Rick Beato should get some major music award or recognition for curating great interviews, keeping alive an unparraelled level of quality music, and for his overall commitment to musicology.
A number of times Rick Beato has presented best-of-the-best of classical compositions and recordings to his viewership on TH-cam. His across-styles insight into musical creation and performance is wonderful. And Glenn Gould's outstanding presentation gifts brought classical music alive like few others can.
What a beautifully produced piece - from excellent staging/blocking, Gould’s passion bursting through his words and Bach’s music - I couldn’t help but smile at the wide shot of Gould conducting and playing - a masterclass and a masterpiece - many thanks to Herr Beato for introducing us to this magnificent performance. 🍷
I remember reading a long time ago that the pioneers of television predicted people in the middle and late 20th century would hurry home to watch TV because maybe a production of "King Lear" was scheduled, or possibly a lecture by a noted scientist or philosopher, or something as elevated as that. They had every confidence that the widespread availability of television would lead to a general improvement in society.
I am not sure since he is not explaining why the harmony is unique in this piece, what about the dissonance resolution is so different from standard counterpoint or whatever you want to look at from the period? Most of it seems to me declarative... However if you gathered any useful insight from it I'd be glad to hear
@@bargledargle7941 It was a presentation to a general television audience interested in classical music, not a harmony demonstration for music students.
A reminiscence of what television once used to be, which makes everything that is made today so meaningless and pityful. Gould is often described as being cold and intelectual robot and he was all the opposite: a warmful communicator that makes us reach high levels of understanding. He would have been the best teacher if he had not been also the best pianist. And what a great piece ! And what a great performance !
I wouldn't exactly describe Gould as "warmful", however he invites us into his intellectual world as an intimate, and even though his concepts are pretty far reaching and ask us to call upon a deep understanding of "high Art" and the whole of european history, he teaches with such willful projection, and clear focus, we can't help but be struck by the power of his words !
Althought it is great to see Glenn Gould here, It strikes me as nearly criminal that the company now putting up these videos and claiming ownership of them, has taken them down elsewhere on youtube along with the millions of views they already had and the many many insightfult comments that went with those earlier postings. Why would Canada sell the rights to Glenn Gould, a national treasure, to this company??
That's so bizarre! If they wanted the money, you can through TH-cam to claim the music licensing rights for videos that are already posted! I guess they wanted control of them all on an official channel? It's heavy-handed and unfortunate in my opinion!
Gould’s estate has always acted aggressively to anyone venturing into Gould territory for any reason. I believe Gould would not be supportive of this attitude. His accomplishments and genius will outlast these executors and lawyers !
Indeed, but how it is possible Canada has "sold" the rights? I wasn't even told by TH-cam that my (unmonetised) upload of this piece, which I did years ago, had been blocked worldwide. And as you say, there were many, many insightful comments on same. I've only just discovered that my upload was taken down. No notifications; no email. TH-cam bends furtively these days - because it wants to avoid challenges. They now do this by stealth. Deplorable. Ironically, the quality of my upload was far better than this murky video.
I cannot find a way to express my feelings for this interpretation of Cantata 54. When I listen to more recent interpretations for example, Scholl, Lesne and others, I am struck by how little those interpretations transmit the complexities and depth of Bach's technical expertise. Gould and Oberlin here achieve something quite extraordinary and sublimely beautiful.
@@christofeles63 @sönke zürner While I'll admit your preferred performance is better than many, and her voice is beautiful, I don't care for the transposition or tempo. I do like it. But i think Watts is unjustly overpowered by the accompaniment in some places in your version. Her voice should be in front throughout the piece. And like you, the first interpretation I encountered of this piece is what moves me the most, which is this performance for me. I've listened to several versions that have been shared by others, but I keep coming back to this one. I don't care for most male falsetto versions which is another reason I like this one. (Oberlin did not sing falsetto. This was his natural vocal range.) This performance is beloved to so many listeners. Whatever your preference, I think it's petty for you to insult it. Thanks for the link. I'll give it another listen in the future.
It's about giving the chords time and space, especially when they are so beautiful...the speed of this is perfectly judged. Another piece that benefits from being slowed down is Wedding Day at Troldhaugen. Often it is played far too quickly, not allowing time for the beautiful chords to be properly heard.
Glenn Gould - what an inspiration... Speaking with such clarity simplicty and beauty. its almost like a different language. And fitting for J. S. Bach.
