Glenn Gould - Beethoven, Six Variations for Piano in F major op. 34 (OFFICIAL)

[@harrison_williams]

That bagatelle is heavenly.

[@lolamagnanini6653]

My aecstatic contemplation of the sky and ludwig by glenn.when life can be a prayer

[@josepalomogomez9865]

Una maravilla. Gracias

[@donnaterkildsen7211]

Beethoven himself loves this....bravo!

[@ttrons2]

I love the CBC.

[@madaboutvoice]

Thank you so much, dear poster, for including the #3 op 126 with the op 34. This bagatelle performance used to exist as a separate video on YT until the powers to be got it deleted. It probably won't be long before they get this here video deleted as well :( . I just love how GG slows it down and injects so much of his feeling into it.

[@peterfretwell4070]

Glen Gould remains my favorite pianist. His unique take on this masterpiece literally had tears rolling down my cheeks. What a fantastic combination Glen Gould and Beethoven.

[@PepeSel]

Genio

[@zvezdinki7998]

20:20 прекрасно 👍 20:20

[@cheri238]

🙏❤️🌎🌿🕊🎵🎶🎵

[@restouri]

13:42

[@arrascaetadora7560]

Yo amo la musíca.Desde siempre. Cuento: Amé escuchar a Fabini en disco de pasta y en la escuela. Bueno resulta que a una de mis hijas le regalamos una guitarra y nada, pagamos clases y demás, nada de nada y después a la otra flauta y ete aquí que más de lo mismo y así que en fin a la tercera,nada de nada, gusto sí, profesional nada. Bueno platales. Hace unos años con la primera se discutió el asunto, reclamos y dimes y diretes.Bueno cosas de la vivir, reaulta que lo que expectó en mi propia cara fué más o menos ésto: Yo nunca quise una guitarra yo siempre quise un piano! Me jodés! Padres, madres estad atentos. Qué intrumentos musicales regalais a vuestros bástagos en éstas navidades.

[@berlinskysmith4782]

really dreadful ...

[@cloyini]

He sings through his fingers.

[@hgoldsmtgold4389]

I don’t know of many pianists that ‘feel’ the music as much as Glenn Gould

[@Azure-Scenic-View-Railroad]

So far, I knew about Gold an Bach. But Goulds Beethoven interpretations - never heard this before. For me, Gould brings us the love, that Beethoven must have had in his mind and heart.

[@francescomini2410]

Gould was excellent interpreter not only of Bach, a usually thought. I'm his follower since 1980 (Italian TV1 broadcast by Piero Rattalino), and I was often captured by his Beethoven, Brahms, Hyden, Mozart, Strauss, even comparing him with more reputed interpreters for the same piece. Herein we have a best played Beethoven (as for op 111), but also look at his Scriabin, Berg (superlative op. 1), Grieg, Webern, and obviously his monstrous Schonberg. Nobody but Gould was able to re-interpreter the music while playing. Proving that music is really the more soft, or better, plasmable art.

[@drvonkrankmeister8094]

Thank you for the comment.

[@galeritaelenora]

Yes! Gould's Bach is deep enough to sustain a life-long appreciation but delve into his other works and a musical universe is revealed.

[@normangensler7380]

@@drvonkrankmeister8094 Doctor, can you help at all with my strong aversion for audiences who, having escaped from the sanitorium, insist on coughing bits of their lungs onto the floor of the symphony hall? This is not a vain request; I cannot stand their blind ignorance and wrapper crinkling phony socialite posturing before, during, and after the performance. May they be inflicted with deafness instantly, and relegated to the hallowed halls of the intensely phony "I was there" crowd of half dead wrinkle skinned pale white corpses who think they could have trod the boards without a scrape. But didn't.

[@lolamagnanini6653]

Listening to glenn's interpretation of bach and ludwig is a sort of prayer to me

[@illusionyx907]

For GG music is God, God is music. He totally offered himself to Him in its own manner with dissolving...but for most people it scarcely not acceptable

[@112Allegro]

Excellent and very lyrical interpretation from a legend, Glenn Gould, in his playing of Bach and Beethoven. The bagatelle at the beginning was extremely heartfelt and the Op 34 was also played with deep feeling. This Theme and Six Variations should be more widely known amongst pianists.

[@rosemarysmyth739]

The sounds Glen Gould sends out from the piano are beyond description : I listen to him most days, sometimes smiling, sometimes crying!

[@loveItalia-py6gp]

Yes..he it is...

[@r.i.p.volodya]

Glenn had this unique gift of being able to make slow tempi compelling and intense - the bagatelle is wonderful.

