All the folks who swear that "rock & Roll" is an invention of the 1950s need to listen to this.
They need listen only once, but I guarantee they'll come back countless times, jst to experience the joy of this piece that is closing in on 300 years old.
300 years... and still as magic as the day it first rang out.
Um, rock'n'roll is certainly an invention of the 1950s - fast, fun, dancy music obviously has been around for a bit longer ;)
Just like you'll easily find "swung" rhythms in the late middle ages (or renaissance, I forget), but jazz has been "fused" in the beginning of the 20th century... you know...
Btw, if you wanna listen to the thrash metal version, look no further than Musica Antiqua Koeln's performance of this movement :D
Bach is transcendent and spans over time. No matter what instrument plays his music it still sounds good. This is a best purist musical interpretation of the Concertos. BUT played way to fast and it looses its musicality. If they were slow it down just a bit then you will be able to hear all of the intricacies of the voices. To fast as it is played you get a mush of sound. All be it beautiful, but sounds rushed. I heard it played by other groups at a slower tempo and it is just beautiful.
So, what I'm gathering is that this is performed on period instruments. Correct? Can anybody direct me to a link on which I can listen to the same, piece same movement performed on modern instruments so I can compare the sound for myself?
@robertschelly Period correct instruments. FBO has played this how many thousand times? Like my race driving instructor said: practice makes faster. ;)
But, yes, a bit too presto. (although 3i does sound better allegro none too moderoso.)
I don't think this stopping and restarting has to do with the video. It is probably because of too many internet users, which creates a kind of "traffic jam".
@BCKM54: I've played this concerto a few times (harpsichord). To me, it is one of the most beautiful to listen to; but from a harpsichordist's standpoint, the 1st and 3rd movements are kinda ... boring. HOWEVER, the second movement is one of the most difficult pieces I've had to play ,,, not only does one get lost in the contrapuntal texture, it is difficult to keep the tempo -- never figured it out -- musta got lost in it (no joke).
Oh yeah, forgot to add that the tall, languid woman playing the viola is ultra-sexy. Hate to bring human emotions to such beauty, but there you have it.
Do you ever hear something so beautiful that it not only makes you smile, it actually brings out a delicious chuckle of delight? Maybe it's my own surprise that anything can have such penetrating depth. This series of videos rocks and I'll leave it to others to debate their merits...I'll merely keep on smiling.
Don't wanna be a spammer about it, but being a fan of Reinhard Goebel's interpretation of this movement, everything else (including this) kinda makes me wanna sleep... but that's probably just me. :)
@bckm54 yeah its wonderful. theres so many awkward fingers what with all the arppegios if thats what you would call them. except... I played this with a friend and... playing it with someone else its a completely different song and way harder
i almost took viola da gamba classes. i'm not even sure that's the right spelling, but i think they're cool. not really familuar w/this concerto as much as the other brandenburgs, it is nice to hear
Hoffman says it's important to remember that -- unlike the classic portrait showing Bach as "bewigged, bejowled, stout and stolid" old man -- the composer was once "a handsome, dashing guy." Much of Bach's best-loved music, including the Brandenburg Concertos and the pieces for solo violin and cello "were written when he was a young man in his 30s," Hoffman tells Edwards.
Hoffman makes that point in the following essay, appropriately titled "Johann Sebastian Bach Was Handsome Once":
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what i hate about classic music is too many song.like vivaldi.you search for four season summer 3rd movement,then when you loading the video,it was 1st movement.
i search a tab and i saw allegro.i try to hear and its good.but when i search on youtube,i watch 1-6 allegro and i still don't find the song that i one.
the most underestimated movement of all the brandenburg concertos because when it was played on modern instruments it sounded ugly,but authentic instruments bring a totally different sound & such a majestic feeling that simply overwhelms you.
@alayeldin: I think it is a sublime movement-- and I also love it because I am a violist. But I disagree with you that it sounds ugly on modern instruments. I think it sounds absolutely gorgeous on modern violas-- with that big, full, round, chocolaty sound that the period instruments don't have. Don't get me wrong-- I like it on period instruments, too-- but there's nothing ugly about it on modern violas.
The "viola da braccio", commonly called a "viola" ("Bratsche" in German;-), is tuned c-g-d'-a'.
The "viola da gamba", also called "viol" or "gamba" ("Gambe" in German;-), comes in various sizes and tunings (e.g., pardessus, treble, alto, tenor, bass, etc.). In Bach's day, the term normally referred to the bass viol.
