Che dire, ogni qual volta che vedo scorrere quelle sue mani su di un pianoforte, mi scende una lacrima sapendo che non c’è più un così grande, infinito e probabilmente numero 1 di tutto il ventesimo secolo e oltre. Che tu possa riposare in pace maestro.👏👏👏
Come possono le astratte armonie di Bach toccare così il cuore ? Ascoltare questa esecuzione è un vero balsamo per l'anima. Nessuno come Gould mi permette di avvicinarmi alla comprensione della vertigine Bachiana. Inarrivabile ed incomparabile.
My father bought in 1955 an LP of Gould's first recording of the Goldbergs, and played it often -- quite often -- as I, a quite young lad in the 1950s, was going to sleep in the evenings. In 1990 my father gave me a CD player system, but no CDs. Shortly, I went off to buy a few CDs, and came home with, I promptly realized, the recordings of Gould's earlier renditions of J.S. Bach's works, including the Goldbergs. Among the fine gifts my father provided me was this happy enchantment with Bach, and with Gould's interpretations of Bach. The second recording is my favourite, but the first is electric. I was living in Toronto when Gould's death was announced and I and many others there knew a genuine loss. One of the best things that can happen to a young person is to become enamored of Bach''s music. There are other fine composers, but J.S. Bach is at the summit.
Quando ascolto Gould suonare Bach mi rendo conto che ogni nota è stata pensata, studiata, misurata alla perfezione. Ore e ore, giorni, anni di studio che ci regalano parte della vita di questo meraviglioso musicista e ci aprono orizzonti davvero infiniti. When I listen to Gould playing Bach I realize that every single note has been thought, studied, measured to perfection. Hours and hours, days, years of study that donate us part of this magnificent player's life, and open us to really neverending horizons.
Absolutely the best interpretation of one of the best musical pieces ever! Listened already many, many times to this second recording by Genious Gould but have never seen him play it. Listening to music at this level can bring you closer to the conviction that perfection or God if you wish, exists.
Glenn Gould: a wilfully idiotic genius? It's 30 years since the death of Glenn Gould, but the pianist still provokes strong reactions. So how do today's top players assess his legacy? Tom Service - Thu 20 Sep 2012 Source: The Guardian
Holding my newborn boy in my arms in the dark and listening to this, his eyes half open and his tiny palm going up and down at the stroke of Gould’s keys and his humming. Happiness and peace, wiping all evil off the face of this world
Let's never forget Glenn's entreaty to mankind: “The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.”
Too bad he was wrong, for the purpose of art is obviously to engender a sense of profound bewilderment and existential confusion which one subsequently but ultimately futilely strives to overcome by spouting verbose and opaque quasi-philosophical tenets in the comment sections under great music.
It's so good to hope one day i will play Bach like mister Gould. I know i'll never, but it's so good to hope and try again. And again. And die softly with this sound in my ears. Greetings from Rome Italy
Music owes so much to Bach. It’s hard for me to express my feelings either when reading his sheet music or listening to his recordings. His music continues to be a true miracle. Now on top of all this, listening to the brilliant Glenn Gould playing Bach brings me above my emotional threshold. What an amazing set of technical skills and musical interpretation. I bought years ago the gramophone record, “The Fabulous Recording of 1955” of Goldberg Variationen. I keep it in my office; just looking at it is enough!.
Listened to these Goldberg Variations recording by Glenn Gould first time in 1986, on a party in our music school. Wild party going on downstairs, a few of us sitting in an insulated audio room with excellent speakers. It was an awakening. What a mastership and musicality. Every micro-second fits. Every note a hit, every line a surprise. Supernatural. Ethernal like the true laws of physics.
The fact that on the Pioneer space probe there is a a gold record with the Goldbergs zooming towards the stars make me quite reassured that aliens will not wipe us humans out just for te sake that one of us wrote this masterpiece, it's enough to redeem the whole mankind...
oh happiness! Running through my childhood garden not a care in the world but the warmth of the sun above and running and playing through the backyard grassy lawn humming along! Thank you GG RIP
This was his characteristic, little loved by record companies. It was an absolute genius. His involvement with what he played also exhibited him with his vocal accompaniment. Glenn Gould is loved or hated. Glenn Gould does not allow half measures. Love it or hate it. "Tertium non datur".
