@cirosuperiore I disagree. Go watch Lang Lang playing and you'll see a guy who matches your description - a complete clown in other words. Gould didn't pull theatrics for the sake of it, what you see with him is a genuine love for the music he is playing, mixed in with rare, true eccentricity.
@JacobRudduck There's no accounting for provincial and unifomed critiques, the very thing Glenn spent a lot of his life battling..., and winning. It might also explain his millions of ardent fans.
But can you tell me the name of this DVD? Because I already have the CD of the complete recording of this beautiful Symphony, but I needed the complete version of this video...
@Nocturne331 This is almost all the video footage of this piece on the DVD, unfortunately they decided not to include even the whole first movement. Very unfortunate, but the audio recordings are still fantastic. Youtube user glengould52 has a slightly longer and higher quality version of this video, its very disappointing the way they cut out from the performance and then back in only for a few seconds.
@nocturne331 just checked all of the recordings can also be downloaded from the itunes store. They are all very, very lovely performances, Beethoven, Liszt and Gould all wrapped up in one.
@nocturne331 Gould recorded this first movement of Liszt's transcription of the Pastoral symph twice, once with the rest of the symhony's other 4 movements. Then he appears to have recorded the first mvmt alone. I actually prefer this latter stand alone, it is just magnificent. He also recorded a beautifl version of the fifth symphony. All should be readily available on the Sony label via Amazon or Ebay
Strange and beautiful. One of those rare musicians whose music just goes straight to the heart. I only wish I had discovered him much earlier in my life.
He memorized the finale of Soylent Green. Heston was the only one on the set who knew E.G. Robinson had cancer.
Gould made some nasty comments on Liszt, suggesting Liszt was more a virtuuoso than a "serious" musician. This release proves he knew better. Beethoven´s symphonies came to public audience by transcriptions, played by Liszt himself in his concerts. Before Liszt France didn´t know Beethoven.
Liszt, even Kon Fu Tse would have been proud to know this guy.
Well he wrote transcriptions because the masses didn't have access to orchestra music and couldn't know what beethoven symphonies sounded like. Only europes elite had access to such godly music.
Liszt was a true altruist and shared with the masses of europe.
@LLPorduction Richard Nixon, for example, shared his karate technique treating the piano. Some years later The People´s Republik of China studied the pianoforte by hard. The suspicios President used "liszt " instead of "tricks". The dudes from Stalinranch were amused----
I think this man has changed the way I look at life and the way I'll continue to live it. I've been looking for some kind of inspiration and understanding of life and have found the life story of Gould, although tragic in the end, to hold much meaning for me. Thank you for posting.
Well most Mozart is harder to get as emotional about. It's earlier classical and less Romanticized. Not to say that Beethoven was a Romantic composer, he by no means was, but he is closer to it than Mozart.
What is so amazing is that by using unique phrasing, he brings something new out of otherwise familiar music. He is bringing out whole new musical ideas that one never knew existed in the original. Wow
@petezilla There is a point to them panning over all those empty seats. He forsook a rather successful concert career early on for philosophical reasons. The point of demonstrating the hall's emptiness is to elucidate Glen's relationship with music and performance. I would love to have been in that auditorium, I would gladly have paid top ticket prices to witness such a stunning musical event, he could have easily filled that hall to capacity, but he did not, he would not.
This isn't a concert. It's a recording session in Toronto after Gould had had his piano shipped from New York - where it just sat for months between Gould's recording sessions and no one touched it - to the same concert hall where he first started. It's above a mall or some really big store. The reason no one is there is because Gould said it changed the acoustics too much. Even if just one person was somewhere way in the back. So, no one was allowed in there.
Mi chiedo in quanti avrebbero voluto essere presenti lì in quella sala...
Se mi sono avvicinato alla musica "classica", è stato anche grazie a questo pianista, considerato un eccetrico, ma che a me quand'ero ragazzo, non mi sembrava poi tale.
1968 was an amazing year! One of its moments of ecstasy(in a musical-mode/mood), surely, is this Gouldian gold!!!! Gould, playing Beethoven, in an empty auditorium; so that we could share in his Bliss, long after the moment of its release.