I’ve only recently come across this superb piece of Bach, and of the several versions on TH-cam, this is for me the best - and that is said even with the well out of date recording. The singing of Oberlin is mesmerising.
I really love that slower tempo! Also, the counterpoint between the inner strings (I think it's the second violins or the violas) and the bass line is simply sublime. This is it, right here: the hum of the Universe. The Music of the Spheres, this is what it sounds like.
The opening movement of the cantata is much slower in this performance than any other I have heard, but I find I like this tempo best. The steady, measured pulse is like that of a heartbeat, and the listener can more easily savor these extraordinary harmonies.
There are a few of Bach's works, which Glenn Gould interpreted in a way that resulted in the total manifestation of the composer's sublime genius. As Gould stated, Bach was the greatest architect of sound who ever lived. Who needs psychotherapy when there is Bach.
@@j.p.westwater2334 Sure, but it's more a comment on the zeitgeist. Rather than having to look back for quality, we should produce something worth looking back on.
Yes, Canada, you really did have a treasure in Gould. I recognise a mind so devoted to the best of music. Even the fact he has no music in front of him is just another sign. From video and recordings I have, the only evidence of a mind so absorbed and guided by a beauty that can only speak of the human aspiration. Is it, to be reunited with God?
Quando ha cominciato la cantata mi sono venuti i brividi dalla tensione armonica poi lacrime di commozione...Grandissimo Glenn Gould e i musicisti ma Bach è la luce sopra tutti.
Quizás algunos piensen que era solamente extravagante . No Era un músico con un conocimiento profundo de la historia y de la música . Era un hombre excepcional y un maestro . Gracias Glen
9:44 So beautiful, pleasing and striking. Incidentally, his opening monolog was a nice review of the enlightenment period, which challenged authoritarianisn and determinism with the scientific method and the observable.
People used to talk like this. They went to school and learned English grammar. No "you knows", "know what I'm saying", or "basically" every other word. Gould, like Beethoven, was immensely eloquent! Gould is my all-time favorite musician!
@@JetFission it's true, not a meme, look at tv today, do you think many people could appreciate this? No, they are too worried about their clothes, parties, size of their bíceps, money etx
@@ignacioclerici5341 It'll be pretty fucking easy to impress you if the only thing required is to use cool words. You kind of people are the least intelligent of all, as your concept of intelligence is so surface level that just the mention of stuff like quantum mechanics automatically signals intelligence. Quantum mechanics is clever stuff, right? Glen Gould's use of language is clunky, pedantic, and frankly he sounds like a self-indulgent piece of shit, and if you had actually read something else than a Wikipedia plot summary of "Brave New World" you would perhaps be able to distinguish verbosity from eloquence. You may be a very smart guy who listens to Bach on youtube, but please don’t think you’re one pile of shit better than people who care about the size of their biceps or whatever. After all, you’re in the youtube comment section lamenting the tremendous burden of your intelligence, which seems like a pretty superficial to do, doesn’t it?
Dare I suggest that the placement of a rich dissonant chord at the very opening of the aria, and of comparable suspension-generated dissonant chords throughout, suggest the firm standing against the lure of sin that the text urges on us. An awesome struggle, as is the relentlessly accurate holding forth of Russell Oberlin's male alto (voice from an artist for the ages!) throughout the complex and demanding vocal line. Talk about music that builds and builds, as does Bach's Goldberg Variations in Glenn Gould's legendary recordings ...
I think what you have described is a really insightful interpretation of what Bach was thinking when he created this very innovative cantata. And yes, thank Rick Beato for highlighting the genius of this piece: his videos are always so informative.
Although the age of Classicism was concerned with clear, “scientific” and rational thought I think Mozart retained a sense of the mystery of God. Most evident in works like the Requiem and the 40th symphony, this is something that places him above Haydn. This is an excellent essay by Gould, I don’t think his view is easily argued with 50-60 years after.
Funny because Gould hates the 40th symphony. He says it's entire banal except the few falling 6ths in the last movement that predates Webern-like ideas.
@@IgnacioClerici-mp5cy He had very honest opinions about Mozart. He once wrote a film 'How Mozart became a bad composer' citing what he liked and disliked about Mozart.
