Essa é uma daquelas músicas que nos lembra sermos mais que uma simples máquina com relativa inteligência. A sensibilidade que tranmite só é inferior a que Bach deve ter sentido ao compô-la.
@naomikislasi "Awake! calls to us the voice of the watchmen very high on the ramparts. Awake, thou city: Jerusalem! This hour is called Midnight; They call to us with clear voice: Where are ye, wise virgins? Get up, the bridegroom is coming. Arise! Take up your lamps! Hallelujah! Prepare yourselves for the wedding. Ye must go to meet him." The reference is to Matthew 25, 1-13 (parable of the wise and foolish virgins).
Poor "stargirl" Susie, I hope you are joking. Otherwise I suppose 3 unfortunates who voted "up" are just those whom you know in this wretched world. But look around and find people who "can aPPreciate real art". They are at least 375329!
@jutescrim It has been re-issued by DGG on their Galleria Series along with the recording of the Magnificat. You should be able to find it at the usual on-line places (amazon & others) for about US$10.00
Check out Bach's little known "Used Paper Cantata." It's about a Jungfrau who's father will allow her to marry the man of her Traume, only if she agrees to renounce used paper. She feigns to prefer the paper to the young gentleman and her father, who really wants her out of his hands (so he can keep the paper for himself) gives in. Turns out that young Hans Wertvoll 's family has hoards of used paper in it's coffers. The highlight is the soprano aria
My favorite cantata, with BWV 147, including :''Jesus joy of man's desiring''; must known; and everything that is from John E.Gardiner and Bernard Labadie ! Greetings from winterland !
My favorite cantata, with ''Jesus joy of man's desiring''; must known; and everything that is from John E.Gardiner and Bernard Labadie ! Greetings from winterland !
If I was I would challenge all the brightest stars in the musical world to write a cantata equal to just one of Bach's greatest and the prize would be £1M. And I'm sure they would all fail.
I disagree with the idea that bach music lacks heart. Bach's music is a soothing balm for the heart and the soul and the mind, in it's simplicity there is a comforting energy. In the symetry there is familiarity. And in the grandness there is brilliance.
When I tell ppl about wonderfull music like this kind. They just think I'm wierd, but they are wierd for not understanding the beauty in classic music. I feel sorry for them (:
Handel used Bach manuscripts as toilet paper. Who wants music for the mind.. The world needs music for the heart. Bach never had that in him. The purists listen to utter shyte sometimes and miss the point of music completely. World peace will only come from inner peace. The brain is whats killing it at the moment.
@grandadpoppyable We reject your dichotomy. Bach's music was for the mind and spirit, it was not necessarily interested in emotion, which is what you are talking about (heart).
Furthermore you are deceived about the cause of strife in the world, take a Psychology course. The kinds of pyschopathologies that lead to a Hitler, a Mussolini a Hussein or a Bin Laden are emotional .
@Onieracraft I don't know where this idea that Bach was coldly intellectual comes from. Yes he had a giant intellect, but his music is absolutely full of emotion, it's just that it was done in a very controlled way. That's what music was like in the Baroque generally actually. Bach just did it far better than anybody else.
@banginghats2 You are absolutely right. Moderns seem to think of emotion as ontologically lacking order and control. On the contrary, when we control our passions and emotions and focus our attention on the divine (a more central pillar of Bach's musical ethos there is none), it is in that moment that we attain the greatest emotional heights. Modern Britney-Spears-Lady-Gaga-Hip-Hop-listening barbarians have no concept of this kind of enlightenment and so criticize what they don't understand.
I think Bach is very much about the heart--made to grab you by the sheer force of how music works. You don't have to understand a thing--it just unfolds so perfectly it makes you feel like Yeah, fuckin' A!
Pardon guys, I hope my question is not too silly.....I did this piece at least twice as fast...... for a few times... is this tempo the authentic one???
Bach died a man of wealth. End this silly rumor. His music should be the focus of all warring nations such that war ends. All humanity shall wage peace upon the hearing of Bach's music.
Richer seems to have a direct line to Bach himself, is this the greatest piece of music ever .....possibly. Beloved Bach your great servant Richter has seeen all and created this great performance so intense i CAN ONLY LISTEN OCCASIONALLY, it is just too much for mere mortals, Great and beloved Bach .....THE GREATEST MUSICIAN OF ALL TIME Given the keys to unlock the imortal mystery of life. Rest in peace with your brother Karl Richter...how can any musician fail to be moved.....
Richer seems to have a direct line to Bach himself, is this the greatest piece of music ever .....possibly. Beloved Bach your great servant Richter has seeen all and created this great performance so intense i CAN ONLY LISTEN OCCASIONALLY, it is just too much for mere mortals, Great and beloved Bach ......THE GREATEST MUSICIAN OF ALL TIME rest in peace with your brother Karl Richter...how can any musician fail to be moved.....
working in a research field, life is (sometimes) extremely boring. the title, "sleepers awake", sure does fit this song, b/c i am ready to work another 12hrs. thanks for this awesome choral-version of this piece.
screw the 5-hr energy drink, they should replace the product with this song, ha.
