Anne-Sophie Mutter talks about Bach & Gubaidulina

[@her0esfan]

I can't wait to hear the concerto by Gubaidulina - the orchestral sounds sound awesome!!

[@twogluon]

I heard the supposedly first north american performance of this violin concerto the other night (san francisco symph). I thought it was absolutely amazing ... not necessarily accessible to everyone, but very very impressive. I want a recording now...

[@ldk1609]

bryn93, the best comment I've seen on youtube. and oh so true!

[@twogluon]

my mistake, I saw "in tempus praesens" - the subject of most of this video, not the violin concerto. the part that she discusses starting at 3:04 was the most memorable by far

[@Rcoppin91]

The Gubaidulina is not noise. If you want noise listen to the Threnody For Hiroshima by Penderecki. In Tempus Praesens is one of the most tragic pieces of music I have heard. It is all most like a tone poem. But you have to make up your own story.

[@quagapp]

Bach is great (but he never really "advanced" in his formal style as Gould pointed out - he was already in his own time "behind the times" - and to stay fixated on Bach is a trap - a nice trap of course!): but this Gubaidulina - I had never heard of - seems to me to be "up there" with Bach.

[@huisclos123]

Gould was a nut. He also said that Mozart died too late.

[@quagapp]

I disagree, change may or may not be "good" but it is often interesting and often is good - even better (however defined) - interesting - we wouldn't want to listen to 16th or 17th century music all the time - well I wouldn't. I don't know how you jumped to Obama though! Obama isn't going far enough - he needs to pull out of all invaded countries immediately. Overall though he is big improvement on the Bush gangsters! But Obama is a bit far from Bach