Of the 2 viols seen here (2:10) , one is the typical 6-string bass viol (D-G-c-e-a-d'). The larger, ornate instrument is a 7-string bass viol (A1-D-G-c-e-a-d').
Well, all you have to do is count the strings or tuning pegs --- assuming you can see them well enough in this video to actually count them accurately.
The tuning pegs might be easier to distinguish than the strings.
I see 7 tuning pegs on the viol with the white pegs.
I''ll leave it to you to make the effort to scrutinize the video to the count strings or pegs on the other viol.
Every sound, tiny or grand, of this masterpiece, is encraved in my head! You present this great work, note by note, feeling by feeling exactly like I hear it in my head. What would I give to be able to play these sounds within my head, as you all do!
No. The viola da gambas are the members of the family of viols. It's not the same musical instrument family as the violins' one. Both were developed in the XVI century independently.
The viola da gamba appeared in the 1490s. Like the Spanish guitar (a "vihuela") that it was derived from, it has frets and 6 strings tuned by 4ths, except for the middle strings which are tuned a major 3rd apart.
Various violin-like instruments (with various tunings and 3 to 5 strings) coexisted with viols, but what we would recognize as a modern 4-string violin tuned by 5ths first appeared in Italy, around 1565.
This is by far the best rendition of these concertos I've ever heard. The voices are more than articulate they intertwine in the most sublimely crisp conversation. Excellent job FBO!
Oh, shut up about the da gambas already! Well, if you are commenting on their playing that's okay:)..... Kidding. seriously, do you want to comment on the actual performance?
The worst recording I've heard of Brandenburg No. 6 is the Academy of Ancient Music. It sounds yucky and the 2nd solo violist's instrument isn't in tune.
Unfortunately there hasn't been any great Germans AFTER Hitler. Indeed, European culture seems to have ended at WWII. America seems to be following the same path to mediacraty. :(
MSdie! Very good point. At a time that the white / European race is being constantly demeaned -mostly by self-defeating white liberal-minded journalists- you cannot expect anything important coming from them. The demise of the white male in America, which started in the mid-1960s, gave rise to political correctness, homosexuality, and general mediocrity in the arts. I am not a redneck but also I am not here to celebrate further humiliation of my gender and race.
I have to disassociate myself from any suggestion that this is a racial thing. It isn't race, it is culture/politics. The Europeans have given up Liberty for security and pleasure. This dimenishes them to the status of children and kills ambition. Lack of ambition results in lack of excelants.
Soon America is going to go down this road as well I fear.
It is a racial issue because the white man is committing suicide biologically speaking. The number of whites is decreasing in absolute numbers. We must eradicate political correctness issues (abortion, etc.) if the western civilizatiojn is to survive. With biological revival, cultural revival will follow too. We need a Pericles-type leader to rejuvenate western civilization.
No, it has nothing to do with race. Race itself is a meaningless concept.
This is a cultural problem. It doesn't matter if the human race consists of people of European ancestory, Arab ancestory or African ancestory. What does matter is their culture -- does it elevate human beings or bring them down to an animal existance.
Race has nothing to do with it. Race is in fact a European concept which never existed in any other part of the world before. There is no biological difference between a white and non-white other than the amount of melanin in their skin. A little scientific understanding would help. Racism is a terrible sin.
RUMP: You misunderstood me. I don't believe in racial supremacy when we refer to individuals. But the European people's culture is by far superior to any African, Amerindian or Asian (with the possible exception of the Chinese / japanese). The Greeks had a written language with verbs, nouns and adjectives back in 9th century b.C. Tell that to the Sub-Saharan Africans who were never capable of developing a written language of their own. You cannot create civilization without a written language.
No. Almost all native americans had a writing system. In fact, the mayans had a way better calendar than the western civilization had when they first arrived in the new world. Most cultures also had more cures for disease than Europeans. They also weren't killing each other because of religious differences. I could go on and on.
RUMP: "writing system"? What do you mean by writing system. Was it a language? Was it a means to store information for the future generations? Of course not! Re: the Mayans. Dit they know that the earth is a sphere? Heratosthenes, a Greek mathematician, had calculated the earth's circumference, and missed it by some 100 km (out of 40,000.) Don't ALLOW POLITICAL CORRECTNESS TO BLIND YOUR ABILITY TO THINK RATIONALLY.
Scipop1492, I suspect you are an ardent homophobe. The funny thing is that before WWII homosexuality wasn't even an issue, even for homosexuals, since it just wasn't an option. By that I don't mean that it was overtly frowned upon, but that it wasn't even an option for gay men. The concept was simply unthinkable. You couldn't have chosen to "come out" (even if allowable) because the very concept was non existent.
