This music does not seem that amazing to me. Don't get me wrong, I'm a classical music person all the way, but when it comes to Bach I far prefer his Violoncello Suites. I just feel like this song does not have a point, or a very strong emotional message like each of the Suites do. It still sounds nice, but it just seems like it dabbles around trying out different emotions without really focusing on portraying one very very well. I recommend the prelude to the fifth Suite as one of my favorites.
@mikeytroute Funny, because I feel exactly the opposite way. Not a big fan of the Suites, but I do love the Mattheus Passion. De gustibus et coloribus... ;-)
When I look at how many millions of views terrible music and stupidity has in Youtube sometimes I dispair of humanity. When I see that beautiful, deep music like this has touched the soul of more than a million people I have a bit of hope again!
But the joke is: he's just some guy that they picked up off of the corner before the concert. He was acting exactly like you see here and making faces at passersby. And some people wanted to have him taken away, and apparently it was the principle oboist who said "hey let's have this guy do it." Because the conductor had the flu and and really needed to have some rest.
@PJinBston And since then the homeless old sole with a mouth like an O has been offered a job as one of the 3 judges in a local Idol TV show, It's all down-hill from here!
I like these Youtube videos just because the people who comment don't all have the intelligence of a monkey that's been beaten in the head with a shovel.
@SergeyVBogza i just herd about him from readig a book....do you know what are some good songs that are.......( am a flutist but cant remeber the real word) not in marching style are in this form?
That one man could compose so much incredibly beautiful complex music. Thousands of pieces & raise 20 children plus work hard as a performing musician & Cantor. Unbelievable just the physical act of writing so much onto paper.
To the people arguing about god. It has nothing to do with the lyrical content, its the music behind the lyrical content. The reason most of Bach's music had religious context was because of the time they lived in, everything had to be done in service of The Church. If Bach lived today it would have been different.
@ricardojvserrano just the very minuscle part of God: 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 being generous, ricardojvserrano!!!
The gods! God. A! god. THE GOD. The Son of God...which god is this...or they! They are all myth. What matters but the music created in the spirit and beauty of their supreme beings. It is wonderful. It is!
Totally Agree, I'm not religious, but am a music lover, and hoovercat, I'd love to see the expression on your face if you had to sit through the same musicians without a conductor to lead them :-)
This is a fabulous piece of music and conducted beautifully
This conductor induces embarrassment....there's no need for the over the top monkey expressions......those musicians and choir know what they're doing.
Ninguna cosa puede penetrar en mi alma y hacer brotar mis lágrimas como esta música monumental. Ante ella caigo de rodillas.
La congoja ante las atrocidades cometidas por el ser humano a lo largo de la historia y ante el sufrimiento e injusticia que he visto, que alguna vez me ha hecho dudar si ha valido la pena venir a este mundo, queda reducida al más ínfimo tamaño después de oír esta obra colosal. ¡Gracias Bach! ¡Gloria eterna al más grande compositor que ha conocido la humanidad!
You must be referring to "ad maiorem Dei gloriam" abbreviated AMDG. I grew up in a secluded devout Catholic school that thought us to write AMDG on the corner of essays and other homrwork. Like what Bach did when writing his manuscript. It was kind of a concept that inspired students to get closer to religon and explore the magnificent world created.
I stop doing it after second year at university. I also think that people that grew up in my enviroment is close to non existent.
@loafingsmurf I think the piety of the Kapellmeister is well documented, so he wrote "To God alone, be the glory" because he really wrote music for the glory of God, it was not just a custom. At the beginning of his manuscripts Bach would write I.N.J (In Nomine Jesu-"In the name of Jesus") or J.J. (Jesu Juva-"Jesus Help Me"). He would then inscribe SDG (Soli Deo Gloria-"To God alone, be the glory) on the last page. By the way, he was not a Catholic but a Protestant.
¿EXISTE ALGO MÁS PERFECTO QUE BACH?....definitivamente la música se hizo bendita en las composiciones de este gran Hombre ensalzando al hombre más grande de todos los tiempos, Jesus
I recently heard part of this on the soundtrack of the movie Casino (I think) and I googled it. This is a beautiful piece! Thank you to the person who uploaded this.
"Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers." Ephesians 4:29
This is a beautiful performance, of this wonderful work of Bach. Let us bring God the glory, for He is the One that gave us this music. He is a mighty God, and He is deserving of all glory. Let us always remember that, and use this, and all of Bach's music to bring Him Glory. "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." 1 Corinthians 10:31
Those my colleagues of Faculty and University theories [atheism] came here to discuss those vanity thesis and forget to listen robust perfect solar kind of BACH music. Well..., my colleagues DO not REALLY understand anything about "MUSICAL FORM". Poor intellectual coarse blind colleagues! THANKS Bach for that clever perfect artful smart kind of music.
Such depressingly bad language everywhere and people still arguing about the existence of God. YAWN!!! Believers, agnostics and atheists alike can enjoy this music without arguing pointlessly.
I don't care what your taste in music is, if you appreciate perfection, genius and undeniable beauty, than Bach or Mozart are amongst those that embody such qualities. If I could only listen to one piece of music for the rest of my life it most likely would be this (St. Matthew Passion) or his Mass in B Minor. It is borderline impossible to find a popular 'musician' with the level of talent possessed by this man.
@brianlyates I agree--Bach is more or less undoubtedly the greatest composer who ever lived. Though as to a man with the level of talent as Bach, I have to say that Aaron Copland did pretty darn well, thinking primarily of his Appalachian Spring.
listen, you either achieve or you dont, i cant believe im seeing a belief battle over bach, jeez its like ronaldo on the football pitch, then a normal footballer, its called talent, as of right now, we all believe in preety nd soothing bach so everyone chill out and stop debating and advertising something you were taught, that was here before you, and will be here when your gone, and no one will ever know any truths about..
@KeroseneKid2019 No, that's actually awesome. You're one of the few of your age that hasn't been indoctrinated and brainwashed by the atrocity that is mainstream music. This music=good for da soul.
@KeroseneKid2019 people like us who like this might be a minority, but it is really the people who don't like this who really are the ones born at the wrong time-this music is eternal and timeless. listen to this wonderful music no matter what other people say
You can think its for god from god or whatever.... The artist ultimately pleases himself with his or her art... He sounds like a religious man it has that aura about it Im sure no one can deny that ... Maybe it takes a religious, no god fearing man to develope such a conscience for beauty? KMAH!
What this music shows is that, if humans really want something or really believe in something, they can achieve amazing things. But it's still the human doing the creating, not anyone or anything else.
@ycooreman indeed, very true. But no-one knows what "the human" is. It's the Eternal Mystery. And those (scientist, religionist, atheist or otherwise) that think they know something, are deluding themselves. Life and Consciousness are un"knowable" in their essence. But there is Truth, and Beauty, and Love, and Transcendence. And thats what we all love in Great Art, and the Artists that create it. Like Bach, or Walt Whitman, or Terrence Malick, or Coltrane. All thats left after that is gratitude.
Let's stop this absurd intellectual ranting aimed at inflating our already over-inflated vanity and self-love. Let's just listen with our whole baing to this incredibly beautiful music. We all might benefit from the effort. Dwight Ragle
Atheist or not. I am not a religious person and definitely can't music. But from the moment I heard Bach for first time I simplely could not to want to hear. Some pieces I hear time after time and never tired.
hmm... science, science, the universe, science, nebula, galaxy, science, probability of something called god, god being a man, us believing we are so important as to command any attention at all, science.
@Frodanatee I'm not really an avid Christian, but the truth is that this Passion piece is written entirely around the death of Christ and His Triumph over death and sin. Plus when you consider that JS Bach was a devout Christian to the point of tirelessly annotating his Bible and the fact that without the church Bach would never have been presented the money or opportunity or inspiration to compose any of these works.
La pasion de Mateo de Bach es una de las obras más grandes, bellas y esplendorosas que se pueda tener. Muchas gracias a quien subió estos videos. Bach era Dios mismo.
Im glad the reason this music is put on here is to argue religion. When will it ever end? I am going to the Darwin sites on here and say he travelled to the islands to proclaim the Good News of Christ victory over death. Bach was a very religious man and defended his piety vigorously during his life. This music he wrote is sacred. I struggle with many questions about God and my own beliefs. Thankyou Darwin for sacred beliefs, Bach for secular music...for commenters..I am being sarcastic.
My father sang this as a boy with the Concertgebow in Amsterdam. This music is food for the spirit and the tears cleanse my soul.............. Praise be Lord!
@Frodanatee, Claiming categorically that there is no God is also speculation and a bias - and since certainty is impossible you too are expressing "faith" in your own religion, athiesm. It's called cognitive dissonance not to recognize the very thing in yourself. An internal contradiction. If you'd qualified that you know that you can be certain that there is no God, you would at least be honest.
