Should have been named Glenn GOLD!! His playing is pure gold. Pity he was such a strange guy, but then that's what they say about genius isn't it? One step away from insanity. Thank goodness for vids like this (AND the people that post them!!) so we can relive such sublime moments. THANKS!!
I love this series but I cannot find variations 26 to 32. Will someone post them? Better yet can someone make a playlist of all 32 so they can be heard without interruption? This is really a priceless treasure for all time.
Watching him play like this conjures up the image of a painter getting as close to his canvas as possible to put in the smallest of details. Fantastic!
I heard the most beautiful Bach melody in the movie "Hannibal" last night (the part where he is showing the Italian detective the luggage and it's playing in the background). I just quickly saw Goldberg Variations in the credits...is this it? Does anyone know?
ALL The music of JSB is THE MOST beautiful; Don't mind if it's the Goldberg Variations, the partitas, the tocatas, the french/english suites, the well tempered clavier... JSBach is infinite, always deep, sensitive, amazing, astonishing... and Gould is probably one of his better interpreters. JSB is also the most published classical composer.
TheBarbaciano: I only play two of JSB's works and they are both Chorale Preludes transcribed for piano by Busoni...No. 3 in G minor and No. 5 in F minor. I'm afraid almost everything else of his is probably way too deep and over my head at this time.
Yes, this is the piece of music but I don't know if this specific part was playing at that time in the movie. I don't remember anything but the original theme from these variations in that movie. Try "Variations 1-5". The first slow section is probably the music you are looking for.
@jjp009 You clearly have not seen Slience of the Lambs. The melody from the aria is used quite a bit in Hannibal. Watch Silence of the Lambs and you will see the significance.
You are right though, it is from the Goldberg Variations.
Thanks though, I believe it was that one for a moment, but no. I checked, and it's still not the same chord progression, he is using a lot of IV64's instead of just root positions.
The one I'm looking for follows the same chord progression, in same inversions.
you're really devoted to gould aren't you? You hate him so much that you watch every video! go kill yourself mr professor man and leave us all in peace. better yet, show us how bach would play it seeing as how you knew him personally or soemthing like that!
Your anger reveals that you know that I am right about this man. I have held up a mirror, and you do not like what you see. If you want to hear Bach played on the piano, try listening to Alicia DeLarrocha - she honors the composer and the music, and brings only the sweetness of her personality to the music. glenn god, on the other hand, brings his psychoses and other demons into it. Not my cup of tea.
that's interesting logic: well he rebukes every stupid thing I say and displays my stupidity, so, he must be just actually doing just the opposite and agrees with me! I thought you were a professor!
haha, aptly put. I had a similar argument with the guy not long ago to no avail. He left every rebuttal of mine and all of my most pertitnent, challenging questions unanswered. If he is indeed a professor, I pity his students and those who have to deal with him on a regular basis. I don't mind that he doesn't like Gould, but he acts like such a pompous ass about it. I think the 52 in his user ID must stand for his IQ, or more likely, number of brain cells.
Miley Cyrus and Jonas brothers...how old are you? Shouldn't you be tucked in bed before 9?
Seriously, you can have your own opinion about classical music...but comparing it with those people is just too funny. Miley cyrus, come on. Grow up, kid.
Hey seraph, why do you say bad things about classical music? Listen to some Bach & Beethoven before the terrible mediocrity of Jonas Brothers reduces your mind. You must be living in 'Farenhiet 451' with such terrible taste.
Grow up before someone goes 'Clockwork Orange' on your tasteless, facade of a life.
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LOL! If it weren't for classical there wouldn't be any Freaky Cyrus or Gayness Brothers so dont hate. Btw miley sucks her songs are seriously stupid. His dad was better with his country music. Too bad ppl are starting to hate her now. watch all around youtube type in miley sucks and ull get10000 results from all over the WORLD in Spanish, Dutch, English, Chinese, Hebrew anything, she's just a future Paris Hilton how sad how ppl still look up to her like shes a good example for kids...
I'm really sorry, I share a computer with my brother's son. This is not the first time this has happened. He's only 14. Would you be kind enough to tell me the comment he made that offended you? Once again, sorry.
I'm really sorry, I share a computer with my brother's son. This is not the first time this has happened. He's only 14. Would you be kind enough to tell me the comment he made that offended you? Once again, sorry.
Glenn was once asked if he believed in God. He answered: I believe in Bach's God. The beauty of the universe is reified in Bach. Glenn Gould was the perfect vessel into which this beauty flowed; his playing was it's perfect communication. LIke many others who listen to and watch Glenn Gould, I am frequently moved beyond . . . , well beyond.
Something speakes out of this man (Gould) and it`s so beautyful and out of this world it needs words to express it, that are almost not available in our little existance. This is pure love to the thing he makes: music1 And it speakes right to your heart, even if you have never heard a piano before.
it has nothing to do with god in my opinion. Music is inherent in all of us. He's just learned how to express it greater. Why is it something that we all share than? Sometimes much greater for the people who devote themselves to music and caste away the gods.
"The use of mindless quotations is poor replacement indeed for true wisdom"
-Me
My senses tell me that it is an utterly beautiful piece. That's all i need to know while i'm listening to it. If I truly WANTED to go deeper into it, about how it's constructed, I study theory, I study the mechanics and technique of the instrument, I study the evolution of the tuning scale, etc. J.s. bach was an utter genius. No divine creator had anything to do with this. I love it even more knowing that.
