Mozart is the greatest composer of them all. I personally am not a fan of the later sonatas as well, but the C minor concerto is pure gem. Razor, you are hysterical, for sure. Select 'English', not 'English (auto-generated)'.December 3, 1968 Glenn Gould plays Mozart Sonatas on CBC Tuesda. Tonight, PBL is proud to present a lighthearted musical essay by Glenn Gould, which he entitles How Mozart Became a Bad Composer. Glenn Gould plays Mozart: The Piano Sonatas. When I call Gould and Richter overrated, I mean overrated amongst the greatest. I get the sense that he doesnt seriously believe Mozart is a BAD composer but he does believe that will make for a more compelling program than the Bernstein ploy of cleverly revealing to us how genius a composer is. On and on we go. FREE Shipping within Japan. What matters is the work, and how others who play it relate to it and express it when they play it, if they can (unfortunately a rather rare occurrence), and if they can then communicate it to others (even more rare). I completely disagree . In 1968, Gould presented a segment of the weekly public television series Public Broadcast Library. 0 Items. Get the best cultural and educational resources delivered to your inbox. Tchaikovsky is another who uses sequences and repetitions to the breaking point (Fourth Symphony last movement). But these techniques allow us to hear how a composer develops an idea, in this case one idea. If Mozart had written only Ave Verum Corpus composed six months before his death, he would, in my eyes, still be a genius. Gould was probably amongst the 100 most interesting pianists of the last century, but certainly not among the 10 best. I dont disagree that the film was a humorous satire. Gould always enjoyed staking out an extreme position, setting forth the best-possible defense of his views (so you have to hear him out, and not react to just a summary or a provocative title), and then throwing that bomb in the middle of a crowded room and await results, sometimes with words and sometimes with performances (his Emperor Concerto with Stokowski). Aversion to Mozart is usually caused by envy. He is perfect like a feline or Kate Beckinsale who has trouble finding work because many people, especially women, are scared that such beauty can exist. To be is to do Kierkegaard Artists grow and change, and I feel that each piece is a piece unto itself. Gould having a tin ear about them proves nothing beyond him having a tin ear. Whether hes being sincere or just pulling our leg a bit, its still valid analysis and an entertaining devils advocate point of view. Your suggestion that such a public treasure should be held for so long in private hands, and may revert to such, disturbs me. So there is truth in Goulds analysis. 10: Recordings of 1958 & 1970) ; Fantasias K. 397 & K. 475; Fantasia & Fugue K. 394; Piano Concerto No. Mozart never lived to see later years. Is it meaningless to compare blue with red or ocra periods of Picasso? He was one of the most famous and celebrated pianists of the 20th century, and was renowned as an interpreter of the keyboard works of Johann Sebastian Bach.Gould's playing was distinguished by remarkable technical proficiency and a capacity to articulate the contrapuntal . Rubbish. He championed the works of less-than-popular composers like Paul Hindemith and Jean Sibelius. Solomon Cutner - Solomon Plays Brahms & Mozart [New CD] AU $22.61. The encore was the Goldberg Variationsthe whole thing. I would have advised him to just play what he is inspired by and leave the other stuff to others. Sad really. Glenn Gould Plays His Own Transcriptions of Wagner Orchestral . The reasons are personal, and probably not knowable. @Enno I dont know why you have to Rank Pianists. Just the other day one homeless illiterate gentleman said the same thing after this particular combination. Try Bruckner for endless sequences and repetitions. Tutte le sonate di Wolfgango eseguite dal mitico Glenn!!!! His systematic destruction of all music he played is regrettable, (only Bach can survive this treatment), but his observations, writings and non-musical(! Still, we get to hear one example, recorded one time, at a point frozen in time, like a photograph. , CDPCDACDSD5.6LPSACD. Really cant compare the two. Verified Purchase. That might not be the only illegitimate one, also. Admire it or do something else with your time, but do not denigrate genius from the perspective of your smallness. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts And I was going to go to the park and be amongst the trees, before I was reading in A Course in Miracles and then decided to respond with a bit more resonance. Imagine if we came upon them not knowing who wrote them, what would we be saying? Delightful! Well never know what Richter really thought about the situation, he was a secretive man who preferred to keep his mouth shut. But just listen to what Gould has to say and you will in fact learn something. Well, then you have to realise for your own sake, as I did, that anythingrhetorical or sarcastic is convoluted at best! But despite all of this criticism, he still saw fit to record the entire concerto with Walter Susskind and the CBC Symphony Orchestra! Any instrumentalist who needs to diss Mozart to get attention is beyond desperate. Thats why they tried to show themselves in the media with these words . Bravo Gould! It was cute, fun even to hear him act like a pompous ass, but truly a meaningless excercize. Please find all options here. Ive always, in 30 years, from the first time I heard him to today, thought he plays like a piano roll. I tuned out at this point, because their are MANY performers who understand the idea of cantabile. . Just goes to show you. Because they couldnt do anything else . He never said WAS a bad composer. To commemorate what would have been Gould's 75th birthday, the Canadian Museum of Civilization held an exhibition titled Glenn Gould: The Sounds of Genius in 2007. G. some of the tempos are unusual A tad restrained! My point was being a great pianist doesnt make him even a decent critic. Dont believe me? Membership benefits will include a daily digest of stories delivered to your email, and occasional exclusive offers from our partners. Gould, a sufferer from extreme stage . Please click below to consent to the use of this technology while browsing our site. Wow. My beef with Richter is that he didnt play transcriptions, let alone made any. I gave up! He just wanted attention and adulation, not unlike Gould. Just saying. So much fun! I feel pretty safe in trusting they knew good music when they heard it. When does ever that happen on television today? Thats alright, I enjoy being one too. Are you serious? Oh, what Id give to have been able to see that! You need to listen to him again, keeping this in mind. And further more, having gone over the deep end: Glenn Gould Mozart: Piano Sonatas Vol. A very witty spoof with some troof! There are a variety of reasons why each pianist chooses the repertoire they do, and why theyre better at expressing one composers work than another. Gould knows he doesnt have to be right, he just needs to be interesting. One never gets tired of the sublime music of mature Mozart and also J.S. Hover to zoom. Just the opposite. 2) Most artists, even great ones, have times when theyre prolific and incredibly creative, and times when theyre less so. All rights reserved. 1) Everyone is entitled to their opinion, and even educated opinions from as great a pianist/mind as Glenn Gould can be contested. Producent: Sony Music Entertainment. Mozart is one of the most absurdly overrated/blindly worshipped of composers so i have some sympathy for GGs viewpoint, altho certain other late Mozart is among his greatest. Do me! Stormy Daniels. After logging in you can close it and return to this page. Reminds me, for some reason, of the old joke graffiti: God is dead Nietzsche Glenn Gould plays Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concerto No. All I could think of was to ask what the f..k were you thinking when you played this, and then permitted it to be released to the public? Really? glenn gould a recording first ! I am sure he would have loved to have heard Mozarts response to this diatribe. I can easily program my Midi to read Bach and Beethoven exactly as Gould plays them. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. And she never wrote a song. Early Beethoven was very influenced by Mozart, certainly. Listen to your favorite songs from Glenn Gould plays Mozart: The Piano Sonatas (No. Listen to Treffpunkt Klassik podcast on Podcasts-Online.org. They are constructed that way for a reason. Enough money in it, given how much they make from selling those over-rated violins crazy people prefer just for the image, despite all the money (hint hint, it [the money] would go to a better purpose). I was told that was at a party in Wolfgangs favor at an admirers house, and although he really didnt do that much drinking, he got smashed, and wanted to be by himself, and fell hitting his head against a bench in the garden of the house where the party was. And hey, we dont know what theyve discarded either. 