[@lolamagnanini6653]

Intensity,human.lyrism,spiritual.in both Ludwig and Glenn.excellences

[@antoniavignera2339]

Riascolto sempre con molto attenzione ed ammiro la perfezione dell’esecuzione grazie Gould .

[@antoniavignera2339]

Questa è una Bagatellen di Beethoven op.126 il n.3 una meraviglia di esecuzione.Grazie Gould.

[@fmoll2509]

Невероятная одарённость Бетховена дала ему силы преодолеть бедствия и позволила гореть огню в глухом сосуде. Огонь не погас - Гленн Гульд раздул его с новой силой🔥. Будьте благословенны, величайшие из музыкантов!

[@daryljay7057]

Still my favorite musician!

[@renoraider9817]

LIkewise, I'm sure.

[@harrison_williams]

The greatest artist of the 20th century and perhaps greatest pianist to ever live.

[@erandolph84]

Agreed 😆

[@funkymonks8333]

Everything he plays is just so good

[@phoebelinden9602]

Wonderful! Immortal Gould, immortal Beethoven.

[@vernonsmart]

Much is often made about Gould's supposed hate for classical/romantic composers. Well, he is certainly loving Beethoven here!

[@charlotterose6724]

People always focus on some cryptic but quotable remarks he would sometimes make. Some of Gould's special magic occurred because he considered himself the equal of the composer, rather than revering them (in fairness, he considered the listener an equal partner in art as well). So sometimes he would be openly critical of composers or certain pieces, which people find shocking. But overall, he adored Beethoven.... he recorded and played him second only to Bach.

[@elizabethlinsay9193]

His soul is in each note.

[@phoebelinden9602]

Yes, Gould's multi-faceted relationship with Beethoven is impossible to describe in a sound bite. "Glenn Gould Interviews Himself About Beethoven," "Beethoven's Last Three Piano Sonatas," and his careful analysis of Pathetique, "Moonlight" and "Appassionata" convey some of his written wisdom on the Subject of Beethoven. I gotta admit to being very fond of Gould's acknowledgement of Schroeder from Peanuts and making that connection for posterity. 🎼🎶🎶🎶 I would gladly be Gould's Lucy.

[@akakalis8684]

1@@charlotterose6724

[@phoebelinden9602]

@SteppenWolff100 Yes, perhaps Lucy in the cartoon was a pain. I would be a different kind of Lucy. This is an imaginative situation, one that can be created in the mind and doesn't need to follow rules, conventions or actual history. We're talking about cartoon characters, make-believe, hypothetical. In my make-believe imaginative creative world-play, I get to be a kind of Lucy to Gould's Schroeder who is not a pain in the neck but instead is an ardent student who spends hours a day in his presence listening to him play. 🎼🎶🎶🎶🎶

[@pianorama]

There's hope for humanity so long as there's music like this.

[@loveItalia-py6gp]

Thanks

[@zaramayne2444]

pianorama Indeed Yes how true ..Beethoven's music certainly saved me and given me hope in my despairing moments of recent bedridden Fibromyalgia of which still plagues me !! One fine pianist too Glen Gould and a big heartfelt ♥️ thank you to both Composer Beethoven♥️ and Glen Gould ♥️

[@leona7522]

👍❤️

[@lloydfox5752]

Yes

[@michealcurrie8272]

Played, exactly as it should sound... and, or, of course, better....Who knows.

[@douglasdickerson5184]

Astounding music, astounding musician.

[@markdenemark7298]

Try please with Grigory Sokolov. You might change your mind...

[@isrlsnz2050]

Gould rules!!!!! A true legend

[@michaeltheophilus5260]

This Bagatelle is a perfect example how; though all his troubled, thunderous passion, there are deeply moving, calm and spiritual moments in Beethoven like no other

[@ludwigvanbeethoven61]

" though all his troubled, thunderous passion" this is the typical popular misconception of Beethoven. That his compositions were mostly gloomy and dark. Most people are referencing to the to the 5. (dadada daaaaaa, Da Da Da DAAAAAAAAAA!) I listed to nearly everything of him and he's mostly very playful, joyful, gentle und even humorous in his composition style. Take the "ninth" for example. He decided to give his most famous motive a little boost with a sweet march, a MARCH. And, just for completion, even his 5. Symphony has mostly joyful and gentle parts for the part.

[@michaelren9771]

@@ludwigvanbeethoven61 There are quite a bit of Beethoven’s works that are dark. His sonatas 14,17,23, the adagios of 29,31,32, his c minor variations, the II movement of his 7th symphony, etc. The OP’s comment have truth, by saying many of Beethoven’s works are dark does not disqualify or denigrate Beethoven, neither is it a denial that Beethoven wrote some of the most joyous passages in musical history

[@anonymousl5150]

@@michaelren9771 I still do think the "thunderous passion" is mostly a stereotype of Beethoven based on a few works. Most people don't realize that Beethoven has an extremely high major key to minor key ratio at 84% of his total works in major keys, which is one of the highest among popular composers and just below Mozart. Mozart wrote tragic pieces too but doesn't get that stereotype.

