Glenn Gould - Beethoven, Concerto For Piano & Orchestra No.1 in C-maj: I Allegro con brio (OFFICIAL)

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  • """Heure de Concert: Beethoven et Puccini"", Concerto For Piano & Orchestra No.1 in C-major op. 15.
    The earliest surviving footage of Glenn Gould in performance, 12th December 1954"

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  • @fredericchopin7538
    @fredericchopin7538 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Glenn's cadenza is the most marvelous.

  • @onesevennest-nz5hz
    @onesevennest-nz5hz ปีที่แล้ว +13

    a gift to humanity. The cadenza sings and brings joy to my soul❤.

  • @peterklingen2785
    @peterklingen2785 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I come here over and over again for the cadenza!

  • @iguarni
    @iguarni 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Glenn we miss You too much!

  • @theavodkado
    @theavodkado 5 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Cadenza is at 10:50 if anyone is wondering!

  • @jazztemple2
    @jazztemple2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    10:50 the Cadenza! I freakin' love Glenn Gould.

  • @user-pc1xg5gp7i
    @user-pc1xg5gp7i 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Glenn Gould is an alien. The the mystery of his performing skill defies description. Apparently he saw other worlds, seeing them through the mundane.

  • @sooyunkim1526
    @sooyunkim1526 7 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Brilliant rendition by young Glenn Gould! His own cadenza is exactly his own term as well, Sort of Bach style. Such a genius!

    • @ceciliahuang3984
      @ceciliahuang3984 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yes, completely reflecting his expertise in Bach. Polyphonic Beethoven LOL!

    • @redskindan78
      @redskindan78 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I was looking down, heard the cadenza, and thought, wow, there's Bach!

    • @TheDavidlloydjones
      @TheDavidlloydjones 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed. It is good that these early recordings still exist. It would be good, though, if they could be remastered, assuming the resources exist: in both this and some other Toronto videos, the sound-registration of the orchestras is just appalling and fine musicians come off sounding pedestrian. The upper registers are badly muted and the overall sound muddy, to my ear at least. The piano, thankfully, comes through quite competently recorded.

  • @fredericchopin7538
    @fredericchopin7538 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Magnificent!

  • @allenhuug8650
    @allenhuug8650 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    hi Glenn, love your playing so much!

  • @thomasscantlebury8011
    @thomasscantlebury8011 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    WOW - I listened to Mr.. Gould as a boy - had albums of his records - and still I get a thrill as an 86 year old man - to hear this genius at the keyboard.

  • @robworonuk255
    @robworonuk255 8 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    Tremendous performance and his cadenza has not been matched in my lifetime and I can confidentially say it won't be in the rest of it. Brilliant!!

    • @tomtronsgard9158
      @tomtronsgard9158 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      not too many play their own anymore.

    • @robertsoskis264
      @robertsoskis264 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Some say he wasn't the greatest, I disagree. If there is someone better, bring them on!

    • @elviraruiz3792
      @elviraruiz3792 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Genioimortalzadisrutarl auedrezlootrzodcotrsras

  • @marijane8665
    @marijane8665 4 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    I look for and listen to any recordings of Glenn Gould that I can find and the precious gem hidden within these amazing performances is always the cadenza! What a genius! Wish I’d paid attention to him much sooner...

  • @alexsoteros2545
    @alexsoteros2545 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Twenty-two year old genius.

  • @claudioparrella183
    @claudioparrella183 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    IL giovane Gould è sorprendente

  • @WarinPartita6
    @WarinPartita6 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Immense​ thanks​ for​ sharing​ this​ big​ treasure​ trove​ of​ our​ favorite​ GG.​ Interesting​ cadenza, i​ must​ say.​ RIP, you​ Giant Maestro.​

    • @iguarni
      @iguarni 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Legendary pianist!

    • @user-sr8rm6sc3m
      @user-sr8rm6sc3m 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Лучший! Самый лучший в мире и в истории человечества ❤Обожаю его и его искусство

  • @marichristian1072
    @marichristian1072 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Thank goodness this film was preserved. I wonder if it can be restored to prolong its life.

  • @marichristian1072
    @marichristian1072 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Precious footage.

  • @doGreatartistsgrowontrees
    @doGreatartistsgrowontrees 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Brilliant. How can anyone dislike this? To be sure, the orchestra was not the world class ensemble it could have been but they play it straight and honestly without interpretive mind games. Interpretive mind games were normally for Gould, especially in Beethoven and Mozart, composers he didn’t really like, but here his playing is brilliant and full of sparkle and impeccable virtuosity. And that cadenza! In the style of Bach and middle + late Beethoven. Fabulous.