24 K. 491 by Glenn Gould Now. Is this a joke? Whether you're a musician, a newbie, a composer or a listener, welcome. Here is Glenn Gould playing famous sonata K 331 by Mozart.I decided to post it after watching the video ''Gould plays Mozart'' on youtube where Gould talks a. Sony. I remember gratefully an RCA 78 by Wilfred Pelletier et les Desciples de Massenet and a good soprano , if memory serves and my poor French doesnt. so many, each Great in his/her way. Andante cantabile, Piano Sonata No. Many who saw Richter in concert said he was the best theyd ever seen. Mozarts last works are absolutely fantastic. Goulds first Goldberg Variation Recording was the greatest, or one of the greatest. Personally, I dont care for the way Gould plays Mozart (though Im a big fan of his with most composers) but his analysis of K491 is devastating and perceptive. Not many copies of the document have circulated. Well, they do say in the introduction that its light-hearted. There is so much wisdom and knowledge of life that he slips into the parentheses and throwaway lines. Not Scammers at all. Olivier, more flamboyant than Gielgud, but really, equally wonderful. glenn gould plays beethoven's 5th symphony transcribed for piano by franz liszt COLUMBIA - MS 7095 - USA - 1960's Personally, I don't care for the way Gould plays Mozart (though I'm a big fan of his with most composers) but his analysis of K491 is devastating and perceptive. There is only a limited number of note combinations that can create heaven on earth. Not all of Goulds admirers were as tolerant of Goulds unorthodox views. Or what success is. Dearest Occamsrazor, you forget for example Benedetti Michelangeli, Lipatti, Solomon among others. Of course, I think this is happening naturally ! Grande prodotto della SONY!!!!!!!!!!! EAN: 194399178928. - CD KSVG. In The Truth About a Legend, his tribute essay to Gould after the pianists death, Bernstein wrote, Any discovery of Glenns was welcomed by me because I worshipped the way he played: I admired his intellectual approach, his guts approach., Are these contradictions? Picture Information. . We are doing our best to ensure that Slipped Disc is free to all readers. As Lewis Thomas noted in The Medusa and the Snail many years ago, this is a discovery of the kind that makes one want to take a small plane up and paint exclamation marks all over the sky. His clarinet concerto K622, one of his last works, is a real masterpiece. So, is the issue really Mozart, or merely that one composition and a few others like it? Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. He wrote an entire essay about how she was in fact better than the Beatles. As much love and respect I have for him as a pianist. Veramente imperdibile. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Often, with greatness, comes ego, and the inability to understand that youre not great at everything. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic. Bach a series of sequences and rhythmic repetitions? 10 in C Major, K.330; Fantasia and Fugue in C Major, K.394 How about a little historical context? In that department, (and I shall be flayed for this, I know!) Glenn Gould Plays His Own Transcriptions of Wagner Orchestral Showpieces. But denigrating one composer because you prefer another is not of much value. Hey Nijinski, appreciate your dancing. Gould says: I think Mozart, especially in his later years, was not a very good composer. Amazingly creative, wonderful post. I completely agree that a lot of Mozart is overrated. Gould (smiling): Well, I had to let people know that I can play this stuff properly. 24 - Glenn Gould on AllMusic - 2012 Buy Glenn Gould Plays Mozart: The (CD) by Glenn Gould (CD $24.98). Sorry Mr. Gould but you should stick to Bach. Any chance you could write a screenplay of this? No wonder he isolated himself from most of humanity later in his life. Art doesnt need charlatans . Fabulous just because it is a fine musician speaking to us about music. $14.48. I actually enjoy some of his Mozart presentations, too. All great, all human (though sometimes it seems hard to believe), all who wrote some inspired work. He also wrote his 4th horn concerto in 1786. It was obviously a concerto he preferred. I have 230 gigabytes of music files on my computer and zero with Glenn Gould seems right. 10: Recordings Of. (Great artists whose popularity is increasing every day !) Select your subscription length below and head to the checkout: Please log in again. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx-N9I1eZyM, Glenn Gould demonstrating his love for Mozart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkNLU534Vig. Series: Glenn Gould Anniversary Edition. Mozart does indeed pad this concerto movement through the use of sequences and repetitions. It is marvelous, as well as his commercial recording with Susskind. The dropped repeats definitely were. It also analyzed reviews to verify trustworthiness. Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon.com. Gould's own writings are collected in A Glenn Gould Reader, edited by Tim Page (Vintage Books, 1990).Otto Friedrich's Glenn Gould - A Life and Variations (Random House, 1989) is a fine biography with logs of concerts and broadcasts and a thorough discography, while Dr. Peter Ostwald's Glenn Gould - The Ecstasy and Tragedy of Genius (Norton, 1997) focuses on Gould's fascinating phobias and . But yes, Mozart was inconsistent like most 18th-century composers, with more frequent weaknesses the last year when he was hurried and overworked, which confounds a Romantic notion of artistic development ever upward. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. Artist: Glenn Gould Title: Glenn Gould plays Mozart: The Piano Sonatas (No. I forgot Gilels who could also play almost anything including Mozart and whos a giant among giants, Richter was a baby compared to him. The depth of being wrong in that attitude towards Mozart is .. breathtaking. It also doesnt hurt to remember that being a genius (or even great) at one thing doesnt mean that person is great at anything else. After hearing Mr. Gould play these pieces I am much less interested in listening to other versions. : Not because Mozart was a great composer, because he dared to give music a home, rather than the dictates of a society that were deemed survival, making music a slave to it as if thats possible. Label: Sony. Its interesting that the sonata he claims to love as one of the examples of why Mozarts early work is better, k.333, is actually now known to be a late work written around the same time as his Linz symphony, at which time Mozart would have been 24 or 25. GG invited CR to listen to the playbacks. One aspect of classical music lovers that is unattractive; they take themselves so seriously. Please choose a different delivery location. Of course not. Sony: 88725413592. Micaela Bonetti : I think you have put your finger on it ; if Mozart had composed this with all the added notes and harmonies put in by GG aka Sir Humphrey something or other , then it would be a clear indication of a diminution in his powers. It would be quite immense to start listing everything the Catholic Church has done, or Christians at all, but thats also not a comment on Jesus true teachings, or that hating the Catholics is better than forgiveness, because forgiveness (which is the nature of music, same as air, water and other things that dont stop within distance of anyone and think: no, youre a bad person, youve done blah blah blah) that actually erases the whole incident and restores reality, because thats from forever where death doesnt exist, and where the human spirit comes from to begin with. GLENN GOULD - Mozart Piano Sonatas,vol. But Carl Nielsens does! A pleasure for me too, Michael! The fact that it took this long to find this film says to me that he did it for himself, and never intended on anyone else ever seeing it. At their top they both were giants but they unfortunately could sink pretty low which shows some intellectual deficiencies. In fact thats a lot of the criticism of Mozarts music, that actually what people hear is a depiction of whats wrong with a lack of adherence to any set fashion, or in fact sometimes poking fun of it, whether thats done consciously or not. There are times when you can evaluate a group of work as a whole if theres some sort of theme (not unlike evaluating an artists period eg. 5.0 out of 5 stars Mozart: The complete piano sonatas by Glenn Gould. It was part of the structure of ALL the different accepted types of work to have themes, for many cenluries. I also get the sense that Glenn Gould has never given a few weeks of theory lessons to a five-year-old. PS. Glenn Gould plays Mozart: The Piano Sonatas. Does it really matter? Nonik: CD. Still, by breaking down the value of Mozarts works into periods like he did, his words said something else, and I disagree with his very subjective premises, that he seems to be presenting as objective fact. Free shipping for many products! This is hilarious. On the other hand, in another video on YT he plays it double-beat theory at 106 bpm. View all records by Glenn Gould for sale on CDandLP in LP, CD, 12inch, 7inch format. Bolero, O fortuna from Carmina Burana, to name only two are popular examples of how repetition can hook a listener.
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