Glenn Gould - Music In The USSR, Shostakovich: Introduction (OFFICIAL)

[@MarquisMorillot]

Times when media was proud to entertain through art with intellectual complexities. And no exaggeration saying that Glenn Gould was first class on that purpose, and with stupefying quality. A virtuoso in many aspects, not only by piano playing. Priceless to be invited to see and listen to those programs in our days, thanks to KZbin and channel owners like the present one; you both deserve the best I can imagine, honestly.

[@r.i.p.volodya]

Wonderful video, articulate and informative. ALL televised classical music today (in the UK) involves presenters who wouldn't know one end of a fugue from the other talking DOWN to the audience. Bravo Glenn and Bravo Canadian television.

[@mcengizaydin]

It’s like a gravity to listen to Gould, one can’t help being attracted to his world of sophisticated beauty, I keep coming again and time to all footages about him I find in youtube. Great service to upload them.

[@robinblankenship9234]

Mr. Gould is a fabulous verbalist. Word on the street is that he also can play piano..

[@Felix_Li_En]

Can't believe it was in 1960s... Just like a TV show nowadays. And Gould, well... charming, confident, elegant and knowledgeable as usual ! 😄

[@fmoll2509]

Мы очень гордимся, что гениальный Гленн Гульд стремился в нашу страну и был рад побывать в СССР, на моей Родине. Это большая честь, и это родство душ 🥰. Алелуйя!

[@crhu319]

Nothing is forgotten. #EndUSA so Russia and Canada can be friends.

[@fmoll2509]

@@crhu319 that's true ❤️

[@janet2349]

His hands were very beautiful and expressive, also distracting, almost as if they had a life of their own... He was an extremely eloquent and intelligent man, with an extraordinary talent. What a great video.

[@elenadimitrova9180]

I love his talking.. absolute master

[@yermomLeslie]

It is so unfortunate that Gould never recorded op 87. It would be so great to hear the parallel between the last contrapunctus from the Art of Fugue and Fugue XXIV from op 87 by Shostakovich!

[@sephyradance4648]

What a very fascinating video on a fascinating subject, the complexity and greatness of Russia's nostalgic artistic history! There's no denying Russian music is like no other. Glenn Gould was a genius at verbally presenting as much as in playing these pieces. Admirable!

[@roel.vinckens]

Little shout-out to the director and the cameraman. This has some Fellini/Barotti quality to it. These documents were clearly crafted for generations to come.

[@pascalebertier1653]

So brilliant. Flabbergasting.

[@mrnarason]

Cool to see glen gould's finally got an official channel

[@not2tees]

I don't know how official it is, but I too applaud its appearance.

[@infocard1126]

Большое спасибо!!!!

[@gustavofortunato4779]

Just a genius!!!

[@pazgabriel]

It is ONE freaking take. one

[@PANDORASBOXRELEASE]

I like how Glenn cannot sit still in his chair.

[@mason11198]

I saw this one live with this recording used as a prelude. It would have been perfect if no one clapped after II!!!!!

[@nicholasfox966]

In discovering all of these clips of Gould speaking on music, I'm starting to wonder if in fact he was not only a rival but the SUPERIOR of Leonard Bernstein in the erudite explaining of music to the layman.

[@arnoldhemsley9317]

Absolutely right Foxy. I find him more engaging than Bernie.

[@charlotterose6724]

I would say not necessarily better....different. Lenny could really break it down for the layman. Gould seems to benefit from repeated listenings: he didn't talk down to his audience. Both were incredibly engaging. Love them.

[@phwbooth]

@@charlotterose6724 Fair assessment.

[@crhu319]

He was. THE best.

[@ChrisWrightOM1]

This is outstanding, and it's tempting to say that television like this isn't made any more - but that's not entirely true, and I think, for example, of Howard Goodall.

[@davidmdyer838]

Not generally much of a GG fan, but that was one of his best talks. In both his speaking and playing I find that the younger Gould is, the better I like him, when he was fresh, before he became so heavy and ponderous and outright bizarre at times.

[@arnoldhemsley9317]

You can tell this is an early video, the chair seat is still intact.

[@memorosales1952]

he was smart

[@mishasawangwan6652]

ah yes peter the great.. the real boss and star of this video

[@КлиоКлио-н7к]

С любовью из России !

[@lestableauxquiparlent]

I suspect such a video would be impossible to realize nowadays. Unfortunately !

[@vicetrip]

which Tchaikovsky piece does he play a snippet from starting at about 5:30

[@Twentythousandlps]

Gould had a phenomenal memory and apparently performed his scripts out of his head. This is manifest in his lack of focus on any aid, turning and weaving at random. By contrast, Bernstein had an excellent but not abnormal memory, reliant on scripts and teleprompters.

[@philipstevenson5166]

gould find trying to find other outlets for his amazing musical technique and thought; always interesting, even if he never really found it

[@urlaub4484]

Anyone know the name of the Tchaikovsky piece at 5:18 ?

[@allien7987]

It's the beginning of the Romeo & Juliet Fantasy Overture.

[@twolegsnotail]

Greetings All, This is ridiculous...the introduction without the ensuing performance! "OFFICIAL" my eye. The youtube uploader of these "OFFICIAL" excerpts doesn't even advise you where you can procure the entire tv performances - never, not once in any of the uploads. Well I'm here to tell you where you can procure them all: the 10 dvd box set "Glenn Gould on Television, The Complete CBC Broadcasts 1954-1977". I bought mine years ago at my local FNAC store for about $60.-- if I remember correctly. That's well under $10.-- per dvd and includes a brilliant booklet/catalogue. Sadly, there are some tv performances missing such as "How Mozart Became A Bad Composer" because CBC hasn't the rights to republish US tv material but Gould did nearly all of his tv production for CBC so the box set is immense for Gould lovers. I heartily recommend it to everyone. Gould's US tv debut with L. Bernstein has been up on youtube for 2 years now - I mean the entire program of some 53 minutes, not the short clip. Go and watch it, you'll also see Eileen Farrell and Stravinsky performing live on that brilliant broadcast. Cheers.

[@s.l5787]

I hope there is caption

[@migl9000]

Could someone please identify the piece played at 5:53?

[@galinaprozhevskaya1894]

🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀🥀

[@TheCurryCave]

song @ 4 minutes?

[@Radio868]

TheCurryCave kzbin.info/www/bejne/hKrbamyPmK2Xf7M

[@ftumschk]

The overture to "Ruslan and Lyudmila", an opera by Glinka

[@vinteui1]

One can't help being reminded of Bruno Labate's retort to Otto Klemperer: "Klemp, you talka too much." Glenn Gould should have kept his mouth shut and played. He might have turned in an interesting rendition of Shostakovich's Op. 87.

[@echorrhea]

vinteui1 Of course, Labate is only remembered today because of his remark to Otto Klemperer. Which goes to show how much people like him or you ultimately matter.

[@joeenglert]

him and bernstein were great at talking music...would have loved to see those two debate on music