Oddly, enough males tended to show more affection to one and other because it wasn't seen as making them "sissies". Television before the 60s rather than promoting extreme heterosexuality, promoted the complete opposite. Not homosexuality, but chauvinism. Therefore it was perfectly fine for males of all ages to show affection, although not overtly sexual behaviour. Though homosexual sexplay certainly went on behind closed doors; not that it's any business of yours.
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EUROPA: Homosecxuality is an acquired behaviour. It can be "cured" given the right social / family environment. Why would anybody in his right mind prefer a defecating anus to of an inviting vagina? The fact that today there is such a"concept" is another symptom of the rot that characterizes western societies.
scipio1492, it seems you've missed the point. Not all homosexual men want to engage in that unspeakable practice you mentioned. And, although it can be cured as you say, probably with extreme violence (and I have no doubt you support such), you don't necessarily have the right to force that upon anyone.
Another thing you seem oblivious to is that plenty of homosexual men are themselves displeased with the "rot" of cultural Marxism. Homosexuality is after all a form of chauvinism. cont.
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Also, how does it follow that the alternate to a woman's vagina is a man's anus? If heterosexual men enjoy the shape, taste, appearance of the vagina, then it reasonably follows that homosexual men enjoy the shape, taste, appearance (etc) of the penis.
sorry to tex: just listen to the music but what would i know after all i am a eastend boy who is a butler and they is nothing better then listening to toff who think they know it all . . . i must say there are some very lovely ladys in this group . .
18 people are violinists...
gothicgrowler 1 month ago
The guitar group at my university is transposing this song to play. I get that high pretty soprano viola part. ._.
jesusXdiablo 4 months ago
It sounds great but, why isn't the movement syncronized with the music and why is every note a half step lower than the original song?
97violaguy 6 months ago
@97violaguy Baroque-pitch is lower then modern concert-pitch. So if there would be something like an "original song", this would be more like it.
HerrWarja 5 months ago
@97violaguy Some say that Bach's A wasn't 440, but rather was closer to 396. maybe this is why?
beedude205 4 months ago
@97violaguy Some say that Bach's A wasn't 440, but rather was closer to 396. maybe this is why?
beedude205 4 months ago
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iWyke2 2 months ago
All the folks who swear that "rock & Roll" is an invention of the 1950s need to listen to this.
They need listen only once, but I guarantee they'll come back countless times, jst to experience the joy of this piece that is closing in on 300 years old.
300 years... and still as magic as the day it first rang out.
PTCello 6 months ago 3
@PTCello Your comment there really doesn't prove anything that rock and roll wasn't invented in the 1950's, just that it's a good song...
jesusXdiablo 4 months ago
@PTCello
Um, rock'n'roll is certainly an invention of the 1950s - fast, fun, dancy music obviously has been around for a bit longer ;)
Just like you'll easily find "swung" rhythms in the late middle ages (or renaissance, I forget), but jazz has been "fused" in the beginning of the 20th century... you know...
Btw, if you wanna listen to the thrash metal version, look no further than Musica Antiqua Koeln's performance of this movement :D
twooffour 2 months ago
Absolutely love how the viola were given the limelight this time around. They sound amazing! <3
BlackmagerVlogs 6 months ago 2
they slayin' it.
bimblebumble 8 months ago
when it shows all of them moving around and playing, they're having musical sex, with orgasms in their ears
CCCPchaz 8 months ago
it's definetly too fast it's only one big NOISE !!!!! v it's horrible!! i can't hear it anymore
misiekolej 8 months ago
a little too fast for the pace
renwenhui 9 months ago
@renwenhui Check out the one with Karl Richter. It's a little slower and it you can very audibly hear all the instruments.
jddrew1000 7 months ago
hahà_lÉútÈ_sUcht_mÅl_ñÂch:_olikohle_âÚf_gÔógle_vOll_géÏl
loveilybabi91324 9 months ago
Is that Hille Perl?
ranwnye 9 months ago
Oh, beautiful music, performed excellently by these musicians.
michaelbyrnes2012 9 months ago
3:05 OMG she looks like a man!!
But it doesn't matter when you hear the melody :)
Diego0402 10 months ago
This is just beautiful! I love it ever since!
