Bach: Keyboard Concerto in D Minor (Excerpt) | Glenn Gould-Leonard Bernstein-New York Philharmonic

[@MegaFount]

We are so fortunate to live in a time when such grace is raised at the push of a button.

[@M_SC]

James ehnes was just interviewed on Twoset violin and he was recounting a story of Robert Schumann writing to Clara about how she had to go to Düsseldorf (another city) to see someone play a Mozart piano concerto and she responded “I’d always wanted to see a Mozart piano concerto”. !!!!!!

[@felixmendelssohn991]

Happy 92nd birthday, Mr. Gould! 🎉

[@afritimm]

Can you just imagine if he had lived?

[@patriceodom2553]

Thank you🎉 More please sir

[@amangogna68]

Amazing pianist and fantastic Maestro ! ❤

[@kevinstrauss8020]

I purchased a Glen Gould recording for a college course in 1970. A substantial portion of the notes on the back of the album was an apology for background noise caused by Gould’s piano bench. Apparently, he refused to perform unless he used his high backed bench. I guess genius has its price.

[@rst7243]

Or just a gimmick

[@angelobonacci461]

Incredibile pianista, gravissima perdita..

[@danielegruppioni1029]

Super!!!

[@Twentythousandlps]

LB and GG recorded the complete concerto in 1957, but never performed it together. They filmed just the opening movement for this 1960 telecast.

[@saveriosalerno9232]

STEINWAY NEW YORK!

[@jaspernatchez]

Poor Lenny is doing his best to look like he doesn't hate this stupidly slow tempo.

[@afritimm]

Tough. He should have declined to appear, but of course he adored the limelight. In a keyboard concerto, the orchestra...accompanies. Just like a piano accompanies a vocalist or instrumental soloist. The soloist is in charge of tempo. Dont invite him if you dont like his playing. I am quite sure Gould did not instruct Jaime Laredo on how fast to play the Bach violin sonatas. Nor Gerald Moore instruct Fischer-Dieskau on the tempo for Schubert lieder.

[@jaspernatchez]

@@afritimm "Dont invite him if you dont like his playing."You apparently know nothing about who calls the shots at major orchestras. At this time, Gould was TV execs' darling, so he sold tickets.

[@afritimm]

@@jaspernatchez Get serious. Lennie was King of televised classical orchestral music in the USA. He absolutely chose who to invite. He had his own prime time show! Did Gould? Of course not! Nor did any other orchestra conductor. But yes, Lennie wanted the buzz from a Gould performance while also trying to bully him. Lennie was well known for that. Nor was Gould the "TV execs darling" in the US. Virtually all his TV was in Canada. Lennie was not in Canada.

[@jaspernatchez]

@@afritimm "Get serious." Had you spent 4.3 seconds googling before sprewing, AI would have told you that "Glenn Gould, a Canadian classical pianist, appeared on American television on CBS's Ford Presents series on January 31, 1960. He performed Bach's Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor with Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic." Bernstein's distaste for Gould is amply demonstrated in the famous performance of the Brahms D minor concerto, where the only way he'd go on stage was to do a disclaimer first (same problem - moronicly slow and unmusical interpretation by Gould). Bernstein had integrity and I'm fairly certain that if he had his way, he'd never have performed with Gould, who, unfortunately, had star status nearly equal to Bernstein at the time.

[@afritimm]

@@jaspernatchez I know all of that. You claimed he was a huge TV star in the US that Bernstein had to accommodate against his wishes. He was not. Virtually all his TV was in Canada. This was one of the few exceptions. Bernstein was a much bigger TV star in the US. No comparison whatsoever. I know all about the Brahms. Another instance of Lenny being a prima donna. I will repeat: The SOLOIST determines tempos in a concerto. The orchestra is merely the ACCOMPANIST, just like with a lieder singer. And it has been proven many times that Gould's tempo in the Brahms actually was barely slower than many other performances such as Claudio Arrau and others. I have also actually heard pianists speed up during a concerto to force the conductor to move along. Horowitz did this. But hey, if Gould was such a huge star as you claim, then maybe Lenny should have stopped bitching about the artistry of one of the great pianists of the 20C. The only people that don't complain Gould is too slow are the ones busy saying he was too fast in something else. Dont like it? Dont listen.

[@marcnevins9491]

Too slow, too pedantic, too ‘careful’. Glenn Gould I’d expect it from; but Lenny, I’m surprised by you!