Andreas Scholl - Bach - Erbarme dich

[ThePastorale]

The greatest composer with the greatest counter tenor what a combination

[gRoBAtube]

wer um Gottes Willen hat auf "gefällt mir nicht" geklickt??????

[christschuh]

Zum Heulen schön.....Eine der schönsten Interpretationen.

[trxdesigner]

Bach müziğiyle insanı parçalarken, sözler insanların isyanını anlatıyor ! Almanca sözleri: Erbarme dich, mein gott, um meiner zähren willen! schaue hier, herz und auge weint vor dir bitterlich. Türkçe tercümesi: Merhamet et, tanrım, akan gözyaşlarımın hatrına bak işte, ağlıyor kalbim ve gözlerim huzurunda acı içinde, merhamet et, tanrım akan gözyaşlarımın hatrına...

[Evilbitch666]

Beautiful!

[DiVeronica]

and it's SCHOLL not school

[DiVeronica]

Erbarme dich,

Mein Gott, um meiner Zähren willen!

Schaue hier,

Herz und Auge weint vor dir

Bitterlich.

Have mercy Lord,

My God, because of this my weeping!

Look thou here,

Heart and eyes now weep for thee

Bitterly.

[kvarkarn2]

very beautiful paintings, but all about Jesus' birth, but this song is about when Peter denied Jesus????

And by the way t4ilzz, I cant agree with you more!! :D

[FrancescaHuemer]

Why the pictures of the Nativity, when this is music from a Passion? But at least the music is perfection!

[Dessinfektion]

Unglaublich !

Augen zu und in eine andere Welt gleiten - einfach nur geniesen.

[Oberlahnsteiner]

Was für eine Stimme und was für eine Interpretation ! Andreas Scholl zählt für mich zu den besten Countertenören der Welt...

[odilebams]

@Oberlahnsteiner

Ich bien mit dir eiversteinden!..Ich bien eine französiche Logopede..in Strassburg..

[jmkroczek]

Of all the recordings posted on youtube this is one of the best.. you really find rest

[lovesGenet]

so many movies directors have used this music. Ths  entirs passion and the b minor mass and so much else liturgical music of Bach is amazing.So much else by other germans of this periodI need to hear.The French too. What was happening in spain and Italy I wonder.Im so lost in Messaienand Boulez I think it is time to reeducate about the earlier models!

[matteoelkhodr]

divin...celeste...emouvant...

[seelenlerche]

Diese Aufnahme gefällt mir besonders gut, weil Sänger und Geiger absolut ebenbürtig sind. Schön, dass die Geige sich nicht in den Vordergrund drängt und die Verzierungen so nebensächlich spielt, wie sie auch gemeint sind.

[Duvircsa]

This is not from the Weihnachtsoratorium - why did you choose pictures of Christmas?

Who is the conductor?

[DarkFairy003]

His name is spelled "Scholl" not "School"

[baharsahin]

isnt is too fast?

[HookedOnBach]

too fast tempo, this is not a disco...

[seelenlerche]

@HookedOnBach

Das ist genau das richtige Tempo, kein bisschen zu schnell.

[HookedOnBach]

too fast tempo, it is not disco...

[Musicabarocco]

@HookedOnBach What? disco? What are you trying to say?

It's not too fast, never!! This is a proper tempo.

You may have heard too slow performance.

[phuckmycuntt]

Listen to as many recordings as you can . Choose which is the best for you today. Each will lead you to a better understanding of Bach and his numenal experience.

[themurge]

I got goosebumps

[Brunnhilde66]

Yes, Bach is the BEST...another gorgeous version of this aria: Eula Beal!

[arossle]

Scholl's Version von dieser Musik ist die Beste, vielleicht vergleichbar mit der von Magdalena Kozena. Wie klar spricht aus diesser Musik Bachs tiefe Pietät!

[ibk1980]

one of the best interpretations ever! Scholl belongs to a another league of artists... a real 5 stars singer!

[LohengrinT]

He is indeed born to sing religious music... the innocence in his sound is astonishing

[hootersnooter]

Thank goodness for the singer's lack of "overdone" vibrato - a nice change!

[pakvasevigreste]

The 2 dislikes have no heart, ear, or should see an eye doctor for pressing the wrong button.

This is what probably plays in heaven.

[simcha181818]

@pakvasevigreste They have no heart of eye problem. Tthey are tone deaf.