    • @ChamMansour
      @ChamMansour 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Gould adores Beethoven, unless I am fatally mistaken (?)

  • @gloomyloser_
    @gloomyloser_ ปีที่แล้ว +4

    splendid!

  • @BachIdealized
    @BachIdealized 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    The Cadenzas are unequaled. The recorded version of this Concerto remains my favourite by a country mile. Amazing stuff.

    • @Opoczynski
      @Opoczynski 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It's my favourite too. The cadenza puts a smile on my face.

    • @marichristian1072
      @marichristian1072 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      The cadenza in the 3rd movement is remarkable, too.

    • @BachIdealized
      @BachIdealized 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@marichristian1072 Yes. Absolutely.

    • @ulfwernernielsen6708
      @ulfwernernielsen6708 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh yes!!!! It is also one of my favorites because of the first movement spontaneity and the second movement intensity. The only performance I ever had heard in which the second movement takes longer time than the first movement. If I should choose one cycle as my favorite it would be the Arrau/ Haitink, but if I should make a favorite cycle with different pianist for each concerto it would be Gould in no. 1 , Kempff/Leitner in no2 , Fleischer in no.3 , Barenboim / Klemperer in no.4 and Fischer /Furtwangler in no 5 .

  • @aslanmustafazadeh4371
    @aslanmustafazadeh4371 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Soul in music Glenn Gould

  • @galinaprozorova7903
    @galinaprozorova7903 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Ах, какая палитра. Блеск! Какой окрас звука. Браво Гленн!!!

  • @voicemad
    @voicemad 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Absolutely fabulous. I heard Wilhelm Kempf in Dublin in 1967 and Rubenstein in London in 1968, all three fabulous musicians.

  • @tomtronsgard9158
    @tomtronsgard9158 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    An amazing artist.

  • @dbeidesign
    @dbeidesign 8 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Great Cadenza!

  • @danielpoulin1886
    @danielpoulin1886 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    A few notes about Gould playing Beethoven's Piano Concerto no1. He first played it on December 3, 1947 in Hamilton (Ontario) and then in Toronto on January 23, 1951 both times with The Toronto Symphony Orchestra under Sir Ernest MacMillan. He did play one of Beethoven's Cadenzas to the first movement for these performances. (A recording of one of these concerts is available on the CBC label.)The video seen here was recorded in Montréal with a pick-up orchestra (mostly members of The Montréal Symphony) under Paul Scherman. The recording was intended for Radio-Canada (The French side of the CBC). It was Gould's first TV concert and he was not yet traveling with his own chair. It also marked the very first time he played his own cadenza to the first movement. Two days later (December 14) Gould was the guest soloist with the Montréal Symphony under Désiré Defauw in the same Concerto, a concert repeated the following day (December 15). The year was 1954, Gould was then 22. The first movement was the only one played for the TV concert. Also of interest: there were women in the string section, which was quite unusual since most major orchestras were male only in those years. Shortly after Gould's death in 1982 the CJRT Orchestra (Toronto) played Beethoven's Concerto no1 with a young pianist as soloist. The conductor was Paul Robinson; the pianist was Raymond Spasowski, a Toronto resident born in Macedonia who played Gould's cadenza. He had learned it using Gould's own personal score that I had borrowed from Glenn a few months earlier.

    • @charlotterose6724
      @charlotterose6724 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Thank you for sharing this.....YOU borrowed the score from Gould personally? Wow.

    • @charlotterose6724
      @charlotterose6724 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Incidentally, there is at least one other woman in the orchestra.... playing bass. I thought there were 2 violinists. Must have been rare I the 40s, for sure. Go Canada!

    • @davidnash7796
      @davidnash7796 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Charlotte Rose
      Mary Barrow was principal horn in the Toronto Symphony Orchestra 1939 - 45. She played the North American premiere of Benjamin Britten’s Serenade for tenor, horn, and strings.

    • @kevinht2
      @kevinht2 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Strange to see the trombone section sitting there, as they don’t play in this piece! They even seem to have a brief chat at one point.

    • @carolmessina1784
      @carolmessina1784 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thank you once again, Daniel! I have watched this video many times and just now am reading the comments. I treasure your shared insights and think they could be the a basis for a book.

  • @rosemarysmyth739
    @rosemarysmyth739 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Mesmerising!!

  • @ferdinandogobbi
    @ferdinandogobbi 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Meraviglia

  • @alexsoteros2545
    @alexsoteros2545 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    There was a performance by GG of this work on January 24 1951 (when GG was 18 or 19) with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under Sir Ernest MacMillan,
    This recording was probably one of the studio recordings that GG and Sir Ernest did during 1951 and following years.