I must say, compared to how he usually looked, he looks quite radiant in this. I think it's due to the fact the he feels so relieved that he is not in front of a big audience, and yet he can still get to hear the acoustics of a big concert hall such as that.
its so interesting to hear him play the music of composers other then Bach, for which he was so famous, especially when he is on record of how he did not like chopin or beethoven, yet he plays their music beautifully
@Corrupt5358 I could be going out on a limb here but this was probably a special performance for film. Having said that this is a godsend. Thank you filmmaker and thanks for posting.
@ChrisWatch yes he was hurting because his health was declining as he got older, as a result in his 40s he was in physical discomfort most of the time but that didnt stop him from playing
I think you don't understand, the director shows the chairs because Gould is well known for having permanently retired from concert life in 1964. He talked a lot about it in interviews and in his various books. Anyway, I thinks that's why we have this little "chair sequence".
@painpoilane No I'm afraid you're mistaken - yes, I do know the significance behind the filming of that part. I wasn't suggesting the sequence was completely random, as I was aware he stopped giving concerts at a young age. It was just the general quirkiness of the shots that amused me.
@JacobRudduck It show's that what GG did was for the sheer love of playing music. Don't you think? He didn't need an audience - just him, Beethoven, and Liszt's handywork. I wish I was sitting there though to be honest.
Glenn Gould ceased performing publicly the early 60's. The hall is emptied because this is a CBC radio broadcast from 11 June 1968. This performance was released by Music and Arts (a small record label) in the 90's. It is actually a better (and more complete) perormance than the commerical release from a month later.
This version was broadcasted in CBS. Music and Art released it in CD during the early 90's. It might now be hard to find. Sony released many of these CBC broadcasts in video. I don't know if they included this particular performance.
before i heard gould i never new that music can sound so passionte- i havnt been the same his playing gave a somewhat realiguios expirense- btw there first piece i heard him play is bach's brandenburg conc. no5 it is still my fav. rec. ever
Hwang Myung, See my recent post. My best guess is that this was in the auditorium of the Eaton's Department Store in Toronto, Canada. This was Glenn Gould's favorite venue in the 60's.
Thanks so much for posting this. I have the CD's of Glenn Gould performing Beethoven's 5th & 6th - some of my absolute fave piano music. Which DVD is this from - I want to purchase it - I have several Glenn Gould DVD's but this is not on any of them. Thanks!
This is from a collection of videos called "The Glenn Gould Collection" published by Sony in 1990s. I don't think it is available on DVD but it bloody well should be available again (pardon my language).
Thanks so much for your replies! How long is the performance on the video? Is it just a short excerpt? One DVD that I have has a short bit of this, I believe. (Hereafter or Life & Times?) I'll have to check.
Just listened to my CD of this again last night - I never tire of it - highly recommend it to all music lovers! Thanks again. :-)
What a pity that we can only see the genius of composer, arranger, and performer from afar! I would give anything to be in that auditorium if only for these three historic moments.
Gould shaped Beethoven in some#_# Bach's way... I think it's weird. He attempted to constrain the liquid of emotion, translate it into rationality, and reduce the romance of melody. Sorry about my immature comments if you don't think so.
although glenn gould plays pretty metronomically it all sounds so magnificent and many a person especially of the conductors could take him as an example:))
I don't hate these transcriptions, they are very enjoyable. however, this was concieved for the orchestra, that's probably why it will always be heard at it's best when it's heard as an orchestra.
Gustabus non disputandum, erlantz. When I first took to this masterwork, I fixated on the Erich Leinsdorf version, like a baby duck imprinting on the first thing it sees. But in the last few years, this specific Gould solo performance is my favorite. I've been putting it on and dissolving into an idyllic world of peace and joy, even before the world economic recession of Century 21. Yes, iTunes was my source. I'm delighted with to see G.G. play this live - I had no idea it was taped.
i really like symphonies piano transcriptions, almost as than originals. i love glenn gould too. i enjoy watching videos of him in the net, but i got really dissapointed with this particular perfomance. although i have no any musical education, i feel it lacks all that energy typical on beethoven, and particularly in this work in wich you must feel all the liveness of nature
Crimeny! His interpretation on solo piano is as good if not better than most conductors with full orchestra! How awesome would it have been if he had tried his hand at conducting?
