I truly think with the tuning being 4:32 lower than 440 I should say I'm truly convinced chopins music doesn't seem to be so as if the soloist agitated they showed an example of Chopin's music tuned lower they seemed music is played faster and it seems that all agitation is freed from. Back then one could do their own cadenzas why not have an idea of what Allegro or Adagio is to them for the Cadenza they wrote or performed others back then for the composes they played gives them the freedom to embellish remember the metronome came out right around the time Beethoven passed cuz he put metronome markings to his symphonies romantic period played in a gypsy type manner with rubato I think a great player authenticates from the past is S. Richter playing Franz Liszt or the Gypsy player Georges Cziffra. I have a feeling paganini's concertos did not sound mechanical as they today
@@IgnacioClerici-mp5cy Of course, in 100 years no one will remember the performers (except music historians) and Stravinsky will still be a legend, but without those performers he would be just another old bald guy waving his arms and making faces. And without an appreciative (read: paying) audience, this won't be on TH-cam, or recordings, or anywhere else. Each of us has a part to play. Don't screw it up.
It's like everone in the orchestra and the conducter know they are in a special moment in history bringing genious composer into life at that very moment. An historic moment.
I saw Glenn Gould play the same Bach D Minor concerto with the Columbus (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra. Out of the hundreds - maybe thousands - of concerts I have attended in my life (I'm 78) this is the only one that I can still "hear" in my head. This was some time in the sixties when he toured the US. I was in high school and a volunteer usher for the Symphony. I got the pick of empty seats when the concert began so I sat in the first row. Besides his electrifying playing I remember three idiosyncracies: (1) he hummed along (well known from some recordings, but a little jarring when you hear it live); (2) he kept a small bowl of water beside the keyboard to dip his hands in during stretches where he was not playing; (3) he followed the score using pages cut out from a miniature score edition, pasted on large pieces of cardboard which he placed on the music stand that is ordinarily removed since most soloists play from memory.
The single most influential video of my life. This. I hav e been rewatching this a couple of hundred time over the last two and a half decades. And it doe'snt get old, unlike me. Listen to and look at them.
I’m listening to this on the road, watching it at the red lights, and eager to have the whole thing ‘play’ in my home theater. Bernstein isn’t being overly formal, certainly not pompous, he’s giving us wisdom through passion by debating, IN GOOD FAITH, that music MUST be, and will ALWAYS be, more than any ‘artificial’ intelligence could imitate.
What is so amazing about the Gould piano performance is that he savors every note and doesn't rush-rush-rush like so many pianists as Lang Lang. This is an ethereal performance...
Like in his interview with Tim page, he doesn’t aim to savor the notes, but to adhere to a strict rhythmic pulse or tempo. He’s incredibly consistent and clear with each note indeed.
@@pianosbloxworld4460 that’s bc anything prior to mid 60s, you had to conserve the tape bc it cost a lot so many would try to speed it up to fit it on one roll.
He explains the theory behind his unique interpretations which are illuminating and indisputable. I wonder why some of our contemporary pianist still are not getting it,
This video has been on TH-cam since 2016 and it's from a 1960 television programme... Thousands, possibly millions, have seen it, yet I feel like I've unearthed a treasure! Thank you!!
I remember watching this in August of 2016 on TH-cam. This whole video explains so much about human performance and individuality. In 2016 I transcribed most of LB’s teaching in this video it’s a classic of humanity expressing oneself in effort. How lucky am I to have stumbled across this. Thank you for posting
"I have the honor of turning the podium over to Igor Stravinsky who will conduct for us and for all the future the last three scenes of his ballet masterpiece, the Firebird"... And today, more than sixty years after he pronounced these words, we in the future can admire these splendid pieces of classical music.
Bernstein resurrected classical music for all to enjoy but especially the young people. If we are to preserve classical music especially, we must begin with children. Music is the universal language that speaks to us all in different ways but with music, all of us can communicate...
my father was robert silverman, editor of the piano quarterly. friend of lenny, closer friend of glenn. i recall my phone conversations with glenn as a child vividly. this video brings me right back. it's the humor i miss so much, they had such humor in everything they did.
