Glenn Gould - Fugue in E Major from The Well Tempered Clavier Book 2 - BWV 878

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  • Glenn Gould playing this E Major Fugue in a quite different tempo from his WTC recordings.
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  • @mahakala
    @mahakala 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    i don't know how many times i watched this over years.

  • @ultrazvek100
    @ultrazvek100 12 ปีที่แล้ว +108

    Bach is a rare type of a composer whose pieces can be played in such a different manner (slow, fast, staccato, legato etc.) and they still don't lose their meaning...

    • @lucienfournier5399
      @lucienfournier5399 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      So true..

    • @Nullum000
      @Nullum000 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      s o o o true. is it beautiful? ... yea. but more than that. deep, far, wide, ancient, modern, eternal, simple, complex, elegant, fundamental, omniscient, omnipotent, other-worldly.

    • @DeepCrossing1
      @DeepCrossing1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      yes exactrly it's a test of Bach's genius that his composition can be applied to so many instruments

    • @Prof.SeigfriedGildenblatten
      @Prof.SeigfriedGildenblatten 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I agree.

  • @danmorgan7775
    @danmorgan7775 8 ปีที่แล้ว +324

    I get chills watching this. Two geniuses communicating across the centuries.

    • @OmarrAwake
      @OmarrAwake 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      well said

    • @OmarrAwake
      @OmarrAwake 8 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      well said

    • @MatematicaTel
      @MatematicaTel 8 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      No doubt Bach is close to him. Time it´s only a small detail...

    • @georginashone5642
      @georginashone5642 7 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      dan you sound pretty cool. I'm now 18 years old been listening to Gould since I was about 16... he just amazes me ya know? words just can't describe Bach's music. it's magic.

    • @k4ir0s
      @k4ir0s 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      this is just as much Gould as it is Bach :)

  • @ekeeywaka
    @ekeeywaka 12 ปีที่แล้ว +119

    This is the first version I listened to. And, after hearing it I realize that no other will compare.

    • @The_Invisible_Man
      @The_Invisible_Man 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Except the original played by Bach… we can only imagine.

    • @rrrrrr-kb9sb
      @rrrrrr-kb9sb 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Except his tempo here is slightly too slow

    • @dylanisaac1312
      @dylanisaac1312 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@rrrrrr-kb9sb according to whom?

    • @lutubo07
      @lutubo07 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@The_Invisible_Mansì, ma il pianoforte chi glielo dava? 🙂

    • @dr.b2949
      @dr.b2949 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Try the Version by Gulda: It is not so innig but has power and authority.

  • @bernios3446
    @bernios3446 6 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Glenn Gould polarizes the audience. I don't mind his strange behaviours, in the opposite, in our times where everybody tends to try acting, looking and speaking "cool", he just immersed into the music on a level of intensity that is rare. The beauty that flows of every note of Bach is making even stones cry.

  • @fangxusun1723
    @fangxusun1723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    This is the highest level of music making. You need to hear to believe. A whole life is embedded in 5 minutes work.

  • @michaeltheophilus5260
    @michaeltheophilus5260 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    There is certainly a mystical, metaphysical quality inthis fugue( as there is in all of Gould's playing) and what could be more metaphysical than trencending time and space listening to a piece in 2020 that was writtten in the early 1700s and recorded inthe 1980s

  • @schumannian118
    @schumannian118 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I feel sorrow, loneliness, melancholy, and recollection of the past. The beauty and spirituality of the music is revealed when it acknowledges all of those feelings, and provides a mellow intimacy of gratefulness, contentment, and companionship. Life-affirming and celestial are my best descriptions of this masterpiece

  • @MartinMerayoUCDM
    @MartinMerayoUCDM 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Glenn could really bend the laws of time....it really seems that time bends following his phrasing. Amazing

  • @navigator1383
    @navigator1383 5 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    I love the slow tempo of his Bach interpretations. It really allows one to truly appreciate the intricacy and beauty of Bach's pieces.

    • @tree_fingers
      @tree_fingers 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yes this interpretation is much more profound than his studio version of this same piece

    • @eduardopuccini
      @eduardopuccini 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@tree_fingers I agree, the beautiful moments of harmony stand out much more in this tempo, making the piece so moving in general.

