Scriabin sonata no. 5 Glen Gould

I like the way he tackes this work and many other works of the 20th century especially. THis CD was bought when a music student . A neighbour of Gould remembers summer nights listening to Gould play as young boy Chopin. But he shyed away from the romantic composers. Why? It is true he see s the form and polyphony as most important. But then there is much polyphony in romantic works like this.I think Gould was a romantic.

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[Theonedue]

Wow, Ricther kicks both Horowitz and Goulds asses in this piece.

[chad410]

@Theonedue more than possible

[kempff95]

I don't like it.

This is TOO gould .

I MUCH admirer stanislav neahaus interpretation .

[chad410]

I like it but I don t know why

[SSSLAWWWA]

As for me I don't think Gould was a romantic. Here we see something "beethovenian" of some sort... I prefer far Sofronitsky, Merzhanov, Ashkenazy - that's what romantics means for me.

[crowdmaker]

Tiresome?! Eh, this sonata's not for everyone... But i love it, and of course Gould does very interesting things with it. Just like the Prokofiev sonata no. 7. He should have recorded more modern music, but to be fair, he did record quite a bit.

[firefws]

Gould is a very good interpreter of scriabin. A better recording would have given his justice.

[FunkBach]

This must be a joke? DREADFUL performance.

[Theonedue]

If I heard Scriabin play his own piece, that would be the time I enjoyed HIS genius. Goulds interpretation of this piece is a little off the mark for me. Who said anything about a competition by the way?

[cfwpiano]

This is amazing... The richness, the tone colors that he gets out just really blow my mind. This is a very crappy upload though, the sound quality is horrid. More people might've liked it if they listened to it on CD.

[cfwpiano]

@Theonedue God, why is music always a competition with assholes like you? STFU And enjoy Scriabin's genius.

[FOOFOOKITTY]

@annefrankisaho When Gould was a baby he might have sucked his THUMB but he certainly never sucked at Scriabin or any other composer of piano music! However, and no offense, but your screen ID certainly sucks.

[sukkot54]

Christ yes Gould was a total romantic, amongst many other things.

[annefrankisaho]

Gould sucked at Scriabin. Somehow he turned one of the most turbulent pieces I've ever heard into naptime music.

[briawnaanderson]

@Steinwaytoday I was just thinking the same thing after listening to them back to back.. :p I am not usually a Gould fan, but this is luscious.

[TRIXIE1001]

This sounds like me in my livingroom while I try to get the tempo up to where Scribin actually wanted it to be.