Sunday Concert: Music In The USSR, January 14th, 1962. Serge Prokofieff, Piano Sonata No. 7 in B-flat major op.83. Gould appears as performer and commentator, tracing the development of style in Russian music.
This is one of the best performance of Glenn Gould playing 20century music! I have seen and listened to his Schoenberg and berg. He is truly a genius and so versatile to play Prokofiev! Wish I could go on the time machine and watch him playing!
Like the first movement in this series, Gould's choice of tempo is amazing. There's no need to rush! You can hear every single beautiful note! 3:18 cracks me up every time. I never noticed any other performer employing rubato in the last measures of this movement. Brilliant.
@@pianosbloxworld4460 domo origato, Mr. Rubato. Sorry it couldn't be helped. Also really funny observation. Only gould of chopin i have heard is sonata 3 3rd, like a metronome! So charmingly hypnotic
I've heard Martha Argerich do it , albeit within the context of her typically suicidal tempo. It works far better at Gould's tempo. And so do many other musical elements. I admittedly love a good fast romp of this movement, but this was an eye opening interpretation.
I didn't think I was going to like this, but having listened to it a couple of times, I get it. It has a weight of intellect which is rare and certainly trumps most modern interpretations. The macro-crescendo over the whole course of the movement is breathtaking.
It's interesting that his interpretation of the Precipitato here is quite different from the recording he made several years later. But that's no surprise given the very different ways he approached his two recordings of the Bach "Goldberg Variations", one at the beginning of his career and the other near the end of his life.
Моё любимое исполнение - Аlexei Sultanov, но это тоже очень понравилось. Ещё люблю Баха в исполнении Глена, он и Алексей для меня - это Боги фортепиано.
Am Anfang liegt eine Text-Seite auf dem Notenständer, aber am Schluss ein Notenblatt. Wie kann das sein in einem Live-Konzert? In English: At the beginning there is a text-sheet on the music stand, but at the end there is a piano score. How is this possible in a live concert?
The sheet is always the same. It is not a live concert. In the complete video Gould talks about this sonata explaining this Prokofieff's work. After explaining, he puts the score on the piano and starts playing. This is why the sheet is there although Gould plays by heart as usual.
it seems to me that Glenn Gould becomes confused from 3mn (video) of the musical work? listen to Gregori Sokolov: there is no confusion from the beginning to the end of the sonata ... (saying that, i don't think i'm wrong) and you all what do you think about?
@@Molybdaenmornell thank you for your message ... listen to Gregori Sokolov: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zwji3k0v_AM.html his rubato and perfect from start to finish ... I still believe that Glenn Gould loses control of the work around 3 minutes from the recording ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-omx6jg82bJc.html "you can see it on his face" ... Glenn Gould is not very specialized for Prokofiev's works ... it takes the Slavic soul to perform Prokofiev or other Russian composers perfectly ... a question of feeling !
@@gene397 I know the Sokolov version and have loved it for years due to its very sharp articulation and fascinating contrast between varied dynamics and absolutely constant tempo (i.e. it has no rubato at all!). It's like a relentless machine: no matter what happens, the pace is constant; not fast, perhaps, but utterly uncompromising; like a freight train lazily, driving through all sorts of rubbish people have thrown onto the rails. As for the Slavic soul: I don't have that, but this piece gets me going all right and I think the limitations of my own performances are technical (I'm a decent amateur, not a virtuoso pro) rather than expressive. I'm not that keen on invoking insurmountable barriers between the souls of different nations. I think soul varies a lot more within countries than between them. Have to say, though, that I was also surprised to find Glenn Gould playing this, because I associate him with Bach. Though Bach can be pretty motoric (e.g. his C minor prelude and fugue). I also admit that I have little idea why Gould puts in that solitary rubato. It sounds like he brakes to let the music change direction. But I don't see his face doing anything wrong at that moment, nor does he seem to lose control of his body in any other way. Gould is famous for humming and generally doing odd things while he plays and I wouldn't read too much into his expressions. To me, they look like he's acting a madman, which seems fairly appropriate to the music.
@@Molybdaenmornell thank you for your comments and your good reasoning on the musical expression of each performer ... a discussion on the subject would be better to talk about it orally ... for me, it's a little frustrating to talk about music and composers by youtub ... for the Prokofiev sonata, the rubato must not be used ... this is not written in the original musical score ... the rhythm must be supported ... there is crescendo, forte diminuendo , marcato, legato ... but the rubato must not be used = it breaks the musical rhythm! (i have Sonata n ° 7 op83 Precipitato (piano sheet on my WAKAI) thank you for your comments and your good reasoning on the musical expression of each performer ... a discussion on the subject would be better to talk about it orally. .. from a distance, it's a little frustrating to talk about music and composers by youtub ... (Sorry my english is no very good) from France
@@gene397 Thank you, too. Yes, you're right, talking over youtube is difficult. I agree there doesn't need to be a rubato (I also have the sheet music).
but the meaning of "precipitato" is very clear....Precipitarsi is when you do rush to do something that you forgot to do and which was very important. There is no time to waste. Towards the end you can hear that a bit more, but you should precipitarti from the beginning!
so, how does it go again? oh yea, X y minor7 by Z major Y-ish multiplied by a crazy number nobody has invented yet plus jimmy sweaty more sweat :) easy!
This is so silly. He plays the music as if it is a Czerny exercise. Throwing his hands up in the air the end is comic--because he started out playing at half the speed of Horowitz. Please listen to the encore to Horowitz's 1953 anniversary concert--that is how this piece sounds. Prokofiev sent a score to Horowitz addressed "to the amazing pianist."
horowitz is hard to beat live. but what's exciting on one listen gets annoying after several. gould was more the recording kind, a performance that convinces eventually rather than grabbing at once. both are great, just doing different things.
"That is how this piece sounds" is a meaningless comment: only people who don't understand music can think that only one interpretation exists. There are infinite ways to play a piece, and speed is a parameter one can choose. But claiming that only one way of playing is the correct one is silly.
I enjoy more Goulds version, is more articulated and musical, also he is the only pianist that its not dying at the end the piece, all other just rush into it, but Gould just go through it gloriously… and please dont think Im just a blind Gould blind, surely I agree many of his Mozart and Beethoven sonatas interpretations are silly
someone should have explained to him the difference between a quarter note and an eighth note (the second note in the lh is a quarter) and the difference between 7/4 and 7/8. Probably the worst performance on youtube and just read all of the glowing reviews. What a joke.
S. Prokofiev : Sonata 7 op 83 in B flat Major - 3rd mov. Precipitato (Sokolov) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zwji3k0v_AM.html listen : version better !