Ce que Gould a apporté à la musique est d'un autre ordre que le talent ... Il y eut Bach , qui fut d' une autre galaxie que les autres compositeurs , et il y eut Gould pour porter ce message musical unique dans des sphères inconnues jusqu'alors ! La rencontre des deux nous laisse sans voix , et nous fait vivre des moments magiques . Nul besoin d'analyser , de comparer...se laisser porter seulement par cette houle de notes vers un autre monde...
What Kind of misery surrounds those thumbs down, clearly evil does exist. This masterpiece is a monument of beauty, cleverness, and sentiment, thumbs down is evil suffering for it.
Me too. I don't believe in any heaven but heaven would be spending an eternity with Glen playing music and listening to his insights about it and through it. I'm glad he lived.
He accomplished what he needed to. Who knows what you will bring to the world in those ten years. Honor him by bringing something wonderful to the world.
I have loved this recording for half my life. Glenn Gould is the best Bach interpreter , of all time. The perfect mix of asceticism, rhythm, jazz, classicism and modernism. Gould makes Bach sound like both the past and the present.
@@juliekuhn5108 Thanks. If you love Bach, you are smart enough. It's been said that Bach was as great a genius in music as Einstein was in physics. I believe it.
Heidegger talking about real poetry.the fusion of clarity and warmth.i found both these elements in glenn's interpretation.clarity and warmth.exceptional indeed
molto diversa dalla versione "rock" del '55. ha più identità. ma probabilmente la prima versione è più vicina alla realtà. anche se le prime variazioni eseguite "lentamente" in 2/4 sono inarrivabili.
Another profound genius put upon the earth. This is chillingly adept J.S. Bach playing. The first time I heard this fellow play the 48 was on his CBS recording and the C sharp major prelude from book one almost stopped my breathing. It seemed an impossibly off the planet rendition.
To me the music of Bach is very unique. It took me a bit longer to learn to appreciate Glenn Gould as I learned about Classical music and the piano he became more and more outstanding and now he is one of my favorites, you cannot help but notice his love and respect of music just how he transfers his emotions through the music to the heart.
I share your words and your thoughts. Glenn Gould, who I started to like very late, in conjunction with his death in 1982, I literally stegated my soul. Glenn Gould does not allow half measures. Love it or hate it. "Tertium non datur".
I have just found him a few hours ago! I could not sleep and I was listening randomly several Bach pieces on Apple Music. When I heard Italian Concert I was shocked. I heard the music before with my CD so may times but this was so much better. I looked up the pianist and found his name. I am not a pianist nor a musician. Not even an avid classical music fan. But even a person like me his superiority was so obvious. Amazing.
If you haven’t discovered it yet, you must search Utube for Gould’s debut on American TV. Bernstein was conducting and you get a glimpse of the young Gould (28?) and get to see him play! It is magical! His introduction is at minute 17. If you love Gould you have to check it out...
You might want to start with Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier books 1 and 2 and the Toccatas before moving on to the Partitas, the French Suites and the English Suites. You won't regret it. Happy listening.
I love to hear both recording of 1955 then this. It's a journey through time and sensibility. The first edition is glittering, reflecting the young Gould, this one is intimous, a meditative reprise of a masterpiece. Honestly I can't say whether is better, simply I love both and so I can appreciate not only the Gould performer but also the Man
Sono d'accordo, e aggiungo che il binomio Gould / Bach rappresenta a mio parere la vetta assoluta della espressione musicale. Nessuno ha mai più scritto "musica" dopo Bach, se non grandi melodie accompagnate, e nessuno l'ha mai compresa così a fondo al punto di suonarla a memoria, sezionandola e ricomponendola nota per nota. Alcuni canoni sembrano suonati con la mediazione tecnica ed espressiva di una entità superiore.... Bach? Dio? Chi lo sa... Sono istanti irriproducibili da chiunque altro, se non tramite spartito, con risultati ovviamente molto diversi. .
A recording I would take to a desert island. With Friday, of course. Honestly, there is nothing better than this Glenn Gould rendition when it comes to the Goldberg Variations. Gould managed to recreate a new Bach, somehow. But needless to say, it's a capital reference I love. When a pianist reaches the perfection level Gould shows, we have to thank him for being idiosyncratic or even quirky. For perfection may become boring, think. Anycase, this is the genius at work and he shines as only him could. The brilliant, unique piano legend, Glenn Gould. Thanks for a life devoted to the best music men know. 🎶👍❤️🤗🙏
For me he is one of the very few, if not the only, capable of making "wonderful" listening Bach performed on the piano. His Goldberg Variations are "poetry". Brilliant !! Bright!!
