Bach - English Suite 2 in A minor BWV 807 - 1/7

[algiardello]

All props to Gould, but Pogorelich's version is better.

[adityajaya]

im here because of schindlers list

[TastyTriscut]

Yeah, Schindler's List brought me here too, but it's kind off ironic that there is an ad for a Johna Hill movie before the song, no?

[EricHaverpowell]

I find Glenn Gould's recording difficult to listen to because of his humming in the recording, but I do like his playing.

[silvy7113]

10

[Wisest90]

Schindlers List brought me here.

[jonjin960]

if this song were a potato,

itd be a good potato

[piddledude]

danny elfman liked this

[Haaggus]

@piddledude how do you know?

[piddledude]

amazing

[PhenylbutyricAcid]

Extremely competent! Very good!

Just somewhat lifeless and bland as far as expression goes (at his current state of development.)

I'm sure that Mr Gould has potential as a pianist as long as he keeps his heart open. Best of luck!

[liveforeverUK2008]

@PhenylbutyricAcid - ok, you have voiced your opinion, but do you realise that this video is a perfect rendition of J.S Bach's work...? I suggest you keep your ("up your own arse") mouth closed. This video includes nothing about being competent, it is one of the closest versions of the original piece you can actually listen to. So why not fuck off and go teach your next two-bit music class, wanker.

[buzzflydunbother]

@liveforeverUK2008 its such a disappointment that no supposed gould fan has the sense of humour he did...

[buzzflydunbother]

@PhenylbutyricAcid AHAHAHA xD

[rococoness]

the image is beautiful and so is the song <3

[scout6686]

pure genius

[str3123]

Fantastic!

[justinmutchler]

Brilliant, some of my favorite memories of playing the piano was the months I spent learning the English Suites. Thank you for posting!

[seltzhacker]

Please give me some advice on my solo that I did recently on my channel! Thanks!

[edelweissyin]

"-Ist da Bach ? -Nein, Mozart, idiot."

the dialoge from a very famous U.S. film appears this melody :)

[Enix5548]

@edelweissyin You mean Schindler's List?

[CrazyForCooCooPuffs]

@Enix5548 HURR DURR

[Enix5548]

@CrazyForCooCooPuffs You're funny

[CrazyForCooCooPuffs]

@Enix5548 yea im a real class act

[ulisesbelloramos]

@edelweissyin You have reason

[1Janny1]

This piece makes me want to race around my kitchen and clean it up real fast before it ends. I turn on the hot water in the sink, grab dishes off the table and put them under the suds then wipe down the counter tops and last grab the broom and sweep. I don't always finish, but another minute or two after and it's done 3 times faster than without the music When I was little my mom knew it liked this piece and told me to see if I could clean up my messy room before it finished. Shewasgreat

[SirWWW]

@1Janny1 that's such a nice story - I can see it happening...

[liveforeverUK2008]

i was the 52'000 viewer! probably contributed to about 12'000 of the total views anyway so it doesn't really count.

[grigoris13]

i love bach

[pinkmusicians]

You can tell a Baroque piece is played well when it sounds as if it's being played on a harpsichord.

[1Janny1]

@pinkmusicians Somewhere I read that Glenn and his sound technician played around with the hammers and action on one of his pianos and wound up attaching tacks (maybe like thumb tacs) on the end of the upper and lower register hammers to get this extra metallic like sound that kind of mimics a harpischord. I'm so glad he did that, as I can listen to this album all day long, whereas after 5 minutes of a harpischord pinging away and I feel itchy and scratchy the rest of the day. LOL

[kingary]

Love the ad hominem arguments here...

[returnofthatoneguy]

Silly internet people. How can you prattle on about trivialities in the face of this monumental creation? Be quiet for five fucking minutes and maybe you'll learn something.

[suzanneramdane]

my god......glenn gould !!

[kingary]

This is wooden and mechanical, like so many of Gould's interpretations of Bach. Murry Perahia's performance shines; this sounds like a player piano: perfect, but no soul.

