glenn gould is for me as a simple music lover the greatest pianist for bach music The first classical music icone as james dean and brando have been to movies The secret artist the genious unpoliticaly correct making is art as he wants because all the world eventhough the ones who hate him had to admit is genious
Now who out of all the people who hated this has no clue about what art, culture and music is hmmm? only kidding. but such a beautiful and inspiring piece :')
Please stop all the childish arguments. This is art and genius in the act of creation. It doesn't get much better than this. If you want to bitch at one another go to facebook or something. Some say there are better interpretations of this music, but I feel that's only personal preference. Technically speaking, I haven't heard anyone so brilliantly capable of playing 3 and 4 voices so beautifully as Glen. Each note has its own life. Not many players like him. We miss you Glen.
Amazingly beautiful music and likewise beautifully performed. What I cannot figure out is how Glenn Gould managed to get such a beautiful sound from the piano, playing in such an uncomfortable posture… Well, it is obvious that it was the right one for him. In any event, musical results are what matters…
Seriously each time i watch this video I have a discussion with myself, should I continue to learn piano or not :P cause I can never get that good unless I never see daylight before I die.
@Trogzul That's just about the story of Glenn Gould's life. But he taught me to love Bach. Before his recordings, I had never heard it played musically, clearly, meaningfully.
Unbelievable that so many ppl love to broadcast their utter lack of class. Dunno what the balloons are everyone's crying about oh... Right... I shut that annoying feature off years ago. Now everybody sit down, stfu, and enjoy beautiful music played beautifully.
Re the questions "Who is Glenn Gould?" enter Glenn Gould in Google and read the Wikipedia article. He was a child prodigy pianist born in Toronto Canada of Presbyterian parents. The family name was originally Gold but they changed it during WW II because "Gold" sounded Jewish.
Who the fuck is Glenn Gould, btw? Seems like Jewish.... However, señor, gracias por tan buena música, pero me complace decirle a usted que la partitura completa está en el Bundesarchiv de Sachsen (creo que se dice "Sajonia"), y ojalá la encuentre para que ponga tan buena música con excelentes comentarios :)
tomintroy...your entire argument is useless when you present yourself as illiterate idiot through your atrocious grammar; ..."threw interbreeding"...really?...don't you mean; "through interbreeding"?...or are you one of the morons who use "your" for "you're"?
@marleysalemmango88 , there is something intrinsically wrong with society when it becomes acceptable to be rude, ignorant and cruel. Freedom of expression is certainly acceptable, sociopathic behavior isn't.
@marleysalemmango88 , and your'e saying any kind of behavior is acceptable if it's under the guise of "Freedom of speech and expression". Hilter, Mussolini, Amin, Tito, Stalin, Pinochet, etc all had the same beliefs. It worked out well for them and everyone involved with them, didn't it?
People that use freedom of expression/speech to validate any kind of behavior make me ill.
@Mymieke Wow you are comparing someones comments on youtube to people who committed genocide...You realise that is, again, ridiculous don't you? People should be able to say what they want to say, they should not be able to kill millions of people, if you can't seperate the 2 in your mind then you should probably stop commenting on the subject.
@marleysalemmango88 , and surely you realize you are critisizing me for expressing myself, the very heart of this banter between us. It seems your opinion is the only correct one. With that said, have a Great Christmas. :-)
I have requested that the video be removed from YouTube. There is no indication in the naming of the video that it is a comic juvenile mockery of the pianist.
@kaustin6969 Can we not rise above this fool? Don't read the bubbles, it's pretty simple. It would be a shame for this to be removed because people can't handle an idiot here and there.
F-levi's and their add that appears for some on this page. If you haven't seen it, it's of a white guy and a mixed race/black woman with a bulging pregnant belly with we are to assume his kid. Why is all of corporate America pushing this destruction of diversity threw interbreeding? I think that when the day comes and Japanese looking like Italians and Spaniards looking like Eskimos will be a sad day for what once was diversity.
@tomintroy Fuck Levi's for showing a mixed race couple in their advertising? Sorry I just want to clarify that that is what your comment was getting at.
@jlambdin2 He's right, they really fu**ing suck. Why would you want to put inane babbling over his face when he's playing sublime music? Ok, if it was funny then it'd be excusable. It's not.
@kourosh. No it's not 1600. It's not the 1800's either, so by your dumbass logic why the f*ck would we listen to Beethoven and Chopin? And Radiohead is sooo 1990's, so why the fuck would we listen to that old washed up band? Do you see now how stupid you sound when you spout irrational drivel?
This comment has received too many negative votesshow
Piece of trash composition, by a piece of trash composer, played by a piece of trash pianist.
Glenn Gould sucks as a pianist.
Bach is inferior to Beethoven, Chopin, and Radiohead.