S.L That is to be frank, crazy to me! What?! The 40th Symphony is incredible. Not that I don’t disbelieve you, but can you show me the evidence? (Gould)
@@MichaelCWBell You can google it, the film once existed and I believe the Glenn Gould foundation owns it. He thought the 40th symphony was highly overrated except for the descending 6ths in the 4th movement which were Webern-like. Personally for me I am bored of the 40th symphony after the first 30 seconds.
Watch what happens to his right arm at 9:47... an involuntary neurological reaction to hearing a chord which he himself calls the "most striking in all of Bach's harmonic arsenal."
2 months before this act a brutal storm float destroy Hamburg and other coastel terrain….wiederstehe doch der Sünde rember me, that all can change immedatly
Russell Oberlin, a true castrato. Not at all like modern countertenors, with their "hooting" falsetto. I love this cantata, and Gould's tempo is appropriate for the theme subject. Great presentation by Gould.
2:24 It's very Shocking that Bach's music wasn't as well received during his time. It almost makes no sense. The genius of his music is distinguishable. I wonder why his music wasn't as well received as it is now. It's tragic that a great composer endured that.
Because of how old school pianists played his works (right-hand heavy and without counterpoint clarity) and how old school singers sang his vocal music (with fat vibrato spanning 3 or more semi-tones).
If in his lifetime he wasn't ahead of his time, how come it wasn't until Mendelssohn unearthed it and reminded us of his existence, that his music was played & later recorded countless times
what a time to live - post-ww2 in safe colonies, getting a decent deal from hierarchy for the first time in millennia. gould made good use if it. oberlin too. let's hope such times come again.
Seymour Bernstein once famously said in an interview that Glenn Gould had 'ice water in his veins', meaining it as an insult. But listening to Gould explaining his understanding of Bach's mind, Bernstein's complaint seems almost superficial to me. Bach's genious consisted in filling this 'ice water' of baroque form with a kind of transcendent life. For me there are very few interpreters who captured this essence of Bach's music as perfectly as Gould. Bernstein's complaint might be valid for Gould playing Brahms, but I think when it comes to Bach, I would prefer Gould over Bernstein. And yet, both are masters of their craft.
Was Oberlin really a counter tenor? To me he sounds like a very high light tenor singing in his natural voice, and not like a man trying to sound like a woman
I hear the notes Eb, F, Ab, Bb and D. I guess you could analyse it as a Bb7 chord over an Eb pedal tone, but I'm not sure. Sounds like a dominant chord to me, which is then moving to Eb major.
Thank you Rick Beato for introducing me to this
Ditto.
Yep
Definitely! Thanks Rick for bringing me here.
I came from there too and yeah I'm glad he introduced me to this as well
So it's not just me, then?
Rick Beato should get some major music award or recognition for curating great interviews, keeping alive an unparraelled level of quality music, and for his overall commitment to musicology.
This was a very impressive find indeed.
Bravo Beato - and Bach the GOAT, and Gould...
A number of times Rick Beato has presented best-of-the-best of classical compositions and recordings to his viewership on TH-cam. His across-styles insight into musical creation and performance is wonderful. And Glenn Gould's outstanding presentation gifts brought classical music alive like few others can.
What a beautifully produced piece - from excellent staging/blocking, Gould’s passion bursting through his words and Bach’s music - I couldn’t help but smile at the wide shot of Gould conducting and playing - a masterclass and a masterpiece - many thanks to Herr Beato for introducing us to this magnificent performance. 🍷
Yes, truly impressive production on this.
Thanks Rick Beato for bringing me here
Can you imagine a TV programme with an introduction as such today?
Simply unbelievable
Exactly. This is what television used to be. What the heck happened …
Noooooooo,you see: All that she wants is another baby(1.2 million likes) This masterpiece:(1 K likes)
That's the world we live in.
I remember reading a long time ago that the pioneers of television predicted people in the middle and late 20th century would hurry home to watch TV because maybe a production of "King Lear" was scheduled, or possibly a lecture by a noted scientist or philosopher, or something as elevated as that.
They had every confidence that the widespread availability of television would lead to a general improvement in society.
@@WinrichNaujoks Profanity, degeneration, stupification, perversion - that's the TV diet we get by foreign Media owners.
This is one of the best lectures on how to interact with art ever given.
I am not sure since he is not explaining why the harmony is unique in this piece, what about the dissonance resolution is so different from standard counterpoint or whatever you want to look at from the period? Most of it seems to me declarative... However if you gathered any useful insight from it I'd be glad to hear
@@bargledargle7941 It was a presentation to a general television audience interested in classical music, not a harmony demonstration for music students.