Liszt's transcriptions for piano of the Beethoven symphonies are extremely faithful to the original; note by note, and are a genius work of reduction from orchestra to piano. No wonder Gould recorded this, despite it was written by a master from the romantic period.
The fact is that Gould broke most all of the proper technique and posture guidelines - esp. with that ridiculous low-seated chair - which proves that the art of piano playing lies mostly in an iron-clad understanding of the music and allowing one's hands to be guided by very clear imagination of what one wishes to hear. Also, Gould was by far and will always be the sexiest pianist who ever hit Carnegie Hall - or any hall for that matter.
I don't really like the 5th on the piano. It just sounds like a lot of noise. My favourite is the 3rd movement of the ninth and the second movement of the 7th symphony.
If you look closely at the opening section of the video, you will notice that Gould is sitting on a very low chair rather than a standard piano bench. I think that this was the famous chair designed by Gould's father. Sitting very low at the piano was part of his unusual, but masterful technique of finger tapping developed by Gould and his teacher, Alberto Guerrero.
The object was to pull down on the keys rather than striking them.
Hmm, or he/she just knows a lot about Gould. Read "Glenn Gould: Music and Mind"; everything's in there :) Plus, there's like a million DVDs of Gould and his life in circulation. Don't be so cynical ;)
Where is the full version of this? Glenn gould beethoven symphony 6 plz
Haaggus 1 month ago
@Haaggus Apparently this is on iTunes(?), but I haven't managed to find it yet...
JacobRudduck 1 month ago
he is so melodramatic ...purely attention gathering....and cult building....i suppose gimmick is what clas mus needs now days.
cirosuperiore 2 months ago
@cirosuperiore I disagree. Go watch Lang Lang playing and you'll see a guy who matches your description - a complete clown in other words. Gould didn't pull theatrics for the sake of it, what you see with him is a genuine love for the music he is playing, mixed in with rare, true eccentricity.
JacobRudduck 1 month ago 6
@JacobRudduck There's no accounting for provincial and unifomed critiques, the very thing Glenn spent a lot of his life battling..., and winning. It might also explain his millions of ardent fans.
Truthasvictim 1 month ago
@cirosuperiore "Nowadays"? He died more than thirty years ago, you nincompoop.
taviona 3 weeks ago
@rtisom Thanks!
But can you tell me the name of this DVD? Because I already have the CD of the complete recording of this beautiful Symphony, but I needed the complete version of this video...
Sorry for my terrible english, but I'm italian...
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@Nocturne331 This is almost all the video footage of this piece on the DVD, unfortunately they decided not to include even the whole first movement. Very unfortunate, but the audio recordings are still fantastic. Youtube user glengould52 has a slightly longer and higher quality version of this video, its very disappointing the way they cut out from the performance and then back in only for a few seconds.
olosw 1 month ago
@nocturne331 just checked all of the recordings can also be downloaded from the itunes store. They are all very, very lovely performances, Beethoven, Liszt and Gould all wrapped up in one.
rtisom 3 months ago
@nocturne331 Gould recorded this first movement of Liszt's transcription of the Pastoral symph twice, once with the rest of the symhony's other 4 movements. Then he appears to have recorded the first mvmt alone. I actually prefer this latter stand alone, it is just magnificent. He also recorded a beautifl version of the fifth symphony. All should be readily available on the Sony label via Amazon or Ebay
rtisom 3 months ago
WHERE CAN I FIND THE COMPLETE RECORDING? I really need it...
Nocturne331 3 months ago
@Nocturne331 i have all the recording, send me a mail!
Zezelogy 2 months ago
Quelle vision, à ce jour personne ne semble l'avoir égalé
MrTIRILLY 3 months ago
...and 2 hours later the room was full of peolpe...and the piano cheer was empty...
