Glenn Gould plays Die Meistersinger (excerpt)

Prelude from 1st act of Die Meistersinger.
Composed by Richard Wagner.
Piano transcription by Glenn Gould
Recorded in January 1974

Now with Closed Captions!

Note: If you want to translate the captions for your local language using the automatic translation, please select "English: Without German Accent" at the "Translate from" field. Why? Because Glenn Gould speaks with German accent on this video, and change some words. For example: instead of "them", he speaks "zem". If you chose the caption track "English: Original" to translate, the automatic translator will get confused and probably many errors will appear.

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[Cancrizans]

@hyperseauton If you hear the passion in his playing you can see it isn't a musical joke. :) If you consider Gould's interests it is obvious that Wagner fits into his vision perfectly. Wagner's music is filled with counterpoint and extremely detailed musical themes and connections, many of which are not immediately apparent in orchestral performances. Gould wished to share with us, as he did on so many other occasions, an inner reality in the music many of us are not aware of.

[BeauJames59]

@kenkim5 Check out the big brain on Glenn....

[petezilla]

@ultrazvek100 Got it!! Thanks : )

[ultrazvek100]

@petezilla try to search for this in Google: der meistersinger gould pdf

[petezilla]

@ultrazvek100 hmm, I'm getting a 404 not found in Chinese

[ultrazvek100]

@petezilla look at this

soupu.org/gdp//W/Wagner,%20Ric­hard/Wagner%20Gould%20Meisters­inger-Vorspiel.pdf

[AbsoluteZ3R0]

Most people will probably think I'm crazy for saying this but this rendition on piano with Gould playing is more enjoyable than the original for me

[AbsoluteZ3R0]

It's taken me forever to figure this out but the captions for this video are wrong when he says "literal and exact". He doesn't say "inexact" the first time, he says "exact". And when he says "un-inexact" he's not using the word in a double negative sense to actually mean exact, but rather he was correcting himself because "unexact" is not a word.

[wonsuckchoi]

This is an awesome rendition of the masterpiece.

[f1f1s]

3:43-3:45 belong to the most notable seconds of musical history.

I have been searching for them for a year, listened to Gould’s rendition of Bach’s D-moll concerto (1052), stuck and did not listen to anything except for Bach’s 1052 every day (!). This is the power of monsieur Gould. Finally I find this damn video!

Again, 3:43!.. Opera singers will go bankrupt! U jelly mr Pavarotty? MR GOULD, U MAD!

[AlexderKeks]

I need to honour monsieur monsaingeon, because he also made this possible. wonderful transcription of this masterpiece

[Stupurmundi]

I love lunatics and Glenn was one without any doubt. But where would humanity be today without lunatics? They force us to think things over. To get a different point of view. And do not forget, they are often victims of their way to live and their ambitions. James Robert Fischer was a lunatic as well...