  • @lockjiang
    @lockjiang 4 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    this fugue is the most touching piece among the 24 fugues in the two volumes by Bach, it's good to hear someone paying so much attention to its emotional and contrapuntal details which are not necessarily given its due by other pianists, even some Bach specialist aren't so aware of its emotional depth and beauty.

    • @sebastianciarfella3061
      @sebastianciarfella3061 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Hmmmmm nah, I'd say the 4th fugue (1st volume) is just the absolute best out of all in every sense, 5 voices, 3 themes, the 2nd longest fugue (depending also on which speed you decide to play it) constantly increasing completely, exaggerated amount of colours in the piece. Just perfection

    • @blankname4716
      @blankname4716 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@sebastianciarfella3061 his interpretation of the c# minor fugue from book 1 is kinda comical. The playing itself is incredible considering the level of detail kept at such a fast tempo. I personally prefer the interpretation from the channel smalin even though it's a compilation of vocoder recordings. Overall, the c# minor fugue is quite serious in manner (even Gould's version comes off, to me, as a scooby doo mystery). However, the E major fugue here feels like home..

    • @rebekahcuriel-alessi2239
      @rebekahcuriel-alessi2239 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes! I suppose learning technical intricacies of a piece is a fragment of the unseen emotional intricacies bound to it.

    • @vincent-ataramaniko
      @vincent-ataramaniko ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sebastianciarfella3061 And it's also a triple fugue .... !

    • @vincent-ataramaniko
      @vincent-ataramaniko ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@blankname4716 I found Gould's interpretation of it very dark. At such tempo, the divertissement (I don't know how you call that in English) sounds like death approaching at a very fast pace.

  • @gatopdx
    @gatopdx 11 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    He was already not well in this video --yet the maturity and depth of his emotion shines through. No longer a kid, he gives us a gift with this.

  • @airbz6783
    @airbz6783 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Absolute chills hearing this version and seeing the emotion that Glenn pours into it.

  • @pianogus
    @pianogus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    The spiritual depth of this fugue belongs in the realm of the divine.

  • @krigry32
    @krigry32 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    There is nothing like a a great artist, a master in his craft, that at the same time knows how to strike a pose.

  • @usl612
    @usl612 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Magnifica interpretazione della mia fuga preferita.

  • @yamahar1298
    @yamahar1298 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Unbelievably beautiful... His Bach is simply unique.

  • @samdeenabdullah4202
    @samdeenabdullah4202 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Really like to see how Glen deeply melt into the music while playing the piano

  • @RemovdSande11
    @RemovdSande11 11 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    What makes Gould so special for me is that whenever you close your eyes and listen to Gould's recordings they "feel" alive, like he is your good friend sitting in front of you playing after a healthy musical discussion .

  • @QubitVector
    @QubitVector 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    This piece makes me so thankful to be alive. So thank you God for my life and that this exists, and that this COULD exist.

  • @dq9677
    @dq9677 11 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    I think the people making comments about his posture, or the amount of drama and emotion put in don't understand that it's GLENN FUCKING GOULD.

    • @eislakkon3110
      @eislakkon3110 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I understand that.
      I accept his point of view.
      I accept the right of a
      musician who try so hard
      to express his opinion.
      I find his theatrical movements
      an exaggeration and excuse me
      but
      I don't like that.
      E

    • @michelecherchi154
      @michelecherchi154 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @@eislakkon3110 just close you eyes and enjoy this miracle!

    • @lordspongebobofhousesquare1616
      @lordspongebobofhousesquare1616 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@eislakkon3110 yet you're still here, probably unable to listen to other recordings because you immediately notice they're worse than Gould's :v (don't worry I do too)

    • @Kitties_are_pretty
      @Kitties_are_pretty 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ​@@eislakkon3110 I'm pretty sure Glenn Gould was just crazy, and couldn't control these movements. I don't think it's right to call these movements "exaggerated".

    • @octave11thpianist58
      @octave11thpianist58 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Kitties_are_pretty I agree, he's been humming to his own music his own life and he never broke the habit.