Did your dad write any books or articles about Glenn? I can't stand those interviews and books where you can tell the person had no sense of humor and just put up with him, only to complain publicly years later how lame and annoying he was. I am grateful to people like your father, John PL Roberts and others who were good friends to him. Did Glenn ever play piano for your family? I bet you got to hear him sing a lot. Can you email me kkicons@gmail.com and I will send u a nice pic I drew of GG last year that has him in his more informal side.
@andrea Do you still own a copy of that recording Gould released in an issue of Piano Quarterly? Can you please tell me the best way to access the Piano Quarterly Archives? I have trouble doing it... Thanks in advance and thanks for responding here.
Which recording? I am curious? The one I want is the alternate versions of Fugue in A minor. Or just anything like that really. I wish I could go to Canada to hear his practice tapes. I'm a would-be composer, and I follow Gould's recordings so closely. I think it would help to not get locked in to just the interpretations he released. It helps to play them back at different tempi though. I guess that's one thing anyone can do. They put "Do you want to write a fugue" in High Fidelity. I got ahold of a little pink record from a High Fidelity magazine about that time. I couldn't read at the time, and I lost it. But I would like to think that was what it was... btw, have you heard his Arts National series on radio? It really is like listening to his favorite records with him for a few hours, so fun. I am thinking about making a YT playlist of the pieces he played in that or mentioned.
Also, Andrea and Twolegsnotail (wish I knew your name), did you hear about the GG interviews Unheard Notes series? You subscribe to it and get great interviews which are funny, insightful, and not derogatory in any way towards Mr. Gould. I joined their FB site and it is small but nice, and we can discuss the videos on there. Andrea, I would strongly encourage you to contact Josh Shapero so they can interview you for that, if they haven't already. Your memories of GG are priceless and really it would be great if you could share them in some way.
quite simply this is what what Gould was born for, Bach's keyboard music. Nobody comes near him and Bernstein is just a distracting exhibitionist when Glen is playing. Like David Hertzberg below I agree that this type of posting is the greatest reason for TH-cam existing.
I was so lucky to watch him on tv on Sunday nights, as required by my dad. We got assigned in 6th grade to write a paper on the "What is a Sonata" episode. My paper got selected to send to him. He wrote back an encouraging letter! It changed my life and made me a musician. (God help us all. Lol). Years later my mother told me he and my father went to Boston Latin together. My dad just said, "Time to watch Lenny!" on Sunday night and we did.
This video is like a diamond.... insights into the heart and soul of music. First Leonard Bernstein with his effortless psychology, then Gould with his holy hands, Farrell with a superbly crafted performance, and then Stravinsky himself. And as someone else said, the NY Philharmonic too. You can learn so much from watching their movements, and their eyes. This is genius-level performing all around. Thanks to the lecture at the beginning, I'm not even so much thinking about the quality of the music as how well they tell their stories. At this highest possible level, it's all about storytelling. I'm trying to imagine what's going through Stravinsky's mind as he conducts. I can look in his eyes as he hears his own music. I think he really brings out the Russian feeling of it.
@@JHarder1000 I have watched the DVD "Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould" several times and truly he comes off like a visitor from a distant galaxy. He was preternaturally gifted.
Delightful to have had the opportunity to listen and to watch GG performed Bach concerto in D minor with such elegance and flawless technique. Awesome to see how spiritually elevated GG always was when performing Bach. It feels like he is engaged in a conversation with the Composer. L. Bernstein conducts beautifully! A historical clip to store in the musical archive! Thanks for uploading and sharing GG & L. B.; priceless treasure!