Gsus665 5 months ago
The empty chairs shot is about solitude.
StPaul1961 5 months ago 2
I'm pretty sure this is the happiest tune ever made!
Yoshi5020 6 months ago
0:27 starts growing somehting that you need to let out and it only flows in 0:48...relief
sebastianrc 7 months ago
i am crying -------
he is the score itself !!!
1990keichan 7 months ago
thumbs up if you LOL at the sight of those chairs!
dynopotter 7 months ago
Strange and beautiful. One of those rare musicians whose music just goes straight to the heart. I only wish I had discovered him much earlier in my life.
univibe23 7 months ago
i think people who dislike gould just dont understand the piano
cerberusdest 8 months ago 2
That is an amazing atmosphere to play in. I bet the sound quality is great!
30inventionman 10 months ago
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Thanks Stravinski. Check out my Channel, I have all of Glenn's Videos. Enjoy..
jsanders841 10 months ago
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ljoljokarburator 10 months ago
He memorized the finale of Soylent Green. Heston was the only one on the set who knew E.G. Robinson had cancer.
Gould made some nasty comments on Liszt, suggesting Liszt was more a virtuuoso than a "serious" musician. This release proves he knew better. Beethoven´s symphonies came to public audience by transcriptions, played by Liszt himself in his concerts. Before Liszt France didn´t know Beethoven.
Liszt, even Kon Fu Tse would have been proud to know this guy.
The1976spirit 11 months ago
@The1976spirit
Well he wrote transcriptions because the masses didn't have access to orchestra music and couldn't know what beethoven symphonies sounded like. Only europes elite had access to such godly music.
Liszt was a true altruist and shared with the masses of europe.
LLPorduction 10 months ago
@LLPorduction Richard Nixon, for example, shared his karate technique treating the piano. Some years later The People´s Republik of China studied the pianoforte by hard. The suspicios President used "liszt " instead of "tricks". The dudes from Stalinranch were amused----
The1976spirit 10 months ago
He is not wearing gloves!
0601989m 1 year ago
He has the whole thing memorized probably just from glancing over it.
TheSingingCello 1 year ago
Eh si, non voleva gente attorno. peccato però.
atrebil71 1 year ago
does anyone know where i could get the whole video? does it exist? on a dvd somewhere? im dying to see him play it in entirety
haidisemirychan 1 year ago 2
too bad that is too short.
Chaliamusiclover 1 year ago
I think this man has changed the way I look at life and the way I'll continue to live it. I've been looking for some kind of inspiration and understanding of life and have found the life story of Gould, although tragic in the end, to hold much meaning for me. Thank you for posting.
Ladoeba 1 year ago 4
@Ladoeba I think we're on the same boat. You'll love to see "Glenn Gould, il ritiro" here on youtube :)
str3123 1 year ago
This is incredible. What a great find on Youtube.
Finarphin 1 year ago
Soylent EVER Greeeeeen
The1976spirit 1 year ago
he hated chairs
The1976spirit 1 year ago
Forget the music, those chairs are friggin beautiful!! Let's see some more of the chairs!!!
durkma2 1 year ago 39
for a guy who hated beethoven personally he plays him very well.
cirosuperiore 1 year ago
@cirosuperiore He didn't hate Beethoven at all!
Matteo7419 1 year ago
@cirosuperiore he hated chopin
jaho101 1 year ago
i think gould likes beethoven more than mozart
cerberusdest 1 year ago
@cerberusdest
Well most Mozart is harder to get as emotional about. It's earlier classical and less Romanticized. Not to say that Beethoven was a Romantic composer, he by no means was, but he is closer to it than Mozart.
zenos700 1 year ago
What is so amazing is that by using unique phrasing, he brings something new out of otherwise familiar music. He is bringing out whole new musical ideas that one never knew existed in the original. Wow
Daverave99 1 year ago
I can't stop watching this. I would have sat right in front, even if i was the only one to show up.
haidisemirychan 1 year ago
No seriously though, thanks for posting!
petezilla 1 year ago
I bet you could get 3x as many views if you re-labeled it "Glenn Gould Concert FAIL" ; )
petezilla 1 year ago 15
@petezilla There is a point to them panning over all those empty seats. He forsook a rather successful concert career early on for philosophical reasons. The point of demonstrating the hall's emptiness is to elucidate Glen's relationship with music and performance. I would love to have been in that auditorium, I would gladly have paid top ticket prices to witness such a stunning musical event, he could have easily filled that hall to capacity, but he did not, he would not.
