Glenn Gould - Shostakovich , Piano Quintet G min Op. 57 - I
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I wish he had recorded the 24 preludes and fugues :(
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Not what youd expect to hear on classic FM.
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3:07 always sends shivers down my spine
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@cyvue damn, I was expacting to see vanessa mae and the camera went down to show this all-male-quartet...
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I absolutely love this. I have seen this live many times, and have come to expect the openign to be played with some form of aggression (a completely legitimate interpretation). So I turned on this recording expecting the same, and when Gould started so sensitively and melancholically, it was totally new, and a lovely interpretation.
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Marvelous! The first I've seen this video (though I sure wish the missing movements had been uploaded, too!). You don't have to love GG, but for heaven's sake, at least notice how has no music in front of him. No one does that with this piece, not even Shostakovich himself. This is very "American" in that there's a premium on the music taken at face value, without much irony. But it is gorgeous.
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If this really is Lynn Harrell, how cool that a cellist of your repute would leave comments on YouTube! I saw you a few years ago with the St. Petersburg Orchestra (Symphony/Philharmonic?) performing the Shostakovitch Concerto at Disney Hall in Los Angeles! I'm a violinist from a family of cellists and needless to say we were in awe of the effortlessness (I'm sure it helps to have massive hands!).
Rumor had it you were to teach at USC, my alma mater. Any truth to it?
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The cellist is a former colleague of mine in the Cleveland orchestra from the early '60's Tom Liberti, who went to the NY Philharmonic after I became principal cellist. Great to see this! Lynn Harrell
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@ meghannenniger 'Symphonia Quartet'
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Who are the other musicians?
Fun fact: Shostakovich invited Gould to be his guest at the 1970 Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, but Gould (who hated competitions and flying) declined.
p0lyph0ny 3 years ago 14
The violist is bomb! How awesome!
cyvue 3 years ago 7