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  • I love the fact that you will never see it be 'Bach's Magnificat ft. Lil Wayne' or anything along those lines. lol.

  • @EamonGriffith like separate mind from thinking?

  • @leabee08 that is where you got it terribly wrong: nobody is making fun of religious people. It is the idea of god which is funny to some of us, just like it would be acceptable to make fun of your favorite baseball team or a crazy hat. You are basically whining

  • 1:38-1:48 is where I shake my head in wonder and disbelief at Bach's genius. After being in A, he goes from B minor to F-sharp minor, back to A as the dominant, and returning to D major like it was a quick walk in the park. I'm learning this for choir and this is much harder than anything I did last semester, but will be so much more rewarding when we get it down and performance-ready.

  • He can't conduct, her is absolutely immusical, her knows nothing about BAch and baroque music.

  • @artois54 hahahahahaah it seems that you know. :D

  • press 5 and he will make like a dubass

  • He can't conduct but otherwise, Koopman is a nice person and this music is superb and well done also.

  • Imortal music

  • Its a wonderfull performance. Carsten Konow, Denmark.

  • 1:43 Indiana Jones?

  • his face at 0:03 perfectly made my day

  • God is Life. Life is Music, that's why our hearts has beats. So that's Music.

    Music---> Life

    Life------> God.

    Got it?!

  • @leabee08

    A ceramicist makes a flower pot. By saying that 'God is life', you say 'Ceramicist person is a flower pot.'

  • @Neonalfax --Apples and oranges, dumbass.

  • Esta tela de bien me encantaaa

  • @ChelseaAnn69...God is in everything, including music but that does not mean that it should be labeled as "music of God". It gives the impression that we know what God considers sacred, which of course no one does. "Sacred music" is not better or worse than any other type of music, to think so is subtle elitism, cuz for all we know God may be a rapper.

  • funny chormeister!!

  • EamonGriffith; That can't be as it was God who created music :-)

  • LET RELIGION AND MUSIC BE TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS

  • @EamonGriffith I don't believe in God, but in the history of music, most of the stuff written was called "Sacred Music" or Music of God. Religion was a huge influence on most music written back in Bach's time. So honestly saying, If you have such a problem with religion being in Classical Music....Then why the hell are you listening to it?

  • 31 extraterrestres no entienden esta musica!!!

  • YES...THIS is B A C H ......

  • Una gran produccion.... me inclino de todos modos por la version de Harnoncourt.

  • @cuyocoral estas loco!!!!

  • I sang this wonder many years ago... so dificult to do the stacatto with the diafragma !

  • Well, to be honest there was a God and there is Bach. Beautiful Ton Koopman!!

  • magnificent Bach

  • Richter? Ma Richter è antitetico a Bach, lo suona come fosse Beethoven. Koopman è uno dei migliori interpreti di Bach, in assoluto. Più che fiacco e dispersivo direi lieve e gioioso, come dev'essere un Magnificat. Richter lo rende stentoreo e pomposo come la musica Romantica... Bellissima questa esecuzione...

  • my God is Bach

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  • mi piaceeeeee

  • In questa esecuzione esiste solo la bellezza assoluta della musica di Johann Sebastian Bach. Ton Koopman crede di aver fatto chissà quale maestria esecutiva !!! L'incisione di Karl Richter lo schiaccia senza pietà !!! E pensare che Koopman è stato allievo di Gustav Leonhardt, ma forse non ha capito molto del Genio che lo ha istruito !!!! E' tutto così fiacco e dispersivo !!!! Che fatica ascoltare !!!!!!

  • Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orquestra, specially woodwinds & strings, & soloists are breath taking!! Thank you Johann Sebastian Bach!!

  • 1:42-countertenors are so on!

  • Beethoven is the king of occidental music, but Jean-Sébastien Bach is the Pope !

  • @ColonelHarry - and Mozart's "God" ... ! :-)

  • Take a look at my upload of this piece. Personally I prefer my recording...

  • Mozart was a chinese, and Beethoven an australian aborigene

  • is the tempo? right

  • There was no god, bach used to be one, buy you give to your god the credit that bach deserves...

  • @yopukagatts

    seems you know Bach even more than he himself did?

  • 27 people prefer justin bieber!!!!

