Sidney South : Right. But why didn't he complete this performance with the fugue? My answer, because he was stubborn, and unyeilding. Not willing to play pieces other pianist perform regularly. Certainly Frederick Gulda could match his genius intellectually if not his touch at the instrument. After realising his powers, Gould became arrogant and exasperating. It is understanding though once he became aware of how cruele people can be. Of course there was resentment thrown toward him. But, alone had to do was simply out play every one else playing the same piece. Instead, he hurt his fans by doctoring a work to his own satisfaction: Case in point, Brahm's 1st concerto. Bernstein reluctantly went along with it. If Brahms were alive when did this, probably would have wanted to kick Gould's butt. And he, being a Taurus might have done it if only via a tougne lashing. How does one who eats and dreams Fugues not play the wonderful, long, fugue in this piece?? Just stubborn, in your face arrogance. He deprived his listeners of his enormous talent in a piece we longed to hear him play.
@@arthurhogan8849 Composers changed the tempo of their work all the time e.g recording of Elgar conducting his concerto at an absurdly faster tempo than what is on score. Tchaikovsky often changed entire sections at request of soloists. For reference, it's completely arrogant on your part to assume Gould simply did not like pieces Bach played regularly. Gulda was a genius but his articulation and dynamic control is nowhere near Gould's
Nice metaphor; however, I'll bet I've watched and listened to Gould a lot longer than you have, ( oh! My pardon for speculating.' Wouldn't think of knowing what's in your mind). This guy, Gould, played publically and recorded everything Bach wrote, most of which are fraught with fugues. My example for this critituque: Not one performance of Regers's Bach Variation unt fugue, Brahms' Handel Variations and fugue. No Mendelssohn Preludes unt fugues ( who, by the way, it is said he hated). It is also reported that he hated Mozart; wonder why..? It seems, those composers he felt challenged by or compared to, he scoffed or snubbed. Others, say Saint Saens, also wrote some boss fugues. Many others. Gould showed up at an event, met some other pianist on the current circuit and quipped, " you guys play Chopin" ( paraphrasing). He played Chopin's B minor sonata probably after hearing William Kapell's performance.; and didn't even attempt to match it. He couldn't. Just a reading you would have expected from a concervatory student. ' the same thing with Chopin's 2nd concerto. In any work he thought he'd be compared to pianist's generally, he either avoided it, or messed with it. Witness his dull performance of R. Strauss' burlesque. Then, find the recording of Byron Janis. In fact, get your hands on every thing Janis player and recorded. I rest my adolescent case.
@@arthurhogan8849, your explanation exceeds ignorance. Bear in mind, Gould never recorded the toccata either! This clip is only a snippet from a television program with Mr. Monsaingeon, where Gould simply elaborates on why, he hates the piece. On the contrary, I think you 'radiate' an extreme arrogance with your demands after Gould to play this fugue. A fugue which yoo have "longed to hear him play" ... Do we treat the great artists as jukeboxes?
I do believe that no pianist of the present time is able to interprete the Bach's music in a such a clear and grandiose manner and, at the same time, with the potential of never-evaporating emotion, as Glenn Gould did; nor will such an artist ever be born.
Thomas O'Neal Does performing Bach while utilising pedal mean that such a performance is inherently bad? That’s like the people who say using pianos to play Bach are also inherently doing something wrong. Sustain pedal is merely a tool, surely it could be used to convey something worthwhile, it is not inherently good or bad.
Hi, I agree Glenn was the ultimate interpreter of Bach almost all the time but I do think Helen Grimaud is a very close second to him from around now. She has a great reverence for Bach and she is really incredible in my opinion. I think I like most Bach adorers could speak for hours about Bach and more Bach etc. The great performers of his works always bring something new and exciting to Bach's music.