DoroSusi 10 months ago 2
この演奏を聴いてこの曲が好きになりました。これを聞くまでは肩苦しい曲だと思っていましたから。
hiro10052 10 months ago
Why am I constantly gasping for breath when listening to Bach? I am in heaven.
sbalogh53 11 months ago
The sound is so different on this recording, I am not used to this tuning. I prefer it this way!
pureaKero 11 months ago
why it's a half-tone lower? don't tell me cause of te stupid instrument tuning please!
NetRunner88 11 months ago
@NetRunner88 It is. The Akademie Für Alte Musik Berlin recording has the same tuning.
LordHettrick 10 months ago
Bach is transcendent and spans over time. No matter what instrument plays his music it still sounds good. This is a best purist musical interpretation of the Concertos. BUT played way to fast and it looses its musicality. If they were slow it down just a bit then you will be able to hear all of the intricacies of the voices. To fast as it is played you get a mush of sound. All be it beautiful, but sounds rushed. I heard it played by other groups at a slower tempo and it is just beautiful.
selaromyar 11 months ago
This song kinda reminds me of a calm snowfall in the beginning, then strong wind gusts with increasing snowfall then back to a calm snowfall.
bach1229 11 months ago
@grendelwok I agree. A bit of the intricate interplay between the violas is lost when it's played too presto.
Even so, I think this is a great performance.
alexhatesmil 11 months ago
This and No. 3 are my favorites
the US Army Band website has a recording No. 6 on their website for download last time i checked
sarsgarrs 1 year ago
i hate tht the video duznt line up w the sound...otherwise this is my favorite brandenburg concerto
Musicalme96 1 year ago
how could anyone not love and be transfixed by the beauty of Bach I'll never understand
TheKULKIDS 1 year ago
So, what I'm gathering is that this is performed on period instruments. Correct? Can anybody direct me to a link on which I can listen to the same, piece same movement performed on modern instruments so I can compare the sound for myself?
Mattris 1 year ago
Too fast.
robertschelly 1 year ago
@robertschelly Period correct instruments. FBO has played this how many thousand times? Like my race driving instructor said: practice makes faster. ;)
But, yes, a bit too presto. (although 3i does sound better allegro none too moderoso.)
grendelwok 1 year ago 2
@grendelwok The instrument that she played is called viola da gomba
youwayo 1 year ago
at 2:29 that lady with the black hair looks like the mom from the Adams Family :)
pianoking53 1 year ago 4
@pianoking53 Yep V Morticia - but what is that instrument she is playing called?
TheStevewhelan 1 year ago
So beautiful......and yet, not a single violin in the ensemble. Bach was truly a German master.
billace90 1 year ago
whew
markps78 1 year ago
top video hmm total neu hier wer mag oder will mit mir chattn der meldet sich ja ^^
sandrafarnel 1 year ago 11
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Is the first viola de gamba player, a guy ????
Anyways, they are so awesome !
paclos29 1 year ago
Is the first viola de gamba player, a guy ????
Anyways, they are so awesome !
paclos29 1 year ago
Is the first viola the gamba a guy ??
They are awesome !!!!
paclos29 1 year ago
@paclos29
no, her name is Hille Perl, she is one the best and finest european viola da gamba player nowadays.
animamea99 1 year ago
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@paclos29
No, Her Name is Hille Perl, one of the best and finest european viola da gamba player nowadays.
animamea99 1 year ago
As a violist, I love this piece. But I do feel sorry for the boring gamba parts. =[
wfshipley 1 year ago
like always... YOUR MAJESTY "JOHAN SEBASTIAN BACH"
manuelspcool 1 year ago
AMOR, FELIZ DÍA!!! 13/07/2010
Dgantus 1 year ago
As lovely as this is, the video stops and starts in several places. Wish someone would fix it....however you do that.
OZARKSEK 1 year ago
@OZARKSEK
I don't think this stopping and restarting has to do with the video. It is probably because of too many internet users, which creates a kind of "traffic jam".
melomane49 1 year ago
how ironic is this life Bach got the ammount of aprox. $60.00 dollars to compousse this 6 concerts for the prince of brandenburg. wooou
LORDSWORDIII 1 year ago
@LORDSWORDIII ur forgeting inflation lol
divine604 1 year ago
@BCKM54: I've played this concerto a few times (harpsichord). To me, it is one of the most beautiful to listen to; but from a harpsichordist's standpoint, the 1st and 3rd movements are kinda ... boring. HOWEVER, the second movement is one of the most difficult pieces I've had to play ,,, not only does one get lost in the contrapuntal texture, it is difficult to keep the tempo -- never figured it out -- musta got lost in it (no joke).