@Frodanatee, Claiming categorically that there is no God is also speculation and a bias - and since certainty is impossible you too are expressing "faith" in your own religion, athiesm. It's called cognitive dissonance not to recognize the very thing in yourself.
@jef108 chance is probability , its "origin" is the same as any in the universe, as in when the universe began chance began ( presuming the universe DID in fact begin) some believe chance IS the beginning. In its basics is the indeterminate nature of sub atomic particles in relation to their predictability under known laws of physics in an in a state that is not in superposition, (as superposition of states would mean more then one universe each determining the outcome of the other.)
@maiinf ...nice description of a point of view, or "belief". A lot (if not all) of what we call science is in fact just describing mechanisms, and not at all accounting for their ultimate origin or meaning. It is not because one can (sort of) describe a mechanism, that it is no longer a miracle. In true science we should never forget that what we "know" now, is exactly that: what we know nów. What we call "chance" might turn out to be not such a "blind" thing as what we now believe it to be.
@jef108 yes science is exactly that, a way of describing mechanisms as accurately as possible and having those descriptions capable of predicting outcomes.From those outcomes we can learn, and if need be (often) alter our descriptions to better understand these outcomes. When we talk about "ultimate origin" the matter is philosophical, some scientists believe that the origin was a flux in dark energy, other believe that there is, was & never will be an origin.With no proof any answer is correct
@maiinf indeed...but there is a difference between scientific materialism and science as a discipline. Science as a discipline is a form of free enquiry that is not supposed to predetermine results or superimpose a point of view on reality apart from the investigation of reality...
@maiinf ...Scientific materialism, however, is a philosophy. It is not science, although it tends to be associated with the scientific movement. It is an ancient philosophy, the philosophy of materialism. It is a reductionist philosophy. It reduces reality to what is called “materiality”, and it wants to base all notions of reality on that philosophical presumption. . . .
@jef108 while philosophy is is a subject so vast i can not claim any expertise with it , i did read about "Scientific materialism" an idea built upon sound (early) scientific observations but there the validity ends.To blindly follow any scientific theorem to the letter and believing it is complete is I believe to be ignorant of evolving nature science itself. In direct contrast to this "matter only" belief is that as humans we often see the results of forces that are immaterial to us.
@maiinf... immaterial, yes, like wifi;)... Who knows what our understanding of the nature of reality will be in the near or distant future. We might just discover that life is a dream in the mind of God, and that God is ourself. The Self. Buddha, and co. have been saying it for 1000's of years. Sooner or later, science will catch up...
Es ist doch gleichgültig wie man zu Gott steht, die wunderbare Schönheit der Musik Bachs ist es, der glaube ich sehr gläubig war und aus diesem Glauben heraus sein Werk schuf
You guys need to stop ganging up on Frodanatee, his comment is perfectly valid. Many composers were commissioned by the churches of their day and wrote beautiful devotional music, but it doesn't prove the existence of God. Even atheists can write glorious works that are transcendent, numinous and can be attributed to just about anything. In fact, most religions have music written to a said God, does that mean they all exist? Music is the larger part of the equation here and Bach was a master.
I'm an atheist and love this. Beautiful music created on earth by a human being. All the talk about god talking through JS is simply stuff you can't know (speculation based on bias). I give credit to the man and his genius personally
@Frodanatee You give credit to Bach and he firmly gave credit to God. So isn't that you giving an indirect credit to God? :)
Personally i accept i know little about theology god etc. But if God and his ideals were enough to inspire Bach and many other composers to create such music i'm convinced God is something good, worth believing in =)
@Frodanatee, hi. Without offense, you can give credit to the composer (the creator of the work) because of his work. It's beautiful, isn't it?. So many beautiful things are around you, that someone must have created (composed?) them. Music reveals the composer's character. Literature reveals the writer's character. The Creation reveals the Creator's character. Such inspiration and work that we find in Bach are not but the revelation of a higher character: the Highest Grace. Read the Bible :-)
@Frodanatee The Divine "works" through us, whether or not we "believe". Theists or atheists alike, it doesn't matter what fits or doesn't fit into our little head. Crediting the personal ego for transcendence is like taking credit for your own birth. Kind of silly...but no matter indeed, we can all enjoy Bach, whatéver we believe. He touches the heart.
@jef108 Ok, taking credit for your talent is not silly; what you call a divine gift, we call LUCK. He was lucky to be born talented and the credit goes for developing his talent and for his hard work.