@@fdggothic5015 And that's how Glenn Gould saw his piano, a useful tool for expressing something with no notion of good or bad. It's up to the user to use it well. Glenn Gould used the sustain pedal too. Just look at any recording accompanied with relevant footage and you will see every damper going up and down or you will see him directly pressing the pedal. :)
There is something in this performance that makes it sound as clean as a baroque cembalo and then all of a sudden as breathtaking as a romatic period masterpiece
I have seen this video about 50 times, and every time I get more and more things that fill my soul. I can not explain it, it's just a matter of feeling what Mr. Bach wrote and how wonderfully I interpreted Mr. Gould at the time ...
I love it when the camera is close and both his face - low over the keyboard - and his elegant precise hands are visible. Perfection on so many levels. Thank you, Glenn Gould, immortal artist.
Gould spent time also playing the harpsichord and the organ, and it seems both those instruments were blended into his technique when he played Bach on the piano.
His postures and eccentric hand gestures are sometimes disturbing. But his piano tone is the most beautiful thing in the universe. Every single note sings so clearly!
Great pianist .... and great sentimental value to me. It takes me back to my days at uni, 965-70, when Glen Gould was on my scratchy little record player all the time.
My grandpa teaching me right listening to this every note hits so clearly it makes me feel like my body is waving as I'm laying down beautiful to simply put it.
You can't expect nor demand more than this to a person. It feels Gould himself wrote this sublime passage. Or even that he is improvising his own discourse in an unimpeachable rhetorical manner. Simply fantastic!
From 2:50 to 3:20 is so unique, so personal and genuine that I never heard that piece played at all like this before. Out of this world, and I still think this is an understatement.
The fact that he didn't even like this piece and still played it so masterfully... I remember he also said that this did give us an ideia of how good Bach was at improvising.
I just don't understand how anyone can play something they despise so well!! Gould used to consider this Fantasy a "monstrosity" because it lacks any contrapuntal structure! And what about the Fugue? Why didn't he ever record it? Also a "monstrosity"? Any idea, anyone?
It's incredible how much music these great artists plays that you don't know because they didn't record or even perform the works. We really heard only 5-15% of what we might consider their repertoire.
Very perceptive Bach a hundred years ahead of his time.. harmonically advanced implications and flat out statements abound throughout his music any time he is pushing the envelope. WTC2 #22 Bb minor or Art of the Fugue tons more) He was the 1st to truly take advantage of the enhanced expressive potential locked away in all those newly available notes outside the key. Not just for modulation but chromatically altered harmonies and melodic construction coinciding with said altered harmonies.
Listening to this got me on a "what if". What if the piano of Chopin's time had been around in 1685? How much different would the keyboard writing have been? Also, did Glen Gould sit that way in that chari when he was learning piano? Or was it just an at home thing that became everywhere when he got famous?
Your inference is astute. The chair was made specially for Glenn Gould by his father. The chair is 14 inches tall and it is on display in Toronto, Canada. Glenn used this specific chair throughout his entire life and playing career. By this point in his career, the cushion of the chair had completely worn away due to heavy use.
Irrepetible Gould, en lo bueno y en lo malo... Pero siempre único y absolutamente original y creando sus propias versiones de todas las obras. Más bien se podría decir. en muchas ocasiones, que no interpreta sino que "recrea" obras. Pero siempre interesa escucharle.
To: Gun Dog Jr. If you wish to hear, for me, at least, the quintessential performance of the C. F. AND FUGUE, find a copy of Wanda Landowzkas' reading on the Harpsichord. Fingers, my friend. It's like what Andre Watts said of Martha Argerich when invited to listen to new performances of material on a show called, On First Hearing: Some one with a lot of fingers ". Also, compare Gould's performance to Landowskas' of Bach's' Italian concerto. You'll get my point. That is if you're not parcial to hearing the harpsichord in this music. It was after all Bach's instrument besides the organ of course.
