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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| MANUFACTURER: | Sony |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Classical, Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Music Videos - Classical |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 074644842531 |
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Customer Reviews of Collection 14 / Question of Instrument
Best of Gould One of the very best videos in the series of 16 volumes. Wish I could find a copy!! If anyone knows where I can find vol. 14 or 15 please let me know. Thanks, Jeanette Pringle McLean jmspiritseeker@hotmail.com
fascinating
I learn more about music from 5 minutes of Glenn talking than I did in a semester of music school. This is a top film for the student, fan, and efficianado of music. One of the best in this series.
An in depth discussion of Bach on the piano
Even while the number of recordings of Bach's keyboard works on the piano outnumbers those on instruments that Bach himself had at his disposal by far, the use of the piano for performing Bach remains a subject of frequent and polemic debate. While having been trained and versed in performing on both the organ and the harpsichord, Glenn Gould has only on rare occasions performed Bach on another instrument than the piano. In this video he discusses the pros and cons of the piano as instrument of Bach performance. In addition, he also explains why he chose his particular approach to and articulation on the piano, when performing Bach. Based on the concept that he regarded Bach as a composer who was more interested in musical, often contrapuntal, structures, than one interested in sonorities, he argues that the piano is superior to any keyboard instrument in making these structures heard. He further supports his claim, by discussing Bach's transcription of the very same works for instruments of different sonority, and by starting the video with a performance of Contrapunctus 1 from the Art of the Fugue, a work for which Bach never indicated a particular instrument for performance. In addition to this work, Gould performs the Chromatic Fantasy, excerpts from the Partitas and the Concertos, and finishes this documentary by playing the 4th Partita in its entirety. Even for those that dislike this performer there is a great reward in following Gould's argumentation. For his fans this carefully constructed documentary is a must. In addition to this video, two additional ones are devoted to Gould playing and discussing Bach: an art of the Fugue, and the Goldberg variations. Too bad that the plans for a fourth program devoted to the concertos never materialized.