    Shame on you

  • @asdom07 lol, I know! justin bieber is a shame to humanity. period

  • @asdom07 do you know what is really shameful? it is shameful the fact that I knew about justin bieber just by reading comments of videos of classical music, why I have to see his name in so many comments of classical music videos!!! shame on everyone who even mention him!!

  • @asdom07 - 29 as of this reply of mine to you. 736 like this though, we're far ahead! ;)

  • @asdom07 No, Non shame. He is sooo cute !

  • @asdom07 : They'll meet him and the Cyrus bitch in hell one day......

  • @asdom07 yeah this is wayyyyyyyy better than him saying baby baby baby oh! all the time

  • Counterpoint will never reach this level of expression ever again!

  • GREAT!

  • Greatest Black Composer Ever.

  • @1robinsong You have a fantastic sense of humor!

  • @roman1akid

    Thank you for the complement.

    Nevertheless, Bach really was a black man.

  • @1robinsong Explanation please.

  • @roman1akid

    Sure. Bach was a black man. He was one of many men and women who accomplished great things in the history of Western Civilization who have been victimized by the historical practice known as "whitewashing." Waiting until all who knew him and could defend truth are dead and then painting images of his likeness as a white man so the world is brainwashed into thinking a black man never wrote anything worth listening to. One example: Get the book "King James I and VI," publ. Oxford.

  • @1robinsong But that's ridiculous. Bach was a Caucasian, a German protestant whose great great great grandfather, named Hans Bach, came from Thuringia. Arguing otherwise is like arguing that dogs stepped on the moon! How can you possibly even go through your head that Bach wasn't a German? Like Schiller and Goethe! My friend, I am dismayed by your strange madness (or strange sense of humor, if you will)...Also, King James VI was Scottish.

  • @roman1akid

    Just get the book. You will see on the cover, a tapestry of King James I and VI. You will see his true likeness woven into the cloth. You cannot whitewash tapestries, because it bleeds, it would ruin the entire tapestry. So this is one likeness of King James they could not alter. Yes, King James was from Scotland and sat on 3 thrones at once. My friend, if you think this is strange madness, allow me to open your eyes slowly. Just get the book "King James I and VI," W. B. Patterson

  • Respond to this video...

    Another piece of documentation I offer is "Nature Knows No Color Line" by J. A. Rogers, where you will see the coats of arms of all the negroes who ruled Europe in the Middle Ages. Have fun! (I say this because if you choose to do the research yourself, you will find it leads to some fascinating facts about the world's past and present that you may or may not be ready for).

  • @1robinsong lol, bach was german white!, no black sorry, saying otherwise makes you look very bad. Is like saying he was asian, or even a woman lol

  • @1robinsong Yeah, of course, Bach (or Blach?) was a black, of course. Now you can go back to sleep, and please don't forget to take your pills this time.

  • I take back all the ugly things that I said about Bach. Just shows how little I had been exposed to. This is great music and it touched me.

  • bestial bach siempre cantata del bwv

  • The glory to God alone!

    My respects to mr Bach

  • hey hey Bach wasn't a religious personality.

  • @kknots of course, as Stalin was a christian personality.

  • @DanielPhysiker I'm not sure if you're joking, but Stalin rejected Christianity as well as every other religion till the day he died. He believed that he was God and couldn't stand religious freedom of any kind. Same with Hitler, Mao, and Pol Pot.

  • @TheSacredFox I was perfectly jocking under a ironic way.

  • @DanielPhysiker lol whoops on my part then.

  • @kknots he was.

  • I love the Shostakovitch quote...

  • The conductor looks like he's on DRUGS.....what ever happened to class, dignity and professionalism....This sounds like pedagogy at it's worst....

  • @Mackaronni

    Did you already sing in a choir? He is asking the singers to remember to open their mouth (a lot). It seems that you can´t imagine what is conduct an orchestra and a choir. It´s really addictive. So you´re right. He´s on drugs.

  • @Mackaronni you are quite right, it has been proven that music is as strong as a drug, if you have ever you played in an orchestra or any instrument you should know that not many people can control their movements, some of them don't even realize that they are moving so much but i'm talking about the ones who play instruments, you should see it from the conductor's perspective, there are so many factors that influence his movements but you do not realize it, you are overreacting, he was fine.

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  • @Mackaronni Nadia Solerno-Sonnenburg said to similar criticism, "When I'm playing, the last thing I'm concerned with is what I look like." Cheap shots at how musicians look is never just criticism.

