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  • Simply astonishing. There's enough power in this piece to meet a small nation's electricity requirements for a month.

  • If it ain't baroque... FIX IT.

  • this song is incredible although it is very repetitive in spots

  • Everyone tells me this music is baroque but to be honest i don't see anything that needs to be fixed.

  • Immensely powerful...

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  • BASS DROP

  • ME GUSTA!

  • Is someone on drugs? This song is in Ab minor.

  • @bonestorm99 Ab minor my scrotum. this is in H major.

  • @bonestorm99 D minor. just using (baroque?) different tuning

  • @bonestorm99

    Actually, it's in D minor, but with a baroque tuning that's about half a step down from the tuning that we use today. So, it's closer to Db minor by today's ears. But in no sense is it in Ab minor. I'm not sure where you got that. It does modulate to A minor (closer to Ab minor by your ears) briefly, but that's not the key of the piece.

  • @colourfulwithaU It was Db, yeah. Don't know what the hell I was thinking that day o_O

  • There are some videos that show the harpsichordists playing - more than one, but beautifully synchronized. Amazing...

  • Thank you SoliDeoGloria

  • My favourite classical piece

  • lost in bach's genius

  • Holy fuck, wow

  • Splendid!

  • I saw Trevor Pinnock two days ago conducting Handel's Messiah and playing the Harpsichord. And I am going to see him again this Sunday playing the Harpsichord. F**** Yea ! I've been a big fan of him since discovering these records by the English Concert. And that was thanks to your posts.

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  • Inspiring, like skeletons, making love on a tin ceiling.

  • Bless you.

    Hmm? Oh, it was Bach's symphony. sorry, thought it was Chuck Norris sneezing again

  • @Havelneft you're right...

  • This entire song is epic...the part at 6:24 is absolute shredding

  • Chuck Norris comparisons are stupid.

  • So very Castlevania. I love it.

  • @Bleachlover01

    Castlevania owes much to Bach regarding its music.

  • Baroque heavy metal!

  • I could not live without bach's music. If you think J.S. Bach is good, check out his sons music. Type in C.P.E Bach H 420 in the search bar. Listen to Bach's sons harpsichord concerto.

  • Gotta love the harpsichord!

  • I really do not like the Romantic period...so that's why I say: You go Baroque, you never go Back!

  • @yugoroth1 You don't like Romantic? You obviously aren't familiar with Tarrega.

  • @yugoroth1 but you definitely go Bach! :D

  • Simply terrific, a mix of hinted emotions wrapped up in anticipating joy. Take part in the genius.

  • I listened to this song like, 5 times in a row. One could say I listened to it Bach-to-Bach.

  • @Ryptyde13 5 times in a row would be Bach-to-Bach-to-Bach-to-Bach-t­o-Bach. Duh.

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  • Is D flat right?

  • @TheRunikko No, it's D (baroque tuning).

  • @moltoallegro19 Haha you're right, but D 415Hz (Baroque Tuning) it's the same as D flat (:

  • @TheRunikko Sounds the same, at least, but there is an important difference between sounding like the same note and being the same. And 415Hz is most often where the A uses to be :P (but the Hz varies from performer to performer, some want it even lower.)

  • @moltoallegro19 Yehe! As a 'guitarist' I rely on my ears haha, thanks for the info about the Baroque tuning (:

  • I think this movement is "stronger" with a piano.

  • i think bach might have wrote a lot of music while drinking. the emotions are so different that it takes a drunk person to understand the feeling. drinking does enhance this

  • @iownallnoobs

    He followed the rules of fourpart writing. Which is why you can hear different voices in his music.

  • @shadowknight132 I ment the how different the emotions were throughout not the different voices

  • I have never heard anything by the hand of that man that wasn't DIVINE!