Tomokatocat 2 months ago 2
@Tomokatocat I totally agree
petezilla 2 months ago
Glenn we miss you too much!!!!!!!!
iguarni 1 year ago 7
no me canso verlo
goldberg847 1 year ago
That's the Glenn Gould i want to hear in my life.
Laudan08 1 year ago
exelente....
goldberg847 1 year ago
Where is the rest??????
TheFeldenkraisMethod 1 year ago
I must confess that I like this symphony in piano version. thank you Liszt. :D
MrDesperateArtist 1 year ago 3
This man was perfection on the piano. There will always be those who play differently, but none can play better.
Irshkboy 1 year ago
@Irshkboy
sounds good - IS...
stupid(!)
;-)
U2pist 1 year ago
This isn't a concert. It's a recording session in Toronto after Gould had had his piano shipped from New York - where it just sat for months between Gould's recording sessions and no one touched it - to the same concert hall where he first started. It's above a mall or some really big store. The reason no one is there is because Gould said it changed the acoustics too much. Even if just one person was somewhere way in the back. So, no one was allowed in there.
gtrmusic69 1 year ago 6
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the best concerts are played to empty halls.
Composerland 1 year ago 25
@Composerland sad but true :(
deruntergang1996 10 months ago
i will like to be on the empty chairsof the auditorium
pinballwizard93 1 year ago
Mi chiedo in quanti avrebbero voluto essere presenti lì in quella sala...
Se mi sono avvicinato alla musica "classica", è stato anche grazie a questo pianista, considerato un eccetrico, ma che a me quand'ero ragazzo, non mi sembrava poi tale.
atrebil71 1 year ago
The crowd is clearly enjoying every minute :)
claus93Sethsen 1 year ago 4
@claus93Sethsen hahaha! you're the number one!
str3123 1 year ago
How could 5 people don't like this????????????????
There always will be Justin Timberlake fans)
This is for the sincere lovers of ART
Arsen2488 1 year ago 7
I feel thingling all over my spine
thrqs 1 year ago
where's these footage from?
martimtavares 1 year ago
1968 was an amazing year! One of its moments of ecstasy(in a musical-mode/mood), surely, is this Gouldian gold!!!! Gould, playing Beethoven, in an empty auditorium; so that we could share in his Bliss, long after the moment of its release.
MrTJDix 1 year ago
Bravo! @@
i9506853 1 year ago
I must say, compared to how he usually looked, he looks quite radiant in this. I think it's due to the fact the he feels so relieved that he is not in front of a big audience, and yet he can still get to hear the acoustics of a big concert hall such as that.
Hofferulz9 1 year ago 3
His really works is here!
mozartiikodesu 1 year ago
Recoge toda la grandeza de la versión orquestal y eso me parece genial.
rafaelnadalohmygod 1 year ago
THIS IS NOT BACH, what the fuck
newFranzFerencLiszt 1 year ago 3
@newFranzFerencLiszt Lol, of course it's not Bach...
HerrWarja 1 year ago
Sheetmusic anyone??
3066606 1 year ago
Sheet Music links?
Huffinearts 1 year ago
I see his concerts werent very popular... hahahah, just kidding. lol
nice!
Lity10 1 year ago
not many people showed up because it was a recording session.
theponsmed 1 year ago
what an Emotion!!
ilpianista89 1 year ago
Absolutely wonderful.
uzebfan 1 year ago
Royale with Cheese?
