J. S. Bach - Cantata BWV 140 - Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme - 1 - Chorus (J. S. Bach Foundation)

[ChurchKat1]

Wonderful! I'm now awake!

[zrshwe]

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, der Wächter sehr hoch auf der Zinne, wach auf, du Stadt Jerusalem. Mitternacht heißt diese Stunde, sie rufen uns mit hellem Munde, wo seid ihr klugen Jungfrauen? Wohlauf, der Bräut’gam kömmt, steht auf, die Lampen nehmt, Alleluia! Macht euch bereit zu der Hochzeit, ihr müsset ihm entgegengehn.

[circa1907czec]

Wonderful interpretation by Rudolf Lutz and great performance by JS Bach Foundation!

Strings are very rhythmic but controlled.

Thank you for posting it.

[eskatee]

Bin ich froh, daß es da der Lutz, der Hummler und der Graf ist! Eine wunderschöne Arbeit, herzlichen Dank!

[bachlokillo]

Bach es inmensamente grande!

[Hyacinthvs]

Perfekt! Genau so und nicht anders! Bravo!

[pdorprimo]

Finalmente fatta bene ........

[SeanStephensen]

1:20 Fuck Off

[eskatee]

@SeanStephensen wrong, Wach Auf = awake

[demeyier]

WAT EEN PERFECTE UITVOERING!

BACH ZOU ER VAN GENOTEN HEBBEN.

JE KOMT IN HOGER SFEREN.

WAT EEN PAREL IN DE MUZIEKWERELD IS TOCH DIE JOHAN SEBASTIAAN!

[elektrotechnik2011]

BOAH GEIL! AWESOME JOB, GUYS!!!!!

[kirinphoebe1]

Fantastic performance--incredibly energetic. The orchestra, in particular, is wonderfully clean, balanced, and stylish. The vocal ensemble is also excellent, but (perhaps it is the placement of the mics) I hear too many individual voices rather than unification within each voice part. The conductor has enough energy to be a new alternative to petroleum. :-)

[Olympus20011]

great profesional orchestra and great profesional voices!!!

[luisfrodrimaz]

Una maravilla!! Fantástico!! Extraordinario!!

[c25ole]

0:57 this piece is so easy, a caveman can do it

[auomu]

@c25ole you're a terrible person

[c25ole]

@auomu hehe

[koyunbaba73]

Finally a performance of this that is lively and joyful.

[josefk64]

Great!!!

[paradoxicus]

Excelente en su totalidad.

[Hyacinthvs]

Genau so und nicht anders muss das Tempo sein! Sonst kommen die langsamen Noten des Chorals nicht zur Wirkung. Im Nekrolog über J. S. Bach steht: "Im Dirigiren war er sehr accurat, und im Zeitmaße, welches er gemeiniglich sehr lebhaft nahm, überaus sicher."

[artois54]

Leider deutlich zu schnell. Der Satz entspricht dem langsamen Eingangsteil der Französichen Ouverture und verlangt ein entsprechend viel ruhigeres Tempo ("Der Bräut'gam kömmt") Merke: 5 .. 10 Schläge ruhiger hat noch keinem Stück egschadet.

So geht's jedenfalls nicht!

[wcbroccoli]

@artois54 This tempo is perfect. The entire movement is a complete slow-fast-slow French overture; the "Alleluia" is the fast section. If they played is the movement at your slow tempo, the fast section would end up being slow.

"Wachet auf...Wohl auf, der Bräutgam kömmt...Ihr müsset ihm entgegen gehn" is not supposed to be calm. This is a festive occasion; not a solemn occasion.

[87solarsky]

@artois54 Prinzipiell stimme ich Ihnen gänzlich zu: Für mein Empfinden empfielt sich für den ersten Satz dieser Kantate eine Spiel-&Hördauer von 9-10 Minuten. Aber hören Sie dann mal in die Instrumentalversion (die Klammern entfernen!-> youtube(.)com/watch?v=nnKAQgoq­ZkE). Ich glaube, diese Beschleunigung in der klassischen Musik zieht sich praktisch überall unbarmherzig durch. Es ist, als ob einem ein Wind ins Gesicht weht, der sagt: "Macht euch bereit zu der Hochzeit!". Lange dauerts wohl nicht

[mio309]

So ein "kleines" Gesangsensemble bringt diese Dynamik und Stärke - unglaublich! Ich bin fasziniert!

