KATHLEEN BATTLE & WYNTON MARSALIS - BAROQUE DUET

[kotetsu131]

Wynton's old classical stuff is SO much better than his recent "interpretations" of repertoire....I wish he would keep it.

[monsieurw1]

This sounds to me about as this music should sound: vigorous, beautiful, strong, devoted.  I'll just not trouble myself about any other controversies.

[JudithLaura22]

@LittleRichOne You're right that the Battle-Marsalis recording is from the album "Baroque Duet," but I was responding to a question in a post 6 months ago from @polymath7, which inquired about what recording Marsalis playing Bach's 2nd Brandenberg is on--that is on the album "Gabriel's Garden." Sorry if it was confusing.

[richardvergara]

Awesome!!..

[rockgeorgerock]

ACRIPONEVES maybe you could make it better

[arcriponeves]

Em se tratando de interpretação historicamente informada, está longe dos atuais estudos interpretativos. Andamento lento, peso vocal e instrumental, dicção despreocupada: não dá para entender se é inglês ou alemão, técnica vocal toda americana: de um canto baseado no artificialismo vocal e não na naturalidade da voz, enfim, bonito entendendo-se dentro do gosto do padrão americano do século XX, mas para Bach, alemão puro, isso aí tá bem longe do que deve ser barroco.

[Adinardo100]

¡Bellìsimo!

Excelentes los dos intèrpretes

[Adinardo100]

¡Bellìsimo!

Excelentes los dos intèrpretes



[Brace67]

A truly inspiring performance by both of these talented artists. A joy listening to this merging of brilliance. This is how Baroque should sound!

[lincolnhtschick]

FABULOUS ... they each represent the best of their respective crafts!

[JLATTElopez]

Magnificent...Wynton can really do it all. FANTASTIC!

[andytenbroek]

IMPRESSIVE!!

[johncmartin100]

Sounds like there is another fine trumpet player in the orchestra!

John Martin

[johnniebwalkin]

damn thats beautiful

[fistfulofeuros]

Wow. Excellent diversion..

[minskbelarus]

To gvparks I feel the opposite. Not especially fond of Wynton Marsalis' playing classical music. His heart and soul are in jazz. He plays classical music as a diversion just to show the high brow world what he is capable of as a muscian.

[Lyssiann]

@minskbelarus did he say this to you after you asked him? what if he plays classical music as a favor to fellow musicians who prefer to play with him?

[gvparks]

Wynton--amazing technical classical musician. Don't like his jazz trumpeting very much, but he is a god amongst men when it comes to the classical trumpet.

[polymath7]

@gvparks I feel exactly the same way. As with Keith Jarrett, I tend to like his classical playing much better than his jazz.. I've heard there's a recording out there somewhere of Marsalis performing Bach's second Brandenberg. If indeed it exists I'd love to hear it.

[JudithLaura22]

@polymath7 It's in the album, "In Gabriel's Garden," which has Marsalis playing all Baroque compositions with the English Chamber Orchestra.

[LittleRichOne]

@JudithLaura22

Actually, it's from the "Baroque Duet" CD that she did with Wynton in the early 90s.

[happywealthyme]

Wow....great control

[wellasang]

...it is totally amazing... you can feel the subject that the song is intended to...

[NubianConservatory1]

Two of my favorite performers. Just delightful ! I hope that Mr. Marsalis will continue fighting to help us bring music back into all of the public schools. Edward Harrison Gordon, Nubian Conservatory, Brooklyn, N.Y. We are also on Youtube.

[mathdirks]

A beautiful performance!

However it's clear that Battle is not a Bach singer. Taking breaths at places where there is no time for it. Because of that the tempo at the begining can not be sustained, it slows down quite a lot towards the end. Too bad...

marsalis is just great and Battles voice is one of the most wonderful ever!!!!

[omtatelo]

@mathdirks Im studying this piece. ¿May you please provide me with a link of this piece with a Bach singer in order to learn when to breath?

[TheFireHorseUK]

Just seen a clip with Elisabeth Norberg-Schulz & Guy Touvron, but in my option Kathleen Battle is by far a better performer – I do like Wynton Marsalis jazz works....

[joiesauvage]

fantastique ! fantastique ! fantastique !!!

