Glenn Gould and Humphrey Burton on Beethoven - Part 1 (OFFICIAL) 

How safe you feel in this man's intellectual company. Lovely

Among other things, Gould's amazing memory also stands out in addition to his playing.

Never were that piano stroked with such clarity, and sense of direction again.. he just knows, no matter how much study or practice done, most people will just never know...

How much one can learn on his playing and he’s highly articulate

in everything he plays he gets excited. you can see that from the way he breath after every plays. love you glenn

"Yes, but you have this lust for blood, Humphrey..."

This is what makes you tube great, Reaction videos and other crap while mildly entertaining just pale in comparison to this kind of glorious video footage.

My god this man was a genuis.

Makes me just feel happy to see such a man play. And his whole body-voice is part of his music.

Unparalleled genius and pianist

No comments. Admiration only. There is a piece of my beloved 5th concerto, with charming humming.. 🥰.. Bless you, Glenn! Hallelujah! 🔥

PURE TALENT AND GRACE AND INTELLECTUAL PROWESS...JUST WONDERFUL R.I.P BRILLIANT MAN.

Here exists the kind of brilliance that is indescribably eternal, a perfection in a medium that shouldn't ever be so

What an amazing dude

There are parts of Beethoven's sonatas where the urge to speed up is so strong, that you have to use a metronome to keep the rhythm SLOWER.

This is definitely one of the best things I've come across on youtube. Thank you so much for sharing this gem.

Amazing player and person, genius. He almost is the music.

How fresh the genius always is.... Both of them, Glenn and Beethoven

Guold humming while playing, sings the music. An artist

"Egad! Heifetz has done it again, straight through to the end." ...I laughed out loud.

I totally did not expect the Schnabel tribute. Without question one of the giants, but coming from Gould that says something.

Really impressive Gould. Each time that I listen him I always am impressed and blessed by his powerful presence and powerful playing. I think he's really really good at piano and not only to play Bach but also the other composers. Great Gould and thanks to demonstrate that musicians like you can exist.

4:23-4:29 Bless the boom operator who made sure to pick up that sound Glenn is making. It gives me a reason to live.

I love the way he thinks about the music with the piano at hand to complete his arguments for his positions. You want to know why, he'll tell you why then show on the piano -just listen! You don't see that much these day if at all from our current get pianists. You may not agree with his positions but at least you know there's depth to his playing.

The C minor is my favorite Beethoven concerto. I wish I’d heard him play the whole thing

Simply astonishing!

Gould has always been hypnotic to me

Love it. Genius is beyond discussion.

Glenn taught me how to sing.

those trills and ornamentations, wow...so controlled it's crazy

I love his Beethoven. Everything.

4:07 when he sings and plays the orchestra parts when he can as well as the piano

This feels like listening to a god. He has such a powerful presence.

Playing two voices on the piano while singing the orchestra's part, holy crap xD

I find it absolutely facinating and marvelous that he had a much lighter sound with all these overtones, very similar to the piano forte sound of the period instruments we hear nowadays. So very different from all the other pianists from his time. And it's not only beautiful but also much more historically correct.

Amazing lesson

Additional parts to this amazing broadcast? Lovely quality. Thank you!

simply amazing. true obedience to music itself

Oh his singing.... this is fantastic!!! Thank you for my 'daily fix' of this wonderful, remarkable man. The gorgeous Glenn Gould.....By the way, was there something over his chair?

Glenn seems like someone you would really like to know.

Thank You, gorgeous !!!!

Magnifique! Un VRAI GENIE✌🎗💛🌼🇺🇲

Wow this is very impressive.

I Love to Hear Gould make such Authoritive statements on schools of music that existed Long Before He was Even Born !!!

Que bárbaro! Que belleza! Dios y Beethoven estaban en su mente y sus manos escondidos tocando con el.

I love that he slashed the first performance. First time that his playing had alienated me

I agree with the intervewer in the last sentence about listening to the same music in a slightly different way. And it's not about missing a line like Gould said.

i understand his singing completely. i sometimes find myself singing without thinking about it. i think with him he's much more sensitive to the sound and music in general so it fills him up and his voice lets it out. it's a wonderful cycle of input through the ears and output from the voice, like breathing. one of my favourite examples of his singing is at 7:49 .

19:00 I lol'd so hard I spat my coffee all over

Utter Genuis

Hay mucho que aprender de los grandes interpretes

one criticism i have about some of his playing is there is a lack of resolution in some parts that I feel need it.

Considering Gould's observations, it is worth wondering whether the piano concerto was originally intended as a new kind of symphonic form, with the piano truly obbligato as a part of the orchestral fabric but hardly in some Romantic "adversarial" role. It would certainly validate his point that the piano and orchestra should be on the same page more or less in terms of tempo, and given that orchestras of the early 19th century were hardly capable of post-Lisztian virtuosity. I imagine the Emperor did originally sound something like this.

grazie

Here's the piano now...now the orchestra...[seamless playing]...now the piano...[commentary with more seamless playing]...now the orchestra...no cessation of tone....and yet I've changed color many times without changing tempo...HA HA HA

11:09 RIP headphone users.