  • CHUCK NORRIS WROTE THIS SONG XD XD XD JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA O_O

  • Divine 

  • @hijacker050 hi tier trolling at its worst

  • @hijacker050 Yes, you are. BBBBBBBUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRNNNNN­NNNNNNNNNNN

  • @hijacker050 The sheer intelligence of this comment simply blows me away. Sir, you are among the greatest minds in the universe, to have come up with such a sophisticated and complex argument against this music, you are simply genius. The way you have typed just a single word as a response to a 7 and a half minute movement shows such creativity and emotional passion that I simply cannot reply any any intelligent manner. Bravo.

  • barroque n'roll

  • @Vampirifikation genius

  • holly shit my ancestor made awesome music

  • @Porncakez you wish he was your ancestor!

  • @Porncakez lol you should too then

  • @Porncakez lucky, my ancestor was rollo.

  • type in to hear pyo sinfonia to hear Arioso by Bach on violin.

  • Hey look i'm cool! That (random celebrity) (Verb) (latest internet meme) This song!!

  • For some strange reason I like Bach and hard Dubstep.......am I nuts?

  • @Exascale

    No, you are probably okay haha

    I like some Dubstep also & Classical as well. People like what they like, no point to look for reasons or think you are crazy. I can listen to Venom then a church choir immediately after. So if you are crazy I should be in a padded room locked up somewhere.

    If it makes you feel better, I read a lot about psychology and many experts say that truly crazy people dont know it or think they aren't. Questioning it shows traces of sanity and logic. Good day

  • @Exascale Lol I like Brutal Death Metal, Dubstep, Dark Psytrance, Baroque, Jazz Fusion, Ambient Psy, Death Rap. Its all art man, anyone who judges misses out, but then some mediocre stuff really isn't worth the listen to expand the ear/musical knowledge. But for some reason lately I come bach to Bach and I get reminded who is the real hierarchy. ~_~

  • i can clearly see some heavy guitars and drums on this song..awesome!

  • @Darkvinx88

    If you ever listen to some songs on Youtube from the better technical death metal bands where someone does an orchestral version it sounds a lot like this.

    4:10 is total shred. I have wondered several times if legendary composers like Bach or Vivaldi were given modern instruments what they could do. Then it would be neat to compare it to whats made currently in music.

    I'd like to hear their opinions on various music from different eras as well.

  • This is not a song...and Chuck Norris its an idiot

  • omg shush..can you people just enjoy the music instead of arguing all the time? really..

  • bach owns the harpsichord,not many used it like he would.a true pioneer.i listen to every thing from bach to death metal.music is life,peace

  • CONGRATULATIONS.

    Vidéo for You.

    etin01.skyrock

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  • Chuck Norris wrote this song.

  • @1killer146 LOL!!!! It is a good thing I wasn't drinking anything at my computer table because it'd come out of my nose, hahaha. Chuck vs Bach, now ladies and gentlemen, that's a dilemma if I've ever seen any!!!

  • @SoliDeoGloria8550 haha It would be Armageddon.

  • @SoliDeoGloria8550 To be honest quite an easy choice: Bach's excellence is absolute, Chuck's is superficial.

  • @SoliDeoGloria8550

    ...... in martial arts Chuck Norris is a legend .... in music it is´J. S. Bach!

  • @camposi bach is to music as chuck noris is to everything else

  • @SoliDeoGloria8550 ha ha ha ha ha

  • @SoliDeoGloria8550 Harpsichoooooord... PUNCH!!!!!

  • @1killer146 Chuck Norris can play this song with his beard on a harpsichord without strings or keys.

  • @1killer146 It's not a song. It's a concerto. Song is a distinct a musical piece, not an umbrella term for every musical piece. If you wish for an umbrella term, then use "piece" or "work".

  • @MrDarkBoy93 It seems that in America the word "song" is used in that way. For me coming from England the word "song" refers to something which is sung, by a human or by an animal, and does not include instrumental music.

  • @1killer146 LMAO xD

  • @1killer146 Come on... this chuck shit thing has gone too far to be considered still as a joke.

