Glenn Gould - Pt. 3: Piano Sonata B Flat Major, k. 333 (On How Mozart Became A Bad Composer)

[@harrison_williams]

What a treat! Divine simplicity.

[@MrBaroquer]

Glenn Gould is definitely a prematurely lost priceless gem, a great loss for all humanity. However, quite unexpectedly, he lives and will live forever.🙂

[@organman52]

Isn't that odd - I rejoice in the fact that he croaked when he did so he could not continue this OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT on the music of the master composers.

[@HeathenHammer80]

I love how the microphone barely picks it up when he is humming the melody to himself. What a great touch!!

[@irinkunst4285]

Это, как горный ручей, кристально- чистый и звонкий своим журчанием! Какая гармония не только в сонате, но и в единении исполнителя с замысло композитора, вследствие чего сама личность Моцарта как бы реинкарнируется! Гениально ВСЁ!!!

[@ronl7131]

Inimitable GG, always worth a careful listen

[@edmondzeldin7036]

I'm imagining that this is the way Mozart actually played it .

[@ChamMansour]

And so do I believe that Gould’s clarity makes the piano sound much too like a fortepiano, a very majestic instrument indeed! I cannot recall exactly the source of this quotation, but it goes something like “playing a Mozart scale on a fortepiano sounds like a string of pearls.”

[@mbwilson2625]

You are mostly assuredly correct.

[@elenitapianohoy3114]

And he sings Mozart too. So lovely❤

[@noahgray9451]

Thanks KZbin for interrupting this beautiful performance with an ad.

[@H5691j]

No alternate character assumptions, jokes or witty remarks being bandied about here, just a masterful performance demonstrating that the truth/genius of Mozart is in his music.

[@Targeted_1ndividual]

I beg to differ. I think this is Glenn Gould playing Glenn Gould playing pianist. I think the genuine expression is part of the joke.

[@kevin-parratt-artist]

BS ... go away​@@Targeted_1ndividual

[@Cant.Take.It.Anymore]

This is a Glenn Gould prank. In part 2 he talked down Mozart. This is objectively great.

[@berlinzerberus]

Superior Glenn Gould!

[@potsdam521]

Somehow Im getting used to this lively and non plus ultra virtuoso version! Now I hear Schiff version and feel all the over melodramatic touch given to Mozart piano works. Also at the end these pieces were mainly designed for showmanship, and here Gould goes along with that intention with the ultimate literal and fast playing of it.

[@ChamMansour]

You have every right to believe so. Contemporary pianists have put into their minds the creed that classical music, as compared to romantic and impressionist compositions, is designed for the purpose so stated by yourself: of being in its essence a senescent element of music, into which variegation and genuine enjoyment does not belong, and as long as they proceed to play such music in so dry and sluggish a manner, I do not wonder they view music from the classical era as something of a side-dish.

[@Alix777.]

Schiff is the most boring pianist ever

[@almos33]

Estremecedora interpretación 😊... Gracias por compartir.

[@myoldpiano]

GG, u are the #1 in my heart, always ❤

[@TheHKEO]

People are saying it's too fast? I've never heard the original - I don't listen to a lot of Mozart. To me it sounds fantastic. A blaze of beautiful notes. It does genuinely sound like it's going somewhere unlike the pieces Gould highlighted in the first two videos

[@CD318]

GLENN GOULD ROCKS!!

[@trevjr]

I know most of the comments already, 1st and 3rd movements too fast, 2nd movement too slow. Watch his face in the 2nd movement, in the same state of ecstasy as when he is playing Bach. No one who hates Mozart could play it like this. He has completely absorbed the music and he is having the time of his life playing it. I don't listen to a lot of Mozart but he makes it so interesting I could not turn it off. Now I am thinking other performers make Mozart sound boring.

[@jeffreyjeziorski1480]

Light touch, lightning fingering, tempo steady, volume control between left and right hands masterful. What's not to love ? And this piano player is pretty good as well!

[@arjenbij]

The complete lack of phrasing.

[@jeffreyjeziorski1480]

@@arjenbij yeah, Gould always plays Gould, not the composer.

[@fazec0ld802]

@@arjenbij​​⁠you mean the melodramatic, showy, phrasing that Gould specifically omitted from this performance in order to make a musical point?

[@JerryEboy69]

@@fazec0ld802I thought it was a robot when my friend showed me this. Mozart is not a robot

[@westernkentucky5956]

@@JerryEboy69 So, you think from 4:06 on is robotic? Nooo.....

