Bach - BWV 61 - 1 - Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland

[blackhighpanther]

this piece is great as long as i dont look at the conductor

[blackhighpanther]

PAUSE AT EXACTLY 10 SECONDS. and fuk u haters

[blackhighpanther]

right, i mean right! when the video starts. push pause

[Viplexify]

My mother has died, I'm depressed, I'm lonely, I can't do my job. Thanks for these few moments of joy.

[jormundgard]

@Viplexify it is okay to feel depressed or lonely but, you know you should not give up with life no matter how hard it seems now. and what joy it is that music is and will always be somebody's guiding angel somewhere. my condolences to you.

[profesorsergio]

@Viplexify I pray and send strenght.



[Viplexify]

@profesorsergio I followed the link from my notification email about your reply. And I hear this music again, and I am feeling your good will.

Not that I believe in God - as I usually just can't - still I just feel Bach must have been inspired by him. Some of his pieces moves me so deeply that it's like Bach knew ME personally when he wrote them. Which is clearly impossible and puzzling and makes me think there must be someone who indeed knows my soul.

[profesorsergio]

@Viplexify yes, Bach was surely inspired by God....

[voltamore]

Bach's oevre includes so overwhelmingly many great compositions. Still, this one is special and belongs to that handful of musical moments of eternity. Irresitible.

[zinpgh]

COME LORD JESUS! BACH PLAY THE HEAVENLY ORGAN MY DEAR BROTHER I WILL SEE YOU ONE DAY IN GLORY!

[thegoddescomposer]

J.s Bach is the last person who was sended by God to Earth

[elmerfudd87]

@thegoddescomposer what do you mean by this comment exactly?

[blackhighpanther]

@thegoddescomposer deeznutz

[michaschraven]

just wow

[TommyDai1]

i cant watch this without crying

[aquos0123]

@TommyDai1 The first time I heard it, I cried also.

[dogisgreat1]

It's so good to hear Bach performed by a large choir. This is glorious! Thank you for uploading it.

[amadeusforever1]

j'adore cette cantate!! ce choeur d'ouverture, avec cette rythmique "à la française" aux cordes, est magnifique!!

[bigjdc]

Why has someone clicked thumbs down for this piece??? It's magnificent.

[dmelkumo]

@bigjdc possibly because at 0:43 cellos fuck up the D flat? not a good reason though

[symphonicrevolution]

@dmelkumo I heard that too ... upon listening closer, I think it's actually a bass though

[bcorkill69]

richtig! sehr schön

[revpetersen]

Wow

[tritonus7]

Sehr schön! Da macht Zuhören Spaß! =D

[omoetamo]

troppo marziale l'interpretazione di Harnoncourt!

[TheUrsulafoster]

they are not angry, but serious. gogeous!

[goofyguy340]

Why do they all look angry? Christ's second coming is good news for the Christian.

[LocusIoannis]

@goofyguy340 Because it's Advent, not Christmas. To quote crivoice.org:

"Advent is marked by a spirit of expectation, anticipation, preparation and longing. There is a yearning for deliverance from the evils of the world, first expressed by Israelite slaves in Egypt as they cried out from their oppression. It's the cry of those who experience the tyranny of injustice in a world under the curse of sin and yet have hope of deliverance by a God who has heard their cries and brought deliverance."

[jopikay]

Who? Where?

[Siberiaeterna]

Royal.

[IcelanderLight]

"the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not".  FOUR times Bach presents this outher-worldly theme in each register. He wanted everyone to GET IT. No one opens the heavens as Bach does. I am proud to belong to the same species as he.

[hogsprinc]

I don't believe in God but I DO believe in J.S Bach

He has given to the world and humanity more than anyone can ever dream of.

I will for ever be grateful as I'll for ever live in the beautiful world of music HE created.

[NathanYoshiyah]

Now I know what I hear in Bach--it is the realisation of this command:

"Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name: bring an offering, and come before him: worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness."

[vivascargill]

lord jesus have mercy on me a sinner

[ik7dtd]

Grande interpretazione di NIKOLAUS sulle eterne vie che Bach ha segnato per essere lette da coloro che con semplicità d'animo e riverente ossequio per il divino possono coniugare e vivere ogni momento ciò che sfugge come farfalle alle persone comuni !

[po11112]

I'm short of breath just watching them

[Briochine22]

Nun komm der Heiden Heiland,

Der Jungfrauen Kind erkannt,

Des sich wundert alle Welt

Gott solch Geburt ihm bestellet.

[vivascargill]

@WildwoodFlowerGirl hey maybe you like lady gaga better?

[WildwoodFlowerGirl]

@vivascargill Because that would be the only alternative right?

Ignorance.

[vivascargill]

@WildwoodFlowerGirl well no but you did say bach rocks so i thought maybe whatever lady gaga is might be your preference--but you do say you sing the cantata or as you say song--confusing that.i had never thought of Bach as a song writer--just a guess it might have been a song Luther had heard howbeit i find it odd to call it a song as presented.