Although not necessarily this specific rendition - for me, Gould playing the "Goldbergs" as he called them, is the summit of all musical experience in human history. This combination of the other-worldly music from Bach, the mind-boggling understanding and meaningful interpretation of Glenn Gould, embodied by his inimitable technique and accuracy --- well, that's the music I want to hear in my last moments. Forever and ever they will live - Bach and Gould.
Hi Motti! This is true! Glenn was super! I would like to suggest a "fan-made" documentary about the life and legacy of Glenn Gould with interviews with his friends and colleagues at this link www.vimeo.com/ondemand/glenngould Hope you like it!
You've expressed beautifully what pierces past words for a lot of us. That little chair his father made - the one he couldn't or wouldn't play without: His need for warmth that would parch a singer's throat - l don't want to say nothing else mattered but Bach, but it seems, truly, that Bach's spirit surrounded Gould in the playing. I love Leonard Bernstein's intro to him on the recording. Anyway, because of an accidental event or so, I know that heaven contains any desire.,.As in our afterlives: You'll hear all you want when you get there. Thank you.
It should be noted that Gould remarked (and I'm paraphrasing) that "the Goldberg Variations contain some of the best of Bach and also some music that is humdrum"
It's hard for me to listen to anyone else play this. Gould's second recording of the Goldberg Variations transcends technique and takes one straight into the mind of Bach. His early recording is of course wondrous and exuberant, but this is the one I always come back to. And yes, I love the humming.
I thought the same, until I heard Lang Lang's 2020 recording of the repertoire. Try it. If you don't like it you'd appreciate Gould's version more, but if you like the new Lang Lang's version then it would open up a new world of expressions for you.
@@ghoshneh L'ho sentita, però quella di Glenn Gould mi emoziona ancor di più...per me rimane la migliore in assoluto questa ultima versione di lui anziano, meglio della sua versione da giovane dove senti tanta velocità e virtuosismo ma minor intimità, a mio parere che sono ignorante in materia.
@@pinomorello753 So it was Italian ;-) , I was just joking! To reply, Glen Gould's version is also very close to my heart, in Lang Lang's version there are variations that I don't like Lang Lang's interpretation specially some of the fast variations, but his interpretation of the slow ones, like Aria and Variation no. 30, are very good alternatives to those of Gould's. . After all, Lang Lang's new Album is a new version and it would take time for it to sink in and understood.
@@ghoshneh I don't agree. L.L throws ornaments all over the place. If anything I think Gould's use of the ornament is always perfect. LL display of how he or you are suppose to feel is in bad taste. His repeats are loaded with nothing new but ornaments. Watch some of the truly greats like Horowitz or Richter. He has technique but gets in the way of the music. LL is too much of a show off but the crowds seemed to like that.
@@ttrons2 It is true that Lang comes up with new ornaments which were not intended by Bach. So, Authentically, you are right and it is obvious how much Lang has added to the original score, especially in the repeats. However, you'd have to remember that Bach's music is still not accessible to a wider audience. Adding further ornaments MIGHT make the variations (repeats) more interesting making the score more accessible to others. Another analogy: if I'm not a good friend to you then I would make you appreciate your good friends even more, so , by being bad I'd make you appreciate all the good things you have in life further; Lang's work, good or bad, would benefit both parties involved!
Sublime, sublime, sublime - There are many fine performances of the Goldberg Variations. But this performance by Glenn Gould stands head and shoulders above the rest.
300 years just vanished as I sat next to J.S. Bach and watched him play this....fortunately, I had already applied lots of moisturizer so the tears didn't dry out the skin beneath my eyes
Ah yes, his humming has become his most endearing attribute as far as I’m concerned. When I heard it in recordings 40 years ago I thought it was a flaw. Now I love it.
Somos afortunados de poder escuchar, sentir , deleitarnos , incluso llorar con esta increíble interpretación...tocamos el cielo, es algo increíble, es leyenda y cualquier palabra jamás puede estar a la altura de estos sonidos...Amor , vida, nobleza , honestidad , respeto y creer en la vida...gracias!!!