Robert Fripp String Quintet began their performance with an excerpt of this piece - interesting on the Chapman Stick for execution: ua-cam.com/video/SZiWvjRj1AY/v-deo.html
madaboutvoice : Not a shame. Just stubbornness and meanness." I love the C. and Fantasy but, I simply can't' be so bothered. I searched both high and low looking for his pressing of this piece including the monstrous fugue; nothing more rewarding than a enormous fugue: Like Bach's' St. Anne Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Beethoven's Hammerklavier. So many others in the repertoire. In his later years, after retiring from the concert stage, Could became more recalcitrant , in my opinion; did condencending interviews, devoted his time to recording techniques and some chamber music/ accompaniment of singers, etc. etc. I loved Gould just as much as you guys, but he was exasperating in his refusal to just play all of the classical piano music. It is expected that there were some pieces he'd not want to touch; thats' only natural. All musicians have there likes and dislikes. He hated Horowitz, but would have been surprised that Horowitz left off of performing publically for similar reasons. And for us fans, we have virtually only roughly five concertos on record because Horowitz no longer wanted to work with conductors. Can you imagine the Liszt Totentanz under Horowitz's hands? Well, these guys are( were) human after all. At least almost human.
Of course this was writen for the clavier. "Chromatic" refers to the colors of the electromagnetic spectrum ( chorama = color) and an spectrograph instrument in Astrnomy is use to study and detect the components of a star's make up. Here is J S Bach explainig by music, what are the components that make our Universe and ourselfs.
You do know that chromatic is a musical term right? Wikipedia says: "A chromatic fantasia is a specific type of fantasia (or fantasy or fancy) originating in sixteenth-century Europe. In its earliest form, it is based on a chromatically descending tetrachord which arises naturally out of the dorian mode."
I think it's silly for people to say someone who died decades ago is the best ever. People build on those that came before, and every (great) pianist since Gould has learned from him. It's human nature, we're always improving. Believing otherwise is simply naive and, really, it's a preference. Y'all prefer his interpretation (which is completely fine) the most. But there are better musicians today than have ever existed before, just like any other profession or skill
I think it’s short sighted to think that musicians are always “improving”. Gould was an absolute anomaly, just as Bach was a complete anomaly. Your issue with “the best ever” is valid, but not because someone is better than Gould, but because this isn’t a competition. That being said, please feel free to drop a version of this particular piece that has the same articulation and adventurous nature.
Genio y figura... Es una Fantasía Cromática atrayente, pero no tiene nada que ver con el original. Pero Glenn Gould era así: rehacía las partituras con su estilo personalísimo. Y resultaban obras atractivas sí, pero no las origínales. A lo que hay que añadir que cualquier cambio que realizase le resultaba sencillo, por mucha dificultad que tuviera este cambio, debido a la técnica fácil y segura de la que estaba dotado.
jajaja you werent here when to listen to bach...and im sure...you will have to pick up your jaw...your eyes...and your tongue...to never speak like that again...bach deserves absolute respect...and even more knowing that a pianist like gould took him as his life example.
my deepest respect and admiration for glenn gould..he has passed away but he lives in the hearts of many of us..
That chord in 2:18 and the resolution right after... Masterpiece. Bach is a genius.
No. Bach is the genius!
This is simply a jaw dropping performance - totally mesmerizing!! There will never be another one like him. What a tragic loss his untimely death was.
Sidney South : Right. But why didn't he complete this performance with the fugue? My answer, because he was stubborn, and unyeilding. Not willing to play pieces other pianist perform regularly. Certainly Frederick Gulda could match his genius intellectually if not his touch at the instrument. After realising his powers, Gould became arrogant and exasperating. It is understanding though once he became aware of how cruele people can be. Of course there was resentment thrown toward him. But, alone had to do was simply out play every one else playing the same piece. Instead, he hurt his fans by doctoring a work to his own satisfaction: Case in point, Brahm's 1st concerto. Bernstein reluctantly went along with it. If Brahms were alive when did this, probably would have wanted to kick Gould's butt. And he, being a Taurus might have done it if only via a tougne lashing. How does one who eats and dreams Fugues not play the wonderful, long, fugue in this piece?? Just stubborn, in your face arrogance. He deprived his listeners of his enormous talent in a piece we longed to hear him play.