  • This sounds way better than the violin version.

  • I worry about the future of mankind when I read Youtube discussions about music! LOL!

  • This song is why Carl Sagan said putting Bach on the Voyager spacecraft would be "showing off" to extraterrestrials

  • Bach'n roll :D

  • Hey can someone answer my question? I'm trying to learn this song by ear, and as i'm starting to play it, i'm realizing its in the key of C# minor not D minor, i don't know maybe thats just the intro and the rest of the song is in D minor. is this video off a half step or is the song really in C# minor?

  • @StealthcrewJO Why learn it by ear? It's far easier to learn it on the sheet. If you can't read a sheet just get yourself a teacher.

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  • @StealthcrewJO They are probably tuned in a= 415 hz, or somewhere around there, which is the "modern" historical baroque tuning. So if you feel that they are off a half step, they might be if you are trying to play this in a=440 hz.

  • I bet you if Arnold played this guy in a movie you would just be sitting there the whole time waiting for him to say, "I'll be Bach".

  • @aureliomanalo You know how Bach is pronounced?

    /watch?v=abBbG39BNeE

  • @FlameOfAnor17 You know how Arnold has an Austrian accent right? He would say it correctly.

  • @aureliomanalo you don't really pronounce it like back do you ? it's "Bach" a like fAr, ch like ... aCHmed

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  • this is beautiful. <3

  • This music is void of any sociopolitical rhetoric, it is void of racism. The only thing that it truly is...is beautiful!! These composers had many obstacles in their lives, but were blessed with a very high intelligence and a talent that can't be matched. Many of these composers invented the instruments that this music was played on. I think we owe them a gratitude!

  • 5:55 holy god my brain is melting

  • this song makes me want to jump out of window.. in a good way.

  • this music freezes the peach fuzz on my dickhead

  • too fast

  • Looove the harsichord.

  • This is one of the best pieces ever. Bach and Mozart are know for their more standard variations but these type of pieces are where the real genius and passion come out.

  • I usualy listen to rock and metal, but this is sooo soothing. can anyone recommend any other songs that Bach created?

  • @RobzXD If you like this try a mozart 1

    youtube.com/watch?v=r2o-_qxzj9­c

  • @RobzXD Not sure about Bach, but Handels sarabande is one of my personal favorites along with the queen of Sheba; I would suggest you listen to a few of his works.

  • Thank you for introducing me to these Bach Solo Concertos by the English Concert. They are the best I have heard. I think it is my favourite Bach Concerto Orchestra. I never heard this concerto conducted and played this beautifully before. It is so uplifting, lively, and brilliant. I ordered the 5 CD box today ... Listened to this literally a thousand times and I am still waiting on fire for the CD's to arrive.....

    A big thank you.

  • Man do I fucking love Bach. I wish I could go back in time and just talk to him. I wonder if he knew how much his music would impact the world. I mean, I know he didn't because back then people honestly didn't care for him or his work but he continued. God damn...

  • this isn't even comparable to "gangster" or "metal", still amazing work !:^)

  • Maestro!

  • Fuckin' METAL!

  • I love the harpsichord. It inspires me alot

  • I mut be getting old. this performance is a shade too fast. it skates over the notes and lacks gravitas

  • What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how

    infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and

    admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like

    a god!

    Hamlet.

  • @OttoKrinklebottom to finish the quote:

    yet he delights me not

  • @Strefanasha just when i was feeling good about being a bloke too....cheers.

  • This gangsta as hell yo

  • Calling somebody an idiot for their taste in music is ridiculous. I love Bach; his music was is complex and fast-paced, but still artful and precise. However, the insults you threw at the musicians of today were completely uncalled for. Did Bach have more 'talent'? In more than 99% of cases, yes; his music is far too intricate for anybody less musically gifted to even dream of creating. But he wrote for a specific type of listener, and plenty of people much prefer other genres.

