Arnold Schoenberg.

In the first clip below, Glenn Gould discusses with humor and expertise Arnold Schoenberg’s 1949 Phantasy for Violin with Piano Accompaniment, op. 47, with violinist Yehudi Menuhin in an unidentified television show; Gould’s wonderful personal eccentricities are in full play, and it’s one of the few conversations in the world that have ever brought together Schoenberg, Bach, Shakespeare and Jean Kerr (author of Please Don’t Eat the Daisies and the wife of New York Times theatre critic Walter Kerr). In the second, Gould and Menuhin perform the work. For more information about the Phantasy, see this page at the Arnold Schoenberg Center Web site (click “Introduction” for remarks by Therese Muxeneder).