If the tradition could produce another figure, either a performer or a composer, who resonates in the popular imagination the way Glenn Gould did, it might spring back to life.
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Che dire, ogni qual volta che vedo scorrere quelle sue mani su di un pianoforte, mi scende una lacrima sapendo che non c’è più un così grande, infinito e probabilmente numero 1 di tutto il ventesimo secolo e oltre. Che tu possa riposare in pace maestro.👏👏👏
versione più matura e intima rispetto a quella del 51 secondo il mio ascolto .gould un mito. grazie x questa musica meravigliosa .
Me too
Come possono le astratte armonie di Bach toccare così il cuore ?
Ascoltare questa esecuzione è un vero balsamo per l'anima.
Nessuno come Gould mi permette di avvicinarmi alla comprensione della vertigine Bachiana.
Inarrivabile ed incomparabile.
My father bought in 1955 an LP of Gould's first recording of the Goldbergs, and played it often -- quite often -- as I, a quite young lad in the 1950s, was going to sleep in the evenings. In 1990 my father gave me a CD player system, but no CDs. Shortly, I went off to buy a few CDs, and came home with, I promptly realized, the recordings of Gould's earlier renditions of J.S. Bach's works, including the Goldbergs. Among the fine gifts my father provided me was this happy enchantment with Bach, and with Gould's interpretations of Bach. The second recording is my favourite, but the first is electric. I was living in Toronto when Gould's death was announced and I and many others there knew a genuine loss. One of the best things that can happen to a young person is to become enamored of Bach''s music. There are other fine composers, but J.S. Bach is at the summit.
Quando ascolto Gould suonare Bach mi rendo conto che ogni nota è stata pensata, studiata, misurata alla perfezione. Ore e ore, giorni, anni di studio che ci regalano parte della vita di questo meraviglioso musicista e ci aprono orizzonti davvero infiniti. When I listen to Gould playing Bach I realize that every single note has been thought, studied, measured to perfection. Hours and hours, days, years of study that donate us part of this magnificent player's life, and open us to really neverending horizons.
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È un po' come dire:Ciao Bach sono il tuo amico Glenn!!Felice di rivederti!!!
Absolutely the best interpretation of one of the best musical pieces ever! Listened already many, many times to this second recording by Genious Gould but have never seen him play it. Listening to music at this level can bring you closer to the conviction that perfection or God if you wish, exists.
I absolutely agree
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Glenn Gould: a wilfully idiotic genius?
It's 30 years since the death of Glenn Gould, but the pianist still provokes strong reactions. So how do today's top players assess his legacy?
Tom Service - Thu 20 Sep 2012
Source: The Guardian
The music of Bach is essentially the universe having a conversation with itself, and no one brings that out better than Glenn Gould.
6:06
Glenn Gould and Finger Tapping
Richard Beauchamp
Source: music and health co uk
Gould becomes the music and the music lives in every cell of his being. How lucky we are to witness this miracle
I think exactly the same. He is the Music. Do you know "Birdy" WWHARTON' book? Somhow it remindes me.
agreed - we were so lucky - he was a gift .
Gould's Bach is more addictive the more you listen,
It became one of the masterpieces for me.
Not only Bach but Beethoven is also wonderful.
Nobody plays like Glenn❤️ NOBODY 🥺
This recording is legendary
Holding my newborn boy in my arms in the dark and listening to this, his eyes half open and his tiny palm going up and down at the stroke of Gould’s keys and his humming. Happiness and peace, wiping all evil off the face of this world
that's beautiful moment...
AMEN: PEACE-HAPPINESS-LOVE - THE TRUTH, THE LIGHT AND THE WAY
God bless you both and enjoy every precious moment
The truth about this world lies in your words.
I am sure that this moment has inspired your little boy for his whole life.
Love to you and your child
Let's never forget Glenn's entreaty to mankind: “The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.”
Too bad he was wrong, for the purpose of art is obviously to engender a sense of profound bewilderment and existential confusion which one subsequently but ultimately futilely strives to overcome by spouting verbose and opaque quasi-philosophical tenets in the comment sections under great music.
@@barkebaat funny how you are also doing that very thing
@@prancer9980 : Yeah, but I was parodying JW, which you obviously are too dense to understand.
@@barkebaat No, you were not parodying John Wright, because he didn't say anything remotely similar to what you described.
@@pseunition6038 : Parodying is not the same as paraphrasing, as you seem to believe. Now fuck off you ignoramus.