Qué más puedo pedir... que el entendimiento, la claridad y la objetividad de un hombre que parece haber conocido al mismo Bach? Me encantaría tener una copia del casi original. Estamos en contacto. Mil gracias.
I think it's lame ... I don't like the Goldberg Variationen, I listened to this interpretation, because I thought Gould could make it sound more interesting, but I am really disappointed with him.
Bueno, esto es arte en su más pura escencia! Si cuando analizamos las variaciones en el Conservatorio me hubieran puesto esta grabación no hubiera necesitado partitura. No existe ni extistirá otro Glenn Gould.
So true, so chromatic and so expressive. Notice how only Gould makes it seem like people talking. Each voice has its own way and you can hear each one. We are lucky to have the genius of Bach and the genius of Gould together. so lucky
und verstünde ich nichts von musik, hätte ich nie ein klavier berührt, dieses stück, dieser alte mann auf dem viel zu niedrigen stuhl, sein singsang, die leicht zitternden hände, die musik, welche aus all seinen poren dringt und weit über seine histrionische ader hinaus zu spüren ist, all das hätte mich dennoch glücklich gemacht, und wäre ich taub, so hätte ich die hände auf den lautsprechern noch die zarte traurigkeit dieser noten erlebt... das ist musik.
incredible to see the hands ! He's also like making a " ballet" , directing at the same time, making a flow of energy...wow ! I suppose he was really in "extase" when playing ! He was just " music " ! he was married and dedicated so much ! Very rare...I suppose it's a vocation !
i love bach and have only just discovered these videos...
as for the ballet of the hands...i believe the "ballet" to be merely a byproduct of what he is doing...i think that the concentration involved in playing at this level is likely very far beyond what you or i know, and so his immersion in the pieces results in these involuntary "tics" - many great players have such idiosyncracies.
absolutely gorgeous, But this variation is really different from the other ones, and is of a rare depth. This chromatic writing style is unbelievable. A rare piece among Bach works, the purest form of his genius
i can see how it might scare one to hear this and not believe in a god, because this playing represents a great expansiveness to human existence and therefore a great responsibility.
the conclusion that this comes from god, and is not our responsibility is much easier to bear than the conclusion that we have it in us to unleash somthing god-like, indeed, we attribute it to god to lift the weight from ourselves.
God your stupid. There are geniuses out there you know. It doesn't mean god made them. Geniuses can either be random mutations, a product of a very unique environment, or natural selection, or a combination of all these. Your dumb simply because your ancestors chose mates based on either availability, desperation, or appearance...not intelligence. You probably grew up around barbies and GI Joe as well, which didn't help. You can get the exact same results from breeding dogs with certain traits.
i really have to debate with myself to justify a response to your comment, because you are obviously a young man, intelligent and bold, who has strong feelings on spiritual issues. i myself am an atheist.
yes. people can be (and are) bred like dogs. yes, genetic mutations can produce "genius". yes, in a analytic way, our parents fucked each other because of "availability, desperation, or appearance". your right, but your also wrong...
life is not that simple. gould was not a mutation, he had a gift beyond playing the piano that is unparalleled, not solely a product of conditioning or genetic inheritance. there is something else in his humanity and sentience that is unique (and NOT intellectual). did god make him? most likely not. can anyone else play bach with passion, precision and grace like he could? maybe a handful, out of the billions of people on earth RIGHT NOW, and remember he died in 1981.
i dont mean to pick at your long past conversation but i am going to. To me it is an insult to Gould for you to say he had a gift. now i certainly agree with you that he had a talent that was beyond playing the piano. But that talent came with a life devoted, even enslaved, to music more precisely the understanding of music. To say he had a gift seems like something was given to him like his life was for the taking and that is never the case.
but dont you understand? "we finite ones with infinite souls are born only for sorrows and joy and it might almost be said that the best of receive joy through sorrow."
yup, and(aside from the last line) ludwig understood that much better than most people, but physical complications limited his will to show his humorous life-loving character to the public. But the thing is that beethoven actually had blue suede shoes his entire life. and as much as i love berry he only had them for a period of his life. that is why we will remember beethoven for as long as we have record of him and remember berry for a hundred or so years. but i love that song, it's groovin
but all i really get from that song is a groovin rockin feeling. which is nice, sometimes. but as for me i am more of a man who likes struggle. i like to feel work put in. i like to feel the artist overcome something and break through into something wonderful whether it be happy, sad, or as it should be mixed. i just dont really feel the life in music that repeats 1-4-5 because it is too simple for me. i want to know how the artist got to the 5 and resolved it. did he simply just use the 4?
it sounds more like something to just plug into and have fun. And though that is a perfectly respectable aspect of music, to me it is not enough. it doesn't satisfy me. but when i hear this variation of Bach's and am able to pick out the structure from the original tune and understand how Bach has completely changed it while keeping certain relationships it completely overwhelms me, changes me, to me thats music, the other is just fun
so... all art is born of suffering? it has to be complex? cant art be a joyous thing too, overcoming nothing- just being? ever hear any Robert Johnson blues - or Mississippi John Hurt? they are both simple yet at the same time complex. Is Dr Sues not great because he wrote nonesense? Allot of great art does break through, but christ... it doesn't have to.
thats exactly what i said, in my own way. i am glad we could agree. simple is always better, but there is a difference between simple and too simple. those blues pieces are amazing because in their simplicity they go somewhere, they have movement and peaks, they are like life. Art is a joyous thing but without the sadness there is no relationship to make the joy joy.
i detest religion. i was raised catholic and despise it, and am not a fan of people who think god talks to them or tells them what to do. religion is a vice if it takes away your autonomy.
but spirituality is a virtue if approached with a sensitive and critical mind.
do not discredit spirituality in life. although most religions are schlock and mind control, there is an element to life lost if you have no faith or think dna is the only reason things happen.
matwil74--Your first sentence is no credit to your intelligence. "Your" is a possessive pronoun, not a contraction of "you are". The word you are looking for is "you're". You're welcome.
