Goldberg Variations 15-19

[wReCktangle]

You know what this means, don't you? Bach was a badass!

[pierospirit]

quando un genio come Gould incontra un genio come Bach il miracolo si compie.

[mezkalator]

absolutly perfect and orgasmic

[normanwarrior1]

eugenio.;))

[zoukina]

This is a Gold standard for playing bach - piano. Should one dare to touch the piano keys and pretend to get some sound out of it after listening to the son of Bach in earth playing this heavenly music ?

[bolo4545]

Thank God for psychopaths like this man!

[Itajara2503]

no words! just awesome and beautiful!!! Bravo!

[philateliceun]

I wonder if he had to practice Hanon XD I really wonder though if the trained his technique all his life. I know he is a genius but geniuses like Michael Brecker did train everyday for 8 hours just to keep their playing on level. I have heard that sometimes Gould would play pieces for the first time the day before recording them, but his technique is so perfect I cant imagine that he didn't practice it much.

[yumeybaconcutout]

@philateliceun i did hear he was exceptionally gifted, that helps. my mom is highly gifted, and although she practiced flute a lot when she was young, now even though she hasnt practiced in more than 20 years, she can just pick it up and play flawlessly. same with piano.

[adrahaxxen]

@philateliceun Glenn would practice by reading the music... he was able to read the music and listen to it in his head before he ever played the piece. He would then be able to play the score immediately by following the notes with his fingers while playing to the music in his head.

[jamieleesis]

Has there ever been a film about Gould? If there hasn't there should be, he's such an interesting character as well as a master bach interpreter and genius. I can just imagine it, with the final scene being this music traveling its way through the galaxy as a shining beacon to any roaming alien music lovers of what humans can do with music (which is actually the case unless im mistaken). Or maybe not that, but a film would be good!

[jtaycock]

@jamieleesis - Yes, there is one on Instant Netflix at the moment "Genius within: The Inner Life of Glenn Gould" There are others as well, but this is the only one I've watched.

[xultradragonslayerx]

What an ultracool pianist.

[beethoven1357]

si racconta che per provare lo yamaha di nascosto senza far insospettire la gente, mostel sia arrivato con una valigietta piena di lenzuola e le abbia messe sulla vetrate.

straordinario comunque!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!

[chronnoss503]

The only thing we can : Waouh !

[KABRIS1]

Gould is a living embodyment of Bach's music. When he plays, he becomes the music.

[univibe23]

He feels the music so deeply it's like the notes come directly from his soul and into your soul. Time stops when I listen to him. I can't listen to anyone else play the piano anymore. I'm like a suckling at its mothers breast. God rest your soul Mr. Gould.

[thekingisdeath]

no tengo palabras, al menos las que poseo no me sirven para describir lo que estoy sintiendo al escuchar a estos dos maestros. Una belleza que no es de este mundo.

[mb3467mb]

He acts like not playing the piano, but loving a woman

[yumeybaconcutout]

@mb3467mb giggidy 

[23andyz]

what's he saying?

[rolandogoncalves]

Is face is so close to the piano. I think he is trying to smell the keys.

[KABRIS1]

He was able to tap into, and express, the omniscient spirt of god/nature through J.S. Bach's compositions.

[erandi1680]

An important way to have a close to the great architects of the music as it was JS Bach is here. Thanks to wonderful geniuses like Gould, who are given the task of intimacy in the depths of the secrets of these wonderful works.

[jakiner]

he plays very confidently!

[angel006a]

: | gould agrega notas al original

si no fuese el no quedarian tan bien, supongo q es la forma de tocar barroco

[rouelibre1]

Pure pleasure. Shut-up you all!!!

[Zorengeto]

I don't really understand stuff like this, but I can see that he at least enjoys playing the piano, lol.

[tontaciu]

How can people not like this genius?

[KABRIS1]

@tontaciu Pure ignorance.

[HerrWarja]

@tontaciu Because of his unique choice of tempi and his huming? I quite like it acctually.

[pylgrym]

I love what Tolstoy said about art being the transfer of emotion from one person to another. Feel the love!

[pacrijna]

Bach+Glenn Gould were like Richard Feynman: 100% Genius,100% Buffoon.

In the most positive way possible.

[boomaga]

XVIII starting at 7:36 is the best, just the most understated elegance, with three clear voices, each given their own weight and voice. Added bonus: not many know the lyrics, as Glenn does.

[cncdaddy]

@boomaga I didnt know he was singing the lyrics , for pete's sake ! I though he always just hummed the tune to himself. Thanks so much for this information !

[cncdaddy]

@boomaga I've been told since I posted somewhere else that he sang the lyrics that this isnt actually true, and that he's merely humming. Whatever he's doing, it matters not. He's brilliant

[michaeldrover]

@boomaga I don't think boo was speaking literally everybody.

[1972jewish]

definitely, too he makes the music too dense

[KABRIS1]

@1972jewish One has to be dense not to appreciate this.