  • Anyone who listens to this and enjoys it has great taste in music!

  • Fuck. Why does Bach have to be associated with uptight assholes and snobbery. I like Bach, and all its interpretations. Its "gangster" in the sense that its bad ass. Stop with the pretentiousness. I was just listening to Slayer, now Bach. Its good music, piss off with the superiority complex.

  • @hunterhalo2

    Well i have to say that they (although its an arrogant point) the do have one. If bach where born in our day and age, if he studied "gangster" music for a week he probably would be able to recreate those beats. While the other way around would'nt happen in a million years. My point is that the level which he achieved will probably never be recreated again, cause anybody who's born today will have all his time sucked away by the thing i'm staring at.

  • @hunterhalo2

    Well i have to say that (although its an arrogant point) the do have one. If bach where born in our day and age, if he studied "gangster" music for a week he probably would be able to recreate those beats. While the other way around would'nt happen in a million years. My point is that the level which he achieved will probably never be recreated again, cause anybody who's born today will have all his time sucked away by the thing i'm staring at.

  • @hunterhalo2

    Well i have to admit that they (although its an arrogant point) the do have one. If bach where born in our day and age, if he studied "gangster" music for a week he probably would be able to recreate those beats. While the other way around would'nt happen in a million years. My point is that the level which he achieved will probably never be recreated again, cause anybody who's born today will have all his time sucked away by the thing i'm staring at.

  • @hunterhalo2

    Well i have to admit that they (although its an arrogant point) the do have one. If bach where born in our day and age, if he studied "gangster" music for a week he probably would be able to recreate those beats. While the other way around would'nt happen in a million years. My point is that the level which he achieved will probably never be recreated again, cause anybody who's born today will have all his time sucked away by the thing i'm staring at.

  • @hunterhalo2 wrote: "Fuck. Why does Bach have to be associated with uptight assholes and snobbery."

    Judging from your prose, I would say that this is more your own MISINFORMED and very immature perception of Bach's music.

    "Its "gangster" in the sense that its bad ass "

    How EXACTLY is this music "bad ass"?

    "Stop with the pretentiousness"

    No one is being pretentious. Everyone on this thread is being honest about how they they feel. So who the fuck are you to tell people what to say?

  • @TheWNMan Thread? Huh, I thought this was just a youtube comments section, where one would tell of their opinion of the displayed video material...

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  • In point of fact this music and instrumentation is far, far superior to "gangster" culture.

    We live in a world of automated sound bytes that represent the so called "gangster" culture. I do not see the connection between superior European music and degenerate "gangster" music/culture.

  • @TheWNMan Thank you, I couldn't have said it better myself. Compare anything Bach ever wrote to the simple, repetitive, talentless and ridiculous primitive mumblings of a bunch of idiots who glorify the lowest trash of society is certainly a big insult to art and intelligence.

  • @SoliDeoGloria8550

    You're a pretentious faggot.

  • @SoliDeoGloria8550

    Let Bach be Bach and other music be other music. A less elitist stance would imho be also more helpful to not let fall Bach's music into oblivion of mass culture.

  • @SoliDeoGloria8550 Just come out and say it, you two: Niggers, you hate niggers.

    Clearly, culture doesn't translate to class if you two are any indication.

  • @SoliDeoGloria8550 I appreciate some pieces of modern music, not all, however, I respect people who enjoy that music as they respect my preference on classical european music. Some modern music, simply I can not understand it, I enjoy more folk european, ethnic african or american, classical indian, arabic, persian, ancient european or chinese music(I like a wide range of music of the world) than most of metal, I don't know how some modern music is called music but, anymay...

  • @SoliDeoGloria8550 Opinions, this puts some people to sleep. Though, I am more fond of classical music than I am fond of "automated sound bytes". However, I still see the artistic values in some rappers though.

  • @SoliDeoGloria8550 criminals and scum are considdered cool these days... its sad

  • @maarhoefe They always have been...