Acidic0man 1 year ago 3
its so interesting to hear him play the music of composers other then Bach, for which he was so famous, especially when he is on record of how he did not like chopin or beethoven, yet he plays their music beautifully
Doug19752533 1 year ago
is there a dvd or a place where i can download the whole thing in video??
bachkwt 1 year ago
Holy crap! He looks just like Travolta!
MagicWoodpecker 1 year ago 3
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Not many people turned up to this gig :P
Corrupt5358 2 years ago 33
@Corrupt5358 I could be going out on a limb here but this was probably a special performance for film. Having said that this is a godsend. Thank you filmmaker and thanks for posting.
litgirl1 9 months ago
I like it!! Are there any DVD title including this movie?
gwagwa1619 2 years ago
wouldn't his back hurt if he played like that all the time?
chopinandliszt 2 years ago
see older vids of him he cant wlak anymore :D
karazh 2 years ago
I think later in his years is shoulders began to hurt.
ChrisWatch 2 years ago
@ChrisWatch yes he was hurting because his health was declining as he got older, as a result in his 40s he was in physical discomfort most of the time but that didnt stop him from playing
Doug19752533 1 year ago 2
He did play like that all the time. As far as I know, he never complained.
gdbalck 2 years ago
man,,,,,,,, he is so~ handsome!!!!
supremelt 2 years ago 3
fastfingers110, it was the effect of recording machine.
if you listen to the original recoding of gould's it doesn't sound like this, but it's better
qorqhwl 2 years ago
@qorqhwl
sorry NO,
the sound recording from this concert was absolute ok !
(i have a copy).
what we hear is the bad file (compression) format
( thanks youtube)
thats all...
enemyindisguise 1 year ago 2
what the hell is wrong with this piano
fastfingers110 2 years ago
Thank you so much for uploading this!
mikepenny01 2 years ago
He does not look as he feels well that day, a beautiful performance, as always with Glenn
sprygeoffreya17 2 years ago 2
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DesertAnnie 2 years ago
Love the filming at 0:52 - 1:00
JacobRudduck 2 years ago 24
In fact that filming style is reminiscent of something Stanley Kubrick would do.
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painpoilane 6 months ago
I think you don't understand, the director shows the chairs because Gould is well known for having permanently retired from concert life in 1964. He talked a lot about it in interviews and in his various books. Anyway, I thinks that's why we have this little "chair sequence".
painpoilane 6 months ago
@painpoilane No I'm afraid you're mistaken - yes, I do know the significance behind the filming of that part. I wasn't suggesting the sequence was completely random, as I was aware he stopped giving concerts at a young age. It was just the general quirkiness of the shots that amused me.
JacobRudduck 6 months ago
@JacobRudduck It show's that what GG did was for the sheer love of playing music. Don't you think? He didn't need an audience - just him, Beethoven, and Liszt's handywork. I wish I was sitting there though to be honest.
psmmusik 6 months ago 4
If anyone ever wanted to know "who is Glenn Gould", they should watch this video.
pinky0926 2 years ago 5
Glenn
miss you.
Frederikamusic 2 years ago 2
stupenda!
liquidlen90 2 years ago
Many thanks for posting - typical Gould! Great!
GrandPiano42 2 years ago 5
Glenn Gould ceased performing publicly the early 60's. The hall is emptied because this is a CBC radio broadcast from 11 June 1968. This performance was released by Music and Arts (a small record label) in the 90's. It is actually a better (and more complete) perormance than the commerical release from a month later.
kittydukakis 2 years ago 4
I agree, it's much better from the sound of it! But I've never been able to find this version, only the commercial release. Any ideas?
xenos82 2 years ago
This version was broadcasted in CBS. Music and Art released it in CD during the early 90's. It might now be hard to find. Sony released many of these CBC broadcasts in video. I don't know if they included this particular performance.
kittydukakis 2 years ago
Get with it you idiots, its empty because Gould wanted it that way..
Irshkboy 2 years ago 4
Yeah!
LeStudenti 2 years ago
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Empty concert hall... Hmm...
Apparently, geniuses were over rated in the time of Glenn Gould. No matter though, people sure appreciate him today, myself included.
