Bach - Matthäus Passion. Sind Blitze, sind Donner in Wolken verschwunden

[mremile72]

love the sind blitze sind donner, and Richter's precise brilliant style of conducting :)

[gorchvossen]

The choir is really good and the soloists do a great job. The only bad thing is the organ which is a bit too dominant during the part "Sind Blitze und Donner in Wolken verschwunden".

[BobbyEnergy]

Thanks, everyone in this video for all of your hard work..the sumation of all of you give rise to such a wonderful piece of music to delight the world over..:)

[BobbyEnergy]

I love this :)

[SarahLovesAHorse]

I don't really like Bach, since we had began learning this whole stuff... But I just can't get this piece out of my head! :D

[alipitogen]

Some of these clips from this performance are absolutely spell-binding and this one nearly is.These top-notch performers almost overcome the cripplingly slow tempo but it is doomed from the start. I think the ideal tempo is set by Munchinger in 1964 with Ameling and Hoffgen. Some more recent performances err to the other extreme, losing all the tension to breathless urgency. All opinion , of course. Never saw Helen Donath before, though I have several recordings, quite a beauty -also opinion!

[alipitogen]

@alipitogen I've listened once more, and in case anyone picks me up on this, I realise that the Munchinger recording I mentioned does not move all that much more quickly.The difference is more that this seems to drag while Munchinger's seems more driven and flowing.

[sebastianrc]

4:05

[jordan3461]

Laßt ihn, haltet, bindet nicht!

JUST AMAZING...

[starbreez3]

Omg, no need for instruments, their voices are so powerful, awesome.

[EasyAmerica]

Die Solisten sind Klasse, aber der Chorteil ist mir viel zu technokratisch gesungen.

[FMatt099]

die orgel ist ja schrecklich registriert om Chorsatz. Was ist das? ne Mixtur??

[Singetommy]

4:05 ... etwas langsam, aber die Genialität von Bachs Kompositionsgenie lässt einem eine Gänsehaut aufkommen.. Sehr gut gesungen !!!

[peztezfez]

Aus welchem Jahr stammt diese Aufnahme? / From which year is this video?

[brownbluelandscapes]

Stimmt es ist echt ein bissel langsam, aber den gesangsstimmen tut das eigentlich ganz gut....:-)

[Laudanum000]

This sounds too slow for my taste... it needs more oomph!

[handelfan610]

i dont think this was performed with enough aggression...and the setting on that organ isnt the greatest...but it was a pleasure to hear it...becuase in most recordings of baroque music...you can never hear the keyboard.

[samztrades]

what i love about this version is the organ

[handelfan610]

i said it wasnt the greatest...but i think the organ is what makes the piece for me. i love at 4:44 when it comes back in.

[stephendedaelus]

omg the oboist at :54 is a badass look at that stache

[padrenatas]

This interpretation reminds me of a clock accurate but not feeling. And in the last chorus the organ sounds horrible. In particular I prefer Bach with boychoirs....But I've heard versions whit adult choirs very beautiful. Nothing personal but this version is bad.

Greetings.

[GoboFraggle79]

I agree with Sisury. The chorus should sing "Laßt ihn, haltet, bindet nicht!" way more aggressive and slightly quicker. It's a bit too tame to my liking. Awesome music, love it.

[Sisury]

no, i'm not really impressed. i've heared it last thursday in amsterdam, and that was way better. (Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Concertgebouw)

[madziua90]

excuse me, I find nothing beautiful in this piece. I am scared of those two women especially

[WinGeorgia]

I can tell you nothing, it is simple, you don't like and enderstand classical music

[madziua90]

I don't understand this interpretation... I love classical music and Bach, I am studying to become a singer. sory, but I can hardly find any phrasing.. and no emotions on the solists and director faces. please listen to the recording of Herreweghe. he is great and his solists (especially Barbara Schlick) too.

[sigimaster14]

@madziua90

... this music is devine, you should stop singing and go be ashamed of yourself

[madziua90]

@WinGeorgia

can you see any emotions on soprano's, alto's and director's faces? for me, they look like robots, not humans who performs such beautiful piece of music. by the way, I'm a student of vocal studies and I love classical music, esspecially performing it. I've found more recordings of this duetto and for me, this one is not so good

[SystemOfALeo]

@WinGeorgia actually its not classical but baroque music..

[deleeuwbas]

@WinGeorgia I must disagree with you. I find this by far the most powerful composition of Bach, but I also think this recording is somewhat cold and slow, which is surely also because of the year it was recorded. I'm missing the emotion and I hope that doesn't say anything about my knowledge of classical music..

[dreioktaven]

Scared? There is no reason to be scared about this wonderful piece of music!

[samztrades]

@madziua90

Hi, I think this was intended to be powerful and not beautiful. the music is about hell and punishment, and you can hear the flames coming out of the pipe organ @ 4:45

[NotAgain90]

@madziua90 sadly, you have s**t for brains and a lump of coal for a heart... not your fault - you were born that way.

[koemata]

Two beautiful women in the world, thank

[WinGeorgia]

beautiful women, and great persons... watching this I often ask to mysellf, is it real? the world became more beautiful for me watching this

[koemata]

"Thank" is the exact word for your video not musik..

Bach Musik ist fuer mich sehr wichtig, sehr personlich und geistlich.

[WinGeorgia]

cheers my friend! despite of that i can not understand deutch, i am sure you wrote some warm words, as you like Bach music as I do :)

[pricejosephd]

@WinGeorgia Translation: 'Bach's Musik is very important for me, very personal and spiritual.'

[avellanedam]

One of my favorite from Bach. So beautiful and so powerful.

[WinGeorgia]

yes really, so powerful cann't stop emotions, this is absolute beauty....

[camilocuesta]

Thanks for posting it

[Aleksi6969]

awesome!