Glenn Gould Moments- P.03 Gould plays the Art of the Fugue

[leparditas]

now people dont speak this way but they very good at comenting on youtube videos lol

[Catherineone]

Can I stay and practise Glen asks ?

Thats O.K I will be in my office.

Think I might of sat down and listened to Glen practise and miss out the work that afternoon.

[lucas6534]

8:52 3º movimiento del concierto italiano.

[VamLoveAndKisses]

Does anyone know the piece he was playing at the end there? At 8:55 ? Thanks. :)

[friendant72]

This is the passion with which Bach should be played.

[1Janny1]

@friendant72 Certainly not, Asperger Synd in many abnormal psych text books. It typically appears in early childhood. I think from what I've read Gould's issue with touch developed sometime after diving incident. He was fortunate that did not leave his fingers numb. I only quoted youtube since this is a youtube site, not a medical site.

[Masterful6O]

@1Janny1 I believe that you replied to the wrong user, as your words do not fit very well with friendant72's comment, but they do with BernardProfitendieu's, who also replied to you... so yeah... I think your reply never reached the eyes for whom it was intended.

[1Janny1]

Glen never moved anti-clockwise. He flowed clockwise quite naturally as he played. Asperger's definitely out of question. He had none of the typical frustration and anger issues so characteristic of asperger disorder. There is a youtube clip about a savant who kind of coat tails on a documentary focusing on Derek Paravicini. The 2nd savant who meets and rehearses along side Derek has typical aspergers behavior and as you study him you can tell Glenn was not afflicted at all.

[BernardProfitendieu]

@1Janny1 you make your diagnosis by watching a youtube video, doctor? questionable

[adamjenson4500]

@1Janny1 i met derek paravicini

[potatoepeter1]

Glenn Gould , very very good.

[Kitsua]

Mr. Gould, you may have anything your heart desires. Just please keep playing.

[witchcraftlord]

right at the end, he played the first bit of the finale from the italian concerto, he played it sooo crazy fast,

[grabagoodone]

These people are too talkative!

[angietihi]

Amazing anti clockwise movement of the head and body. Great interview, such a genius. Aspergers perhaps?

[rgainsburg]

@angietihi He's going clockwise, in fact, so it definitely isn't Aspergers.

[felix0911176727]

I found that many pianists love dogs:D

[megagnathos]

funny how he sits below the piano.

[gscotm55]

It appears that he is lost and found in this music. Amazing strength and soul.

[KABRIS1]

Amazing Playing!

[smith325]

:-) fascinating fellow, a beautiful spirit...who knew the ethreal dimensions of time, sound, space, light, lingering within the heart, mind and soul...

[kaypapademas]

@smith325 your words are a very beautiful tribute to Glenn Gould.

[MrMugOO1]

It looks as if he's conducting but his hands are [beautifully] stuck to the piano.

[MrMugOO1]

Hmmm. I thought of a better way to say what I mean. It looks like he's conducting from the wrist up and playing the piano from the wrist down.

[dogbeardbirdbeer]

can i stay and practice for a bit.

[jezmuff]

I am a huge fan of Gould's Bach but have to say that I don't really agree with or even properly understand his occasional breaks into staccato in otherwise normally scored fugues.

[tokyoisfun]

He said it has the "agility" - clean sound

[pichuchika]

autist , but at least in harmony with music and all the nature around him .

Wow.

[madgaff]

some one please tell me he songs he plays at the end :O i must have them

[c3er]

The very last bit? The presto from the Italian Concert, BWV 971.

[madgaff]

Thanks, but the bit i want is the quiet bit he plays just before the third movement.... it sound like mozart or something... thanks

[antoniachandler]

Glenn Gould and Bach are a perfect marriage! I'm floored by their beauty!

[philateliceun]

does somebody knows if Gould uses Bach's temperament or equal temperament? Or something else maybe?

[BrianBoru314]

I don't know the answer to this but you could check the book "A Romance on Three Legs" by Katie Hafner.

My first guess is that Gould is using "even temperament" because only an obsessive fanatic would use the "well temperament" which Bach supported. But then I we are talking about Gould. ;-)

[Serenla258725]

Glenn uses the equal temperament !

[philateliceun]

ok thanks :)

[SirArmengol]

this is so freakin' awesome! Gould is the best!