[@cathydery7695]

Ce grand pianiste est juste délicieux ❤il exprime la grandeur de Dieu 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

[@diegoortizpinta6528]

Bach sólo hubo uno...Glen Gould no habrá ninguno más, ni nadie que le iguale. Todo lo que toca tiene su sello magistral, personal, inconfundible. Con todos mis respetos a las demás opiniones, sunque sean diferentes y muy, muy respetables, a mi me encanta.

[@D1360VR]

Grande GG

[@elenitapianohoy3114]

Cierto. Maravilloso e inalcanzable

[@wenzelalmaraz6187]

Old but gould

[@harrison_williams]

😂

[@lalaragimov]

Have you heard Mozart on a fortepiano from his own lifetime? I find Gould's interpretations more similar to that than any other pianist's. Which to me is a good thing. This is much closer to Mozart's own aesthetic than the Mozart specialists such as Uchida.

[@ericastier1646]

I love how he crushes and exposes Mozart's cheesiness while still giving it his full dedication when playing it incredibly well that had me clap loud when he finished. What a great pianist he was. hahahaha, it's like he leaves nothing left for Mozart to defend his commercial style.

[@fazec0ld802]

Right?! Even if he’s trying to deconstruct and remove all of the corny phrasing, it’s still going to be Gould playing, so it’ll still sound evenly voiced and clearly articulated with world-class technique, dynamic, rhythm and a metronomically consistent tempo. What’s left is beautifully played Mozart 😭 GG 1 Mozart 0

[@ericastier1646]

@@fazec0ld802 You said it better than i did. But i don't think its a versus. It's GG analyzing Mozart composition's style.

[@fazec0ld802]

@@ericastier1646 thanks :) Very much agreed though, it wasn’t a competition. This broadcast was genius. It’s a massive troll mixed with legitimately deep analysis mixed with beautiful performing mixed with Glenn Gould trying out character acting- doesn’t get much better than that if you ask me lol

[@ericastier1646]

@@fazec0ld802 I definitively share your perspective and appreciation of GG's mixed media work : artist, pianist, music composition analyst, theater actor, humorist (often overlooked, when he is at his most serious you can feel humor relief is not far), genius in seeing through Mozart. Before watching this i've always had a similar but less elaborated less than grand view of Mozart's music, GG articulated everything not so great about Mozart's music that confirmed me which is not to say Mozart had some genius. I know only a small fraction of the audience understands that his analysis is dead serious even if delivered in an entertaining funny way sometimes. Mozart in my view is a bit overrated and so is Beethoven. I cringe at mozart V-I trills cadences. So predictable and annoying like a bureaucratic mannerism.. When we performing his piano sonatas we have to get in that aesthetic genre such that it makes sense, but at other times when i am a listener it sounds like an anachronistic dogmatic ritual mannerism that makes no sense, and is not classical but sounds like a long gone era style.

[@nadia0660]

🤝❣👍

[@winglow7615]

Lot of people played 333. Nobody played the way Gould does. Genius? Of course.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

Ontario genuis on display #Glenn ...we do that 🧠

[@D1360VR]

my fav 333 prformance i looove GG

[@ericastier1646]

It's nearly impossible to beat that performance. I have no doubt even the best well known pianists are left shocked and moved by this performance even if they will keep it to themself.

[@westernkentucky5956]

@@ericastier1646 I agree, but there is a lot of Gould hate out there now, and I'm not sure why. Even professional pianists often run him down.

[@ericastier1646]

@@westernkentucky5956 It's nothing new. The establishment hates someone that does not suck up to them. Typically genius do not need establishment approval and they hate it. Most genius and truly talented people are hated. Most people are mediocre and can only follow conventions and cannot see the good in original people until its becomes mainstream. The music establishment is dominated by a specific group : Bernstein, horrowitz, bonfman you get the flow. GG is not of that mold and they demand to suck up to them, he gave them the finger (figuratively speaking). You still get many of them to derate him. Although recently you see some trying to say he was a misunderstood genius and of course hide how they cursed him for decades.

[@valeriatkacheva6950]

Шедевр произведение и исполнение, браво.

[@littlejacob25]

Glenn, we have only 16 minutes to do this! Glenn: hold my chair!

[@Teabonesteak]

Ca c'est bon

[@johnweligon9086]

It sounds actually beautiful when it is played in 0.75x.