I think amazing things instantly prove people are worthwhile. I suppose the collective abillity to go beyond limitations could be called 'god', but that's a long shot.
"amazing things"??? riding a bike backwards is amazing, this music is beyond description in beauty and power.
PS - I dont know how i came to be the DA for the court case of YouTube posters vs God, im an atheist myself. Please dont try to convince me of God being real or not, i dont care to convince or push the issue with anyone.
What a ridiculous quotation! Regardles of whether God exists or not there will always be theists and atheists, the word defines someones beliefs! If there were no God and nobody believed there was one then everyone would be atheists! I dont like this chesterton bloke much ha
How is one supposed to listen and watch this without gasping for breath... a wonder, an oasis of pure and deepest insight that makes everything else look small, insignificant and negligible... What a phenomenon Gould was, or rather is, and through him I also learn what phenomenon Bach was... Phew...
Thank you for sharing that info. I have his early recording and was thinking the same thing (sounding like Chopin) and can't believe that the legend himself said that about his own recording. I've been away from the music world so long so sometimes I am not sure what I feel is true or real. I absolutely love this rendition and am on my way to the library to pick it up...like right now ;)
Hey what up? I heard that you're one of the world's greatest pianists. I really am a big fan of yours because music is my biggest passion. Sorry to say this, but I haven't got any movies because I just joined this YouTube today. You're really good, man! One of the best recordings! By the way, do you write your own music? If you do, then that'll be really awesome! Good luck! See ya in our future.
Er... I think you're a little bit confused. Glenn Gould died in 1982... this is just a recording that Stephenykevin uploaded here for our enjoyment of this beautiful music. Actually, Gould was one of the world's greatest pianists... but he's not anymore between us. His music was too good for this world, I'm afraid...
Music and human expression finally seep in at Var.25...he got tired of the modern manic autism perpetuated through the majority of the movements hithertofore and gave in to
spirituality at last.This almost redeems all the other unbaroque crimes here.
Of course he is. He did it to express his feelings for the music that he thought the piano couldn't. Most Glenn Gould listeners love this eccentricity and welcome hearing it.
Except a young girl I knew of who was listening to him on her walkman in bed, and suddenly jumped up, thinking there was somebody there in the room with her, humming!
Gould was a Bach priest,his 1981 performance , slower than the first is "less" based on technique an'more on meditation ,silence,time for the listener to appreciate one of the highest peaks music reach; both performances are outstanding an' worth a listen if you want to enter the world of J.S.Bach through the main door.Claudio Durgone ,Sassari,Sardinia.
Try also to listen his live performance in Salisburg... it's impossible to say that's better then the one you was writing about or the one recorded in 1955 but, sure, it's another masterpiece...
Well said, enter the world of J. S. Back through the main door... indeed, it is G. G. Who could doubt that God made him specially for Him, and took him for Himself before his time...?
I totally agree...Gould was from another world. Look at the performance, the passionate moves, how he gets lost in Bach's maze physically and spiritually.
music straight from the soul of the universe
thesandu1 1 month ago in playlist Glenn Gould performing Back's Goldberg Variations
this is by far the best interpretation of this amazing piece,
Dougol1 3 months ago
What I heard was a man with a pure soul.
AlbertXWang 5 months ago
Should have been named Glenn GOLD!! His playing is pure gold. Pity he was such a strange guy, but then that's what they say about genius isn't it? One step away from insanity. Thank goodness for vids like this (AND the people that post them!!) so we can relive such sublime moments. THANKS!!
Mrphilharmonic 6 months ago
@Mrphilharmonic
His last name IS originally GOLD. His parents changed it for fear of being mistaken as Jewish due to prevalent antisemitism in the area.
thecritiquevirtuoso 5 months ago
Pop music is a kind of entertainment not real music or art. we don't need to put them together.
Agliheri 7 months ago
I love this series but I cannot find variations 26 to 32. Will someone post them? Better yet can someone make a playlist of all 32 so they can be heard without interruption? This is really a priceless treasure for all time.
JimL1137 8 months ago
@JimL1137 Give me your mail and I'll send you the complete CD
greetings from Belgium
MikeSteveBlueberry1 8 months ago
@JimL1137 Gould plays Goldberg Variations var.26-30 & Aria Da Capo
kenjikikuchi1 8 months ago
hands down the best interpretation, I don't get it why people play it so fast.
philateliceun 1 year ago
I feel the music trickle into my blood stream... and, into my soul...
yoshituba 1 year ago
Schlachthof Fuenf!
pylgrym 1 year ago
(Soundtrack of Slaughterhouse Five...)
haputmann 1 year ago
Watching him play like this conjures up the image of a painter getting as close to his canvas as possible to put in the smallest of details. Fantastic!
kaiser5543 1 year ago 2
How the hell could four people dislike this?
wehner26 1 year ago 4
@wehner26 What I always find funny is that people take the time to click on 'dislike'. If you don't like it just leave, lol. Nice clip, btw.
