Glenn Gould - Bach, Fugue in E-flat major & Cantata "Widerstehe doch der Sünde" (OFFICIAL) 

I wouldn't exactly describe Gould as "warmful", however he invites us into his intellectual world as an intimate, and even though his concepts are pretty far reaching and ask us to call upon a deep understanding of "high Art" and the whole of european history, he teaches with such willful projection, and clear focus, we can't help but be struck by the power of his words !

Beautiful comment. Thank you for it.

Simply unbelievable

Exactly. This is what television used to be. What the heck happened …

Noooooooo,you see: All that she wants is another baby(1.2 million likes) This masterpiece:(1 K likes) That's the world we live in.

Exquisite!

There are slower versions: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w5Ne1waZImI.html

If you like their hammering away then you're in for a genuine treat: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w5Ne1waZImI.html You're welcome.

Dunno man, but I live for gems like at 11:03, just that extra line coming through

@@christofeles63 @sönke zürner While I'll admit your preferred performance is better than many, and her voice is beautiful, I don't care for the transposition or tempo. I do like it. But i think Watts is unjustly overpowered by the accompaniment in some places in your version. Her voice should be in front throughout the piece. And like you, the first interpretation I encountered of this piece is what moves me the most, which is this performance for me. I've listened to several versions that have been shared by others, but I keep coming back to this one. I don't care for most male falsetto versions which is another reason I like this one. (Oberlin did not sing falsetto. This was his natural vocal range.) This performance is beloved to so many listeners. Whatever your preference, I think it's petty for you to insult it. Thanks for the link. I'll give it another listen in the future.

Either Place naw bro, 15:12

Перевести полностью всю лекцию синхронно с музыкой. Спвсибо

Перевести полностью всю лекцию синхронно с музыкой. Спвсибо

My hairs stood up

Truly a sublime historical document.

Mate I think Glenn was the organist.

greedy bastaaads

That's so bizarre! If they wanted the money, you can through RU-vid to claim the music licensing rights for videos that are already posted! I guess they wanted control of them all on an official channel? It's heavy-handed and unfortunate in my opinion!

I am pretty sure the quality here is inferior too.

Gould’s estate has always acted aggressively to anyone venturing into Gould territory for any reason. I believe Gould would not be supportive of this attitude. His accomplishments and genius will outlast these executors and lawyers !

Indeed, but how it is possible Canada has "sold" the rights? I wasn't even told by RU-vid that my (unmonetised) upload of this piece, which I did years ago, had been blocked worldwide. And as you say, there were many, many insightful comments on same. I've only just discovered that my upload was taken down. No notifications; no email. RU-vid bends furtively these days - because it wants to avoid challenges. They now do this by stealth. Deplorable. Ironically, the quality of my upload was far better than this murky video.

You NEVER need psychotherapy, that jewish scam!

but it's right here on youtube to watch whenever you want, surely that's better than stumbling across a broadcast?

@@j.p.westwater2334 Sure, but it's more a comment on the zeitgeist. Rather than having to look back for quality, we should produce something worth looking back on.

@@OUTBOUND184 -- To which permit me to add an "Amen!" and "Alleluia!" to your sentiment. Well written indeed!

I was thinking the same thing :)

that's rich coming from a catullus fan

Sublime modulation as only Bach could extemporize.

Да... Я тоже рассуждаю о том, что бы я хотела услышать в высших сферах...

12.45❤️

Probably because he's reading his own script... Gould is eloquent but this "in the old days..." meme is boomer cringe.

@@JetFission it's true, not a meme, look at tv today, do you think many people could appreciate this? No, they are too worried about their clothes, parties, size of their bíceps, money etx

​@@ignacioclerici5341 It'll be pretty fucking easy to impress you if the only thing required is to use cool words. You kind of people are the least intelligent of all, as your concept of intelligence is so surface level that just the mention of stuff like quantum mechanics automatically signals intelligence. Quantum mechanics is clever stuff, right? Glen Gould's use of language is clunky, pedantic, and frankly he sounds like a self-indulgent piece of shit, and if you had actually read something else than a Wikipedia plot summary of "Brave New World" you would perhaps be able to distinguish verbosity from eloquence. You may be a very smart guy who listens to Bach on youtube, but please don’t think you’re one pile of shit better than people who care about the size of their biceps or whatever. After all, you’re in the youtube comment section lamenting the tremendous burden of your intelligence, which seems like a pretty superficial to do, doesn’t it?

@@ignacioclerici5341 ifs true its not a meme *says boomer good old days meme*

Gould is a fantastic writer, but this is not his natural way of speaking. He has undoubtedly edited this script countless times ❤

Reacher season 2!

It is a rare epitome of the psychical and pneumatic isotope of Bach's musical structure .