@vdvloversister c'mon, there's no such thing as talent or luck, even the great Bach did not believe in talent or luck. Here's a direct quote from Bach, "I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.”
@rustydog1236 It's not a matter of believing or not in luck, it's the chance you get to be born with certain affinities, and making the most of them! It's all I'm saying! I disagree that only work is required. 99%, of course, but without that special gene...
@vdvloversister c'mon, there's no such thing as talent or luck, even the great Bach did not believe in talent or luck. Here's a direct quote from Bach, "I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.”
@vdvloversister sure...you (who's "we"?) call it luck (whatever that is), I call it Divine...And listening to Bach, I think Divine befits him better. Whatever other problem you have with religious terminology, I don't care. Nobody understands these things anyway ;) Be happy. Live and let live.
This music does not seem that amazing to me. Don't get me wrong, I'm a classical music person all the way, but when it comes to Bach I far prefer his Violoncello Suites. I just feel like this song does not have a point, or a very strong emotional message like each of the Suites do. It still sounds nice, but it just seems like it dabbles around trying out different emotions without really focusing on portraying one very very well. I recommend the prelude to the fifth Suite as one of my favorites.
mikeytroute 6 days ago
@mikeytroute Funny, because I feel exactly the opposite way. Not a big fan of the Suites, but I do love the Mattheus Passion. De gustibus et coloribus... ;-)
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hooren 6 days ago
When I look at how many millions of views terrible music and stupidity has in Youtube sometimes I dispair of humanity. When I see that beautiful, deep music like this has touched the soul of more than a million people I have a bit of hope again!
MichaelMurrayGuitar 1 week ago
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.. . so your point is that Bach inspires stupidity in people?
PJinBston 1 week ago
I love how animated the conductor is; it's adorable.
AuranHarpy 1 week ago
@AuranHarpy
But the joke is: he's just some guy that they picked up off of the corner before the concert. He was acting exactly like you see here and making faces at passersby. And some people wanted to have him taken away, and apparently it was the principle oboist who said "hey let's have this guy do it." Because the conductor had the flu and and really needed to have some rest.
Sometimes things just come together, don't they?
PJinBston 1 week ago
@PJinBston And since then the homeless old sole with a mouth like an O has been offered a job as one of the 3 judges in a local Idol TV show, It's all down-hill from here!
doliveross 1 week ago
I like these Youtube videos just because the people who comment don't all have the intelligence of a monkey that's been beaten in the head with a shovel.
Dakukobura 3 weeks ago 5
慶幸我有生之年可聽見這美妙的樂章
MrOuwin 3 weeks ago
Currently studying this work, overwhelming for all the right reasons.
SergeyVBogza 1 month ago 3
@SergeyVBogza i just herd about him from readig a book....do you know what are some good songs that are.......( am a flutist but cant remeber the real word) not in marching style are in this form?
animelover3083 1 month ago
so beautiful !! makes you want to forget everything else
TheRaghuRao 1 month ago
That one man could compose so much incredibly beautiful complex music. Thousands of pieces & raise 20 children plus work hard as a performing musician & Cantor. Unbelievable just the physical act of writing so much onto paper.
pobinr 1 month ago 3
@pobinr thats actually a good point.... just the mere act of writing so much music must've taken him decades....
elopez4024 1 month ago
you don't have to be theist to enjoy this music
kautilya21 1 month ago
@ PJinBston. I don't understand, what you want to say. (try it in German or write, what you want to say, I'm sorry :) - Nana)
Nanakommt 1 month ago
No no no! Sound quality is completely unacceptable. And some idiot coughed right at the start.
gtinebike 1 month ago
@gtinebike Irrelevant! Can't you hear it's too slow?! Errr.. I meant too fast! Wait...
dragmio 1 month ago
Hello 240p... We meet again...
BreakingNRSTV 1 month ago
i came here becouse this was part of my homework! uuh
MrTeejok 2 months ago
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Yeah. We were all wondering why you were here.
PJinBston 1 month ago
I have the CD of Koopman's recording of this, and it never fails to move me. Sublime.
drawsketch 2 months ago
Thank you, JSB!!!
FomalhautBeer 2 months ago
We should find Bach's ancestors and make them presidents of the world!!