[@temperedwell6295]

Let's just say it sounds better at 0.75x and leave it at that. It does show that Gould's technique was pretty damn good though.

[@schumanndebussyravel1272]

Wow you are genius

[@paulzeng4142]

Glenn Gould sounds like shit, except for the Goldberg Variation and Toccatas, but it is easily done by another pianist named Sviatoslav Richter.

[@temperedwell6295]

@@paulzeng4142 Imo, Gould way overrated as a Bach plsyer too. Lipatti way better. Arau, Perahia, and others play the Goldberg variations much better. Bach is supposed to sing too.

[@4mebach]

His Mozart is exquisite - and I don’t like Mozart - and his Mozart is the only Mozart I will listen to 😂

[@mami8167]

🌸大好きグルド🌸

[@stringvideos126]

How many different dynamics or colors can one achieve on a harpsichord? Almost none. That was Mozart’s instrument.

[@scarbo2229]

A good harpsichordist plays with a wide range of dynamics, characters, articulations, nuances of timings, sonorities, etc.

[@edmondzeldin7036]

I believe the fortpiano was his instrument

[@maxbuc1]

In fsct I much prefer the other, slower, superb interpretation of GG for this sonata

[@arcadiyratner3284]

Неповторимый и единственный!

[@Pianistwithninefingers]

One can say that this tempo, chosen intentionally by Gould, is too fast. That may be true. But very few can choose this tempo, while retaining non-legato sequence of sounds and simultaneously sounding legit. It's interesting that he still "sings" at this tempo.

[@HilaryLuo-v7q]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@cathydery7695]

Il s'amuse avec le clavier du piano tant il le maîtrise 😍 il joue tant il est capable de parler avec Dieu ! Pour moi l âme de cet artiste a atteint les sommets de la magnificence ❤❤❤❤❤

[@nataliafomina5846]

Великий!❤

[@이스트진-k2j]

손가락 하나까지 알맹이 꽉차네요 빈틈이 없고.. 이렇게 이쁜 곡인줄 처음 알았음

[@youtube-leehangyeol]

크 취합니다

[@martinbennett2228]

The speed masks technical and interpretive inadequacies. It is better to hear from a master musician who appreciates Mozart and understands that in Mozart each note counts. It is good to have this on KZbin where the speed can be adjusted to a more acceptable 75%, but this only reveals that it is a particularly well phrased performance

[@scarbo2229]

Not good, but no musician has an equally strong understanding and connection with all composers and styles.

[@ЛюдмилаКорнеева-ш9ж]

Гленн Гульд блестяще сыграл данную сонату Моцарта при своей нелюбви в композитору.Он говорил,что ему было бы легче воспринимать Моцарта,если бы он был Гайдном или одним из сыновей Баха.

[@lukatarielashvili8771]

That's not true, kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2m0inWkeal6nZo he says he loves this sonata

[@jmcastromattos]

❤Magic Gould!❤️

[@guyleger5116]

L'art de parodier et massacrer Mozart avec génie. On sait qu'il considérait Mozart comme un compositeur presque médiocre. Après ce mitraillage martelé de la sonate K333 il faut la réécouter par Mitsuko Uchida par exemple.

[@pianodionisíaco]

U may like it or not, however u may rest assured that you cannot play barely like him.

[@armandogabba8966]

No doubt he's great but the tempo is too fast .. It become a mess

[@sofiakhalkhodjaeva6521]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

[@TheSunlight74]

So how come I prefer this to every single Haydn sonata? To dismiss that opening melody as generic or 'commercial' is just facile

[@allenwiedl5419]

What a show bizz ham he is. He's showing off.

[@MapleSyrupPoet]

"Mr. Presidentttt" ...Yes ...you can call 📞 me Vince "Alright ...Vince" Yes ..."Mr. Presidenttt" It's Vince ..."Alright, Vince" Yesss "Vince ...you appear to be rather hawkish on matters ...is this a fair characterization?" No ...not really ...a hawk is hawkish ...I'm just Vince "Okay ...would you characterize yourself as being a bit dovish on matters?" No ...Doves 🕊are dovish ...what school did you go to? "A good one" Okay ...any other questions? "Yahhh, Mr. President ...I mean Vince ...would you consider charaterizing yourself as a penguin?" 🐧 Now your getting somewhere 😅

[@alessandroperucca6011]

Troppo Gould e poco Mozart

[@潤也藤原]