  • did you guys realize they are performing in Bach's actual church?? St. Thomaskirche in Leipzig Germany. Pretty cool huh?

  • Mozart may have taken dictation from God, but Bach knew how to speak to God.

  • @Cantormatis

    I think God took dictation from Bach.

  • total para anunciar unas galletas de chocolate con fresa o mandarina.

  • I love this conductor!!!! Is so happly baroch!!!

  • amazing

  • Lord Jesus is Magnificant!

  • I love Bach's music!

  • on ne pouvait composer une si belle musique que pour Dieu! cela nous sublime!

  • ne pourrait-on avoir le nom de tous les solistes?

    Monsieur Koopman , vous ne vous prenez pas au sérieux et c'est le propre des grands artistes! Merci

  • ne pourrait-on avoir le nom de tous les solistes?

  • Das ist wunderschön !!

  • i see this...i think of my son...the choir conductor...i approved this message... :))

  • This is glorious!

  • @LindaDooWop

    I agree. !!

  • Well done. 

  • If there was no God then there could be no Magnificat--Mary praising the LORD; but because there WAS a Bach there IS a God! And the 7th day is proof of that!

  • @alanplum7 It is a pity that so few Christians actually observe the 7th day in these decadent days.....it took a thousand years to more or less obliterate the Biblical Sabbath in the early Christian church, and when the reformation came along, this wrong was not righted. Only a handful of significant modern-day denominations such as the Adventists today observe the sanctity of the seventh day. // That said, Bach and God certainly make a great pair :-=).

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  • We all musicians love you Mr. Koopman! Keep smiling! We are so happy : )

  • I love this performance, because Koopman really feels the music, and I believe that nowadays he is one of the best Bach performer........ how not to forget his CD's of the organ works of the Great Composer!

  • Magnifique !

  • Wow...what more can one say?

  • @GrotrianSeiler Oh my god

  • Mi alma glorifica al Señor

    Mi espíritu se alegra en Dios mi Salvador. Para ver a su sirvienta y su humildad. A partir de ahora en adelante voy a proclamar el Santísimo. Hizo en mí maravillas que es santo. Ten piedad de los que temen. Manifiesta el poder de su brazo, desconcertado a los orgullosos, derribó a los poderosos, exaltado humillado. Bendito seas, oh Israel, que ha recordado por Dios de la misericordia y la fidelidad.

  • As much as I love Bach, I'd have to say his writing style isn't lyrical enough to make the greatest of vocal music. The organ-like or harpsichord-like counterpoint just doesn't work for the human voice. Nevertheless, Bach remains my favorite composer, for he wrote for the spiritual well-being of all men, not to merely strut his ego in front of audiences. Bach's organ works remain the best pieces ever written...

  • really great!!!!!

  • "Human!!! What the darkness takes it personly, if J.S.Bach takes as man of god, the instruments orders them directonaly like his ways, not like the darkness their ways..."

    Greetings, Rainer Poppe@Elia at Joshua

  • This music is overwhelmingly eloquent!

  • WOW ALL THE COMMENTS RUIN THIS BEATIFUL VIDEO

  • @tamales458 Including yours dummy

  • There is a God, but that God is Bach.

  • he was enlightened, but I don't beleive the source is from a god, it's from a much more universal source, what that source is, the mystery that will never be solved...

  • @btyremanable "The Human Mind" Mystery solved.  Seriously, humanity is capable of all the greatness throughout history (as well as the horror).

    We need no aid from the divine.

  • Bißchen schnell...

  • el realizador debería ser más considerado con los televidentes obviando al director, y así evitarnos el tener que ver esperpentos como este 0:57

  • Ok, voy a acusarte de cómico en lugar de superficial. Ton Koopman es un verdadero maestro, seguro haces chistes sobre Glenn Gould también.

    Quizás sea el Maestro quien con sus dificultosas creaciones enloquezca a sus mas acercados súbditos.

    De todas maneras, el editor podría haber sido mas piadoso con el pobre Koopman y haber enfocado a otro lado en ese instante.

    Saludos!

  • @tommyIglesias vaya, otro adorador de personas que pronto se dispone a acusar a los demás cuando siente que han ofendido a su ídolos.....

  • fantastico¡¡¡¡ una de las mejores páginas del gran maestro bach. Magnifica interpretación. Todo lo divino puede estar aquí.

  • Quelle beauté ! Un vrai régal.