@@arthurhogan8849 Composers changed the tempo of their work all the time e.g recording of Elgar conducting his concerto at an absurdly faster tempo than what is on score. Tchaikovsky often changed entire sections at request of soloists.
For reference, it's completely arrogant on your part to assume Gould simply did not like pieces Bach played regularly. Gulda was a genius but his articulation and dynamic control is nowhere near Gould's
Nice metaphor; however, I'll bet I've watched and listened to Gould a lot longer than you have, ( oh! My pardon for speculating.' Wouldn't think of knowing what's in your mind). This guy, Gould, played publically and recorded everything Bach wrote, most of which are fraught with fugues. My example for this critituque: Not one performance of Regers's Bach Variation unt fugue, Brahms' Handel Variations and fugue. No Mendelssohn Preludes unt fugues ( who, by the way, it is said he hated). It is also reported that he hated Mozart; wonder why..? It seems, those composers he felt challenged by or compared to, he scoffed or snubbed. Others, say Saint Saens, also wrote some boss fugues. Many others. Gould showed up at an event, met some other pianist on the current circuit and quipped, " you guys play Chopin" ( paraphrasing). He played Chopin's B minor sonata probably after hearing William Kapell's performance.; and didn't even attempt to match it. He couldn't. Just a reading you would have expected from a concervatory student. ' the same thing with Chopin's 2nd concerto. In any work he thought he'd be compared to pianist's generally, he either avoided it, or messed with it. Witness his dull performance of R. Strauss' burlesque. Then, find the recording of Byron Janis. In fact, get your hands on every thing Janis player and recorded. I rest my adolescent case.
If someone composed something like this today, it'd still be modern sounding. It's amazing.
@@arthurhogan8849, your explanation exceeds ignorance. Bear in mind, Gould never recorded the toccata either! This clip is only a snippet from a television program with Mr. Monsaingeon, where Gould simply elaborates on why, he hates the piece. On the contrary, I think you 'radiate' an extreme arrogance with your demands after Gould to play this fugue. A fugue which yoo have "longed to hear him play" ... Do we treat the great artists as jukeboxes?
Glenn Gould was the first pianist that sent a solo piano record to the space (Voyager1). Legendary...
The Goldberg Variations (1955)
@@tamaskovacs7951 No, he recorded the first prelude of the WTC II for the Voyager1.
@@Ivan_1791 ok :)
That face at the end when he’s like “ Told you I could play it bro..”
This piece was definitely ahead of its time
His Bach is perfect for me.
Sounds amazing, the connection between the musician and the instrument is insane. 🙇♂️
I do believe that no pianist of the present time is able to interprete the Bach's music in a such a clear and grandiose manner and, at the same time, with the potential of never-evaporating emotion, as Glenn Gould did; nor will such an artist ever be born.
Paul Barton can play bach very well
Thomas O'Neal Does performing Bach while utilising pedal mean that such a performance is inherently bad? That’s like the people who say using pianos to play Bach are also inherently doing something wrong. Sustain pedal is merely a tool, surely it could be used to convey something worthwhile, it is not inherently good or bad.
Hi, I agree Glenn was the ultimate interpreter of Bach almost all the time but I do think Helen Grimaud is a very close second to him from around now. She has a great reverence for Bach and she is really incredible in my opinion. I think I like most Bach adorers could speak for hours about Bach and more Bach etc. The great performers of his works always bring something new and exciting to Bach's music.
@@fdggothic5015
And that's how Glenn Gould saw his piano, a useful tool for expressing something with no notion of good or bad. It's up to the user to use it well.
Glenn Gould used the sustain pedal too. Just look at any recording accompanied with relevant footage and you will see every damper going up and down or you will see him directly pressing the pedal. :)
I'd say that Sokolov, Beatrice Rana, and Trifonov are all on Gould's level in Bach (in their own unique ways of course)
I've heard a number of renditions and this has to easily be my favorite.
There is something in this performance that makes it sound as clean as a baroque cembalo and then all of a sudden as breathtaking as a romatic period masterpiece
My life is worth living now that I have heard this played by Gould.
