J.S. Bach - Sinfonia, Oster-Oratorium BWV 249 / Philippe Herreweghe

[tristan01101]

is this in some kind of masonic temple?..

[tristan01101]

LOL@CONDUCTOR

[jsnauwaert]

Trumpets are sometimes playing really false notes, especially near the end of the piece!!!

Good but not exceptionally good.

[SimonRaahauge1973]

@jsnauwaert It is a live performance, not a studio production, of course they miss a few notes!

[deinteil23]

@jsnauwaert Well, they are humans so of course they will mess up.

[FXIX]

Is that guy J.S.Bach!? no...wait....he's not, I miss Bach too much :'(

[onenten77]

I love that they are playing on actual baroque period instruments!!! Even the strings are playing with baroque period bows, the oboe's and trumpets have no mechanical keys... the sound is to me so authentic!

[AugustusAurelianus1]

@Rotebuehl1 - to call this DIVINE would reprsent a MAJOR understatement!

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!

[vanpo06]

La plus belle version ! ! !

[MrSloven]

The royale french touch. I'm french, but I discover me too. Additionally to the music, I like the place in this video.

[wimniewenhuijs]

Brilliant performance!

[GeorginaMMiller]

Does anyone know the name of the church? The M. C. Escher style of the floor seems to be the perfect match. I love the performance, the look of everyone and Herreweghe's conducting.

[wommeke2011]

@GeorginaMMiller

I'm 99pct sure this is the "saint Carolus Borromeus church" in Antwerp, Belgium: built in the grandeur of the Baroque era 1615-1621.

[musiccritic1910]

My eardrums had just endured so much listening to such performance. This lady with timpani seems to be completely unaware of Bach's aesthetics....very strange

[josefk64]

absolute music!

[louloubeb]

Super clip

Tut gut nicht nur zur Ostern.

Danke

5*

[Baerli70]

Magnifique - l'interprétation de Herreweghe est grandiose! Merci!

[mrmolinodelahoz]

Bach is proud and honored to know that his music is so highly valued and apprised 300 years later by such high performance art.

[roberto38766]

Execução Brilhante e um som muito doce e agradavel de se ouvir , parabens!

[4everWazzup]

laaaaaaaangweilig!

[Tazeruk]

Music or direction ?

[Landogar85]

dann verpiss dich halt

[Alfredguitare]

Large et majestueux ,direction impeccable , que du bonheur !

[Ghehes]

É a manhã da Ressurreição!!

[josefk64]

Simply great!

[SayocKali1]

sweet

[arpionatore]

Esecuzione molto viva e frizzante.

Very living and fizzy, "young",execution

but with precision.

Not only tecnich,here,but ART!

Thanks.

[paradoxicus]

Hoy por hoy,junto a Rilling y Hogwood.

Lo mejor en la direccion de JSB.

[drugtito2000]

...and the musicians too, of course...

[drugtito2000]

one of the best conductors ever... look at his face and his minimalistic moves, it's like "it may doesn't seem to, but i hear everything you do, and i have the whole f*** pice in my mind, and i absolutely know what i do, and how." absolutely the contrary to all this cheap guys who making a show of it and of the fact that they stand in front while the great orchestra is doing the job and they... ah, you know what i'm trying to say. he's just great!

[lefekir]

This Dutch ensemble has class!

[bertjodokuss]

They are from Belgium....

[AchillesValda]

Very, very good!!! very nice sound of old barock orchestra!!!

[FriendlyCroock]

Sinfonia = Symphony in latin

[marxbach77]

¡Qué estupenda intepretación!

Bendito el momento en que fuiste concebido querido Juan Sebastián. Francamente que sin ti no hubiera llegado a amar a Dios y a Jesús como lo amo ahora.

[bertjodokuss]

I prefer all the glory be to Johann Sebastian Bach.

BWV 249 is a parody of BWV 249A for the birthday of Duke Christian von Saksen-Weissenfels. The music is not inspired by Easter, it's just a matter of new texts with music which was already there for totally different purposes, Lucky for us, otherwise we might have never been able to listen to it.

[jy768]

All glory be to God!!!!

[bersa888]

It would be nice if the comments were just about the greatness - or not - of the music itself. Bach could have just as well been inspired by Santa Claus when writing. His work is the fruit of a superior and imaginative intellect. Why give the credit to "God"...? Are we jealous of Bach, or should we be proud of belonging to same race and just enjoy his music? Judge his motivations and work by today's standards - unless you haven't evolved along with the rest of us over the last 300+ years...

[debartzen]

Toda opinión es respetable.

[debartzen]

Controversia interesante de dos grandes seguidores de la buena música.