I’ve literally watched this video a 100 times just to see Glenn Gould and Bernstein perform this concerto! Watching Gould from the tips of his fingers to the tips of his toes on the pedals and the humming sound and Bernstein’s ability to adapt to his interpretation mesmerizes every time I see it! OMG, I’m so grateful that this stuff is still available for reproduction! I would never have seen this without Utube. Thanks!
Put yourself in the timeframe when this aired. You can't record it, it probably won't be on again any time soon -- you might never see it again (until now). To the people who enjoy this sort of thing, this broadcast would have been an event you remember the rest of your life.
I was five years old and I remember it. I imitated Bernstein and Stravinsky conducting with passion. Music has always had a profound affect on me to the point that some music brings me to tears, bringing chills and ecstasy to my being. My mother was involved in music as a performer so I grew up exposed to music. My reaction to music is from my conditioning during my formative years, I believe. BRING BACK MUSIC EDUCATION IN OUR SCHOOLS
It is pretty much impossible for me to express my love and gratitude for what these incredible people of given to me and so many others over so many years and so many years to come. Why is it that ignorance has such a stranglehold over our little planet when artists like these demonstrate so clearly what humanity is capable off. Thank you so much for posting this video.
You can love or dislike Gould's take on things, but in hindsight anything that keeps this music alive for the current generation should be welcomed. Certainly even the biggest Gould detractor would prefer Gould's recordings be popular than none at all.
Gould is like the first player in history to throw the curveball and also turns out to be the best ever at it. He's the genius with a level of genius piled on top.
This is great because we get to see Glenn's hands much of the time. I never realized his fingers were so long. All the years I have listened to Gould I just marveled at his fingers the whole time. I get the feeling Bernstein really admired him also.
Thank you so much for uploading this. Watching Igor Stravinsky conducting his own brilliant “Firebird” in the flesh…it’s akin to seeing a Mozart or Beethoven in their day play live (a fact Bernstein alludes to). He is one of the giants of music history and I’m left speechless observing him delivering a great performance of his own masterwork.
What an incalculable blessing to hear Gould play Bach's keyboard concerto #1 and Stravinsky conduct music from his "Firebird." Both of them took my breath away. Thank you, Lenny and the great NYPhil. Epochal greatness on one program.
A gift from the highest power to see and hear this remarkable performance. To think it was once made for anyone who owned a television set , elates me and causes great sadness.
I "should" diversify my musical education, but I cannot stay away from Glenn Gould. Everytime I try to listen to another performer, I am drawn back to Gould. There is unmatched clarity in his interpretations, even in these old recordings. He embodied the music yet never played as if the performance was about him. There will never be another Glenn Gould. We are richer because he lived and was himself.
Note, though, Gould, like Pavarotti, performed only works he really liked. He was disdainful of Chopin and probably most 19th-century music, as was fashionable in his generation. You need to go to some of the other greats: listen to Horowitz for Scriabin and Chopin, Rubinstein, Michelangeli. . .
@@oinophilos2109 He did record Chopin's 2nd Sonata ... he played other music even if he didn't "like" it ... but doesn't every performer look for performances that are "in sync" with his/her personality and preferences ?
Gould's breakout performance in the U.S. Exciting moment in the world history of music performance, imo. Perfection. "Not a dull or literal performance" as Maestro Bernstein notes. Bravo!
Considering everything Bernstein said in his preamble about Bach's lack of performance notation, I think that might be one reason Gould favored his music over all other composers. Bach left room for the performer to interpret, rather than dictating exactly how the music should sound.
Such fantastic technique does Glenn Gould have in this playing of this piece! I so love watching him perform even after so many years after his death. What genius! I'm hooked on him and will soon be ordering his music.
Thank you, erp65, for posting this. I can't imagine what philistines could "thumbs down" this rare treat, but it seems there are four to date. I pity such people.
This is absolutely astounding! Filled with great information and an amazingly great and impressive performance of Glenn Gould! He interprets this piece of Bach beautifully!
