This interpretation by Gould and small orchestra is very impressive. It sounds like a more modern piano concerto, with a full 4 minutes cadenza and a piano more powerful than the customary clavichord. Glenn Gould plays like a real master. Good recording for a live performance.
Yes, utterly, utterly convincing. A relief to be able to hear all the notes (also the violin and flute suddenly make sense). And, OMG, listen to his left hand!
5:10!! I never heard this passage played like this. A base part of orchestra and piano were concentrated their power in same space. Thank you for sharing this. The special tone of gould(like harpsicord) is glaring in this rare recording.
This Concerto, and especially its marvelous cadenza, is probably one of the very greatest assets of Classical Music. Thank you very much for uploading.
btw if you listen after the 11:10 mark you can hear a clicking sound when he's playing the cadenza. i read in one of the bio's on him that one of the keys on the steinway he preferred at that time had a clicking sound they couldn't get rid of but he insisted on using it anyways. i think that's what it is.
delacroix2007 del Was that in Katie Hafner's "A Romance on Three Legs: Glenn Gould's Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Piano"? I believe that his favorite piano was dropped while being transported to a concert hall and ruined beyond repair.
delacroix2007 - you are exactly correct about the piano. His beloved Steinway CD318 became damaged, I believe coming back from a concert date in either Cleveland or Cincinnati that he cxled, and was dropped by the movers and damaged beyond repair, although Gould had his personal technician Vern Enquist (blind I think) work on it for years to try and get it back to where it was, but of course never could. That piano is now on permanent display at the National Arts Centre in Toronto. Am hoping some day before I die, to not only see it, but play a song of mine on it that was inspired by Glenn. IMHO, the greatest Classical pianist of the 20th century! As Vladimir Ashkenazy said, "Nobody could play Bach like Gould!" He was right
Sounds to me like Glenn momentarily losing track of the figuration, and adapting beautifully. Mistake or otherwise, it's one of many special moments that makes this recording unique.
hey i have this one too! do you have all the Music and Arts cd's? i bought a bunch of them right before they got pulled from the stores and found some over the years at used record stores. thanks!.
The air quality in the auditorium must have been dreadful, given the amount of coughing from this audience...thought they had pertussis under control by this point
The live recording of Gould playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24 is similarly disrupted by non- stop coughing. It happens to be one of Gould's best performances of a work by Mozart. So I feel doubly annoyed. I want to reach through time to give the cougher an anti-tussive- preferably with morphine in the mixture!
