Great Composers Bach（BBC TV series）pt.7

[obscurecult]

DAMN, what's the name of the guy singing at the end?

[mehulpanditful]

Can somebody PLEASE tell the name of the piece being perfomed at 1:05...

[sea9023]

it's Matthaus Passion - 39. Aria A - Erbarme dich. amazing isn't it? Bach may very well be an alien from planet "harmony"

[mehulpanditful]

@sea9023 Thank you so much...yes it is absolutely amazing..!! I just marvel at his harmonic sense...!! I am a music student and i just want to study all this...i am buying a piano next month and then ill start my studies on Bach's music...!!

[LINX29X92]

2:30 he was grabbing his nuts

[Tand0oriCh1cken]

Wow its sounds beautiful and I've never this piece before but 2:30 was so unexpected it made me lol.

[hockeywifeca]

@Tand0oriCh1cken Nothing shocking or surprising about a countertenor singing Bach!

[Tand0oriCh1cken]

@hockeywifeca I know but his voice was so high pitched, I didn't expect him to sound like that..

[jogomez1974]

Erbame dich mein gott, es la aria mas hermosa que pueda uno escuchar. Ese solo de violín estruja las entrañas...

[stargirlsusan]

hey, he said, "We're here to suffer and our profession on life is to die". so what? i{ve thaught so too at some points. that{s how he views it so? it is an OPINON(though not really express that way). Many ppl dont have it as easy as some others, you know.

[Dirkovic80]

must be strange for the woman playing the violin with that guy in front of her singing like a girl

i couldnt do that, seriously ^

[Eisenacherklavier]

@Dirkovic80

You're right. I'm sure you couldn't.

[THClypse]

at 2:25 which part of the Mass of B Minor is that?

[MrHicks091]

St Matthew's Passion, one of the Greatest-if not *the* Greatest-musical Work in history!

[sosome57]

This is a fantastic series. Thanks for sharing it.

[semprini20]

Awesome countertenor

[gregoriodavila]

"We're here to suffer and our profession on life is to die". -Bullshit

[pobinr]

@gregoriodavila I agree. Some intellectual Miller eh ?

Our profession is not to die. It is to serve our genes. That is to find a mate & breed & nurture our offspring.

The dying bit is neither here nor there.

You'd think he could at least get that right !

So much for academics !

He's a pompous twit.

[gregoriodavila]

@pobinr Yeah, it's a puritan religious view. Our profession in life is joy! That's why we came!

[pobinr]

@gregoriodavila @gregoriodavila You are kidding. Our profession is to serve our genes.

[augustkd]

at 1:38 he says "and that´s the `ebarme dich` which is the name of the aria. that means "lord,have mercy for myself"

[jogomez1988]

Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder, me causa siempre lo mismo cuando la oigo, se me erizan los pelos. Erbame dich mein Gott, fue el pasaporte al cielo del maestro BACH.

[nannygoatj]

Ajepson2, he says "Erbarme DIch" which I think means "Have Mercy."

[Ajepson2]

what does he say at 1:38?

[DasRoemertum]

@Ajepson2 He says ''And that's the Erbarme Dich''.

[nannygoatj]

This has been, to me, the most interesting segment so far.

[villarreal20]

@doctorpapaya says the snob on crack

[pierrot79]

Falsetto ; he is a countertenor.

[MrSchelfhaut]

The version of Andreas Sholl is much better

[beena001]

castratos dont exist anymore,,, i think.

[jogomez1988]

@beena001 No es castrato ignorante, es contratenor.

[jg33brunner]

erbame dich is amazing, I´m in love with the violinist. Karen Armstrong says the most true things about Bach re Western Culture. See part 1. Nobody said anything more relevant as to the genius of Bach than her opening statement.

Wonderful programme. Jonathen Miller I love you, too. Nobody said anything so true as your comment about life:"Our profession is to die":)

May yours be peaceful.

[bkk10230]

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[beastenick]

this erbarme dich is sublime, anyone know who is performing here?

[gyes99]

hehe, well spotted, Gardiner: the devil's best tunes :)

[sleazebee]

"our profession in this world is to die"

[LazyBastard69]

oh my god that armstrong bitch is sooo ugly and she got nothing important to say.

[gyes99]

Cum Sancto Spiritu = with the Holy Ghost

[Jitpring]

Note how Gardiner binds himself to say "the Christian God" rather than "God." Thus he reveals himself as a faithful subject of today's dictatorship of relativism.

[onionpizza]

Huh????

[MediaMayhem]

Noted... pause, thought police.. "the Christian God"... a child of the modern 'enlightenment'. Also note the male voice half way through, quite nice. Modern castrati, perhaps?

[Jitpring]

It's good that you put "enlightenment" in quotes. Yes, modernity has been an exercise in disenlightenment. Few things are more ironic than modernity's (i.e., ~the last 500 yrs) myth of progress. The 18th century label of the Enlightenment is utterly diabolical.