I have seen this video about 50 times, and every time I get more and more things that fill my soul. I can not explain it, it's just a matter of feeling what Mr. Bach wrote and how wonderfully I interpreted Mr. Gould at the time ...
I love it when the camera is close and both his face - low over the keyboard - and his elegant precise hands are visible. Perfection on so many levels. Thank you, Glenn Gould, immortal artist.
One can never to be finished being mind-blown by Gould's playing.
If ever there was a person born to play the piano, Glenn Gould would be high on the list.
This is the uncut and perfect version.
Gould spent time also playing the harpsichord and the organ, and it seems both those instruments were blended into his technique when he played Bach on the piano.
Chris Doby I agree!
I am paralyzed after the music ends. Speechless. Nothing to comment even.
2:37 to 3:20 ! I have never heard an interpretation so unique. It is a fantasy into a fantasy.
my favorite part of this performance
His postures and eccentric hand gestures are sometimes disturbing. But his piano tone is the most beautiful thing in the universe. Every single note sings so clearly!
I have a feeling you meant 'distracting (to the viewer)' rather than 'disturbing', no'?
I love his gestures!
Disturbing as in annoying?
Disturbing as in totally awesome
Great pianist .... and great sentimental value to me. It takes me back to my days at uni, 965-70, when Glen Gould was on my scratchy little record player all the time.
My grandpa teaching me right listening to this every note hits so clearly it makes me feel like my body is waving as I'm laying down beautiful to simply put it.
How beautiful song,Thanks Bach
I dropped all work and books about stock ,just listening to this piece
La mejor interpretación insuperable. Glenn is alive
Bach was inside of Glenn Gould... there's no other explanation...
I wonder how big he was...I mean...he's Bach
BS
@@Chrisdvc26 9 inches
@@Chrisdvc26 LOL
What a touch….clarity & voicing
This is from The Question of Instrument...The cut around 3:20 is where Gould stops because he hates the piece lolol
You can't expect nor demand more than this to a person. It feels Gould himself wrote this sublime passage. Or even that he is improvising his own discourse in an unimpeachable rhetorical manner. Simply fantastic!
From 2:50 to 3:20 is so unique, so personal and genuine that I never heard that piece played at all like this before. Out of this world, and I still think this is an understatement.
I mean, he was a hack as a composer so I'm not sure what you're getting at.
Divinely !!!!!!!!!!!!!
The fact that he didn't even like this piece and still played it so masterfully...
I remember he also said that this did give us an ideia of how good Bach was at improvising.
It's as if he was born with this ability to absorb music and then to communicate it.
how perfect it is! this is real music
Amazing..
How wonderful is this?!! Thank you!
Genije... On sav treperi, sav je muzika...
Covek od muzike, zaista je neverovatan.
Beautiful piano playing ! Thank you for posting !
I just wondered how he can play Steinway piano with that kind of voice! It is so amazing!
Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was said that Gould hated this piece, and very rarely played it.
Yeah, he famously said that this piece was "Bach for people that didn't like Bach"...
He says that right after playing it in the interview from which this was taken.
I disagree with him. Of course, I'll find the clip of his expalnation and won't have a counter argument 🤣
I just don't understand how anyone can play something they despise so well!! Gould used to consider this Fantasy a "monstrosity" because it lacks any contrapuntal structure! And what about the Fugue? Why didn't he ever record it? Also a "monstrosity"? Any idea, anyone?
If you use headphones u can clearly hear him singing the song
How can mere humans comment on someone with such extraordinary gifts?
Thing is, he's into this huge piece so much that he can make it seem like he's doing the improvising instead of Bach.
So inspiring......
It's incredible how much music these great artists plays that you don't know because they didn't record or even perform the works. We really heard only 5-15% of what we might consider their repertoire.
Amazing...Insuperable...Majestuoso
I don’t know why but I was picturing Tom and Jerry in my head the whole time.♥️
" You know something ? Thats Bach for people who dont like Bach" Glenn
Can't imagine not liking Bach.
the sound of genius.
his left hand is such a hype man for his right hand
5:50 so Wagner.