Thumbs up if you're tired of seeing so many shitty classical music videos on Youtube.
This isn't 1600. There is newer and better music out now. Bach and all the other shitty baroque composers are obsolete. Find something better to listen to, people.
@kourosh89 Clearly you know nothing. Chopin, really? And Radiohead hasn't put out a good album, or a real album for that matter, since OK Computer. But I understand, it's just cool to like Radiohead. Keep listening to all these "shitty baroque composers" and "piece of trash pianists", if you have any taste at all, you'll eventually figure it out.
@kourosh89 I'm all for Beethoven, Chopin, and especially for Radiohead, but also for Bach. What's your issue? Each of the artists has something to offer. The simplicity of this piece's form, combined with ever increasing complexity of variations on the same theme....it's timeless. And quite a challenge to play. The elaborate style of the artists you mentioned is wonderful, but it's not the ONLY way to create astoundingly beautiful pieces. Where do you think "newer, better" music came from?
@kourosh89 Not surprising to read such an embarrassingly asinine & ignorant comment coming from you. You have done nothing except to unequivocally display your stupidity for the whole world to see. For your information, Beethoven, Chopin, and pretty much every musician who has lived since idolized Bach and there is incontrovertible proof that he irrevocably influenced the direction Western music would take, but clearly you with your utterly deficient intellectual capacities cannot grasp that.
I love how he goes 'bababababababababa' with each note. My favourite thing is to see what musicians do while they are playing. I know a guy who turns his foot on the side every few seconds when he plays guitar. When I play harmonica I tend to bend on my right knee a little, depending on the rhythm of the song. It's nifty how everyone is so different.
It's amazing that even after all the work Gould and his Technician put into this piano and a sublimely beautifull performance, you can still tell it is a Yamaha! the tone in the middle upper register is so cold and sqaure. There's no replacing CD 318!
Ha I love how you can see him articulating the notes with his mouth; I assume he's also humming them. I find that I just have to smile and laugh in enjoyment.
Hey guys, I heard about this interpreter, his name is JS Bach, and everyone says he's amazing. Do you know where I can find a JS Bach recording, because I just heard he did fantastic JS Bach.
I first heard this recording the morning after he died. I listened to it 4-5 times a week for the next decade, trying to figure out all he put into it. I never did understand it completely, but it was certainly a dialog between the late 20th century and the 18th. Gould was a hero in so many ways and had a shrewd understanding of the direction media was heading.
You know. Although I respect someone's particular talent to play something like that or being best at what he does I do not always see the originality in playing or copying someone elses work. Many modern classical muscians release cds with the same old works over and over. I have heard them all by now. Why do they never create new modern pieces instead of recylcing the olds ones? And why not with other arts? What use is it to create the same painting or photo over and over again? Get me?
@royalsteven That's one of the problems nowadays..although there are people trying, they just usually don't succeed..Plus, if you just saw at this man..This is not copying or recycling..It's like he rewrote the whole thing himself.
@royalsteven no one is allowed to even slightly or suggestively criticise glenn. period. expecially ppl who i figure wouldnt be able to put 3 conseq. notes in harmony. stick to r&b pls. kthxbye
First, I know a lot about music and I make my own. It is about the style you love and really subjective. I love classical also. Second, I wasn't really critizing him or anyone in particular. I was just saying why don't these players make their own stuff more instead of recycling music for over hundreds of years?!?!?!?!?
@royalsteven i find your way of looking at this very odd. pianists like gould did not "recycle" classical music, they preserved it for just a tiny bit longer. he played pieces of strauß who some considered to have had a rather boring composing style, like they have never been heard before basically reinventing entire compositions. and dont think ppl arent trying to "top" the likes of beethoven, bach or mozart nowadays. they are - desperately! lets just say the bar has been set very very high.
@royalsteven Composers need performers. I'm sorry if geniuses like Glenn don't want to waste their time on the music you like. Also, there are tons of composers out there right now searching for musical innovation. Sadly, it takes a long time to tell whether a piece is revolutionary or purely fashionable. Look at JS Bach's sons--many of them were more famous and popular while they were alive than he was, yet it's old Johann Sebastian that people still play today.
@royalsteven I do, I've been wondering about this as well, I think a lot of it has to do with the incredible difficulty that is associated with being a classical composer in modern times. Most of their music is only heard of by a select few, many still have day jobs, and many more turn to composing for various forms of media (films, television, audio books) But because almost all modern classical composers are mostly unheard of, classical music has pretty much become fossilized, which is sad.
Maybe they also do not want to sell out like other musicians do. And refused to get pimped by the music industry. Wich in essence is a good thing. I just think classical composers are able to modernize their sound a bit or are the ones who can create the most awesome, diferent and original pieces of music. They are the most talented. I think it is a pity their own music is not heard a lot.
