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Glenn Gould - Mozart fantasia in D minor

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Glenn Gould plays the famous W.A. Mozart D minor fantasia K. 397 (385g) Andante.

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  • Gould is my favorite pianist. However this is one of his rare performances in which I feel the music ... and Mozart .... have been slaughtered. The gratuitous broken chords, added ornaments, wildly gyrating tempo and general distortion has my teeth chattering in my head.

    His clarity of touch is perfect for Mozart, but his handling of this score had me wondering if he's exacting revenge on a composer he doesn't like. Some perfect portions and then whammy .... only Gould could dare this.

  • Salieri and his friends have been here and vote "i don´t like"

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  • I did some reading on wikipedia and it said that he didn't like Mozart's music but admitted enjoying the "actual playing". Pretty weird. This track can be found on an album containing Mozart pieces recorded between 1968 and 1972. So he's not an old man here.

  • @nikkitytom I agree. I would say this is a terrible interpretation.

  • ssssshhhhh, Glenn is playing. No one cares which interpretation you like the best. :)

  • He's singing.

  • Gould hated Mozart, Gould hated romantic music. Why is Gould playing one of Mozart's most romantic-esque pieces? To punish himself, or to punish us?

  • Aside from the clarity, I would have guess this was an eight-year-old playing.

  • @nikkitytom Gould always takes liberties with composers music... and freely brags about it. He believes an interpreter can even bring something to the piece that the composer didn't intend and actually improve the piece.

  • So Gould. So brave and individual.

    :)

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