[alexvivacqua]

A arte magistral de Bach nessa voz tocante e maravilhosa de Andreas. A arte musical barroca revelada nesse dueto espetacular. Parabéns Scholl! Abs, AlexVivacqua, Brasil

[ekeiram00]

This is so beautiful!

[NilSatis1983]

Peter stop crying you biff, so what you denied the lord, at least your not going to be nailed to a tree

[HerbicidalManiac]

@NilSatis1983 ?!? He was indeed crucified- upside down! He didn't feel dignified enough to be crucified as Jesus was. And it's "you're". You need some schoolin' boy.

[NilSatis1983]

My "your" was out of pure laziness, and of course I knew the story about his crucifixion - Caravaggio's depiction of it is epic - I was just making a throw away comment, I mean who knows if it even actually happend? Thanks for replying though.

[tamerlano236]

Beautiful. Great Bach. But the best version I've ever heard is Nicholas Spanos's. That is just otherworldly. The most beautiful voice.

[starbreez3]

Scholl*

[MultiKwakwa]

Die eerste noot die Scholl zingt, dringt tot diep in je ziel naar Binnen!

[tritonusgesang]

School ist cool! - Scholl ist wunderbar! - Ich vermisse die Pizzicati! - 

[paulostroff99]

Awesome! A gem of gems.

[yezdnil]

Bach - well, perfection, really!. I have this recording: Scholl's voice is simply superb and his Erbarme dich is heart-breakingly lovely - it still makes me cry, after countless hearings.

[robertcouturier]

The VERY Best, the god of all composers...

[tromporg]

bach ist immer schön

[latimowr]

¡INEFABLE! El violín y la inmejorable voz de Scholl compiten juntos por quién expresa mejor el conseguidísimo ambiente de súplica, tristeza y dulzura que no decae en los casi siete minutos que dura. Es sin duda una de las mejores partituras de la historia de la música. GRACIAS BACH

[Arpeggio]

goosebumps

[jglarance]

This transcends the realm of the natural. It penetrates the deepest recesses of my being with its soul-stirring emotion and sublime beauty! Thank you so much for posting!

[TheAaronmoses]

What a Divine Music ! And a Divine Voice !!! More than brilliant ....

[tessrosed]

Please, which orchestra is it, and who is playing the violin obbligato?

[bbstenornl]

@tessrosed

I believe this is the recording by Philippe Herreweghe/Collegium Vocale Gent (1998). My favorite :-)

[Abmin9]

@bbstenornl 'tis the Herreweghe! My Fav too!

[TheEsoxLucius]

Ontroerende versie......

[marquisevirginie]

supernatural beauty

[diemen10]

andreas scholl?????

[marisolex119]

A nadie importa su nombre tanto como su voce.

[StolenkissGerbils]

Wow...the clarity....

[publicidadymedios]

NADIE, absolutamente NADIE canta mejor Erbarme Dich que Andres Scholl y vaya que he escuchado varias versiones! Thank you for your work, is great!

[publicidadymedios]

*Andreas*, sorry!

[cdwheel]

así es... y canta con sentimiento, le mete el feeling de acuerdo a lo que canta y a la intensidad de cada parte en la música.

[JaumeFerran]

Impressionant,no se si quedar-me amb aquesta versió o amb la habitual per mezzo...

FERRAN (malalt de Bach)

des de Barcelona (Catalunya)

[gorepeace]

Matthaus rip thanks 4 this...

[HowardJohnstone]

A very good and appropriate performance, just

slightly to fast. This is the correct way it should

be performed. Please listen and learn.

[GeminiAmbience]

"for a falsetto singer" - um, since you like correcting people...the correct term is falsettist. And I also love how you say that as if it's something sub-standard in pedagogy. He's one of the finest counter-tenors we have in the world.

[polifemo1970]

GeminiAmbiance, you are absolutely right, and I hope you could mantein your fine sense of humour. Sorry for my bad English.

[bennybuy]

Bach is the greatest. All Glories to the Lord!

[marquisevirginie]

totally awesome, simply drives me mad

[MarasVeil]

Ah... what sensitive perfection. How blessed am I that I was not given the acuity of a critic and know so little of the arcane footnotes of history. Each interpretation is a gift of a soul which translates muted letters, lines and dashes to living music. How dull to look at things which are born to fly in a vitrine. My heart breaks open when I hear such a voice and feel the embrace of these well-balanced strings.

[RowanFortuneWood]

I cannot describe my impression better than that. Thank you for sharing this.

[Viktoriaviolin]

wow!!! thats the best performance of this piece evvver!!!