Hi, guys i'm a Gould fanatic. Sorry for my bad english but i need your help. For my birthday I must increase my book collection about Glenn. I've bought only Tim Page and B. Monsaingeon contributions but I need some suggestions about other material. For instance, which is the book where is mentioned his love for some movies such as winter light by bergman? Is maybe G. Gould selected letters from Gertin and Roberts? Or can be found in K. Bazzana biography?
@Qazproductions1 im 15 and am a huge fan of Bach, Wagner Tallis and Beethoven (i must admit ive never been able to really get into Mozart though)! i also love modern composers like Phillip Glass and Michael Nyman-if you haven't heard them i would highly recommend having a listen. You are not alone!
For anyone who likes to watch this version of the Goldberg Variations in its entirely, Google video has it. You don't have to jump from video to video anymore.
Variatio 5 (7:14-7:49) is sheer beauty and brilliance. Incredibly difficult to play at such speed and accuracy with perfect hand crossing playing technique. Masterful.
74 people are Free-Range Rude<<<<NOTE: i typicly will not jump on the'all the people who disliked are(fill in the blank)' band-wagone... i just couldnt let that one go LMAOOOOO! :P
I'm sure you love GG, we won't doubt you. The pop ups are both distracting and inappropriate. I've been a favorite of this video for years. Please eliminate the pop ups. Future Bach and Gould fans can appreciate the first few movements of the GVs without your constant need for a 'thumbs up.' Thank you for the beautiful post!
this is his second take, but how his experience as an adult shines thru!!
This has the mathematical structure but is informed by such intense emotional connection to the music, so thrue to original intentionk well thats the way it sounds
People can cut Gould, for little reason other then the fact his genius evades their simple minds. Accept reality, that this the ultimate performer and interpreter of Bach. There has been no better person to carry Bachs Standard into the future. Gould is personally responsible for drawing throngs of new admirers to Bach. The genuis of Bach is crystal clear when Gould plays.
This was played and mentioned in the book and movie silence of the lambs
connorpurcell 1 week ago
This is a piano?
GalkaSnaper 1 week ago in playlist Goldberg Variations
Love the sing-along at about 3:30 - 4:00 ! You just KNOW this guy really loves this music - probably sings it in the shower! ;-)
yuyiya 1 week ago
glenn gould is for me as a simple music lover the greatest pianist for bach music The first classical music icone as james dean and brando have been to movies The secret artist the genious unpoliticaly correct making is art as he wants because all the world eventhough the ones who hate him had to admit is genious
dartagnanlevrai 1 week ago
dont understand the reason why you put commenrts
dartagnanlevrai 1 week ago
Why those stupid ballons are you stupid?
EnderoIF 1 week ago
sing it, girl!
miamystery 2 weeks ago
Now who out of all the people who hated this has no clue about what art, culture and music is hmmm? only kidding. but such a beautiful and inspiring piece :')
EliasCalabretta1 2 weeks ago
Please stop all the childish arguments. This is art and genius in the act of creation. It doesn't get much better than this. If you want to bitch at one another go to facebook or something. Some say there are better interpretations of this music, but I feel that's only personal preference. Technically speaking, I haven't heard anyone so brilliantly capable of playing 3 and 4 voices so beautifully as Glen. Each note has its own life. Not many players like him. We miss you Glen.
foonyah 2 weeks ago 8
Amazingly beautiful music and likewise beautifully performed. What I cannot figure out is how Glenn Gould managed to get such a beautiful sound from the piano, playing in such an uncomfortable posture… Well, it is obvious that it was the right one for him. In any event, musical results are what matters…
Kobzar3374 2 weeks ago
If Bach were alive he would say
"Glenn, good job, this is just what I mean"
chochosymphony 2 weeks ago 3
Gould: A tragic genius.
RBNightlinger 2 weeks ago
Seriously each time i watch this video I have a discussion with myself, should I continue to learn piano or not :P cause I can never get that good unless I never see daylight before I die.
Trogzul 2 weeks ago
@Trogzul That's just about the story of Glenn Gould's life. But he taught me to love Bach. Before his recordings, I had never heard it played musically, clearly, meaningfully.
Hypatiarhetoric 1 week ago in playlist Piano, Musical Mentoring
Sinche' - easy ... ;)
cybermental 2 weeks ago
Si me la podrieis enviar; la partitura te agradesco. Como lo podremos hacer? Gracias.
catitamos 3 weeks ago
"Mind the drawings please"
slipperyox 3 weeks ago 3
Unbelievable that so many ppl love to broadcast their utter lack of class. Dunno what the balloons are everyone's crying about oh... Right... I shut that annoying feature off years ago. Now everybody sit down, stfu, and enjoy beautiful music played beautifully.
threenorns3 3 weeks ago
Re the questions "Who is Glenn Gould?" enter Glenn Gould in Google and read the Wikipedia article. He was a child prodigy pianist born in Toronto Canada of Presbyterian parents. The family name was originally Gold but they changed it during WW II because "Gold" sounded Jewish.
sixyous 3 weeks ago
Who the fuck is Glenn Gould, btw? Seems like Jewish.... However, señor, gracias por tan buena música, pero me complace decirle a usted que la partitura completa está en el Bundesarchiv de Sachsen (creo que se dice "Sajonia"), y ojalá la encuentre para que ponga tan buena música con excelentes comentarios :)
viktoruschka 3 weeks ago
Good evening, Clarise...