Es increible que esto haya pasado de verdad, y más aún que yo lo esté viendo sentado en mi casa 62 años después, gratis y con alta calidad visual y sonora. Qué gran privilegio poder verlo , escucharlo y apreciarlo. Gracias a los que lo hicieron posible. Bernstein, Gould y Stravinsky: tres adorables extraterrestres.
There was an era in which the TV broadcast was actually educational and was worth watching.
This is the sort of footage that makes TH-cam so incredibly valuable.... and indispensable.
You're not kidding...
Can you believe this was once on mainstream network television?
Agreed.
Right onto that
I truly think with the tuning being 4:32 lower than 440 I should say I'm truly convinced chopins music doesn't seem to be so as if the soloist agitated they showed an example of Chopin's music tuned lower they seemed music is played faster and it seems that all agitation is freed from. Back then one could do their own cadenzas why not have an idea of what Allegro or Adagio is to them for the Cadenza they wrote or performed others back then for the composes they played gives them the freedom to embellish remember the metronome came out right around the time Beethoven passed cuz he put metronome markings to his symphonies romantic period played in a gypsy type manner with rubato I think a great player authenticates from the past is S. Richter playing Franz Liszt or the Gypsy player Georges Cziffra. I have a feeling paganini's concertos did not sound mechanical as they today
TH-cam is a drug when such overwhelming moments can be realised at the press of a button. Magic lives
Can you imagine: a tv programme with Leonard Bernstein AND Glenn Gould AND Igor Stravinsky performing live with the New York Philharmonic? Here it is!
svrfan AND Eileen Farrell!!!
The only great one here is Stravinsky. End of story. No one compares.
@@organboi nope.
@@organboi Stravinsky is in a different league entirely. Its like comparing apples and oranges.
@@IgnacioClerici-mp5cy Of course, in 100 years no one will remember the performers (except music historians) and Stravinsky will still be a legend, but without those performers he would be just another old bald guy waving his arms and making faces. And without an appreciative (read: paying) audience, this won't be on TH-cam, or recordings, or anywhere else. Each of us has a part to play. Don't screw it up.
It's like everone in the orchestra and the conducter know they are in a special moment in history bringing genious composer into life at that very moment. An historic moment.
I saw Glenn Gould play the same Bach D Minor concerto with the Columbus (Ohio) Symphony Orchestra. Out of the hundreds - maybe thousands - of concerts I have attended in my life (I'm 78) this is the only one that I can still "hear" in my head. This was some time in the sixties when he toured the US. I was in high school and a volunteer usher for the Symphony. I got the pick of empty seats when the concert began so I sat in the first row. Besides his electrifying playing I remember three idiosyncracies: (1) he hummed along (well known from some recordings, but a little jarring when you hear it live); (2) he kept a small bowl of water beside the keyboard to dip his hands in during stretches where he was not playing; (3) he followed the score using pages cut out from a miniature score edition, pasted on large pieces of cardboard which he placed on the music stand that is ordinarily removed since most soloists play from memory.
Thank you so much for your recollections.
How lovely, thank you sharing
You were so lucky to have seen Gould in person.
The single most influential video of my life. This. I hav
e been rewatching this a couple of hundred time over the last two and a half decades. And it doe'snt get old, unlike me.
Listen to and look at them.
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Thaaaaaank you SO MUCH for sharing these
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I find myself inexplicably fascinated by this programme.
I’m listening to this on the road, watching it at the red lights, and eager to have the whole thing ‘play’ in my home theater. Bernstein isn’t being overly formal, certainly not pompous, he’s giving us wisdom through passion by debating, IN GOOD FAITH, that music MUST be, and will ALWAYS be, more than any ‘artificial’ intelligence could imitate.
Watching Gould play piano is the most inspirational thing I’ve seen in years
Magnificent, We are so lucky to see this today.
Berstein and Gould…. What a treasure. Thanks for uploading… ❤
What is so amazing about the Gould piano performance is that he savors every note and doesn't rush-rush-rush like so many pianists as Lang Lang. This is an ethereal performance...