[BlackFoxG]

Words cannot describe the beauty and expressional intensity of Gould's playing of this piece. Every single note is just perfect creating an atmosphere which almost hurts.

[Fredobel51]

I like the tempo of the fugue. On seeing a youthful Glenn Gould I had expected it to be too fast.

[IpsaPaphum]

Immergere in oceano!

[sal44236]

Damn he's sexy. :) But before I ever saw what he looked like, he was the greatest interpreter of Bach's fugal and contrapuntal works I had heard or studied.

[YaldingKao]

professionals know how to minimize the useless hand/finger movement... Me on the other side, got fingers like twisting a towel when playing this piece....

[flamenco81]

FANTASTICO

[Godfrey333]

"vlightning", you don't have to have perfect pitch to write a fugue away from an instrument, but yes, Gould did have perfect pitch.

[Un1234l]

of course you need perfect pitch to do that. You don't need it if you want to play it in your head, but if you want to write it down.. then you must have perfect pitch.

[Milligan1932]

Wrong. Quite wrong.

I have written many pieces away from instruments and (as far as I know) I do not posess perfect pitch.

Gould had perfect pitch, which simply made it easier.

[Un1234l]

Oh yes, you reminded me that there are two types of compositions:

1) Ones that have been written without knowing how it will sound

2) Ones that have been written knowing how it will sound

Incidentally, I thought that the latter was the only way.

[Milligan1932]

I do know how they will sound, I write music quite often. I am a pianist and I have this magic ability to make noises in my head.

I have only written 2 pieces at a piano, and I have written far more pieces than this. Might I ask how musically talented you are? Or are you one of these condescending sods who talk out of their rear ends?

If you are not this, please accept my apologies.

Yours~

[Un1234l]

If you know how it sounds AND can write it down with 100% accuracy, you possess perfect pitch. Otherwise it is either relative pitch or none at all.

I will admit that I'm not great, but music is very strongly a part of me. My music grade is between 4 & 5 (almost 2 years now), I have relative pitch, and have transcribed 2 pieces (started only recently). Being a composer and virtuoso is my goal.

[Milligan1932]

Well I guess I have perfect pitch then, good to know!

If you are serious about being a composer and virtuoso, then you're pretty much stuffed.

If it has been almost two years and you are still only grade 5 ish, you will never be a "virtuoso".

But as for composing, I haven't heard your pieces so I can't comment, but that is full of potential. Try writing an original piece, a fugue. If you can write a fugue and it sounds good, then you have a real shot.

As for being a pianist, trust me, No way.

[Un1234l]

=) who knows, I'm still only 15-16. But I acknowledge that it will definitely require very hard work. And if it will be impossible anyway, I'd still be satisfied to play at a high level.

[Milligan1932]

I'm only 17:)

My point was you could be a pianist! Just not a virtuoso, you need some kind of inner magic for that (I don't by the way). It will be hard.

F***ing hard. But if you love, really can't spend time away from, the piano then it won't seem like hard work.

Get the right spirit and you'll be fine, feel it start to slip and you can't do much about it.

[thegoddescomposer]

milligan your are not the one , i can plays fugas in my head and play it on the piano and the motive i can keep it for ever, so where i are and i want to play some beuaitfull fuga , i just create it in my head

[Totennebel]

Every good improviser does so.

Watch Wolfgang Seifen, Dirk Elsemann, Stefano Barberino or Paul Kayser.

And that's only a few. There are a lot more great improvisers.

[thegoddescomposer]

i believe u my friend u need to know and learn all kind of chords and all kind of toneladders in majeur and in minor and the theory side of the music and one inportant thing u need to have spirit and alot of feelings to play what ever u feel and think

[Totennebel]

Sure.

[philateliceun]

what is this for nonsense? Ofcourse you don't need perfect pitch to do anything in music. If you just know what the notes are (absolute relative pitch, which is good enough) then you can do anything in your head (if you are skilled enough of course). And yes I have my knowledge in music. I have studied Composition (bachelor) for 2 years now and have been composing for 6 years. I have written many pieces based on contrapunt and written various fugues.

[Alpauber]

Actually I am afraid the englsh terms for that are a little bit "wrong" because what you need is perfect relative pitch, wich means you know all the GRADES, not the names of the notes, but their function, wich is way more useful. in spanish:

Perfect pitch-- Oído absoluto

Relative perfect pitch-- Oído relativo perfecto.