This is the most beautiful moments in history - a human totally free, totally creative.
How has this not been watched 7 billion times?
You can just imagine God smiling and next second crying.
A perfect recording with an outstanding artist....
Never tired of welcoming bach and glenn's harmony in my inner self
It's so good to hope one day i will play Bach like mister Gould. I know i'll never, but it's so good to hope and try again. And again. And die softly with this sound in my ears. Greetings from Rome Italy
Listening to Glenn Gould play the Piano makes me feel like I can walk on Leggos!!!...He was a MASTER at his craft..
Bach allows the player to express their humanity. The gift that continues to give.
the most beautiful version I've heard
The tempo forces my mind to slow down, the genius of Gould. His Turkish March is the same. So very therapeutic. Thank you.
Music owes so much to Bach. It’s hard for me to express my feelings either when reading his sheet music or listening to his recordings. His music continues to be a true miracle. Now on top of all this, listening to the brilliant Glenn Gould playing Bach brings me above my emotional threshold. What an amazing set of technical skills and musical interpretation. I bought years ago the gramophone record, “The Fabulous Recording of 1955” of Goldberg Variationen. I keep it in my office; just looking at it is enough!.
Listened to these Goldberg Variations recording by Glenn Gould first time in 1986, on a party in our music school. Wild party going on downstairs, a few of us sitting in an insulated audio room with excellent speakers. It was an awakening. What a mastership and musicality. Every micro-second fits. Every note a hit, every line a surprise. Supernatural. Ethernal like the true laws of physics.
❤️
It rule
🙌
Thanks God for this musician and this piano player. Not of this world...
The fact that on the Pioneer space probe there is a a gold record with the Goldbergs zooming towards the stars make me quite reassured that aliens will not wipe us humans out just for te sake that one of us wrote this masterpiece, it's enough to redeem the whole mankind...
I am sure the aliens will regret that we didn't include a libretto.Those humming sounds must mean something.
Absolutely
oh happiness! Running through my childhood garden not a care in the world but the warmth of the sun above and running and playing through the backyard grassy lawn humming along! Thank you GG RIP
Absolutely divine: Thank You J.S. Bach and Glenn Gould!
He used to play not only with his fingers but also with his voice !!!!
This was his characteristic, little loved by record companies. It was an absolute genius. His involvement with what he played also exhibited him with his vocal accompaniment.
Glenn Gould is loved or hated.
Glenn Gould does not allow half measures. Love it or hate it. "Tertium non datur".
the intensity in his performance, the richness in these a few minutes, is much more than a few years of my daily life.
Unlike any other interpretation. This is so idiosyncratic and there is nothing automatic about it. Gould is each note he is playing. Genius.
Humming for ever. Love you Glen as you are.
I met Glenn. So glad I did!
もう本当に大好き。気持ちがいい。音がきれい。素晴らしい。
Ce que Gould a apporté à la musique est d'un autre ordre que le talent ... Il y eut Bach , qui fut d' une autre galaxie que les autres compositeurs , et il y eut Gould pour porter ce message musical unique dans des sphères inconnues jusqu'alors ! La rencontre des deux nous laisse sans voix , et nous fait vivre des moments magiques . Nul besoin d'analyser , de comparer...se laisser porter seulement par cette houle de notes vers un autre monde...
I love Glenn Gould....RIP
two geniuses at work here, J.S. Bach and Glenn Gould, its a shame Bach never heard it on the modern piano!
Chad Lelong Lol
Chad Lelong - This is probably Gould’s specially modified piano. He did something to get that crisper sound.
He would have approved.
What Kind of misery surrounds those thumbs down, clearly evil does exist.
This masterpiece is a monument of beauty, cleverness, and sentiment, thumbs down is evil suffering for it.
while not deserving of such, there are better renditions than Gould's to many of us
Its so intimistic...so precious...like that years...
Jamen du godeste, hvilken musisk oplevelse. Det er så stortat , jeg næsten kan fatte det.. Guden er nær. Niels--Denmark
I love that they could never get the vocalisations out of his performances. He was so amazingly genuine. Was part of every note he played.
This recording is one year before he died... Genius gone too young.. he was just 50. I would have given him 10 years of my life if i could.
That is a lovely sentiment!
Me too. I don't believe in any heaven but heaven would be spending an eternity with Glen playing music and listening to his insights about it and through it. I'm glad he lived.