[str3123]

@kingary people who think to know about music... youtube is full of them.

[KABRIS1]

@kingary A performance of any piece requires a collaboration between interpreter and composer.

It is self limiting when one imposes any type of subjective expectation on an interpretation. Gould approached Bach music like a jazz improvisor. He often played the same piece using different approaches. Altough Gould altered his musical interpretations, he always had a sound musical justification for doing so.

[Frankster546]

this piece always reminds me of the scene in schindler's list with the eviction! The scene was so intense and yes I was sad it happened but they couldnt have chose a better song for the eviction

[firebreathone2]

2:18 notes are wrong. Still, a good interpretation

[ey3ba1l]

"Was ist das? Das Bach? Das Bach? Nein, Mozart."

[mcgillie]

@ey3ba1l

From Schindler's list, when they are clearing out the ghetto in Krakow...two SS guards are debating the composer...and one has thick lens glasses...

[hellspreetube]

@ey3ba1l Freakin' Nazis didn't know what they were talking about.

[JOELALVARADO95]

@ey3ba1l Just missing the SS hunting hidden jews!! No ofense. xD

[sirdelrio]

@ey3ba1l buddy, this is the cleverest comment on YT

[durro9xl]

average americans have no clue about culture they think the u.s.a is the center of the universe,i dont dislike americans but some of them are so dumb

[lovesGenet]

Hear Pogorelich inthis and # 3 and you will change.I like Gould inthis.Cant wait to hear Gulda-whose wtc I adore!!

[iguarni]

A legendary pianist!!

[pringstone92]

è bellissimo!!!sta pure in una scena di shinderlist

[missrematto]

mi ricorda orgoglio e pregiudizio

[kennyshen1228]

i heared it in schindler's list!

[fvalton]

This is Glenn Gould performing - check out Woody Allen's 'Crimes and Misdemeanor's' for context. Music to die playing. YxxY

[VONHIMMELBACH]

Fantastich :D :D Ich liebe Bach!

[iguarni]

Best performance of this suite ever!!!!!

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

@iguarni no

[tsoder123]

Opps i meant Silbermann not Erard:)

[tsoder123]

Bach did not hate the piano:) Although he did criticize the first version of it that was shown to him in the 1730s. Erard worked hard to fix the issues bach had with it. Later in the 1740s Erard showed him the new and improved Pianoforte. Which Bach found quite charming if im not mistaken:)

[superjam18]

Playing the Harpsichord is a sin.

[latribe]

Bach hated the piano. Look up "Hammerwood harpsichord" for a nice interpretation on the proper instrument . . .

[connie3112]

Glenn plays this piece like a song from heaven. To bad he died.

[Gregolian]

I played this song and someone there was a tuner for Gould and told me I played just like him. I felt so badass.

[rzabcia17]

OMG!!! that pianist should have great muscles on his fingers xD I really like this music is very different than the other classical piano songs.

[vkhooi]

the left hand at 2:05 - 2:10 is just wonderful......

[crediama]

Brano eccezionale di BACH

[CaseyRocky]

0:00

1:27

2:57

[eastandwestwind]

1:27 is my favorite part!

[Miracle67]

Rein Zauber!

[paradoxicus]

JSB.Piano-forte Gould

JSB:Clave Leonhardt

JSB:Organo Richter

JSB:Director.Harnoncourt

[aurychat]

PLEASE HELP!!.... I need please someone who could kindly assist me by making a piano tutorial for this very piece. I cannot read scores, but I can learn from seeing someone else playing. Please, I really need some help!..... thanks a lot if someone could actually help me.

[alufthansa]

I agree !!! i would love to c a tutorial for that one :)

[jacarandaxia]

I have trouble to match left hand with the right hand. The finger method is hard to grasp particularly there's nothing on my notes!

[scout6686]

I agree about playing this fast and aggressive.....i want to play it that way.

but.....when it comes to bach gould is the bottom line. his life work is playing bach.

