Its is also thought (by many) that the last fugue is on purpose not finished as a teaching form to complete it by the performer/student of the contrapuncti... The first steps were given, then u have to follow them and reach the end by yourself, the essence of teaching in a great master like he was.
Isn't it great how with music, thoughts and emotions are kept on earth and remain forever? Hearing the Fugue being cut off because Bach could not finish it was the saddest feeling I ever experienced when listening to music.
I love Bach; there is no much greater work from a man; but we negligate other great composers like Telemann or Graupner, Haendel or other Bachs from the same dynasty; most of all before JSBach existence. Now that's a mission for whoever loves music and creators !!
BBC does it again--excellent documentary full of pathos and intellectual stimulation and a real educational tool! Did anyone else freaking love Andras Schiff? Hearing him play and finding out he's considered one of the best interpreters of Bach in the world only added to the genuine joy he obviously finds in Bach and the intensely personal (and poetic) way he speaks of him. My only disappointment was Karen Armstrong's inclusion. In the future she should stick to her field of specialty.
Watching this BBC Documentary gave me some basic insight regarding to this Maestro. Honestly speaking, this man, Johann Sebastian Bach, Is one of God's gift to Mankind (musically speaking). From regular musical works to climbing complex pieces that elevate the worship of God, He has captured the diverseness of sound. What would music be right now if Bach would not have existed? We dunno, I guess the answer would be as dead as our current Pop Junk tunes today!
Joanna is performing with and directing Britten Sinfonia at Londons Roundhouse on 23th Jan. Including Bach's Keyboard Concerto No.5 in F Minor and No.1 in D Minor.
Thank you for uploading this. I can't imagine my life without his music. I was given Bach preludes very early on as a music student. They are like the ground I walk on.
Thank you very much for taking the time to upload the series. I know they are a pain in the ass to upload, so THANKS!
This was a great "prelude" to the book I'm about to read - J.S. Bach by Wolff - which just came in the mail from Amazon. Ugh, 600 pages though, that's a lot of reading...
For me that unfinished fugue is the ouverture, the 1st chapter of history of music, a wink to humanity. From Mozart up to the 21st century, no one has been able to have that same level of prestige. It's like as if he told us: "Look what i've done, your turn now " ;-) and that fugue stops....Personnal thoughts though!
Bach died on july the 28 1750. Today is july the 28 2009. It is 259 years since Bach`s death. But he did not die. He is still with us as long as his music lives!!! THANK YOU for this lovely video.
For those who like Bach you might want to try Johann Adolph Scheibe. He was THE first music critic and an absolute fabulous composer. His father was very know for building the best organs ever and was Bachs favorite organ builder.
it stops so sudden and shoking end because his life ended all suddenly too
in fact that's what life is, it starts all of sudden and ends all of sudden just like vapor, one time is there and then next thing you know is no more
lovely homage to the "our father"... Mozart was the Son, of course. When my wife and I sit still in the presence of his music uniqely expresses for me, and feels for me, (feeling=knowing here) the love "I" have for my wife.
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the fuck is your problem you dyslexic retard, are you Gene Ray from timecube?? go back to your own kind you're a dumbass and it is now 5PM IN BANGKOK moron.
La música de Bach ha despertado gran pasión por el contenido teológico cristiano en su música en culturas no occidentales. Tanto es así que ya muchos lo llaman el quinto profeta, y en oriente es recurrente viajar a Leipzig para ser bautizado al cristianismo junto a la tumba de Juan Sebastian.
La razón es simple; una religión que es capaz de inspirar tanta belleza y perfección.
but bach had only one thing in mind when he wrote his music! ' Soli deo gloria' ..he once said,"the aim and the final reason of all music should be nothing else but the glory of God and the refreshment of the spirit"..
and btw I have studied bach and bach didn't care what church officials said about his music. Bach was a very religious man and was certainly inspired by something which he thought connected us all and he tried to do that very thing through music.
what does bringing lady friends into the church have to do with his influences...its just makes him pimp lol...listen I know youre probably an anti religious nut who thinks that if a composer has some influence from a spiritual or supernatural force it reduces his credibility...fact remains music in the era was written for "the grace of god" whether or not christianity is the right religion, the specifics of religion are not the important part, but the fact that Bach believed musicpowerfulmedium
Oh God. I seriously want to cry when I listen to that "devastating moment" when the last fugue cuts off. I can hear where Bach would have taken it, but he took it only to the grave. The rest is silence.