  • @ChamMansour
    @ChamMansour 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I could not restrain a burst of ecstasy on espying the title of this video. Frankly, I had thought I had drained down all that existed on the media of Gould’s live performances (what by me is given the appellation “Gould-Werken-Verzeichnis”), but no, indeed! Gould and Beethoven are something in this world…

  • @theavodkado
    @theavodkado 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Why did the damn camera pan away just as he was about to do the glissando!! (8:00) That has to be visually one of the most impressive parts !

  • @daveorme1683
    @daveorme1683 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Sprightly tempo!

  • @pierresaintgervais1937
    @pierresaintgervais1937 7 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    A écouter et découvrir la cadence est incroyable, celle que Bach écrirait au 20 me siècle. Quel génie!!! 1445 visiteurs c'est une honte!!!

    • @paulpomme2502
      @paulpomme2502 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oui, sans doute la faute aux algorithmes yt. Des concerts nullissimes obtiennent d'excellents score. Eh puis il y a le mirage du 'tout nouveau tout beau', plus bien sûr le niveau de culture musicale qui s'est effondré...

  • @fredwanger9337
    @fredwanger9337 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Genius😘

  • @francescaemc2
    @francescaemc2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    grazie

  • @1blairt
    @1blairt 6 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Glen was Glen, and for that we are all in a better place

  • @francescaemc2
    @francescaemc2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    grazie di nuovo

  • @galinaprozorova7903
    @galinaprozorova7903 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Просто блеск! Гений!

  • @RAREpicture
    @RAREpicture 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Beethoven était réputé pour être l'un des grands improvisateurs en son temps. GG ne fait que suivre cette tradition. C'est sans doute l'un des rares documents où GG n'est pas assis sur sa chaise.

    • @glenngouldschair390
      @glenngouldschair390 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And when he is not sitting in his chair, he can sit and replace the hunchback of Notre Dame

  • @georgescompositions8872
    @georgescompositions8872 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    one of the only times you wont see him playing while sitting on his famous low stool.

  • @PrimitiveInTheExtreme
    @PrimitiveInTheExtreme ปีที่แล้ว +2

    🔝🎹🔝

  • @user-sr8rm6sc3m
    @user-sr8rm6sc3m 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Завораживает ❤❤❤

  • @kawanmimon3081
    @kawanmimon3081 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    جميل ممتاز جدا عزف رائع

  • @ginnieyoun1568
    @ginnieyoun1568 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    He turned the Concerto into his recital :)

  • @sergio6357
    @sergio6357 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    진짜잘친다 gould완전조아

  • @thelennyw
    @thelennyw 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    What a shame the rest isn't there. Now up to 3683 views, but this is still astonishingly low...

  • @Opoczynski
    @Opoczynski 6 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    What incredible nerve. He writes a cadenza that is sometimes atonal. What would Beethoven think? It doesn't matter. Beethoven is dead.

    • @teresaalmeida1511
      @teresaalmeida1511 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Jacob Opper b

    • @nabilleal2315
      @nabilleal2315 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lmfao

    • @pokerandphilosophy8328
      @pokerandphilosophy8328 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      ... not to mention deaf!

    • @Opoczynski
      @Opoczynski 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @Max M Considering such works as "Die Grosse Fuge" and the fugue in Op. 106, he may have smiled.

    • @firstsounds7590
      @firstsounds7590 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Beethoven is extremely alive! here we are listening to his thoughts and feelings, amazing!!!!!

  • @delacroix2007
    @delacroix2007 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    it's a shame they didn't play the whole concerto. i don't think i've ever heard him play better. there's a live version with TSO when he was 18 or 19,
    but the sound is fairly poor. still worth a listen. made his U.S. debut the next month and recorded his first Goldbergs June of '55 so he was really
    on fire then.

    • @bornforbanning
      @bornforbanning 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      There is a studio version beautifully recorded, search for it. First or second search result

    • @bornforbanning
      @bornforbanning 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The phrasing on the third movement amazing

    • @delacroix2007
      @delacroix2007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@bornforbanning agreed! love that version.

    • @glenngouldschair390
      @glenngouldschair390 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That cadenza though

  • @jackmellon861
    @jackmellon861 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Does anyone know where to find recordings of the other movements?

    • @marichristian1072
      @marichristian1072 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There's a CD set of Gould playing all of the Beethoven Piano Concertos. I bought mine on Amazon quite reasonably priced.