Like in his interview with Tim page, he doesn’t aim to savor the notes, but to adhere to a strict rhythmic pulse or tempo. He’s incredibly consistent and clear with each note indeed.
In a lot of his recordings Gould was rushing-rushingggg. Like 80% haha
@@pianosbloxworld4460 that’s bc anything prior to mid 60s, you had to conserve the tape bc it cost a lot so many would try to speed it up to fit it on one roll.
He explains the theory behind his unique interpretations which are illuminating and indisputable. I wonder why some of our contemporary pianist still are not getting it,
La categoría de este pianista para mi humilde opinión traspasa todos los límites . Gracias TH-cam por deleitarnos con esta joya.
Glenn Gould really brought Bach's music to life and brought passion and emotion to it.
This video has been on TH-cam since 2016 and it's from a 1960 television programme... Thousands, possibly millions, have seen it, yet I feel like I've unearthed a treasure! Thank you!!
I remember watching this in August of 2016 on TH-cam. This whole video explains so much about human performance and individuality. In 2016 I transcribed most of LB’s teaching in this video it’s a classic of humanity expressing oneself in effort. How lucky am I to have stumbled across this. Thank you for posting
I love Gould's fingers, so beautiful.
and the weight of the notes are so even... he's a machine
Came for Gould, stayed for Bernstein and that beautiful aria
To look in Maestro's Stravinsky's eyes while he conducts the orchestra playing his music. So special!
"I have the honor of turning the podium over to Igor Stravinsky who will conduct for us and for all the future the last three scenes of his ballet masterpiece, the Firebird"... And today, more than sixty years after he pronounced these words, we in the future can admire these splendid pieces of classical music.
Bernstein resurrected classical music for all to enjoy but especially the young people. If we are to preserve classical music especially, we must begin with children. Music is the universal language that speaks to us all in different ways but with music, all of us can communicate...
There are lots of great pianists now days but glenn gould had something inside him that made him so special🖤
Yep. You almost can’t take your eyes off him. One of a kind.
My mother was a pianist and we watched this when it happened the week after my 14th birthday. Gould's fingers were heaven sent to play the piano!
Two unequaled titans, both then and now.
my father was robert silverman, editor of the piano quarterly. friend of lenny, closer friend of glenn. i recall my phone conversations with glenn as a child vividly. this video brings me right back. it's the humor i miss so much, they had such humor in everything they did.
Did your dad write any books or articles about Glenn? I can't stand those interviews and books where you can tell the person had no sense of humor and just put up with him, only to complain publicly years later how lame and annoying he was. I am grateful to people like your father, John PL Roberts and others who were good friends to him. Did Glenn ever play piano for your family? I bet you got to hear him sing a lot. Can you email me kkicons@gmail.com and I will send u a nice pic I drew of GG last year that has him in his more informal side.
@andrea Do you still own a copy of that recording Gould released in an issue of Piano Quarterly? Can you please tell me the best way to access the Piano Quarterly Archives? I have trouble doing it... Thanks in advance and thanks for responding here.
Which recording? I am curious? The one I want is the alternate versions of Fugue in A minor. Or just anything like that really. I wish I could go to Canada to hear his practice tapes. I'm a would-be composer, and I follow Gould's recordings so closely. I think it would help to not get locked in to just the interpretations he released. It helps to play them back at different tempi though. I guess that's one thing anyone can do. They put "Do you want to write a fugue" in High Fidelity. I got ahold of a little pink record from a High Fidelity magazine about that time. I couldn't read at the time, and I lost it. But I would like to think that was what it was... btw, have you heard his Arts National series on radio? It really is like listening to his favorite records with him for a few hours, so fun. I am thinking about making a YT playlist of the pieces he played in that or mentioned.