[@madaboutvoice]

@@michaelren9771 And many of his string quartets were very dark and extremely serious.

[@sooyunkim1526]

Thank you for uploading this precious performance!!

[@Galantski]

_Anyone who would give a dislike to this video is deafer than Beethoven on his worst day!_

[@leonardovmusic]

Thank you very much for these videos. Keep them coming. 😊

[@colinmaharaj]

Bach and Beethoven sheet music are like golden leaves

[@ЛюдмилаОвчинникова-г6я]

Каждый звук красивый, даже волшебный, магический.

[@Maurizio3007]

Quando, ed è ormai tempo ,l'umanità non esisterà più rimarrà questo immenso stato di grazia tra Beethoven e Gould. Mi auguro che nel paradiso dei credenti si potrà ascoltare questa immensità per l'eternità...e giunga un potente e novello Savonarola che faccia di un solo falò social, tatuaggi, piercing e altre miserie del quotidiano per il tempo che mi resta.

[@michielvaneechoutte3685]

Beautifull

[@marinejaparidze7838]

გულისწასვლამდე მგრძნობიარე ვარ , როდესაც ამ მუსიკოსს ვუსმენ

[@fredericchopin7538]

Delightful, Glenn.

[@Geoplanetjane]

Otherworldly

[@perspecxi6397]

The bagatelle at the beginning is gorgeous!

[@rosemarysmyth739]

Glen Gould does not just play the notes : he is the note's ¿

[@allex9259]

Genius

[@ExxylcrothEagle]

This is Amaze-merizing !!!

[@chenyuzhang7081]

Perfekt

[@kaidwig6132]

Diese Art gefällt mir sehr gut 👍🏼

[@aai3661]

For me Gould is always and will always be Bach.

[@blackcoffee7903]

A peculiar "sneak-peak" into Glenn's eyes when he lifts his chin up at 9:05.....Curious how such an incredibly austere brow shape is the veil for such heartfelt and child-like eyes.

[@aai3661]

I was just saying that very same thing....well, maybe not.

[@marichristian1072]

Ah, those lovely blue eyes!

[@samueldavidrucker7514]

Divine

[@galinaprozorova7903]

Какой звук, просто оркестр.

[@НатальяМарценюк-я9ъ]

Каждая нотка прямо в сердце...

[@JohannaCTjia]

Thank you very much!!!!

[@francescaemc2]

grazie

[@yusukeundisolde]

Love

[@harshdhillon7087]

Nothing is more pure!

[@eppiehemsley6556]

Except for a good single malt.!

[@francescaemc2]

GRAZIE

[@moniasia77]

❤

[@Opoczynski]

The Bagatelle is profoundly religious music.

[@phoebelinden9602]

Atheists love it, too!

[@Melchiorblade7]

Hopefully everyone can enjoy it, it's very life-affirming and profound. But, yeah, this certainly has that grace and bittersweet joy that permeates much of Beethoven's later works. Also a bit of Bach Chorale harmonization going on as well. I cried after hearing Gould's sincere and heartfelt performance.

[@Chopin1995]

If this was broadcast in 1970 can we assume that this was recorded in the same year?

[@rogerioabel]

Puro génio! Salve Gould!

[@bevaconme]

what makes "the glenn gould officlal channel" official?

[@artygunnar]

It might be run by the glenn gould estate?

[@ИгорьИгорь-с3ю]

Title is not corrected. It is not Op.34

[@francescaemc2]

grazie

[@musiconlyplease98]

only Gould can recreate

[@sakarilipasti6230]

But he could not create. Like, say, Beethoven could

[@francescaemc2]

grazie

[@JCTjia]

You have good taste in music.

[@francescaemc2]

@@JCTjia thank you. as do you!

[@deborasalgueiro3735]

Paixão!

[@francescaemc2]

grazie

[@deborasalgueiro3735]

Paixão!

[@francescaemc2]

grazie di nuovo

[@arribachrach2966]

as usual, wonderful playing. a bit surprised about the piano. Gould always insisted on perfectly tuned piano , and this is far from perfect. AB

[@samanthayork3125]

it's impressive you can hear that! in what ways is it out of tune? my ear is not as good. On the other hand, he notoriously played on his piano at home (e.g. his art of fugue I or the sinfonia from the c minor partita, both on youtube) which was 'out of tune', but I enjoy it more than a 'tuned' piano as you hear on some of his audio recordings

[@marijane8665]

Yes, his piano at home was notoriously out of tune yet he still made it sound pretty darn good!