He accomplished what he needed to. Who knows what you will bring to the world in those ten years. Honor him by bringing something wonderful to the world.
What a beautiful sentiment.
You sound like a wonderful person. What a beautiful comment!
I have loved this recording for half my life. Glenn Gould is the best Bach interpreter , of all time. The perfect mix of asceticism, rhythm, jazz, classicism and modernism. Gould makes Bach sound like both the past and the present.
Glenn.he came.he left.leaving a huge heritage to the planet
Immortal genius. Externally beloved. Transcendent music.
Impeccable artist.
Gould , listening to him shows us what the word Genius really means.
Gould best interpreter ever. Bach seems to have composed the Variations only a few years ago. So modern, such a masterpiece!
He was a Genius!... A virtuoso not compatible with others. Is just sublime hear this interpretation.
Merveilleuse musique, pianiste génial qui vit la musique. Et très bien filmé!
Clinical, Emotional, Contemporary, Baroque: Gould brings together just about every juxtaposition you could think of in this recording.
Tra i più grandi pianisti della storia
stupenda esecuzione un grandissimo gould
It is so great to hear how Bach interpreted Glenn Gould!
When Gould plays Bach, it's genius meeting genius.
Wish I was smart enough to come up w something that insightful
@@juliekuhn5108 Thanks. If you love Bach, you are smart enough. It's been said that Bach was as great a genius in music as Einstein was in physics. I believe it.
Il più grande pianista della storia, per distacco.
Heidegger talking about real poetry.the fusion of clarity and warmth.i found both these elements in glenn's interpretation.clarity and warmth.exceptional indeed
Un regalo lasciato dall’immenso Bach per il genialissimo maestro Gould
grazie.
Ogni variazione ha una sua identità, colore, tocco, espressione, suono. È unico.
molto diversa dalla versione "rock" del '55. ha più identità. ma probabilmente la prima versione è più vicina alla realtà. anche se le prime variazioni eseguite "lentamente" in 2/4 sono inarrivabili.
fracto84 amo molto anche la versione del 55.. a mio avviso uno spartiacque. Bach tornava in vita in maniera travolgente.
Another profound genius put upon the earth. This is chillingly adept J.S. Bach playing. The first time I heard this fellow play the 48 was on his CBS recording and the C sharp major prelude from book one almost stopped my breathing. It seemed an impossibly off the planet rendition.
Какое исполнение ! - с ума сойти!
The greatest Intepreter of Bach
On piano, yes.
...especially in more mature years like here!
The way his fingers move across the keyboard is a masterpiece in itself
There are pianists there are pianists pianists and the there is mr Gould who who serves the great nobility of this music bravo
To me the music of Bach is very unique. It took me a bit longer to learn to appreciate Glenn Gould as I learned about Classical music and the piano he became more and more outstanding and now he is one of my favorites, you cannot help but notice his love and respect of music just how he transfers his emotions through the music to the heart.
I share your words and your thoughts. Glenn Gould, who I started to like very late, in conjunction with his death in 1982, I literally stegated my soul.
Glenn Gould does not allow half measures. Love it or hate it.
"Tertium non datur".
Equally as important as his heart: his intelligence. He deeply analysed and understood compositions. His wisdom profoundly informs his performance.
Ma
He was just great, I recently bought his '48' on CD, I can't stop listening whilst I paint.
Simply essential and evocative.sublime
I have just found him a few hours ago! I could not sleep and I was listening randomly several Bach pieces on Apple Music. When I heard Italian Concert I was shocked. I heard the music before with my CD so may times but this was so much better. I looked up the pianist and found his name.
I am not a pianist nor a musician. Not even an avid classical music fan. But even a person like me his superiority was so obvious. Amazing.
Your sensivity & love of the beauty has taken you here
If you haven’t discovered it yet, you must search Utube for Gould’s debut on American TV. Bernstein was conducting and you get a glimpse of the young Gould (28?) and get to see him play! It is magical! His introduction is at minute 17. If you love Gould you have to check it out...
You might want to start with Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier books 1 and 2 and the Toccatas before moving on to the Partitas, the French Suites and the English Suites. You won't regret it. Happy listening.
So beautifully said!
Congratulations, a sleepless night well spend
Когда я знаю, что ещё раз смогу прослушать Гольдберг- вариации в исполнении Гульда, в моей жизни появляется смысл.
io non posso più provare a suonarle.
