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@@EppingMusicSchool Never surrender

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Thank you Nick.

Yes genius and humble

I dont think theres an opposition between brillant and humble. Humility makes one be dedicated only to what one’s doing. (I hope my formulation is comprhensible 😅)

I suppose that he considers both of them to be musical scholars and colleagues.

@@mikecimerian6913 Yes I think so, and I think this humility along with genius js remarkable, I acknowledge my comment was a little bit off-topic. But I wanted to write it anyway 😅

Kkkkk 😂😂😂

Yes, it's fantastic to see Gould's beautiful hands at work, and his face is also compelling and indescribably transcendent. He seems beyond-human. I simply cannot get enough of this great genius.

@@phoebelinden9602 His fingers have an intimate relationship with every key as he treats each as a separate instrument!

Those decisions are made by a director, not a cameraman !

@@kezothehappylurker787 Gould has such a unique posture his action to keys is so low, rather than falling on them from height, he seems to ‘pull’ at them, and to each note an distinct and precise inflection. It’s stunning to watch.

I have never seen that before, but was truly pleased with it.

And they make history!

Bad ass indeed.

In leading a culture indeed.

Wonderfull

Humble?

That's back when television sets were still somewhat expensive, and, arguably still the province of folks who aspired to better things, and had some idea of what "better things" were. This is also a time when television as a public service was an idea that still had merit amongst those in power.

Would that it were!

That' s what I was seeing as a child.Never imagined the state of decay in witch we are.

Forget it. Todays young children are so stupid due to video games, Twitter, Facebook and the crap in the movies and on TV.

Children aren't stupid

Solo Bach es genio, los otros pueden ser maestros , prodigios pero solo Johann Sebastian Bach es el genio, padre la música.

💟 I remember

People generally had much better vocabularies and education back then. It didn't take a near genius to understand anything he said. A poor Jr. High dropout would've read Shakespeare and been as educated as a 3rd year college student today.. Only with a better lexicon.

I'm convinced his vocalizations were a form of counting....he's structuring his orchestration by numbers.

I don't even know anything about music but I for sure feel overwhelmingly something positive from this scene and play

The only thing I like more than Gould is very very early Liberace.

@@Marie-zb6wi me too

Indeed Bach, Haëndel, Scarlatti, et al. were great, but we have Cardi B and Snoop Dog. There's really no comparison. (When people wonder, "What happened to American culture?" I usually respond by saying, " What culture?"

@@excelsior999 cultural deterioration perhaps precedes intellectual deterioration..

I couldn't agree more David. Given the limited resources available for this film, the camera work is sensational.

I was about to offer the same observation. The filming, the attention to details, the captions of particulary moving expressions from Gould... It makes you think you are watching a movie, instead of a concert. So great.

Bernstein was a virtuoso keyboardist in his own right.

This who production is a work of art.

The transition when Gould first appear in camera is wonderful

Quality has no expiation date... Except for maybe quality cheese. Do NOT eat a 300 year old piece of brie. ;o)

@@danh5150 :D

to be fair, Bach is like a 20th century composer whose soul missed the turn at Alburqerque and wound up being born 300 years too early

@@danh5150 I think one would die from the smell alone, if it has not disintegrated by now

Bach brought the music down from a heavenly zone where time does not exist

Absolutely - whatever else Glenn Gould is, he is 100% compelling, particularly here!

It certainly hooks you in!

Yamcha the wolf totally agree. Glenn Gould is more than meets the ear

So true!

absolutely ... it's like an exciting story, with sub-plots ... you just want to know the end. What a brilliant pianist Gould was. Outstanding!

I agree - my dad's collection of vinyl boxsets has some Bernstein from "back in the day" - often (or at least once, my memory is hazy...) a side is given over to examples and explanation. The one I'm thinking about is of Beethoven symphonies where he talks the listener through the first movement of the Heroic Symphony. Simple, unprentitous, it invites the listener to a higher level of appreciation without any tone of superiority or being patronising. He did a lot of good in his lifetime, God bless him.

Hey man, could you suggest some resources for someone who wants to get their leg in the door. Thank you

Lennie was indeed a truly great master, feels like a friend at the same time.

how fortunate abd blessed you are! not only w your talent but with the most passionate and geniuses in your Life! thanks for sharing 🖤🤍🖤🤍

Beautiful comment :)

twangbarfly wonderful comment

best comment on here. im writing a book on bach and will quote this with your permission.

@@thevoiceofhumanitynetwork72 It's nice of you to ask permission - old-fashioned elegance, if you like. If I hadn't sincerely felt what I said, I wouldn't have written it. I'm sure that many people feel the same way. Feel free to quote it.

You don't tell Gould what to do, Gould tells you what to do. That's how he lived his life, he knew exactly what he wanted and was not going to compromise.