TheLeastDiseased 1 year ago
amazing
KiraVeselinova 1 year ago
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What's he doin' with his hands, there? Drama Class much?
cattoy80 1 year ago
@cattoy80 its called enjoying the music.
philateliceun 10 months ago
do not curse him - praise or better to say nothing
vszabadi 2 years ago 9
good job
jj313 2 years ago
I heard the most beautiful Bach melody in the movie "Hannibal" last night (the part where he is showing the Italian detective the luggage and it's playing in the background). I just quickly saw Goldberg Variations in the credits...is this it? Does anyone know?
jjp009 2 years ago
ALL The music of JSB is THE MOST beautiful; Don't mind if it's the Goldberg Variations, the partitas, the tocatas, the french/english suites, the well tempered clavier... JSBach is infinite, always deep, sensitive, amazing, astonishing... and Gould is probably one of his better interpreters. JSB is also the most published classical composer.
TheBarbaciano 2 years ago
TheBarbaciano: I only play two of JSB's works and they are both Chorale Preludes transcribed for piano by Busoni...No. 3 in G minor and No. 5 in F minor. I'm afraid almost everything else of his is probably way too deep and over my head at this time.
jjp009 2 years ago
Yes, this is the piece of music but I don't know if this specific part was playing at that time in the movie. I don't remember anything but the original theme from these variations in that movie. Try "Variations 1-5". The first slow section is probably the music you are looking for.
musikman12358 2 years ago
Thank you so much. Yes, I found it.
jjp009 2 years ago
Ask a harpsichordist----Variation 25 in G minor.....the scores are readily available IMSLP
composer333 2 years ago
You could look up "hannibal soundtrack" on google.
pamela77889 2 years ago
Yes it is!
MarcusHK1 2 years ago
@jjp009 You clearly have not seen Slience of the Lambs. The melody from the aria is used quite a bit in Hannibal. Watch Silence of the Lambs and you will see the significance.
You are right though, it is from the Goldberg Variations.
thespacebandito 2 years ago
Also very important in the film versipn of Vonnegut's "Slaughter House 5" no one knows who Billy Pilgrim is any more...
composer333 2 years ago
Glen Gould IS de Goldberg Variaties. Huiveringwekkend mooie en de beste interpretatie.
feetje2008 2 years ago 3
Pretty sure Mozart inspired himself with that starting melody.
I forget what the piece is called.
ArvindanT 2 years ago
Do you mean the 2nd movement of the A Major concerto?
zamyrabyrd 2 years ago
almost, but not quite.
Thanks though, I believe it was that one for a moment, but no. I checked, and it's still not the same chord progression, he is using a lot of IV64's instead of just root positions.
The one I'm looking for follows the same chord progression, in same inversions.
ArvindanT 2 years ago
Dit is gewoon van een andere wereld. Dit goddelijk en tranenverwekkend
theokrans 2 years ago
Oh, jesus. This is so beautiful it hurts.
hnaef83 2 years ago 2
I know- when I listen and watch this incredible man perform my chest hurts so much, like it's difficult to breathe.
EsotericEggplant 2 years ago
muy lindo
magistralmente ejecutado!!!!!
ALGER685 2 years ago
it's for seraph don't get me wrong
mMeMoOo 2 years ago
TWISTED.
organman52 2 years ago
you're really devoted to gould aren't you? You hate him so much that you watch every video! go kill yourself mr professor man and leave us all in peace. better yet, show us how bach would play it seeing as how you knew him personally or soemthing like that!
thejugglenaut91 2 years ago
Your anger reveals that you know that I am right about this man. I have held up a mirror, and you do not like what you see. If you want to hear Bach played on the piano, try listening to Alicia DeLarrocha - she honors the composer and the music, and brings only the sweetness of her personality to the music. glenn god, on the other hand, brings his psychoses and other demons into it. Not my cup of tea.
organman52 2 years ago
that's interesting logic: well he rebukes every stupid thing I say and displays my stupidity, so, he must be just actually doing just the opposite and agrees with me! I thought you were a professor!
thejugglenaut91 2 years ago
haha, aptly put. I had a similar argument with the guy not long ago to no avail. He left every rebuttal of mine and all of my most pertitnent, challenging questions unanswered. If he is indeed a professor, I pity his students and those who have to deal with him on a regular basis. I don't mind that he doesn't like Gould, but he acts like such a pompous ass about it. I think the 52 in his user ID must stand for his IQ, or more likely, number of brain cells.
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seraph92390 2 years ago
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like seriously miley cyrus and the jonas brothers are ten times better
seraph92390 2 years ago
i dont get how you call that shit music, much less how you think its good
archeryguy1121 2 years ago
dear archery guy., (3 months ago)
It is not shit music but sheet music.
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Check your spelling.
Cheers.
from,
del-boy.
NoNotALaughingMatter 2 years ago 2
Miley Cyrus and Jonas brothers...how old are you? Shouldn't you be tucked in bed before 9?