If you can see the colous but don´t know understand the picture they form together, it´s useless.

[kepler101]

perfect pitch is for the uneducated. if u have studied music and counterpoint well enough u can write music away from an intrument. how does perfect pitch enable u to know how exactly several notes will sound together and in complex forms(like in fugue) that sounds more like being a genius.

[keelan111]

Perfect pitch is not only the ability to distinguish a C from an E when you hear it, but also the ability to call to mind any note, sequence of notes or combination of notes in the entire musical spectrum. In advanced cases, this can include the ability to call to mind exact timbres and dynamics in addition. This is how Beethoven wrote whole symphonies while deaf. It's a very interesting ability.

[kepler101]

experience is what allows a composer to write away from the instrument.

[JohnBurnsalot]

And if I might add: Perfect pitch is not directly linked to musical talent. In fact it is a skill that can be trained with any (non-genius) child young enough. People with perfect pitch do not only recognize notes played on instruments, but also any kind of environmental noise.

[largemoose]

strong personality

[robecre2]

gould sang to himself, because his mum used to tell him to sing what he plays in order to help him, and he developed a habit of it, gould claims its all subconscious

[Timrath]

Wow, look at all those negative ratings you got. Seems you've touched someone's holy cow.

Seriously, fans of classical music are no better in terms of fanbyoism and dogmatism than your typical fan of Britney Spears. Dare saying anything critical, how ever reasonable, about Gould or any of the other divas, and taste their fury.

Oh, and for the record, I too would prefer it if he wouldn't sing. He really is out of tune.

[SolarJakee]

And what was reasonable about what he said? If it helps him play then why does it matter? It's not like he's making a recording or giving a concert. Deal with it and stop complaining, or at least justify yourself.

[vlightning]

glenn gould was pitch perfect, he wrote "so you want to write a fugue" for 4 voices on a beach, no where near any musical instruments.

[jannokas85]

At 6:53 he started doing a bit of a Sergio Tiempo thing.

[LanzFriszt90]

or does sergio teiempo do a gould sort of thing? :D

[SalQrazy]

I heard Gould laugh!

[polkm714]

fantastic job but i think ive seen people having sex with less orgasmic faces

[SuperSageSire]

I would say he's experiencing a bliss beyond an orgasm...he's manifesting the spirit upon this physical plane of existence.

[MovingMutant]

One of the Greatest cause He was the Greatest for sure playing J.S. Bach but not so great playing others like Mozart...

[Ecthelon]

one of the world's greatest? I'd say greatest without any visible competition...

[Altewerk]

Wonderful Contrepunctus....perfecct...

[FredeGF]

hey, this is absolutely lovely!

where can I buy this dvd and what it is called?

gould is the best for Bach!

[vezzmon]

The Italien Concerto at the end sounds far better than any recording of the piece, including Goulds own officialy released version!

[str1ngBEEN]

Such intensity-- remarkable artist.

[Beeffyviolin]

a great canadian

[vinciano]

i have no words to describe the extreme, extreme, extreme beauty of this contrapunctus and the majesty of His interpretation

[faraz1729]

I feel the same way.

[bsullivan2]

delicious

[michio]

yummiful~

[sysphus13]

this documentary is incredible...he was such a fiery human being!!

[baloghendre]

tényleg hihetetlen.

[IvanoffKuprin]

Amazing!What`s the name of the film?

[mercoid]

"can I hang around and practice?"

"oh sure! You can spend the whole afternoon here if you'd like."

Like they're gonna say "no".

"Gooood bye Mr. Schapples" lol

[faraz1729]

Haha, yeah who's gonna say no to that?

[Milligan1932]

Yeah, they'll be upstairs.

Outside the door more like!

[asantiago88]

consumed entirely in his own musical world

[thegoddescomposer]

what a BEAUIFULL DOGG , what is the name of this fugue ?

[JosephJacks]

Contrapunctus I from Die Kunst der Fuge, BWV 1080. Such a enlightened performance from his youth!

[thechopinfan]

Thanks!! I'll write that on the video.

[shining82]

the piece is "art of fugue" by bach.

[thechopinfan]

Thanks a lot! I appreciate your help. I'll update the video info now.