ViardotVSGrisi 1 month ago 4
Comment removed
1Thompsonmusic 1 month ago
those amazing interpretation and...chair
1011aleksandra 1 month ago
quiero la partitura!!!!
CondeAmor 1 month ago
me encataria conseguir las partituras.. gracias. por compartir ..
josarevalomeyer 1 month ago
that chair is a little down? :)
TheMdDOG 1 month ago in playlist bach variazioni goldberg by gould
tomintroy...your entire argument is useless when you present yourself as illiterate idiot through your atrocious grammar; ..."threw interbreeding"...really?...don't you mean; "through interbreeding"?...or are you one of the morons who use "your" for "you're"?
aubreyaardvark 1 month ago
I can;t believe how mean some of you are. There' is such a thing as freedom of expression .
Obviously some of you don't get it.
Mymieke 1 month ago
@Mymieke I don't understand, you are using the idea of freedom of expression to moan at people for expressing themselves...
marleysalemmango88 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@marleysalemmango88 , there is something intrinsically wrong with society when it becomes acceptable to be rude, ignorant and cruel. Freedom of expression is certainly acceptable, sociopathic behavior isn't.
Mymieke 1 month ago
@Mymieke That's ridiculous. So people are only free to be the way they chose to be if you also agree with it? That's not freedom of expression.
marleysalemmango88 1 month ago
@marleysalemmango88 , and your'e saying any kind of behavior is acceptable if it's under the guise of "Freedom of speech and expression". Hilter, Mussolini, Amin, Tito, Stalin, Pinochet, etc all had the same beliefs. It worked out well for them and everyone involved with them, didn't it?
People that use freedom of expression/speech to validate any kind of behavior make me ill.
Mymieke 1 month ago
@Mymieke Wow you are comparing someones comments on youtube to people who committed genocide...You realise that is, again, ridiculous don't you? People should be able to say what they want to say, they should not be able to kill millions of people, if you can't seperate the 2 in your mind then you should probably stop commenting on the subject.
marleysalemmango88 1 month ago
@marleysalemmango88 , and surely you realize you are critisizing me for expressing myself, the very heart of this banter between us. It seems your opinion is the only correct one. With that said, have a Great Christmas. :-)
Mymieke 1 month ago
I have requested that the video be removed from YouTube. There is no indication in the naming of the video that it is a comic juvenile mockery of the pianist.
kaustin6969 1 month ago
@kaustin6969 please dont... i hate the ignorance of mocking an artist such as gould, but this is, i believe, the only upload of this masterpiece....
terrormonkey1 1 month ago
@kaustin6969 Can we not rise above this fool? Don't read the bubbles, it's pretty simple. It would be a shame for this to be removed because people can't handle an idiot here and there.
marleysalemmango88 1 month ago 4
hey! why you did that stupid ballons on the video?
You are not God! lol @stephenykevin
RogeliaV 2 months ago
F-levi's and their add that appears for some on this page. If you haven't seen it, it's of a white guy and a mixed race/black woman with a bulging pregnant belly with we are to assume his kid. Why is all of corporate America pushing this destruction of diversity threw interbreeding? I think that when the day comes and Japanese looking like Italians and Spaniards looking like Eskimos will be a sad day for what once was diversity.
tomintroy 2 months ago
@tomintroy Fuck Levi's for showing a mixed race couple in their advertising? Sorry I just want to clarify that that is what your comment was getting at.
marleysalemmango88 1 month ago 4
unnervingly slow
CharlieDaChoralier 2 months ago
Your annotations suck. Why inject your ego into the music?
jlambdin2 2 months ago 24
This has been flagged as spam show
@jlambdin2 Because im God, little boy.
stephenykevin 2 months ago
@stephenykevin No you aren't,you're a humourless idiot.
FINKELANDPOLL 1 month ago
@stephenykevin God of what, you asswipe? Of excrement, no doubt?
MrBaristotle 1 month ago
@jlambdin2 He's right, they really fu**ing suck. Why would you want to put inane babbling over his face when he's playing sublime music? Ok, if it was funny then it'd be excusable. It's not.
brn20 2 months ago
@jlambdin2 You can always desactivate them...
