Glenn Gould: Bach Goldberg Variations 1981 Studio Video (complete)

This is the original studio video during which Gould recorded Bach's Goldberg Variations in 1981 which was released on CD. This video originally appeared on Google Video, but was taken down when that service was discontinued.

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[benchkey]

I cry tears of joy for the beauty of Bach in the hands of Gould.

[Lord Sauron]

i always listen this while eating people

[manuelnuman]

"Each human being has the eternal duty of transforming what is hard and brutal into a subtle and tender offering, what is crude into refinement, what is ugly into beauty, ignorance into knowledge, confrontation into collaboration, thereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life, the servant of love."

Yehudi Menuhin

[Lord Sauron]

Nope. I referred to the "Silence of the Lambs".

[Joris Weimar]

is there a comma before the last word? :)

[bathsheba56]

We all need a space for beauty, order, and a sense of perfection in our lives each day in a world far less so. This was mine today. Thanks for this, Peter!

[Typing Monkey]

oh yes ... and watching the genius of Glenn Gould play and sing Bach's Goldberg - a fellow Torontonian, I might add, who occssionally had a late night coffee @ Fran's Restaurant at Yonge St. / St. Clair Ave, a few doors away from his apartment wearing his ever-present cap and dilapidated gloves - is an added JOY!! Thank you again, Mr. Bromberg!!

[Typing Monkey]

thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!! this was deleted from my favorites ages ago ... and, thank the sun and my muse - serendipity - I somehow landed here and am able to reclaim this masterpiece and am listening to it as I type with my beats headphones on ... what a JOY!!

[Kurtholio Busch]

mind the drawings, please.

[villain loic]

Un chef au piano, irresistible

[Gabriel Meruelo]

This is music to enjoy life, to appreciate the beauty of existence. In every composition Bach wrote he thanked God and dedicated all his music to Jesus. He was a deeply religious man who felt life intensely. He wrote prodigiously. I've read that if a man could work 8 hours a day just to copy what he wrote it would take him in excess of 70 years just to copy the music. Never mind the fact that he also had several jobs at the same time and that he fathered in excess of twenty children.

[Gabriel Meruelo]

Bach wrote the Goldberg variations for his employer of the same name who could not sleep, They were intended to cure his insomnia. They are exercises for the piano. Yet they are pure beauty as well as utilitarian in purpose.