OfficerRobertHall 1 year ago
I beg to differ with some of the commenters; I really enjoy this interpretation. But it is, of course Bach, after all.
jonahansen 1 year ago
The gamba player who looks a little like Morticia Adams has the most awesome fingerboard I have ever seen. <3
petitequinte 1 year ago
im reading it at school in ear training 2 :D
za11y 1 year ago
Oh yeah, forgot to add that the tall, languid woman playing the viola is ultra-sexy. Hate to bring human emotions to such beauty, but there you have it.
Ashlar62 1 year ago 3
Do you ever hear something so beautiful that it not only makes you smile, it actually brings out a delicious chuckle of delight? Maybe it's my own surprise that anything can have such penetrating depth. This series of videos rocks and I'll leave it to others to debate their merits...I'll merely keep on smiling.
Ashlar62 1 year ago 8
@Ashlar62
Don't wanna be a spammer about it, but being a fan of Reinhard Goebel's interpretation of this movement, everything else (including this) kinda makes me wanna sleep... but that's probably just me. :)
twooffour 2 months ago
So, how many of you out there in YouTube land have actually PLAYED this? I have, the viola parts, and it is GREAT to play! :)
bckm54 1 year ago
@bckm54 yeah its wonderful. theres so many awkward fingers what with all the arppegios if thats what you would call them. except... I played this with a friend and... playing it with someone else its a completely different song and way harder
Keenester5000 1 year ago
@bckm54 I've played this before, not performed it, but just for fun with friends. I seriously love this piece. XD
petitequinte 1 year ago
What is the woman on the far right playing????
Yamikura777 1 year ago
the 3 musicians right of the harpsichord are playing violae da gamba
1972jewish 1 year ago
Hille Perl is so relaxed, plays so effortlessly in this video, the best of the best!
zeinert 1 year ago
Viola da Gamba - didn't he conquer Peru?
SupernalOne 1 year ago 3
@SupernalOne hehehe...BRILLIANT! :)
bckm54 1 year ago
@bckm54
they say you use everything you learn, eventually - so much for early American history - X^)
SupernalOne 1 year ago
huhugerade ziemlich kuschelbedürftig wer möchte mit mir chilln hab auch ne web cam
GageGAlleny 1 year ago
Bacholoji, I adore your videos.
Thanks so much for uploading them
My best wishes
chloeshakira 1 year ago
Too beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!
bersa888 1 year ago
too fast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
limeginger 1 year ago
@eaglesgogirl, the instrument you're referring to is called a "viola da gamba".
Rubster1974 1 year ago
thanks and the second comment i typed was suppose to be violist but i was in a hurry, that is a very neat instrument
eaglesgogirl 1 year ago
i meant violinst
eaglesgogirl 1 year ago
viola da gamba xD
chabelo182 1 year ago
i don't understand your comment
eaglesgogirl 1 year ago
First, there are no violinists in this piece. From left to right: Viola, viola, cello, harpsichord, violone (I believe), and two violas da gamba
zeuge77 1 year ago
what's the instrument that the woman is playing directly infront of the violinist called?
eaglesgogirl 1 year ago
blopcup...i did spell it right haha. and you spelled 'correct' wrong XD
minimozart89 1 year ago
this one is definitely too fast, for my tastes.
Arch5280 1 year ago
i almost took viola da gamba classes. i'm not even sure that's the right spelling, but i think they're cool. not really familuar w/this concerto as much as the other brandenburgs, it is nice to hear
minimozart89 1 year ago
Viola da gamba is the correcy spelling
blopcup 1 year ago
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Hoffman says it's important to remember that -- unlike the classic portrait showing Bach as "bewigged, bejowled, stout and stolid" old man -- the composer was once "a handsome, dashing guy." Much of Bach's best-loved music, including the Brandenburg Concertos and the pieces for solo violin and cello "were written when he was a young man in his 30s," Hoffman tells Edwards.
Hoffman makes that point in the following essay, appropriately titled "Johann Sebastian Bach Was Handsome Once":
chopinandliszt 2 years ago
The best one! But I didnt like very much of this version...
