{"id":6412,"date":"2012-09-24T23:58:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T03:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=6412"},"modified":"2012-09-24T23:58:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T03:58:16","slug":"listening-lets-celebrate-glenn-goulds-80th-birthday-with-gibbons-and-brahms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/09\/24\/listening-lets-celebrate-glenn-goulds-80th-birthday-with-gibbons-and-brahms\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening: Let&#8217;s celebrate Glenn Gould&#8217;s 80th birthday with Gibbons and Brahms"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6419\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/gould2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6419\" title=\"Bach - Glenn Gould - Variaciones Goldberg - 1955\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/gould2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/gould2.jpg 720w, https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/gould2-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Don Hunstein photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With all the fuss and hoopla over the past few days out of the way, I want to mark Glenn Gould&#8217;s 80th birthday with two composers he did particularly interesting things with, yet are not associated with the pianist as often as Bach.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The first is Orlando Gibbons, caught here in a French documentary from 1974:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e1FBe9WHR_A?list=SPED39063A7FE67590&amp;hl=en_US\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The second is Johannes Brahms &#8212; in particular the two Op. 79 <em>Rhapsodies<\/em>. Missing is the elasticized velvet wrapper that Brahms&#8217; music needs. Instead, Gould highlights the composer&#8217;s complex musical structures in ways I don&#8217;t think any other pianist has been able to do:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MNymTCyQ5Dc\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AZZwmhjY6VE\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>John Terauds<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the fuss and hoopla over the past few days out of the way, I want to mark Glenn Gould&#8217;s 80th birthday with two composers he did particularly interesting things with, yet are not associated with the pianist as often as Bach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4,77,78,36,47,51,63,1],"tags":[140,544,1417,1430,1980,6468],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2012\/09\/02.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-1Fq","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6412"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=6412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}