The soul of Glenn GOULD

[brianandrewstuart]

what a very beautiful woman. Her beauty matches the beauty of the music.

[MTJLT]

Gould was a musical poet. He saw and heard music everywhere, and never tried to impress anyone with his playing. And it was playing indeed; playing with music, not just playing music.

[CaptainBluebear08]

Uncredibly that Bruno Monsaingeon speaks Russian, just like that. I believe he mastered some 5 or 6 languages fluently.

[aculturemind]

Mmmmm.....pale, brunette, brown eyes, bea-u-tiful nose, lo-vely voice....she's wearin make-up, though....four of five ain't bad. Of course, her musical sensibility is remarkable.

[radiokid2]

The simple trick with Bach (and jazz too) is to not hear the piano as a machine but as a voice or cello or flute etc....anything but a piano!

[TheAzv3]

There is nothing more pleasant than hearing a beautiful and educated woman speak on Gould.

[univibe23]

Strip all else away, all the eccentricity, and the integrity of the playing will last for eternity.

[romulo560]

There are pianists, and then there is Glenn. Two separate things. He played like nobody I've ever heard.

[JAZZSTARish]

@romulo560 I think of that at times when I 'play' the piano and those around me say "Oh, that's nice".

What society needs to conversate with such minds as Gould.

If only we Gould.

[oneginee]

Do you think a concertmaster violinist is not directing while playing ? A lot of pianist never explore the fact that one of their hand is directing when both hands are playing. You are one of them. Most right hand people never realize that because the overwhelming majority of piano music litterature is written for the right hand to play the melody. Left handed people are forced to see that and when it comes to polyphonic music it becomes an advantage.

[oneginee]

Glenn Gould was a left handed man. We left handed people have an advantage in Bach's music because bach's compositions are mostly non melodic in nature but countrapunctal with the bass line taking a very important role if not the most important. Right handed people will delight in Mozart where there are far many more notes on the right hand.

[lsbrother]

@oneginee

How then do you explain how Gould manages to spend an inordinate amount of time waving his left hand (but not his right hand) about in the air.

[oneginee]

@lsbrother

@lsbrother

Precisely my point, he is always directing his playing from the left hand. When he does not play with it it becomes the waving hand of a conductor. there are video examples of his solo playing were you can even see his left hand waving over and toward his right hand as if they were conductor and musician. Another example is cantata 54 which he directs from the keyboard ... with the left hand.

[lsbrother]

@oneginee

So left handed people have an advantage in playing Bach because they can more easily use their left hand to conduct - rather than play!

Your logic neurons seem to be malfunctioning!

[maxcohen13]

His humming was one of the reasons why some hated his performances. He also insisted on using his own chair which creaked and clicked all the time because he moved around when he played on it.

It's been said that a good recording engineer could make a decent recording of just about any performer in the studio. But a GREAT engineer could make a decent recording of Glenn Gould.

[lovesGenet]

I want to find someone else who plays this so well can forget glenn for a while.

Well Mcgregor ?,Tureck,Hewitt never Zudina no way-&rarely does a harpsichord sound please me.

Landowska has so much personality she might do it.Tureck is so personal . Listen more than once to her oddness you will think it is the most perfect on earth.GULDA 's wtc I 've had for years I don't think he rec the Goldberg.I must research. I'd like to be the odd one who has a diff fave of zee variazionen

[okhabin]

he of course has a perfect pitch?

[claus93Sethsen]

@okhabin I read in Wikipedia that he had, and his parents explained that he played the piano different than other kids at around his age.

[Tdgonline]

I think Gould was truly original or dared to be original. And took a different path. Which is never easy. Requiring a lot courage. But perhaps the only way that genius arises.

[astroscorp2]

@Tdgonline Ironically, when we say things like 'original' or 'different' we usually just mean that someone was brave enough to have a ton of integrity and take the time to be willing to get inside the soul of something. It's a paradox. He was actually simply invoking Bach whenever he played Bach.

[LeySun]

@astroscorp2 I agree with your observation. Genuine authenticity requires stepping out of a personal scheme into a dialogue with something that is greater, than one's personal self. One thing I think is worth contemplating is that Bach, as an authentic composer, retreived his music from the same dialogue with the nature of sound and music which we see G.Gould so consummately engaging in. I don't think he invoked Bach as much as he invoked that which Bach also invoked while composing.

[astroscorp2]

@LeySun Very interesting. Then it might be said that when Gould 'invokes' Bach he is actually invoking the spirit with which Bach played; which was, and was not Bach. The curious question really becomes; what we are. "I blend more lowly matter; with the thing contemplated, describe the Mind and Man contemplating; and who and what he was--the transitory being that beheld this vision." -- Wordsworth

[eeClaytonification]

is that birmingham? my ex was from there. one of my favourite british accents. I know it has a bad reputation, but there is musicality. Also, the west country.

the received or whatever it is called = dull

[KennYWooD2]

Quite true. Fortunately, no one else DOES play like him.

[gnamp]

Glenn Gould in a nutshell:- a very proficient, very ordinary player who mucked around with the dynamics of the music at will (very easy to do) and always had a little chair. Worked very hard at seeming different and convinced many people he was. Nothing Special REALLY. Cliff Richard eat your heart out. Arf arf.

[eeClaytonification]

ok you piece of shit. go and fucking kill yourself you pathetic piece of shit, i am going to ask around and when i get your address i am going to fucking curbstomp you

you fucking hater you hasbn't an inch of the talent of glenn gould.

and it is a beauty spot not a mole. and i don't know why you thought i was gay?

i am not, not that i care eitherway. you fucking douchebag. i am going to slice your face in two witha fucking straight razor

[zinpgh]

Is this documentary available on DVD???!

[mf2101]

I think it's called "Afterlife" if you're interested.

[buggfire]

I love his humming in the background! We need more souls like Gould's on this planet.

[dareal92]

Yes. God send us more souls like this one on our planet!

[Reverie10]

Love the Brummie girl.

[marek1990g]

most beautiful performance ever heard! from the goldberg variations 82

like it more then the 55 version, which is also brilliant!

[klinsha8]

GLENN died this same year, in september.

[lsbrother]

was he incredibly short-sighted or just plain eccentric?

[BlackFoxG]

the latter, he could just as well have played with his eyes totally closed

[brandon71085]

He just really loves those keys. Can't you tell?

[quintos34]

Cute as a button..

[Goose068]

who is this woman in this video? I think I have a crush...

[DanSandwich]

err... are you joking?

[juanbach66]

Genio!!! Gould es puro Bach