Glenn Gould and that Brahms Concerto…

It's not often that conductors feel it necessary to preface their performances with a disclaimer. But that's just what Leonard Bernstein did when conducting Brahms's First Piano Concerto in 1962, with the eccentric genius pianist Glenn Gould as soloist. Above is a taster of the slow, slow, slow tempos Gould chose. I've still got to hunt out a clip of a later section, which in Gould's hands seemed to turn from 19th-century turbulence turns into a 20th-century desolate wasteland.

In the meantime, here's that disclaimer: