Glenn Gould-Prelude from Bach's English Suite 3 (BWV 808)

[iguarni]

Glenn you're not here but your incredible talent will last forever and ever! R.I.P. Genius!!!!!!

[pianollove]

yazın inşallah bu muhteşem suite i çalacağımmm

bach...

glenn gould <3

[dedeasdfg]

I LOVE THIS!!!!!

[MuseDuCafe]

By conparison, this just shows that Angela Hewitt and like interpreters as playing Bach in far too precious, pretty and "reverent" a manner. Bach might be beautiful, but it is not Hallmark card sweet ball-less music. Go Glenn!

[bigcalamaro]

@smilingiseasier ahahahahahha good luck!

[AntonovaTatyana]

какому идиоту не понравилос

[roseannastargirl]

Perfection! Beautiful!!!



[FurutayoshimotoAgon]

強弱の対比に頼らない。ペダルを抑制する。音が鋭角的になること­を抑えて、展開部（兼再現部）で美しいスタッカートをここぞと使­う演出。完全に把握された声部。美しい秋の音色。フランス風序曲­の演奏の延長にあり、イギリス組曲４番と対をなす1974年の録­音。ベートーベンの交響曲８番や、ヴァイオリンソナタ10番に相­当するグールドの境地。

[SecondAgeOfReason]

I like this piece a bit slower and heavier. I guess it has a kind of chunky satisfaction to it missing when it's light as a feather here.

[gorftran43]

crap.....I have to learn this.

[g0dsaves]

Such a delight... Thank you Bach... and Gould

[tomdoml]

WOW as flawless as midi!!!

[interval999]

@tomdoml

JSB en midi est très agréable à écouter. Le midi se prête bien au contrepoint.

[indigoblue555]

When a genius meets a genius.....words can't match emotions.

[cloudftw93]

Fuck i love tierce de picerdi's!

[BachHarmony]

@cloudftw93 lol

[fernandofariajunior]

What is it about Glenn Gould that his Bach is so superior to anyone elses? This guy just hit the ball out of the park... but it's so hard to explain why in words!

[crob647gtx]

c o l d b l o o d e d m u r d e r!!!!

[spiderglide]

impeccable timing - romping good time this one!

[mmjt0]

Quando Gould suona Bach è semplicemente irraggiungibile anche per pianisti specializzati in Bach come Schiff o per i sommi come Pollini. Una sensibilità enorme e uno studio continuo, basti pensare alla differenza fra le Variazioni Goldberg del 1955 e quelle del 1982, costituiscono la base della sua arte. Non riesco a immaginare che si possa suonare la tastiera di Bach meglio di così, né ora né mai. Semplicemente un monumento dell'arte.

[larryjohnny]

it's nice, but kind of defeats the purpose of being on Youtube if it's just a still picture with no video ? what the point of watching, it's more of a radio now... could you post some actual video of him playing.. I heard he would over dub a billion times and wasn't that good with out the aid of modern technology to clean up his mistakes...

[ChrisWatch]

@larryjohnny Glenn Gould making a mistake? lmao. wasn't that good? LMAO. You've been ill-informed.

[Timrath]

@ChrisWatch Why do you laugh? Have you never heard him make a mistake?

[ChrisWatch]

@Timrath What kind of mistake are we talking about?

[Timrath]

@ChrisWatch What I have noticed:

Slipped notes: rare, but it did happen to him occasionally.

Ignoring or even reversing the composer's dynamical or agogical markings: quite often.

Phrasing that would be utterly unthinkable in the composer's time: especially common when he plays Bach. Like, for example, the way he binds together notes that belong to entirely different phrases.

[morvensky]

@larryjohnny There are fantastic live recordings of him that are devoid of mistakes.

[pila406]

@larryjohnny I don't where you have read all of it, but this is far from reality. His technique was among the best. He was such a perfectionist and I've never heard him taking a wrong note even in a live concert.

He wouldn't forgive him-self for a technical mistake.

[str3123]

@pila406 well, In an interview he told he recorded a wrong note on schoenberg :p

Search for "gould il ritiro" on ytube. I think is the 4th part of the video, not sure anyway.

[xxh3llfir3xx]

@larryjohnny Glenn Gould making a mistake is about as probable as you fucking a horse.