LUCASFR0 2 years ago 3
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what i hate about classic music is too many song.like vivaldi.you search for four season summer 3rd movement,then when you loading the video,it was 1st movement.
i search a tab and i saw allegro.i try to hear and its good.but when i search on youtube,i watch 1-6 allegro and i still don't find the song that i one.
but I LIKE CLASSIC(although i'm a metalhead)
farrieswong 2 years ago
LOL
LUCASFR0 2 years ago
idiot.
minji1004 1 year ago
the most underestimated movement of all the brandenburg concertos because when it was played on modern instruments it sounded ugly,but authentic instruments bring a totally different sound & such a majestic feeling that simply overwhelms you.
alayeldin 2 years ago 48
@alayeldin That's true of so many pieces. Anybody who has heard Pinchas Zuckerman play baroque music knows exactly what I mean... >_<
petitequinte 1 year ago
@alayeldin: I think it is a sublime movement-- and I also love it because I am a violist. But I disagree with you that it sounds ugly on modern instruments. I think it sounds absolutely gorgeous on modern violas-- with that big, full, round, chocolaty sound that the period instruments don't have. Don't get me wrong-- I like it on period instruments, too-- but there's nothing ugly about it on modern violas.
CycloneJosh 1 year ago 3
@alayeldin
Karl Richter's, Il Musici's and others' don't sound ugly.
Nothing beats Musica Antiqua on these, though.
twooffour 8 months ago
omg it is so beautiful
victorbr14 2 years ago 2
The melody is nice
valhalla12100 2 years ago 2
Hille Perl is such a great player. And what an amazing fingerboard on the gamba.
Walvis2007 2 years ago
Nice
valhalla12100 2 years ago 2
That viol is beautiful! And this concerto is amazing :)
Madamoiselle666 2 years ago
It's as if you are in the middle of the sea and you receive the waves!
ensimon 2 years ago 4
What is the name of the group performing this concerto?
ssmerbeck 2 years ago
just read the author's description ;)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Northrend88 2 years ago
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
3NUNS 2 years ago
I think it's the Beatles.
MrPontiusPilate 2 years ago 3
There are two ones:
Viola da gamba = "Violin - CGDA" played on the leg
Viola da braccia = "Violin - CGDA" played with the arms
What you see here are the "Bratschen";-)
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wcbroccoli 2 years ago
The "viola da braccio", commonly called a "viola" ("Bratsche" in German;-), is tuned c-g-d'-a'.
The "viola da gamba", also called "viol" or "gamba" ("Gambe" in German;-), comes in various sizes and tunings (e.g., pardessus, treble, alto, tenor, bass, etc.). In Bach's day, the term normally referred to the bass viol.
Of the 2 viols seen here (2:10) , one is the typical 6-string bass viol (D-G-c-e-a-d'). The larger, ornate instrument is a 7-string bass viol (A1-D-G-c-e-a-d').
wcbroccoli 2 years ago
they are both seven stringed
MozartIsFancylalala 2 years ago
Well, all you have to do is count the strings or tuning pegs --- assuming you can see them well enough in this video to actually count them accurately.
The tuning pegs might be easier to distinguish than the strings.
I see 7 tuning pegs on the viol with the white pegs.
I''ll leave it to you to make the effort to scrutinize the video to the count strings or pegs on the other viol.
wcbroccoli 2 years ago
Every sound, tiny or grand, of this masterpiece, is encraved in my head! You present this great work, note by note, feeling by feeling exactly like I hear it in my head. What would I give to be able to play these sounds within my head, as you all do!
barbettemroe 2 years ago
'morticca addams' is a transgendered!! Look at 'her' closely It so obvious
AZazaxe 2 years ago
No. The viola da gambas are the members of the family of viols. It's not the same musical instrument family as the violins' one. Both were developed in the XVI century independently.
madaraszi 2 years ago
The viola da gamba appeared in the 1490s. Like the Spanish guitar (a "vihuela") that it was derived from, it has frets and 6 strings tuned by 4ths, except for the middle strings which are tuned a major 3rd apart.
Various violin-like instruments (with various tunings and 3 to 5 strings) coexisted with viols, but what we would recognize as a modern 4-string violin tuned by 5ths first appeared in Italy, around 1565.
wcbroccoli 2 years ago
Rather 1530....
madaraszi 2 years ago
According to my sources the viol first appeared in the late 1400s.
This is corroborated at the website of the Viola da Gamba Society of America (VdGSA-dot-org) under "About the Viol".
wcbroccoli 2 years ago
The term "violino" (violin) is the diminutive form of "viola", which suggests that the viola appeared before the violin.
wcbroccoli 2 years ago
What are those 6 string cello instruments? I've never seen them before.
darkknight91 2 years ago
viol da gama, period instrument, predecessor of the cello.
scluna44 2 years ago
Ah, but the cello is also a "period instrument", as is the violin and viola.
All the instruments in this performance are "period instruments".
The viola da gamba predates the violoncello but is not really it's ancestor.