@@rdubb77 they actually had problems with each other on that exact matter where he apparently shamed him by saying something like "who has the lead in a concerto? the conductor or the soloist?" In front of an audience

Parsya o_o I never saw it as a public shaming. The matter of discussion was a Brahms concerto, and Bernstein, before beginning, admitted to the audience that this particular preparation was challenging for him because Gould wished to take the concerto at a variety of tempi which Bernstein strongly disagreed with. Bernstein played it off as a matter of learning a new interpretation of the concerto. Regardless, I do think this was the end of their professional career together. Edit: forgot “together”

The sheer presence of the conductor is stunning, he is trying to negotiate with a God gifted madman and succeeds.

Sorry but the professional way to approach it is to NOT announce that you have differences. Just play it however you’ve worked it out. They were both geniuses of the highest order and I love them both, but Bernstein had the bigger ego.

It's truly gorgeous.

This should be top comment

You said it all.

Do you remember the name of the documentary?

@@maddssmithy Glenn Gould - The Goldberg Variations

@@rdubb77 who is the classical estalbishment? Gould was the most famous painist alive in his time, his 1955 recording of the goldberg variations was hailed as genius, so how did you come to that conclusion?

Truly the greatest thing I've ever seen

Bach rising to the level of beethoven the gods of music coming down to earth to posses them in a moment

@@ahmedgilani8646 Bach is more great

I feel you.

Wow. Me too

I thought so too but there seems to be a weird cut before the recapitulations at 13:19

You should read about his chair

Whether you love it or not, it led to his inability to play well for more than short periods of time later in his career. He sounded fantastic in spite of his posture and not because of it.

Ditto

Ok. Now back to dog rescue videos.

weird and genius are one in the same... it's just a matter of perspective

Watch Gould play Beethoven's Emperor Concerto #5 on youtube. The performance will blow your mind.

He is mesmerizing to watch. His delivery of the classics has the power of raw blues music. I can feel his passion through the music.

So true. I feel honoured to have known a woman, a pianist, artist, friend and ex neighbour, who had known Glenn Gould in her youth and has/d love letters he wrote to her after a holiday in Canada. I have two her abstract paintings she gave to me as a gift and it's a wonderful link back to Glenn himself and this performance!

He is the best ever pianist

I highly recommend the film, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould. Shows and teaches so much about this genius.

totally agree yeah

Cool is not the word to use here.

@@vima8680 why not? it's totally cool

Gould appears to be in a state of ecstasy!

Que bien se lo pasa el tío! Orgasmo espiritual...

yes, I would have never otherwise been exposed to such.

You said it Steve! I feel like a MULTI MILLIONAIRE with youtube!! ☺😊🎼🎹🎶🎵

Yes sir Simply put. Yet an extraordinary exponentially display of musical genius. Ty you so much for sharing!!

For every beautiful work of art like this, there are probably ten thousand "how to put on makeup" videos.

Stephen Ritson but get them comment appearing sign?

Waah I want free art and I don't want to have to suffer any inconvenience whatsoever in receipt of that free art. I'm a massive baby complainer. Waah.

@@Kitties_are_pretty Don't cry. I never complain about massive babies.

@@Kitties_are_pretty Uranus. Excuse me, you’re an ass.

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@@THEKECHEXPERIENCE Thank you for the tip

Much ado has been made of the supposed fallout between them regarding the Brahms First. Nonsense.... they disagreed on the tempo, but agreed on Bernstein's preamble. They both loved to educate and Bernstein ADORED Gould.

@@charlotterose6724 oh that Brahms execution

Bach is the supreme composer and Bernstein and Gould, the supreme interpreters.

I saw a clip of this yesterday on the news and I was captivated watching Glenn Gould play. I am glad it is here. You are so right! He is just so incredible!

He's figuratively tasting the notes. He's literally playing them with his fingers

Licking the keys, sniffing them too! But I know exactly what you are trying to say - Gould almost melds into his piano, becomes part of it. What he must feel - most off us will never appreciate.

He's playing wit his fingers, and his feet. And his shoulders, and his jaw, and his eyebrows...

​@@DoctorDewgong Thanks. I'm totally bored with the profligate misuse of "literally."

Agreed. Made by people who were trying to give the TV audience the best possible experience of the performance. Many commenters have said that this would not appear on TV today, because audiences don't want this stuff. Maybe, but the main reason it wouldn't appear today is because such programmes are now made by TV careerists - the cameraman figures he gets no recognition for a steady shot of both hands, so he zooms up the conductors nostril or pans the stucco ceiling - the director doesn't know or care whether Gould is a genius, he does know that he won't get his shot at the big time unless he cuts from instrument to instrument in some noticeable way. The annual appraisal of program makers by TV bosses has much to answer for, in degrading the purpose and quality of such programmes. Reith is much despised now in the UK - but we could do with more of his culture, and a lot less of Alan Yentob (with apologies to non-Brit readers, who won't know who either of these men are).

Right on in every angle David!! :-)

Thank you for mentioning this. Agree 💯%

I'm just as impressed with the sound quality considering how relatively primitive the equipment was compared to what we have now. Apparently, good engineers can do great things with whatever they have to work with.

damn

Yes, indeed I never heard this. Daring.

absolutely incredible...the amount of inherit skill and dexterity you need to accomplish playing like that is something mystical

It already had soul and heart, Glenn just made it more recognizable for you

@@PhotonAvogadro So true

Elsa Barnard one day i wish to own a steinway. No fancy cars for me.