  • @Protenor
    @Protenor 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    The cadenza sounds a bit like the development section of one Beethoven's late sonatas, or the fugue from the Hammerklavier...

    • @Fritz_Maisenbacher
      @Fritz_Maisenbacher 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But Gould had never the nerve to play correctly the Hammerklavier.

    • @marichristian1072
      @marichristian1072 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Fritz_Maisenbacher I agree Fritz. The performance is a mess.

    • @Fritz_Maisenbacher
      @Fritz_Maisenbacher 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@marichristian1072
      Hey ... ! I didn't say that !
      This performance of the First Concerto by Gould is absolutely stunning, full of intelligence and enthusiasm, a genious at work ... (except the cadenza)
      But his Hammerklaivier is a disaster.

    • @marichristian1072
      @marichristian1072 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Fritz_Maisenbacher Fritz, I was referring to the Hammerkavier. I agree 100% with your evaluation of his performance of the first movement of Beethoven's First Piano Concerto. I just wish the complete work was presented. The final movement is just as remarkable as the first.

  • @jonsiii
    @jonsiii 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    He's not in his CHAIR!

    • @marijane8665
      @marijane8665 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I think this was BC! Before he took his chair with him wherever he went!

    • @aimilios439
      @aimilios439 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Omg.

  • @maydarumberg2992
    @maydarumberg2992 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Who's conducting?

  • @GarciaCopista
    @GarciaCopista 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Who is the director?

  • @pradyumna3813
    @pradyumna3813 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Are there videos of the next two movements?

    • @charlotterose6724
      @charlotterose6724 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No. In fact, they only played a single movement for the television program.

  • @mariagrifol3325
    @mariagrifol3325 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Listen to David Fray playing this Really worthy!

  • @lubosschelepak7032
    @lubosschelepak7032 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oooh, he plays without his piano chair 😅 great playing.

  • @diegootero4234
    @diegootero4234 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Was it in 1954?

  • @rickblaine7036
    @rickblaine7036 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where's the chair?

  • @Viktorvelat95
    @Viktorvelat95 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I love Glenn Gould!!!!... though behold, a Fail at 1:39 bassoon :D, other than that this is one of my favorite recordings of this concerto, if anyone is interested, I have played this movement myself a couple of years ago with the Prague Philharmonia where I played my own cadenza, anyone is welcome to visit my channel!!

  • @davidmehnert6206
    @davidmehnert6206 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    BEETHOVEN’S BROADWOOD
    Knew Gouldian finches
    Measured their cinches
    Not in long, strapping miles
    But in English inches.

  • @JohannaCTjia
    @JohannaCTjia 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wish he had played Beethovens cadenza. That would have been great.

  • @elviraruiz3792
    @elviraruiz3792 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yeyuno de salud de los niños relató jesusica
    Ajvoo

  • @ChamMansour
    @ChamMansour 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:16

  • @GarciaCopista
    @GarciaCopista 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This cadenza was wrote by Bach, or what? hahaha

  • @claudioparrella183
    @claudioparrella183 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    nella cadenza si ascolta Bach e Wagner

  • @cristiandone5749
    @cristiandone5749 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bachtoveen

  • @philipstevenson5166
    @philipstevenson5166 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    no folding chair

  • @PageMarker1
    @PageMarker1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Seymour Bernstein gave this a thumbs down!

  • @charlotterose6724
    @charlotterose6724 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    10:00 , 10:50

  • @wallacechoi7610
    @wallacechoi7610 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    카덴짜보소

  • @danal81
    @danal81 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Cadenza is interesting, but totally out of character to be integrated into Beethoven’s work lol.

    • @georgescompositions8872
      @georgescompositions8872 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You ever know Glenn Gould to follow conventions?

    • @danal81
      @danal81 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@georgescompositions8872 You are right about that, but his “out of conventions” thing sometimes fits a composer’s character and even creates “new conventions.” IMO, not in this case, though.

    • @georgescompositions8872
      @georgescompositions8872 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@danal81 I do agree with you, its not a Beethoven fugue.

  • @onesevennest-nz5hz
    @onesevennest-nz5hz ปีที่แล้ว

    He wasn’t performing on his chair! 🧐

    • @ChamMansour
      @ChamMansour 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He was new to all the fame then, and was not yet traveling with his dear companion of a 14-inch high stool 👽

  • @TheTympanist
    @TheTympanist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Glenn Gould est génial ! mais pas l' orchestre ! son horrible !

    • @charlotterose6724
      @charlotterose6724 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Possibly just the recording? In 1954, TV hadn't advanced very far yet.