VFAClo 1 week ago in playlist Baroque - 1er Semestre
@jlambdin2 and this annotation also wasted the top-liked comment. So bad! :)
MrYumzz 1 week ago
I've listened to Mr. Gould play this 1000 times, and each time I like it more.
Beakerandgreg 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
Anything that is perceived by the sensors will produce an opinion.
To be politically correct (excuse my bastardised English), all we can really say is that Radiohead is Radiohead, Chopin is Chopin etc
There is no Bach > Chopin
Also, there is no 'my opinion' > 'your opinion'
I value a persons opinion less if they impose it on me but there is no law that defines which is more valid or correct
milesmossman 2 months ago
i love this song
tongggsparkk 2 months ago
Supreme & incomparable genius at work.
roman1akid 2 months ago 4
@kourosh. No it's not 1600. It's not the 1800's either, so by your dumbass logic why the f*ck would we listen to Beethoven and Chopin? And Radiohead is sooo 1990's, so why the fuck would we listen to that old washed up band? Do you see now how stupid you sound when you spout irrational drivel?
mrinabsentia 2 months ago
No matter from where, whyever for.. it will always go with the times when I feel quiet in my life.
OneThousandWorlds 2 months ago in playlist OneThousandWorlds's favorites
He is not takeing the repeats, if you are following the music
w343vaughn 2 months ago
With a set of really good headphones, you can actually hear Mr.Gould singing and humming!
Bosmos002 2 months ago in playlist relaxing sounds 3
Ready when you are, Sergeant Pembry
gnjido 2 months ago in playlist OST Playlist
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Piece of trash composition, by a piece of trash composer, played by a piece of trash pianist.
Glenn Gould sucks as a pianist.
Bach is inferior to Beethoven, Chopin, and Radiohead.
Thumbs up if you're tired of seeing so many shitty classical music videos on Youtube.
This isn't 1600. There is newer and better music out now. Bach and all the other shitty baroque composers are obsolete. Find something better to listen to, people.
kourosh89 3 months ago
@kourosh89 Clearly you know nothing. Chopin, really? And Radiohead hasn't put out a good album, or a real album for that matter, since OK Computer. But I understand, it's just cool to like Radiohead. Keep listening to all these "shitty baroque composers" and "piece of trash pianists", if you have any taste at all, you'll eventually figure it out.
seacoastauto 3 months ago
@kourosh89 I'm all for Beethoven, Chopin, and especially for Radiohead, but also for Bach. What's your issue? Each of the artists has something to offer. The simplicity of this piece's form, combined with ever increasing complexity of variations on the same theme....it's timeless. And quite a challenge to play. The elaborate style of the artists you mentioned is wonderful, but it's not the ONLY way to create astoundingly beautiful pieces. Where do you think "newer, better" music came from?
ondenoting 3 months ago
Comment removed
selturyil 2 months ago
@kourosh89 lol ignorant troll be trolling
lhrmeonom 2 months ago
@kourosh89 He HAS to be trolling.
ILikeClassicalGuitar 2 months ago
@kourosh89 Not surprising to read such an embarrassingly asinine & ignorant comment coming from you. You have done nothing except to unequivocally display your stupidity for the whole world to see. For your information, Beethoven, Chopin, and pretty much every musician who has lived since idolized Bach and there is incontrovertible proof that he irrevocably influenced the direction Western music would take, but clearly you with your utterly deficient intellectual capacities cannot grasp that.
adams82683 9 hours ago
I love it :)
lachiquilucero 3 months ago
Awesome interpretation of one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written.
carlosmighty 3 months ago
imo, Gould is the greatest pianist of the 20th century.
BeBopDeluxe85 3 months ago
He is so intense it almost makes me cry!
videmusart 3 months ago in playlist Campbell, MUSIC, Unit 2: Organizing Music
I love how he goes 'bababababababababa' with each note. My favourite thing is to see what musicians do while they are playing. I know a guy who turns his foot on the side every few seconds when he plays guitar. When I play harmonica I tend to bend on my right knee a little, depending on the rhythm of the song. It's nifty how everyone is so different.
videmusart 3 months ago in playlist Campbell, MUSIC, Unit 2: Organizing Music
or ill remove your kidney:)
MrSuede79 3 months ago
for Bachs sake
MrSuede79 3 months ago
please remove stupid speech ballons
MrSuede79 3 months ago 97
@MrSuede79 Click in “Hide annotations”, the red button at right of the inferior bar. ;)
AlexBlackhouse 3 months ago
@MrSuede79 you can remove them yourself , can't you? I thought I saw somewhere that it could be done
cncdaddy 2 months ago
@MrSuede79 you can turn that feature off you know.