I am an athiest with no belief, but over the last 2 weeks i have been to the St John Passion at St. Paul's Cathedral and St john's Smith Square, A St Matthew Passion at St. John's and the Barbican and...a B Minor Mass at St. John's. I go because the music is simply wonderful. I do not need to believe to know perfection when I hear it !
God certainly had an influence on Bach who wrote the music, its not that god physically wrote out the score lol....but since to Bach there is a god (whether or not its true) he was certainly a HUGE influence.
That's so typical of you arrogant religious fanatics. To imply such things as you have to believe in a god to enjoy music. There are many atheists out there that knows and feel music much deeper than you. And what about people of every other religion other than christianity, are they also flat souls? Just shut up, we don't need you to educate us on what to think and feel.
...someone sure got excited around here:)I dont really think that faith is necessary to enjoy any kind of art and that "soulflatness" is an atribute of any particular group(i hope so:)..although, the fact is,christian beliefs make you feel a bit different when listening to bachs music..emotions it evokes are more or less universal,but..Bach was christian:)think about that:)thanks for posting btw...
I was once incredibly Christian; now I am not religious. Bach has been with me through it all, and while I definitely understand that Christian belief somehow differentiates hearing Bach's music with that kind of faith to hearing it without, I do not think it in any way necessarily enhances it or makes it better. In fact, having learned much more about Bach's music than I had known before, I think my appreciation of his music is even greater now. The strong emotions have been fairly constant.
I don't think he was saying you can't appreciate it, Bach wrote this music in honoring his christian faith, to a certain extent if you come from any religion (at least with his masses) you'll understand what feelings Bach was trying to evoke on a religious level. Not that any atheist wouldn't be able to understand and appreciate the music....and every body has a soul...not just religious people.
Its is also thought (by many) that the last fugue is on purpose not finished as a teaching form to complete it by the performer/student of the contrapuncti... The first steps were given, then u have to follow them and reach the end by yourself, the essence of teaching in a great master like he was.
Musicantrix 2 hours ago
i do know want to imagine what a cataract operation was like in the early 1700's
chacaloso361 5 months ago
thank god the last part... jk it was very informative. well done
LINX29X92 8 months ago
very fitting that they end with the Dona Nobis Pacem movement.
tmoore192 9 months ago 3
what is the BWV of the last fuge that he did not finished?
stargirlsusan 11 months ago
@stargirlsusan The last work he worked on was BWV 1080, the whole Art of the Fugue. Contrapunctus 1 to 14, which is unfinished...
TheMboucher 3 weeks ago
that harpsichordist at 0:50 is hot.
pilotoatomico 1 year ago 3
@pilotoatomico my oboe just got bigger
LINX29X92 8 months ago
@LINX29X92 It is people like you that contaminate this world and prevent geniuses like Bach from appearing.
johnsmith21197 3 days ago
Isn't it great how with music, thoughts and emotions are kept on earth and remain forever? Hearing the Fugue being cut off because Bach could not finish it was the saddest feeling I ever experienced when listening to music.
bassmajor 1 year ago 2
I love Bach; there is no much greater work from a man; but we negligate other great composers like Telemann or Graupner, Haendel or other Bachs from the same dynasty; most of all before JSBach existence. Now that's a mission for whoever loves music and creators !!
Sylvain894 1 year ago
BBC does it again--excellent documentary full of pathos and intellectual stimulation and a real educational tool! Did anyone else freaking love Andras Schiff? Hearing him play and finding out he's considered one of the best interpreters of Bach in the world only added to the genuine joy he obviously finds in Bach and the intensely personal (and poetic) way he speaks of him. My only disappointment was Karen Armstrong's inclusion. In the future she should stick to her field of specialty.
amacnaughton85 1 year ago
Thank you very much! Magnificent!
djanusas92 1 year ago
Watching this BBC Documentary gave me some basic insight regarding to this Maestro. Honestly speaking, this man, Johann Sebastian Bach, Is one of God's gift to Mankind (musically speaking). From regular musical works to climbing complex pieces that elevate the worship of God, He has captured the diverseness of sound. What would music be right now if Bach would not have existed? We dunno, I guess the answer would be as dead as our current Pop Junk tunes today!
kigawman 1 year ago
I'm trying to find that last piece, I can't freagin find it!
slowframe 1 year ago
@slowframe It's Dona nobus pacem" from the Mass in B Minor
Akee1990 1 year ago
Esa fuga es la única pieza que en verdad me desagrada porque quedo inconclusa y el porque es que Dios no le dio tiempo de acabarla.
jogomez1988 1 year ago
Thank you so much for posting this.