I didn't expect that Glenn Gould is a philosopher. Beautiful talks
A reminiscence of what television once used to be, which makes everything that is made today so meaningless and pityful. Gould is often described as being cold and intelectual robot and he was all the opposite: a warmful communicator that makes us reach high levels of understanding. He would have been the best teacher if he had not been also the best pianist. And what a great piece ! And what a great performance !
I wouldn't exactly describe Gould as "warmful", however he invites us into his intellectual world as an intimate, and even though his concepts are pretty far reaching and ask us to call upon a deep understanding of "high Art" and the whole of european history, he teaches with such willful projection, and clear focus, we can't help but be struck by the power of his words !
Beautiful comment. Thank you for it.
Yeah I get it, you read about Gould and you think he is some autistic savant… this gives off a very different impression
Thanks so much Rick Beato! I grew up in a classical household and so glad I did. Helped me grasp other music forms, that’s for sure.
Beato brought me here. Glad he did.
Althought it is great to see Glenn Gould here, It strikes me as nearly criminal that the company now putting up these videos and claiming ownership of them, has taken them down elsewhere on youtube along with the millions of views they already had and the many many insightfult comments that went with those earlier postings. Why would Canada sell the rights to Glenn Gould, a national treasure, to this company??
greedy bastaaads
That's so bizarre!
If they wanted the money, you can through TH-cam to claim the music licensing rights for videos that are already posted! I guess they wanted control of them all on an official channel? It's heavy-handed and unfortunate in my opinion!
I am pretty sure the quality here is inferior too.
Gould’s estate has always acted aggressively to anyone venturing into Gould territory for any reason. I believe Gould would not be supportive of this attitude. His accomplishments and genius will outlast these executors and lawyers !
Indeed, but how it is possible Canada has "sold" the rights? I wasn't even told by TH-cam that my (unmonetised) upload of this piece, which I did years ago, had been blocked worldwide. And as you say, there were many, many insightful comments on same. I've only just discovered that my upload was taken down. No notifications; no email. TH-cam bends furtively these days - because it wants to avoid challenges. They now do this by stealth. Deplorable. Ironically, the quality of my upload was far better than this murky video.
Probably (actually not probably, very clearly) the greatest thing ever broadcast on TV
I don’t know how I stumbled across this video but I am eternally grateful 😂😂
Rick Beato brought me here.
Me too
This piece made me cry.
Lets not forget that the original purpose of music was service and prayer.
This is a beautiful prayer.
Never fails to give me chills. Sublime indeed - Thank you forever Glenn - John
I cannot find a way to express my feelings for this interpretation of Cantata 54. When I listen to more recent interpretations for example, Scholl, Lesne and others, I am struck by how little those interpretations transmit the complexities and depth of Bach's technical expertise. Gould and Oberlin here achieve something quite extraordinary and sublimely beautiful.
If you like their hammering away then you're in for a genuine treat:
th-cam.com/video/w5Ne1waZImI/w-d-xo.html
You're welcome.
Dunno man, but I live for gems like at 11:03, just that extra line coming through
@@christofeles63 @sönke zürner
While I'll admit your preferred performance is better than many, and her voice is beautiful, I don't care for the transposition or tempo. I do like it. But i think Watts is unjustly overpowered by the accompaniment in some places in your version. Her voice should be in front throughout the piece. And like you, the first interpretation I encountered of this piece is what moves me the most, which is this performance for me. I've listened to several versions that have been shared by others, but I keep coming back to this one. I don't care for most male falsetto versions which is another reason I like this one. (Oberlin did not sing falsetto. This was his natural vocal range.)
This performance is beloved to so many listeners. Whatever your preference, I think it's petty for you to insult it.
Thanks for the link. I'll give it another listen in the future.
It's about giving the chords time and space, especially when they are so beautiful...the speed of this is perfectly judged. Another piece that benefits from being slowed down is Wedding Day at Troldhaugen. Often it is played far too quickly, not allowing time for the beautiful chords to be properly heard.
Glenn Gould - what an inspiration... Speaking with such clarity simplicty and beauty. its almost like a different language. And fitting for J. S. Bach.
This is part of history and it's lovely.
Exquisite!
I’ve only recently come across this superb piece of Bach, and of the several versions on TH-cam, this is for me the best - and that is said even with the well out of date recording. The singing of Oberlin is mesmerising.