こんなにも生き生きと両手で演奏する事ができる人間がいる事に驚くしかない。モーツァルトの録音の時はグールドも体調が技術的に良く良い演奏が出来たらしいので、奇妙な演奏という先入観は捨ててもっと聞かれるべきだと思う。グールド氏によればつまらないモーツァルトの作品はさっさと速く弾くという考えらしいが、つまらない作品でも速く、生き生きと弾く事によって楽しめる演奏になるという事も言える。逆に深みのあるゲルマン的音楽は遅く弾きたくなるらしいが、遅すぎるように思われる時もあると思う。

[@EduardCarnarvon]

Bad. Mozart would have either washed his head or pulled the chair out from under him. What an unfathomable disrespect towards Mozart! His music is not meant for soulless automatons; it requires something that even the best pianists often lack: genuine feeling. So bad.

[@JuanRamónSilva-Piano]

Bad performance in all honesty. Not that he is playing wrong, but this sounds like an etude. However, he has a performance were he plays this same sonata beautifully. I think he is just trying to show off here.

[@davidsteinberg7098]

Too fast.

[@Juli1dup]

So.....gould is very bad in Mozart because he does not like him ! Mozart needs respect as bach.

[@jpraise6771]

His Majesty Jesus Christ has sent me on a mission with a message to tell the masses! Fear not, my brothers, your hunger shall be no more. He who dispenses the bread of life shall be your sustenance !

[@claudettesantarelli67]

Cette caricature est indigne de lui. Retour de bâton : on dit que quand Glenn Gould joue Bach, il joue Glenn Gould. !

[@NN-rn1oz]

As a Mozart lover, I'll say Glenn Gould died too late.

[@justinpino8115]

As a Bach lover I’d say way too early

[@ごんゆき]

グールド はモーツァルトが死ぬのが遅すぎたと言っていたので、その反撃ですね！ しかし2人とも天才でした。

[@temperedwell6295]

Mozart died too early. Story has it that Gould murdered him.

[@Alix777.]

Gould should never have touched a Mozart piece

[@temperedwell6295]

Mozart died too early. Rumor is that Gould murdered him.

[@79Tomasso]

As Seymour Bernstein said, we're listening to Glenn Gould rather than Mozart. He's playing it as though it were Bach and he's on twice the legal limit of Adderall.

[@stringvideos126]

Who’s Seymour Bernstein? Never heard of him…

[@andrewgrandjean1641]

Good old Seymout

[@potsdam521]

Yes its sounds rather like the fastest dance piece from a Baroque suite

[@ravingircey]

We would discuss/criticize Seymour Bernstein if anyone cared or even knew who he was....

[@79Tomasso]

@@ravingircey I was discussing Gould, but okay.

[@bryanbinnema1902]

Glenn Gould DESTROYS Mozart using no DYNAMICS or COLOR

[@79Tomasso]

Zero phrasing

[@christopherstubbs9333]

"destroys" is not a is not a suitable adjective for such a beautiful interpretation by a this great genius ❤ I just love Glenn Gould's playing ❤

[@pianodionisíaco]

Gonna cry about it?

[@79Tomasso]

@@pianodionisíaco Gonna say anything useful?

[@pianodionisíaco]

@@79Tomasso why should I? The kind o of people that make those comments seems week to me. So I think u should enjoy. If u dont' like it it's ok but dont' be weak and cry. Or maybe upload a KZbin video showing us the mastery of piano playing.

[@tuttifrutti2229]

Gould played everything the same way like everything is baroque counterpoint Bach with his neuroticism

[@jmcastromattos]

❤ GLENN GO(ul)D!❤️

[@pianoronald]

Horrible and unmusical.

[@lonesomealeks4206]

Mozart always was a bad composer. Child prodigy, yes, and.. that's about it. Mozarts fame always seemed artificial to me, unearned. Like Kardashians or Justin Bieber, famous names for no reason at all.

[@davidshengelia4798]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/epPOgK2cgqZ4ebs

[@kangoos2000]

LOLOLOLOL😀😀😀😀

[@lonesomealeks4206]

@@kangoos2000 exactly

[@TitoVicVGC]

Jajaja, that was very good. Who are you to say that heavy affirmation? Please

[@lonesomealeks4206]

@@TitoVicVGC I am someone who listens to classical music a lot. I've listened to Mozart's complete works and I can tell you that around 95% of it is shamefully bad. I can't say the same for any other composer except Mozart.