What a might, power and almighty harmony of the Bach’s world! Bach’s contemplation conveyed to its very perfection. The chorus is of a special comment. Its forceful and apt pace is splendid, rich, full of lush and yet spiritual ethereal sound ascending to the God’s grace and clemency. So divine that makes me to forget about the German’s everlasting sin.
es muy linda musica sirve para relajar el alma y tentar a l corazon a hacer arte como yo ... Hansifuchs7@hotmail.com soy pintor de arte sacro me gusta tambien la musica de antonio vivaldi y la de j.s bach gracias
THIS IS MY FIRST COMMENT ON YOU TUBE, BUT THIS TIME I HAVE TO WRITE SOMETHING. I AM A CHRISTHIAN AND I BEEN SINGING AT CHURCH SINCE I WAS 3 YEAR OLD, BUT THI IS THE CLOSSER SOUND OF HEAVEN I EVER HEARD. THE ALLELUJA'S OF THIS CHORUS MADE ME CRIED LIKE A BABY. THANK YOU GOD!!
I have an old musicassette copy of this version and it still takes some beating despite what is obviously stiff competiition from more modern - ostensibly authentic - versions. The choral sections and also the oboe accompaniment in Mein Freund are very effective and Richter manages to effect solid control over everything without losing any of the emotional quality. Wunderschon!
I have an old musicassette copy of this version and it still takes some beating despite what is obviously stiff competiition from more modern - ostensibly authentic - versions. The choral sections and also the oboe accompaniment in Mein Freund are very effective and Richter manages to effect solid control over everything without losing any of the emotional quality. Wunderschon!
Yes, the instruments and musicians weren't as refined back then, but neither were the audience. An audience that only heard live music and only on Sundays would have been wowed by such a performance, no matter how bad Bach thought the musicians of the time were.
Can you imagine how this might have sounded on Sunday morning during Bach's time in a packed Lutheran Church with a full orchestra and choir? It's not a wonder many people went to church. They were certain to leave the service "filled with the spirit."
Actually I hear Bach used to rant about how bad the musicians were, and they probably were not as good as todays conservatory trained musicians. But yes, I'd love to have a time machine and hear what it really sounded like!
@ovolacto1 You are completely right ! I felt his spirit very strongly a few weeks ago, when I was in his birthplace Eisenach. I visited that church and I could imagine this nearly perfectly !
@ovolacto1 It`s interesting that you should say this: if I could be time-machined back to a place and time of my choice, it would be to watch Bach conduct a cantata in the Thomas Kirche in Leipzig - with my late father preferably. I can think of no greater wonder.
New to this beauty. I went to a Christmas vespers in NYC and heard for the first tiem JS Bach live by true professionals. Far from a musical snob I could not contain my joy at this heaven sent sound-tears flowed forthwith and throughout. Now I'm hooked Bravo X 1000
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme Der Wächter sehr hoch auf der Zinne, Wach auf, du Stadt Jerusalem! Mitternacht heißt diese Stunde; Sie rufen uns mit hellem Munde: Wo seid ihr klugen Jungfrauen? Wohl auf, der Bräutgam kömmt; Steht auf, die Lampen nehmt! Alleluja! Macht euch bereit Zu der Hochzeit, Ihr müsset ihm entgegen gehn!
It's interesting how in the comments one can see that music this excellent is appreciated universally, regardless of the language spoken by the listener.
@ToquiGambit My God!! I never knew that!! I studied J.S.Bach many years ago whilst doing my GCE in music, but that fact was never brought to light in any text books. What a shame (no crime!!) if that is so.
@ToquiGambit I don't know where you heard that from, but Bach had a huge estate filled with various expensive books including those written by Martin Luther, as well as multiple very expensive instruments. I'm sure his family was quite comfortable.
@ToquiGambit one of Bachs idiot sons sold it to a meat guy who used his papers, Bachs B minor Mass Exsist because ithe taught it to the people, someone at the church prior.
@ToquiGambit there is no question that priceless Bach manscripts sold as used paper would be one of the greatest tragedies involving cultural artifact, in history. Given who his sons were, and his own greatness, for a family member not to know the value, spiritually, OR MONETARILY, of those papers is kind of ludicrous. I don't know where you heard the story but it is as suspect as it is breathtakingly heartwrenching, so I imagine that is why it somehow got passed on yet is not much spoken of.
@ToquiGambit What a load of utter and absolute rubbish. Me thinks you may be thinking of Mozart who died in abject poverty. The Magnificent Bach certainly didn't.
On the morning of the 28th of July, 1750, he woke up to find he couldn't bear strong light again, and see quite clearly.
That same day he had a stroke, followed by a severe fever. He died 'in the evening, after a quarter to nine, in the sixty-fifth year of his life, yielding up his blessed soul to his saviour'.