[Katharina1962]

Die 'Gänsehaut' an meinem Körper während des Hörens und Sehens dieses Videos sagt alles.....!

[LarrySellsBatonRouge]

Awesome! I can't stop listening! Congratulations to everyone involved!

[Shevaron]

How come it's all old timers in the audience. Doesn't anyone under 60 like classical performances except the performers themselves. 

[Bachsoboe]

@Shevaron Classical Music as a whole, particularly Baroque, needs to reach out to a younger audience. Starange, as Baroque Music is the most beautiful Music in my opinion. I am 35, I sang in a Choir at school, and play the Oboe now. My Music teacher is younger than me. A lot of young classical fans probably download more rather than attend concerts, but they will go to concerts eventually.. It needs to be sold to them. Classical Music is seen as boring compared to Modern music, silly i know

[Shevaron]

@Bachsoboe I totally agree with you. I bought my first classical record when I was 13 years old. I had just started playing piano so I got Bach's Harpsichord Concertos. I thought Dm BWV1052 was the greatest thing I had ever heard.

[wcbroccoli]

@Bachsoboe That's a fine sentiment about concert going, except this isn't concert music. This is music written specifically for the liturgy of Leipzig's main churches in Bach's era, not for concert hall entertainment. LOL

[Bachsoboe]

@wcbroccoli Strictly speaking, you are right! Lol.

[eskatee]

@Shevaron As people are living much longer today, you should revise your perception on what should be called an oldtimer. Coming of age does not make people old. Going to a concert neither.

[Shevaron]

@eskatee That sounds like a comment from a old timer. lol , But really I was just stereotyping the audience.

[eskatee]

@Shevaron You are just stereotyping yourself, hahahaha

[DaCapoMusicStudio]

Sensational! 

[6cuerdas6]

Wonderful!!!!

Cesar Amaro

[Beobachter2010]

:-))) one of my favourite cantatas !

[MsBachLover]

Thank you for bringing these marvelous works forward! In my own way, I tell my students, 'Bow to Bach!" as they walk through the studio door. Now, I shall direct them to this site!

[Incrediblemouse5]

Since this was uploaded I've listened to it probably a hundred times. A work by which all others should be judged. Bravo.

[leatherlaird]

Glorious! A bow is to these musicians is required! Bravo!

[rumpranger65]

When they say "Wachet auf!" it sounds like they're saying something else..lol

[dannyevans89]

The most beautiful opening bars! Bach! Bach! What else one could say! Bach speaks! No composer felt God more than Bach did!

[1954mikel]

muy buena interpretación de esta dificil cantata de Bach!! han mantenido el ritmo muy bien. Felicitaciones!!

[vdgplayer]

Wake up, the voice calls us/ of the watchmen high up on the battlements,/ wake up, you city of Jerusalem!/ This hour is called midnight;/ they call us with a clear voice:/ where are you, wise virgins ?/ Get up, the bridegroom comes;/ Stand up, take your lamps! Hallelujah!/ Make yourselves ready/ for the wedding,/ you must go to meet him!/

[HotesseDuNord]

ELLA VALA!!!

[adwinters]

Herrlich, wunderschönes Ausblick über Alles, ich bin wirklich wache!

[maresolaris]

@wcbroccoli and @BaronVonLichtenstein: my dear fellow listeners. Please stop your fights and let the music flow into you.

[josefk64]

Great cantata, great performance

[sunrisemorningglory]

Just lovely.....

[filito31]

¿What´s the hurry, orchestrians?

[CambridgeData]

Thank you so much, all of you, for this beautiful performance.

[BaronVonLichtenstein]

It sounds like it was influenced by Handel.