Nice easter egg!

@@AvntXardE ok then!

Funny because Gould hates the 40th symphony. He says it's entire banal except the few falling 6ths in the last movement that predates Webern-like ideas.

@@s.l5787 well Gould seemed like a snob sometimes, specially when he talked about Mozart

@@IgnacioClerici-mp5cy He had very honest opinions about Mozart. He once wrote a film 'How Mozart became a bad composer' citing what he liked and disliked about Mozart.

S.L That is to be frank, crazy to me! What?! The 40th Symphony is incredible. Not that I don’t disbelieve you, but can you show me the evidence? (Gould)

@@MichaelCWBell You can google it, the film once existed and I believe the Glenn Gould foundation owns it. He thought the 40th symphony was highly overrated except for the descending 6ths in the 4th movement which were Webern-like. Personally for me I am bored of the 40th symphony after the first 30 seconds.

Oberlin must be smiling from his grave to hear himself described as "a true castrato."

Russell Oberlin was not a castrato! He was a tenor with an unusually high tessitura. He sang with a natural modal voice in all parts of his range.

You don't expain..just marvel..

I wouldn’t try explaining either.

Came from a musician family, was incredibly gifted, had the chance to live long enough to leave a huge work, and most of all, worked like a madman.

Superhuman intelligence would be a good place to start xd

from Cantata BWV 54

Because of how old school pianists played his works (right-hand heavy and without counterpoint clarity) and how old school singers sang his vocal music (with fat vibrato spanning 3 or more semi-tones).

Music was not widely distributed or circulated

Bach’s music was too complicated for audiences of their day.

Because it was too difficult to play and listen to. And it actually still is. This is not music that has wide popular appeal.

BWV 552. Gould plays just the first part of the (triple!) fugue.

Bach: ok guys let’s get this for a snack

Only thing was that I don't think you could easily move or really even tune that old Chickering. Also they did an experiment on this piano where they used tacks on the felt, and I can't see him trying something like that with his own. If it sounds like the Chickering, he probably would have considered the experiment a success, though. It is weird that the desk looks so much like the one on his.

He was playing a Bach fugue on organ, no one bothered to mention that.

I doubt it. Gould had a recent Steinway. This piano looks old and has been tampered with (thumb tacks on the hammers?) in order to sound like a harpsichord.

True. For an intellectual so deep into Bach's work, I would expect better pronunciation in German, but it could sound like a hybris to be critical of him on that.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b4IXXpTHjok.html

It's the opening of Mozart's Symphony No 1 - though Gould mistakenly attributes it to "the young Haydn"

@@ssmith9745 I listened closely several times, but didn't hear him say it was Haydn. He mentioned Haydn afterwards but only after talking about Bach's sons. Can you post the time in the video where he says it?

@@ssmith9745 Gould's observation was about the influence of Haydn on the modernization of the music issuing from Bach's time, including his obvious influence which can be easily discerned in Mozart's own music.

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... and the Fugue in the beginning is BWV 552.

fred houpt Maybe you answer your own question. That is the tone he liked.

This is Gould's "Harpsipiano", his own idea. He had pieces of metal attached to the hammers so it would sound like a harpsichord, but still have sustain and dynamics. He only used it for this tv special (there is one other clip of him playing it, the brandenburg concerto). I didn't like it at first, but it grew on me. :)

Thanks , I was wondering what sort of instrument it was.

Насколько я помню, Глен уделял большое внимание выбора инструмента для исполнения различных произведений. Это, вероятно, наиболее подошло именно в этом случае. Вообще - то , это клавесин.

Oberlin has a very good accent, in fact. minor slips are immaterial.

@@andreasc5433 I don’t know. It’s more than a few. He is a great artist though, no doubt

Are jou jokerman (...women)?

Henry Wang I think it's just the recording

Glenn Gould played the organ?

Matthew Chapman He gave his first concert at organ, playing little fugue BWV 578. He was 13 years old...

No more than organs generally are!

@@MatthewChapmanSTL He played this when he was getting ready for his Art of the Fugue recording on organ. I like that album a lot, and really like the instrument they used for it.

🤓

Ha ha. Sad but true. For a more inward take: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w5Ne1waZImI.html

I thought it was an alto at first

@@pianosbloxworld4460 he is in fact a male alto

His tonal color is what "counter tenor" means ;)

If only you would keep your idiocy to yourself

This is the major downside of baroque music: these ghastly countertenors. Thankfully, their parts are often sung by contraltos or mezzo-sopranos instead.

@@jsphotos Go fuck yourself, you imbecile!

I hope the Gender Binary Police Force is paying you well! I trust that you aren't doing gender police work for free - if so, you're selling yourself short!