@ToquiGambit and the point of all this is that, cause of the this event that you write half of the bach's work has be lost forever and that means about 1200 works if i rember good today we have the half of bach's work in our hands
Yeah, it's amazing what lengths people would go to acquire some used paper.
Interestingly the von Tollaffe family of Vienna made their fortune by buying paper, writing on it and then reselling it as "used." At a time when a good trio sonata would fetch maybe 10 groschen and three pages of good ol' used paper would would sell for twice that amount, well, you do the math.
@ToquiGambit Hey, I heard that story as well. But, it is just a silly story made-up in the 19th century trying to impose their idea of the musician as a tragic hero onto an 18th century figure. CPE Bach tried to collect as many of his dad's works as possible in order to preserve them he even published his chorales in 1764. WF Bach was very poor, because he had a drinking problem, he sold many of his father's works, but they are not lost. The only works lost were due to a house fire.
i would label this music as dangerously beautiful. there should be warning - it is not for the feeble hearted. lay people who are new to this genre are likely to die of a stroke caused by the multitude and intensity of passion stirred up !
Es ist einfach nur wundervolle Musik, der ich stundenlang zuhören kann. Und ich werde innerlich ganz ruhig und einfach nur in Stille dieser Musik lauschen.
Richter impone "il tempo".Es fruto de una vindicación de Bach,en plena guerra fria.¿Disciplina alemana y vindicación del mejor músico de todos los tiempos frente a la barbarie de la guerra.
Karl Richter,llevaba prendido y bien aprehendido a Bach en su talento musical.¡Aprendamos y en su caso deleitémonos con su enorme barroco.
Estoy totalmente de acuerdo, y decir también que Richter es quizás lo único para lograr la fidelidad absoluta a Bach y el barroco a través de un punto de vista romántico. Y esta interpretación de BVW 140 es la traducción más perfecta de la hazaña.
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You ignorant, vulgar moron. You should have wrote "the fucking greatest composer of all fucking history". But you are so busy being a vile fool that you haven't even learned how to give even a crude compliment correctly.
Excellent point. Now maybe if the text started "Schlafe ein, ruhig sei die Stimme..." this tempo would be appropriate. Such glorious music, though. It can survive almost anything!
Finally...finally...FINALLY someone does this first movement of Cantata 140 by Bach the right way. Man, there are so many versions and they just butcher what I consider Bach's best work. Now this is how Cantata 140 first movement should be done. I hate when they try to do some mini-orchestra bull****. To do this Cantata 140 first movement you need a collosal..get that...a collosal choir to hear soul moving element of this music. Great entry for youtube here.
no me imagino a quien no le podria gustar...
esculapio2001 2 weeks ago
es la gloria...
esculapio2001 2 weeks ago
I have never heard the canata so slow, however there is certainly a special attraction to this pace.
If I were (and I am not!) an atheist, this music would make me a Christian.
Unsurpassed glorious music! Papa Bach was Divine!!!
Lobo
rolfdm 3 weeks ago
22 people don't have any musical taste or appreciation for beautiful, artistic, well perfomed and meaningful music :/
avellanedam 3 weeks ago in playlist Mis favoritos1
does anyone have a good quality download link for this piece (and perhaps any similar ones) torrents are fine
tetch49 1 month ago
Heavenly music by The Geat Master and ditto pictures!
trygbugg 2 months ago
Too slow.
piter923 2 months ago
some people think the dislike button its the download one
Viniyio 2 months ago 3
This piece is breath-taking and the pictures you put with it compliment it perfectly :)
KattiKatja 2 months ago
Essa é uma daquelas músicas que nos lembra sermos mais que uma simples máquina com relativa inteligência. A sensibilidade que tranmite só é inferior a que Bach deve ter sentido ao compô-la.
Elibanton 2 months ago
Bach justifica o cristianismo.
ArmundoAlves 3 months ago
Bach turned math one the languages of the universe into God’s voice.
SchismLou 4 months ago
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MucusFelidae 3 months ago
@MucusFelidae
Allah = God
kozzzh 2 months ago
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@SchismLou "God’s voice".
How about Allah? Do Muslims play Bach?
MucusFelidae 3 months ago
są miejsca i osoby ...mało tego dziś....
Piotr.M jak Tobiasz.M
9000EMMERSON 4 months ago
ALLELUIAH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH-AH...!!!
bioboi01 4 months ago
Bach - Cantata BWV 140 - Wake up,calls us the voice
11diewahrheit 5 months ago
It's funny to pronounce his name as Batch.
AthosAmo 6 months ago
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Judingo 7 months ago
Translate? Beete schon
naomikislasi 10 months ago
@naomikislasi "Awake! calls to us the voice of the watchmen very high on the ramparts. Awake, thou city: Jerusalem! This hour is called Midnight; They call to us with clear voice: Where are ye, wise virgins? Get up, the bridegroom is coming. Arise! Take up your lamps! Hallelujah! Prepare yourselves for the wedding. Ye must go to meet him." The reference is to Matthew 25, 1-13 (parable of the wise and foolish virgins).
