Glenn Gould - Moonlight Sonata pt. II (Beethoven)

Sonata No 14 in C-Sharp Minor Op 27 No 2 'Moonlight' - II

Played by Glenn Gould

Video is for listening only.

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Music

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• Glenn
• Gould
• Beethoven
• Moonlight
• Sonata
• Mondschein
• Clair
• Lune
• Quasi
• Fantasia

[Arganos0]

Added Pathetique III

[platmosic]

Many people would say he played too fast. Me too. But notice his is not playing for you. He is playing for himself.

[googlekopfkind]

it doesnt matters easy or not

i can writte a peace of crap that is so hard to play that nobody will able to play it :)

[daniel3231995]

My favorite movement of the sonata?I'd say - DUH.YES.

[daniel3231995]

@googlekopfkind You are so right.I wish you could make this point to so many musically-ignorant idiots.

[FurlanPaolo]

@platmosic Well said, friend, well said.

[gustavoturm]

@platmosic Actually he's playing to my mom, which was his girlfriend when he played that.

[andy66100]

cool!!!!

[kubekbeta5]

Actually it wasn't his decision to play moonlight sonata this fast. Read a book, morons.

[yumpin]

@philateliceun it's marked presto agitato. that means VERY FAST AND AGITATED. If you slow it down, you can hear how evenly he plays it, and how intricate and thoughtful his phrasing is. It's tough to hear at full speed so use a media player to slow it down. Beethoven was not himself a follower of common practices so why on earth would an 'impractical' interpretation be insulting to a composer who firmly believed the pianist should play the work their own way?

[humbher3]

Glenn Gould is a MAGIC pianist playing Bach stuff.. but playing this Beethoven sonatas i think is really poor =)