Funkypotat0 2 years ago
this is the man that changed my life forever......
8888sam 2 years ago
what do u mean?
luke9o 2 years ago
he is the reason i became a musican-
before i heard gould i never new that music can sound so passionte- i havnt been the same his playing gave a somewhat realiguios expirense- btw there first piece i heard him play is bach's brandenburg conc. no5 it is still my fav. rec. ever
8888sam 2 years ago 4
=D
My favorite is and always will be 32 variations in C minor ( Beethoven ) check it out
luke9o 2 years ago
There is nobody watching his performance!!
IMATCH0603 2 years ago
Jeffamarie, LIEV schrieber is a good actor, but is not handsome.
klinsha8 2 years ago
Where was this recorded?
HwangMyungShin 2 years ago
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kittydukakis 2 years ago
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kittydukakis 2 years ago
Hwang Myung, See my recent post. My best guess is that this was in the auditorium of the Eaton's Department Store in Toronto, Canada. This was Glenn Gould's favorite venue in the 60's.
kittydukakis 2 years ago
They should have Liev Schreiber play Gould... that would be so awesome lol
jeffamarie 2 years ago
How appropriate that the man who hated to perform is playing this piece in front of an empty auditorium!
operablogger 2 years ago 4
WONDERFUL -- beyond words.
audiomagman 2 years ago 3
An excellent rendition! TY.
CanadaPisces 2 years ago 3
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WindOfTheWisp 2 years ago
Thanks so much for posting this. I have the CD's of Glenn Gould performing Beethoven's 5th & 6th - some of my absolute fave piano music. Which DVD is this from - I want to purchase it - I have several Glenn Gould DVD's but this is not on any of them. Thanks!
WindOfTheWisp 2 years ago 2
I'm not completely sure but I think this is from a biography dvd, which is out of print. They need to put this back on the market!
ilovesteelydan 2 years ago
This is from a collection of videos called "The Glenn Gould Collection" published by Sony in 1990s. I don't think it is available on DVD but it bloody well should be available again (pardon my language).
chislehurstbat 2 years ago
Thanks so much for your replies! How long is the performance on the video? Is it just a short excerpt? One DVD that I have has a short bit of this, I believe. (Hereafter or Life & Times?) I'll have to check.
Just listened to my CD of this again last night - I never tire of it - highly recommend it to all music lovers! Thanks again. :-)
WindOfTheWisp 2 years ago
Spectacular, both Beethoven and Liszt would be proud
Irshkboy 2 years ago 6
OMG, I wish I could have been there!
coldfire072 2 years ago 28
me too!!
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mozartiikodesu 2 years ago
What a pity that we can only see the genius of composer, arranger, and performer from afar! I would give anything to be in that auditorium if only for these three historic moments.
Pvannortwick 2 years ago 4
I too... This guy is perfect on the piano.
jlfnetto 2 years ago
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Me too ... This guy is perfect on the piano
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naxus28 3 years ago
This is such a diferent way to understand beethoven. really nice
SirArmengol 3 years ago
his interpretation is really enjoyable and always makes me want to hear more
yenhoho 3 years ago 2
Gould shaped Beethoven in some#_# Bach's way... I think it's weird. He attempted to constrain the liquid of emotion, translate it into rationality, and reduce the romance of melody. Sorry about my immature comments if you don't think so.
kasidotu 3 years ago
You should listen to the second movement of Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata, played by Gould. It's absolute rapture!
nwshane 3 years ago
although glenn gould plays pretty metronomically it all sounds so magnificent and many a person especially of the conductors could take him as an example:))
kajohada 3 years ago 2
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djenda19980 3 years ago
I like Gould and love Liszt, but I hate these transcriptions... i preferer listen it with a real orchestra with all colors and contrasts. :/
Fedidovisk 3 years ago
同意,gould+liszt 兩個天才加在一起所做出來的東西
還是沒有原來的交響曲好聽
Sravakayana 3 years ago
I don't hate these transcriptions, they are very enjoyable. however, this was concieved for the orchestra, that's probably why it will always be heard at it's best when it's heard as an orchestra.