[@marichristian1072]

@@marijane8665 Yes. Gould nonetheless loved his Chickering piano.

[@iksralquyuud]

Probably because he demanded the heat be turned up so high in the studio the steel strings of the piano got stretched from the time it was tuned. Could also be the distortion/stretching of the magnetic video recording tape.

[@normangensler7380]

the unisons sound fairly close, to my untrained ear. More likely, the hammers needed some attention; perhaps a few strings were at the end of their useful lives?

[@_kazz9223]

Este es el men que aparece en los memes

[@ttrons2]

What a showman but I love him.

[@iksralquyuud]

You do realize that as soon as he puts his fingers to the keyboard he immediately goes away to another inner world? As far as his gestures and movements while playing, it is evident he is totally absorbed, immersed in a totally different space becoming totally oblivious to all else. Watch the documentaries about him in the Columbia recording studio.

[@GlynGlynn]

Not as much pedal as in the 32 Variations, but still too much!

[@frankdaykin6268]

I love Gould, but this is NOT a performance of the Six Variations, Op. 34!

[@GlynGlynn]

It is !! IF you go further into the recording!!

[@madaboutvoice]

You know your Beethoven music very well, except for his Bagatells, I presume.

[@davidrosen9966]

Beethoven's tempo marking is Andante, not Adagio for God's sake

[@madaboutvoice]

It's Adagio for Gould's sake.

[@mathersdavid5113]

A great player who could not control his own mannerisms.

[@samanthayork3125]

what purpose would that control serve?

[@mathersdavid5113]

@@samanthayork3125 I think Gould damaged himself with his bizarre humming along, adoption of outlandish tempi in some performances, refusal to understand the greatness of Mozart and disdain for public performance. It all became more about creating a brand than musicianship.

[@johntravena119]

Mathers David Couldn't care less about his bizarre mannerisms. He was totally absorbed in the music. When people concentrate they tend to hold their breathe. Perhaps singing along enabled his exceptional virtuosity - you can't sing & hold your breath, after all. And although I love Mozart, he does have a point in mocking him. Mozart's melodies are sublime but the accompaniment is often ridiculously simple (not necessarily a bad thing but something that Gould was prejudiced against) & often lacks counterpoint which Gould loved. Compared to Bach Mozart sounds like Yani.

[@samanthayork3125]

@@mathersdavid5113 I typed up a reply to this last week but apparently never hit send! anyways my response is---I'm reading a book on Gould called 'Music and Mind' by Geoffrey Panzant and it is wonderful for unpacking some of these 'uncontrolled' mannerisms. One point on the live concert hall, it's certainly not for everyone! Gould abhorred the sort of animalistic spectacle of it, but he never denies (AFAIK) that for some people it *works* for them, as motivation/reward/what-have-you. Secondly, as for his singing, there is the old canard of his singing as a holdover from his mother's instruction to 'sing each note before you play it'... considering he was able to think and speak musically before being able to do so verbally, it is perhaps not surprising. I'm also reminded of Bach's constant instruction to be cantabile in our playing!! Or the assertion of sorts that first is the music which then comes to the mind, then the voice, onto the wrist, the hand, the fingers, THEN the instrument, and only *then* to our ears. Third, I will not deny Gould heavily controlled his external 'image' (that you call 'brand'), but to claim it was at the expense of musicianship is WRONG. It was in service of music, as Gould understood it. I hope I have not misconstrued or misrepresented anyone's views, and in support of my argument here I again refer you to the book on Gould mentioned above--it goes into much more depth on all of the topics you've mentioned, and in a much more comprehensive and better-reasoned way than I have presented them. As for Mozart, I respond with a quote from a friend who, after asking him his thoughts on the Genius of Bach as opposed to the Genius of Mozart, responded "Bach is deep, Mozart is cheerful" Perhaps it was this cheer that Gould could not identify with, as for him it seemed true cheer came from true depth. But I really should stop putting words in his mouth. Thank you for listening to and engaging with me. P.S. when I asked a piano teacher-friend if Gould's posture is what killed him, his grave response was [I cannot recall the exact words, I was so shocked!] something to the effect of 'yes, with very little doubts'. If anything damaged his self it was that. But we all see what we want to see ultimately, and with Glenn I see music, pure and simple. The rest is life.

[@marichristian1072]

@@samanthayork3125 Gould died of a massive stroke. His mother also died of a stroke. I doubt if it had anything to do with posture- although a back injury earlier in his career probably affected his posture.