TheJaredManning 2 months ago
@MrSuede79 "please remove stupid speech ballons
MrSuede79 1 month ago 39 "
You ol' fogeys need to learn how to youtube! Click the red speech bubble icon to turn captions off, bottom right of the youtube window.
N4CR5 2 months ago 5
@MrSuede79
What do you expect from youtube? Even the name Youtube is stupid.
1Thompsonmusic 1 month ago
@MrSuede79 And may I repeat myself? WHO THE FUCK IS GLENN GOULD?! And I will also repeat that this names seems Jewish, like Goldenberg or Goldenstein
viktoruschka 3 weeks ago
@viktoruschka you're lost, little girl
MrSuede79 2 weeks ago
omg~ remove and disallow the self-promoting link. shameless. ruins the whole thing. casi
darktowersl 3 months ago
..amazing..
faldeon 3 months ago
I just cry ...
DodMoroz 3 months ago
Comment removed
ResurgamZerg 3 months ago
Comment removed
monsoonalley 3 months ago
@monsoonalley ???????
CSPlayerDamon 3 months ago
They should call this the Gouldberg Variations.
titusbeertsen 3 months ago 66
@titusbeertsen Obvious but still a great comment. Thanks.
Doublees 3 months ago
Karl Richter and Glenn Gould are the best interpreters of Bach's keyboard music.
hafrox 3 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
there are 82 people though that the dislike buton was the download buton :D
fubukiiwanami 4 months ago
It's amazing that even after all the work Gould and his Technician put into this piano and a sublimely beautifull performance, you can still tell it is a Yamaha! the tone in the middle upper register is so cold and sqaure. There's no replacing CD 318!
MrSewwes 4 months ago
Hannibal Lecter brought me here
drewcox010101 4 months ago 2
September 25, 2011: The 79th anniversary of the birth of Glenn Gould! He was and remains an incomparable musician of the finest caliber.
kaypapademas 4 months ago
debe haber 83 sordos que han pinchado en "no me gusta"
83 deaf must have been stuck in "do not like"
frankalmer 4 months ago
And rather maliciously I played him the Goldberg Variations . If one wishes to reduce a sensitive German to tears there is no surer lachrymatory .
From The Magus by John Fowles
pelicanmouse 4 months ago
@pelicanmouse "lachrymatory" - lachrymatory [ˈlækrɪmətərɪ -trɪ]
n pl -ries
(Historical Terms) a small vessel found in ancient tombs, formerly thought to hold the tears of mourners
Adj. 1. lachrymatory - relating to or prompting tears
I had to look it up. I learned something, thanks :)
streetfightsecrets 4 months ago
How can you miss so much someone you haven't even met? It´s strange to me but I guess I´m not the only one.
Be light wherever you are,Glenn as you have been light here for us.
Kuhrvenal 4 months ago
4:52
lilletap 4 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
gay ass nigger shit
2666ification 4 months ago
Ha I love how you can see him articulating the notes with his mouth; I assume he's also humming them. I find that I just have to smile and laugh in enjoyment.
amazingwave 4 months ago
Hey guys, I heard about this interpreter, his name is JS Bach, and everyone says he's amazing. Do you know where I can find a JS Bach recording, because I just heard he did fantastic JS Bach.
slaytesics 4 months ago
I visited Gould's grave in Toronto yesterday...only a 15 minute walk from my home. He found a very peaceful place to spend enternity.
tvdruggedzombie 4 months ago 5
genius
ThePinnington7 4 months ago
There is no sound!
graeme011 5 months ago
gould - ul = god
h0652507 5 months ago 7
Comment removed
h0652507 5 months ago
Comment removed
h0652507 5 months ago
I first heard this recording the morning after he died. I listened to it 4-5 times a week for the next decade, trying to figure out all he put into it. I never did understand it completely, but it was certainly a dialog between the late 20th century and the 18th. Gould was a hero in so many ways and had a shrewd understanding of the direction media was heading.
tbriggs7 5 months ago 4
hypnotic playing... i am entranced
LanceCampeau 5 months ago
2:54 ONLY CHILLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
iguarni 5 months ago
Brilliant playing. Lovely interpretation
Equus1965 5 months ago
How beautifuuul!!!!!
Supermabelina 5 months ago
Can't imagine how 81 people disliked this video.
rohanski1 5 months ago
You know. Although I respect someone's particular talent to play something like that or being best at what he does I do not always see the originality in playing or copying someone elses work. Many modern classical muscians release cds with the same old works over and over. I have heard them all by now. Why do they never create new modern pieces instead of recylcing the olds ones? And why not with other arts? What use is it to create the same painting or photo over and over again? Get me?
royalsteven 5 months ago
@royalsteven That's one of the problems nowadays..although there are people trying, they just usually don't succeed..Plus, if you just saw at this man..This is not copying or recycling..It's like he rewrote the whole thing himself.