I love to hear both recording of 1955 then this. It's a journey through time and sensibility. The first edition is glittering, reflecting the young Gould, this one is intimous, a meditative reprise of a masterpiece. Honestly I can't say whether is better, simply I love both and so I can appreciate not only the Gould performer but also the Man
You like no-human piànist and nothing more it-s better to buy a computer to listen music with you
Thank you for this short film. A great moment!
His articulation is so absolutely perfect. I want to be able to play Bach just like him one day
Glenn Gould è Glenn Gould.
Non servono altre parole.
Sono d'accordo, e aggiungo che il binomio Gould / Bach rappresenta a mio parere la vetta assoluta della espressione musicale.
Nessuno ha mai più scritto "musica" dopo Bach, se non grandi melodie accompagnate, e nessuno l'ha mai compresa così a fondo al punto di suonarla a memoria, sezionandola e ricomponendola nota per nota. Alcuni canoni sembrano suonati con la mediazione tecnica ed espressiva di una entità superiore.... Bach? Dio? Chi lo sa... Sono istanti irriproducibili da chiunque altro, se non tramite spartito, con risultati ovviamente molto diversi. .
Проходят годы, но это исполнение прошибает до костей, как и раньше. Лучшего не слышала до сих пор. Фантастическое и магическое действие.
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A recording I would take to a desert island. With Friday, of course. Honestly, there is nothing better than this Glenn Gould rendition when it comes to the Goldberg Variations. Gould managed to recreate a new Bach, somehow. But needless to say, it's a capital reference I love. When a pianist reaches the perfection level Gould shows, we have to thank him for being idiosyncratic or even quirky. For perfection may become boring, think. Anycase, this is the genius at work and he shines as only him could. The brilliant, unique piano legend, Glenn Gould. Thanks for a life devoted to the best music men know. 🎶👍❤️🤗🙏
GENIAL!!!!!!!!
quel bon moment passé avec Glenn Gould pendant le confinement !!!
Maravilloso!!!
For me he is one of the very few, if not the only, capable of making "wonderful" listening Bach performed on the piano. His Goldberg Variations are "poetry". Brilliant !! Bright!!
The composition and this absolutly ingenious interpretation should actually be called Gouldberg-Variations!
Brilliant
funny Gould was born Gold and changed his name
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It's simply beautiful! Thank you
Although not necessarily this specific rendition - for me, Gould playing the "Goldbergs" as he called them, is the summit of all musical experience in human history. This combination of the other-worldly music from Bach, the mind-boggling understanding and meaningful interpretation of Glenn Gould, embodied by his inimitable technique and accuracy --- well, that's the music I want to hear in my last moments. Forever and ever they will live - Bach and Gould.
Hi Motti! This is true! Glenn was super! I would like to suggest a "fan-made" documentary about the life and legacy of Glenn Gould with interviews with his friends and colleagues at this link www.vimeo.com/ondemand/glenngould Hope you like it!
You've expressed beautifully what pierces past words for a lot of us. That little chair his father made - the one he couldn't or wouldn't play without: His need for warmth that would parch a singer's throat - l don't want to say nothing else mattered but Bach, but it seems, truly, that Bach's spirit surrounded Gould in the playing. I love Leonard Bernstein's intro to him on the recording.
Anyway, because of an accidental event or so, I know that heaven contains any desire.,.As in our afterlives: You'll hear all you want when you get there.
Thank you.
You are quite right. Non ci sarà più nessuno.come loro. Passione, talento, amore puro, dedizione assoluta. ❤
It should be noted that Gould remarked (and I'm paraphrasing) that "the Goldberg Variations contain some of the best of Bach and also some music that is humdrum"
@@TheGloryofMusicMuch that is human, and much that is music, is sometimes 'humdrum'... still!
Oh my Gould!
wunderteo82 Our Gould. ❤️
Jajaja jaaaa!!!!
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Rip Glenn Gould , I like his englischen suites , I wish I could've take him a picture when he's still alive ,I'm just 12
Beautiful. Thank you, Clarice ...
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Восторг! Совершенство! Браво!
It's hard for me to listen to anyone else play this. Gould's second recording of the Goldberg Variations transcends technique and takes one straight into the mind of Bach. His early recording is of course wondrous and exuberant, but this is the one I always come back to. And yes, I love the humming.