[SirLeeTehPwnzor]

@1972jewish definitely, you are being too jew...

[humpert]

è sconvolgente, non trovo parole più adatte...

[stonefreeJMH]

It's like his fingers are pulling the music out of the piano...

[KABRIS1]

It seems like he is improvising Bach's music.

[KABRIS1]

This version of all of the Golberg Variations, is one of the best things I have ever heard.

[sailing19100]

no words, but wanted to post anyway.

[GabriKnight]

This is dragging on a bit now. At what point of the night does he do requests?

[RenaJonesMusic]

amen...

[KABRIS1]

jade4sky: We are feeling exactly what he felt. That was his great gift, to express exactly what he felt,

[chemicalxizzy]

Peace.Light.Truth.

Pure Unconditionnal Love.

[HsdpWeb]

I just wonder, why a stroke at age 50?

Why did it happen.......

[DesertAnnie]

@HsdpWeb ~ He was plagued with hypertension (high blood pressure) and even though he took medication for it, it remained problematically uncontrollable a lot of the time. His mother had had it too, and she too, had died from a stroke a few years before he passed away. He had probably inherited it the same condition (H/P) and it took it's toll on him in his later years... (although 50 years old is still much too young to die). :-(

[DrHarringtonUK]

Brilliant. Thank you for posting.

[Irshkboy]

He was a perfect piano player. Yo9u can get different, but you cant get better. Basically even God couldnt play it better.

[AccordionTheif]

5:03 makes me cream myself. That is easily my favorite part of the entire piece.

[heroineworshipper]

Going to be like that in 15 years.

[Aul1kki]

Now when I'm a little bit more educated with the piano technique I gotta say that Gould is pure master at the piano! His position in chair and shoulders might not the best, but wow how he is able to get different sounds from his playing. There is no way to play these better, only in different way. His fingerwork is just something almost unreal!

[ytertyu]

Two of the greatest : Bach and Gould !

[Haaggus]

ur right :( i was trying to sound cool

[Haaggus]

I LOVE the fugue that starts at 6:12

[AccordionTheif]

@Haaggus 6:12 is beautiful. The first time I heard it I was about 15 years old and I have always loved it.

[AlamoCityCello]

sublime

[z8games2000]

as a pianist , its enough to play only one piece like this, not need to play so much that its so so and so so , waste time of himself and others, i will let my son play goldberg variations only untill i satisfied

[Borismusic7]

that 's touch of god.......

[MrEdgaralain]

das hören ist wie beten! Wirklich ein Weg dem Schöpferischen nahe zu kommen. Bewegend!!!

[mumble212]

preparation h

[quinto34]

Feel like a voyeur watching someone copulate with Bach

[juanbenyjuanbeny]

......

[CaseyRocky]

5:03

[jclare2107]

It's such easy music to play, so how is it that Gould seems to be the only guy who can really make it sing?

[totesalamanca]

nobody said he was the only who plays..people said "WONDERFULL" isn,t it??

[Jackpotur]

the goldberg variations??? of course not

[greenguy1687]

He speaks to the piano, and it speaks back.

[hillevie1]

and it yelds: help me, help me, could someone please remove this self-important creature from my keys, and replace him with Schiff

[derefis]

Tsk-tsk-tsk

[tallswede68]

Schiff is over-rated. He's not even the equal of Jeno Jando.

[AlamoCityCello]

@tallswede68 Credit to Schiff for walking in Gould's shadow

[rambeiro]

and it speaks "Bach"

[TheFarlioPianiste]

Just amazing, nothing more...

[jade4sky]

this is as pure as one can get... his connection to his art is so precious and intimate you cannot help feeling the enormous desire to to feel what he felt... at least we are lucky enough to be able to see his genius and pure love for his music to inspire us to be the best at what we do...

[Haaggus]

@jade4sky ur gay. He was a good piano player. thats it

[KABRIS1]

@jade4sky I believe he enabled us to feel what he felt by recording this interpretation.

[skolniks]

A wonderful and revealing book on Glenn Gould, "A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Quest for the Perfect Piano", by Katie Hafner,

[Manofdarkdesires]

I am not able to find words to describe his genius.

[justicewithasword]

brilliant

[smudgepots]

2.00 has Glenn playing staccato that is smoother than most people's legato. How does he do it?

[johnnybroom]

That is the million dollar question, smudge. Some people have suggested it is a technique that Gould employed during practicing called finger tapping, which was basically playing the song very, very slowly and just tapping each note. That doesn't only yield the wonderfully sonorous staccato notes, but also the coordination to play everything so well. Read more about that, read about other Gould techniques, and you'll be on your way. Also, playing on an $80,000 piano helps!

[dragonblue1995]

Si hay alguien que tiene que agradecerle algo a Bach es Dios...

[sam0xin]

Bach is Genius,Goldberg V-s are 1 of Wonders of the World & Glen Gould was born to perform it ! .

[VPChihuly]

Well done!

[Kalen1457]

awesome