CSPlayerDamon 5 months ago
@royalsteven wow you went thtough all the hastle of writing these lines just to come off like a completely retarded philistine. grats
urs0r 5 months ago
Ehehe the same for your response but only two lines?!?!?! I feel a little dissapointed!!!?!?! :D
royalsteven 5 months ago
@royalsteven no one is allowed to even slightly or suggestively criticise glenn. period. expecially ppl who i figure wouldnt be able to put 3 conseq. notes in harmony. stick to r&b pls. kthxbye
urs0r 5 months ago
First, I know a lot about music and I make my own. It is about the style you love and really subjective. I love classical also. Second, I wasn't really critizing him or anyone in particular. I was just saying why don't these players make their own stuff more instead of recycling music for over hundreds of years?!?!?!?!?
royalsteven 5 months ago
@royalsteven i find your way of looking at this very odd. pianists like gould did not "recycle" classical music, they preserved it for just a tiny bit longer. he played pieces of strauß who some considered to have had a rather boring composing style, like they have never been heard before basically reinventing entire compositions. and dont think ppl arent trying to "top" the likes of beethoven, bach or mozart nowadays. they are - desperately! lets just say the bar has been set very very high.
urs0r 5 months ago
Yes ok, as long as you add your own style or flavor to it it sok I guesse. Because originality and creativity is what an artist is all about.
royalsteven 5 months ago
@royalsteven Composers need performers. I'm sorry if geniuses like Glenn don't want to waste their time on the music you like. Also, there are tons of composers out there right now searching for musical innovation. Sadly, it takes a long time to tell whether a piece is revolutionary or purely fashionable. Look at JS Bach's sons--many of them were more famous and popular while they were alive than he was, yet it's old Johann Sebastian that people still play today.
117CamBam 5 months ago
Ok :D
royalsteven 5 months ago
@royalsteven I do, I've been wondering about this as well, I think a lot of it has to do with the incredible difficulty that is associated with being a classical composer in modern times. Most of their music is only heard of by a select few, many still have day jobs, and many more turn to composing for various forms of media (films, television, audio books) But because almost all modern classical composers are mostly unheard of, classical music has pretty much become fossilized, which is sad.
TXtab 4 months ago
Maybe they also do not want to sell out like other musicians do. And refused to get pimped by the music industry. Wich in essence is a good thing. I just think classical composers are able to modernize their sound a bit or are the ones who can create the most awesome, diferent and original pieces of music. They are the most talented. I think it is a pity their own music is not heard a lot.
royalsteven 4 months ago
awesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesomeawesome
bondlake123 5 months ago
35237502347850347856047835602739560237502732902057928570285023856039285702895682437608260892467508934760827087608273406872089370387029384706983270987236098723098470268203697239673028670236723406872306872306872068723063726802678237620873867862087108103984210189278468726872890172817687201170870187082702782011011117281702873087502354201570168170261837252714781071658671881981386468680348016810387588078087082687206882743578181707843582508701889289256892572985106588512896028562815612618160816081281811
bondlake123 5 months ago
Splendid!
megadethrulez1 5 months ago
-24545357r6768786898999969c87c8ct68ctcui9c679yv7-
bondlake123 5 months ago
Hi, guys i'm a Gould fanatic. Sorry for my bad english but i need your help. For my birthday I must increase my book collection about Glenn. I've bought only Tim Page and B. Monsaingeon contributions but I need some suggestions about other material. For instance, which is the book where is mentioned his love for some movies such as winter light by bergman? Is maybe G. Gould selected letters from Gertin and Roberts? Or can be found in K. Bazzana biography?
vinciano 6 months ago
@vinciano Not sure which one you mean but definately get "Thomas Bernhard - The Loser". You can thank me later :)
urs0r 5 months ago
@urs0r i will order it with amazon. Thx in advance!
vinciano 5 months ago
What I love about this is that Glenn prove to human race than even you can not reach perfection, you can always put away the limits of your art
Laurentpiano9 6 months ago
G-O-U-L-D is mispelled in this video, it goes without the the 'U-L.'
mookiebomber 6 months ago 6
This has been flagged as spam show
ME LA PASAS A MI MSN ??? pabloahmad@hotmail.com
PABLOAHMAD1 6 months ago
@Qazproductions
I'm thirteen and I do.
Especially mozart, beethoven, bach, shostakovich, brahms etc
But I also love Bruce Springsteen
12larks 6 months ago
Great!!!
MrMrMikayel 6 months ago
"ready when you are sergeant Pembry"
MAPISNOTTHETERRITORY 6 months ago 2
If you are a teenager 13 - 16 please respond to this comment because I feel as if I'm the only teen that listens to this type of music..
Qazproductions1 6 months ago
@Qazproductions1
I am 18, but I used to be 16 and listen to this.
