Glenn Gould Records Scriabin Desir: Part 2

Editing the Desir Prelude (Op 57 No 1).

Part 1 (discussion, preparation, and recording): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JllD47HIees

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[rwmartin3456]

i don/t know how strange gould was. i *am* amazed these videos are out there - great ! i have the gould 80-cd box set on the way, so i/ll be listening to gould for quite some time. what amazes me, though, is the apollo-age recording equipment. haven/t seen a mixer thtat small since, well, then. imagine what gould could have done w/ garageband ! love the scriabin (but the berg vids are my favorite). thanks !

[p0lyph0ny]

rwmartin, the 80 CD box set is excellent, you will enjoy it. The liner note, often written by Gould, are v. entertaining.

I find it very sad that Gould didn't get to live to see our contemporary digital recording technology. As you say, imagine what he could have done! (Maybe in 30 years people will be looking back at our "advanced" technology in a similar way, though...who knows how much is possible...)

Since you mentioned Berg: do you hear touches of Scriabin in his Op 1 Piano Sonata? I do.

[McRat1968]

Gould was a genius.

I'd say that "strange" is a term used by those people (past and present) who fail to comprehend that.

It's the same as when people stare at a painting and fail (or simply don't want) to delve into its meaning but rather they just choose to blast it as being a bunch of doodles (because that's all that they, personally, possess the mentality to recognize within it.)

[davecaputo]

In this video we see how an individual with a superior ear capability and deep understanding of the musical structure of the Scriabin compositions gives instructions to a regular guy who obviously seems embarrased of not understanding the difference between scrolling sliders 1,2,3 or 4.

[Malaka57]

@shilloshillos I think listening on these silly computers does not do justice. But the term wet is good, 1 is wet and four is very distant.

[shilloshillos]

Is he playing with "wet" and "dry" sound, sort of with and without reverb? I am not getting it...

[univibe23]

In this case....I actually like watching the sausage being made! Pure genius!

[nft987]

Watching these behind-the-scenes type videos of Glenn Gould, I'm always relieved to see that he seems to have been a decent, down to earth (relatively, as much as I can hope for from a super-genius) guy. Finding out that a hero of mine was/is a jerk is a bummer. I can't get enough Glenn Gould.

[aculturemind]

@MrRinaldo83

@MrRinaldo83

'This music' is likely older than your grandpa, and more visionary than your unborn children.

[aculturemind]

Man, that dude on the console had no fucking clue what Gould was getting at. (Further, you can tell he didn't like being 'commanded'. Wahn.) And yet, to all those in the previous decade or two who'd been involved in all sorts of electronic music, this was very basic, common-place.

[unagondolaunremo]

very very interesting: thanks for sharing

[MrRinaldo83]

He was splendid but i don't like this music!

[Yoshi5020]

Yeah, so, why wasn't Glenn there working the controls??

[musictheory123]

It truly takes a GENIUS to conduct a studio engineer!