I really love that slower tempo! Also, the counterpoint between the inner strings (I think it's the second violins or the violas) and the bass line is simply sublime. This is it, right here: the hum of the Universe. The Music of the Spheres, this is what it sounds like.
There are slower versions: th-cam.com/video/w5Ne1waZImI/w-d-xo.html
Exactly.
Agh when he hits that chord at 10:05 ... get those chills only Bach gives you.
Either Place naw bro, 15:12
Перевести полностью всю лекцию синхронно с музыкой. Спвсибо
Перевести полностью всю лекцию синхронно с музыкой. Спвсибо
My hairs stood up
The opening movement of the cantata is much slower in this performance than any other I have heard, but I find I like this tempo best. The steady, measured pulse is like that of a heartbeat, and the listener can more easily savor these extraordinary harmonies.
Rick Beato, you sure do know your music. Love this piece!
Thank you Rick for bringing me here!
Guard this vid with your lives!! Bach cantata #54, Gould explanation and Russell Oberlin countertenor. A treat from the Gods!
Truly a sublime historical document.
Mate I think Glenn was the organist.
Rick Beato brought me here
Hear hear
Same
Ditto😊
Same.
Me too!
Can you imagine having TV like this today?❤
There are a few of Bach's works, which Glenn Gould interpreted in a way that resulted in the total manifestation of the composer's sublime genius. As Gould stated, Bach was the greatest architect of sound who ever lived. Who needs psychotherapy when there is Bach.
You NEVER need psychotherapy, that jewish scam!
Yep, thanks, Rick Beato. Now I'm fully immersed inside a Glenn Gould rabbit hole.
Oh to live when television was intended to heighten the public's feeling and understanding, not pander to base instincts...
but it's right here on youtube to watch whenever you want, surely that's better than stumbling across a broadcast?
@@j.p.westwater2334 Sure, but it's more a comment on the zeitgeist. Rather than having to look back for quality, we should produce something worth looking back on.
@@OUTBOUND184 -- To which permit me to add an "Amen!" and "Alleluia!" to your sentiment. Well written indeed!
I was thinking the same thing :)
that's rich coming from a catullus fan
Gracias carissimo Glenn Gould. Que belleza! Que honor haberte tenido en esta tierra.
Yes, Canada, you really did have a treasure in Gould. I recognise a mind so devoted to the best of music. Even the fact he has no music in front of him is just another sign. From video and recordings I have, the only evidence of a mind so absorbed and guided by a beauty that can only speak of the human aspiration. Is it, to be reunited with God?
Quando ha cominciato la cantata mi sono venuti i brividi dalla tensione armonica poi lacrime di commozione...Grandissimo Glenn Gould e i musicisti ma Bach è la luce sopra tutti.
We are here listening to this 60 years later. Which of today's TV shows will be rewatched 60 years from now?
Reacher season 2!
Quizás algunos piensen que era solamente extravagante . No Era un músico con un conocimiento profundo de la historia y de la música . Era un hombre excepcional y un maestro . Gracias Glen
Guess who brought me here, too? 😂😂
What a beautiful video.
9:44 So beautiful, pleasing and striking. Incidentally, his opening monolog was a nice review of the enlightenment period, which challenged authoritarianisn and determinism with the scientific method and the observable.
Glenn - the best youtuber!
Amazing musical testimony by an amazing artist & pianist.
People used to talk like this. They went to school and learned English grammar. No "you knows", "know what I'm saying", or "basically" every other word.
Gould, like Beethoven, was immensely eloquent! Gould is my all-time favorite musician!
Probably because he's reading his own script... Gould is eloquent but this "in the old days..." meme is boomer cringe.
@@JetFission it's true, not a meme, look at tv today, do you think many people could appreciate this? No, they are too worried about their clothes, parties, size of their bíceps, money etx
@@ignacioclerici5341 It'll be pretty fucking easy to impress you if the only thing required is to use cool words. You kind of people are the least intelligent of all, as your concept of intelligence is so surface level that just the mention of stuff like quantum mechanics automatically signals intelligence. Quantum mechanics is clever stuff, right? Glen Gould's use of language is clunky, pedantic, and frankly he sounds like a self-indulgent piece of shit, and if you had actually read something else than a Wikipedia plot summary of "Brave New World" you would perhaps be able to distinguish verbosity from eloquence. You may be a very smart guy who listens to Bach on youtube, but please don’t think you’re one pile of shit better than people who care about the size of their biceps or whatever. After all, you’re in the youtube comment section lamenting the tremendous burden of your intelligence, which seems like a pretty superficial to do, doesn’t it?
