Product Details

• Format: Classical, Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony
• VHS Release Date: October 13, 1992
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6302580498
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #349,840 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars SHORT! but entertaining!, February 9, 2000

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This review is from: Greatest Hits Glenn Gould's Highlights from the Glenn Gould Collection [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video is a very diverse collection of Glenn Gould recordings. In addition to Glenn playing the piano solo, it features his portrayals of his characters Sir Nigel, Myron Chianti, and Karl-Heinz Klopweisser, an odd piece called Scotch Rhapsody were we get to hear Glenn sing (not just his usual humming!), some unfortunately low quality 1957 footage of him conducting a Mahler piece, Bach's BWV 1017, with Yehudi Menuhin on violin; and the classic "So You Want to Write a Fugue". Altogether, there are 13 selections, each different and unique. The only shortcoming to this video is that it is quite short... 46:16. Considering it's price, this was disappointing to me. As a sampler album, it could ... and should ... have been longer.

16 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A welldone mixture of Glenn Gould's various media pursuits., January 9, 1999

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This review is from: Greatest Hits Glenn Gould's Highlights from the Glenn Gould Collection [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video was excellent! incredible! amazing! brilliant! especially the part where ole' Glenn sings some ol' Scot rhapsody dressed as a ladykiller. It's also got "So You Want To Write A Fugue" as it appeared originally on the CBC television broadcast from 1958, which is one of the funniest things I've ever heard in my life. "So you want to write a fugue/You got the nerve to write a fugue/You got the urge to write a fugue". Also represented is Gould's interpretations of a number of composers, such as Bach, Beethoven, Scriabin (check out his playing on this), as well as him conducting a Mahler piece. One of the most enlightening things was Gould's deconstruction of a Strauss opera using the themes from Electra to detail his somewhat bizarre and obtuse extrapolations. In a word - COOL. Okay that's one word.