TuneBlender 2 months ago
To the people arguing about god. It has nothing to do with the lyrical content, its the music behind the lyrical content. The reason most of Bach's music had religious context was because of the time they lived in, everything had to be done in service of The Church. If Bach lived today it would have been different.
elderdruid44 2 months ago
this is not Bach, is God trough Bach, bless him
ricardojvserrano 2 months ago
@ricardojvserrano yeah right:S
AnthonyAtwood 2 months ago
@ricardojvserrano just the very minuscle part of God: 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001 being generous, ricardojvserrano!!!
MChiribogaD 3 weeks ago
This drains out all of the awful music on the radio these days and heels the wounds in my head that occur when mainstream music gets stuck in there.
jescalynify 3 months ago 4
Ton Koopman and John Eliot Gardiner are the best!!
senhoredson 3 months ago
if god was as good as bach god would be better
dumyatpiwi 3 months ago
The gods! God. A! god. THE GOD. The Son of God...which god is this...or they! They are all myth. What matters but the music created in the spirit and beauty of their supreme beings. It is wonderful. It is!
nutuvocare 3 months ago
Maybe if Bach lived today, he would have been a great rap artist!
strugglerman1 3 months ago
One of the best!
RakiMan01 3 months ago
Totally Agree, I'm not religious, but am a music lover, and hoovercat, I'd love to see the expression on your face if you had to sit through the same musicians without a conductor to lead them :-)
This is a fabulous piece of music and conducted beautifully
MartinBleazy 3 months ago
simplesmente divino !!!!que inspiracao !!!!tao belo quanto o espirito mais puro dos ceus !!!!!Bach forever!!!!!
mozarthana 3 months ago
I belive in a god yes... I think god give us his son Jean Sebastien Bach.
Plagiarisme 4 months ago
This conductor induces embarrassment....there's no need for the over the top monkey expressions......those musicians and choir know what they're doing.
Hoovercat 4 months ago
Is it me, or is this music so beautiful, it's hard to believe it was even written...?
WanderingChild999 4 months ago 18
@WanderingChild999 You are dreaming my friend
MetalAge19 4 weeks ago
such a beautiful song :) Christians you should be grateful to have an almighty God.... :) this is gospel...
whitevanillamuffin 4 months ago
Bach is definitely the greatest composer ever! Pure perfection!
cailloux44 4 months ago
Ninguna cosa puede penetrar en mi alma y hacer brotar mis lágrimas como esta música monumental. Ante ella caigo de rodillas.
La congoja ante las atrocidades cometidas por el ser humano a lo largo de la historia y ante el sufrimiento e injusticia que he visto, que alguna vez me ha hecho dudar si ha valido la pena venir a este mundo, queda reducida al más ínfimo tamaño después de oír esta obra colosal. ¡Gracias Bach! ¡Gloria eterna al más grande compositor que ha conocido la humanidad!
Wolfzart89 4 months ago
@Wolfzart89 I think that Bach was illuminated by some higher power that we don't know about.
gzaenker 1 month ago
@gzaenker He wrote "For the glory of God alone" on all his manuscripts.
BobbyL5757 1 month ago 11
@BobbyL5757
You must be referring to "ad maiorem Dei gloriam" abbreviated AMDG. I grew up in a secluded devout Catholic school that thought us to write AMDG on the corner of essays and other homrwork. Like what Bach did when writing his manuscript. It was kind of a concept that inspired students to get closer to religon and explore the magnificent world created.
I stop doing it after second year at university. I also think that people that grew up in my enviroment is close to non existent.
loafingsmurf 3 weeks ago
@loafingsmurf I think the piety of the Kapellmeister is well documented, so he wrote "To God alone, be the glory" because he really wrote music for the glory of God, it was not just a custom. At the beginning of his manuscripts Bach would write I.N.J (In Nomine Jesu-"In the name of Jesus") or J.J. (Jesu Juva-"Jesus Help Me"). He would then inscribe SDG (Soli Deo Gloria-"To God alone, be the glory) on the last page. By the way, he was not a Catholic but a Protestant.
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@gzaenker said : I think that Bach was illuminated by some higher power that we don't know about.
Yes - the power of his mind.
frenchimp 1 week ago
¿EXISTE ALGO MÁS PERFECTO QUE BACH?....definitivamente la música se hizo bendita en las composiciones de este gran Hombre ensalzando al hombre más grande de todos los tiempos, Jesus
gabrielgodoyrobles 4 months ago
amazing
whitesupremashit 4 months ago
what weird conducting technique?!?
bassbass99able 5 months ago
@bassbass99able : Look. Conducting is about effectiveness. It appears maybe odd, but it is not !