  • @SoliDeoGloria8550 They don't see it as an art. Not really, at least. They like the simple beats and they like dancing. It's the adrenaline they like, not the music.  Generally. And the adrenaline is linked with the music, so they listen to it regularly.

    I do hate mainstream, however. But I still feel like Bach went a little overboard with his compositions via counterpoint. That's just my taste in music, though.

  • @SoliDeoGloria8550 @TheWNMan I'm sorry but you can find good music in every genre, its very ignorant to throw all rap in one area and say its all horrible. I love so many composers like bach, but if you just listen to one kind of music, your missing out of life. One music may be "more musically talented" but lyrically other songs are just a phenomenal. In all genres, there are genius in music. rap, metal, classical, contemporary, rock, blues. Don't be ignorant. Maybe give things a chance...

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  • @StealthcrewJO You never heard brazilian funk. How can u say that there is any beauty or content in all that vulgarity, ugliness and musical poverty that itself represents? And this is ONE in a bunch of exemples of noise genders that some call music. Definition of Music: Art and Science of combining the sounds in manner they are pleaseble to the ear. Ignorance is not accepting or accepting any matter with futility. I understand what u ment, but "give things a chance" in music is a wide subjetc.

  • @StealthcrewJO wrote: "One music may be "more musically talented" but lyrically other songs are just a phenomenal."

    The war cry of the egalitarian left winger who seeks to level all humanity into one ugly assed color/intellectual malaise. Keep dreaming... The far right is on the verge of taking back what is rightfully theirs.

    And I will point out your obvious MISuse of the word ignorant ; in this case, it is YOU who are ignorant, since you are regurgitating what you are told to regurgitate.

  • @SoliDeoGloria8550 White, cristian, heterossexual men that says Europe as superior. Poor people.

    Right wing detected.

  • @1R4A8C8 Try spell check next time you go on a rant that makes no sense.

  • @SoliDeoGloria8550 Dude, chill, I'm a classically trained cellist, I listen to Bach on a daily basis. I was simply making a joke! But in all seriousness, he was the one true master of point-counterpoint, among other things.

  • @SoliDeoGloria8550 Do you know anything about Bach and the Baroque period of music? Listen you may not like anything you hear from Hip-Hop or rap but how can it be an "insult to art and intelligence"

    Art: Works produced by such skill and imagination.

    Intelligence: Intelligence has been defined in different ways, including the abilities for abstract though

    I think your so called "gangsta rap" encompasses both.

    Bach was revolutionary, he changed things, encouraged polyphony, and sounded different

  • See maybe you have a point, maybe the kids who grew up in the early eighties and late seventies didn't know how to play instruments. Maybe they didn't know about Bach, maybe there just products of their environment. Listen, these kids, who play this so called "gangsta rap", come from humble origins, where school programs like music and art were cut. For them to come out and did what they did having nothing... Well damn that's fucking art if I've ever heard/seen it! Graffiti, Dance, DJ, MC- ART

  • @petrcotontail Your comment beats anything that anyone can ever say.

  • @TheWNMan Proof of this 'fact' please. Pretty sure it's purely opinion.

  • @TheWNMan

    It is because of redundant elitist peoples of your nature that there is a separation between the supposed enriched "high cultural groups" and the ghastly uneducated "low cultural groups" (people to whom you refer to as barbaric). I would also point out that Bach created amazing concertos and compositions and that his music did influence the very people whose automated sound bytes are "topping the charts". I am truly sorry to say that your level of intellectualism is disappointing.

  • @TheWNMan thas fucked up, music is music, regardless of who it appeals to.

  • @TheWNMan You don't see the connection because you don't know very much about music. As Dvorak himself predicted, America only found its own sound by borrowing from African music, and that's where we get modern Rock and Roll and rap (which is more of a poetic form).

    You think that your disdain for that which you don't understand makes you elite and cultured and some kind of well-justified snob. It doesn't. It makes you an uncultured dullard.

