BACH & BEETHOVEN

I just finished watching a magnificent movie about the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes in his quest to understand and interpret one of the greatest set of works for piano ever written: Beethoven's five piano concertos. The movie – A Beethoven journey - seeks deeper insights into the great composer, while focusing on the myths that surround him.
Several are my posts about both Bach's music and his best ever performer Glenn Gould, therefore I put here the links to my already made posts:

1. https://lingiaca.blogspot.com/2012/10/goldberg-variations-other-lovepassion.html
2. https://lingiaca.blogspot.com/2009/02/my-music-love-music-that-j.html
3. https://lingiaca.blogspot.com/2018/03/maximum-pleasure.html
4. https://lingiaca.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-love-of-my-life.html
5. https://lingiaca.blogspot.com/2013/03/me-and-glenn-gould-as-im-approaching-my.html

Watching this masterful contemporary artist talking about his passion for Beethoven made me immediately think to my other great love in my life, or the pianist Glenn Gould playing the compositions of J.S. Bach, I believe that I own every DVD ever made of this pianist while playing all that Bach had composed.

I remember one of Gould’s reviewers saying that when playing Bach, Gould transformed himself in Bach, in other words Gould was re-composing the pieces written already about two centuries before. Most of this post is made with Youtube videos simply because in Youtube you can find pieces of the movies available on DVD but there very many shorter videos not available anywhere else, what I’m going to do here in fact is to add more of my own words as explanation/introduction or commentary to the video.

Like in example in this about Gould's piano

Or here about this artist's pureness

And finally here on Bach's art of the fugue

1. http://katiehafner.com/books/a-romance-on-three-legs/
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Gould