NosHabebitHumus 9 months ago 2
this music fills my spirit at full potential, is is a wonder because no one i know feels the same
stargirlsusan 10 months ago 7
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@stargirlsusan
Poor "stargirl" Susie, I hope you are joking. Otherwise I suppose 3 unfortunates who voted "up" are just those whom you know in this wretched world. But look around and find people who "can aPPreciate real art". They are at least 375329!
kozzzh 2 months ago
@stargirlsusan then you are a rose among thorns, my dear.
panaceasolace 1 week ago
Where may I obtain this particular recording by Choir -Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme. Conductor Karl richter?
jutescrim 10 months ago
@jutescrim It has been re-issued by DGG on their Galleria Series along with the recording of the Magnificat. You should be able to find it at the usual on-line places (amazon & others) for about US$10.00
NosHabebitHumus 9 months ago
This is a great piece. Too bad this recording has too much unnecessary vibrato and is painstakingly slow.
2880aham 11 months ago
This really is a beautiful piece of music....and I'm not a person who knows that much about this genre.
Butterfly20002000 11 months ago
Check out Bach's little known "Used Paper Cantata." It's about a Jungfrau who's father will allow her to marry the man of her Traume, only if she agrees to renounce used paper. She feigns to prefer the paper to the young gentleman and her father, who really wants her out of his hands (so he can keep the paper for himself) gives in. Turns out that young Hans Wertvoll 's family has hoards of used paper in it's coffers. The highlight is the soprano aria
Mein lieber Vater
Lass mir mein Blatter
PJinBston 11 months ago
My favorite cantata, with BWV 147, including :''Jesus joy of man's desiring''; must known; and everything that is from John E.Gardiner and Bernard Labadie ! Greetings from winterland !
Sylvain894 11 months ago 2
My favorite cantata, with ''Jesus joy of man's desiring''; must known; and everything that is from John E.Gardiner and Bernard Labadie ! Greetings from winterland !
Sylvain894 11 months ago
EGO GAUDIUM!
Vinibach 1 year ago
how can i express what i feel with mere words.... :-(
bachsxoxogirl 1 year ago
Viel zu trag! Hört Ton Koopman und seinem ABO!
Slagert63 1 year ago
This is trully magical. I have now listened to this opus 25 time continuously and will choose it for my funeral, along with Let it Be.
The use of the minor key in Baroque music is what makes it so powerful
jutescrim 1 year ago
I wish I was a billionaire.
If I was I would challenge all the brightest stars in the musical world to write a cantata equal to just one of Bach's greatest and the prize would be £1M. And I'm sure they would all fail.
bachlover99 1 year ago
Where on Earth did anyone find the 13 soulless creatures who disliked this music??
bohemianspiritmn 1 year ago 4
@bohemianspiritmn
Unluckily their number is 20 not 13
kozzzh 2 months ago
I disagree with the idea that bach music lacks heart. Bach's music is a soothing balm for the heart and the soul and the mind, in it's simplicity there is a comforting energy. In the symetry there is familiarity. And in the grandness there is brilliance.
14dramageek1 1 year ago 3
When I tell ppl about wonderfull music like this kind. They just think I'm wierd, but they are wierd for not understanding the beauty in classic music. I feel sorry for them (:
Nlla546 1 year ago
Handel used Bach manuscripts as toilet paper. Who wants music for the mind.. The world needs music for the heart. Bach never had that in him. The purists listen to utter shyte sometimes and miss the point of music completely. World peace will only come from inner peace. The brain is whats killing it at the moment.
grandadpoppyable 1 year ago
@grandadpoppyable We reject your dichotomy. Bach's music was for the mind and spirit, it was not necessarily interested in emotion, which is what you are talking about (heart).
Furthermore you are deceived about the cause of strife in the world, take a Psychology course. The kinds of pyschopathologies that lead to a Hitler, a Mussolini a Hussein or a Bin Laden are emotional .
Onieracraft 1 year ago
@Onieracraft I don't know where this idea that Bach was coldly intellectual comes from. Yes he had a giant intellect, but his music is absolutely full of emotion, it's just that it was done in a very controlled way. That's what music was like in the Baroque generally actually. Bach just did it far better than anybody else.
banginghats2 1 year ago 3
@banginghats2 You are absolutely right. Moderns seem to think of emotion as ontologically lacking order and control. On the contrary, when we control our passions and emotions and focus our attention on the divine (a more central pillar of Bach's musical ethos there is none), it is in that moment that we attain the greatest emotional heights. Modern Britney-Spears-Lady-Gaga-Hip-Hop-listening barbarians have no concept of this kind of enlightenment and so criticize what they don't understand.