[t4ilzz]

Bach is simply the best composer ever... Nothing else i have to mention! And i know i'm right

[n1bigdaddy]

in your personal opinion yes

for me he is one of the best

others i like are Rachmaninoff, Schubert, Beethoven, Liszt and many more

[t4ilzz]

ofc it's ''a matter of taste'' but one of the many reasons i'm saying that is because i have never heard anything ugly or ''not as good as'' in Bach's work. Everything is simply amazing, the harmony. But, yes its my opinion

[derblaueangst]

@t4ilzz

I'm TOTALLY agree with u...

[ingarkringen]

@t4ilzz

And I simply agree.

Ingar

[beholt]

@t4ilzz You ARE RIGHT indded :)

Composer, that we can listen all live long - and it would be not enaugh...

[unikatnoime]

@t4ilzz I coudn't have said it better myself.

[AlsatianCousin]

@t4ilzz - yes you are.

[Daphne108]

@t4ilzz Perfect statement!!! Bravo!

[wcbroccoli]

Like Mendelsohnm, you have a very inflated notion of what Bach wanted.

Read Bach's memo to the Leipzig council in which he specified, in detail, how many singers and instrumentalists he wanted to perform his music in each of the Leipzig 4 churches.

He called for 12-16 singers in an SATB choir (and only 1 voice per part in concerted music)!

Not realising that the 55 students at St. Thomas were split among 4 churches, Mendelssohn believed Bach used 55 singers in SATB!

[wcbroccoli]

You seem to think that Bach wrote Leipzig church music with the idea that it was going to be performed after he was dead and buried. Why would he think the fate of his music would be different from that of his predecessors? No composer of Bach's time had such Romantic fantasies.

It wasn't until the late 18th c., with the growth of public concerts, that the people acquired a taste for hearing music of dead composers. That was not the case in Bach's day or before.

[wcbroccoli]

Just who are these "non-pros" you speak of that didn't appreciate his music? What were their names?

In "the last portion of his life" Bach gave weekly PUBLIC concerts in Leipzig as Zimmermann's Coffehouse.

According to Zedler's "Great Musical Lexicon" of 1739, "the Bachian Collegium Musicum is more famous that all others."

[wcbroccoli]

In the memo you cite he does not say he never has enough qualified musicians.

He says that SOME of the musicians from the St. Thomas School and the appointed town musicians are inadequate.

He says he has to meet the needs not supplied by the Thomaschule by asking University students to fill in without pay.

But this situation does not reflect his experience in Muehlhausen, Arnstadt, Weimar or Coethen, or with the Leipzig Collegium Musicum he directed.

[wcbroccoli]

In the memo you cite Bach spcifies what he needed for Leipzig church music:

3-4 voices per part (1 voice per part in concerted music), 2-3 violin1, 2-3 violin2, 2 viola1, 2 viola2, 2 cellos, 1 violone, 2-3 oboes, 1-2 bassons, 3 trumpets, 1 kettledrums, 2 flutists/recordists.

The King's own theme in "Musical Offering" has nothing to do with "happiness" or "simplicity".

[wcbroccoli]

The use of modern instruments tends to "stifle" Baroque expression, but is very good for Late Romantic expression :)

[wcbroccoli]

You forget that the performers in this aria are themselves professional musicians.

I've heard many performances of this aria at similar tempos to this performance. There's nothing fast about this performance.

Everyone -- whether professional or amateur, whether clueless or historically informed --- has an OPINION about tempo.

Where do you get the idea that period instruments "stifle expression". And what do you mean by "expression"? Late 19th c. Romanticism?

[wcbroccoli]

Musical scores survive even if you never play them.

SMP (and other fine music) does not "survive" because it is played.

It is played because it worth playing.

It "survives" on its own merits.

[wcbroccoli]

Yes, you did say SMP's "composition" was 200 years before Mendelssohn performance.

But you are still mistaken.

SMP was composed in 1727 and performed many times in Bach's lifetime --- and subsequently -- IN Leipzig.

The 1st known public performance OUTSIDE Leipzig was conducted by Mendelssohn in 1829,.

which is still only 102 years after it's composition.

[wcbroccoli]

You (and Gaines?) seem to forget that "Musical Offering" is based on the King's own "tragic" theme, which is in a minor key and has a descending diminished 7th and descending chromatics. How "galant" ("simple and happy", by your definition) is the King's own theme!