[larryjohnny]

@xxh3llfir3xx very rude comment and makes no sense ! If you have something musically related I'm all ears, otherwise keep the highschool immature language to yourself !

I've read a few books on Gould and own a few of his CDs, they are great ! However, perfection of notes shouldn't be the goal for a musician, since a computer can easily do that.. We as human beings must add the element of human touch, something that a computer can't do, atleast not yet !

Gould was a cool dude, but overdubbing ?

[jessegguitar]

@larryjohnny i thought it was a fabulous outstanding comment.. with great taste

[Ianthe22]

@larryjohnny Just being curious. How can a computer easily do that?

[larryjohnny]

@Ianthe22 well you could begin by programming all the notes into a midi program, then begin tweaking the rhythm to make it sound how you want. i'm totally against that concept unless that's what your art is about, just to claim that it's a live recording when it's majorly studio'd out !

[Ianthe22]

@larryjohnny Still. There are things that is way too complicated to plot into a computer. By doing a recording it is often easier. Notations is a very simplistic way to describe actual tones. I agree that notations in a computer or roll is very often difficult for human hands to play, but vice versa it's also difficult to notate actual live recordings. Don't make it so simple it's more complicated than that!

[100nemesis100]

@xxh3llfir3xx Almost a certainty then.

[beakt]

@larryjohnny He dubbed more for the purpose of re-thinking how he wanted it to sound vs. how he performed it in the moment. A certain way of expressing a phrase can sound like exactly what you wanted to convey, but then you try it a different way and like that better, or just hear your own recordings later (10 minutes or 10 years later) and want to do it differently. Gould wanted to get it just right and drove himself and his engineers almost nuts trying to get it.

[Deesade86]

If you listen with headphones, you can hear Gould humming away as his playing. It's actually a little distracting

[TheOtherMusicMan]

@Deesade86 Gould's personal signature seemed to be his humming baritone in the background, I find it all the more endearing. And while it's true the sound techs did as much as they could to filter it out, they left us enough to listen to this rare specimen with a little bit more of his soul sounding from his throat as well as what came off his fingers. Would you not think it totally cool if you could've heard Beethoven or Bach humming along also?

[RaraAvisAustralis]

Meraviglioso... Bach è un dono di Dio all'Umanità, e Gould ne è un interprete formidabile.

[humpert]

come un umano possa suonare in questo modo è uno dei misteri della vita...

[chrish12345]

@noratranvouez yh troo nora

[inmanln01]

@hanayoosweet hahahhhahhahahhahaa

[inmanln01]

@hanayoosweet 

[chrish12345]

@hanayoosweet who bach or gg

[oneginee]

Let it be known glenn gould was a left handed person. All left handed people in a world built for right handed people, here is one of our own insurpassable by any right handed pianist. I believe firmly that there are physical advantages in the brain of left h. people for the playing of contrapunctal music.

[1GGaddict]

Outstanding interpretation !

perfect independance of the hands and exquisite polyphony !

[magor665]

FUCK! Gould is the best

[helenagothicangel13]

This is a grandiose work - behind Bach's music hides every emotion that exists.

[lympheneas]

@helenagothicangel13 Bach is not the only one... even more, there are some ''emotions'' as you say that only exist in some other great composers, most notably -and the first thing that comes to mind- Chopin in Nocturne Postumes No16. this ''emotion'' is one, sadly, bach NEVER understood. never. The second one is from L.V.Beethoven, Piano Concerto No.3 Op.37 in C minor. And that second one is what truly matters.

[helenagothicangel13]

@lympheneas Thankfully, that is the beauty of music...Of Art even.

[lympheneas]

@helenagothicangel13 ?? but what does it have to do with what you previously said? you replied without reading your own comment. haha fantastic!

[helenagothicangel13]

@lympheneas Check your inbox.

[abyfromgreece]

Bach keeps me going when I m really down!

[beautyandtruth09]

Meraviglia.

[carnagegerman]

@beautyandtruth09 Si, el Senor Bach tenia una compresion de la musica que verdaderamente era maravillosa.

[maricahn]

@carnagegerman Te estás equivocando totalmente; los mp3 modernos que hay ahora son mucho mejores en compresión musical que Bach; que no llegó a desarrollar nada.

[Alanuboat]

@maricahn Escuchá la versión del maestro Gould es maravillosa no hay nada igual!! hasta podes oirlo cantar cuando toca!

[genghisfrank]

@maricahn HA! What ratio? thresh--what??

[twolegsnotail]

To kirkindysolospock: Gould was a real bullshitter in the most positive way. He only lamented The Beatles and he didn't say they were boring. Read what he wrote: The Glenn Gould Reader. A little research and reflection goes a long way toward making intelligent remarks.

[twolegsnotail]

To kirkindysolospock: Gould was a real bullshitter in the most positive way. He only lamented The Beatles and he didn't say they were boring. Read what he wrote: The Glenn Gould Reader. A little research and reflection goes a long way toward making intelligent remarks.

[twolegsnotail]

To kirkindysolospock: Gould was a real bullshitter in the most positive way. He only lamented The Beatles and he didn't say they were boring. Read what he wrote: The Glenn Gould Reader. A little research and reflection goes a long way toward making intelligent remarks.

[rainedog87]

I love the clarity of his playing.

[KABRIS1]

He sits low so that he can PULL down the keys from below, instead of pushing down the keys from above. This is an effective pianistic technique. People that love to concentrate on Gould's eccentricities are not seeing the forest for the trees. What is important about him was his artistic contribution to the world. He was a master of technique and interpretation. He brings Bach's compositions to life like no other pianist can. Thank you god, for creating Bach & Gould, a marvelous combination!

[gerubach72]

I wish he'd play his pieces on harpsichord but I suppose that's why we have Trevor Pinnock for that.

[TheShining1976]

pass the gray poopoaus

[TheOtherMusicMan]

@gerubach72 Having wondered that myself I compared identical music of piano to harpsicord. Overall, I feel less a need to scratch myself constantly after 15 or 20 minutes of listening to piano music. Glen's 1890 Chickering had an interesting crossover sound. I dont know whether that was an original feature or as a rebuild spec, (harder felt heads). Anyone know?

[jorumpl]

bach makes sense

[megagnathos]

so close to nature, really.

[unalegeli]

superb

[kirkindysolospock]

I'm obsessed with Glenn Gould. It's much better when he plays piano, rather than his impersonations, which no one had the balls to say to his face that he wasn't funny, because he was so famous. Glenn Gould didn't like rock and roll at all, though, he found it monotonous to listen to.

[morvensky]

I don't know if he was trying to be funny, but to be honest, if he was, I would luahg even if I did not find it funny :P

[rokizifredi]

Yawn...

[vivascargill]

This is just remarkable why did you leave us Glenn in 1980? The world is so diminished without you. Why did you have to go?

[jumporburngv]

glenn gould is a bozohead who likes to eat poopie

[mzeke1000]

Glenn Gould's Bach ... sublime beauty and perfect understanding of the music.

[PointyTail]

I live like ten min from GGs grave. I go over like once a month.

[RequiemforSephiroth]

@PointyTail Where it is ?

[iguarni]

I know this piece very well and I can't realize again how Glenn is able to play in such a wonderful way!!!! Glenn you are the best Bach interpreter ever in history!!!!!!!!

[Erikk91]

i'd prefer he not to sing during the piece...

[tombaker1222]

I can't hear it, but it wouldn't be uncommon - that's just how he did things.

[saltlakecity2002]

Beautiful style of playing, it's incredible. So much fluidity throughout this piece.

[jrogaw]

Yes, it's unbelievable. He plays like he is tossing balls from one hand to the other.

But truly - no hay palabras.

[DulceAgonia]

fuck off

[ragazzafacile18]

GLENN GOULD IS GOD.

[tommyIglesias]

gloria a bach y a glenn gould!

[MarcoCortex]

q belleza y no hay palabras para describir su obra!

[rwrsoares]

Muito bonito! Um especialista em Bach.

[md65000]

I love this performance. To any students: You should aspire to sound this good but for God's sake don't sit at the piano like he is in the picture!

[Gregolian]

or the way Ivo Pogorich does... yes i realize i spelled that wrong. i played this song and the guy that used to tune Gould's piano heard it and said it was awesome...

[jerbiebarb]

Glenn gave much of his estate to help animals. That also impresses me immensely.

[fbager]

@md65000 To all students: do exactly what you want, that's what Glenn did.