DelendaEstCarthago1 1 year ago
@grandadpoppyable
I think Bach is very much about the heart--made to grab you by the sheer force of how music works. You don't have to understand a thing--it just unfolds so perfectly it makes you feel like Yeah, fuckin' A!
genecotton 1 year ago
Pardon guys, I hope my question is not too silly.....I did this piece at least twice as fast...... for a few times... is this tempo the authentic one???
yellowlynx 1 year ago
@yellowlynx
which tempo is authentic one ? Straubes/Ramins/Thomas/Richter/Harnancourts/
Rillings ?
ocwhanappi 1 year ago
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which tempo is authentic one ? Straubes/Ramins/Thomas/Richter/Harnancourts/
Rillings ?
ocwhanappi 1 year ago
@yellowlynx
ocwhanappi 1 year ago
Amen. That made my day! thanks for the post
crob647gtx 1 year ago
Bach died a man of wealth. End this silly rumor. His music should be the focus of all warring nations such that war ends. All humanity shall wage peace upon the hearing of Bach's music.
ajb1776 1 year ago
Richer seems to have a direct line to Bach himself, is this the greatest piece of music ever .....possibly. Beloved Bach your great servant Richter has seeen all and created this great performance so intense i CAN ONLY LISTEN OCCASIONALLY, it is just too much for mere mortals, Great and beloved Bach .....THE GREATEST MUSICIAN OF ALL TIME Given the keys to unlock the imortal mystery of life. Rest in peace with your brother Karl Richter...how can any musician fail to be moved.....
sandrogo2006 1 year ago
@sandrogo2006
right^^
taejunlim 1 year ago
@sandrogo2006 : Amen, und Amen
66eigen 1 year ago
Richer seems to have a direct line to Bach himself, is this the greatest piece of music ever .....possibly. Beloved Bach your great servant Richter has seeen all and created this great performance so intense i CAN ONLY LISTEN OCCASIONALLY, it is just too much for mere mortals, Great and beloved Bach ......THE GREATEST MUSICIAN OF ALL TIME rest in peace with your brother Karl Richter...how can any musician fail to be moved.....
sandrogo2006 1 year ago
working in a research field, life is (sometimes) extremely boring. the title, "sleepers awake", sure does fit this song, b/c i am ready to work another 12hrs. thanks for this awesome choral-version of this piece.
screw the 5-hr energy drink, they should replace the product with this song, ha.
jsong9 1 year ago
@jsong9 this is not sleepers awake =P
Lity10 1 year ago
What a might, power and almighty harmony of the Bach’s world! Bach’s contemplation conveyed to its very perfection. The chorus is of a special comment. Its forceful and apt pace is splendid, rich, full of lush and yet spiritual ethereal sound ascending to the God’s grace and clemency. So divine that makes me to forget about the German’s everlasting sin.
musiccritic1910 1 year ago
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es muy linda musica sirve para relajar el alma y tentar a l corazon a hacer arte como yo ... Hansifuchs7@hotmail.com soy pintor de arte sacro me gusta tambien la musica de antonio vivaldi y la de j.s bach gracias
HANSIFUCHSTORREZ 1 year ago
Ich bin ja nur zufällig darüber gestolpert, aber langsam werde ich Classic-Fan :D
Topassee 1 year ago
This is divine. Beyond words.
enroth2 1 year ago
Me ha emocionado de principio a fin esta versión. No he escuchado otra versión tan bella y expresiva.
paripe 1 year ago
THIS IS MY FIRST COMMENT ON YOU TUBE, BUT THIS TIME I HAVE TO WRITE SOMETHING. I AM A CHRISTHIAN AND I BEEN SINGING AT CHURCH SINCE I WAS 3 YEAR OLD, BUT THI IS THE CLOSSER SOUND OF HEAVEN I EVER HEARD. THE ALLELUJA'S OF THIS CHORUS MADE ME CRIED LIKE A BABY. THANK YOU GOD!!
Rafnid 1 year ago
I've listened to three versions so far. This one seems the most different. Very beautiful though.
rumpranger65 1 year ago
Unbelievable
immuntocrap2 1 year ago
@immuntocrap2
Wirklich unglaublich! Hosianna dem JSB!!!
kozzzh 2 months ago
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I have an old musicassette copy of this version and it still takes some beating despite what is obviously stiff competiition from more modern - ostensibly authentic - versions. The choral sections and also the oboe accompaniment in Mein Freund are very effective and Richter manages to effect solid control over everything without losing any of the emotional quality. Wunderschon!
silverdalesapphires 1 year ago
I have an old musicassette copy of this version and it still takes some beating despite what is obviously stiff competiition from more modern - ostensibly authentic - versions. The choral sections and also the oboe accompaniment in Mein Freund are very effective and Richter manages to effect solid control over everything without losing any of the emotional quality. Wunderschon!
silverdalesapphires 1 year ago
Yes, the instruments and musicians weren't as refined back then, but neither were the audience. An audience that only heard live music and only on Sundays would have been wowed by such a performance, no matter how bad Bach thought the musicians of the time were.
ovolacto1 1 year ago
Can you imagine how it had sounded in the Marcus-church
at he times of the young Karl Richter .