Seriously, you can have your own opinion about classical music...but comparing it with those people is just too funny. Miley cyrus, come on. Grow up, kid.
Elisaranna 2 years ago
Hey seraph, why do you say bad things about classical music? Listen to some Bach & Beethoven before the terrible mediocrity of Jonas Brothers reduces your mind. You must be living in 'Farenhiet 451' with such terrible taste.
Grow up before someone goes 'Clockwork Orange' on your tasteless, facade of a life.
RequiemVortex 2 years ago
i really wanna shit on your parts
mMeMoOo 2 years ago
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lol that freak and those gays?
mvs13I2 2 years ago
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classical music sucks
seraph92390 2 years ago
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Retards suck
miragefoto 2 years ago 6
you suck
mMeMoOo 2 years ago
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LOL! If it weren't for classical there wouldn't be any Freaky Cyrus or Gayness Brothers so dont hate. Btw miley sucks her songs are seriously stupid. His dad was better with his country music. Too bad ppl are starting to hate her now. watch all around youtube type in miley sucks and ull get10000 results from all over the WORLD in Spanish, Dutch, English, Chinese, Hebrew anything, she's just a future Paris Hilton how sad how ppl still look up to her like shes a good example for kids...
mvs13I2 2 years ago
Der mvz1312,
Try the yellow pages, look under tuition.
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You need to improve you communication skills, a private tutor will help, and may also help you pronunciation and general speech deficiencies.
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good luck.
cheer.
from
del-boy
NoNotALaughingMatter 2 years ago
I'm really sorry, I share a computer with my brother's son. This is not the first time this has happened. He's only 14. Would you be kind enough to tell me the comment he made that offended you? Once again, sorry.
mvs13I2 2 years ago
Dear mvs1312 (3 weeks ago),
Thanks for your message.
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I cannot remember what the substance was of the message the fellow sent me that you refer to; however I am quite sure it was not offensive.
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The free sharing of eureka moments and suggestions via comments is a great humanising feature of the you-tube experience.
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Cheers.
from,
del-boy.
NoNotALaughingMatter 2 years ago
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I'm really sorry, I share a computer with my brother's son. This is not the first time this has happened. He's only 14. Would you be kind enough to tell me the comment he made that offended you? Once again, sorry.
mvs13I2 2 years ago
Gould was amazing. How beautiful to hear and see him play. I'm glad there are videos of him.
AndiePanicka 2 years ago 12
Glenn was once asked if he believed in God. He answered: I believe in Bach's God. The beauty of the universe is reified in Bach. Glenn Gould was the perfect vessel into which this beauty flowed; his playing was it's perfect communication. LIke many others who listen to and watch Glenn Gould, I am frequently moved beyond . . . , well beyond.
pdf1056 2 years ago 2
It has nothing to do with spikes or Jesus .
Something speakes out of this man (Gould) and it`s so beautyful and out of this world it needs words to express it, that are almost not available in our little existance. This is pure love to the thing he makes: music1 And it speakes right to your heart, even if you have never heard a piano before.
If this is close to God, so be it
jolandaful 2 years ago
i agree with all my heart. please read what i wrote a few pages/months back on this video, i tried to say exactly what you just said so perfectly.
and yes, this is close to god.
WKRPinCINN 2 years ago
it has nothing to do with god in my opinion. Music is inherent in all of us. He's just learned how to express it greater. Why is it something that we all share than? Sometimes much greater for the people who devote themselves to music and caste away the gods.
thejugglenaut91 2 years ago
How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. - Norman Douglas
WKRPinCINN 2 years ago
"The use of mindless quotations is poor replacement indeed for true wisdom"
-Me
My senses tell me that it is an utterly beautiful piece. That's all i need to know while i'm listening to it. If I truly WANTED to go deeper into it, about how it's constructed, I study theory, I study the mechanics and technique of the instrument, I study the evolution of the tuning scale, etc. J.s. bach was an utter genius. No divine creator had anything to do with this. I love it even more knowing that.
thejugglenaut91 2 years ago
hear,hear
ANNAenLIANA 2 years ago
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Bach is Genius,Goldberg V-s are 1 of Wonders of the World & Glen Gould was born to perform it ! .
sam0xin 2 years ago
Creo que este hombre cuando toca deja de existir y se convierte en la música que toca.
kyp17 2 years ago
Qué más puedo pedir... que el entendimiento, la claridad y la objetividad de un hombre que parece haber conocido al mismo Bach? Me encantaría tener una copia del casi original. Estamos en contacto. Mil gracias.
inayaztI 2 years ago
Has anyone found variations 15 through 24 on youtube? That is, the ones the GG recorded in 1981.
timpanitimptim 2 years ago 2
Goldberg Variations 15-19
Goldberg Variations 20-24
search for these two.
Eeli2008 2 years ago 3
Most beautiful.
Chesterton7 3 years ago
Loco.... pero genial
manuelzulu43 3 years ago
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I think it's lame ... I don't like the Goldberg Variationen, I listened to this interpretation, because I thought Gould could make it sound more interesting, but I am really disappointed with him.
steve0ms 3 years ago
LoL!
0Panchovilla0 3 years ago 3
Glenn Gould interview on the Goldberg Variations 1981 part 2 Look that up, and get a better insite into this thought process.