[abyfromgreece]

Just perfect. How life would be witout Bach?

[ugluspegill]

...breathing without oxygen?

[sosamuera]

I can not imagine life without Mozart

[warrenchoi]

Life would be horrible without Bach.

[warrenchoi]

Life would be horrible without Bach

[Wlhea]

@abyfromgreece It would be better...

I'm studying Bach ( two english suite and three symphonies...) and I hate it ...

It will be beautiful, but it's so difficult

[abyfromgreece]

@Wlhea Yes, but when you' ll be ready you' ll feel like another person!

[yenrabaraho]

@abyfromgreece

Within the arts, I believe Bach's talent to be the greatest gift from God mankind has received. I am eternally grateful to God for Bach and very grateful to Bach for the immense hard work he did. Mendelsohn's discovery and revival of Bach's work to the public leaves us in his debt.

[BachHarmony]

@abyfromgreece worse, but better without Gould

[wiiwin6]

This is a really nice run through of this piece.

[superrockgod13]

amazing

[iguarni]

Fantastic perfection!!!!! Bach is a real genius!!!!!

[worbonom]

As is Gould!

[iguarni]

Yes! I love Glenn's performances. He is in my five pianists top list with Richter, Horowitz, Benedetti Michelangeli and Lipatti but who is able to compose such beautiful music from nothing is a genius more.

[umdala]

@iguarni Life without Bach would rock!

[umdala]

@iguarni Life without Bach would rock! Just kidding - I used to hate this stuff and now it's one of my absolute favorite things. But man, those first twenty years - if I heard baroque music it almost would make me go postal. Still, it sounds as though Bach drank an awful lot of coffee!

[KABRIS1]

@umdala He did!

[TheOtherMusicMan]

@umdala lol " sounds as though Bach drank an awful lot of coffee! " I love it.

Reminds me a little of the movie Amadeus. Tom Hulce did excellent job of portraying Mozart as a young twerp with endless energy and enthusiasm and wrote similiar music..... high energy, fun, joyful, playful happy. But we know Bach was a deeply religious man. Bach knew the love of god, the joy and the reverence.  Coffee makes all things better. Gonna get me some NOW!

[pila406]

@iguarni Hey, you! What about Gould? I think he deserves this title too!

[ChrissAnderssenSzec]

This is Bach's music...w.d.

[analka1]

Wow, brings out the recurring eighth notes motive exceptionally. Very exciting performance as well.

[shpreetzmerudy]

he was the only pianist who truly understood Bach and the best interpreter of his music.. ever

[TubeSpoker]

Segovia is together with Gould my favorites.

[zrehar23]

to strong

[Chopin1986]

I love and admire Glenn Gould's art of play. A true artist!!

[Ekpyrotic]

Why does Gould always play so fast?

[matarocieros]

He just play it at tempo giusto. He's the best performing Bach. You can hear Gould playing slower in BWV 775 for example.

[Chopin1986]

@ Ekpyrotic

Pogorelich plays it much faster. This tempo is just right!

[TubeSpoker]

I think not to arouse the slope spirit..hahaahha

[jacarandaxia]

His performance is so distinct! I don't like Adrea Schiff's interpretation. Anyone like Italian Concerto? The third movement is super! I try to learn how to play that. Too hard.

[1054kl]

i can do the first movement but i didn't play the third yet

[Musicuss]

sublime

[p10nker100]

No doubt about it ;

Glenn Gould has established himself as the absolute Gold Standard for the interpretation of the music of JS Bach.

[Chopin1986]

nobody will ever be able to play Bach like he did!!

[PhilippeLernould]

I agree

[wolfgang7445]

Ralph Kirkpatrick, Wanda Landowska, and Ton Koopman own over gould

[hacelocononda]

haha...

you are being funny.

Gould plays bach like if it had just descended from heaven. It's unique. Qhile Kirkpatrik, Landowska, etc. Do not stand out as Gould does.

[wolfgang7445]

RIGHT, Wanda Landowska the women who single handedly STARTED the Bach revival does not "stand out" like gould. Just because you sit on a low chair, moan and groan while you play, and clip your piano like its a harpsichord doesnt make you good. Without people like Landowska there would not have been an early music revival.

[yourforte]

Well said wolfgang7445

[Beigak]

Genius