Dos notables personas que no están de acuerdo.

Bach es de todos.

Todos somos de Dios.

La verdad no es de nadie.(Tenemos pequeñas partes de verdad.)

[aelfricbetera]

wonderful......a great sounding orchestra.......a spacious sound and ideal resonance....thank you,pr.7...

[phillipebach]

Bach, lo mejor de la musica!!!!

[debartzen]

Simplemente magnífico.

[mereduchesne]

Johann Sebastian, Philippe and Marcel ! It is like the perfect alchemy

[PeriodinstrumentfaN]

i like the sound of Baroque Trumpets... very organic... velvety sound.

[firebreathone]

Bach's music is recognisable from the very first beat. It is the most beautiful, pure and sincere music ever written.

[SoliDeoGloria8550]

Not to mention transcendental, meaningful, timeless, universal and above us all. You have no idea how much I agree with you. Once you go Bach, you never go back, haha. Seriously, anything else pales in comparison to the Great Father I don't care who you are. His genius has never, nor will ever be reached, that's something as certain as death and taxes =)

[HARMONICO101]

I love Bach, but there is alot of other classical music out there too.

[mrjohnleslie]

Amen, How can I add to that. Except we will hear it in heaven and it will be even better if you can imagine it being so!

[pepitho]

@firebreathone  exact!!

[tartinitrumpet]

Oh thanks for posting!

[wolfgangmartin]

Beautiful!!!Lovely performance!!Solemn,majestic and devotional,thanks for sharing Sunbin,my best wishes to you.

[protestant7]

Thank you very much!

[wcbroccoli]

Solemn and devotional?

[WolfgangSebastien]

Hingabe - Bach bekenntlichen eine tiefe Hingabe an Gott,hatte eine göttliche Eingebung.......

[wcbroccoli]

"Devotion" is obviousty the purpose of an Easter oratorio.

But Easter is a celebratory feast, not a "solemn" feast.

There is nothing particularly "solemn" or "devotional" in the actual sound of this sinfonia.

Indeed, Bach lifted this sinfonia from a SECULAR cantata he wrote for the birthday CELEBRATION of Duke Christian von Sachsen-Weissenfels.

The mood and scoring is FESTIVE, not SOLEMN.

Trumpets and kettledrums have little to do with solemnity.

[WolfgangSebastien]

was just talking about music of Bach, not from easter oratory, I am not interested in religion.

all your information from Duke,etc... I know since I was a child.

for being musicologist to be studied, not read information on the internet

[wcbroccoli]

Actually, you were responding to my query about what is "solemn and devotional" in the sound of this movement.

As I pointed out, we're not talking about Bach's devotion to God or his supposedly divine inspiration or the (obviously) devotional intent of an Easter oratorio.

We're talking about the supposedly "solemn and devotional" character of a sinfonia that was originally used for a birthday celebration.

[wcbroccoli]

"Devotion - Bach professed a deep devotion to God, had a divine inspiration....."

So? We're not talking about Bach's devotion to God or his supposedly divine inspiration or the devotional intent of an Easter oratorio. We're talking about supposedly "devotional" character

of a sinfonia that was originally used for a Duke's birthday celebration.

[WolfgangSebastien]

war nur um Musik von Bach, nicht von Ostern Oratorium, ich interessiere mich nicht für Religion.

alle Informationen von Duke, etc. .. Ich weiß, seit ich ein Kind war.

für die Musikwissenschaftler untersucht werden, nicht lesen Informationen im Internet.

[WolfgangSebastien]

feierlich - die möglicherweise angezeigt wird durch einen tiefen Glauben, seine Arbeit, die absorbiert die meisten seiner Zeit, als kapelmeister in den verschiedenen Kirchen und ihr Engagement, um Musik zu verschiedenen liturgischen Büros. Allerdings müssen Sie nicht mehr zu tun mit ihrer enormen pädagogischen meisten Sonaten und Suiten und die Freude ist nicht in viele ihrer Konzerte. Einfach zu lernen, zu hören über das hinaus, was im Prinzip verstanden.

[wcbroccoli]

"solemnly - this is possibly indicated by a deep faith, [intended end of sentence?] His work, which absorbed most of his time, as Kapellmeiser in various churches and its involvement, in music for various liturgical offices. But you must have nothing more to do with their(your?) enormous pedagogical most sonatas and suites and the joy is not in many of their concerts. Simply to learn, to listen beyond that, what in principle is understood."

This is barely intelligible.

[WolfgangSebastien]

intelligible?

You are not a fit person for a dialogue..

education is needed.

[wcbroccoli]

You're just upset that I exposed the absurdity of your barely intelligible (and off topic) comments by translating them into English.