Glenn Gould - Bach - BWV 828 - 4 - Aria

[quelbop]

Gould is often refreshing in his approach - i love the changes he incorporates from 0:16 ie. putting the left hand material higher than the right hand. i've never heard this before, and it works brilliantly.

Alexis Weissenberg is also good in this Partita.

[VjArkiv]

I♥...

[wReCktangle]

So, I guess Bach was pretty good at playing music.

[RhaegarTargaryen1884]

The Baroque King

[kateskeys]

NO SHIT

[420Jaemillz]

haha you can hear him humming away

[outsidemendham]

...comments are so fucking gay over here.

[Gflapcamel]

Anyone know how old Larry King is in this recording?

[estenrique]

(SIGH) No pedal is so much relief in my part for Bach. Thanks to god that the Harpsichord was first and not the piano!

[apuland]

Thank you so much Glenn, you make my life more hapiness, more interesting, more... all!

[Sylvain894]

Maybe i'm superstitious but I don't see Mr GG, i see another man; an old man. After the pretty guy i saw on videos, smiling and playing; this one is rather maybe a sick GG, not the gay one that we all know !!! It looks more like an employed who did his job and ready to come home caring for his back and swallowing his pills to have a nice sleep not to get a cold winter wind : poor guy, so long GG !

[BrigitC1]

@Sylvain894

I don't see an old man here; I see GG at his peak. Yes, he had a bad back (as the result of a childhood injury). And yes, he tended to hunch over the piano. But these videos are priceless. BTW, he wasn't gay.

[Sylvain894]

@BrigitC1 Gay(in French, gai) for glad or enthusiastic, not homophilia FGS !

[arschgrauviolett]

@BrigitC1 Gay means joyful in that sense, the original meaning of the word.

[songczar]

Wonderful performance, complexity exemplified with exacting virtuosity. Rocket science for the ear.

[fhurvhur]

Dislike? How vulgar. Dislikers human being membership must be terminated immediately.

[sosamuera]

If you think this is not a man, what were Bach, Mozart?

[physikphilosoph]

fabulous, but too robotic for my taste. in guldas bach playing i hear more distance and respect for bach. but anyway, masterful!

greets physikphilosoph

[verreglasse]

@physikphilosoph "greets physikphilosoph"

we don't want to hear your greetings

but an unequivocal statement

that Gould remains

unsurpassed with

his Bach playing

(what he is)

;-)

[mattbod]

Never understood this fuss over playing Bach on a particular instrument. The great man himself arranged Vivaldi Concerti for the Organ so was guilty himself. I think he would have loved the range of a modern Concert Grand although he did not like the very first pianos.

One another note: i adore Glenn Gould: he was a phenonenal artist and nobody plays Bach quite like him but the humming on the CDs I have of him always takes a bit of the pleasure away even though I am now used to it... He said h

[markus267]

Jesus was even op aarde,in de vorm van Glenn Gould

[KABRIS1]

What astounds me is that I read alot of comments criticizing Gould's interpretations of Bach. No other performer brings Bach's music to life like Gould.

[MouAresounTaPneusta]

@KABRIS1 Light attracts flies :D

[KABRIS1]

@MouAresounTaPneusta Thank you!

[snakeweirdo]

Amazing technique!

[pepitho]

Lo que nunca he entendido es cómo podía tocar sobre un asiento tan bajito... y tan maravillosamente.

[timo201282]

although i don't like bach played on a piano it sounds very good!!

[Norbeone]

@timo201282

It makes absolutely no sense to me than you don't like something that you admit sounds good. If it sounds good, then like it. Clearly you must be appealing to some sort of infantile purism - something that will only ever detract from your appreciation of music as a whole. Who cares if Bach didn't write the piece for piano? I'm confident that he'd have only encouraged people to play his music on almost any instrument. Lighten up :)

[savant2k]

this is clearly NO MAN,,,,this is ....i dont know what ..but all i know is we have a creature who disguize himself as a homo sapien,,,,but clearly with this kind of playing we can conclude this is no MAN.....lol

[amadeokusch]

no what he seems define what he is, what he does is what what define him...