NOBODY has made a "Better recording five years" after HIS recordings!..... NO ONE!!!!!

❤️

He says himself and it is so true..........He creates colour

I think this man can play the piano and orchestra at the same time. No need to hire a conductor!

7:49 - I wish he'd recorded the whole thing like that at least once.

Спасибо большое! С любовью из России!

Gould was to musical interpretation as Fischer was to chess

I think Burton wanted to say "...but we won't open that 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙨 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮, 𝙤𝙧 𝙬𝙚'𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙣𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩." :-)

19:00 is just great :)

The person who suddenly sticks a random ad into the middle of this should be humanely destroyed.

8:33 is so so beautiful...

On a more general note: Gould's contention that listeners find eccentricities increasingly annoying on repeated listenings is one I'm extremely familiar with -- here he's actually expressing a common, banal view (as he tacitly acknowledges). But my experience has actually been the reverse. Performances that initially strike me as refreshingly straightforward become increasingly boring the more I listen to them; whereas many performances that initially strike me as eccentric, even incomprehensible, gradually make more and more sense, so that my enjoyment of them *increases* upon repetition.

9:21 music gets him all worked up

8:00 i cant hear the music

In my view after listening to this video, Gould was a far greater Beethoven artist than Bach artist. His Beethoven is magnificent, his Bach to my ears sounds harsh.

I was struck by how well Gould presents the interpretations he does *not* believe in. It's not a parody; I don't think anybody would guess, hearing him play in what he calls the 'wrong' way, that he doesn't wholeheartedly believe in those interpretations -- until you hear him speak about it. I also feel there's nothing in his interpretations in this particular video that's eccentric or provocative. Gould often *is* provocative (this description applies, for me, both to some performances of his that I admire and to some that I can barely listen to); but I don't feel there are any major examples of his eccentricity in this particular video, with the possible exception of the second subject Opus 10/2.

What 's he play?

Ethan Hawke should play GG if a biographical movie is made.

What was Humphrey doing there? Gould didn’t let him to say 2 phrases and started talking and playing for 30 minutes without pause.

I have never thought that the piano and orchestra are at war. Perhaps it is my lack of education about this aspect of music that is the reason.

What's the exact name of the piece at 3:30

6:20

11:09

I personally prefer Gould's interpretations of Schoenberg, to be frank

was this interview scripted by gould??

lol just dawned on me homie looks like timothy dalton aka, for those watching at home, james bond

And yet, watch?v=SvWPM783TOE where Bernstein bemoans Gould's excessively wide range of tempi in a concerto!

5, 50, 500? we've yet to will see how long you last

I don't know why he developed an "obsession" with Bach... he was sooo great at Beethoven!!!

Glenn Gould is completely wrong in saying that music of the classical period has to be played with what he calls a backbone but what he means is without any tempo flexibility. We do not have any historic sources confirming that, on the contrary, sources devoutly call for tempo flexibility. Even with the invention of the metronome in 1813 authors of treatises and composers alike warn against playing entire pieces with metronome, it should be applied only to the beginning. Gould likes mechanical playing which he demonstrates (and does so in playing any style of music) and is mislead by his personal bias into advocating this sort of playing as the right way. If anything, this is the wrong way. Not to mention the way he violates Beethoven's articulation by pedalling all the way through... You must not allow yourself to be mislead by the persona of this man, you may like his playing or not, that is up to you, but he constantly gets his facts wrong and that's troubling.

I adore the way he talks and plays. What a gentleman. A testament to the civility of the European people.

Gould makes Beethoven sound like Bach :)

키스 자렛이랑 글렌굴드 피아노 칠때 입좀 막아주실분...

How many of you know that Glenn Gould is directly related to Edvard Grieg? First Cousins.

I’m going to meet him some day, even if it takes a knife.

Glenn was a god for Bach of course, but he was a nut when it comes to Beethoven. I am afraid he never got Beethoven.

Gould makes my flesh crawl.

*Dogmatic*

I could certainly do without Gould's annoying humming or quasi-operatic singing. Even in the informal context of an interview, I find it supremely irritating, notwithstanding his incredible talent. I cannot even listen to Gould with earplugs. It is said that sound engineers silence or eliminate the pianist's humming on his recordings. Wrong !! One important such release, Gould's re-recording of the Goldberg Variations for the 25th anniversary of the recording that had made him famous almost overnight, is plagued by that most unnerving idiosyncrasy. If they tried to reduce it, it was a job poorly executed, because it's definitely there, especially if you're listening with earplugs. To me, it's a real tragedy, because I love his style and I'm often in the obligation to listen to music in silence...

As great as he is. The constant singing while playing drives me nuts.

The real mistake is that Glenn should write his own music and stop doing "covers" of Beethoven. Playing past musicians' works is nothing more than a parrot reciting his master's words. Leave it at that. Musicians need to expand to writing the pieces themselves not parrot them.

When I hear Gould speak about how wrong other musicians do this or that I realize what a pretentious charlatan he was.

Gould singing was SO GHASTLY I can never listen to him !