Also, Andrea and Twolegsnotail (wish I knew your name), did you hear about the GG interviews Unheard Notes series? You subscribe to it and get great interviews which are funny, insightful, and not derogatory in any way towards Mr. Gould. I joined their FB site and it is small but nice, and we can discuss the videos on there. Andrea, I would strongly encourage you to contact Josh Shapero so they can interview you for that, if they haven't already. Your memories of GG are priceless and really it would be great if you could share them in some way.
Ah! Raised and bred in the shadows of art 😊
What a treasure. Leonard Bernstein taught me all about classical music when I was a child. It was a gift nearly as good as being taught to read.
Yes, me too, in Romania in comunists time! ♥️🌹🎹🎻👑🎶💗🌞👼 Thank you for posting it!
Thank you so much Glenn Gould played with such amazing passion and sensitivity too.
Gould will always fascinate me. With Bach; It is undoubtedly the meeting of two extraordinary geniuses. Thank you for this video.
Gould's performance is stellar! A star is was born!
quite simply this is what what Gould was born for, Bach's keyboard music. Nobody comes near him and Bernstein is just a distracting exhibitionist when Glen is playing. Like David Hertzberg below I agree that this type of posting is the greatest reason for TH-cam existing.
I was so lucky to watch him on tv on Sunday nights, as required by my dad. We got assigned in 6th grade to write a paper on the "What is a Sonata" episode. My paper got selected to send to him. He wrote back an encouraging letter! It changed my life and made me a musician. (God help us all. Lol). Years later my mother told me he and my father went to Boston Latin together. My dad just said, "Time to watch Lenny!" on Sunday night and we did.
That's when parents told their children what to do. Now it's apparently the other way around.
I hope you have preserved that letter! What a wonderful thing to receive
Well, that was just brilliant! Glenn Gould and Igor Stravinsky on the same show. Words can't really describe how beautiful that is. Many thanks!
This video is like a diamond.... insights into the heart and soul of music. First Leonard Bernstein with his effortless psychology, then Gould with his holy hands, Farrell with a superbly crafted performance, and then Stravinsky himself. And as someone else said, the NY Philharmonic too. You can learn so much from watching their movements, and their eyes. This is genius-level performing all around. Thanks to the lecture at the beginning, I'm not even so much thinking about the quality of the music as how well they tell their stories. At this highest possible level, it's all about storytelling. I'm trying to imagine what's going through Stravinsky's mind as he conducts. I can look in his eyes as he hears his own music. I think he really brings out the Russian feeling of it.
25:44 - 26:13 one of the most beautiful passages of music I've ever heard in my entire life. RIP Bach, Gould, Bernstein, members of the orchestra.
The members of the orchestra could be still alive, you know :/
@@glenngouldschair390 heh heh...
Agree. Gorgeous, mesmerizing.
Glen Gould amazes me every time
In my sober judgement, Glenn Gould was NOT human; he either an angel of The Lord or an emissary from some advanced civilization.
@@JHarder1000 I have watched the DVD "Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould" several times and truly he comes off like a visitor from a distant galaxy. He was preternaturally gifted.
I would still watch TV if this was what was on offer.
Thomas McCormack I would say the same!!!!
Indeed.
So would I !!
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Delightful to have had the opportunity to listen and to watch GG performed Bach concerto in D minor with such elegance and flawless technique. Awesome to see how spiritually elevated GG always was when performing Bach. It feels like he is engaged in a conversation with the Composer. L. Bernstein conducts beautifully! A historical clip to store in the musical archive! Thanks for uploading and sharing GG & L. B.; priceless treasure!
Transcendental, wow just wow, no words, so transporting, thank you for posting this video.
Amazing camera job. No waste of time cheese shots. Pure focus on action
I’ve literally watched this video a 100 times just to see Glenn Gould and Bernstein perform this concerto! Watching Gould from the tips of his fingers to the tips of his toes on the pedals and the humming sound and Bernstein’s ability to adapt to his interpretation mesmerizes every time I see it! OMG, I’m so grateful that this stuff is still available for reproduction! I would never have seen this without Utube. Thanks!
