:31 as well as in other parts. this was an official recording so they did everything they could to remove his humming.

[faraz1729]

LOL @ the dolt who said it sounds "exactly like a Bach fugue." Way to give yourself away.

[liszt111]

@faraz1729 ?

[faraz1729]

@liszt111

In one of the comments here, someone said that this sounds exactly like a fugue by Bach. I was just making fun of that person.

[johnlanou]

Gould buries all the gems under a morass of pedal here. The Horowitz 1953 recording sounds like a different piece -- because you can actually hear the music(!)

[ProkofievRules]

Love it. To this day, and most, if not all of you will not agree with me, but to this day, this is still my favorite interpretation of this piece.

[mrpossibilities]

Brilliant Prokofiev interpretation.

[morvensky]

I like how he plays both hands at equal dynamics

[demosj]

Gould is actually very temperamentally suited to Prokofiev, judging from this recording.

[tuxdcat]

imo the best recording of this is Konrad Skolarski.

[trevorheywood]

I heard those notoriously sloppy bars 163 to 170 played quite clearly in this recording. If he hadn't maintained his poise from the beginning then 161 to 177 would've been in disarray. (Sikorski 2178)

[sll10]

Astonishing and propulsive!

[salviati]

Without wishing in any way to detract from Gould, I prefer Argerich's pounding interpretation.

[CinemaniacsAnonymous]

Argerich ruins the piece for me - tempos get out of control and it gets sloppy - all that's left is pounding

[jegspillerpiano]

you're describing Argerich all the time

[liszt111]

I have yet to hear anyone perform the whole sonata in a level even close to richter, sokolov's is great, but he totally misses on the second movement.

[JoFrSc]

I totally agree. I made a similar comment, but was given a string of thumbs down. One wonders why. Richter's recording remains unsurpassed.

[trevorheywood]

I just listened to M.Pollini's recording - thought it was quite clear and convincing.

[ProkofievRules]

@liszt111 I like Richter's version, but this movement is where Gould really pulls ahead of Richter for me.

Both are awesome versions though.

[stnenadkv]

@liszt111 I have one unpublish recording of Richter playing this sonata.. From 1964 think.. Only coment is no coment... He is the beast on keyboard.. Infect he is the greatest piano player in 20th century...

[pi6527]

@JoFrSc ....listen Sokolov.

[weenosu]

one of the lamest renditions of this piece i ever heard. what a pussy. no climax. no real dynamic contrast. totally unexciting. so glad he is dead.

[jegspillerpiano]

it sounds like a Bach fugue! I mean, it sounds EXACTLY like a bach fugue.

[liszt111]

how? elaborate please.

[jegspillerpiano]

It's crystal clear. crisp, pure, metronomic, intricate .. and devoid of romantic imagination. He plays it exactly in the style that he plays Bach, which is great for Bach (although even then it only represents one possible approach to Bach), but pretty cold and clinical for Prokofiev, as well as Beethoven and Brahms (whom Gould also treats us to some massacres in recordings)

[jegspillerpiano]

crisp, clinicial, pure, contrapuntal, metronomic .. he plays it exactly the same way he plays Bach

[martimtavares]

have you ever listened to a bach fugue?

[martimtavares]

i'd understand the comparison with a toccata tough...

[HanEllipsis]

@jegspillerpiano No, it doesn't. It sounds like Glenn Gould. Have you ever heard a Bach fugue?

[stagesix6]

we are so strange and smart liking this kind of insane stuff. the more insane and atonal the best!!!!( its not totaly atonal, i know)

i love schoenberg toooooooo.....!!!!!

[EMPERORMIKI]

I like Argerich better ... but Gould is also excellent.

[cbdesade]

The engine sound of a '96 Oldsmobile. Classic.

[Daartan]

One must admit, whether or not you favour his interpretations, Gould had an amazing ability to phrase even the most precipitous peices with stunning clarity; personally I think the majority of his romantic repertoire sounds outright terrible but in my opinion his prokofiev is as unmatchable as his bach :)

[jubulalau]

BOOM DUM BOOM!!!

DUM BOOM!!!

BOOM DUM BOOM!!!

DUM BOOM!!!

DOOM BAM DOOM DOOM DOOM BAM DOOM BOOM BAM!!!!

Right?

[stagesix6]

absolutly right bro!...

[RabidCh]

I like Richter's just a little tiny slightly more, but this is insane too!

[RabidCh]

You know something's quirky when the video ID has "RAPE" in it.

[taviona]

lol!

[ryanyee1234567890]

definitely the best. and on youtube too.

[boxplayer1973]

Bringing out those accents in the left hand was a stroke of absolute genius - wish I'd thought of it when I played it...

[jazzepotato]

dude that's like the whole point, you accent beat 3 of pretty much every measure, the accents are written in the score

[ukdavepianoman]

Wow, he plays this at some pace. And keeps it going right to the end with complete accuracy. Amazing pianist

[dizygotegemini]

Right on!

[FrankMazeppa]

his eccentricity shows in numerous spots... and they all make perfect sense!!

[jimbosingleton]

what happened to all of the richter posts? don't get me wrong, this is killin', but where's the slow movement? slinky like new orleans.

[RabidCh]

The guy who posted Richter's got his account hacked. He has a new channel, but he hasn't posted it.

[jimbosingleton]

how 'bout the other movements? slow one is transcendant

[liszt111]

done

[jimbosingleton]

i can't find it. (what is the slow movement called?) only precipitato.

[liszt111]

watch?v=KImMJ9XN8TM

andante caloroso, it's on my videos list

[Ihi92]

The Best!!!

[mikezzzaaa3]

I like this. I am a Gould fan but when I saw this I thought it would sound nonsensical. But it is surprisingly mainstream.

[sedna90377]

Tour de Force!!!!