Irshkboy 3 years ago
Bueno, esto es arte en su más pura escencia! Si cuando analizamos las variaciones en el Conservatorio me hubieran puesto esta grabación no hubiera necesitado partitura. No existe ni extistirá otro Glenn Gould.
locogerman 3 years ago
So true, so chromatic and so expressive. Notice how only Gould makes it seem like people talking. Each voice has its own way and you can hear each one. We are lucky to have the genius of Bach and the genius of Gould together. so lucky
trevjr 3 years ago 2
¡Pero bueno..,Esto no es religión ni espiritualidad.Esto es el mejor músico interpretado por el mejor pianista.
Tu comentario WKRPinCINN,me entristece profundamente.¡Que pena!
Pero como decá Voltaire,aunque no esté de acuerdo con lo que dices moriría para que te expresaras libremente.
debartzen 3 years ago
und verstünde ich nichts von musik, hätte ich nie ein klavier berührt, dieses stück, dieser alte mann auf dem viel zu niedrigen stuhl, sein singsang, die leicht zitternden hände, die musik, welche aus all seinen poren dringt und weit über seine histrionische ader hinaus zu spüren ist, all das hätte mich dennoch glücklich gemacht, und wäre ich taub, so hätte ich die hände auf den lautsprechern noch die zarte traurigkeit dieser noten erlebt... das ist musik.
gregonline6506 3 years ago
Du hast es erfasst! Ich fühle genauso, hätte es aber nie so schön ausdrücken können.
Wotan276 3 years ago
incredible to see the hands ! He's also like making a " ballet" , directing at the same time, making a flow of energy...wow ! I suppose he was really in "extase" when playing ! He was just " music " ! he was married and dedicated so much ! Very rare...I suppose it's a vocation !
luminoceanne 3 years ago 4
i love bach and have only just discovered these videos...
as for the ballet of the hands...i believe the "ballet" to be merely a byproduct of what he is doing...i think that the concentration involved in playing at this level is likely very far beyond what you or i know, and so his immersion in the pieces results in these involuntary "tics" - many great players have such idiosyncracies.
of course, i never got to ask glenn about this ;)
nostalgiacreep 2 years ago
Glenn inspires me tenderness....! I love his style!
keatsaenea 3 years ago
I'm still in awe that Bach wrote this variation. Exceedingly chromatic compared to the typical Bach formula and I love it.
jeffbrak 3 years ago
absolutely gorgeous, But this variation is really different from the other ones, and is of a rare depth. This chromatic writing style is unbelievable. A rare piece among Bach works, the purest form of his genius
anisometropie 3 years ago 2
Beautiful. Sublime. Graceful. Beyond Words.
MeanderingBeing 3 years ago
Ι can't
describe what I feel hearing this unique interpretation.
pianote23 3 years ago 5
gould playing the 25 variation is a huge weight on the side of scale in favor for the argument of the existence god
WKRPinCINN 3 years ago
i can see how it might scare one to hear this and not believe in a god, because this playing represents a great expansiveness to human existence and therefore a great responsibility.
the conclusion that this comes from god, and is not our responsibility is much easier to bear than the conclusion that we have it in us to unleash somthing god-like, indeed, we attribute it to god to lift the weight from ourselves.
do you think that may explain your conclusion?
munkybrain 3 years ago
i've said that many times...
WKRPinCINN 3 years ago
God your stupid. There are geniuses out there you know. It doesn't mean god made them. Geniuses can either be random mutations, a product of a very unique environment, or natural selection, or a combination of all these. Your dumb simply because your ancestors chose mates based on either availability, desperation, or appearance...not intelligence. You probably grew up around barbies and GI Joe as well, which didn't help. You can get the exact same results from breeding dogs with certain traits.
matwil74 3 years ago
i really have to debate with myself to justify a response to your comment, because you are obviously a young man, intelligent and bold, who has strong feelings on spiritual issues. i myself am an atheist.
yes. people can be (and are) bred like dogs. yes, genetic mutations can produce "genius". yes, in a analytic way, our parents fucked each other because of "availability, desperation, or appearance". your right, but your also wrong...
WKRPinCINN 3 years ago
life is not that simple. gould was not a mutation, he had a gift beyond playing the piano that is unparalleled, not solely a product of conditioning or genetic inheritance. there is something else in his humanity and sentience that is unique (and NOT intellectual). did god make him? most likely not. can anyone else play bach with passion, precision and grace like he could? maybe a handful, out of the billions of people on earth RIGHT NOW, and remember he died in 1981.
WKRPinCINN 3 years ago
i dont mean to pick at your long past conversation but i am going to. To me it is an insult to Gould for you to say he had a gift. now i certainly agree with you that he had a talent that was beyond playing the piano. But that talent came with a life devoted, even enslaved, to music more precisely the understanding of music. To say he had a gift seems like something was given to him like his life was for the taking and that is never the case.
betraylogic 2 years ago
he had to earn his talent, he was never given anything except a capable mind. sry to be picky we could mean the same thing
betraylogic 2 years ago
"God is a Concept by which
we measure our pain...
I'll say it again
God is a Concept by which
we measure our pain...
WKRPinCINN 2 years ago
life is the what by which we measure our pain.
I agree, but
I just believe in me, and in that reality the dream isnt over
what can i say?
the dream isnt over
it will never be
you'll just have to carry on
the dream will never die while it's in my arms
betraylogic 2 years ago
There ain't no Jesus gonna come from the sky
Now that I found out I know I can cry...