  • @ru99414
    @ru99414 6 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    I've been admiring this piece for few months now and I never get enough of it, I even started playing it myself... tough piano is only my secondary instrument. After studying it so well, I do prefer the fugue on harpsichord, but this version from Glenn Gould is absolutely a favorite

  • @MassimoManghi
    @MassimoManghi 11 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    yes this is the magic of Bach. To some extent it's not only irrelevant how you play Bach, his music retains its intimate nature also when it's played with different instruments

  • @johnyprestige
    @johnyprestige 12 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    The best cadence ever at the end!!! so good it's almost ridiculous.

  • @Elvices
    @Elvices 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    He most probably is not the greatest player of them all, but he's the only one, who accomplished to make me enjoy, love, watch and listen to this kind of classic music, of which I'm not a big fan to begin with, again and again for years now. As this is something that is not only happening to me, but also to a ton of others in the audience,. he indeed has something special to offer. He's able to transport that specialty of him and the magic of the music to the listeners, that no one else can in his special unique way. Not only his idiosyncratic style of playing, which though underlines and transports his deep passion, love and respect from him for the composer and the craftsmanship of this masterpieces, forwards this directly over to the audience. There is a thin line between genius and madness that is just mesmerizing and fascinating.

  • @DangerRussDayZ6533
    @DangerRussDayZ6533 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I love his recordings later in his life vs when he was younger.

  • @roybrown1529
    @roybrown1529 7 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    A timeless five minutes. How music goes beyond words, and every other art form. The greatest composer interpreted by the greatest musician of the century.

  • @ahujeffrey
    @ahujeffrey 6 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    From God's mind to Bach's heart to Gould fingers. Only this genius can capture the essence of divine profundity with his simple hands. God bless Glenn Gould

  • @yamahacrossplane3292
    @yamahacrossplane3292 7 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Truly beautiful... and deeply moving. Bach read by Gould, intensely personal and to be honest a jewel.

  • @positivegradient
    @positivegradient 10 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    What a moving performance. I became a Gould fan today.

  • @Prof.SeigfriedGildenblatten
    @Prof.SeigfriedGildenblatten 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Beautiful music.

  • @slecnaZlopocasna
    @slecnaZlopocasna 11 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    After listening to this I think I wouldn´t be sorry to die because I´ve just heard the most beautiful thing ever... thanks a lot for sharing. It´s absoulte.

  • @JohnBoyDeere
    @JohnBoyDeere 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I have watched many of these video's and I think I have come to the conclusion (albeit probably shallow on my part) that Mr. Gould actually becomes every note he plays. His hands are the mechanism, the piano, its strings and sound board the speaker with his soul the music expressed for our ears to hear...

  • @trevjr
    @trevjr 11 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Wow, like a great hymn from above. No one can ever say what a correct tempo is for Bach. This is pure greatness, Bach and Gould.

  • @IskalkaQuest2010
    @IskalkaQuest2010 8 ปีที่แล้ว +51

    He LOVES each and every note and their connection to each other!

  • @minseokchoi3022
    @minseokchoi3022 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    When Gould and Bach meet, it becomes the most complete and touching art.

  • @thanhmvo
    @thanhmvo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Mesmerizing is the word. Perfectly flavor and not too much salt 👌

  • @Pianoverse-zs9zi
    @Pianoverse-zs9zi 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Welch eine schöne Musik! ❤

  • @jgross25
    @jgross25 11 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This fugue is written in 4 part structure with each voice is treated independently, almost chorally. In a fugue, the subject is the main thing being stated, and each voice gets the chance to speak that subject. The counter subject is basically the accompanying conversation that goes along with the subject. The subject starts in the bass, and works its way to the tenor, alto and soprano line. For a good explanation, look for the video of Glenn talking about this piece.

    • @jacksycz
      @jacksycz ปีที่แล้ว

      It is a great education piece too. We did this in advanced ear training.

  • @pianogus
    @pianogus 8 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Plain, unobstructed, celestial--very difficult when dealing with arguably the best composer of all time. As usual, no fallacies in Gould's rendition. Thank you for the post!

  • @silverbrahmapaolino9528
    @silverbrahmapaolino9528 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Per me la Fuga più espressiva e imponente del grande Maestro di Eisenach, degna di consacrarlo nel tempo come il Dio della musica universale sulla terra

  • @robbyburns5822
    @robbyburns5822 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This man was SO into Bach's music and understood SO much that it killed him in the end. You can see pictures of him as the years went on and he really was destroyed from the inside. We are only so lucky to have had him, there shall never be another Glenn Gould.