Put yourself in the timeframe when this aired. You can't record it, it probably won't be on again any time soon -- you might never see it again (until now). To the people who enjoy this sort of thing, this broadcast would have been an event you remember the rest of your life.
Exactly! Very well said.
I was five years old and I remember it. I imitated Bernstein and Stravinsky conducting with passion. Music has always had a profound affect on me to the point that some music brings me to tears, bringing chills and ecstasy to my being. My mother was involved in music as a performer so I grew up exposed to music. My reaction to music is from my conditioning during my formative years, I believe. BRING BACK MUSIC EDUCATION IN OUR SCHOOLS
Always mesmerized by Glenn Gould interpretation!!!!
That part at 25:00 gives me chills every time, that pulsing note and the perfectly judged decrescendo is soooo good.
After seeing those hands, no wonder he was amazing on the piano.
The amazing, one of a kind Glenn Gould 😌
The greatest interpretion of Bach.❤
If ever I was overwhelmed it was by Bach's d minor concerto, Glenn Gould and Bernstein. I can't even put into words what I'm feeling right now.
We are indeed fortunate that such fine performances have been recorded for enjoyment by many in posterity...❤
Bernsteins explanation on what difference it makes how you play is really beautiful.
It is pretty much impossible for me to express my love and gratitude for what these incredible people of given to me and so many others over so many years and so many years to come.
Why is it that ignorance has such a stranglehold over our little planet when artists like these demonstrate so clearly what humanity is capable off. Thank you so much for posting this video.
What a gem of a video! Watching Glen Gould is a miraculous experience.
... hin und wieder wünscht man sich einige Werte der Vergangenheit zurück. Großartiger Beitrag , vielen Dank!
Gould and Stravinsky. What a program!
Never heard anything quite like this! Glenn Gould was a true Canadian treasure!
Love glenn gould
a brillant excentric guy like anyone
You can love or dislike Gould's take on things, but in hindsight anything that keeps this music alive for the current generation should be welcomed. Certainly even the biggest Gould detractor would prefer Gould's recordings be popular than none at all.
Love so much the sheer precision and constance of the tempo yet the richness of the Gould's articulation and phrasing! Gem
Simply beautiful moments from the past
Gould is like the first player in history to throw the curveball and also turns out to be the best ever at it. He's the genius with a level of genius piled on top.
Aa I would you mind elaborating on this? I love his music, but I come from a jazz background!
Glenn Gould's Bach is unreachable
whatever face Glenn Gould made while playing, I never think he was pretentious. He was a genuine artist.
Sure thing, buddy. 🤭
Meth mouth
He was transfixed in a mystical universe of his own creation.
Pure gold! Gould, Bernstein and Bach - the real treasure!
Pure GOuLD!
This recording is one rare beautiful jewel of the history of music. Should be heard and seen many many times.
A wonderful and historic piece of music television, so great that it not just exists but has been so beautifully restored.
A brilliant musician and pianist who gave every single note in the Bach repertoire, value, respect and color.
Absolutely fabulous !!
This wonderous Gould still leaves me breathless and stricken with awe !
This is great because we get to see Glenn's hands much of the time. I never realized his fingers were so long. All the years I have listened to Gould I just marveled at his fingers the whole time. I get the feeling Bernstein really admired him also.
It's like watching two spiders dancing ballet
Each present were titans in their own category
James Niland. nnnnn
Thank you so much for uploading this. Watching Igor Stravinsky conducting his own brilliant “Firebird” in the flesh…it’s akin to seeing a Mozart or Beethoven in their day play live (a fact Bernstein alludes to). He is one of the giants of music history and I’m left speechless observing him delivering a great performance of his own masterwork.
Gould looks as if he were about to explode. What a riveting performance!. You can't look away even for a second.
This is truly a gem. Wow. Thank you.
What an incalculable blessing to hear Gould play Bach's keyboard concerto #1 and Stravinsky conduct music from his "Firebird." Both of them took my breath away. Thank you, Lenny and the great NYPhil. Epochal greatness on one program.
