Glenn Gould: A Portrait. Part 3

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Who's Who?
0:17 Leopold Stokowski
1:39 Lorne Tulk CBC Technician
2:11 David Jaeger? CBC producer
4:05 Jessie Greig (cousin of GG)
4:40 Ray Roberts
5:19 Margaret Pascu
6:43 Geoffrey Payzant
10:43 Albert Kahn, reading the words of Pablo Casals (pictured)
11:50 John Peter Lee Roberts
13:10 Bruno Monsaingeon
15:19 Paul Hume
16:27 Victor di Bello
17:18 Samuel H. Carter www.legacy.com...
23:20 Steven Staryk and Maureen Forrester at the Memorial Service

[@cheri238]

Thank you, Mr. Cross for these documentaries on the genius of Glenn Gould. Moving, a life of creativity and the love of artistry. An evolution of a soul in flight soaring . Bravo!!!Bravo!!! 👏👏 🙏❤️🌍🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵

[@westernkentucky5956]

No way I would have gotten to see this jewel if you hadn't posted. Thank you so much for doing so.

[@MICKEYISLOWD]

This last segment teared me up somewhat. When people like Glenn and Jaqueline Du Pre are taken away from us so early the hole left behind can never be filled ever again. Jackie like Glenn were people from a different universe or heaven itself. Both were quiet humanitarians, unpretentious very smart and had a distinctive different trait that no one could keep up a folly to pretend they were naturally like this in life. Their uniqueness in personality was so very closely intertwined within their extraordinary musical abilities. I am a normal person with no real musical gifts except I hear sounds and like certain sounds a little more than other musicians I have worked with. I then go in search of these sounds almost like an obsession. If I had just 10% of Glenn or Jackie's talent then I would be overwhelmed with joy however I settle for just hard work to climb the next step of this very very long ladder. They left us their performances recorded and documented hopefully forever to inspire and leave us with much joy and wonderment forever. If there is an afterlife or heaven then I'm sure Glenn will be playing forever to inspire in heaven I'm sure. I hope one day to be able to sit a masterclass with him and Jackie to learn many things I find so very hard to master in the here and now.

[@KKIcons]

I very much relate to what you are saying about having to climb the ladder the hard way one rung at a time. That is even more difficult when mobility or nerve issues get in the way of progress. Glenn had his own impediments and obstacles to overcome. Did you know that he had a scare at least a few times where he thought he wouldn't be able to play, due to his nerve issue? I am blessed with a similar problem, and my sympathy with how hard that must have been for such a gifted person like himself, helped me make it through. I did have a hard time, and maybe because of that I had some dreams where I got to hear him play. It is frustrating to not be able to play exactly what I heard, though. It is on my mind a lot, and I do try. I also shared the experience in my poems. I wrote about 100, and I am trying to find time to go back and edit them.

[@Geoplanetjane]

It was always obvious that he was a powerful mystic. His deep mysticism shines forth in his music, if possible even more today than when he was alive on this planet. He and all of his abilities and innate kindness are a lasting gift to this world and to the universe itself.

[@AndreasMartinLaute]

A wonderful documentary with a heartbreaking end. Thank you so much for the upload. I’m a luteplayer and have learned so much about the architecture of Bach’s music listening to the recordings of Glenn Gould.

[@LuluBodhi]

The Chickering being moved out at the end is the most heartbreaking thing I’ve seen. 😭

[@eric_bee]

I felt that way when I first saw it, but then I realized it was going to be preserved forever, for all to see, and that made me happy

[@LuluBodhi]

@@eric_bee That is very true. Now I need to go up to Toronto to visit it.

[@KKIcons]

@@LuluBodhi Yes, my lifelong dream has been to play one of his pianos. Only in my dreams lol...

[@defenestrange5387]

It struck me too, seeing the whole crew it took. I used to move such pianos with one other, just the two of us. We might have been moving one on that same day.

[@fmoll2509]

Искренне благодарю Вас, мистер Кросс, за этот уникальный источник информации, посвященный Гленну Гульду. Приятно осознавать, что есть люди, понимающие, принимающие Гленна Гульда во всем его уникальном многообразии, любящие, и всем сердцем преданные его искусству. Пусть таких людей станет больше, и тогда наш мир станет светлее. С уважением! 😍

[@jol666jol]

👍

[@charlesdavis7087]

Simply wonderful. Thanks to all of you who helped in the production of this documentary. Changed my thinking about Glenn and his legacy.

[@kcgreen2537]

Oh. My. Goodness. That ending! Sibelius 5th with the reading of Voyager and his music to live on. Amazing…

[@milanostric353]

Wonderful documentary, thank you mr Cross

[@MarilynCrosbie]

The sound quality in this video is great.

[@ethodius3005]

Very nice documentary. It was interesting to hear the 'Desir' by Alexander Scriabin (Op. 57, No. 1). I remember it from a VHS tape that I purchased at Harmony House Classical years ago. The full performance can be found on that VHS tape: The Glenn Gould Collection Part 16.

[@brucecross1164]

I had that set on the Laser Disc format. It is now available on the DVD set Glenn Gould on Television.

[@TheTheurgist]

Beautiful!

[@aug9301]

Such an incredible thing to watch this creative genius. It is a bit of a shame that we are not made aware of who all the people are, making all the interesting comments along the way.

[@aug9301]

I only just realized that all names were given at the end of the film....thank you.

[@brucecross1164]

Many are identified at 29:35, and I have added a few in the details section.