On Friday or Saturday evening,when the the Bach and Richter lovers stood closed head by head .
Oh happy Munich ! Karl Richter ,why did you go up to heaven so early ?!
ocwhanappi 1 year ago
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PaultjeL 1 year ago
Bach, le plus grand compositeur de tous les temps !
Chateaubriand25 1 year ago 2
Karl Richter is the best by miles !
henkerfastwalker 1 year ago
Wonderful! The slower tempo than most recordings of this is indeed majestic and perfect - 'pour moi'. Thank you!
strachs100 1 year ago 6
Can you imagine how this might have sounded on Sunday morning during Bach's time in a packed Lutheran Church with a full orchestra and choir? It's not a wonder many people went to church. They were certain to leave the service "filled with the spirit."
ovolacto1 1 year ago 31
I wish I would have been in that very Lutheran Church!
feetje2008 1 year ago
@ovolacto1
Actually I hear Bach used to rant about how bad the musicians were, and they probably were not as good as todays conservatory trained musicians. But yes, I'd love to have a time machine and hear what it really sounded like!
MarianParrott 1 year ago
@ovolacto1
My thoughts exatly . When i hear bach's music i have the same feelings.
jarema6 8 months ago
@ovolacto1 You are completely right ! I felt his spirit very strongly a few weeks ago, when I was in his birthplace Eisenach. I visited that church and I could imagine this nearly perfectly !
Biloutebelge1969 5 months ago
@ovolacto1 It`s interesting that you should say this: if I could be time-machined back to a place and time of my choice, it would be to watch Bach conduct a cantata in the Thomas Kirche in Leipzig - with my late father preferably. I can think of no greater wonder.
dwrenched1 5 months ago
Es una composición sobre la Gloria y realmente suena así. ¡Excelente! :)
avellanedam 2 years ago 5
I'm crying happyness
gdellaporta 2 years ago 4
splendida....il tempo e'...una meraviglia...
Questo e' Bach... finalmente!!!
leonboelmann 2 years ago 4
BMV 1 und BMV 140 - beide wachsen aus dem Nicolaischen Humus:
" Ein anders von der Stimm zu Mitter-
nacht / vnd von den klugen Jungfrauwen / die
jhrem himmlischen Bräutigam be-
gegnen / Matth. 25." So das Titelblatt von 1599.
Danke Karl Richter!
preruminator 2 years ago 2
Another great version of a song made by Bach. And nicely long. You have a great chioce of music.
MarcoMeerman 2 years ago
New to this beauty. I went to a Christmas vespers in NYC and heard for the first tiem JS Bach live by true professionals. Far from a musical snob I could not contain my joy at this heaven sent sound-tears flowed forthwith and throughout. Now I'm hooked Bravo X 1000
sdh418 2 years ago 8
He won't let you down :)
BesACB 2 years ago 4
"Bach is Bach, as God is God"
Unknown french composer
justicewithasword 2 years ago 7
Berlioz. Not quite so unknown. =)
roman1akid 2 years ago 2
lol
justicewithasword 2 years ago
essenciademusica 2 years ago 13
@essenciademusica Do you have an good translation for me in Dutch? I need an translation for an school assignment...
Carpfisher12 2 years ago
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@essenciademusica WE'RE ON YOUTUBE. SPEEAAKKK ENNGLIISHH.
Kidding :P
aaron9099 7 months ago
@aaron9099 Bach was German! ;-P
taariqtaariq 4 months ago
ich würde dich gern vom allein sein erlösen. nicht nur aus herzensgüte.
asemon2000 2 years ago
It's interesting how in the comments one can see that music this excellent is appreciated universally, regardless of the language spoken by the listener.
jonahansen 2 years ago
truly! music is the universal language itself, one that everyone is capable of understanding.
praddie000gurl 2 years ago
Es una pieza sublime, interpretada por otro genio: Karl Richter.
scepter20 2 years ago 2
sleepers awake to Bach's Godly Genius! Does anyone have #8 (in English to Jordan came the Christ Our Lord)
vivascargill 2 years ago
After Bach died his family was so poor they had to sell some of his works as used paper and they were lost forever.
That is one of the worst tragedies in history of music.
ToquiGambit 2 years ago 89
its more complicated: some widows of his sons were so poor...
ocwhanappi 2 years ago
@ToquiGambit why did you have to say thattt... Now I'm in tears... ugh
bobmusick 1 year ago
1/3 of bach his work was lost in a fire some time after his death.
piepo1986 1 year ago
@ToquiGambit: Why? What has his familymembers have to do with his music? Why should they live of it?
immuntocrap2 1 year ago
did he die of old age ??