[Locutus912]

To the " View from sugar hill" If Humans can't create Humans, Then how did we get here? I think there were these humans called PARENTS that created us all dumb ass !

[McGrenzer]

What a powerful combination; together, they completely dominate the orchestra!

[ElPapasitoLopez]

Que chingon.

[outlander271]

Absolutely fantastic!

[rix657]

What an amazing piece of music. Some real gems are hidden in the sacred repertoire. Nothing need be said about Battle and Marsalis - both greats.

[timananda]

Bravo!

[alguso]

muiiiiito bom. Interpretação perfeita de Battla e Marsalis. A voz de Battle é muito agradável de se ouvir. Thanks for showing it. Alguso

[jay1beaux]

oh this is wonderful! i love kathleen and winton and they make such beautiful music together! thank you for posting!

[philhealey1]

This made me smile so much! I love the bit where Wynton is just in heaven, listening to KB .... what a fabulous and moving performance!

[philhealey1]

This made me smile so much!  LOVE IT!

[TheViewFromSugarHill]

I DON'T EVEN BELIEVE IN GOD...AND HAVEN'T FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY...BUT THIS MAKES ME FEEL AS IF I'M IN THE PRESENCE OF A DIVINE FORCE!!!

[princeskipper1]

@TheViewFromSugarHill Where do you think you are going to go when you die? No human being can create another human.  Where do our gifts come from?

[Cheriphim]

@princeskipper1 Says: "...No human being can create another human. ..."

I suggest you take a basic human biology/anatomy/physiology class.

It will be enlightening.

[TheViewFromSugarHill]

Lonespear's comment doesn't just sound like gibberish: IT IS GIBBERISH!!!!!

[adelinaladin]

superb



[vagrantus]

These two performers are fantastic. Baroque is beautiful and these two, with the accompanying ensemble, allow all to enjoy the composition.

What's with all the hearsay? A friend of a friend of a friend told me something about someone. How silly. Elementary school antics are just that.

[boraktong2010]

more than perfect!!!!!

[AbeokutaCity1]

There is a lot more to Kathleen than many know - and before people judge know her family and her upbringing. There are many intolerable Diva's and their behaviour did not register. Hers did because she is BRILLIANT! In time she will be vindicated - you think those people who run the Met are saints - we will see!!!!!! As for some of her collaborators - they are perfect right? Dredging up nonsense that is almost 20 years old. In the words of Leontyne Price "It's just so Boring"!

[jimraw1]

@AbeokutaCity1 I would say there are two sides to Kathleen Battle. The fact is she is one of the great sopranos of her generation and a brilliant performer. The other fact is that she behaved like a diva, making unreasonable demands. I have a friend who was involved in the 1994 Met production of La fille du régiment - he said in all his years in the biz, she was by far the most difficult. It wasn't just NYC - companies across the country hated her - no wonder she hasn't done opera since 1994

[uesifam]

Bravo!! Just incredible!:)

[wellasang]

Even if you charge her as horrible or prima donna for one thing, it is also another to state that she has a gift, a voice that is almost as divine. To hear her singing this music is not to point to her but to another, to which this song is addressed.

[mp4401]

i shall seek more of marsalis' classical repetoire. I was not even aware he had a classical repetoire.

I am delighted to see such diversity in a performer

[Lonereapr]

I don't care for vocals in general, but Wynton's a beast.

[eyesk8er]

@Lonereapr Could you explain what your post means? It's sounds like gibberish.

[Lonereapr]

@eyesk8er I don't like singing. I just don't. I do like Wynton though.

[samanthag153]

wicked!!

[mrJonnyBruno]

5 stars ;)

[DoninWhiting]

Even the finest black performers show that superior and God-inspired music surpasses

any thing rap artists have to offer society. Kathleen

and Wynton are superb and unsurpassed in their contribution to civilized music. Amen and Amen!

[rstoronto1000]

I think I know what you might be trying to say, but to be honest, it could easily be read as a racist post.

"superior and God-inspired music" was composed by whites. Rap, for the most part, has been composed by blacks. When you refer to the former as "civilized music" there's a latent racism there. Why not criticism rap on musical (or lack thereof) grounds instead?

[bcom11]

i agree with you totally. that could totally be seen as a racist comment.

[FoggyRoad81]

Yes.