[wcbroccoli]

@vivascargill To this generation, all music is a song or a song track, and they believe Bach toured around the country performing his music in concert halls like today's rock bands.

[vivascargill]

@wcbroccoli well said!

[wcbroccoli]

@WildwoodFlowerGirl Too much of a pace change in the middle? How else would you perform a French overture? Oh, you didn't know this movement is in the style of French overture? Oh, you don't know what is a French overture? Oh, you are unwashed and clueless about Baroque musical forms? LOL

[WildwoodFlowerGirl]

@wcbroccoli The remarks I made were entirely subjective. I personally do not like this piece. I'm not berating or lambasting Bach's composition methods, or Baroque musical forms.

It is simply not my cup of tea. My approval is not necessary for this song to achieve anything, and even if I am devoid of musical knowledge whatsoever, I am still entitled to my own opinion.

[xpersonx]

@WildwoodFlowerGirl Speaking as a music major who is a taking a class on JS Bach right now...WIN. EPIC WIN. You're absolutely right :-)

[moonlightwelkin]

Like it~

our university choir is also singing it. It make people breathless to sing though.

brilliant piece.

[LiLaLuftikuss]

I wish we could sing it like that :D

[luv2sing1619]

omg i am sooo excited for my high school choir to sing this all my teachers co-workers think she's crazy but we'll prove them wrong and i will post the video up in Dec 31,2009 you guys come and see its going to be a gorgouse concert

[hikitsurisan]

What a grand cantata movement! Those of you over ten years old will remember that it was played during the wedding service of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles on 9 April 2005

[whomakemefeel]

There's no composer never ever take your whole mind and feed your Imagination of divine matters by great melodies and reach your soul to highest esteem by he's own method as the way Bach doing now.

REMARKABLE Cantata

[vivascargill]

@whom Beautifully said! It is as if God is singing through him

[Jaimejimmyjim]

@whomakemefeel You are absolutely right; JS Bach makes me turn to the Lord in my human spirit where I rejoice Him and this wonderful music

[nie919]

brillant....

take my heart away

[seventhtime]

Yhanks Metphmet

[paradoxicus]

Simplemente maravilloso.!

[decimaquinta69]

Eccellente

[seventhtime]

Is this, as they say, choral ouverture style?

[metphmet]

the style is an "ouverture à la française" which gives a certain solemnity or pomp.

You have a choral then a fugue and back to the choral.

[metphmet]

the first choral is made of "cantus firmus" of each voice followed by a phrase which is real polyphonic choral

[chiefci]

Ich antworte mal in Deutsch, denn Bach war ja auch ein Deutscher.

Klasse sage ich nur. Harnouncourt ist der Beste Bach Spezialist, kommt gleich nach Glenn Gould.

Das ist meine Meinung.

Gruß Chief

[nie919]

in coelis:)

[Bachlives2]

I prefer Ton KOopmans and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra a lot more that this modern music creator man...

[MaBu888]

I am no christian but this song is DIVINA!

[Jimmyocaca]

@MaBu888 I was like you, what Bach does is to turn you to your human spirit and guess what, that is the organ you have to fellowship with God and worship Him, so by listening to JS Bach you will understand and meet Him, your next step is to turn to the Lord and accept His forgivness and thank Him for His Grace and Mercy so you can enjoy His life for ever, read the wonderful New Testament and enjoy etrnal life in Him

[MaBu888]

@Jimmyocaca

I won't believe a butchered and abbreviated book. But I believe what it has to say... 60 % of the time... The council of Nicaea cannot reduce God's glory. I don't worship any being, for that is both the invalidation of god as well as myself and all other beings in Har creation.

[MaBu888]

@Jimmyocaca

You have no idea who I am. I won't be boastful when I say that I thought mystical thoughts from the age of three. I remember being from the center of the Milky Way galaxy before being incarnated on Earth. Before that I was in Andromeda. Before the fall, the Milky Way and Andromeda Galaxy were one universal system of light and love and unwavering multidimensional awareness and existence. The fall took place because of irresponsible interbreeding between different races.

/INDIGO\

[MaBu888]

@Jimmyocaca

I practice as much as I can the way of life of Christ the father in flesh. I keep my faith in the energies of knowingness. My heart is full of love for all beings.

[MaBu888]

@Jimmyocaca

And therefore I actually agree with you. Especially about the nature of Bach's work. But beyond religion's hopelessness and hopefulness is faith, knowingness, and that which will never be gone.

[MaBu888]

@Jimmyocaca

I'm not saying that you invalidate God's creation or yourself by your praying. I'm saying I and others like me are much more focused on the integration of the soul's highest portion and soul's 'lowest' portion... i,e, the brow (center of head as well as crown of head) and the heart, respectively. We are not under the covenant of the secular religions, but that which was instated and created by god. The Cloister of the Melchizedek (indigo level of consciousness at least).