It has an element of Tristan und Isolde.
Very perceptive Bach a hundred years ahead of his time.. harmonically advanced implications and flat out statements abound throughout his music any time he is pushing the envelope. WTC2 #22 Bb minor or Art of the Fugue tons more) He was the 1st to truly take advantage of the enhanced expressive potential locked away in all those newly available notes outside the key. Not just for modulation but chromatically altered harmonies and melodic construction coinciding with said altered harmonies.
If you listen close enough he is humming the notes too ^-^
Who knows? Lol rewatching this now and the left hand seems to be doing all the work lol.
this is fantastic
Very poggers
sharc pog
Es un espectáculo
Ele é único como o próprio BACH foi único
These harmonies always come up in Hungarian gipsies' music. :)
That's why I always like gypsy buskers!
There's no sheet music for him to read. This is all from memory. Just worth pointing out.
A soloist shouldnt perform anything they havent memorized. Out of repect for the audience they should know the piece at least that well
It's a shame he didn't record the fugue😢
Please no gimmicks, just have Daniil playing! 🌈
É como se Deus estivesse falando e cantando através de Bach e de Glen Gould!
At the beginning he looks like he’s being possessed by Bach
I think he is Bach. . He was the best ever x
He was the reincarneition of Bach
@@thecozytrader00 although bach would never play the piano.
@@Iceologer Piano was quite different in barroque , tell me something that i dont know
@@thecozytrader00 Bach didnt like the piano, did you know that?
Listening to this got me on a "what if". What if the piano of Chopin's time had been around in 1685? How much different would the keyboard writing have been?
Also, did Glen Gould sit that way in that chari when he was learning piano? Or was it just an at home thing that became everywhere when he got famous?
Your inference is astute. The chair was made specially for Glenn Gould by his father. The chair is 14 inches tall and it is on display in Toronto, Canada. Glenn used this specific chair throughout his entire life and playing career. By this point in his career, the cushion of the chair had completely worn away due to heavy use.
He has the most unique hands
Irrepetible Gould, en lo bueno y en lo malo... Pero siempre único y absolutamente original y creando sus propias versiones de todas las obras. Más bien se podría decir. en muchas ocasiones, que no interpreta sino que "recrea" obras. Pero siempre interesa escucharle.
To: Gun Dog Jr. If you wish to hear, for me, at least, the quintessential performance of the C. F. AND FUGUE, find a copy of Wanda Landowzkas' reading on the Harpsichord. Fingers, my friend. It's like what Andre Watts said of Martha Argerich when invited to listen to new performances of material on a show called, On First Hearing: Some one with a lot of fingers ". Also, compare Gould's performance to Landowskas' of Bach's' Italian concerto. You'll get my point. That is if you're not parcial to hearing the harpsichord in this music. It was after all Bach's instrument besides the organ of course.
There is a god.
Sergio Berni qué bien que toca Bach!
Is it true that Gould didn't like this? I heard something like that
Funny at 0:40 his right hand is playing like Glenn Gould while his left hand is conducting like Solti.
I want to give him a deep warm shoulder rub after watching this.
I would have loved to see this man play a traditional French double manual harpsichord
Glenn Gould enharmonic = I. S. Bach
I don't know why, but parts of this piece sound almost jazzy to me.
He never played the fugue after the recitative, I don’t know why.
That should have satisfied Bruno!
GO(ul)D!
Robert Fripp String Quintet began their performance with an excerpt of this piece - interesting on the Chapman Stick for execution: ua-cam.com/video/SZiWvjRj1AY/v-deo.html
I wish Bach continued the little fast subject in 00:12 - 00:15
its not fast, in fact its slower than the opening phrase, but its a matter of interpretation.
Se escucha de fondo como tararea lo que está tocando! Que loco...😁
that audio quality
When he does that thing with his hand it's like he's holding a mirror up at himself like he wants to reflect himself through the music
is he lefty?