TheKeenanBoy 6 months ago
@Qazproductions1
I started when I was 13. I was the only one I knew for years.
MrMaultaschen 6 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@Qazproductions1
I started when I was 13. I was the only one I knew for years.
MrMaultaschen 6 months ago
@Qazproductions1 im 15 and am a huge fan of Bach, Wagner Tallis and Beethoven (i must admit ive never been able to really get into Mozart though)! i also love modern composers like Phillip Glass and Michael Nyman-if you haven't heard them i would highly recommend having a listen. You are not alone!
MrAlfred1995 5 months ago
@Qazproductions1 I'm 19 now but started listening to this stuff at 16 with NO family background or previous exposure at all.
SecondAgeOfReason 5 months ago
How to enjoy this video:
Step 1: turn off annotations
Amarelaoo1 6 months ago 5
Genius, the both of them !
Darkboy2525 6 months ago
@Darkboy2525 this is outstanding :O I can imagine you playing this one day :D
SertavisSaviPianist 6 months ago
@SertavisSaviPianist IF that day is there, I am a happy man :) ... very happy .. most wonderfull pieces
Darkboy2525 6 months ago
I love this.
avalucky11 6 months ago
I can't stand his fuckiing noises.
Botchlae 6 months ago
jesus christ those pop up comments! who did that? I never want to see this again
newyorkcat 6 months ago
For anyone who likes to watch this version of the Goldberg Variations in its entirely, Google video has it. You don't have to jump from video to video anymore.
fenderbender92 7 months ago
>read this comment
>turn off annotations
MrDeathStalk 7 months ago
AGREE WITH EVERYONE: WHAT IS THE POINT OF THE COMMENT BUBBLES?? STUPID BEYOUND BELIEF!!
Machru 7 months ago
Variatio 5 (7:14-7:49) is sheer beauty and brilliance. Incredibly difficult to play at such speed and accuracy with perfect hand crossing playing technique. Masterful.
ajhzr 7 months ago
The "Gouldberg Variations"
dantelomas88 7 months ago
@dantelomas88 --
Ha!
jojojo943 6 months ago
Is this an attempt at humor? I don't get it. Why take a nice video of a genius doing his craft and besmirch it with moronic comments?
QMPhilosophe 7 months ago 88
@QMPhilosophe ur a dumbass those commets are glenns
meiro00102 6 months ago
well i thought it really funny, come on lighten up, doesnt detract any, silly billy
ratfiend1 6 months ago
Respond to this video... mi gusta mucho , gracias stephen
ratfiend1 6 months ago
dude i totally agree with you!
gouldbergvariations 4 months ago
@ 2:54 Heroes 2 soundtrack ; )))
olommentes 7 months ago
Absolute perfection!!
JimL1137 7 months ago
I immideately remembered Hannibal.
Virtuon777 7 months ago
You could really see his passion.
TheTimeTraveler100 7 months ago
74 people are Free-Range Rude<<<<NOTE: i typicly will not jump on the'all the people who disliked are(fill in the blank)' band-wagone... i just couldnt let that one go LMAOOOOO! :P
StraytRayzorSymphony 7 months ago
I'm sure you love GG, we won't doubt you. The pop ups are both distracting and inappropriate. I've been a favorite of this video for years. Please eliminate the pop ups. Future Bach and Gould fans can appreciate the first few movements of the GVs without your constant need for a 'thumbs up.' Thank you for the beautiful post!
danenhod 7 months ago
I don't get the speech balloons.
xultradragonslayerx 7 months ago
Mi favorita
isoldaYTristan 8 months ago
this is his second take, but how his experience as an adult shines thru!!
This has the mathematical structure but is informed by such intense emotional connection to the music, so thrue to original intentionk well thats the way it sounds
utterly billiant
Troubled mabye, a genius for sure
Cheeseatingjunglista 8 months ago
A master at work.
wjs1234 8 months ago
Im surprised it hasn't been renamed the Gouldberg variations
bobbit1042 8 months ago 4
Oh my.. Thanks Gould and Bach.. This is so DIVINE.. How come all those wars?
renaissoque777 8 months ago 30
@renaissoque777 Very simple--they had not heard neither Bach nor Gould as of yet.
EmperorCQX 5 months ago
@EmperorCQX u're very right!
renaissoque777 5 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@renaissoque777 This has everything to do with wars...
julienprog 4 months ago
Screw history. They should subtitle these "Also Known As, The Glenn Gouldberg Variations".
BachUnderground 8 months ago
People can cut Gould, for little reason other then the fact his genius evades their simple minds. Accept reality, that this the ultimate performer and interpreter of Bach. There has been no better person to carry Bachs Standard into the future. Gould is personally responsible for drawing throngs of new admirers to Bach. The genuis of Bach is crystal clear when Gould plays.