Impossible to EVER forget, when I first saw this man play on TV, back in the 80s. He became a lifelong companion, and will remain so, until the day I die. And thanks for sharing--which goes without saying.
He is one of the performers whose interpretations are so strong that they tend to present utterly new aspects of music already created, so that I'm sure even the composers would be fascinated to hear them, and in Gould there is no separation between the performer and the composer, as he has rethought the music of others to such an extent that he's almost the composer of his performance. Ah well, it's magic - better to just listen.
I love listening to Gould play this music even though I don't understand this music. It has no melody that I can recognize, it is so strange, it sounds like glass breaking and falling onto the floor, but somehow Glenn allows me to enjoy it immensely! I attribute this to Glenn's magical powers.
In my opininion, this execution of the Berg's Sonata op.1 is not only the best one among all the others available by Glenn Gould: this execution is the best one in the Story! And it's really wonderful, an absolute masterpiece! Thank you for this sharing.
i think the gibbons pavane is without doubt one of the most profound compositions in music history. the change in key after the first few minutes is a master stroke. it changes the emotion considerably and makes the music previous to this a kind of prelude to this out pouring of feeling and expression which almost sounds romantic whereas the opening is very much a renaissance composition.
I know! Glad someone can appreciate that. Was watching the keys closely here to see what the patterns were because they seemed simple enough but man what flavor of emotion it is.
it's like nothing else, and the joy of watching him play it (as opposed to listening to the studio version, which is, of course, still fantastic) really does something too. like adding an extra three dimensions to what is already so highly-dimensional
R.D. Dragon yes, when the camera crops his hands out is very frustrating. I like the view from above at 11:50 where you see his whole frame and his hands dancing all over the keyboard. I could watch and listen to the whole performance just from that framing. It really gives you a sense of what is going on.
@@dinsy512Yes, watching his hands I can see the inversions. Retrograde inversions. Or something very like that. The camera angles can help describe the piece's structure.
Looks like artificial intelligence at work: suggested video "Glenn Gould Plays Gibbons..." followed by "Baboons are not Pets!" which I also found to be moving and profound.
If you hear the Schonberg Suite without realizing what it is after the Byrd you realize just a little how marvelous Schonberg iz! That pf concerto ? Poor Edward Steurmann - he really loved this stuff . His programmes are completely composers who were living in his time I wonder what these Gibbons Pavane sound like on a guitar as a pianist I know those tinny chamber room keyboards of the late 16th century couldn't sustain pitches like this ...but this is the ideal music he makes out of them !Ive never heard Gibbons or Byrd in a recital programme . Pianists should start playing music the average person can like . A 3 or 4 movement Sonata is too formal . Ive seen 19th century programmes all these small trifles then a singer then a violinist and cellist then the orchestra or neighborhood quartet or trio play . Wow . Now that the average person is so poorly educated we could easily go back to this even if ther is only a single performer .
I wish he had recorded more of this music also, and it's puzzling to me that he had expressed such a dislike of so much of Mozart but recorded all the Sonatas while Gibbons, whom he said was his favorite composer, he only recorded a few pieces.
The hostility still directed towards Schoenberg's music is difficult for me to understand. For me it's always been powerfully expressive expressionistic music - it's now over 100 years old and just as much a classic as Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc.and is treated as such by most educated musicians everywhere.
Because it's only noise: Give us something easy to sing to Give us something simple to cling to Something we can all understand Said the company man Oh yeah We sing
I love Schoenberg because he was different and the same for Gould . Arnold Schoenberg had to wait for the world to catch up to the music . The masses were behind .
The problem with Schoenberg's music is that he tries to extend music into atonal structure, but then sticks with Western scales, which to me makes the whole exercise pointless. I find music of people like John Cage vastly more interesting. Take this for example: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-snTc5zByQ98.html
I don't know much modern atonal music but thinking I may be ready for it now - to me an important measure of any art is how well does it represent "reality" as we know it - orderly predictable music has its place but the unpredictable kind can affirm that one is not totally insane for finding "reality" to be pretty weird. My only grudge against Gould is now I'm not in love with Robert Plant any more.
Considering that Schoenberg, Webern, and Berg's music is about 100 years old, ... it is quite remarkable that the audience here, still pretty uniformly disdains it as 'modern',... random, and dissonant... (remembering my 6th grade music teacher in 1964 claiming the Beatles were doing nothing more than screaming and would be forgotten in less than a year)....wonder what she thought of 'modern music'. Contrary to Paul West's comment, I think it might be rather difficult to pull off a pseudo- 12 tone piece, if one really didn't know what one was doing,... however detecting the difference, between the Schoenberg, and the Webern , in this case could be quite difficult especially without looking at the video, and seeing the camera angle change,... on the other hand the Berg quite stands out from the other two atonalist pieces preceding it! If it wasn't supposed to be serious, Gould's histrionics, and antics at the keyboard for the 'Atonal' works would certainly compete with John Cleese doing "the Ants communicating the location of crumbs with one another" sketch , for sheer hilarity! I think Gould might even appreciate that! Now I'll have to relisten to the Gibbons again, I'll need more than a few moments for my early 20th century angst to dissipate....
are there any seasoned schönberg listeners? does it get easy? I just don't understand how can anyone enjoy such music. his verklarte nacht being one exception I personally know of, I can't tell if it's music or not.
I think the further Schoenberg distanced himself from Gurrelieder the better it became . Some of the better works are Transfigured night and Five pieces for Orchestra .
He definitely didn't read music just eidetically photographed it in his memory and the music wasn't notated it was felt. Didn't like his humming though but he had to do it otherwise he couldn't play
5:52 the way Gould is playing these wonderful pieces is scandalous . Not a pianist , a fridge . Forgetting all the lyrical and emotionnal side of these romantic moments ....
I always thought Schoenberg sounds like arbitrary piano noodling, like something you can just make up off the cuff and 98% of most listeners wouldn't even know the difference. Of course, one would need to be a reasonably skilled pianist, but I'll bet it could be pulled off pretty convincingly.
If you stretch your imagination to recognize the unusual musical shapes then it can be quite enjoyable and intricate. For example: I like to think that it's classical musics version of hip hop. I can see the music making gangster faces and what have you, hehe. But anyway, give it an honest try. Cause it's actually pretty hard to get it to sound like a meaningful story/dialogue when it's so dissonant. Attempt and compare.
Schoenberg, and the other Second V School composers are hacks compared to composers like John Cage, or Ryoji Ikeda. I mean, if you want to go atonal, don't go half way! Why be stuck using Western chromatic scales, when there is a world of sound sources to use?
What a waste of Gould! He could play Bach instead and i would be much better. Music isn't about MATH!! Music is something that touches you without any analysis. Stravinsky's music is modern and yet beautiful. You enjoy just by listening to it. But what do you find in THIS music except of smart formulas? nothing
אברהם מילר Have you had any form of musical training? Just curious, because if you've ever studied the music, you would surely know that to be a mythicised fallacy.
