Glenn Gould: Strauss Burleske (Part 2a - Performance)

First part of the performance.

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[stacysucksviacom]

When Vladimir Golschmann is on the podium, you know that Gould is really conducting. He doesn't look at Golschmann once, but there's nothing wrong with that. This is such a beautiful performance. Compare with Argerich and Abaddo's thoughtless, messy romp through it, as though they couldn't be bothered with such music.

[NordicHealer]

When Gould plays the Hauntingly Beautiful melodic theme unaccompanied by the orchestra you fully realize how utterly Profound his Pathos and Poetry really is; no comparison to Argerich's usual headlong drive through this moment where the Burleske turns to an interlude of reflective sweet sorrows. Remember Strauss was not taken very seriously by the composers of his time. So the piece is a kind of laughing joke at them...whilst also revealing the pain and sorrow deep within his Soul.

[Sylvain894]

For your information this is in 1967; year of the Expo and 100th anniversary of Canadian constitution.

[mmoynan]

@Barbapippo It's true; clumsy and boring is perfect. But come on give the Canadian BS a rest---such an old joke!

[Barbapippo]

@stacysucksviacom 1) Judging from results, neither of them is conducting... 2) Gould is almost never good at late romantic music, but in this case he is even worse: together with this terrible orchestra he manages to turn the Viennese lighteness of this little masterpiece into something clumsy and boring; 3) Argerich and Abbado (and BPO, who are just a little smarter than their Canadian colleagues) catch this aerial, tender atmosphere in a perfect way: their performance is WONDERFUL

[miker2001]

@jerrytolable I would guess that for early color video recording, the light had to be pretty bright, and that violinist could not tolerate the very bright light.

[jerrytolable]

The violinist with the sunglasses is top-notch when it comes to musical coolness!

As for the music, does this sound like it has touches of Rachmaninoff to anyone else?

[MrTJDix]

I was conceived the weekend this was recorded! Thanks again Glenn!!

[samhtliu]

what a great idea! I will do that for the other videos too, cheers for the tip.

[atstimp]

you can solve the sync problem by opening this vid in two windows. Pause both and mute the second one. Then slide the muted video a few seconds past the start time. Beginning playing the unmuted vid, then jump over to the video that is muted and unpause it--it only took me two tries to get it close enough not to bother me, basically pretty darn close

[deviantrake]

Thanks Wombat12550. Whilst it's true that music is primarily an aural experience, if you go to a concert then you like to watch the artist perform. On youtube if someone has put on a video of an artist performing then that's an added bonus, it's a real privelige to watch a great artist perform and a bit frustrating that the video is out of sync. But, I believe that's what I said in my last comment.