    • @jacksycz
      @jacksycz ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah. That’s an understatement

    • @hemiolaguy
      @hemiolaguy 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I disagree. Getting close to Bach doesn't kill people -- Bach gives life! Gould was a severe hypochondriac, and what destroyed his health was his incessant self-medication with all sorts of pills.

    • @musical_lolu4811
      @musical_lolu4811 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Weird comment.

    • @robbyburns5822
      @robbyburns5822 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@musical_lolu4811 I agree. I was pretty edgy back then

    • @87890-
      @87890- 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I did not understand the comment​@@robbyburns5822

  • @navigator1383
    @navigator1383 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have never seen Glen Gould with a piece of sheet music in front of him, even when playing with ensembles.--A complete, intimate and thorough mental memorization of the music he is expressing.

  • @stevenhancoff4036
    @stevenhancoff4036 7 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    A treasure beyond any words... this is the sound of the human soul beseeching God...

  • @Rodrigo.alonso
    @Rodrigo.alonso 12 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Superb,.. beautiful... no words to express such feeling!

  • @user-tu5xu4xk9d
    @user-tu5xu4xk9d 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Великолепный , великий пианист . Виртуоз. Слушать и смотреть сплошное удовольствие !

  • @mairzyd
    @mairzyd 12 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    When I listen to this, I have to remind myself to breathe.
    Happy birthday, Glenn Gould.

  • @RagHelen
    @RagHelen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The prelude to this fugue, which is the best in WTK2, is also unbelievably well performed by him.

    • @urekmazino8799
      @urekmazino8799 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I share the same Opinion:) (about being the best Prelude)

  • @jpage99999
    @jpage99999 15 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    What more can you ask for? I mean, Glenn just gives it his whole being. This is intensely personal, close, introspective, and above all full of "heart". Thanks for posting!

  • @silviasancheznaveira9993
    @silviasancheznaveira9993 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Listening to this deep music,I close eyes eyes and feel myself in some other world,a very strange world.

  • @RemovdSande11
    @RemovdSande11 13 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    he played this just ... right. I love Bach, and I admire Gould for playing it this way.

  • @juliewhite7920
    @juliewhite7920 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Very expressive

  • @OrenVenezian
    @OrenVenezian 13 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    @releasethefrogs Not only slowness but also the special articulation and the phrases he chose to bold and the way he phrased everything. Pure genius, I have no words for it. I can't explain what I feel the moment I hear this truly divine performance.

  • @Gisbertus_Voetius
    @Gisbertus_Voetius 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is beyond words.

  • @user-ro2pf7gn7l
    @user-ro2pf7gn7l 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    生きる意味みたいなものを感じられる次元を超えた演奏

  • @Altair122122332345
    @Altair122122332345 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My piano teacher: Don't tense your shoulders. Don't exaggerate your hands. Sit up straight.
    Glenn Gould:

  • @kevinjames011
    @kevinjames011 6 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Absolutely sublime

  • @ronperilli2454
    @ronperilli2454 7 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    The way Glenn responds while playing makes me think he feels the fuge is heroic.

  • @erikwhitesides
    @erikwhitesides 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    a swift uppercut to the invisible page turner at 1:00

    • @maybudha
      @maybudha 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      lol

    • @ringzy
      @ringzy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂

    • @midny4087
      @midny4087 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      LOL I wish he then flicks the invisible page turner off at 1:01 😂

  • @SuperTwilightZoned
    @SuperTwilightZoned 11 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Wow! this is the first video I've seen of Glen Gould playing the piano. He is quite mad, and extremely brilliant.

  • @charlesbenedetti8607
    @charlesbenedetti8607 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Indeed we could say he mesmerizes himself by the beauty of the sound....

  • @user-qf6sh1po9n
    @user-qf6sh1po9n 11 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Absolutely fantastic!

  • @fredericchopin7538
    @fredericchopin7538 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Magnificent! So touching!

  • @benjamin-hughmackay2094
    @benjamin-hughmackay2094 7 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The English composer S. S. Wesley nicknamed this fugue "Saints in Glory". Not an impertinence given the noble nature and breathtakingly clear counterpoint.