[notnatz321]

I just started learning this, and wow.... Gould makes it sound so much easier. its actually really tricky to memorize/sightread.

my favorite part is the middle section with the arpeggios in the left hand.

[superjam18]

I started learning this about 2 weeks ago and Im a slow note reader so this is especially hard for me

[Lassann]

The Prelude was the piece played by a Jew in the Liquidation of the Ghetto, in Schindler's List.

[adamantiaf1]

It wasn't played by a Jew you fucking idiot - it was played an SS trooper, get it straight.

[jacarandaxia]

Ist es Bach? Nein, Nein, es ist Mozart! It is played by German soldier.

[connie3112]

Glenn Gould's bach is so heavenly............

[ApeShit]

Amadeokusch. A pox on that comment. I can only suppose you prefer Leroy Anderson, Claude Bonning or somesuch.

[amadeokusch]

Rated 5 stars not for the composition but by the player. thank you Glenn Gould

[daharmaster]

Rated 5 stars not by the player but the composition. thank you J. S. Bach

[ApeShit]

This piece of music is the work of pure, unadulterated genius, and for me represents the zenith of musical achievement. Faultless composition, faultless playing. A masterpiece.

[iguarni]

1:10-2:30 in particular my friends it is incredible only incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!! Maybe one of the best piece written by The Genius. A Masterpiece for sure!

[antoinezygfryd]

Massacre,---je comprends que plus personne ne joue du Bach en concert.

Mes oreilles sont choquées par ces sonorités sèches,dures.....mes cd's de Gould moisissent sur une planche de discothèque,telle est ma réalité d'amateur.

[cziffra11]

Well, to say that the average German "couldn't distinguish Mozart from Bach..." may be no truer than to say that the average Italian can't distinguish between Michelangelo and Da Vinci. But it's certainly true that the average American hasn't heard of any of 'em!

[caracolrojo]

Hahahahaha!

[madgaff]

Not necessarily, you might have been correct around the time of bach in the 17th/18th century, but times have changed and times were espcecially different during the war. Cleary it was a time of confusion and that is th point SwordFishTrombone1  was trying to get across, i presume.

[salabertian]

Haha nice

[freeerteee]

Remember you are using several American inventions, this website, your browser, internet, and de facto freedom of specch: all American. To say that the average European couldn't distinguish between the destroyers of its own culture and its Transatlantic would make Johnny roll in his grave.

[freeerteee]

(and its Transatlantic saviours)

[Nizlopi2]

@cziffra11 Oh Schindler's List. To be fair they were kind of busy at the time, so I doubt Bach was at the top of their to-do list...

[albatrosspro]

@cziffra11 I see the humor, but seriously, when you consider how vital America is and has long been to the global classical music scene, especially considering that next to none of the composers in question had anything to do with this country... well, that's not bad.

[durro9xl]

@cziffra11 wel said sir

[helenagothicangel13]

@cziffra11 Schindler's List? Love Gould .

[NickTheShrubber]

@cziffra11 lol im an average american and i can definitely say most people i know who all of those people are contrary to what you believe people here acualy study them becuase in the eyes of many that was the peak of music... so where r u from

[karlakor]

@cziffra 11--Allow me to translate your post into proper English: "I am an average American, and I can definitely say that most people whom I know are familiar with all of those people, contrary to what you believe. People here actually study them because, in the eyes of many, that was the peak of music. So where are you from?" Correct spelling and punctuation make your meaning clear.

[NickTheShrubber]

@karlakor its the internet not a english assighnment lol be u a gramar nazi?

[karlakor]

@NickTheShrubber I can only assume that English is not your native language. The Internet has become a forum for everyone in the world, but often it is difficult to decipher what people are trying to express, due to their lack of language skills. As for comparing me to a Nazi, may I not express myself in good English wihout being compared to a political group that is responsible for one of the darkest periods in world history and for the deaths of seven million people?