Old Hare Krishna got nothing on you
Just keep you crazy with nothing to do
Keep you occupied with pie in the sky
There ain't no guru who can see through your eyes...
I seen through junkies, I been through it all
I seen religion from Jesus to Paul
Don't let them fool you with dope and cocaine
No one can harm you, feel your own pain...
WKRPinCINN 2 years ago
yes, didnt i tell you? i agree.
but dont you understand? "we finite ones with infinite souls are born only for sorrows and joy and it might almost be said that the best of receive joy through sorrow."
betraylogic 2 years ago
*the best of us receive...
betraylogic 2 years ago
"Well, early in the mornin Im a-givin you a warnin
Dont you step on my blue suede shoes.
Hey diddle diddle, I am playin my fiddle,
Aint got nothin to lose.
Roll over Beethoven and tell Tschaikowsky the news."
- Chuck Berry
WKRPinCINN 2 years ago
yup, and(aside from the last line) ludwig understood that much better than most people, but physical complications limited his will to show his humorous life-loving character to the public. But the thing is that beethoven actually had blue suede shoes his entire life. and as much as i love berry he only had them for a period of his life. that is why we will remember beethoven for as long as we have record of him and remember berry for a hundred or so years. but i love that song, it's groovin
betraylogic 2 years ago
but all i really get from that song is a groovin rockin feeling. which is nice, sometimes. but as for me i am more of a man who likes struggle. i like to feel work put in. i like to feel the artist overcome something and break through into something wonderful whether it be happy, sad, or as it should be mixed. i just dont really feel the life in music that repeats 1-4-5 because it is too simple for me. i want to know how the artist got to the 5 and resolved it. did he simply just use the 4?
betraylogic 2 years ago
it sounds more like something to just plug into and have fun. And though that is a perfectly respectable aspect of music, to me it is not enough. it doesn't satisfy me. but when i hear this variation of Bach's and am able to pick out the structure from the original tune and understand how Bach has completely changed it while keeping certain relationships it completely overwhelms me, changes me, to me thats music, the other is just fun
betraylogic 2 years ago
so... all art is born of suffering? it has to be complex? cant art be a joyous thing too, overcoming nothing- just being? ever hear any Robert Johnson blues - or Mississippi John Hurt? they are both simple yet at the same time complex. Is Dr Sues not great because he wrote nonesense? Allot of great art does break through, but christ... it doesn't have to.
"Stop making sense" - David Byrne.
WKRPinCINN 2 years ago
thats exactly what i said, in my own way. i am glad we could agree. simple is always better, but there is a difference between simple and too simple. those blues pieces are amazing because in their simplicity they go somewhere, they have movement and peaks, they are like life. Art is a joyous thing but without the sadness there is no relationship to make the joy joy.
p.s.- to me dr sues is only so-so
but robert johnson, ah he is good, he gets it.
betraylogic 2 years ago
you are wise betraylogic....very wise
ArrogantMike2 2 years ago
i detest religion. i was raised catholic and despise it, and am not a fan of people who think god talks to them or tells them what to do. religion is a vice if it takes away your autonomy.
but spirituality is a virtue if approached with a sensitive and critical mind.
do not discredit spirituality in life. although most religions are schlock and mind control, there is an element to life lost if you have no faith or think dna is the only reason things happen.
PS- fuck you for calling me stupid.
WKRPinCINN 3 years ago 2
LOL!!!
TakingPelhan123 3 years ago 3
matwil74--Your first sentence is no credit to your intelligence. "Your" is a possessive pronoun, not a contraction of "you are". The word you are looking for is "you're". You're welcome.
karlakor 3 years ago
That is assuming that amazing things instantly prove god.
By the same logic I could show horrible things happening to disprove god.
pookiehohn 3 years ago
I never said that gould proves the existence of god, i said that he is a weight on a scale IN FAVOR OF the existence of god.
WKRPinCINN 3 years ago
I think amazing things instantly prove people are worthwhile. I suppose the collective abillity to go beyond limitations could be called 'god', but that's a long shot.
shackleton12 2 years ago
"amazing things"??? riding a bike backwards is amazing, this music is beyond description in beauty and power.
PS - I dont know how i came to be the DA for the court case of YouTube posters vs God, im an atheist myself. Please dont try to convince me of God being real or not, i dont care to convince or push the issue with anyone.
WKRPinCINN 2 years ago
Well, I'm fine with non-supersized words.
"YouTube posters vs God" has to be the best description of the standard of youtube commentary ever.
shackleton12 2 years ago
haha. that's really funny.
wonder who'll win?
slothvader 2 years ago
I never heard Jesus write anything like this!
AaronBenJoseph 2 years ago
having iron spikes driven through your hands kinda puts a hold on your piano playing career.