[gouldaddict]

@savant2k

In the documentar "The Russian Journey", one of the guys who met him says: "I can earnestly tell you that he (Gould) was an alien. No human being could play like that."

[antimatterXXXIII]

@savant2k Enrico Fermi said, if aliens existed, we would know because they would already be here by now. And he was right..

[ubbddu]

i dont know why but this piece sounds rather "secular" and less serious than others.... its like a happy village tune. still great.

[superjam18]

I like how Bach music requires total independence of each hand

[dedemaister]

his music actually requires total indipendence of every single finger.

[WhyOweYou2b]

no such thing. everything's interlaced. total independence of each hand = two pianists. the brain can do but so much.

[vespersinblue]

Beyond perfection !

[RenoRaider]

i bet you know all about gay huh honey?

[jojopooo]

wtf

[FREEASTHESTARS]

Spectacular!!!!

[Horowitz02]

He's the GOD of Bach Piano Music!!!!!!!!!!

[OrganoAeternam]

@Horowitz02 odd choice of words being the first Forte Pianos where just becoming semi prevalent in Bach's last few years on this earth. This is Harpsichord/Clavichord/Organ music....not piano music. :)

[Platyzoan]

@OrganoAeternam Don't be such a pedantic ass. The pieces Bach wrote for harpsichord are now played far more often on pianos than on harpsichords; therefore, these compositions have indeed become "piano music." I would be surprised if Bach himself, after seeing how his music has been interpreted, would object to the term.

[OrganoAeternam]

@Platyzoan So you are saying then, if someone chooses to play a Bach organ work on a piano then it becomes a piano work? Hardly so. It still remains an Organ work just as this will remain a Harpsichord work performed on a piano-forte. I am not being an ass...simply stating a fact.

[Platyzoan]

@OrganoAeternam When it is played on a piano, then, at the very least for the duration of that piano performance, it is piano music, and that is a fact. Yes, you are right that Bach didn't write for piano, but his music has found a comfortable home on the instrument, and if you keep quibbling about this, you are proving yourself to be a pedant who obnoxiously wants to prove himself the smartest one in this comment section.

[Ianthe22]

@Platyzoan Think you are right. You guys just argue what is the right term here. Well he answers it himself. One refers to the current piece as the one infront of you and refers to the other one as the original piece. Really simple. Maybe it was just late and he was tired be4 he commented you.

[Ianthe22]

@OrganoAeternam I think you should divide a piece into what it is. You answered it yourself. Yes the piece was originally written for another instrument. But this piece is played on this instrument and as such written for this instrument. But you are right the ORIGINAL piece is written for another instrument. I think you should refer to the object that is current and infront of you and then you can mention and higlighting that the piece was originally written for another instrument.:D:D-.

[KABRIS1]

@OrganoAeternam This is the classic debate. If you discard the notion that Bach's music has to be played a certain way, or an a certain instrument, you are left with Gould's master interpretation of Bach's music. I am more concerned with the production and interpretation of the music. You cannot fully appreciate the music if you are imposing prescribed guidelines to it.

[Tyronethe24th]

@Horowitz02 J.S. Bach himself would be greatly disappointed if his music didn't point us to the true God, who is known through his Son, Jesus Christ.

[phil00005]

wow gould was the better i love it so much. Thank you for all

[infernobegins]

Part of the reason his playing sounds so unique (harpsichord-like) is that he has manipulated the action on his Steinway extensively. He is in more direct control, i.e., less separated from the key to the hammer by the intervention of the action.

[marirossi]

what a technique! and what a marvellous sound!

[juanbach66]

Is a dream wonderful preciously, Thanks Gould!!!

[Scrumtrillescent1]

Close my eyes and it's a harpsicord.

[CD318]

True....and an amazing sound beyond belief.

[readingpleasure]

It Does Indeed sound like a Hapsichord.

[Norbeone]

Does anyone know if the changes he makes in the repeat of the first section are Glenn's own additions? They aren't in the score. They're very interesting and effective variants of the section. I love it!

[Norbeone]

Unbelievable!