[NickTheShrubber]

@karlakor lol it is my native language and on the internet people dont type proper english because we have to fo it every day at work and in school,and as for gramar nazi its used as a term for a person who is realy up tight about gramar look it up on utube theres a funny video about people that r by the way u never told me where ur from

[karlakor]

@NickTheShrubber I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt, but I am dismayed to learn that English is your native language. Your most recent post, which is one, long, run-on sentence, contains no punctuation or capitalization. I am only slightly encouraged by your admission that it is not proper English, but it depresses me that people no longer care to do things well. I know I am fighting a losing battle, but I believe that standards are important. By the way, I live in Iceland.

[Lity10]

@karlakor I agree with NickTheShrubber... most kids use computers so much they don't bother typing well over the internet. Who cares anyway?

[karlakor]

@Lity10 I see that I am swimming against the current, not just in this forum, but against the tide of society in general. You ask who cares. That attitude is going to be the ruination of civilization eventually. There are fewer and fewer people who care to do things well. Since I seem to be an irritant at this forum, this will be my last comment on the subject.

[Lity10]

@karlakor yeh, I hope so. I always do things well imo. I get high grades because i spell well on school, but NOT ON FUCKING YOUTUBE, which is, btw, filled with RETARDS. So leave it alone pls.

[hibernatinghedgehog]

@cziffra11 Cheap shot, rather— Bernstein, Horowitz, Ives: the United States has a rich history within "precise" music, and many american musicians have been innovative in their ideas.

Nevertheless, joke understood.

[KABRIS1]

@cziffra11 This is a sad commentary on the average American, but, not all Americans are average.

[TheSingingCello]

@cziffra11 No they've all heard of them, the media has the two distinguished as some kind of impossibility in the human endeavor, they just think its a really big deal when they hear someone playing it, you could say that have more awe towards it then the average European. I'm speaking for the Americans.... just for clarification.

[HIghBlutdruck]

That scene was surreal and horrifically barbaric. The first SS solder asks: "What is this?....Is this Bach? And the second soldier says "No, no, Mozart." I'm not sure if that was scripted or ad-libed, does anybody know?

[SwordFishTrombone1]

I think it very cleverly pointed out the paradox of the German people at that time. On the one hand they considered themselves real culture lovers, the most civilised nation in the world.

But actually, they couldn't distinguish Mozart from Bach. That was how culturally educated the average German was.

[8CoreyTaylor8]

i just know it coz i saw the movie xD... i liked the piece so i searched it :P

[hanshead]

2:18 notes are wrong, lol!!!!

very nice though :)

Gould is a beast when it comes to Bach.

[manuelkatarino]

Dont see what is wrong here at 2:18 but, Busoni for harmonic reasons used to changed some notes too....

[hanshead]

They are wrong because they are not the notes Bach wrote, that is how they are wrong :P

[Milligan1932]

If you think that sounded wrong, here's some advice; don't listen to Berg.

:)

[iguarni]

wordless!!!

[Tazeruk]

Exactly :)

[indigoblue555]

Thank you Johann,thank you Glenn and

thank you to musicaergosum for sharing this marvel.

[manuelkatarino]

Yo pienso que el mismo Bach se hubiera impresionado bastante, si no es que desconcertado, al escuchar a este grandioso fenomeno interpretar de manera tan perfecta y tan original su musica... o me equivoco?

[DisengagementRules]

no...

no se equivocó

[Iam100percentBach]

bach & Gould: a perfect combination!

[SeryPiano]

I love it!!!!!!

[catharticartist1]

Glenn....I love you.

[cordadorsalis]

thx,i was looking for this quality quite a while

maybe im wrong but around 4:00 it sounds like hes humming to the music?

[Jauhara]

He always hums. It is one of his ways. Listen to the Murray Perahia version of this piece, it is the same, but so completely different. I think I prefer the Perahia version. It is not nearly as strident and it is altogether lovely.

[JBond985]

Very good recording, I am playing this piece !

[imusiciki]

Glenn Gould at his finest hour, beautifully interpreted throughout. Thank you.

[howwho80]

simply genial

[firebreathone]

I love it. Thanks a lot