A beautiful example of synchronicity of expression between conductor and soloist. Bravo.
I cant believe this exists. This is mindblowing. When Stravinsky stepped on I literally had to take a break
Leonard bringing great music to the people. Wonderful, and needed now.
Wow wow wow, these were musical geniuses, absolutely unique, inspirational and very thought provoking!!!!
Divine composition, sublime interpretation - among the very best of the binomial perfection Bach / Gould. Incomparable.
A gift from the highest power to see and hear this remarkable performance.
To think it was once made for anyone who owned a television set , elates me and causes great sadness.
Bernstein, Gould, and Stavinsky were all so incredibly brilliant.
Wasn't familiar with Ms. Farrell until this video. Her voice is sublime!
I'll bet that was the only time Stravinsky's music was ever used as exit music...
I "should" diversify my musical education, but I cannot stay away from Glenn Gould. Everytime I try to listen to another performer, I am drawn back to Gould. There is unmatched clarity in his interpretations, even in these old recordings. He embodied the music yet never played as if the performance was about him. There will never be another Glenn Gould. We are richer because he lived and was himself.
Andras Schiff is very good.
Note, though, Gould, like Pavarotti, performed only works he really liked. He was disdainful of Chopin and probably most 19th-century music, as was fashionable in his generation. You need to go to some of the other greats: listen to Horowitz for Scriabin and Chopin, Rubinstein, Michelangeli. . .
A piano master, no one like him,
galeritaelenora ~ clarity yes, but achieved with too much tension in his arms.
@@oinophilos2109 He did record Chopin's 2nd Sonata ... he played other music even if he didn't "like" it ... but doesn't every performer look for performances that are "in sync" with his/her personality and preferences ?
Gould's breakout performance in the U.S. Exciting moment in the world history of music performance, imo. Perfection. "Not a dull or literal performance" as Maestro Bernstein notes. Bravo!
Just incredible! Thank you!
Considering everything Bernstein said in his preamble about Bach's lack of performance notation, I think that might be one reason Gould favored his music over all other composers. Bach left room for the performer to interpret, rather than dictating exactly how the music should sound.
Love this. I've watched 30 times in past week.
Such fantastic technique does Glenn Gould have in this playing of this piece! I so love watching him perform even after so many years after his death. What genius! I'm hooked on him and will soon be ordering his music.
Thank you! My wife met Maestro Bernstein in the 1970's and cherishes the memory of that great man and musician, and his music!
These Bernstien lectures from the old TV shows should be worth college credits!!!
A classic!
Gould, lived the life he was born to live!
Bernstein is a great educator and Gould's performance is not overly romantic and affected, nor bland and robotic. Perfect!
eileen farrell! wow what a performance! such emotion! you could hear almost a stifled sob at one point... just amazing
Wonderfully detailed explanation by Maestro Bernstien on the role
of the Conductor as interpreter. And Glenn Gould is spectacular.
What a fantastic moment of music and television!
Glenn Gould! Wow! My favorite pianist.
this show restored my sanity
Amazing to see this! What a treasure!
Thank you, erp65, for posting this. I can't imagine what philistines could "thumbs down" this rare treat, but it seems there are four to date. I pity such people.
I don't pity them, I am just troubled that there could be any misunderstanding.
This is absolutely marvelous. Thanks so much.
Farrell is unbelievably fantastic. What a powerful, yet lovely voice.
Si. Però la pronuncia e pessima.
This is absolutely astounding!
Filled with great information and an amazingly great and impressive performance of Glenn Gould!
He interprets this piece of Bach beautifully!
Es increible que esto haya pasado de verdad, y más aún que yo lo esté viendo sentado en mi casa 62 años después, gratis y con alta calidad visual y sonora. Qué gran privilegio poder verlo , escucharlo y apreciarlo. Gracias a los que lo hicieron posible. Bernstein, Gould y Stravinsky: tres adorables extraterrestres.