[@angeliner59]

Very informative and highly enjoyable!

[@chipmonkinpark]

Wow! Thank you for updating this video!

[@charlotterose6724]

Thank you.

[@mercoid]

I’m pausing here at 19:50 to say, I don’t think Glenn took good care of himself in terms of diet and exercise. He was too busy striving to be “out of body”. That’s what made him Glenn Gould I suppose. But it would have been nice to have him around for another 25 or 30 years.

[@bernhardfbuttner5694]

Thank you so much for the answer! - Now I more hardlier (my english is so bad!) can't wait to get an affordable issue of the Bernstein Symphony-Edition again (last one lost ....)! - I always liked the Karajan-Recording on EMI (there are two, one of it is much better), even so i've never liked HvK.

[@macaw2000]

Imagine having a dinner Glenn Gould and Bobby Fischer. That's my time-machine wish.

[@bernhardfbuttner5694]

Finally seen the last part. What a great portrait! - Thank You, Bruce! - Does anyone know whose recording of Sibelius 5, shortly before the end, this is?

[@brucecross1164]

Yes, there was discussion of that here in the comments a while ago and we agreed it was Bernstein's version.

[@brucecross1164]

1961 recording with the New York Philharmonic, that is. Later, after this documentary was made, Bernstein made another version in Vienna.

[@bernhardfbuttner5694]

Thank you so much for the answer! - Now I more hardlier (my english is so bad!) can't wait to get an affordable issue of the Bernstein Symphony-Edition again (last one lost ....)! - I always liked the Karajan-Recording on EMI (there are two, one of it is much better), even so i've never liked HvK. ​@@brucecross1164

[@jol666jol]

Glenn Gould

[@francescaemc2]

grazie

[@prokastinatore]

Does anybody know if Glenn ever mentioned the St. Matthew passion?

[@nickivonderdurrenlache6909]

Dear Mr. Cross, I was just wondering what these people were referring to when talking about Gould as a philosopher. I am delighted to say that I have now read the entire essays collected in the Tim page volumes but if I recall correctly he only makes two passing remarks on Freud and Kierkegaard. (That they are both treated as salon figures in the same way as Schönberg by now) I assumed that had to do with him being humble and not wanting to interfere in "foreign" fields. Am I missing philosophical essays by him or is this just a difference in terminology

[@perspecxi6397]

I've been wanting to watch this documentary in its entirety but most of the segments previously posted on KZbin are blocked in my country. Thanks for uploading, greatly appreciated. I'm wondering if anyone could tell me the name of the orchestral piece right before the credits? Thanks!

[@perspecxi6397]

Ah never mind, I Shazamed it. It's the third movement from Sibelius' Symphony no. 5, conducted by Leonard Bernstein.

[@brucecross1164]

Hi Katherine, that's the end of Sibelius: Symphony #5

[@perspecxi6397]

@@brucecross1164 Thanks, Bruce. I think I've found a new favourite piece :)

[@charlotterose6724]

@@perspecxi6397 Gould's favourite as well.

[@brucecross1164]

Having listened to the Bernstein / New York Philharmonic recording of 1961, I find that it stays in sync with the documentary, while the Karajan recording does not. Also, the woodwinds sound very different. So, I must agree with Katherine and Shazam, that it is Bernstein. Now, that said, it ought to have been the Karajan version, as we have all read of Gould's formative experience hearing Karajan rehearse it in 1957. Gould used the Karajan version for The Idea of North.

[@leopronumen]

what is the composition that sounds at 28:35? (very end)

[@brucecross1164]

Sibelius Symphony #5

[@leopronumen]

@@brucecross1164 Yeah that right but Sorry my mistake, I meant from 29:37 (the piano piece)

[@brucecross1164]

That is Scriabin: Prelude in E, Op.33, No.1. It comes from a television broadcast of 1974. You can listen here, with the score: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2eXlGaEhMhnY7c

[@leopronumen]

@@brucecross1164 Bruce you´re the GOAT!!!

[@KKIcons]

@@leopronumen The GG Goat😎🐐

[@peterrowan9955]

What is the work when they’re referring to Glenn’s death? I can tell it’s based on the B-A-C-H theme but is it an improvisation or what?

[@brucecross1164]

At 20:46, that's Gould's intense performance of Alfredo Casella: Ricercar sul nome BACH, Op.52 No.1 Funebre. After the exposition it skips ahead to the end, and we hear that final chord with all four notes of the motto.

[@brucecross1164]

You can hear it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHa5mJiVdrtqb68

[@johntravena119]

Who is the Russian conductor Monsangeon talks about?

[@brucecross1164]

Gennady Rozhdestvensky

[@johntravena119]

@@brucecross1164 Thanks

[@emilyyyyyym]

does anyone know the piece referenced at 2:10?

[@brucecross1164]

Offhand, I think it is from Shostakovich's 11th Symphony.

[@brucecross1164]

The sequence is from the Stokowski radio documentary, and the recording is probably Stokowski and the Houston Symphony.

[@digitalfootprint741]

Why did the producer of this documentary not elaborate upon the negative effects the unnecessay psychiatric medication had on life? This can not be ruled out as a negative influence artistically and in terns of health as well.

[@Japanology]

Could you please upload part 2 of the video?

[@brucecross1164]

I have tried, but it was blocked on copyright grounds.

[@digitalfootprint741]

There is no mention of how the unnecessary psychiatric medications negatively affected his life.

[@Matthew-se1jo]

Part 2?

[@brucecross1164]

copyright problems.