  • @GilbertSmith Even as a person who enjoys some hip hop, I state for a fact that most rap is simplistic and abhorrent. This is undeniable. It's inauthentic garbage written by old white dudes and probably the CIA, and has hijacked African American identity and solidarity by preaching a cult of materialism and subservience. In any case, for all of the presumed relativity of taste and aesthetics, there is still much commonality in judgement of those of us who have a clue about music. Why is that? ;)

  • @TheWNMan Good comment. Do you know to is promoting this degenerative stuff? It's the Jews - watch:

    "The Jewish Stake in Third World Immigration - Dr. William Pierce"

    "Who Controls the Federal Reserve by Majority", "Who Controls American Television",

    "Who Controls Hollywood 2010", "Jews reveal their plans for the world", "Jew Commies - Butchers From Hell",

    "The Enemy Within", "The New Europe" (v=1fpS0UGGyg4), "How Nations Die!",

    "History of political correctness and modern leftism".

  • @TheWNMan

    I'm sorry, but as much as I detest rap, I can't help but notice a slight tinge of euro-supremacy in your comment. There are arts outside of Europe that I find equally as beautiful as Baroque music such as Javanese gamelan or Indian Karnatic music.

  • @thecritiquevirtuoso I thought it was just me for a minute.

  • @TheWNMan

    Whoops! Never mind. I took a gander at your channel and it confirmed my suspicions. You are a neo-Nazi. I will now be terminating my conversation with you. Have a nice life.

  • @TheWNMan if this is in response to TheJstaten1, I think he is just saying that this is piece is bad ass.

    You tread a fine line here between being a bigot and offering an honest, heartfelt commentary about the state of "music" today. I do agree that the mainstream, commercialized music that bombards our airwaves today is idiotic at best, but when you say "European" in such a context, it sounds highly arrogant and only serves to alienate other potential fans of the genre.

  • @remainingnameless Ad hominem attacks are inappropriate. To label someone a bigot is a cheap tactic used by political left wingers like yourself to discredit the opinions of others, despite your oh-so-noble claims to be "tolerant" of other people's opinions. :rolls eyes: Yeah, right, nice try. And no, I will make no apologies for my opinions or my use of terms.

    Thankfully, OUR youth our much too smart to accept the double standards of postmodern thinkers like yourself.

  • @TheWNMan Re-read carefully. I said you TREAD a line. Did I call you a bigot? You're entitled to your feelings or opinions, but you've unnecessarily turned this page into a socio-political muck raking contest and I'm not a willing participant. I came here to enjoy the music and regretfully I eagerly pointed out what I perceived to be arrogance. I guess I'll check that eagerness at the keyboard and realize that I'm on the internet, after all; I shouldn't have expected more.

  • @remainingnameless It is YOU who have turned this thread into a socio-political muck racking contest. It is YOU who have used the inappropriate terminology. It is YOU who made the claim to the apparent arrogance of a comment. I'm simply defending my Western cultural heritage and there is nothing wrong with that.

    As to your realization that "I'm on the internet", well, golly gee, did you really expect everyone to have the same opinions as yourself? Welcome to the UNCENSORED internet.

  • @TheWNMan Sad isn't it? What's even more disappointing is that - even the act of saying what you just said, will attract an entirely different group which is opposed to elitism of any form, and will derail you, defending all music with that whole argument of "music is music, just because you don't like it doesn't mean--- blah blah" Even though that group may not listen to mainstream garbage or be involved in the culture, they defend them from people like you. And the cycle continues.

  • @TheWNMan

    Your right, apples are better than oranges!

  • @TheWNMan Well idk what world you are from but where I am at, it is more sophisticated where only rarely do people listen to those gangster things.

  • @TheWNMan Oh, throw them a bone: they get _basso ostinato_.

  • WTF ITS TOO GOOD TO BE REAL

  • This is music

    Its genius

    Its...

    oh my god