  • new england blizzard

    midnight service christmas eve

    no cars, all quiet

    stained glass windows lit

    new haven ct 1960-st thomas episcopal church

  • To joergio and those like him: get in touch with someone you really trust who is in touch with the god in whom Bach believed and tell them about it. Great music can open us up to Jesus but it's personal contact and encouragement that helps most of us with the next steps in our journey.

  • joegio. Pourquoi encore hésiter?

  • Only J.S.Bach among the hreatest composers of all times can convert an atheist or agnostic to GOD, he was touched by God´s hand.this is a masterpiece

  • Hallelujah! Amen!

    Now I'm sure that God is in our praise... Oh my...

    Wonderful worship...

  • Un pur bonheur d'entendre ce Magnificat.

  • What happened to the version that had longer segments and the "Vom Himmel Hoch" section being performed???

  • I love the religious arguments going on here. Why can't we just enjoy music for what it is?

  • Koopmann is always Koopman!!! Marvellous!!! Fantastic!!! Excelent!!!

  • @several of you - quit your annoying bickering and enjoy the music! Nothing is more flipping boring than "listening" to people fighting over who is more in the right. Geez.

  • "The only purpose and final reason of all music should be the glory of God and the relief of the spirit" (Bach)

  • GREAT music!

  • joergio, anyone can choose to be be n atheist,agnostic,pantheist,evo­lutionist a la dawkins etc. but if Bach had not been a Christian we would not be enjoying the Magnificat here, so thanks to Bach, Koopman &orchestra n choir n to the Lord.

  • Bach and God.. I like what Shostakovitch had to say: "not all musicians believe in God but they all believe in Bach"

  • @guidepost42 I certainly do. ... Believe in Bach that is.

  • aangename vertolking van de hoge messe.dirigent ton koopans enthosiaste dirigeren werkt goed bij het kijkluisterspel der passivisten! wessel L.

  • This version definitely gets better as it goes on. The beginning has a lot of balance issues (barely any strings!) but this could just be a problem with the recording. The choir has good inflection on the later runs. Not my favorite interpretation, but one that highlights the complexity and contrapuntal brilliance of Bach!

  • Il suono mi sembra un po' troppo asciutto, ma l'esecuzione del coro è stupenda!

  • I can't help but feel so happy listening to such joyful music. And the words are but three: "Magnificat, anima mea". So much joy in such short words.

  • ¡¡¡¡¡Fabuloso!!!!!. La ciencia de la composición en su máximo esplendor. Bach en su área de trabajo es homenajeado actualmente en la famosa Iglesia de Santo Tomás en Lepzig, Alemania. Dónde compuso sus más grandiosas obras de madurez. Dando revisión, corrigiendo y aumentando algunas de ellas en ésta etapa.

  • @buddhastaxi Christian God is the most logical in the world... man is illogical by living in a sinful manner. Faith means "I surrender to the most logical thing in the world which is beyond my logic, my imagination: Love" Bach described the "divine logic" through his "logic": music...

  • Bach era un chanta y siempre lo será :D pero me encanta...

  • Música perfeita. Homenagem perfeita para a mulher perfeita.

  • Verdaderamente ésta música llega hasta el alma.

  • No solo llega sino que sale del alma

  • Every time I'm listening Ton Koopman's Bach...it's seems to me I SEE ...! whole score through "x ray"... EVERY THING is SO CLEAR and REASONABLE ! GREAT MUSICIAN ! MASTER ! REAL MASTER ! Thank YOU !

  • That's very Beautiful!

    Magnificent !

    Congratulations to Master Ton Koopman.

  • i'm an atheist but when I'm listening to bach i keep thinking that there must be some sort of god

  • Joergio beautiful music such as Bach speaks of God if only we would listen!Bach wrote many religious pieces.

  • Music such as this really makes you think that there is something more then just this world. But it's not because it's thematically connected to belief, it's simply because this music is so beautiful. If there is such a beauty, there has to be God or at least something sacred.

  • I agree sacred music it's just sublime !

    Even more Latin lyrics!

  • As an atheist [or agnostic, at best] i have a tendency to agree with you. What i certainly do beleive is that this first movement of J. S. Bach's Magnificat represents his genius at its most magnificent.

  • @hotwok19 Personally I prefer the third and fourth movements. Thesixth is also great.

  • @joergio Bach wrote the best sacred music, after hearing this you know that as fact :D

  • I do not. I guess that means you're not a true atheist.