[wcbroccoli]

Gaines isn't Bach either, or a even a musicologist. He's a journalist with an axe to grind and gives a false spin to the events that led to the composition of "Musical Offering". Contemporary accounts tell a very different story. Bach was not publicly humiliated.

The fact that the work incorporates elements of the Berlin school makes it a tribute, not a rebuke or a parody ("a musical work in which a style is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule").

[wcbroccoli]

Well, there you go. If you think organ music should be played on piano, then why not on a synthesizer?

You do know that some synthesizers can be programmed from live sounds sources? Sounds like the real thing, too.

Surely you advocate the modern orchestra "upgrading" from those stodgy old late 19th c. instruments to modern electronic instruments.

This would make early music available to even more people to play in their homes, cluelessly, but with unlimited freedom of expression.

[wcbroccoli]

There will always be clueless listeners who will enjoy clueless performances.

But that is not a justification for clueless performances.

Not all of us have pipe organs either. Does that mean Bach's organ music should be played on piano?

Even Mendelssohn used gut strings! Metal strings were not introduced until well after 1900, and not in general use until after WW2.

Most of the 21st c. orchestra instruments are actually 19th c. instruments. Should they upgrade to synthesizers?

[wcbroccoli]

Correction.

Most the 21st c. orchestra instruments are actually LATE 19th c. versions of 18th c. instruments. Should the modern orchestra upgrade to synthesizers?

[wcbroccoli]

SMP was not written for public concerts.

People in Bach's day didn't go to church to hear a concert in the sense you mean.

The steady growth of live and recorded HIP performances since the 1960s disproves your claim that historically uninformed performances (HUP) are needed to keep Baroque music alive.

Even a HUP of Baroque music uses a token harpsichord as a grudging concession to authenticity. Why stop with the harpsichord?

[wcbroccoli]

You're mistaken again.

SMP was 1st performed in 1727, which is about 100 years before Felix's 1829 public concert.

What does popularity have to do with the price of rice?

You seem to think Bach entered his music into a popularity contest.

"Pop" music is more popular than anything Bach wrote.

[wcbroccoli]

Your quotation is from his memo to the Leipzig council in which he specified the resources needed to perform church music at Leipzig.

Apart from Leipzig, list the employerS and placeS where he had INSUFFICIENT resources. State your sources.

Define "Galant" style". And don't say it means "simple and happy". Give a musical example.

Define "parody" and name one piece in which he "parodied" what you keep calling the "Galant" style.

Which instruments did he use that he didn't like?

[wcbroccoli]

What does this prove? That even clueless performances of good music can be moving?

Felix performed SMP in a PUBLIC CONCERT in 1829 ---- 79 years after Bach's death. Not 200 years.

A salient point you miss is that church music is written for the chuch, NOT for public concerts, which is why SMP was not heard in public concerts until groups like London Academy of Ancient Music and Berlin Singakademie sprung up in the 19th c. to promote "ancient" music to the PUBLIC!

[wcbroccoli]

You forget that even in the late 18th c. Bach was held in awe in professional circles; Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven had that attitude.

Felix 1st heard SMP at the Berlin Singakademie which was ALREADY performing it PRIVATELY. Felix merely performed it PUBLICLY, in 1829, some 79 years (not 200) after Bach's death.

The Singakademie had acquired large quantities of Bach's music from the estate of CPE Bach.

Bach's music survives on it's own merits, and because the scores survive.

[wcbroccoli]

At Weimar and Coethen Bach had the finest musicians.

His memo to the Leipzig council details exactly how many musicians he needed for each church, for voices and instruments!

Bach himself used some elements of what you call "galant style", particularly in his later years.

You are trying to confuse style of composition /w performance practice. Not on my watch.

[wcbroccoli]

NO.

Music survives on it's own merits.

The early music movement of the 20th c. has done more to stimulate interest in early music than all the uninformed "modern" interpretations. Now, even the modern ensembles try to imitate the period ensembles when playing early music.

The diversity you speak of is the result of the wide availabilty of many kinds of music of many periods via recordings and public music libraries.

[wcbroccoli]

NO.

Most music was composed to CONFORM to the style of the period. And the composer expected it to be played in the style of the period.

"Classical" music is played today due to the shift of primary music consumers from court/town/church/stage (all wanting to hear mainly contemporary music) to the concert going public (wanting to hear "classics").

Today's philharmonics are dominated by "classics". Less than 10% of a season includes new music. Not so in Bach's day.

[wcbroccoli]

The "interpreter's desired sound and form" should never be left to his arbitrary discretion.

