Me and my kids have been watching the Glenn Gould Hereafter we recorded on ovation tv and cant figure out what the piece is he plays at about 1:17 (with commercials) its right after the radio interview where they say Glenn was not accepted by the musical profession because he was a threat. Then it goes into black and white footage of a younger Glenn playing this piece. It starts off slowly then pauses abit and speeds up. If anyone knows the name we would apprecite it.
Thanks

The complete list of recordings from this movie can be found at: http://www.medici.tv/#/movie/117/

Hopefully that will help you.

I'm away from home this week and don't have my "Hearafter" DVD with me, but something tells me it's the Goldberg Variations.

Probably something he'd just made up, can't identify it, sorry

Thanks for the replies. It sounds familar but we cant put a finger on what it sounds like exactly.

I think I found it. If you're referring to the piece he plays while driving through the country side at the beginning of the movie, it's the Brahms Intermezzo in B flat minor Op. 117 #2.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7sXUA00kv8

I dont thing thats it. Its an hour and 17 minutes into the movie (with comercials).
Thanks for trying though.

You couldn't find a way of giving us a little sound clip could you?

One of these pieces (I found them here ) ...
PROKOFIEV: Vision Fugitive Op.22 No.1 – 1973
BRAHMS: Intermezzo Op.117 No.2 – 1964
J.S. BACH: Goldberg Variations - Aria – 1982
J.S. BACH: Goldberg Variations – Aria, suite / Goldberg Variations - Variation 15 / Partita No.5, BWV 829 – 1957
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.4 (Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Ernest MacMillan) - 1951
BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No.1 (CBC Symphony orchestra, conducted by Paul Sherman) – 1954
MENDELSSOHN: Rondo Capriccioso - 1948 (Home recording)
God Save the Queen – 1961
GOULD: Lieberson Madrigal for 4 voices and piano – 1990
CHOPIN: Etude Op.10 No.2 - 1948 (Home recording)
Star Spangled Banner – 1961
SCHUBERT (arr Gould) - Symphony No.5 – 1955
J.S. BACH: E flat major Fugue for organ - 1962
J.S. BACH: Cantata; BWV 54 “Wiederstehe doch der Sünde” (Glenn Gould, piano and conductor String Orchestra - Russel Oberlin, Counter-tenor) – 1962
GIBBONS: Lord of Salisbury Pavan – 1974
HINDEMITH: Sonata No.3 in B flat major – 1950
J.S. BACH: Goldberg Variations - Aria – 1964
SCARLATTI: Sonata in B minor L.475 – 1946 (Home recording)
BEETHOVEN: “Eroica” Variations – 1961
BEETHOVEN: Sonata Op.109 – 1963
WEBER: Konzertstück for piano and orchestra (Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Ernest MacMillan) – 1951
J.S. BACH: The Art of the Fugue – 1979
J.S. BACH: English Suite No.1 – 1974
SIBELIUS: Sonatina Op.67 No.1 – 1973
BEETHOVEN: Sonata Op.10 No.2 – 1956 (Home recording)
MOZART: Fantasy and Fugue in C major K.394 – 1957
J.S. BACH: Goldberg Variations (Rehearsal) – 1981
GOULD: Improvisation on a theme by Chopin – 1981
MOZART: Sonata in A major K.331 – 1966
GOULD: String Quartet, Op.1 (Bruno Monsaingeon, Gilles Apap, Jean-Marc Apap, Marc Coppey) – 1991
SCHÖNBERG: Violin and Piano Fantasy (Yehudi Menuhin, Glenn Gould) – 1966
STRAUSS (arr Gould): Elektra – 1966
BACH: The Art of the Fugue - Contrapunctus XV – 1981
WAGNER: Siegfried Idyll (Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Glenn Gould) – 1982
WAGNER (arr Gould): Siegfried Idyll – 1973

Anyway, thanks for reminding me of it. I want to buy it now...

Ah ha! Now I've got it. Beethoven 15 variations and fugue Op. 35. Minute 55 on the DVD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj8-9-5XERo&feature=fvw

Thank You !!
Now can anyone suggest a sheet music book with a CD that would cover this in a more unadorned and realistic version that is not quite so intimidating???

Is everyone sure that it is Beethoven's Eroica-variations? In that case, there is a broad choice of interpretors, Kempff to Gilels, Perlemuter to Katsaris..

No sorry. The piece is what it is and it's tough........and long.