[wcbroccoli]

@BaronVonLichtenstein You hear something in Bach that resembles something you heard in Handel and you conclude that Handel must have originated it? This movement is in the style of a French overture, a musical form widely used in the Baroque. You might as well say Handel, Bach and their contemporaries were influenced by Lully, who introduced this form in his ballet overtures in the mid-17th century, decades before Bach and Handel were born.

[BaronVonLichtenstein]

@wcbroccoli Well since Bach said if he could be anyone else, it would be Handel, yes, I think this demonstrates his Handel influence, Einstein. Get a life.

[wcbroccoli]

@BaronVonLichtenstein You're too funny. You began by stating, without explanation, that this music SOUNDS like it was influenced by Handel. But now, after I challenged your assumption with some musicological realities, you insist it MUST have been influenced by Handel because (you allege) Bach said if he could be anyone else, it would be Handel. ...

[wcbroccoli]

@BaronVonLichtenstein You merely conclude that if Bach admired Handel, then Handel must have influenced Bach’s music.

While that conclusion sounds reasonable, it still does not explain why you think this particular piece “sounds like it was influenced by Handel.”

And if your conclusion is true, where is the influence of Handel on Bach's music in general?

[wcbroccoli]

@BaronVonLichtenstein Furthermore, in the remarks you attribute to Bach ("[Handel] is the only person I would wish to see before I die, and the only person I would wish to be, were I not Bach”), the speaker is not saying that “if he could be anyone else, it would be Handel.”

The speaker is not saying he'd prefer to be Handel than Bach.

He’s merely saying that if he couldn’t be Bach, then he’d wish to be Handel.

[wcbroccoli]

@BaronVonLichtenstein You don't' seem to grasp the subjunctive.

"Handel is...the only person I would wish to be, were I not Bach" means "If I were not Bach, then I'd wish to be Handel".

It does NOT mean,"I rather be Handel than myself." Nor does it mean, "If I were re-incarnated as a composer, I'd rather be Handel than myself.

[wcbroccoli]

@BaronVonLichtenstein. Your "where did I say that" tactic is tiresome and puerile. We're dealing in interpretations, speaking of which:

Your statement that "Bach said if he could be anyone else, it would be Handel" is an inaccurate intepretation of what he supposedly said.

He said if he were not Bach, THEN he'd wish to be Handel. It's a left-handed compliment.

He did not mean "If I could be anyone else , I'd be Handel" , itself equivalent to "I'd rather be Handel." Q.E.D.

[jschubart1]

@BaronVonLichtenstein You're assigning a vacuous meaning to clause "were I not Bach".

Obviously a person cannot be himself and someone else as the same time. So what would the point of adding a qualifying clause that only clarifies the obvious? By definition, what is obvious needs no clarification.

In saying "were I not Bach", Bach is acknolwedging his own worth. So it does sound a little bit like a left-handed compliment.

[BaronVonLichtenstein]

@jschubart1 It was a high compliment no matter which way you look at it. He chose Handel over Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Corelli, Couperin, Marcello, Steffani, Zelenka, Dittersdorf, Buxetude, Gabrielli, and any number of peers or preceedents. As for the phrase, if I were not Bach, I dont see how it would make sense of be gramatically correct without that clause. "I would be Handel" sounds strange and alters its meaning. Then it almost would mean I would RATHER be Handel.

[jschubart1]

@BaronVonLichtenstein "[Händel] is the only person I would wish to see before I die, and the only person I would wish to be." is gramatically sufficient without the qualifing "were I not Bach."

But why would Bach wish to BE Handel? The two composers had very different musical interests.

That Bach tried to meet Handel on 3 occasions is documented. But the quote attributed to Bach is suspicious. It smacks of 19th embellishment, as it found in Forkel.

[BaronVonLichtenstein]

@jschubart1 It is gramatically sufficient but alters the meaning. I'm sure Bach was perfectly happy being Bach. He was saying who else he greatly admired. From which you can neither imply he thought he was better or worse. Most agree he was better. But music is not a competition. there is generally great and tedious work by many composers, Bach and Handel included, because of the nature of their work. Turning out music to order for inbred aristocracy.

[wcbroccoli]

@BaronVonLichtenstein "Which demonstrates your profound ignorance"?