I thought the same, until I heard Lang Lang's 2020 recording of the repertoire. Try it. If you don't like it you'd appreciate Gould's version more, but if you like the new Lang Lang's version then it would open up a new world of expressions for you.
@@ghoshneh L'ho sentita, però quella di Glenn Gould mi emoziona ancor di più...per me rimane la migliore in assoluto questa ultima versione di lui anziano, meglio della sua versione da giovane dove senti tanta velocità e virtuosismo ma minor intimità, a mio parere che sono ignorante in materia.
@@pinomorello753 So it was Italian ;-) , I was just joking! To reply, Glen Gould's version is also very close to my heart, in Lang Lang's version there are variations that I don't like Lang Lang's interpretation specially some of the fast variations, but his interpretation of the slow ones, like Aria and Variation no. 30, are very good alternatives to those of Gould's. . After all, Lang Lang's new Album is a new version and it would take time for it to sink in and understood.
@@ghoshneh I don't agree. L.L throws ornaments all over the place. If anything I think Gould's use of the ornament is always perfect. LL display of how he or you are suppose to feel is in bad taste. His repeats are loaded with nothing new but ornaments. Watch some of the truly greats like Horowitz or Richter. He has technique but gets in the way of the music. LL is too much of a show off but the crowds seemed to like that.
@@ttrons2 It is true that Lang comes up with new ornaments which were not intended by Bach. So, Authentically, you are right and it is obvious how much Lang has added to the original score, especially in the repeats. However, you'd have to remember that Bach's music is still not accessible to a wider audience. Adding further ornaments MIGHT make the variations (repeats) more interesting making the score more accessible to others. Another analogy: if I'm not a good friend to you then I would make you appreciate your good friends even more, so , by being bad I'd make you appreciate all the good things you have in life further; Lang's work, good or bad, would benefit both parties involved!
Sublime, sublime, sublime -
There are many fine performances of the Goldberg Variations. But this performance by Glenn Gould stands head and shoulders above the rest.
300 years just vanished as I sat next to J.S. Bach and watched him play this....fortunately, I had already applied lots of moisturizer so the tears didn't dry out the skin beneath my eyes
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I absolutely love his humming it seems to add to tbe whole transendental energy of the piece All of bachs works is prayer and in another dimension
This is heaven. Believe in God or not. This is Heaven.
Bach wrote it for Jesus.
I agree - this is heaven
I think that's where Glenn was, while he was playing. Completely carried away in the spirit.
Gould played with such intensity, it's not surprising he died of a stroke. Now he plays for God.
Thougt that also..but then i woke uo and i realize that im living in sweden...and then start to cry.
Am i the only one who loves hearing him humming... ??? He is singing along....
Yes, Glenn Gould used to sing and hum while playing :-)
No, you’re not alone. I enjoy it too.
Ah yes, his humming has become his most endearing attribute as far as I’m concerned. When I heard it in recordings 40 years ago I thought it was a flaw. Now I love it.
Callas should have singed with Gould, while he was playing.
I think his humming adds to the playing
Dieser geniale Pianist ist dem Gott so nah wie kaum ein anderer...
amazing contrast to the earlier version , this one makes me want to cry
Toujours aussi sublime... et c'est un euphémisme...
C’est vraiment une interprétation tellement singulière,si musicalement exprimée,juste sublime ❤️du pur bonheur,merci pour le partage 🙏
merci pour votre bien mots! "tellement singulière... cést vrai! Ecouter on la lit de mourir: ... pour dire "merci" a dieu pour la vie.... ....
삶의 순간마다.. 깊은 연주로 마음을 울렸던 굴드 감사합니다
This masterpiece is the lullaby of the mankind , and the cradle gently cradled by genius Glenn .
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toca muito bem que musica linda ainda por cima a primeira vez que toquei essa musica foi em 1957
Somos afortunados de poder escuchar, sentir , deleitarnos , incluso llorar con esta increíble interpretación...tocamos el cielo, es algo increíble, es leyenda y cualquier palabra jamás puede estar a la altura de estos sonidos...Amor , vida, nobleza , honestidad , respeto y creer en la vida...gracias!!!
This version is beyond magical.
If the tradition could produce another figure, either a performer or a composer, who resonates in the popular imagination the way Glenn Gould did, it might spring back to life.