It is such a terrible shame he never recorded the fugue that follows this Chromatic Fantasy.
madaboutvoice : Not a shame. Just stubbornness and meanness." I love the C. and Fantasy but, I simply can't' be so bothered. I searched both high and low looking for his pressing of this piece including the monstrous fugue; nothing more rewarding than a enormous fugue: Like Bach's' St. Anne Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Beethoven's Hammerklavier. So many others in the repertoire. In his later years, after retiring from the concert stage, Could became more recalcitrant , in my opinion; did condencending interviews, devoted his time to recording techniques and some chamber music/ accompaniment of singers, etc. etc. I loved Gould just as much as you guys, but he was exasperating in his refusal to just play all of the classical piano music. It is expected that there were some pieces he'd not want to touch; thats' only natural. All musicians have there likes and dislikes. He hated Horowitz, but would have been surprised that Horowitz left off of performing publically for similar reasons. And for us fans, we have virtually only roughly five concertos on record because Horowitz no longer wanted to work with conductors. Can you imagine the Liszt Totentanz under Horowitz's hands? Well, these guys are( were) human after all. At least almost human.
Great piece,fucking interpretation....
Like an alien parody of human lament.
What a shame he never recorded (never played?) the fugue...
Of course this was writen for the clavier. "Chromatic" refers to the colors of the electromagnetic spectrum ( chorama = color) and an spectrograph instrument in Astrnomy is use to study and detect the components of a star's make up. Here is J S Bach explainig by music, what are the components that make our Universe and ourselfs.
Juan Carlos Saavedra ???
Juan Carlos Saavedra guuaaattttt??
You do know that chromatic is a musical term right? Wikipedia says: "A chromatic fantasia is a specific type of fantasia (or fantasy or fancy) originating in sixteenth-century Europe. In its earliest form, it is based on a chromatically descending tetrachord which arises naturally out of the dorian mode."
Wikipedia say: " CHROMA. the Greek word for color "
Yeah, the chromatic scale came from Chroma because whenever it was used in music, it added "color" to the music.
профессор Мариарти...)))
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I think it's silly for people to say someone who died decades ago is the best ever. People build on those that came before, and every (great) pianist since Gould has learned from him. It's human nature, we're always improving. Believing otherwise is simply naive and, really, it's a preference. Y'all prefer his interpretation (which is completely fine) the most. But there are better musicians today than have ever existed before, just like any other profession or skill
I think it’s short sighted to think that musicians are always “improving”. Gould was an absolute anomaly, just as Bach was a complete anomaly.
Your issue with “the best ever” is valid, but not because someone is better than Gould, but because this isn’t a competition.
That being said, please feel free to drop a version of this particular piece that has the same articulation and adventurous nature.
@@worldsheaviestjamband93 ok
Genio y figura... Es una Fantasía Cromática atrayente, pero no tiene nada que ver con el original. Pero Glenn Gould era así: rehacía las partituras con su estilo personalísimo. Y resultaban obras atractivas sí, pero no las origínales. A lo que hay que añadir que cualquier cambio que realizase le resultaba sencillo, por mucha dificultad que tuviera este cambio, debido a la técnica fácil y segura de la que estaba dotado.
This man has such horrible posture it makes me want to cry
Gould in his last years had severe back and muscle problems. So dry your tears. It was a miracle that he could play until his death.
ridiculous tempo no offense to the prodigy but the scholars of his era
I am sure 100% that this piece Chromatic Fantasia, it is better interpreted by Gold then the original writer Bach!
Iulian Caldararu You know how Bach would have interpreted it? Impressive.
jajaja you werent here when to listen to bach...and im sure...you will have to pick up your jaw...your eyes...and your tongue...to never speak like that again...bach deserves absolute respect...and even more knowing that a pianist like gould took him as his life example.
Fede Pantera Don't say that, I'm sure Iulian here has his own private TARDIS.
You're uninformed
Where's the fugue????
sadly he never record it
honestly... i don't like that tempo. idk why though.
i prefer it like this, you can hear the harmonies