How could misquoting you possibly demaonstrate "profound ignorance"?

Show me the sentence? Where did you get the idea I was trying to quote you? Did you see any quotation marks? Whenever I wish to quote you, I will use quotation marks.

[BaronVonLichtenstein]

@wcbroccoli Again you demostrate your inability to read. At what point did I say he would RATHER BE Handel than himself?

I can see why you call yourself Broccoli. You are a vegetable.

[wcbroccoli]

@BaronVonLichtenstein Unlike you, I don't just parrot the words I read. I understand them. You have such a literal mind.

[wcbroccoli]

@BaronVonLichtenstein I've read many Bach biographies, including those by Christoph Wolff, that include accounts of how Bach tried to meet Handel, but I never read any account that even remotely suggested he wanted to BE Handel. Had Bach really wanted to BE Handel, as you so naively put it, don't you think he would made career choices more like Handel's? E.g., a lot less church music, a lot more opera? How many operas did Bach compose?

[BaronVonLichtenstein]

@wcbroccoli You should find the page by searching on Yahoo:

Quotes Attributed to Others Concerning Handel

Johann Sebastian Bach is attributed with the following remark: "[Handel] is the only person I would wish to see before I die, and the only person I would wish to be, were I not Bach."

Upon hearing the above statement, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is said to have exclaimed: "Truly, I would say the same myself if I were permitted to put in a word"

[BaronVonLichtenstein]

@wcbroccoli Yes, I'm sure the composer Bach admired most, known for major key choral work, had no influence on Bachs major key choral work. If you want to get down to it, beyond the basic feel and style, Bach prefered complex keys like harmonic minors, which he changed often midsong, rather than stick with a simple major throughout. You are the reason the put warnings on products. An imbecile's imbecile. The kind of person imbeciles go to for pointers. You know nothing about music.

[wcbroccoli]

@BaronVonLichtenstein While you may wish to believe that Handel must have had a demonstrable influence Bach's music, you have yet to give any concrete examples. Absolutely nothing you've said so far explains how this piece "sounds like it was influenced by Handel."

[jschubart1]

@BaronVonLichtenstein Handel? How so?

[vdgplayer]

@BaronVonLichtenstein How does this sound like Handel? (I accidentally hit the thumbs up button instead of the Reply button.) I don't hear Handel's influence.

[BaronVonLichtenstein]

@vdgplayer Because Bach doesnt have muvch fast, upbeat major scale work. I guess it just reminds me of Handel. Sheba, Fireworks, Eternal Source of Light, etc. But I suppose it could just be Bach doing an English or French style.

[vdgplayer]

@BaronVonLichtenstein This cantata, like most of Bach's cantatas, opens with a cantus firmus setting of a chorale. The church mode of the cantus firmus tends to determine whether the setting will be in major or minor mode. That is why this movement is in a major key.

The subject of the chorale text of this movement is a wedding. Hence, the festive sound and French overture form, with its characteristic dotted rhythms and a fugal section (on the word "Alleluja!").

[vdgplayer]

@BaronVonLichtenstein I see. This Bach cantus firmus from BWV 140 setting reminds you so much of Handel's fluffy "Sheeba" sinfonia from Solomon that you wonder if Bach might not have been influenced by it. That's funny because Handel's sinfonia is actually an arrangement of a movement from a concerto for 3 violins by his friend Telemann!

[vdgplayer]

@BaronVonLichtenstein I don't hear the "Eternal Source of Light Divine" similarity.

As for the other two, BWV 140 predates them. This is the chronology:

BWV 140 - first performed on November 25, 1731.

"Sheeba" - Solomon was composed between May 5 and June 13, 1748.

Royal Fireworks - composed 1749.

[BaronVonLichtenstein]

Gorgeous.

[ScorpioC09130]

eine klasse interpretation ausdrucksstark und stimmlich super....

auch das orchester voll auf dem Punkt ..Klasse ....Dauemn hoch ..freu mich auf mehr

Bach in dieser Qualität....

[meintias]

vermutlich wäre auch Bach sehr angetan!

[pitonisa62]

Buen trabajo.