Bach should be canonised as a Saint.
Kitsua 1 year ago
wow, i would bang that chick right there on the harpsichord, lol. Seriously a chick playing bach is HOT.
punchy001 1 year ago
J. S. Bach: The Father of all Music :)
trainz10 2 years ago 5
For me: Bach is the voice of God
revfox1740 2 years ago 23
@revfox1740 real talk
LINX29X92 8 months ago
Thanks to post this marvelous serie abaut Bach!! it was a pleasure since the begining to the end,thanks again.
klausmann111 2 years ago
You can't take the shaggy-haired posh English woman
maxjamesorgans 2 years ago
Joanna is performing with and directing Britten Sinfonia at Londons Roundhouse on 23th Jan. Including Bach's Keyboard Concerto No.5 in F Minor and No.1 in D Minor.
tomkihl 2 years ago
Thanks a lot that you uploaded this documentary.
Dankbarkeit1980 2 years ago 3
I am surprised that harpsichord is tuned A440, but not extremely surprised.
mortson978 2 years ago
Thank you for uploading this. I can't imagine my life without his music. I was given Bach preludes very early on as a music student. They are like the ground I walk on.
chopin65 2 years ago 2
I agree, that last fugue really got to me, especially how it ended. It's such a waste that bach was not able to finish it
Pianoforte93 2 years ago 2
Wow. The ending to that fugue left me feeling strange.. very powerful.
Bardd530 2 years ago 3
Great Docu bout an ever greater composer!
Thanx a lot for sharing!
monkidoe 2 years ago
Hello ikuzo612,
Thank you very much for taking the time to upload the series. I know they are a pain in the ass to upload, so THANKS!
This was a great "prelude" to the book I'm about to read - J.S. Bach by Wolff - which just came in the mail from Amazon. Ugh, 600 pages though, that's a lot of reading...
Brian
briank4251 2 years ago
For me that unfinished fugue is the ouverture, the 1st chapter of history of music, a wink to humanity. From Mozart up to the 21st century, no one has been able to have that same level of prestige. It's like as if he told us: "Look what i've done, your turn now " ;-) and that fugue stops....Personnal thoughts though!
music880216 2 years ago 5
@music880216 same here
stargirlsusan 11 months ago
Bach died on july the 28 1750. Today is july the 28 2009. It is 259 years since Bach`s death. But he did not die. He is still with us as long as his music lives!!! THANK YOU for this lovely video.
CantorNeoplatensis 2 years ago 2
Quality Programming!
Shilohbanjoman 2 years ago 10
For those who like Bach you might want to try Johann Adolph Scheibe. He was THE first music critic and an absolute fabulous composer. His father was very know for building the best organs ever and was Bachs favorite organ builder.
Greetings from Germany
ohmannhey 2 years ago
it stops so sudden and shoking end because his life ended all suddenly too
in fact that's what life is, it starts all of sudden and ends all of sudden just like vapor, one time is there and then next thing you know is no more
stargirlsusan 2 years ago
What an eery end to the fuge! Full music....empty bars.........silence.
MirrPL 3 years ago
lovely homage to the "our father"... Mozart was the Son, of course. When my wife and I sit still in the presence of his music uniqely expresses for me, and feels for me, (feeling=knowing here) the love "I" have for my wife.
jg33brunner 3 years ago
Wow!.... Thanks! (for the series]! PerrrfictKats!
PerrrfictKats 3 years ago
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If Bach would live today he would never use AM/PM - no way!
He would never use the "24 hour time system" - because AM/PM is illogical and it sucks!
John K Lindgren
I hate AM/PM
but I love Bach
The time in Bangkok
20:20 NO AM/PM!
bkk10230 3 years ago
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the fuck is your problem you dyslexic retard, are you Gene Ray from timecube?? go back to your own kind you're a dumbass and it is now 5PM IN BANGKOK moron.
requiemaeternam7 3 years ago
ahahahahahaha
kenrubes 3 years ago
I second that... I've never seen someone obsessed with AM/PM before... quite shocking.
FeuVache 2 years ago 2
La música de Bach ha despertado gran pasión por el contenido teológico cristiano en su música en culturas no occidentales. Tanto es así que ya muchos lo llaman el quinto profeta, y en oriente es recurrente viajar a Leipzig para ser bautizado al cristianismo junto a la tumba de Juan Sebastian.
