Glenn Gould & Leonard Bernstein (Brahms)

Concierto para piano nº 1 (Brahms)

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• Glenn
• Gould
• Leonard
• Bernstein
• (Brahms)

[brunoparis12]

what's the hell with tempi ? too fast, too slow...what do you mean ?

I love Walter and Horowitz, I love Bernstein and Gould, for many different reasons....

Just listen to the music.... and feel...

We are listening to "Masters" who were deeply involved oin their Art with faith and conviction !!

Then you feel whether you appreciate or not this or that performance, but please stop saying it should be played like this, or "the composer wanted this ".

[phospholipasec]

cough cough cough... GO HOME!!!!!

[hymntonight]

Hmm. In the piano parts, where Gould plays, the tempo has some potential, perhaps. But the orchestral parts seem messy, uneven, and sluggish to me, like the orchestra members did not yet have the tempo in their mind heart and bones, the way Gould did. I feel like Gould had an idea in his head, for which this performance was just a rough draft. I don't think it's fair to judge his vision as good or bad without hearing a more polished version.

[tuberobotto]

Wilhelm Kempff is a perfect case study of using moderate tempi on colossal works which are normally played by pianists for virtuosic exhibitions. Kempff kept a steady and moderately slow tempi in his Beethoven and Schubert sonatas which really makes the music 'listenable' and the melodies come out like characters in a play making vivid appearances. Gould in his unpredictable part, made a trailblazing move here with his preferred tempi for this concerto and it's really beautifully done.

[tuberobotto]

The tempo is just amazing! It gives every listener a wonderful and rare opportunity to hear and savor the notes, the melodies and counter melodies that Brahms employed in the piano part and also the counterpoints between soloist and orchestra. I've never heard this concerto played like this and it's just so amazing, it's a revelation. In my ignorance I never thought that a Gould-Bernstein collaboration could be possible at all. It may be true with Karajan though.

[liug2012]

Was this the Apr 6 1962 concert with the NY Phil?

[OregonDreams]

Coughing people SHOULD NOT BE in concert halls. Stay home and take care of yourselves first. Please.

[OregonDreams]

At this tempo, one can really hear the counterpoint at 3:23. Beautiful!

[legendarypwnerv2]

Might as well get rid of the studio monitors for this one and listen to it through some crappy radio speakers. Gould's humming is one thing, the disrespectful sounds of people coughing up their lungs is just awful. How hard is it to cover your mouth... really...

[violetavalery]

why didn't they give antibiotics to the ones that were coughing?

[BasileusR]

OMFG

stop coughing

[violetavalery]

it's a lack of respect to be coughing like that, spoiling the performance, why don't they just leave the theatre?