The cello is really just a big viola.
wcbroccoli 2 years ago
I believe scluna44 meant _archaic_, and that the viola da gamba is the predecessor of the violincello in _position_, not genealogy.
dolofonos 2 years ago
They are called viola da gambas.
tejaswin94 2 years ago
The plural is "violas da gamba".
wcbroccoli 2 years ago
2:26 dmn! Morticia is pretty!
Kraviotho 2 years ago 2
Fabulous!
nahatsu2 2 years ago
This is by far the best rendition of these concertos I've ever heard. The voices are more than articulate they intertwine in the most sublimely crisp conversation. Excellent job FBO!
ultranom 2 years ago
Great performance, the violas have a a strong sound:)
HahnPotterishFowlnut 2 years ago
Oh, shut up about the da gambas already! Well, if you are commenting on their playing that's okay:)..... Kidding. seriously, do you want to comment on the actual performance?
HahnPotterishFowlnut 2 years ago
I love the gambas!
Dansback21 2 years ago
Apropos, since in the old TV show Lurch played Harpsichord! Hahaha!
olcorganist 2 years ago
youre right... she really does look like morticcia adams!! lol!
yossiban 2 years ago 2
Ooooo.
foreal1992 2 years ago
the one with the black hair looks like that lady from the Adams family
superjam18 2 years ago
She is playig the viola da gamba. Just wanted to inform. (A)
HerrWarja 2 years ago
yes you are right, that is so cool!
Dansback21 2 years ago
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Perrygodmother 2 years ago
Great.... just great.
malazsevo 2 years ago 3
what are those cello looking things
astrocity726 2 years ago
viola da gambas, i think.
vickiviolini 2 years ago 2
Yes, they are viola da Gambas
Saidice 2 years ago 2
The instruments on the right are definitely violas da gamba. Also the high instruments (on the left) are violas, not violins.
alarob 2 years ago
power to the violas!
starrykristen3 2 years ago 2
MAGIA!
maxigavilan 2 years ago
As a 63 year old lifelong bach fan I have to say that this is absolutely superb.
bollockstothepope 2 years ago 3
Wow talk about the WRONG venue to debate something like this, lmao.
Just appreciate the awesome music and stop taking away from the violas! :P
CartmanMorisato 2 years ago
hahaha, yea i agree
like this a lot
laudamuste 2 years ago
I'm sure Bach would have a blast reading our theories on cultural supremacy and homosexuality.
rumpranger65 2 years ago
/watch?v=V53EvMXBV-I
captainsurrey 2 years ago
The worst recording I've heard of Brandenburg No. 6 is the Academy of Ancient Music. It sounds yucky and the 2nd solo violist's instrument isn't in tune.
animeviolalord 2 years ago
video and audio don´t match,, fix it bacholoji,, lol,, thanks,,
DBJ06 2 years ago
You Americans should learn that Germany's history did not start with Hitler. There was Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner before him.
scipio1492 2 years ago 3
Indeed, hitler goal was to erase the past. Dont forget that.
Virussse 2 years ago
Unfortunately there hasn't been any great Germans AFTER Hitler. Indeed, European culture seems to have ended at WWII. America seems to be following the same path to mediacraty. :(
msdiediedie 2 years ago
MSdie! Very good point. At a time that the white / European race is being constantly demeaned -mostly by self-defeating white liberal-minded journalists- you cannot expect anything important coming from them. The demise of the white male in America, which started in the mid-1960s, gave rise to political correctness, homosexuality, and general mediocrity in the arts. I am not a redneck but also I am not here to celebrate further humiliation of my gender and race.
scipio1492 2 years ago
I have to disassociate myself from any suggestion that this is a racial thing. It isn't race, it is culture/politics. The Europeans have given up Liberty for security and pleasure. This dimenishes them to the status of children and kills ambition. Lack of ambition results in lack of excelants.
Soon America is going to go down this road as well I fear.
msdiediedie 2 years ago 2
It is a racial issue because the white man is committing suicide biologically speaking. The number of whites is decreasing in absolute numbers. We must eradicate political correctness issues (abortion, etc.) if the western civilizatiojn is to survive. With biological revival, cultural revival will follow too. We need a Pericles-type leader to rejuvenate western civilization.
scipio1492 2 years ago
No, it has nothing to do with race. Race itself is a meaningless concept.