La razón es simple; una religión que es capaz de inspirar tanta belleza y perfección.
rodrigojavier 3 years ago
bach must have been god's son, just like jesus
afffred 3 years ago 4
VIVA BACH!
tatanicus 3 years ago 3
This is excellent. Please post the rest of the series if you can
Chrshonore 3 years ago
but bach had only one thing in mind when he wrote his music! ' Soli deo gloria' ..he once said,"the aim and the final reason of all music should be nothing else but the glory of God and the refreshment of the spirit"..
danielevans89 3 years ago
and btw I have studied bach and bach didn't care what church officials said about his music. Bach was a very religious man and was certainly inspired by something which he thought connected us all and he tried to do that very thing through music.
chopin8826 3 years ago
what does bringing lady friends into the church have to do with his influences...its just makes him pimp lol...listen I know youre probably an anti religious nut who thinks that if a composer has some influence from a spiritual or supernatural force it reduces his credibility...fact remains music in the era was written for "the grace of god" whether or not christianity is the right religion, the specifics of religion are not the important part, but the fact that Bach believed musicpowerfulmedium
chopin8826 3 years ago
Oh God. I seriously want to cry when I listen to that "devastating moment" when the last fugue cuts off. I can hear where Bach would have taken it, but he took it only to the grave. The rest is silence.
moskva40 3 years ago
damn, im so with u buddy. Ive felt the same.
wXsHavok 3 years ago
Thank you for uploading this video: a standing ovation to the greatest composer mankind has ever known!
vreesje 3 years ago
Thank you for posting this documentary... Very nice. I'm going wacht it with my students.
Quepeninha 3 years ago
I am an athiest with no belief, but over the last 2 weeks i have been to the St John Passion at St. Paul's Cathedral and St john's Smith Square, A St Matthew Passion at St. John's and the Barbican and...a B Minor Mass at St. John's. I go because the music is simply wonderful. I do not need to believe to know perfection when I hear it !
jeffreypick57 4 years ago
Beautiful, thank you. These videos brought a tear to my eye.
MichaelBramble 4 years ago
i'd like to hear bach play the organ too..
solti 4 years ago 2
ikuzo, many thanks for uploading these vids.
Jitpring 4 years ago
Know it: If an atheist immerses himself in Bach's music and yet remains an atheist, he reveals himself as a flat soul.
Jitpring 4 years ago
your saying god wrote the music, not bach?
i say the invisible pink unicorn created the music :P
evilblades 4 years ago
God certainly had an influence on Bach who wrote the music, its not that god physically wrote out the score lol....but since to Bach there is a god (whether or not its true) he was certainly a HUGE influence.
chopin8826 3 years ago
That's so typical of you arrogant religious fanatics. To imply such things as you have to believe in a god to enjoy music. There are many atheists out there that knows and feel music much deeper than you. And what about people of every other religion other than christianity, are they also flat souls? Just shut up, we don't need you to educate us on what to think and feel.
Herke83 4 years ago
...someone sure got excited around here:)I dont really think that faith is necessary to enjoy any kind of art and that "soulflatness" is an atribute of any particular group(i hope so:)..although, the fact is,christian beliefs make you feel a bit different when listening to bachs music..emotions it evokes are more or less universal,but..Bach was christian:)think about that:)thanks for posting btw...
Forcroi 4 years ago
I was once incredibly Christian; now I am not religious. Bach has been with me through it all, and while I definitely understand that Christian belief somehow differentiates hearing Bach's music with that kind of faith to hearing it without, I do not think it in any way necessarily enhances it or makes it better. In fact, having learned much more about Bach's music than I had known before, I think my appreciation of his music is even greater now. The strong emotions have been fairly constant.
moskva40 3 years ago
...though they are inextricably intertwined, at least his religious works are.
MediaMayhem 3 years ago
I don't think he was saying you can't appreciate it, Bach wrote this music in honoring his christian faith, to a certain extent if you come from any religion (at least with his masses) you'll understand what feelings Bach was trying to evoke on a religious level. Not that any atheist wouldn't be able to understand and appreciate the music....and every body has a soul...not just religious people.
chopin8826 3 years ago
just shut up. seriously. i don't normally say this to people on youtube but shut up.
you don't know the first goddamn thing about beauty if you say things like that.
I do not have, do not desire, do not need a soul. beauty is innate in everything not just the soul.
munkybrain 3 years ago