Bach: Prelude number 1 In C Major. Glenn Gould. With "dancing cigarette" vIDeo.

[nikkitytom]

I like the wonderful commentary almost as much as I like Gould. I've read quite a bit about Gould and there are a few tidbits here I'd never heard before. Thanks "curious"

[curiousgeorge555]

@nikkitytom ...glad to be of service.

[xxAsteriskxx]

Yeah, like some people, I hated - no, absolutely loathed - this interpretation. But, boy, I gotta say... It's my favourite now. Hearing renditions that play almost cursively to a tee makes me want to rip out my hair; and I can't stand ones whose tempos are too fast (I heard some on Classical stations). Gould allows each dynamic to breathe, not sigh or gasp. It's what really make this interpretation enjoyable.

[tallswede80]

bach is eternal

[johnbarleycornmd]

I love Glenn Gould's version. Removes the staleness...

[KuraraMachenies]

I dont like this stacato ):

[bennemann]

I didn't like this interpretation of Prelude 1 very much. His staccato-ish playing of the notes really takes away their sonority and prolongedness, which are in my opinion what makes this piece sound so beautiful... He made it into a more lighthearted version, but it isn't better than the usual version.

[EMPERORMIKI]

@bennemann "usual" is key ... as for your assertion that the "staccato-ish"(ness?) of the playing takes away from the sonority and "prolongedness" of I'm guess the chords is quite limited in my opinion. This "lighthearted" version is in my opinion of a fleeting beauty a representation of a momentary thought in life for no other reason than living. This is his interpretation a human being as a human being has the right to grasp beauty as he will and we are the better for it.

[Level10Nerd]

i love how he mutters to himself

[curiousgeorge555]

@Level10Nerd The sign of a true artist.

I love it too.

[EMPERORMIKI]

This is absolutely lovely. Thank you.

[curiousgeorge555]

@EMPERORMIKI Glad you enjoyed it (:

[backwoodsgps]

goood one curious!!!!!

[curiousgeorge555]

@backwoodsgps Thank you.

[rmukweyi]

dancing cigarettes are very entertaining. i bet that "Hot Topic" would've put that on a t-shirt, they're cigarettes.

[curiousgeorge555]

@rmukweyi I The smokes chose good music to dance to...

[hogeywoot]

Irritatingly stoppy, ruins the tune

[roguepenguin1994]

Only Gould could make such a simple composition sound so incredible.

[curiousgeorge555]

@roguepenguin1994 I love Gould's playing. On this piece he plays a tad too much from an intellectual angle for my taste. Brilliant none the less.

[2geo0rge]

Gould plays like a super computer with a human soul. That also hums.

[curiousgeorge555]

@2geo0rge Interesting way of putting it. Certainly no one else plays like a "super computer with a human soul." "That also hums".....I like your sens of humor!

[theponsmed]

WTF? (i mean the cigarettes, not the music)

[degrees40201]

I got this video from typing "Today I was sitting on a bench near the shore of a lake."

[curiousgeorge555]

@degrees40201 lol.

[losinggrip1993]

Gould was a very good Pianist. I must say I'm not keen on his interpretation of the piece, it's way too staccato. His version of Mozart's Alla Turca is pretty fine though.

[evemurphy04]

curious: I'd love to know where the footage I mentioned is! I do know I saw it here in Canada on tv one Sunday morning some time ago...it may not be publicly available but it should be.

[curiousgeorge555]

Thanks eve...04. I'll search the web for it. It's got to be available somewhere. ~cg

[ErieBoy62]

Well done. This is the first version of Prelude I heard on YouTube in which the artist did not put some stupid flourish on the piece in the last five seconds of it.

[curiousgeorge555]

Glad to be of service to you. ~cg

[evemurphy04]

All I have to do is read the name GG and I read the article or watch the video. This is actually reminiscent of some tv shows Gould did in the 70's where his music was animated by a great Canadian animator from The National Film Board. So this is not as silly as it first seems.

[curiousgeorge555]

Do you know where that footage is? I'd love to see it. Thanks for commenting. ~cg

[koliatima]

For me, Bach now and forever!! "Dancing Cigarettes": you have creative imagination. I admire this quality in you. Bravo!

[curiousgeorge555]

Merci beaucoup koliatima. J'espère que vous avez eu une grande fin de semaine ! Bach est le maître ! Bach forever! ~cg

[twolegsnotail]

Gould lived a private life: Bruno Monsaingeon said of him, "No supreme pianist has ever given of his heart and mind so overwhelmingly while showing himself so sparingly." [68] That wasn't Monsaingeon, it was YEHUDI MENUHIN. Monsaingeon isn't the type of person to make declarative statements.

[curiousgeorge555]

YEHUDI MENUHIN is one of my hero's in that he played classical quite well and he improvised quite well. Gould was indeed a recluse of sorts. Eccentric genius IMO.