MrTedsbuds 1 year ago
@MrTedsbuds see Wikipeda
12345qazx1 1 year ago
@ToquiGambit My God!! I never knew that!! I studied J.S.Bach many years ago whilst doing my GCE in music, but that fact was never brought to light in any text books. What a shame (no crime!!) if that is so.
thattoheathman 1 year ago
@ToquiGambit I don't know where you heard that from, but Bach had a huge estate filled with various expensive books including those written by Martin Luther, as well as multiple very expensive instruments. I'm sure his family was quite comfortable.
wolfhoundj08 1 year ago
@ToquiGambit one of Bachs idiot sons sold it to a meat guy who used his papers, Bachs B minor Mass Exsist because ithe taught it to the people, someone at the church prior.
godwhyisthistaken 1 year ago
@ToquiGambit though one of his sons kept alot of his writings!
godwhyisthistaken 1 year ago
@ToquiGambit there is no question that priceless Bach manscripts sold as used paper would be one of the greatest tragedies involving cultural artifact, in history. Given who his sons were, and his own greatness, for a family member not to know the value, spiritually, OR MONETARILY, of those papers is kind of ludicrous. I don't know where you heard the story but it is as suspect as it is breathtakingly heartwrenching, so I imagine that is why it somehow got passed on yet is not much spoken of.
wrybred 1 year ago
@ToquiGambit omfg thats so horible
googlekopfkind 1 year ago
@ToquiGambit What a load of utter and absolute rubbish. Me thinks you may be thinking of Mozart who died in abject poverty. The Magnificent Bach certainly didn't.
On the morning of the 28th of July, 1750, he woke up to find he couldn't bear strong light again, and see quite clearly.
That same day he had a stroke, followed by a severe fever. He died 'in the evening, after a quarter to nine, in the sixty-fifth year of his life, yielding up his blessed soul to his saviour'.
Francis1930 1 year ago
@ToquiGambit and the point of all this is that, cause of the this event that you write half of the bach's work has be lost forever and that means about 1200 works if i rember good today we have the half of bach's work in our hands
gatoulis25 1 year ago
@ToquiGambit
I am sure it resounds somewhere in Heaven, it cannot be lost
majosiokojosio 1 year ago
@ToquiGambit Ow, so sad, to hear that... Bach was the greatest musician from the baroque era.
odinea67 1 year ago
@ToquiGambit
Yeah, it's amazing what lengths people would go to acquire some used paper.
Interestingly the von Tollaffe family of Vienna made their fortune by buying paper, writing on it and then reselling it as "used." At a time when a good trio sonata would fetch maybe 10 groschen and three pages of good ol' used paper would would sell for twice that amount, well, you do the math.
PJinBston 1 year ago
@ToquiGambit
Bach wrote SO MUCH used paper in his lifetime. He should have be wealthy!
How sad for him!
PJinBston 11 months ago
@ToquiGambit Hey, I heard that story as well. But, it is just a silly story made-up in the 19th century trying to impose their idea of the musician as a tragic hero onto an 18th century figure. CPE Bach tried to collect as many of his dad's works as possible in order to preserve them he even published his chorales in 1764. WF Bach was very poor, because he had a drinking problem, he sold many of his father's works, but they are not lost. The only works lost were due to a house fire.
2880aham 11 months ago 2
@ToquiGambit another evidence that some people cant apreciate real art, man this happens still today
stargirlsusan 10 months ago 5
@ToquiGambit So sad that true artists have to end up starving.
OlavSchneider 9 months ago
E' un'opera meravigliosa.
mtoti2009 2 years ago
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mtoti2009 2 years ago
Panta Rei !!!!!!
ocwhanappi 2 years ago
Ein Wunder der Harmonien
(Richard Wagner)
Conclamatio 2 years ago 3
Extraordinario, maravilloso, excelso, sublime. Muchas gracias!!
angelomaravilloso 2 years ago 5
Und ich sage Bach ist ein Fluss!
lefekir 2 years ago 2
Nicht Bach, Meer sollte er heißen! Zitat von L.v. Beethoven!
fliesenvolker 2 years ago 31
me quedo sin palabras!!
jaguilez 2 years ago 5
BELLO...........
ISISOSIRIS1200 2 years ago
Einfach wunderbar!
sriwi52 2 years ago 2
je ne lasse pas d'écouter ce morceau!
j'adore, j'adore, j'adore....!
annemariepaule 2 years ago 2
Seems rather ponderous - isn't it usually faster?
elliechoir 2 years ago
This is how it should be.
dareal92 2 years ago 4
I agree: this tempo lets you appreciate all the harmony inside this masterpiece.
cavaliereramingo 2 years ago 3
Schuman said,"music owes as much to Bach as religeon does to it's founder".
tonyw091 2 years ago 4
Rossini said "Bach is the nearest thing to God there has ever been on this earth."
tonyw091 2 years ago 4
I was with my laptop out in the garden last morning, turned Bachs cantata on loud XD ... and the sun came out.
So good.
dareal92 2 years ago 2
No1 then Karl Richter can preforme J.S. Bach better, he is the best conducter/interpretor and performer I ever
heart.
