music clip of the day

He plays Bach as if, at that moment, nothing in the world is more crucial.

Johann Sebastian Bach, Glenn Gould, piano*
TV performance, 1981

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*Here, courtesy of YouTube, is the program:

00:21 Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080: Contrapunctus I

Partita n.4 in D-dur BWV 828
05:11 I Ouverture
10:06 II Allemande
15:45 III Courante
18:52 IV Aria
20:07 V Sarabande
25:21 VI Menuett
26:41 VII Gigue

From “Wohltemperierten Klavier”:
28:10 Fuge in E-dur (II)
33:17 Fuge in Es-moll (II)
36:16 Praeludium & Fuge in A-dur (II)

38:52 Die Kunst der Fuge BVW 1080: Contrapunctus IV

(Some of this has been posted before, but not all of it and not in one continuous clip.)