WKRPinCINN 2 years ago
ha no i thought i was replying to the comment someone made that this piece and video is proof that God exists
AaronBenJoseph 2 years ago
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. - G. K. Chesterton
WKRPinCINN 2 years ago
What a ridiculous quotation! Regardles of whether God exists or not there will always be theists and atheists, the word defines someones beliefs! If there were no God and nobody believed there was one then everyone would be atheists! I dont like this chesterton bloke much ha
AaronBenJoseph 2 years ago 2
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. - Dorothy L. Sayers
WKRPinCINN 2 years ago
Not many people have the humor to disagree with themselves through quote mining :)
I'd quote Churchill but....
cheezbawl2003 2 years ago
The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. - Walter Bagehot
WKRPinCINN 2 years ago
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emmerson
cheezbawl2003 2 years ago
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. - Hesketh Pearson
WKRPinCINN 2 years ago
I improve on misquotation. - Cary Grant
shananiganZ 2 years ago
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
-- Tom Stoppard
WKRPinCINN 2 years ago
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. - Dorothy Sayers
(Apologies about the other account in there. A friend had used my computer and was still logged in.)
cheezbawl2003 2 years ago
exactly what i would like to say, but my english sucks :P
liuketto 2 years ago
ok...so? xD If there were no sadness, there would be no happyness.
liuketto 2 years ago
thanks for the insight plato
WKRPinCINN 2 years ago
You can learn more from the small details in Goulds play than anything scribed to paper.
He's really a great blessing I hope more people will Discover the depth and quiet humility of this great artist.
ubermallic 3 years ago
GG would have loved the technology available today...so sad that he passed away so relatively early...
dianemercier 3 years ago 2
How is one supposed to listen and watch this without gasping for breath... a wonder, an oasis of pure and deepest insight that makes everything else look small, insignificant and negligible... What a phenomenon Gould was, or rather is, and through him I also learn what phenomenon Bach was... Phew...
DeepWitz 3 years ago 4
No interpreta música,él es música,gracias Glenn Gould
laqullu 3 years ago
variations 15-24?
anotheraznpianokid 4 years ago 7
just variation 25, interpreted brilliantly.
iamnestor 3 years ago
c'est genial.
merci, glenn.
eriksatie9 4 years ago 2
Such an intimate recording. He said he reworked this variation because the 1950s recording sounded too much like a Chopin nocturne.
mf2101 4 years ago
Thank you for sharing that info. I have his early recording and was thinking the same thing (sounding like Chopin) and can't believe that the legend himself said that about his own recording. I've been away from the music world so long so sometimes I am not sure what I feel is true or real. I absolutely love this rendition and am on my way to the library to pick it up...like right now ;)
thekidwhocameback 3 years ago
I love when he conducts himself.
mf2101 4 years ago
Hey what up? I heard that you're one of the world's greatest pianists. I really am a big fan of yours because music is my biggest passion. Sorry to say this, but I haven't got any movies because I just joined this YouTube today. You're really good, man! One of the best recordings! By the way, do you write your own music? If you do, then that'll be really awesome! Good luck! See ya in our future.
spagettboopbeep 4 years ago
Er... I think you're a little bit confused. Glenn Gould died in 1982... this is just a recording that Stephenykevin uploaded here for our enjoyment of this beautiful music. Actually, Gould was one of the world's greatest pianists... but he's not anymore between us. His music was too good for this world, I'm afraid...
Baritar 4 years ago
obviously he was kiding...
mozarrowitz 4 years ago 2
Music and human expression finally seep in at Var.25...he got tired of the modern manic autism perpetuated through the majority of the movements hithertofore and gave in to
spirituality at last.This almost redeems all the other unbaroque crimes here.
smithsherman 4 years ago
and there you are again! did you get your money back on that hearing-aid yet?
jef108 4 years ago 3
is he singing?
ryuzakysan 4 years ago
Of course he is. He did it to express his feelings for the music that he thought the piano couldn't. Most Glenn Gould listeners love this eccentricity and welcome hearing it.
cwcascales 4 years ago
Except a young girl I knew of who was listening to him on her walkman in bed, and suddenly jumped up, thinking there was somebody there in the room with her, humming!
NicosNicosNicosNicos 4 years ago
It was the ghost of Glenn Gould. She should have felt honored that he was humming to her. This is music from an angel.
cwcascales 4 years ago
he's one of my top 2 favorites, but definitely a little bit of a loon
davidweiner23 4 years ago
Existe lo inexpresable..esto se muestra a si mismo..es lo Mistico
Wittgenstein
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doublearejazz 4 years ago
Gould was a Bach priest,his 1981 performance , slower than the first is "less" based on technique an'more on meditation ,silence,time for the listener to appreciate one of the highest peaks music reach; both performances are outstanding an' worth a listen if you want to enter the world of J.S.Bach through the main door.Claudio Durgone ,Sassari,Sardinia.
EricDolphyOutToLunch 4 years ago
Try also to listen his live performance in Salisburg... it's impossible to say that's better then the one you was writing about or the one recorded in 1955 but, sure, it's another masterpiece...
godaisan79 4 years ago
I love the live performance in Salzburg. It flows...I
salmonroll 4 years ago
GG rarely used the pedal...
peplicus 4 years ago
Well said, enter the world of J. S. Back through the main door... indeed, it is G. G. Who could doubt that God made him specially for Him, and took him for Himself before his time...?
rsalinasprice 4 years ago
I totally agree...Gould was from another world. Look at the performance, the passionate moves, how he gets lost in Bach's maze physically and spiritually.
robertosms 4 years ago
...probably the most perfect piece of music in the best performance ever.....unbelievable
herm123456 4 years ago 2
You're right!
benoitmonjanel 4 years ago
awesome!
herm123456 4 years ago
Variation 1981 it is
JamesBach 4 years ago
are that variations number 15 to 25?
Tatarigami006 4 years ago