What could he gave us more if he whas still alive, the combination Bach/Richter
,, PERFECT,, I miss him dearly.
TaiKa2007 2 years ago
its the same for me : He is in my mind and heart as long I live
ocwhanappi 2 years ago 2
Bach ist unübertrefflich...er ist einfach der Größte!!!
LuisCarcamoCarcamo 2 years ago
...der je auf Erden "HIMMLISCHE MUSIK" komponiert hat.
dareal92 2 years ago 2
...
v4rt1g0 2 years ago
The voice of God Himself !
helmuthoorn 2 years ago
I like the autoplay. Thanks you.
mavrhik 2 years ago
so calming...I use it when I work....
Ferbbie 2 years ago
the one and only, unrivalled until today.
sanny27 2 years ago
This is what smart people listen too
I dont listen to it
hence I am a grade A dummy
healthyfire 2 years ago
i would label this music as dangerously beautiful. there should be warning - it is not for the feeble hearted. lay people who are new to this genre are likely to die of a stroke caused by the multitude and intensity of passion stirred up !
pbzepellin 2 years ago 2
Es ist einfach nur wundervolle Musik, der ich stundenlang zuhören kann. Und ich werde innerlich ganz ruhig und einfach nur in Stille dieser Musik lauschen.
monikawp 2 years ago
MONDIALE!
Carl Richter.... uno dei piu' grandi..
bordone32 2 years ago
sooooooooo toll...
warum gibts heutzutage nur noch schlechte musiker? (natürlich im vergleich mit bach etc. :) )
was gäbe ich dafür, so schöne stücke schreiben zu können...
Monstexitus 2 years ago
Sehr Schoen!!
davidmoseley1988 2 years ago
recht gab es mir einen wundervollen Innenfrieden
Jara197032 2 years ago
this is a great piece, wasn't this in the Royal Tenenbaums or the Life Aquatic?
jsmchenry 2 years ago
very beautiful piece by such a magnificent composer and if you listen too it , it sounds as the angels are singing oh how glorious.
proud2bcatholic24 2 years ago
I don't really care about the rythm or the tempo or all that. It's just a good piece of music.
thedane34 2 years ago
i like it this way
scrystalj 2 years ago
Listen to the Cambridge version its faster and better, its also more accurate to how they wouldve preformed it but this is still good
Lycastor 2 years ago
Bravi....fanno venire i brividi......
Fajr60 2 years ago
eens
Helyzz82 2 years ago
O God wat is dit mooi.Welke een gave had Bach om zoiets en zovele werken te maken. Welke rotzooi maakt men nu.
Ja Bach., je was zo groots.
MrDjvaneck 2 years ago 2
Richter impone "il tempo".Es fruto de una vindicación de Bach,en plena guerra fria.¿Disciplina alemana y vindicación del mejor músico de todos los tiempos frente a la barbarie de la guerra.
Karl Richter,llevaba prendido y bien aprehendido a Bach en su talento musical.¡Aprendamos y en su caso deleitémonos con su enorme barroco.
Richter intérprete de culto.
paradoxicus 2 years ago
Estoy totalmente de acuerdo, y decir también que Richter es quizás lo único para lograr la fidelidad absoluta a Bach y el barroco a través de un punto de vista romántico. Y esta interpretación de BVW 140 es la traducción más perfecta de la hazaña.
Marzziooo 2 years ago
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fucking the great composer of the fucking history, i love you bach
farinellorg 2 years ago
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You ignorant, vulgar moron. You should have wrote "the fucking greatest composer of all fucking history". But you are so busy being a vile fool that you haven't even learned how to give even a crude compliment correctly.
frebert 2 years ago
I agree completely. It's too slow.
cm99636 2 years ago
I am not against the larger-ensemble concept for this kind of music--but to me the tempo drags. Why sing "Wachet auf" at the speed of a lullaby?
OlDoinyo 2 years ago 2
Excellent point. Now maybe if the text started "Schlafe ein, ruhig sei die Stimme..." this tempo would be appropriate. Such glorious music, though. It can survive almost anything!
3cplantin 2 years ago 3
preciosaa hoi la cantaremos en el coro de la ciudad de merida
esta preciosa
lilolokitha 2 years ago
al ralentatore......
KXASAE 2 years ago 2
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Again. Too Slow. Ouch.
haileyfuqua 2 years ago
Oh my, this is wonderfull!
5 stars and into my long list of favorites :D
DeHeld8 2 years ago 5
Finally...finally...FINALLY someone does this first movement of Cantata 140 by Bach the right way. Man, there are so many versions and they just butcher what I consider Bach's best work. Now this is how Cantata 140 first movement should be done. I hate when they try to do some mini-orchestra bull****. To do this Cantata 140 first movement you need a collosal..get that...a collosal choir to hear soul moving element of this music. Great entry for youtube here.
Government389 2 years ago 9