V072: Glenn Gould: A Portrait
CBC Television, VHS (NTSC) (Kultur: 1188) color (1985), 1:45:00. Contents
| Time | Visual |
| 0:00 | Credits |
| 0:40 | GG playing, photos, voice over |
| 1:42 | Interview with GG's father |
| 2:00 | Photos, film footage of Toronto |
| 4:09 | Scenes of GG's apartment |
| 4:35 | GG playing, quote from Karajan |
| 5:05 | Stock footage, FF trying out various pianos |
| 5:55 | Interview with friend, Nicolas Goldschmidt |
| 7:00 | Scenes of family cottage |
| 7:40 | Interview with GG's father |
| 8:19 | Interview with GG, scenes of him singing to elephants and other animals |
| 9:25 | Interview with Goldschmidt, described evening program GG prepared with a singer of Ode to Napoleon and Op. 15, pirated recording |
| 11:19 | Scenes of piano and communications technologies |
| 11:50 | Interview with Robert Fulford (?), GG's childhood neighbor |
| 12:30 | Books from GG's library, including the Stein edition of Schoenberg's letters |
| 12:50 | Published books written by GG |
| 13:15 | GG playing piano, photos |
| 13:35 | Interview with friend, Margaret Pacsu |
| 14:00 | Interview with friend, John Roberts |
| 14:28 | Interview with cousin, Jessie Greig |
| 14:37 | Footage of recording session (Italian Concerto) |
| 16:00 | Emperor Concerto, scenes of Ontario |
| 17:24 | GG's father, pictures from GG's childhood |
| 19:00 | Interview with Jessie Greig |
| 19:33 | GG's father, photos, Jessie Greig |
| 21:00 | Robert Fulford, photos, scenes of public schools |
| 23:10 | Jessie Greig discussing his writing projects and his pets |
| 25:00 | GG's father discussing his affinity for skunks |
| 25:50 | John Roberts |
| 26:48 | GG in church, playing the organ |
| 28:20 | GG at the piano, photos with other musicians |
| 31:15 | Interview with John Beckwith, also a student of GG's piano teacher, Alberto Guerero |
| 32:00 | Scenes of GG performing Webern Variations |
| 32:40 | Interview with Paul Hume, critic for the Washington Post, discussing his first US recital (1955) |
| 34:36 | GG's father discussing his Town Hall debut a few days later, film footage |
| 35:50 | Goldschmidt discussing GG's fame and modesty |
| 36:30 | Photos of Ontario, touring, visit to USSR in 1957 |
| 41:20 | GG playing with Yehudi Menuhin on television |
| 42:00 | John Roberts telling about occasion when GG sightread the Grieg piano concerto |
| 44:10 | Robert Fulford on GG as Canadian |
| 45:10 | GG conducting, interview with Maureen Forester |
| 45:50 | Interview with manager Walter Humberger |
| 46:15 | Interview with producer Bruno Monsaingeon |
| 47:30 | John Roberts on GG's extra-musical pursuits |
| 48:30 | Robert Fulford on GG as recording artist |
| 50:00 | More interviews with GG's colleagues, conclusion of Emperor Concerto |
| 52:15 | Part Two, scenes of Canada, photos of GG and his apartment |
| 54:50 | GG playing, alone on stage |
| 56:50 | Scenes of the woods, GG taking a walk, importance of solitude |
| 58:00 | GG on the north shore of Lake Superior (Wawa), "the idea of north" |
| 59:10 | GG's radio programs, The Idea of North, The Latecomers |
| 1:02:27 | GG alone on stage, interview with him |
| 1:03:10 | GG playing Ravel, La Valse |
| 1:05:00 | GG's fascination with psychiatry, his radio interviews with psychiatrists |
| 1:06:00 | Interview with Margaret Pacsu |
| 1:07:00 | GG performing skits, "all that glitters is not Gould" |
| 1:08:00 | GG's extensive use of the telephone |
| 1:09:30 | GG rehearsing on the telephone |
| 1:10:00 | Margaret discussing radio program when they programed some Schoenberg songs |
| 1:11:00 | GG's interest in Schoenberg, performing the Violin Fantasy, Op. 47 with Menuhin and discussing the piece on television |
| 1:13:20 | GG's interest in Richard Strauss, "the greatest musical figure of this century" |
| 1:14:15 | Footage of Leopold Stokowski, collaboration with GG |
| 1:16:30 | More about GG's radio programs, his interest in iconoclasts and isolated figures |
| 1:17:00 | Scenes of Toronto at night, death of GG's mother |
| 1:18:30 | Interview with family members, GG's emotional life |
| 1:21:00 | GG playing the Goldberg Variations, recording |
| 1:23:45 | GG's arrangement of music for The Wars, and for a film about Pablo Casals |
| 1:25:50 | John Roberts on GG's pacifism |
| 1:26:30 | GG's interest in theology and writing |
| 1:27:25 | Interview with Bruno Monsaingeon, made television program of GG performing the Goldberg Variations |
| 1:29:00 | Colleagues speculating on GG's conducting talent, discussing his project conducting Wagner's Siegfried Idyll |
| 1:31:00 | GG's decision to re-record the Goldberg Variations, desire to create a more cohesive whole |
| 1:33:30 | Friends discussing GG's last birthday, his 50th, and his death |
| 1:34:50 | Fugue on BACH, GG's last moments |
| 1:37:17 | Footage of GG's funeral, aria (with violin obligato) "Erbarme dich" from the St. Mathew Passion, Goldberg Variations |
| 1:40:00 | Moving GG's piano out of his apartment |
| 1:41:00 | GG's life as a fugue, various scenes of piano and countryside |
| 1:43:17 | Credits |
| 1:45:00 | End |
Credits
Directed and Told by: Eric Till
Editor: Wayne Evans
Produced by: Eric Till and Vincent Tovell
Interviews with:
Geoffrey Payzant, Author, Glenn Gould: Music and Mind
Margaret Pacsu, Broadcaster
Jessie Greig, Cousin
John Peter Lee Roberts, Musician/Colleague
Roxolana Roslak, Soprano
Ray Roberts, Business Coordinator
Bruno Monsaingeon, Musician/TV Producer
Paul Hume, Music Critic
Victor di Bello, Conductor/Music Coordinator
Robert Fulford, Journalist