@@ignacioclerici5341 ifs true its not a meme *says boomer good old days meme*
Gould is a fantastic writer, but this is not his natural way of speaking. He has undoubtedly edited this script countless times ❤
Go to min 14:53 and listen. When i have to leave this world i can say i listened to the most beautiful music ever written,.
Sublime modulation as only Bach could extemporize.
Да... Я тоже рассуждаю о том, что бы я хотела услышать в высших сферах...
12.45❤️
And you will hear it again upon arriving into heaven
Thank you so much for sharing all of these videos. Keep them coming please.
Tanks for share all glenn gould’s knowledge !!!
5:00 - W.A. Mozart - Symphony No. 1 in E flat, K. 16 (written when Mozart was 8)
Nice easter egg!
@@AvntXardE ok then!
Mr. Glenn is a king of piano
Somewhat quirky and insanely brilliant about this interpretation.
Gould plays Bach is unreal. Special treat
🙏🙏
Cheers Rick!
What psychical anatasis is this....Glenn Gould's theses about Bach's music so profound...really rare .
It is a rare epitome of the psychical and pneumatic isotope of Bach's musical structure .
Absolutely beautiful. It doesn’t get any better.
But where does this music come from ????? She is not human ... it comes from another planet .... How beautiful ...
I really hope some talented sound mixer will work their magic and bring out the best fidelity of this recording and re post it on TH-cam.
how priv·i·leged we all must be to live in a time such as this when you can learn so much just from watching television
Dare I suggest that the placement of a rich dissonant chord at the very opening of the aria, and of comparable suspension-generated dissonant chords throughout, suggest the firm standing against the lure of sin that the text urges on us. An awesome struggle, as is the relentlessly accurate holding forth of Russell Oberlin's male alto (voice from an artist for the ages!) throughout the complex and demanding vocal line. Talk about music that builds and builds, as does Bach's Goldberg Variations in Glenn Gould's legendary recordings ...
I think what you have described is a really insightful interpretation of what Bach was thinking when he created this very innovative cantata. And yes, thank Rick Beato for highlighting the genius of this piece: his videos are always so informative.
Thanks Rick!
Although the age of Classicism was concerned with clear, “scientific” and rational thought I think Mozart retained a sense of the mystery of God. Most evident in works like the Requiem and the 40th symphony, this is something that places him above Haydn. This is an excellent essay by Gould, I don’t think his view is easily argued with 50-60 years after.
Funny because Gould hates the 40th symphony. He says it's entire banal except the few falling 6ths in the last movement that predates Webern-like ideas.
@@s.l5787 well Gould seemed like a snob sometimes, specially when he talked about Mozart
@@IgnacioClerici-mp5cy He had very honest opinions about Mozart. He once wrote a film 'How Mozart became a bad composer' citing what he liked and disliked about Mozart.
S.L That is to be frank, crazy to me! What?! The 40th Symphony is incredible. Not that I don’t disbelieve you, but can you show me the evidence? (Gould)
@@MichaelCWBell You can google it, the film once existed and I believe the Glenn Gould foundation owns it. He thought the 40th symphony was highly overrated except for the descending 6ths in the 4th movement which were Webern-like. Personally for me I am bored of the 40th symphony after the first 30 seconds.
Bach's harmonic arsenal :) : 9:46 (leading harmonic of BWV 54)
Thank you, Dr. van Nostrand.
All other composers pale before Bach ! How do we explain his genius ?
You don't expain..just marvel..
I wouldn’t try explaining either.
Came from a musician family, was incredibly gifted, had the chance to live long enough to leave a huge work, and most of all, worked like a madman.
Superhuman intelligence would be a good place to start xd
Give a Beato ‘Whoooaaa!!! What is THAT?!’
Watch what happens to his right arm at 9:47... an involuntary neurological reaction to hearing a chord which he himself calls the "most striking in all of Bach's harmonic arsenal."
...Rick Beato sent me...Bless him!😍
Rick Beato brought all of us here.
Yes he did😂
as a non native speaker I also have been send from Rick! I will buy some preowned GG vinyls !
Bach to the future...