  • Yeah, I know what you mean, although I've already been convinced by Bach and Monteverdi.

  • Perhaps you may realize that without a deep spirituality, Bach wouldn't be able to perform such perfection in his music. It was God the inspirer rather than music alone, You may also get perfect master pieces in your life if ytou get close to God.

  • @jorgecarrillo2

    Funny: it isn't God that inspires perfection, it can be anything which is inherently perfect (e.g. nature), it is simply that Bach was best at scribing what he deemed perfection. That, and his counterpoint was simply perfect to begin with, so he could have written music about death and rape, but it would have still sounded perfect.

  • Actually there is a theory, which was very popular in middle ages and in Baroque as well, that the only creator is God and every artist is simply the instrument of God. Bach must have believed that too, I disagree though...

  • @jorgecarrillo2

    I agree with you about the deep spirituality of Bach. But, sorry, I think it was the _idea_ of God that inspired Bach, if any, not God himself (who may or may not exist, who knows?). I mean: Bach's music is a human product, and *for me* it's value is much more greater just because of his humanity. Calling for a divine action is quite offending not only against Bach, but even against the Christian idea of God, who lets us be what we want, in good and evil (imo).

  • No doubt that with no Bach, no Magnificat BWV XXX

    But somehow Bach was, as convinced many of us are, that there is a God whom it is worth to give him the bast we have, And what Bach has compsed to him, was driven by this conviction, this gift of deep faith, that so many have lost in todays western culture, driven by selfishness.

    If in each one life there is only space for ego, then no space for God's gifts.

  • @jorgecarrillo2 Jorge, sorry, you have way too preconceived ideas imo. The existence of God may not be proved, now and ever, as you know. We can only say that people who believe in the existence of God have faith, point. Bach's music proves Bach's faith, not God's existence; it's a pity I know, but our condition of human beings cannot be changed so easily, you should know it.

  • @jorgecarrillo2 Not just his deep sense of faith but his absolute joy in it and in life.

  • @joergio

    Let us not forget that Bach create God and God believes in atheists.

  • @joergio There is, and the proof is in the music of Bach. Keep listening, good sir.

  • @Sviolinist Bach is proof that there was Bach. Not god. erroneous.

  • @DiVeronica lol then u are deaf and also dead inside of u , In the music of Bach lies the proof that God excist the holy spirit of the music

    Bach said once The music is the language of God

    Bach and God

    step off atheist Bach is only for who believed In God

    u cannot understand or why then u should go some place else !!

  • @thegoddescomposer sorry stupid asshole, you make no sense. I can watch Family Guy and know that there are no talking dogs named Bryan, I can listen to Bach's beautiful music and know there is no flying sky daddy. Bach's music is proof that there was a Bach. Period.

  • @DiVeronica omg u really are retard u really think there is a person above the sky <,< omg u really omg stupid thats symbolic , anyway stfu stupid atheist empy soul u never should understand the music of Bach and thats a fact never

  • @thegoddescomposer besides this is one of his less cerebral pieces. If you're going to use some vacuous 'God exists because humans can create beautiful music' argument I would suggest Mozart's Jupiter symphony, not this primitive, intriguing, but not mind blowing melisma trill orgy.

  • @DiVeronica u should listening to beethoven missa solemnis opus 123 2th movement and 3th movement but u should not understand that anyway gl

  • @DiVeronica if you think the jupiter symphony is superior, great art is clearly lost on you.

  • @hderms2 I'll disagree. Anyone who thinks this standard sounding Bachish worship music is superior to the Jupiter Symphony is an idiot.

  • @DiVeronica mozart is supremely overrated, the jupiter symphony is restrained drivel. Also, you seem like one of those sad people who has to piss on everyone elses parade, why would you even bother commenting on this video in the first place if you find pieces like this boring

  • @hderms2 Mozart is overrated? Are you kidding me? He was a musical genius at the age of 10. Restrained drivel? It's only the finest gathering of musical quality in the classical age, the piece that pushed us over into romanticism. I don't find it boring, I love Bach. I'm not pissing on everyone, only people who think Mozart overrated and less talented than Bach, which is sheer lunacy.

  • @hderms2 Mozart is overrated? One can appreciate both Bach and Mozart as being supreme figures of music

  • As a fellow atheist, or at best agnostic, i know precisely what you mean, joergio!.

  • @joergio then consider being an agnostic