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Yunchan knows how to show us a musical fairy tales ! Each note hasa great meaning ! Nothing is loose ! Everything is important to him ! Absolutely awesome ! 🙏

Whaat i expected Pletnev/Tchaikovsky the nutcracker suite to be here. It has become a standard part of piano literature in the past years, and its such a wonderful suite

Music is for the living. Brahms isnt around to be offended of the tempo is off, because we don't know what tempo he wanted. Yes he marked it, but we can't even agree on whether metronome markings are half or whole beat. So how do you know how it should sound? Did Brahms put out a studio album? Music is for the living, and the performers responsibility is to the audience and not people centuries dead.

Fascinating

I love piano - but Gould sucked - he could only do good "cover songs" Great cover band but never good enough to compose No one knows Gould cause he could only cover

Totentanz performed by Valentina Lisitsa is my favorite. The piece itself is beyond epic.

I hope there will be more frequent content. You made tonebase for me, not the content.

I'd put Liszt's Beethoven Symphonies up there, the best piano transcriptions of all time, especially Symphony 9, which Liszt almost gave up doing. It was Symphony 5 that inspired me back then, and it was these transcriptions that got me more interested in Liszt. He's my favorite composer but I'm more fascinated with him as an arranger.

Ah, but the pipe organ is the king of them all! My hands can mimic the woodwinds, brass, and strings while my feet can play the bass, timpani, and more. It can emulate more than the piano ever can, and its range extends beyond the pitches of a piano. The piano is then second ;)

Aaaaaaaahhhhh Horowitz!!! I can really hear broken glasses!!!

Really?? Critics - Options make no difference. Both Bernstein and Gould were masters of their craft.

The thing I respect most about Gould was the apparent disdain he had for the audience. Just doing his own thing, F the haters.

I feel bad for only knowing the name Glenn Gould from I Was Buried In Mount Pleasant Cemetery by Woods of Ypres

This music really needs Pogorelich, in my opinion

I don't know any world class musician who did brilliant recordings and also mediocre, even annoying recordings. Gould was extreme, and he had really firm borders. I always praise him as one of the great Bach interprets of all time. And if guys like you are able to build a philosophy on what Gould did and why, why not. Gould would have liked it!

How conventional, grow up, stuff changes, stop listening to what you heard yesterday, and enjoy the present moment, it will be a never to be repeated again! You are a music NA$I!

As a musician i repect Gould. He is an inspiration

I also really like some of phyxinons transcriptions, marigold, lost in nowhere, for example

Wow! What a great, thought provoking vlog. I had never appreciated until it the kind of positivist philosophy that underpinned - like a concrete brick tied to a dead cat--interpretation. Positivism was such a miserable failure in philosophical (epistemological) terms and was soon rightly discarded for it embarassing fallacies and inability to get over them. But like a cadaverin a freezer it still holds vital -if not chilly grip around our necks. Fouls kicked the stool out from under this flawed deification. You might not like how it sounds, but that is your democratic right and your creative duty now enabled to push against the myth of the musical given.

just got the sheet music and realized i ain't reading that essay.

This is the good stuff. Way too much show-offy stuff but that's fine. Surprized to not see the Liszt Beethoven symphonies. We should embrace the seriousness of transcriptions to make our tradition alive and relevant to our culture. Would you make a video about how to actually do good transcriptions or just composing for piano more generally?

My favourite transcription is Isador Goodman playing Liszt's transcription of the Overture from Tannhauser. Absolute fireworks.

Is fun to think, there might be a gold out there watching this video, and taking heart that, it works.

I highly recommend listening to this video at 1.25x speed ;)

i´m noone who learned anything about classic music but i really liked him playing and i didnt know that you have schoolbullys in your ranks of elitaer music....he seemed to be born in the wrong time and today he would be a superstar in classic circles...but thats subjectiv and i have not the right knowledge....and i learned something new...for a lot of people it´s like a religion they don´t want it changed

Great, thank you

What always stuck with me was Gould's first TV performance with Bernstein, playing Bach's Keyboard Concerto No.1, that performance was something else. The other two performances in the show were also extraordinarily superb.