[richardvergara]

I totally agree...rap(cop-killing, bitches, and ho's - uncivilized)...Bach(Praise God - civilized)...

[BuckshotLaFunke]

Perhaps less trumpet, yes, but let's not forget that two proud blacks are performing here. And this time Marsalis isn't in the frame of Gillespie, Miles, Art Farmer or Don Cherry , he is almost peerlessly playing Bach.

[brad130978]

100% agree with you my friend! Peerless is the word. Let's also remember that this music is to the glory of God and I'm sure He appreciates it!

[DiVeronica]

I'm sure there's no such thing as "god" but the music is enjoyable, isn't it

[mdaniel1010]

@DiVeronica : I'm sure there is a God, thats probably why the music is so enjoyable. We were all made in His image, so music created to glofify Him should natually be pleasing to our ears.

[DiVeronica]

It's pleasing to our ears because Bach was a master. What motivated him is irrelevant. Also, his secular pieces are just as beautiful.

[schevy56]

I don't agree. The color of their skin has nothing to do with their talent. If you want to really put it where it belongs, Battle has ruined herself because of her pride.

She's been kicked out of the Met because, not of her skin color, but her pride and being too difficult to work with.

Sad, for the rest of us.

[FoggyRoad81]

It wasn't pride, all great singers have pride. Price, Norman, Verrett, Bumbry all had pride. She was fired because she took it to an absolutely intolerable extreme. She said cruel things to her fellow singers, she refused to show up for rehearsals or showed up really late. She made working on a production an intolerable experience and fewer and fewer singers would agree to work with her. And I say this as someone who LOVES her work, but she was a hot mess.

[aariernest]

is really she's a horrible person???,so sad the divas are same unfortunadly

[twilliger123]

Couldn't agree more, I worked at the Met when all of that went down, she was a nightmare!

[brad130978]

This is absolutely outstanding! Who cares if it isn't perfect? It's just amazing.

[FoggyRoad81]

Not her best by any means. You can see she is having a lot of trouble with Bach's music and admittedly, this stuff is some of the hardest stuff to sing out there. She is going SO fast in order to keep from gasping in the middle of those loooong Bach runs. Still what's great is how they cover it, she is doing every vocal trick out there to catch a breath here and there, those little gasps are barely audible. Good management of an impossible piece.

[LittleRichOne]

@FoggyRoad81

What a crock of rubbish!

[FoggyRoad81]

@LittleRichOne What is rubbish? Since I made that comment two years ago i have heard recordings of Battle doing this Cantata live perfectly. This recording is an interesting document of the beginning of her vocal decline which was typified by a lack of volume and breath.

[fistfulofeuros]

What a beautiful voice!!

[thavibu]

This is a very difficult piece of music to perform. My favourite performance of this cantata is by Emma Kirkby and Gardiner.

[Marzziooo]

@thavibu Mine too ^_^

[majaphon]

Es ist eine Sopranarie und kein Trompetenkonzert. Marsalis spielt mir zu digital und ist mit seinem Equipment und Spiel zu weit weg von der historischen Klangvorstellung. Zumindest von meiner historischen Klangvorstellung.

[perogrullo88]

ALELUYA!

[rabinovitch1]

Weniger Trompete wäre mehr !

[ibe8pud]

Es ist genau so perfekt wie Bach es geschrieben hat!! ;-)

[modigliani1964]

exactly, alfjone87 virtuoso!!!perfectly!!!

[cabbalistic]

haha yea, I never knew! pttf.

[meha101]

I have to play this for a wedding on a c trumpet and am finding it very tricky! Any tips?

[number1trumpet]

Study my band's videos.

....and stay away from fried foods.

[Bobs482]

Don't play it on C trumpet. see if you can a hold of a picc, or a D trumpet.

[piccolomaster]

Yes I agree with Bobs482.  You must use either a 4 valve piccolo trumpet in A or even better, a 4 valve piccolo trumpet in G. Schilke, Scherzer and Kanstuhl make decent piccolo trumpets.

[ALFJONES87]

VIRTUOSO!

[commenting2008]

I shouldn't nitpick because I totally adore Battle and Marsalis. But if I haven't misheard I think at 2:15-2:20 orchestra couldn't quite catch up with Ms Battle and she's rushing a little bit at spots.

[theocharlier]

Yeah she does a bit of rushing I think.

