Who knew? First film of Glenn Gould conducting Mahler
mainFrom the GG archive:
The soloist in the finale of the second symphony is Maureen Forrester.
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This rare recording shows how beautiful and expressive Gould’s hand movements were. I would have loved to have played with a conductor like him.
Haven’t you seen him conducting the elephants in Antonius’ Fischpredigt?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57kR6RsV2iA
His singing at the animals is my favorite Gould clip. I particularly like how he imitates the orchestra.
Maybe it’s just me, but he seems to have way too much superfluous left motion. He subdivides the beat unnecessarily and frenetically during the brass chorale and his jarring attacks don’t match the quiet, sostenuto style of the music. He often looks like he is flailing IMHO. As over the top as Bernstein was, at least his gestures were communicative and precise.
He was a left handed conductor, like Runnicles, but it’s less obtrusive without a baton.
Obtrusive?
Strong word…
I saw this on a laser disc years ago.
Well, it could hardly be recent footage, could it? 🙂
Who knew????
This hardly qualifies as news.
I saw this film almost thirty ago.
Who knew? We all knew who have been paying attention. It was released on Laser Disc and VHS several decades ago. It’s in the currently available DVD set “Glenn Gould on Television”. A little research goes a long way.
Evidently Slipped Disc outsources research to its readers.
Fascinating! And it features a great Mahler singer in the process.
This was part of the Glenn Gould film collection released by Sony Classical on VHS.