@7:47 it also kinda devolves into a jumble. i like gould’s better

Love your videos keep going and keep sharing your own performances too!

12:48 He sings it in tune. Did he have perfect pitch?

His idea of making the piece work sounds like actors trying to find ways to cover over holes/underdeveloped motivations in a script

Damn it. Now, I wanna get a physical copy of this. I already own the Fleisher, Gilels, Richter... Huh, I don't seem to own any contemporary renditions of this.

It's just one point of view. The artist always had and always will have the right to interpret a piece the way he feels it. That's wonderful to have all these different ways of interpreting and opens a whole universe of experiences from the same composition. None are good or bad. They're all different costumes on the same body of art. It's very easy for anyone to reject an interpretation. It's much more difficult just to let go and immerse into a specific interpretation and admire the skills of the pianist or singer or instrument player. Music playing is NOT a sports competition, even if it's often considered and treated that way. Music is ultimately an emotional message from the performer to the audience. Composers don't write notes. They write emotions through score notations. Performers have to interpret scores to find the emotional state to be proposed to the audience. Bach didn't indicate any tempo. So, that leaves the performer with a wide choice of tempos. Even if Brahms wrote a tempo, it does not means it is a bible. Music is art, not religion. Even Brahms would probably play his work at different speeds. All speeds are good. None are better than others. You may dislike one speed; someone else might actually prefer it for reasons as good as someone else.

Gould was in love with the overtones… He let the Tempe be directed by the overtones. Horowitz fantastic as he was ran right over them like roadkill!

One of the best talks about Gould was given by Nicholas Spice, a British writer. I recorded it on the 10th. anniversary of Gould's death in 1992 from the CBC. If you can find it you will enjoy it, but I have failed to myself. I am so glad I recorded it.

these assertions are ridiculous in the extreme, What a !st world problem, the rarefied air you breath as a hot house flower, is of little import to those who work with music, in the gloved hands of custodians nothing can change, change is survival, not to merely interpret but develop

Someone please get that person a cough drop

Pletnev's transcription of Tchaikovksy's Pas De Deux is so beautiful that I had to start learning it.

Musicians can justify or validate their worth by making music that people enjoy. Music critics don't have that luxury. They have to manufacture the illusion of contributing something of value by explaining to people why they "actually shouldn't have enjoyed" what the musician did because "it was actually bad".

I do believe Horowitz and Shostakovich had a favorite pianist...Art Tatum. They would go to Harlem, drink whiskey and listen to Art. And they'd say to each other that if Art changed his repertoire they'd be looking for a new profession.

Gould is praised for his Bach but his Beethoven is often overlooked, it's so good I can't enjoy most other interpretations after his. I love his unemotional perfection.

Well done Ben! Koji is a cool guy. Invite him back again!

Glenn Gould’s transcription of Ravel’s La Valse is my personal favourite.

Why would I want you to play Bach like Schiff? Or Gould? Or Sokolov? If I want to hear those interpretations, they're a UA-cam search away. Give me something fresh.

I think Glenn Gould liked the music so much that he just savored it while playing. Depending on his mood, he played fast or slow, because that's how he wanted to hear it! If he showed off his virtuosity, it was for himself alone as the audience. This fits with the fact that he mostly hated doing live concerts. I really don't think he did what he did just "for attention".

Gould didn't have much of a reverence for the musical community of established biases. He took a piece of music and adored making it into something new. He was a rock star.

Please don't use big words for you don't really fully understand the subject.

You should check out Prokofiev piano toccata but performed on the pipe organ- performed by one of the resident organists of notre dame Vincent Dubois (it’s on UA-cam) 👍🏻🥃

ok... as far as cliche music references go... the riot at the Rite of Spring is up there at the top... What about what happened after the showing of La muette de Portici? Anyway, before they rioted at the Rite, didn't they like keel over from laughter first when the public heard the bassoon solo at the beginning? This video endeared Gould significantly to me. This perspective of interpretation is fascinating. I play violin but this is a welcome tool for choosing my own interpretation and style.

I was suspicious about myself that if I would ever find time to lrarn something serious about music history. Thank you!