Glenn Gould - On the Record

Canadian concert pianist Glenn Gould enjoys a respite at his lakeside cottage. It is an aspect of Gould previously known only to the collie pacing beside him through the woods, the fishermen resting their oars to hear his piano, and fellow musicians like Franz Kraemer, with whom Gould talks of composition.

Le pianiste canadien Glenn Gould enregistre aux studios de la Columbia Records, à New York, le Concerto italien de Bach. Ce film livre également quelques images de l'artiste chez lui sur les bords du lac Simcoe.

An informal study of the great but extremely human dean of modern composers, a man past eighty, full of the joy of life and, though proudly American, still very much an Old World figure with a long and alert memory for people and events in music, literature and art. The main focus of the film is Igor Stravinsky conducting the CBC Symphony Orchestra in a recording of his Symphony of Psalms.