J.S. Bach: Chorale Prelude: O Mensch Bewein Dein Sunde Gross, BWV 622

[musichiere70]

Fantastico davvero. Per chi vuole sentire Bach e nient'altro, M.Murray è l'interprete ideale: è un Bach senza fronzoli, elegante, pacato, musicale, insomma un po' l'opposto di una scuola ormai imperante che nascondendosi dietro l'ipocrisia della filologia ti dà un Bach odioso, irritante e insopportabile (ma è solo questione di gusti). Murray fu allievo di Marcel Dupré. L'Organo di San Bavo non ha bisogno di alcun commento... è di una bellezza incredibile.

[ajplathwisconsin]

My mother bought an album recorded by Dr. Albert Schweitzer with this music.

[sexinthebathtubwith]

I just watched this performed by the American Symphony Orchestra. It was amazing.

[Robbster77]

Ich wusste gar nicht, dass es so viele Menschen gibt, denen solche Musik so viel bedeutet. Ich liebe Orgel-Musik.

[eddiemperor]

@PhysicalsimForever Well Said.

[stanleyworkman]

I agree that this is a wonderful performance, but I want to add that there are many possibilities for interpretation. There is no "one" Baroque style, and it certainly isn't based on rhythmic precision

[Spidey2392]

Very nice, as it is with Bach. But I will mention one thing that irritates me. Why do people think that only one type of music can be great? Every type, be it rock, metal,hip hop, rap, classical, barqoue has its own qualities that makes it special. Likewise, music depends on the mood that one is in. Calling other types of music "noise" is idiotic. Coming from someone who could jump from Lil Wayne over to Vivaldi, it makes no sense at all.

[edzove]

The best performance I EVER heard on the most beautiful organ in the world!!

[hohohahaha]

This piece was played while we were arriving to my dads funeral - its so beautiful.

[DickyTracy]

A whiter shade of pale - Procol Harum

[bihonning]

This is just how "O, Mensch" should be played. No further comment.

[midikeyboad]

wao...1738 Christian Muller Organ is beautiful oragan sound !  & Michael Murray play too....

[32SERPENT1]

What a beautiful way to reflect on human ugliness and weakness, and to beg forgiveness. This is organ playing at its finest and most uncluttered; played on probably the finest organ in the world, which moved me to tears when I was given the enormous privilege of playing it for a couple of hours, and one of the pieces I wanted to play on this organ more than anything else was this one.

Thank you for a superb posting.

[12345qazx1]

impressive

[goodguysdoll]

great tempo too. i'm sick of all the tempos that are WAY too slow.

[MrCimiciotto]

Last week I was in Haarlem, for the first time in my life. I discovered the greatest church of Netherlands, St. Bavo, and its splendid organ. An organist was playing!

Life is marvelous. I am sixty years old but I feel young because there are every day new things to discover! Ars longa vita brevis!

[organcomposer]

This is really perfect. All is perfect, the registration, the tempo, the ornaments.... thanks.

[organboi]

perfect untampered undistorted playing. this is Bach and nothing else. The player has gotten himself out of the way, and only the composer's music exists.

[csheff1014]

well spoken!

[codeman2008]

@organboi EXACTLY! Gorgeous music!

[ms103127]

@organboi ....good points; however, sometimes the composer's music needs the interpretation/soul of the player in order for the music to exist.... :-)

[GUYVANIER]

Bravo à ce(tte) jeune mélomane de 14 ans qui s'ouvre à un univers de beauté inépuisable qui adoucit les moeurs et favorise la sérémité en tout temps. Bravo à YouTube, outil démocratique de partage. À nous de l'utiliser avec respect de tous.

[dia05k]

Bach was lutheran! personally i think that his music is more genious than Mozart's. I'm glad to hear that there are a few people who can also appriciate classical music. You are right, most people listen to noise nowadays.

[Bachlives2]

I like the Phrasing and interpretation but not so much the registration.

[hcdavidsen]

This music CD is hacked

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A couple of years ago I bought the CD "Bach at St. Bravo" by Michael Murray, so the occurrency of Bach's "O Mensch, Bewein' dein' Sünde Gross", BWV 622 in YouTube must be completely unlawful, it's hacked or so called crack. I've also seen other numbers from the CD in YouTube, I don't understand why the site don't stop this kind of transactions:

[Viruw]

They do mate - but only on request. There's way bigger fish to fry for corporations than a dusty old Bach CD, despite its greatness. And most don't bother anyway.

[littlelaurence]

What? They post it from the CD, how the hell is that "hacking" it?!

[wcbroccoli]

@hcdavidsen Under the Fair Use provisions of US copyright law it is not unlawful to distribute copyrighted material without permission of the copyright holder for the purpose of discussion. Furthermore, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act allows the alleged copyright holder to request the website admin to remove material posted in alleged violation of copyrights.

[wcbroccoli]

@hcdavidsen Furthermore, you do not know that the copyright holder has not granted permission to the person(s) who uploaded this CD clip. LOL

And UTube is not legally required to do anything except comply with the DMCA or a court order.

And the term "hacked" does not apply. You just like to toss word around because of its pejorative implications.

[eddiemperor]

Beautiful.... how can great music not be appreciated now adays, is all noise now and sensless beats, meaningless notes too gray to understand, this is a rainbow of sounds, thanks for posting this grand piece by the father and only father Bach.

[csheff1014]

AMEN!

[bagnewauckland]

So Very True.

I find it quite sad that there are very few young people who enjoy and appreciate this music for what it really is: Masterful!

I pride myself, as a 14 year old, in my choice of listening material: I Listen to music, where others listen to noise.

[eddiemperor]

14? wow good for you, many young people find this boring.

[bagnewauckland]

It's a real shame, the state of Modern "Music"

[glantz91]

Really good thing that you do, but don't stop there!

Explore! See why did the music got to the "Noise",

and you might find that music had no other choice...

Because music is made by people, so you shouldn't

blame them for liking something... However, the sadness

comes because all the beautiful richness of meanings

in music is cut off to replace it by almost carnal way

of listening. But you are not alone! (:

[tubamaestro55]

@bagnewauckland John Cage would disagree with you, my boy. =D

[1994208]

@bagnewauckland Well said! I am currently 16years old, and I simply cannot fathom how children these days can listen to such trash! It, too, pities me how few young people are able appreciate this wonderful music. What ever happened to classical music? Young people will never understand true emotion, passion, and music without understand the classics like Bach, Widor, and Dupre! Such a pity.

[Bachaholic60]

@eddiemperor We use this at church for the opening prelude for Ash Wed. services. It makes one reflect on our Savior Christ and how he suffered for our sins. The title means "O man, bewail thy greivous sin" .

[FXIX]

@eddiemperor This piece is beautiful and incomparable, but you cannot generalize music in current generation are just "Noise". This may sound ridiculous, but this may because I appreciate two extremes of music (Classical (generally) to Punk Rock ) perhaps.

[eddiemperor]

@FXIX Yeah mostly i was referring to Popular Music, I don't get it, there is no purpose annymore, Oh yes my teenage years i grew up on Punk,Metal, Rock, Etc, That music still has Meaning to the young listener :) I'm a big Sex Pistols fan and Exploited as well :) Bach was a Revolutionary genius who's Music is Extremely Hard to put in words, yet it is Essential to any true Music Lover, When punk came out it was criticized but it was so Revolutionary just like Beethoven's last quartets :)

[FXIX]

@eddiemperor agree, and I hate Pop, high five!