[commenting2008]

I wish I can buy this on DVD

[atlblkprync1981]

faints

[t47l22c31]

love that trill at 2:01

[bluebarman1]

belli da vedere e da sentire stupendo duetto bravissimi.......

[TatanBrown]

WONDERFUL!!!

[t47l22c31]

uhh this comment wasnt like a huge insult or blasphamous. Why did it get -7?

P.S. i love wynton marsalis and kathleen battle sounds great no matter what language she speaks. There's my two cents

[modigliani1964]

magnificque!

[ALFJONES87]

so like what u get +9 because u say magnificent in someother language? well how bout Virtuoso!!

[jm2cool]

Does anyone know where to get the arrangements for this and the Eternal Source of Light Divine?

[a1n2t3o3n2i1o]

I think that this level of excellence is that every serious musician should try to reach, even if he never gets it. Trying it is the point

[dbrown251]

@a1n2t3o3n2i1o right!

[HarveyTruffaut]

Sublime

[emme2606]

Is this in D isn't it?

[pablosaxo]

IN C I THINK

[blancheagain]

U were right... DIVINE...

[tognaco]

Astonishing and beautiful,

Thank you very much for uploading

[gilmairefabian]

Fantastique. Magistral. Splendide!

[pricelesspistola321]

goddammit, wynton. how can you be so good in jazz and classical?? I'm playing this piece with a small group at my college and i'm primarity a jazz player, but i do perfectly well in classical, but seriously...you he could just drop one genre and be great with either. both is ridiculous...awesome, but ridiculous nevertheless.

[Callawyn27]

Can't stop watching this!

I'd love to see the rest of the video...

[airamsz]

Perfection, superb, glorious *****

[odddafe]

A feast of passion, comradery, and virtuosity..Bravo..and Mr. Marsalis's timing is nonpareil..thanks for posting, it was a real treat.

[BlkMuscGent]

Fabulous! This is my favorite rendition of JAUCHZET. Other able sopranos have recorded great versions of this aria, but none, in my opinion, sings it with as gusto as Ms. Battle. She and Wynton are, truly, praising God!

[UsamaTheMovieMaker]

finally done w/ my homework ne1 4 chat?

omfg lol that's so funny!!! ht

[jelf48]

Absolute clairty!! Supurb.

[novascotiawill]

Sheer, beautiful talent from both Kathleen and Wynton! Brilliant, uplifting! :)

[lemonlimesplash]

So elegant...

[aleverrocchio]

musica.

[pianist12]

I love to see my people doing great things. It inspires me

[lopeztrumpet]

Perfeito!Levesa na execução e musicalidade altíssima!!!

[ddivinne7]

Perfection!

[SPUNKGIVER]

the biggest piccolo (ie d) and very average articulation. shes ok though. id pork her.

[marciomaciel7]

Will S Marsalis is the best!

[MASA92190]

I truely believe that Wynton shines best on the piccolo trumpet; I have never heard anyone play with the clarity, precision and warmth he demonstrates each and every time he plays this very difficult insturment.

[FranckDrummer]

winton marsalis: DELICATEZZA ed EFFICACIA

winton marsalis: DELICACY and EFFECTIVENESS

[handelfan610]

i'm impressed by mr wynton...i've seen him at the lincoln center...and i've never pictured him playing baroque music...just jazz talk about flexible and talented...what a wonderful blend with ms battle as well...2 talented african artist!...wow...favoriting!

[handelfan610]

i meant african american artist...there you go.

[jimraw1]

Wynton is amazing. In my opinion hes the most complete trumpet player in history - someone who is as much a master in jazz and classical music.

And yes Kathleen Battle is wonderful - I had such a crush on her for years!

[novascotiawill]

Brilliant performance from both Kathleen and Wynton! Beautiful...

[Gulivac]

great trumpet playing, and amazing voice projection :O

[hornman78]

That's my man Mr. Marsalis kickin' it on the piccolo trumpet! Too bad this video is out of print!

[musicallatte]

amazing....i love it!!!!! I think Wynton Marsalis and Kathleen Battle do a fabulous job. I hear music...more than i hear notes and that is so powerful!!!. Beautiful!

[DadsLloyd]

Is this a duet or a donnybrook? In my view, this is quite overblown, a triumph of virtuosity over art.