  • @aniruddhadebnath261
    @aniruddhadebnath261 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This performance makes me feel so sad and lonely for some reason

    • @tester5709
      @tester5709 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Listen to it when you’re sad and lonely, and it’ll have the opposite effect

    • @The_Invisible_Man
      @The_Invisible_Man 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Indeed, something about the truth is sad.

  • @oucutie1
    @oucutie1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Can you even begin to imagine their reunion???

    • @theavodkado
      @theavodkado 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Janet Smith this is such a wonderful comment! It made me smile !!

  • @funkymonks8333
    @funkymonks8333 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    How can he handle two voices so perfectly. A few notes. With one hand
    Ikr i play such things myself and i can handle everything but this is just something else

  • @ilducedimas
    @ilducedimas 8 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    One masterpiece coming up !

    • @obxemt
      @obxemt 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Mehdi F "As I said, a masterpiece." :-)

  • @voraciousreader3341
    @voraciousreader3341 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Gould plays the piano as though it was an organ….he controls the sonority so that every single note is heard, which is an insane accomplishment. A lot of concert pianists can obviously play Bach’s music, but there are far too many who actually-incomprehensibly!-use the sustain pedal, pummeling the gorgeous contrapuntal framework into a mass of mush. There are commenters who rave about the exhibitions, and all I can think is that their minds can’t make any sense of what’s going on. In Gould’s genius hands, the music is so pristine, so crystalline, so heartbreakingly gorgeous, that I often forget to breathe.

  • @orlaghfagan5893
    @orlaghfagan5893 9 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    Imagine if Gould had met Bach! Well I suppose maybe he has?
    Only Gould could express to him what a phenomenal landmark Bach has been in human thought.
    Someone else has said that we could leave the achievements of Newton or Einstein as a testament to human achievement. - To leave Bach would just be showing off!

    • @joefagan9335
      @joefagan9335 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Orlagh Fagan Great points Orlagh. Oh I love your name!

    • @elisabou3683
      @elisabou3683 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well said. I second that.

  • @tonikrehl2545
    @tonikrehl2545 10 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    when i hear it on Glenn gould the Fugue in E i understand it very much better as from all others pianist i ever hear it in the world, and i hear it so many...

  • @sailingforde04
    @sailingforde04 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow , suddenly , this makes life just that bit more bareable :D , its music like this we truly live for isnt it
    Thanks for posting

  • @VCguitar1
    @VCguitar1 11 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    This is an extremely great interpretation of this piece. Wow.

  • @j-pierrelassalle862
    @j-pierrelassalle862 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    On ne s’en lasse pas !
    Superbe !

  • @One-cz4ki
    @One-cz4ki 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    One of the greatest fugues in the whole WTC.

  • @brianthenub5606
    @brianthenub5606 8 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Of all Bach's music, all of Glenn Gould's interpretations, this one simply makes me speechless, even sad. It is as if a whole life is told in one short piece of music. I was listening to this at a Cape Cod beach sunrise, alone. The feeling transcended words or even emotions.
    BTW, does anyone know if there is a CD/audio version of this? I bought a Sony released Well Tempered Clavier by Gould, but in that he plays much faster. I'd much prefer this tempo.

    • @navigator1383
      @navigator1383 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      It seems to be one one of his favorites

    • @music_pillow3246
      @music_pillow3246 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      HeyIt'sBrian it's on his cd with Goldberg Variations from 1955 as one of few additional tracks

    • @music_pillow3246
      @music_pillow3246 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      HeyIt'sBrian i think it's not exactly this recording but it's quite similar to this one

    • @miguelm5764
      @miguelm5764 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      There is a version so similar to this included in an early recording of the partitas nos 5 & 6. But this is, without doubt, his best.

    • @johntravena119
      @johntravena119 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      When I was in college I would walk a lot and think. When I felt lost I would always play this fugue on my headphones and it would bring me back to Terra Firma, like walking through a labyrinth.

  • @charlesbenedetti8607
    @charlesbenedetti8607 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The Cleveland Orchestra conductor said it best: "this nut is a genius."

  • @MrGunterguerrero
    @MrGunterguerrero 12 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    A genius playing another Genius.

