Glenn Gould Plays Sweelinck's "Fantasia"

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Music

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• glenn
• gould
• sweelinck
• renaissance
• piano
• classical
• music

[parfumisme]

this for me is really a relieve after a exhausting day. Extremely beautiful rhytmics. I am playing some pieces of Sweelinck on the lute. His works have a long lasting quality I think.

thanks for this excellent post.

[todjames]

Gould's playing is pure musical ecstasy!! Oh how we miss his presence here on the physical plane. Thank you Glenn forever and always!!!

[spinoza1111]

@NorbertZF OMIGOD they removed my comment...

[spinoza1111]

@NorbertZF It's a tough job, dude but someone's gotta do it. It's lonely at the top.

[kenkim5]

@NorbertZF Sir, you shoot people down because you don't agree with their taste? Get off your viola da gamba high horse. Music doesn't belong to any one person or style. You can take your Quantz treatises and shove them up your sackbut. LOL

[gspaulsson]

The amazing thing about Gould is that he manages, on an instrument with only one keyboard and no stops, to find a unique and different touch for each voice, keeping them clear and distinct, and at the same time making it all sound beautiful and natural. Sweelinck would have died for a modern piano, and this is how he would have liked to hear it played. The comparison with "500-voice choirs" is silly: big choirs make a fuzzy sound, while this is a model of clarity.

[NorbertZF]

@NorbertZF

Do you get it? You abuse this posting privilege and they removed your inane "comment."

Get a life and move on already.

[NorbertZF]

@spinoza1111

Anything you say Nimrod. BTW, please come down from Mt. Olympus sometime and PLEEZ tell the rest of poor slob mortals what it's like to be a "god": all knowing and all powerful. *ROFLMAO*

[spinoza1111]

@NorbertZF How it spozed to be played? Why? Bach didn't demand that slobs without talent should perform his works, he agreed to it in the absence of a choice. Slobs without talent, without duende, without creativity want little slob rules so that they can get little slob jobs and do little slob things, none of which here have anything to do with music.

Aaron Copland remarked that he rarely saw an orchestra member carrying a book about music. All they cared about was a secure job.

[spinoza1111]

@NorbertZF One thing well and nothing else? Absurd. Not only did he master all of the classical repertory, from Sweelinck here to 20th century music, he was also an author. His only mistake in the eyes of the typically brutalized and ignorant classical music student was to flip off the pompous rich thugs who destroy weaker souls and make them into performing monkeys.

[NorbertZF]

@CSPlayerDamon

If you listen to Gould because it's a "matter of taste", then that's being subjective. I don't listen to him because of ALL that we've learned since the days of Arnold Dolmetsch about "early music" and how it's supposed to be played. One reason why Bach cantatas are no longer performed with a choir of 500 voices. You like Gould?

Fine. To each his own. I'll listen to Leonhardt, Tilney, Wooley, Eggar, Kenneth Gllbert, Koopman, etc.