Rick Beato, also brought me here.!!!
6:22 Except when you play, Glenn. Thank you forever.
Hello fellow Rick Beato subscribers!
Thanks Rick Beato
CBC Symphony Orchestra should also be mentioned!
2 months before this act a brutal storm float destroy Hamburg and other coastel terrain….wiederstehe doch der Sünde rember me, that all can change immedatly
You could get this in 1960s, but today we get "The Masked Singer" and "The Floor"
Russell Oberlin, a true castrato. Not at all like modern countertenors, with their "hooting" falsetto. I love this cantata, and Gould's tempo is appropriate for the theme subject. Great presentation by Gould.
Oberlin must be smiling from his grave to hear himself described as "a true castrato."
Russell Oberlin was not a castrato! He was a tenor with an unusually high tessitura. He sang with a natural modal voice in all parts of his range.
Bach’s chord progressions are very rich. Handel is great too.
2:24 It's very Shocking that Bach's music wasn't as well received during his time. It almost makes no sense. The genius of his music is distinguishable. I wonder why his music wasn't as well received as it is now. It's tragic that a great composer endured that.
Because of how old school pianists played his works (right-hand heavy and without counterpoint clarity) and how old school singers sang his vocal music (with fat vibrato spanning 3 or more semi-tones).
Music was not widely distributed or circulated
Bach’s music was too complicated for audiences of their day.
Because it was too difficult to play and listen to. And it actually still is.
This is not music that has wide popular appeal.
If in his lifetime he wasn't ahead of his time, how come it wasn't until Mendelssohn unearthed it and reminded us of his existence, that his music was played & later recorded countless times
is this gould's reimagining of the toronto church where his mother had him playing the organ? just guessing
Thumb down, greedy "Glenn Gould" TH-cam! You've made a bonfire of the previous video with its tons of people's delight in this piece!
Рассел Оберлин- удивительный талант, без сравнений.
A lesson on intelligence given thru the medium of music.
what a time to live - post-ww2 in safe colonies, getting a decent deal from hierarchy for the first time in millennia. gould made good use if it. oberlin too. let's hope such times come again.
Anyone have a link of a TH-cam video that has just the live performance at around 10 minutes?
I'm in love again.
Increbile harmonic : 9:46
from Cantata BWV 54
Seymour Bernstein once famously said in an interview that Glenn Gould had 'ice water in his veins', meaining it as an insult.
But listening to Gould explaining his understanding of Bach's mind, Bernstein's complaint seems almost superficial to me.
Bach's genious consisted in filling this 'ice water' of baroque form with a kind of transcendent life.
For me there are very few interpreters who captured this essence of Bach's music as perfectly as Gould.
Bernstein's complaint might be valid for Gould playing Brahms, but I think when it comes to Bach, I would prefer Gould over Bernstein. And yet, both are masters of their craft.
Please excuse my ignorance, but why does Gould's instrument sound like that? It looks like a piano, but it almost sounds like a harpsichord.
@@elmocalabrese1630 Ah, thanks!
This guy's pretty good at talkin'
Same here
Bravo
MUSIC OF THE RISEN LORD COMPOSED BY HIS FAITHFUL SERVANT JS BACH AND PERFORMED BY HIS SERVANTS (BELIEVERS OR NOT) GLENN GOULD AND RUSSELL OBERLIN
I wonder of Gould was speaking from his intellectual heart or was he 'reading' from a memorized script. I wisj I knew more.
Was Oberlin really a counter tenor? To me he sounds like a very high light tenor singing in his natural voice, and not like a man trying to sound like a woman
That is what I've always thought too.
Oh…to be in that room
and what is the chord he mentions? the opening one, which is "one of the most striking in all of Bach's harmonic arsenal"
He says what it is in the presentation
@@mercoidwhere exactly? I cant find it
I hear the notes Eb, F, Ab, Bb and D. I guess you could analyse it as a Bb7 chord over an Eb pedal tone, but I'm not sure. Sounds like a dominant chord to me, which is then moving to Eb major.
@@milksaboteur thanks!
@@milksaboteurI hear the Bb7, but man that Eb in there just knocks me out.
Imagine if Gould had lived long enough to become a conductor...
I love this. . . but is it me, or do the piano and the strings sound slightly out of tune from each other?
Lol subtitles 16:35 « you can’t get some snack »
Bach: ok guys let’s get this for a snack
Hey dog daddy