That's what a "classic" is...it never grows old! And it NEVER dies!

) really that is right but not enough warm as I like

Elsa Barnard Brovo !

Model B, baby Steinway. $81,000.00

Maybe he took his ugly chair in his hands when he appeared at the entrance of CBS headquarters.

@@Sportsinsane lol

@@Sportsinsane What do you mean by ugly? That chair carried a genious, and by that it is beautiful!

@@musicmaker1617 ^_^

Herrlich.

Incredible how Canada has given the world so many great pianists, none greater than Gould and Oscar Peterson, but lest we forget Paul Bley, Louis Lortie, Angela Hewitt and so many more

Canadians everywhere can be proud that Glenn Gould’s Bach continues to travel through interstellar space on the Voyager space probes. We must be confident that one day it will be the first Earth music to be heard by an alien life form. We surely are not alone in the universe.

How does he do it

My favorite pianist of all time, hands down. I love your comment and wholeheartedly agree with you.

Starbucks....venti americano

To be fair he was on the most powerful medication 60’s psychiatrist had to offer, from painkillers to antidepressants to anxiolytics. Love his skill and interpretations but man was he flying high

It's called autism

I think that started later.

It seems as you say, but he melts into the orchestra as if it's a living thing and he's a vital organ. I've been there and it's a feeling as fulfilling as the best sex I've ever had. Nothing vulgar intended in my comment.

The guy made love to the piano. (I could be a bit more crass). But I agree. So special to see someone 'in the moment' and doing what they do. /fantastic video.

i'm surprised there aren't more comments than just yours referencing his left hand conducting his right! one of my favorite parts of the video

I love them both!! 😊☺🎼🎹🎶🎵

Two of the absolute best.

I feel they are kind of similar

I used to work at Bob Weirs venue and Jeff Chmenti inherited pigpens B3, which I moved in and out of the venue at least a dozen times.

the two guys..

Exactly, Ive watched this performance around 100 times. I believe someday I will get to 1000 times.

Im 72 This was the best time in history to be alive. I treasure every day 🖖

The powers that be, the globalists, activly promote the degeneracy and the destruction of western civilization. They are the enemy!

If it’s any consolation, I’m a quarter of your age, and though I do enjoy rap, and other genres, I’m still here appreciating entrancing performances like this. The art of creation, and brilliance in doing so (whether it be music, film, visual art, etc) is something that won’t ever be lost so long as young people continue to find appreciation for it and keep it in circulation. Will brilliant art fall out of the mainstream? Likely so. But it won’t ever truly disappear.

Rap music slaps and so does this.

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לא קיבלתי חינוך מוסיקלי. אני בכלל לא מבין גדול במוסיקה. אני לא בקי בים היצירות של בך. האזנתי לביצוע הגאוני הזה והתפעלתי. הפסנתרן, התזמורת ומנצחה נתנו ביצוע מופתי של היצירה. אני בטוח שיוהאן סבסטיאן שם למעלה מחא כפיים בהתלהבות. צר לי לציין שהיצירה עצמה איננה מן המיטב של בך. כשכותבים פיסקה מוסיקלית בת 8 משפטים שמהם 7 הראשונים זהים זה לזה ובאים זה אחר זה, ובכן... ריח של חדגוניות. בך ידע להפתיע ולגוון. האם ההפתעה כאן היא: "הביטו! גם אני יודע לשעמם!"?

Can you imagine!

Sadly, they do not remain on earth.

The masses have no clue.

Old songs on piano

Good Plano old songs

THIS. No one else makes music so clear to the ear. One gets every note

Not too mention Gould's unique master technique that is enabled him to bring out a totally unique perspective on bach.

I am a medium pianist and I enjoy studying and playing Bach,

davidhertzberg I can only imagine the deep connection that he is feeling playing such a powerful peace, the hundreds of thousands of people who have played the same peace before him all the way back to Bach. I like to think he left the music that way on purpose, to let the generations after him play with there own slightly different style. In that sense whomever is playing it has that much deeper of a connection because of that style or part of them self’s they have put into it.

*piece

davidhertzberg ich habe zuerst auch dislike gestellt, weil ich so empört war, wie dieser Bernstein sich mit dem Gott selber vergleichen kann, und so, wie er selber weiß bestimmt, wie man das Konzert spielen muss. Ein echter große Musiker kann heute so spielen, morgen absolut anders. Es wäre besser, dass Bernstein sich am Klavier nicht gesessen würde. Das war einfach die Schande! Er hat gezeigt, dass er ein sehr schlechter Musiker und gleicher Pianist.

Did this guy write "whilst"? I thought so.

davidhertzberg i could not agree more-amazing footage. No one plays Bach like Gould.

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Couldn’t agree more!

Andras Schiff?

@@yashbspianoandcompositions1042 Schiff is nothing compared to Gould

@@Billy-dj8zw Richter?

@@yashbspianoandcompositions1042 No, RIchter does not stand a chance