Bach "Komm Susser Tod" "Come Sweet Death" バッハ『甘き死よ来たれ』

[lozzarus]

I believe the soprano to be Hulda Lashanska a fairly prolific recording artist for

Victor.I presume it was recorded in the thirties. I agree with all those who have expressed positive comments about this recording.I

[dennman6]

The tenor sounds like Lewis James, well known on Victor records, both Red Seal & black "popular" labels. Can anyone verify who the tenor is here?

[thomase13]

This is the best version!

[speath1]

yeah, i wanna believe in god, this is the closest i get.

[oceanus75]

heute morgen ist grad mein schatz gestorben... liebe diese musik. bitte, wenn es irgendwie möglich ist, schreib mir bitte wer genau diese version eingesungen hat. würde sie in der trauerfeier gern verwenden... kann dir nicht sagen wie wichtig das grad wäre... bitte hilf ....

[sumalumajumjum]

who is this....lotte lehman...perhaps...i am not sure

[deathproof0666]

NICE !



[ReneArtoisJR]

Another truly wonderful example of a line I read years ago . . . Bach expressed God's tears . . and he did it from a deep well of faith and passion . . . how can one hear this and not believe that Bach was possessed with some divine, greater vision of and beyond this world?

[anstich]

Man kann ja zu solch romantischen, etwas schmalzigen Aufnahmen stehen wie man will. Ich finde sie Klasse und könnte sie verschlingen. Wem da keine Träne beim Lesen des Textes und dem Hören und Empfinden der Musik entfährt, dem ist auch nicht mehr zu helfen...

[JamesLBrownc]

nungerade ziemlich kuschelbedürftig wer möchte mit mir chilln hab auch ne web cam

[HgMoon]

Excellent !!!, thanks for sharing

5 stars of course ^w^

[Elaguine81]

Merci!!!!

[Siberiaeterna]

Merveilleux,merci!

[akapajamaaopajamakip]

素晴らしい

[bartnauta]

There was a choir version of "Komm susser tod" on youtube. But it has been removed. Does anyone has it on mp3 or something else? It sounds like the Knut Nystedt performance.

[Mrababab121212]

Please stop FUNERAL SEVICES under the name Bach - BACH UTTERLY DISAGREES - you do not understand what he had in mind - theologically mature and balanced man - not in the slightest this painful Undertakers Ltd: ruhe, friede, Tod is Got, In dulce Jubilo please please please

[lezvarthok]

@Mrababab121212 sounds interesting, but reading this text its very much a text of depression, longing for death isnt it ? is it from a larger piece , meaning in its entire composition something different ?? asking out of curiosity, and in all honesty , not knowing much of his perspective.

[Anti035]

Viens, douce mort, viens céleste félicité

Viens, conduis-moi en paix,

Car je suis fatigué de ce monde,

Ah viens! je t'attends,

Viens vite et emmène-moi,

Ferme mes yeux.

Viens, céleste félicité

[velascohgunder]

wow! its amazing!

[RialtoTwo]

I have always enjoyed this piece on organ but this is the first time I have heard it sung. Thank you for sharing.

[Cmuska53AbeTakakazu]

なんか・・・・

・・沈んできた

・・・鬱だ

[Froitswitch]

we're singing this in choir :) it means come sweet death like the titel says

[icu00evilpanda]

Does anybody know the lyrics to this?

[anonymat21]

Please see the comment from "ASongOf".

[k007007]

Can't understand the lyrics but this song makes me cry.

[DrDoom343]

I can't understand a word of this song, but it still sounds damn depressing. It's good, though.

[mpmcd81]

This was written by the greatest musical mind of all time as he was dying, praying that death would give him rest from a life full of heartbreak, where many of his children had died before they reached five years of age, having lost his wife far too early, and having worked hard as a musician in a number of jobs where he was not always appreciated for the gift to humanity he truly was.

May Bach find a perfect rest and a special place in heaven.

[wcbroccoli]

In Bach's day, mortality, especially infant mortality, was high even among the rich.

Bach WAS appreciated in every position.

You need only look at his professional court titles. In his court and organist posts, he was paid more than anyone else!

Bach MIGHT have composed the melody of this hymn, but the words were written around 1724 by an unknown poet.

This hymn appeared in a book of old and new Lutheran hymns published in 1736 --14 years BEFORE Bach died !

[mpmcd81]

True, infant mortality was high, but does that make it any less heartbreaking?

Bach may have been appreciated monetarily by those who hired him, but it would be a long time after his death before his music gained widespread popularity. Nothing like the reception of Mozart's music.

True. Bach gets credit for the harmony, and he MIGHT have written the melody.

[wcbroccoli]

Hearbreaking or not, heartbreak had nothing to do with Bach's involvement.

You said. "This was written by [Bach] as he was dying, praying that death would give him rest from a life full of heartbreak..."

But he was not dying when he wrote this. It was published 14 years before he died, in a collection of old and new Lutheran hymns for various occasions .

The text (NOT by Bach) expresses the Pietist sentiments about death that were prevalent in his time.

[wcbroccoli]

About his father's career, CPE Bach wrote: "Prince Leopold in Coethen, Duke Ernst August in Weimar, and Duke Weissenfels particularly loved him, and rewarded him appropriately. In addition, he was particularly honored in Dresden and Berlin. But in general he did not have the most brilliant good fortune, BECAUSE HE DID NOT DO WHAT IT REQUIRES, NAMELY, ROAM THE WORLD OVER."

[wcbroccoli]

You're comparing apples and oranges.

Unlike Mozart, Bach did not "roam the world over." Mozart wrote for the public concert hall and stage. Bach did not. Bach wrote private music for the court and church music for the churches that hired him to do so. Mozart lived in an age of public concerts and wrote music for public concerts. Bach did not.

It makes no sense speak of "the reception" of Bach's music as though Bach was roaming the world giving public concerts as Mozart did.

[wcbroccoli]

In his own time, Bach's fame was mainly as a keyboardist, esp. in organ recitals in Dresden and Berlin. But he wasn't going around from town to town performing his cantatas or passions in concert halls! Such of thing was unheard of in his day!

BUT, an entry about "Musicum Collegium" in Zedler's 1739 "Great Universal Lexicon" states: "Such collegia are to be found in various places. In Leipzig, the Bachian Collegium Musicum [which Bach conducted in the 1730s] is more famous that all others."

[wcbroccoli]

Things were very different for musicians in Mozart's time vs Bach's time. Hence, the difference in "reception".

Little publicity attended muscians of the early 18th c. unless they wrote for the stage. The small newspapers of the time contained little about music, and the few musical magazines that were just then putting in a cautious appearance were devoted to questions of theory and aesthetics rather than to musical news.

[WayToGoSherlock]

i just posted a video of it being sung in english, it sounds just as depressing and beautiful

[LokiHeart]

freakin' amazing...!!

-LokiHeart

[cmorera]

<3 anime

[paprikanelle]

great... mais les cloches, sont-elles vraiment nécessaires?? le doute persiste...

[chande101396]

I found a similar version...

But not this...

[ASongOf]

come, sweet death, come celestial ease!

come, lead me in peace,

cause i'm tired of this world/live,

oh come! I'm waiting for you,

come soon and lead me,

close my eyes.

come, celestial ease!

[chande101396]

WOW!!!

This song is great!!!

I can´t find this version anywhere...

Love it...