This is a cultural problem. It doesn't matter if the human race consists of people of European ancestory, Arab ancestory or African ancestory. What does matter is their culture -- does it elevate human beings or bring them down to an animal existance.
msdiediedie 2 years ago 2
Race has nothing to do with it. Race is in fact a European concept which never existed in any other part of the world before. There is no biological difference between a white and non-white other than the amount of melanin in their skin. A little scientific understanding would help. Racism is a terrible sin.
rumpranger65 2 years ago
Nice to see you're spouting the post modern relativist nonsense you learned during your 12 year spate of government forced education.
Way to go!
captainsurrey 2 years ago
Racism is sinful. Hmm. You're right, I'M crazy!
rumpranger65 2 years ago
RUMP: You misunderstood me. I don't believe in racial supremacy when we refer to individuals. But the European people's culture is by far superior to any African, Amerindian or Asian (with the possible exception of the Chinese / japanese). The Greeks had a written language with verbs, nouns and adjectives back in 9th century b.C. Tell that to the Sub-Saharan Africans who were never capable of developing a written language of their own. You cannot create civilization without a written language.
scipio1492 2 years ago
No. Almost all native americans had a writing system. In fact, the mayans had a way better calendar than the western civilization had when they first arrived in the new world. Most cultures also had more cures for disease than Europeans. They also weren't killing each other because of religious differences. I could go on and on.
rumpranger65 2 years ago
RUMP: "writing system"? What do you mean by writing system. Was it a language? Was it a means to store information for the future generations? Of course not! Re: the Mayans. Dit they know that the earth is a sphere? Heratosthenes, a Greek mathematician, had calculated the earth's circumference, and missed it by some 100 km (out of 40,000.) Don't ALLOW POLITICAL CORRECTNESS TO BLIND YOUR ABILITY TO THINK RATIONALLY.
scipio1492 2 years ago
Scipop1492, I suspect you are an ardent homophobe. The funny thing is that before WWII homosexuality wasn't even an issue, even for homosexuals, since it just wasn't an option. By that I don't mean that it was overtly frowned upon, but that it wasn't even an option for gay men. The concept was simply unthinkable. You couldn't have chosen to "come out" (even if allowable) because the very concept was non existent.
EuropaCandidus 2 years ago
Oddly, enough males tended to show more affection to one and other because it wasn't seen as making them "sissies". Television before the 60s rather than promoting extreme heterosexuality, promoted the complete opposite. Not homosexuality, but chauvinism. Therefore it was perfectly fine for males of all ages to show affection, although not overtly sexual behaviour. Though homosexual sexplay certainly went on behind closed doors; not that it's any business of yours.
EuropaCandidus 2 years ago
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EUROPA: Homosecxuality is an acquired behaviour. It can be "cured" given the right social / family environment. Why would anybody in his right mind prefer a defecating anus to of an inviting vagina? The fact that today there is such a"concept" is another symptom of the rot that characterizes western societies.
scipio1492 2 years ago
scipio1492, it seems you've missed the point. Not all homosexual men want to engage in that unspeakable practice you mentioned. And, although it can be cured as you say, probably with extreme violence (and I have no doubt you support such), you don't necessarily have the right to force that upon anyone.
Another thing you seem oblivious to is that plenty of homosexual men are themselves displeased with the "rot" of cultural Marxism. Homosexuality is after all a form of chauvinism. cont.
EuropaCandidus 2 years ago
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EuropaCandidus 2 years ago
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Also, how does it follow that the alternate to a woman's vagina is a man's anus? If heterosexual men enjoy the shape, taste, appearance of the vagina, then it reasonably follows that homosexual men enjoy the shape, taste, appearance (etc) of the penis.
EuropaCandidus 2 years ago
the instrument with the cool neck design is a basse de viole or viola da gamba. who is that playing it? Is that Hille Perl?
williejax2 2 years ago
Whats the instrument with the cool neck design?
It looks like a cello, but is that how you hold the bow for a cello?
dajpd 2 years ago
They're playing it quite fast.
exodusx599 2 years ago
go violas!!!!!! yay!!!!
rhinolovingpianist77 2 years ago
Christian Goosses viola 1 And Annette Schmidt viola 2 are Great musician
valhalla12100 2 years ago
Ulrike Kaufmann is playing viola 2, not Annette Schmidt.
WarrenChu000 2 years ago
Right Thanks
valhalla12100 2 years ago
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valhalla12100 2 years ago
and what a strange comments! just listen to the music... my god! that is the genius Bach! What the hell are you talking about...
Sashomei 2 years ago 2
sorry to tex: just listen to the music but what would i know after all i am a eastend boy who is a butler and they is nothing better then listening to toff who think they know it all . . . i must say there are some very lovely ladys in this group . .
sleepingspider 2 years ago