  • @mehranmosley
    @mehranmosley 8 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    This is madness. Sheer genius. He feels every note as if he is one with them...complete dissolution into the piece. Ahhh!!! just close your eyes and listen. I think Bach would simply faint if he heard this interpretation of his composition.

    • @pwnayr
      @pwnayr 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      :'D

  • @ThoseWhoDare
    @ThoseWhoDare 12 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    This interpretation is unique. Its hard to listen to the same piece of music again by other performers without missing the intensity and expression by GG

  • @m.calloway2624
    @m.calloway2624 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Every note, every sonority played with the greatest care to the greatest effect. The perfect match to Bach who also, in writing his music, poured over every note, seeing it as an offering to God. You may not agree with how Glenn Gould renders this or that passage, but you can't help at the end having had a magnificent, intense experience leaving you feeling closer to Bach than anyone else is able to do.

  • @zero8795
    @zero8795 7 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    sometimes when i'm working really hard on music and need a break, i listen to glenn, then decide is should just give up... and take a little break. lol

  • @Ray0X0
    @Ray0X0 14 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Please, this is the way this master feels the music...

  • @gop108
    @gop108 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    That is REAL meditation
    It is based on ABSOLUTE dedication
    That is LIFE
    🔶

  • @dufasaurjoe2899
    @dufasaurjoe2899 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    With Gould none of his mannerisms seem fake. I'm sure Beethoven was a bit weird to a lot of people as well. Thank God for weird people.

  • @Infinity1994MC
    @Infinity1994MC 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    GLen Gould is the true master of fugue and he is ruler of Music at all!

  • @rul4522
    @rul4522 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Making love to his piano! So much intensity.

  • @ir0n2541
    @ir0n2541 8 ปีที่แล้ว +114

    This boys and girls is what happens when the boundaries between you and the instrument desolves.

    • @ericlopez6866
      @ericlopez6866 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yes. It's very hard to achieve, but it happens once in a while.

    • @fractalphilosophorum9405
      @fractalphilosophorum9405 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yet, Gould was against attaching yourself to the instrument.
      As Monsaingeon approximativly said about Gould and the piano "detached from the instrument that he mastered to perfection".
      You can find this citation in the beginning of the documentary about Gould's second, and last, recording of the goldberg variations.

  • @ruthzelda5217
    @ruthzelda5217 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    this one gets me every time.

  • @MTRbork
    @MTRbork 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    it feels like he's still with us :)

  • @cmtmusik
    @cmtmusik  15 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Yes. These version was recorded in 57, with partitas 5-6. So Glenn Gould made 4 recordings of this fugue:
    1.1957 - Audio with Partitas 5/6
    2.1963 - Audio of the complete WTC
    3.(-) - Video in a modern harpsichord
    4.1976-1981 - This Video, part of Glenn Gould plays Bach series
    Thanks!

  • @ahnungsvoll
    @ahnungsvoll 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    ...eine wunderbare Interpretation; ganze Eigenart, Genie und absolute Leidenschaft, also Bach in seiner Vollkommenheit...Komplexe Musik für die Seele...

  • @opticalmixing23
    @opticalmixing23 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Very emotional and expressive performance indeed❤

  • @jtoddmusic7090
    @jtoddmusic7090 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    A remarkable fugue, a remarkable performance AND tempo

  • @pobinr
    @pobinr 12 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The slow tempo gives one time to savour the beauty

  • @Ben0Bertels
    @Ben0Bertels 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I've been trying to say several times what I admire so much about the combination of Glenn Gould and Bach, but everytime I get stuck because there are no words to describe this very odd feeling I get when listening to this combination of very high intellect and the most upright emotions that Glenn Gould puts into his music. Such a loss that he died so early. But better for him, I think.

  • @Altivelzian
    @Altivelzian 11 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Pure music, divine; simply divine

  • @michaeltheophilus5260
    @michaeltheophilus5260 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Let this be " the" example that something like a fugue can be as moving as it is a technical exercise..

  • @ferlottes
    @ferlottes 11 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Playing that speed-slow is much more difficult ! Glen gould : trippatif !
    Merci à ce génie.

  • @jmcastromattos
    @jmcastromattos 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Perfect dialogue between GO(ul)D and GOD!