His interpretation must always conform to the style of the period.

[wcbroccoli]

The role of the performer is to realize the composer's intentions, not his own.

You don't realize the intentions of a Baroque composer by performing his music in the style of Wagner.

[wcbroccoli]

By definition, "interpretation" is up to the interpreter.

But that is not a license to set aside historic performance practices for the sake of the interpreter's personal preferences.

[wcbroccoli]

Late 19th century notions of "expression" have no place in early music.

Historic authenticity should never be sacrificed on the altar of "expression".

[wcbroccoli]

I don't think any expression is being stifled.

The pity is that the lack of authenticity (in other performances) gives such a false

impression of the music.

Perhaps you would prefer a lethargic, heavy-handed, sentimental and very unauthentic Bach a la Richter et al, with metal strings and thick Gypsy violin tone.

[HerrvonFreizeit]

To TomosTaffers: expression is our ear-problem. I hear it in my heart much deeper when expression is not so loud. Don't you?

[xtnz]

Ay raigekimaru Ay Ay... try to listen this version in a cd in stereo instead of the net. Is to cry... Sublime.

[raigekimaru]

good but too fast (this song is begging for forgiveness from God, it's not something you in a fast paced manner)

[molealto]

You try singing it, then.

There's only so much breath in one's lungs.

This performance is slightly faster than some, but works fine since it allows Scholl to sing some phrases in one go that would otherwise *have* to be interrupted, to the detriment of the line.

[charpini]

wonderful voice and beautiful music

[srjdj]

I´M LOVING IT!!

[dies1domini]

J.S.Bach - St. Matthew Passion (BWV 244), Aria 'Erbarme dich...' Original text : Erbarme dich, mein Gott, Um meiner Zähren Willen ! Shaue hier, Herz und Auge Weint vor dir bitterlich. Erbarme dich, mein Gott ! An English translation: Have mercy, my God, For the sake of my tears ! See here, heart an eye Weep bitterly before you. Have mercy, my God !

[Nattyduck]

Thank you very much for the original text and the English translation. It was so kind of you.

[paulostroff99]

@dies1domini -TY for the translation.

[mradaChris]

Stunningly beautiful!

[cocochanelleke]

Technically perfect voice, no pain to be heard.

No pain at all.

Perhaps that is what happens when a male voice emulates a female voice.

Any answers or replies? Please write to @Kultur-Barbar

[tastibasti]

this voice is so full of sound and live...bravo!

[echlyn]

It must have happened that, back when god was god and the word bore meaning, something within people, probably fervour, made them build the most solemn, truthfully transparent, painful compositions. I don't suppose it was really a god that gave them the talent, but rather their own desire and passion. Alas, that we lack today.

[Paajtor]

psssstt...it's "Scholl" ;)

I think you should change the title, ok?

Thx for this beautifull interpretation.

[hohnerbubb]

unbelievebal beautiful !!

[jglarance]

This is the most beautiful song and music I have ever heard in my life. So deeply moving

and passionate. It moves me to tears whenever

I hear it. No other voice but Scholl's would

suffice for this blessed composition of Bachs!

[picklevalentine]

Andreas Scholl takes my breath away. Such beauty. Thank you.

[rudly]

and just listen to the fazing "such talent"

[DerWandrer]

Bach would have wept with joy to hear this beautiful interpretation after the vibrato-laden and extroverted past 150 years of Romantic performance.

[Timrath]

this is wonderful. listening to this almost makes me want to become a christian.

[rosovavoda]

I prefer this aria in performance of counter-tenor.I think female voice wouldnt sound so..sincerely and heartbreaking.. Andreas Scholl is wonderfull..

[Stina1972]

Thank you my god for this voice.

[kiya3]

he is good

[celticry]

gracias

[michelmans]

Andreas Scholl est un des meilleurs sans doute. Admirable. Merci

[rosenberyou]

He is best singer of all baroque :)

[BachLoveNat]

'Have mercy, my God, for my tears' sake;

Look here my heart and eyes weep bitterly before you.

Have mercy, my God, for my tears' sake'

It's so beautiful we can feel The Greatness of Bach with the best aria...

Andreas Scholl's singing is divine... he is the best Bach singer. It is clear for me and for many people.

Indeed, your video is beautiful!

Thank you, dear friend .

[flute1982]

May i know who is the conductor?

[essenciademusica]

conductor Philippe Herreweghe.

[essenciademusica]

a angel singing!

[BachLoveNat]

yes