Thanks for the comment twolegsnotail.

~cg

[FreakyFlagFlyingFock]

LS/MFT

Lucky Strike / means fine tobacco

Those commercials are embedded in my brain.

("You get a lot to like, with Marlboro, ..... Filter, Flavor.... Pack or Box.)

[curiousgeorge555]

It's amazing how those commercials get embedded in our minds! Rice a Roni The San Francisco treat. So many creative minds got to advertizing becasue that's where the money is. I didn't know LS/MFT

meant Lucky Strike / means fine tobacco.

Now I know!

Thanks for the post FreakyFlagFlyingFock

~cg

[waydeepinside]

MAYBE SOMEWHERE WHERE CANNIBUS IS LEGAL THE CIGARETTES CAN DANCE WITH TWENTY FIRST CENTURY ANIMATION,

and Easy Rider in the background...

C.J. maybe you are onto something here

YOU THINK ?

[curiousgeorge555]

I'd like to see a 21st century version of Easy Rider. Starring Johnny Depp and Joaquin Phoenix. Does that sound interesting to you? The entire screenplay would be adapted to the way things are now, not the sixties. Ponder that! ~cg5

[hinsy]

That's a good one. I like it. More of those!*****

[curiousgeorge555]

Thanks. Can you elaborate? ~cg

[econoroller]

That's it...

I'm starting smoking again.

Menthols, too.

Thanks HA HA HA HAH A seriously this was cool thanx for sharing this

[curiousgeorge555]

Kool or Salem? I guess I'm an enabler!

Don't send me the medical bill! LOL ~cg

[Zerrbernie]

Thanks Jack ! ;-))

I enjoyed the dancing cigarettes, funny thing ;-))

I got to smoke ( eh,salmon?) ;-))

bye bye

zerrbernie

[curiousgeorge555]

Geez! Looks like I've gotton people on the wrong path back to smoking salmon and so forth. Eye yie yie!. ~cg

[Zerrbernie]

That`s the way it goes Jack ! ;-)) lol

But don´t worry, everyone is responsible

for there own act ;-)) or ?

take care my friend !

love

zerrbernie

[curiousgeorge555]

That's hillarious Zerrbernie! ~cg

[frozenwhitebear]

very kewl composition with that vid! ;) I didn't know G.G. did let jump the high notes that way - interesting! - omg, Grandma mary always hits the spam button after commenting ! :*(

[curiousgeorge555]

Glen Gould was not a purist as you probably know. He would interpret as he saw fit. Hence the stucatto on the high notes. What does Grandma mary do? I don't see that any spam button was hit? Maybe I am missing something? Thanks! for appreciating the vid! ~cg5

[curiousgeorge555]

Well, GG did things his way that is for sure. I like his interpretations. Many don't.

For me this piece could use a bit more passion thrown it's way. Bit I still very much enjoy his interpretation I agree it is interesting.

Glad you liked the video. ~cg

[Nacir2008]

Very nice show I enjoyed it And Thanks

[curiousgeorge555]

Glad to have been of service! ~cg

[reliablebow]

Oh and, Light up and leave me alone....:)

[curiousgeorge555]

Hey if you want to kill your self and go gently into that good night go ahead..

-LOL. kidd'n (reliabelbow and I go way back so don't worry folks)

[reliablebow]

So much aspergers going on in the world...IMO we wouldn't have as much innovation in the world if these folks weren't on top of things...

thanks cg5 for this wonder:)

[curiousgeorge555]

I share the same opinion concerning aspergers reliablebow. ~cg

[curiousgeorge555]

Thanks for the comment! LOL

If you must smoke. Smoke salmon!

~cg

[curiousgeorge555]

You're welcome flybreath. BTW If you smoke QUIT! (sorry if that sounded like a parent(-: .Fly is slang for good. Fly also is an insect. If your user name refers to the latter than maybe it's the smoking? LOL 'course your probably just kidding knowing you're tongue and cheek manner at times.

IMO GG did have aspergers. I obviously don't know that to be true but I have a friend extremely similar to GG. He has aspergers so it's an educated guess.

Thanks for the comments. ~cg

[Fr3derick]

Very nice!!!  Thanks for the share:)

Grandma Mary

[Fr3derick]

Awesome!!! Thanks for the share:)

Grandma Mary

[curiousgeorge555]

My pleasure! Thanks. ~cg

[surfcottage]

Beautiful music..... they look SO innocent dont they? :) xo

[curiousgeorge555]

They look like cute little "friends". Back than when the commercial was made (that I edited for the video) cig's wern't "proven" to be bad for you. ~cg

[carrolly2k]

Curious and interesting Mr. Jack!

[curiousgeorge555]

Thanks! ~cg