[Jimmyocaca]

@MaBu888 WOW, no comments!!!, at all!!!

[MaBu888]

@Jimmyocaca

I think I could have had a better... tone. a bettter frequency saying this.

[Jimmyocaca]

@MaBu888 Completely different frequency wave, sorry.

[MaBu888]

@Jimmyocaca

That is completely alright.

Enjoy the next moment.

[Jimmyocaca]

@MaBu888 You are welcome

[fhurvhur]

@MaBu888 Yeah, just because Bach's transcendental identity is going divine in this music piece, which is just a mediator.

[sisterspure]

All music of Bach(JS)is awesome, sometimes uncomfortable - divinely inspired.

[debartzen]

Sin palabras.DIVINO!

[MaBu888]

Sine verbas! Divina musica, ut dicitur.

[zinpgh]

Fantastic! Wonderful! Brilliant! Amazing!

Bach's genius is a gift for all time.

He is directing the Heavenly choirs now from his beloved pipe organ.

BACH YOU ARE HOME!

[percivallll]

Bach is known as the fifth apostle in Sweden. I find that fully accurate given his beautiful, God inspired talant for composing. No one comunicates the gospel more beautiful than J S Bach!

[zinpgh]

Yes! I will meet you someday Bach! OH I WEEP WITH JOY! Bach knew all glory and honor be unto the Lamb of God our Lord Jesus Christ! AMEN!

[Lotiolenti]

I found this by luck. I have a CD with Rotzsch conducting and Thomaner singing. Thought that was the best, but this is even better. Harnencourt is AWESOM. OMG!!!

[helmuthoorn]

The orchestra playes with a sharpe syncopical rythm, depicting the contrast between fallen humanity and the coming of the LORD.

In my opinion excactly as Bach meant it.

[Lotiolenti]

Harnoncourt seems quite aggressive, too. Good performance.

[wcbroccoli]

@helmuthoorn Your interpretation is steeped in 19th century romanticism and completely divorced from the musical aesthetics of the early 18th c. The entire movement is tied to the Advent chorale "Now come the saviour of the gentiles". The beginning of the chorale melody even appears in the continuo part of the instrumental introduction.

[wcbroccoli]

@helmuthoorn The entire movement is composed in the style of a French opera overture. The slow-fast-slow sections, with the dotted rhythms you noted in the slow sections, are simply the distinguishing features of a French opera overture. Such an overture originally supplied the backdrop to the entrance of a king. In this case it heralds the entrance of a divine king. That is the meaning that cultivated listerners in Bach's time would have readily understood.

[helenahoorn]

@wcbroccoli

You are completely right.

[SonataComposer]

where do i began to comment somthing as amazing like this. This IS so moving, it almost brings a sheet of fear when you listen to the music.

[nie919]

oh my good...

Bach saw creating the world

[inregionecaecorum]

Es machts nicht oder er war Catholish oder Protestant sein, er war uberhauptlich (if such a word exists in German)

It's like Tallis and Byrd, with Catholic Souls and Protestant Masters, they were above all like Shakespeare for all time.

[Lutzenberger]

ach ne, leute, wieso mussn das immer so fett sein bei ihm, so extrem. das macht doch keinen spaß da zu zuhören, das zerfällt...

gardiner macht das einfach knackig, spritzig ohne so agressiv zu wirken.

[Lotiolenti]

Gardiner ist extrem schnell. Als ob er es schnell hinter sich haben möchte. Ich mag trotzdem fast alles von ihm. Er ist auch extrem... um... Englisch ;)

[ronetyar]

Ich mag Gardiner auch, aber warum postest Du das bei einer Harnoncourt-Aufnahme?

[Lotiolenti]

Das war eine Antwort auf einen vorherigen Kommentar in dem es um Gardiner ging.

[wcbroccoli]

I love the way he's set the chorale as a majestic French overture, perhaps to suggest invocation (repeated 4 times) of a king.

Compare with BWV 62, a completely different setting of the same chorale.

[parpaillotcamisard]

We can find in this cantata all the dynamism of Bach's Protestant musicality; it is no surprise that the Roman catholic church has " adopted" and fully " integrated " this inspired composer...

[Anitsirkenaira]

Naja aber das Präludium klingt wirklich eher nach Entrüstung als nach Bitte oder Aufforderung!

[ADAMVONHORVATH]

Überwaltigend!!!

[Bosseur68]

Magnifique !

[zinpgh]

Wunderbar!

[zinpgh]

Fantastisch!

[grimpano]

GREAT!

[Anitsirkenaira]

Das Präludium ist schrecklich aggresiv, der Fugenteil hingegen schön. Und sie nehmen alle Verzierungen mit, die sie kriegen können! Nicht schlecht!