Friends, don't let technology fool you. Humanity is now more depraved than ever. For example, IN THE U.S. ALONE are committed over 1 MILLION (1,200,000) abortions/yr. The silent holocaust continues....

[DelendaEstCarthago1]

Wow! I have found kindred spirits! I'll bet that you are someone who has been fortunate enough to read G.K. Chesterton. I think he exposes, better than anyone else, the sham that this whole Doctrine of Progress is. If you have not read Chesterton, send me a private message and I will buy you one of his books...I am serious. He isn't to be missed.

Down with the "Enlightenment!" Three Cheers for orthodoxy!

[Nykytyne]

Yes! Down with the enlightenment! Down with science and medicine and progress! Back to the Dark Ages!

[DelendaEstCarthago1]

Nykytyne,

Get an education. I said the "Doctrine of Progress", not "progress" proper. Look it up.

I am not against science, which if you knew history, was not a product of the "enlightenment" but of the Medieval Universities. This so called "enlightenment" created philosophically inconsistent ideas and methodologies which negate true knowledge.

Take your uneducated acceptance of popular history and sell it to someone who will swallow it. It won't work here.

[Nykytyne]

Science is not a product of any given period, but a process that continues to develop, and a process which has developed much more significantly and with much more rewarding results in recent times than in medieval times.

The core of Enlightenment philosophy as I understand it is the use of reason as the primary means of acquiring knowledge. What alternative do you suggest, and what is this "true knowledge" you refer to?

[DelendaEstCarthago1]

On the contrary, the use of reason as a primary means of acquiring knowledge is as old as man himself. Reason reaches its highest points in places like ancient Greece, the Early Church Fathers, and the Medieval Scholastics.

The modern scientific method, however, is a relatively recent development of Western Society: a product of the same intellectual structure of Christendom.

[DelendaEstCarthago1]

"Enlightenment" philosophy is less about reason itself as it is about reason somehow being contrary to faith. This is a mistake. Faith, always recognized as a virtue, is complementary to faith and works alongside faith.

In truth, everyone has faith in something at some level. Even the atheist has an implicit faith in reason having anything to do with external reality. That is an example of faith enmpowering reason.

Yet it is the modern fad to dismiss faith as "magic". I reject this.

[Jitpring]

Friend, the real Dark Ages are upon us.

They'll make the so-called Dark Ages of the past look like Shangri-La. Most of course don't know this. Consistent with the myth of progress that they've embraced, they're like frogs in boiling water. They won't know it's boiling until it's too late.

[Nykytyne]

Really? So if you had the choice you would have been born in the Dark Ages? You'd go back to %50 child mortality and 35 year life expectancy and feudalism and witch burning?

[Jitpring]

I'd go back to what - in its embrace of this age's myth of progress and concomitant chronological snobbery - modernity superciliously calls the "Dark Ages." In fact this was a time of great vibrancy and fecundity. To begin to cut through the modern propaganda, google this phrase:

myth of the dark ages

[Nykytyne]

Wow. I learn about a new conspiracy theory every day.

[Jitpring]

It's not a conspiracy theory.

You're aware that the very term "Dark Ages" is an invention of the "Enlightenment's" philosophs? This "Enlightenment" is a sham. During the 20th century, for example, more people were murdered than in all previous centuries combined. Yes, THESE are the Dark Ages.

[Nykytyne]

If you want to argue that the 20th century was a dark age because of all of it's horrors that is a legitimate point. But to champion the dark ages (or middle ages if you would prefer)?

I think it's important to mention that the term "dark age" is not applied globally. The "Dark Ages" that we are discussing describe the period in Europe between the fall of Rome and the Renaissance.

During that same time period the Islamic world was arguably it's cultural peak.

[Nykytyne]

You say that this period was a time of "great vibrancy and fecundity." What exactly are you referring to? Certainly there were some worthwhile products of that age, gothic cathedrals or illuminated texts or other art that was produced, but in general it was a time or widespread illiteracy, disunification, war, repeated plagues, and a digression from the technology and metropolitan culture of Rome.

[johnsmith21197]

@Nykytyne hahahaha. I would rather live in the Middle Ages than in the age of the Roman Empire. The Roman Era was an era of immorality. The Middle Ages was a step forward. You also have not mentioned that the literature produced in the Middle Ages rivals even that of the Romantic Era.

[johnsmith21197]

@Jitpring I like what you have said about the "myth of progress" but don't be such a pessimist.

[DelendaEstCarthago1]

Not castrati...that would make him a Soprano. He is singing an alto part and must be a countertenor. There are lots of excellent countertenors out there: the male voice in this range seems so much richer. For a wonderful countertenor piece, look up "Agnus Dei Bach Andreas Scholl." Andreas Scholl is simply fabulous.

[Phygos2008]

Mhhh .. maybe ... so what. I like the music. If Gardener wants, he can wear a turban and blow him self up at the end of the series.

[Jitpring]

Understand it: Humanity is homo religiosus.