La Valse - Maurice Ravel - Transcribed by Glenn Gould - Part 2

[Frozentoes1]

Anyone who has any doubts about Glenn Gould's stupendous technique only need to watch/listen to this performance.

[3001st]

A magical performance. Who plays this better than Gould? So far, nobody.

[jmussuto]

awesome piano:)

[ArcanoTre]

SPLENDIDO



[NewtHarvest]

I dunno. What he's doing with the piece harmonically is great. But the tempi and the dynamics are a bit too ... flippant, I think. It's like he's mocking the piece. Which maybe was intentional (he was no fan of French music, after all). But I find the flippancy off-putting.

[CaptainBluebear08]

Eat THAT, Horrorwitz.

[sabajojua]

and?

[sabajojua]

No Canpacor! Not video! :) I want the Note to print and play La Valse Transcribed by Glenn Gould I mean!

[canpacor]

@sabajojua

yes, I was only joking :)

[canpacor]

Mamma mia!

[sabajojua]

Where i Can Find notes Transcribed by Glenn Gould ravel`s vals?

[canpacor]

@sabajojua

Here ;)

[javierleonenriquez]

¡¡¡¡BRAVO Glenn!!!!

[VamLoveAndKisses]

5:01 onwards is just heaven!

[chislehurstbat]

@VamLoveAndKisses Agreed! :)

[aboikov]

I discovered this piece - and fell in love with it - through this recording. Gould captures the uneasiness and perversion of this work so well with his "x-ray of the music."

[bachkwt]

why does 5:04 remind me of batman???

the one with George Clooney in it

[andresruval]

@bachkwt lol, I always think the same thing, but yeah, Batman's score is pretty similar.

[zhangensprachen]

I love how above all the polyphony and wonderful harmonies, the pulse reigns supreme. It gives the change of harmony and lovely polyphony a wonderful fluidity and forward motion. GREAT!!!

[Omnichronicles]

YYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA­AAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY GGGGG ++))=))-000)))=

[thechristian01999]

he is just unique, he is just Gould!!!!!!!!!!!

[LordCalvinHastings]

Some of the themes are reminiscent of Gaspard de la nuit.

[chaddyfromtheblock]

I agree, nobody has anything on Glenn Gould. He's got it all -- the composition and the execution. Don't care if you agree, he's the closest thing we have had to a Bach or Beethoven in the last 100 years.

[cfwpiano]

@chaddyfromtheblock You've said it all. Gould is a crazy genius and I love this transcription and performance so much!

[babydrane]

This is masterful but I think the glissandi in Ravel's transcription serve a lot of purposes. They give a sense of movement, fluidity and crystalline beauty to the work. If I had to critique Gould, I would say that some of the romance was written out of his transcription. It's a better version for the piano but ultimately is not as effective in painting that poeme choreographique that Ravel intended. I prefer the orchestral version in general.

[defda94]

Comment est-ce possible qu'il y ai aussi peu de vue la dessus?? C'est magnifique. Un bijou cette transcription de la valse de Maurice Ravel...je m'en lasse pas.!

[Omnichronicles]

I came..

[vp1981ad]

This piece is so much better without those annoying glissandi...

[kasyapa]

such drive and passion! g.g. always surprises.

[aaltobartok]

what brilliant playing. I'm partial to the orchestral version as conducted by Charles Munch, but as always Gould provides a fantastic and deeply original interpretation

[RaRaLandEQ]

this is why the classical scene has died. In the end all that is left are you insolent obsequious children,substituting the multiplicity and myriad colours of art for your cheap subjective experience.True art knows no competition, but is organic and open to interpretation. Wretched urchin with their incessant childish yammering about who's best. No blue is best!, god i cannot stand the sound of red!!!, no there is no greater colour than turquoise!!! Go chase your bread&circus, hoi polloi!

-R.Ant

[ttrons2]

The classical world is so much duller since the lost of this original genius.

[xxh3llfir3xx]

Glenn recorded this as a response to some debate thing between him and Horowitz. I remember him saying, after playing this arrangement made for this occasion, "Horowitz has got nothing on me."

[Iamgavin]

Everything he touches turns to...

[vanderbilt887]

Jesus fucking Christ, this is such an epic masterpiece, wonderfully transcribed and interpreted by Gould. This is sheer genius.

It's such a shame that most people only know Ravel's Bolero.

[demosj]

I like this even better than the orchestrated original, which sounds incoherent in many places. Ravel's own transcription is horrific, at around 4:45 there's agonizingly long glissandi between the chords, it physically hurt to hear something that hackneyed.

[birdlivesforever]

braaaaavv-fucking -ooooooooo.

[dialecticon]

What a marvelous transcription. Everything Glenn does is unsurpassed....

[yuzu1009]

@dialecticon

That he omitted all those distasteful glissando says it all. He literally gave birth to this piece the way no one could challenge. Bravo!

[zhangensprachen]

@yuzu1009 Amen about those glissandos.... @______@

[Omnichronicles]

unsurpassed is exactly how i would describe this transcription and performance. one could spend a lifetime learning to play this and GG did it for entertainment out of his genre. it truly is shit your pants/melt my face good playing..

[555Monsterrr]

聴きたかった演奏！ありがとう！