Vladimir Ashkenazy - Glenn Gould

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[@ChrisWrightOM1]

"Intelligent, warm friendly": like you, Maestro Ashkenazy.

[@trs4437]

Love Ashkenazy. That he loved Gould makes me appreciate him even more.

[@ttrons2]

A very gracious and humble man.

[@canman5060]

Mr Ashkenazy was very shy in his early years.He is becoming lot more active and talkative in his old age.Good for him.

[@Kralperri]

It's great to hear another master talk about Gould in such a way. This video gave joy!

[@shabaazranney1418]

This is my favorite pianist and musician personality talking about another favorite musician and personality. I love that they were friends. What I would give to be at that lunch......

[@JohnSmith-oe5kx]

I am so happy that Mr. Ashkenazy had such a relationship with Mr. Gould! Two phenomenal musicians, and among my very favourites.

[@tarakb7606]

What a lovely clip. Many thanks. What a generous spirit Mr. Ashkenazy is.

[@chislehurstbat]

This is a lovely video, which endears both men to the viewer, Mr Gould and Mr Ashkenazy.

[@ivyho3115]

Thank you for being around, Mr. Gould! Thank you for sharing this with us, Mr. Ashkenazy.

[@dariodangelo8938]

No doubt about: Ashkenazy is the greatest living pianist and one of the greatest ever. Humility and Genius in one man.

[@Mau365PP]

I didnt know they knew each other, thats so cool

[@BOCELLIRITTER]

Thank you for a video with Maestro Ashkenazy! Another piano genius! BIG BRAVO and THANK-YOU to KZbin for amazing opportunity to enjoy videos available to us!

[@Someonece]

I could listen to Ashkenazy go on about the world of music in the 20th century forever. He knows and has experienced so much! Such an extraordinary person.

[@truthlivingetc88]

there was an interview with Vladimir on BBC radio three about two years ago which changed my perception about quality in the execution of an art form.

[@anonymousl5150]

@@truthlivingetc88 what he say?

[@francoriva55]

Mr ashkenazy .. you are fantaatic musician and lovely man .... hippy for your wordwide success!! From bellagio italy como lake .. !!

[@pelodelperro]

“Just like you and me.”

[@JordiFranchParella]

Quality both in a human sense and as musicians.

[@user-cg1ih5ys6r]

Спасибо за интересную информацию

[@johncitizen9540]

This made me smile.

[@voraciousreader3341]

I’m sure I read somewhere or heard Ashkenazy talk about Gould’s Moscow performances, and one of the reasons why the first recital wasn’t well attended was bc Gould had Bach on his program. Ashkenazy said that the Russian musical intelligentsia was very negative about Bach at that time and called him, “the mathematician,” or something along those lines, so people didn’t know much about Gould and they didn’t want to hear Bach. So they stayed away. Well, at the intermission, Ashkenazy said people were running to the phones to call people and tell them to get there ASAP, bc Gould’s Bach didn’t sound at all “mathematical”! And then, of course, the second recital was SRO, as he says here. That’s been one of my favorite anecdotes for years!

[@bornagain20060522]

love him ... love them.

[@opticalmixing23]

two grt artists, what could be better

[@EmdrGreg]

The only thing that could be better is if they had done some two-piano music together. It would have been a fascinating collaboration, and I bet it would not have been without disagreement!

[@PointyTailofSatan]

He doesn't really indicate the incredible effect Gould's first concert had on the audience. Most of that audience were music students and instructors from Moscow University and music schools, who didn't know Gould, and were more curious about the Art of Fugue, which was rarely played in Russia, due to atheist Communist government disliking the music of "church" composers. Gould's playing electrified the audience, to the extent that during the intermission, every phone in the hall was being used to summon other musicians, with statements like "Drop everything! Come to the hall immediately!", and "A miracle is happening!". The Moscow musical community was still buzzing for weeks after Gould returned home.

[@thereyougoagain1280]

In addition, he completely upset the established order, as the government had all sorts of rules dictating which editions and interpretations of which pieces could be used, in an effort to standardize everything. Gould’s performances of Bach proved that such standardization, at least when it came to Bach, was extremely limiting, because Bach himself obviously wrote very little in the way of guidance for interpretation, and Gould’s radical interpretations emphasized that point. Afterwards, Soviet conservatories all switched to urtexts and encouraged more creative interpretation. This is according to my piano teacher, who is Russian and who lived in Moscow at the time.

[@MultiCappie]

Gould was the first Western musician to play in Moscow. I wonder if he and Ashkenazy meeting was a seed that thawed the Cold War itself? The experience of humanity on two sides of a divide.

[@danielclarkebouchardofficial]

You sure it wasn't Van Cliburn?

[@user-hv6cm3zx7i]

Спасибо! С любовью из России!

[@ChrisWatch]

Very good to hear. In a time where everything was marshal law in terms of political expression.

[@chrish12345]

are we in different times today?

[@henrique1944]

Unfortunatelly I shall not be able to have dis Cd Box.,! Ashkenazy is the number 1 of the greatest pianists. I have a lot of discs from him and my favourite is Chopin 24 Etudes. I like his interpretation of tableaux, preludes and concerts of Rachmaninov.

[@classicaloracle]

It would have been great to be the third person at that lunch! The other moment would have been Perahia working with Horowitz. I'd like to have seen that.

[@jameskarkas7629]

i heard Ashkenazy say that Sviatoslav Richter told him that he could perform Bach as well as Gould, but it would mean he'd have to practice too hard.

[@punkpoetry]

It was Rostropovich who related that anecdote

[@Pogouldangeliwitz]

It's actually in Richter's diary, published by Bruno Monsaingeon.

[@PointyTailofSatan]

I wonder if there were any musicians in Gould's time that he disliked?

[@G.T828]

Read what he said about Horowitz

[@drvonkrankmeister8094]

He was kind to everyone.

[@aliceveverelly]

Hello

[@G.T828]

Hi abby

[@Pogouldangeliwitz]

Heyyy, Abby!

[@javascriptkiddie2718]

Never realized how much Ashkenazy looks like Ron Paul

[@Jalcolm1]

Gould loved to teach. And he challenged people to get lost in music. Why did he sing when he recorded music... he probably had a lousy reincarnation, where that was just a glitch.