sstuddert 3 years ago 2
Gustabus non disputandum, erlantz. When I first took to this masterwork, I fixated on the Erich Leinsdorf version, like a baby duck imprinting on the first thing it sees. But in the last few years, this specific Gould solo performance is my favorite. I've been putting it on and dissolving into an idyllic world of peace and joy, even before the world economic recession of Century 21. Yes, iTunes was my source. I'm delighted with to see G.G. play this live - I had no idea it was taped.
onscreenpiano 3 years ago
i really like symphonies piano transcriptions, almost as than originals. i love glenn gould too. i enjoy watching videos of him in the net, but i got really dissapointed with this particular perfomance. although i have no any musical education, i feel it lacks all that energy typical on beethoven, and particularly in this work in wich you must feel all the liveness of nature
erlantz1980 3 years ago
Very nice!I like Beethoven and this simphony.
And this interpretation!Genius!!!!!
zongorista93 3 years ago
Crimeny! His interpretation on solo piano is as good if not better than most conductors with full orchestra! How awesome would it have been if he had tried his hand at conducting?
BillyReuben28 3 years ago 3
Very goud, Mr Gould
jeangorin 3 years ago 2
wow!
francescaemc2 3 years ago 3
Liszt's transcriptions for piano of the Beethoven symphonies are extremely faithful to the original; note by note, and are a genius work of reduction from orchestra to piano. No wonder Gould recorded this, despite it was written by a master from the romantic period.
voolare 3 years ago 5
if you want it, gould's entire performance of this piece is available on i-tunes. its well worth the price.
WKRPinCINN 3 years ago
The fact is that Gould broke most all of the proper technique and posture guidelines - esp. with that ridiculous low-seated chair - which proves that the art of piano playing lies mostly in an iron-clad understanding of the music and allowing one's hands to be guided by very clear imagination of what one wishes to hear. Also, Gould was by far and will always be the sexiest pianist who ever hit Carnegie Hall - or any hall for that matter.
musicalidea 3 years ago 24
I agree musicalidea. So who cares if a pianist has a few eccentricities? If it allows them to communicate the music better than it shouldn't matter.
robotchicken415 3 years ago 4
exactly
sstuddert 3 years ago
Good comment.
Kurtyoungblood 3 years ago
@musicalidea lol at sexy pianist
anonymousQ45 1 year ago
Wonderful stuff, thanks a lot for posting!
olga2809 3 years ago
but strangely, he hates 5th and even 6th symphonies. His favourite were the 2nd and the 8th
vinciano 3 years ago 3
I don't really like the 5th on the piano. It just sounds like a lot of noise. My favourite is the 3rd movement of the ninth and the second movement of the 7th symphony.
pianoAndEngineering 3 years ago
*hatED
chrish12345 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this video.
If you look closely at the opening section of the video, you will notice that Gould is sitting on a very low chair rather than a standard piano bench. I think that this was the famous chair designed by Gould's father. Sitting very low at the piano was part of his unusual, but masterful technique of finger tapping developed by Gould and his teacher, Alberto Guerrero.
The object was to pull down on the keys rather than striking them.
HappyRick 3 years ago 5
wow! happy rick nice job of copying straight from wikipedia to make youurself seems educated!
kingstravinsky101 3 years ago
Hmm, or he/she just knows a lot about Gould. Read "Glenn Gould: Music and Mind"; everything's in there :) Plus, there's like a million DVDs of Gould and his life in circulation. Don't be so cynical ;)
genovesachx 3 years ago 3
He always used that chair, plus that's not the point of finger tapping. As Gould said, it was about achieving better precision.
chrish12345 3 years ago
I love this!
lovegould 3 years ago
How in the world do you get your hands on these videos?
Pogouldiwitz 3 years ago 3
you buy them. go look at amazon and ebay. thye r sooooooo worth it.
kingstravinsky101 3 years ago
Wow! I thought Gould hated Liszt. What a treat to listen to.
Owner46 3 years ago