monsoonostrich (July 25, 2008 at 12:59 pm)

I haven't played in front of an audience for 15 years, but yes, classical music has no crowd to drown out mistakes, and when the mistake happens it is painfully obvious to both musician and listeners. But the music is so complex (some of it anyways) that a perfect recording wil almost certainly take a few attempts.

NijelBoswell (July 24, 2008 at 8:37 pm)

Don't you find whenever you're in a concert that its almost like people are watching you waiting for a mistake, and that its almost like a Colosseum? Waiting for the lion to come out and kill you when you make that mistake...?

monsoonostrich (July 24, 2008 at 8:29 pm)

lets call him brilliant and eccentric. His obsession with thinking people were only watching his concerts to look for mistakes made him reclusive in the long run.

nunhov (July 24, 2008 at 5:03 pm)

GG is simply the most gifted and the most brave piano player(prayer)It's pure JOY.Thank You!

Harkz0r (July 24, 2008 at 3:04 pm)

It seems quite sad to me, though I understand it could be difficult for some to make the distinction: is this person's erratic and eccentric behaviour merely an indicator of some mental problem or an auxiliary expression of something deeper? Gould wasn't insane. More the opposite. He felt the music so tenaciously and intuitively, with great depth of feeling, that it would be difficult if not impossible for most others to understand... at least that's my interpretation.

urmyho8 (July 22, 2008 at 5:57 pm)

wow

trapezoid6 (July 21, 2008 at 4:41 am)

I believe he is playing at his parents' cottage on a Chickering piano. And this clip is probably from 1950.

jacquesantonor (July 21, 2008 at 2:52 am)

I never truly believed that Gould was insane; but I always believed that in his own way, was he on a much higher echelon of sanity that the average man.

Scrithe (July 20, 2008 at 7:52 am)

They used harpsichords. Look up a period piece of Bach.

athma75 (July 19, 2008 at 9:04 pm)

garminging teofeltinat