MusicPredominates 4 months ago
the fact that this work makes people think and even debate the existence of G-d tells you really how deep and wonderful Bach's music was.
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BillThePaxton 5 months ago
I wonder what Bach was like as a kid.
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JuhuTuubi 5 months ago
Vielen Ganz Herzlichen Dank!!!
Das ist absolüt PERFEKT!!!
Kolpachnikov 5 months ago
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Bach sucks,this is unbearable and I love Baroque.
MrAlpixoid 5 months ago
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You suck, you clown!
TelumehtarOriOn 5 months ago
@TelumehtarOriOn Pity.
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Bach sucks,WTF is this !?! This is unbearable and I listen to baroque all the time,shit !
MrAlpixoid 5 months ago
don´t listen then
whitesupremashit 4 months ago
I thank God for giving us Bach
ballinora53 5 months ago
Belíssimo! (Wonderful)
POSCAROME 5 months ago
Praise be to Bach the Father of the Baroque....
joelitos2000 5 months ago
Bach heard my heart.
mystherese2007 5 months ago
I recently heard part of this on the soundtrack of the movie Casino (I think) and I googled it. This is a beautiful piece! Thank you to the person who uploaded this.
Tomam001 5 months ago
Mother of Bach o:
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"Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers." Ephesians 4:29
RKJanssenviolinist 5 months ago
This is a beautiful performance, of this wonderful work of Bach. Let us bring God the glory, for He is the One that gave us this music. He is a mighty God, and He is deserving of all glory. Let us always remember that, and use this, and all of Bach's music to bring Him Glory. "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God." 1 Corinthians 10:31
RKJanssenviolinist 5 months ago
@RKJanssenviolinist : You speak so much sense. Yes. People abuse the man-created and venerate in place of the Saviour !
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Those my colleagues of Faculty and University theories [atheism] came here to discuss those vanity thesis and forget to listen robust perfect solar kind of BACH music. Well..., my colleagues DO not REALLY understand anything about "MUSICAL FORM". Poor intellectual coarse blind colleagues! THANKS Bach for that clever perfect artful smart kind of music.
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joaoluizbh 6 months ago
Thank Bach for God!!!
lordyarox1 6 months ago
Such depressingly bad language everywhere and people still arguing about the existence of God. YAWN!!! Believers, agnostics and atheists alike can enjoy this music without arguing pointlessly.
055697 6 months ago 54
@055697 Perfect comment!
badjaja 4 months ago
@055697 I couldn't agree more!!!! Stop ruining bach's amazingness by arguing over frivolous things. Shut the hell up and enjoy the music!!!!
quinn244 4 months ago
@055697 That's the spirit.
fiercedragoon1982 3 months ago
@055697 you should discuss with a priest, to understand the meaning. God bless you <3
Nanakommt 2 months ago
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After your next religious effluence please flush. Three weeks later it still smells in here.
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God is an asshole
jamesharperwillis 6 months ago
@jamesharperwillis it takes one to know one ;)
jef108 6 months ago
Nice tempo
philateliceun 6 months ago
Maravilha!! Graças a Deus! s2
layna2000kisses 6 months ago
I don't care what your taste in music is, if you appreciate perfection, genius and undeniable beauty, than Bach or Mozart are amongst those that embody such qualities. If I could only listen to one piece of music for the rest of my life it most likely would be this (St. Matthew Passion) or his Mass in B Minor. It is borderline impossible to find a popular 'musician' with the level of talent possessed by this man.
brianlyates 6 months ago
@brianlyates I agree--Bach is more or less undoubtedly the greatest composer who ever lived. Though as to a man with the level of talent as Bach, I have to say that Aaron Copland did pretty darn well, thinking primarily of his Appalachian Spring.
filler2013 6 months ago
Performance from Ton Koopman, dutch director. Every year it is played since 1949. He is the latest in a line of directors who did it before him.
arbie102 7 months ago
Thanks, Bach!
AgneseBac 7 months ago
What a gorgeous resonant sound.
amezcuaist 7 months ago
Q PIEZA, WOUUUUUUUUU, SIN PALABRAS
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karlauerH 7 months ago
Annoying Orange - Passion of the Fruit
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Neonalfax 7 months ago
I'm an atheist who loves Bach.
EytanKoch 7 months ago 5
@EytanKoch I love the colour blue and I still love Bach!!
muffigw 6 months ago
Love it. Reminds me of the Chapel music in Castlevania: SOTN.
ken7786 7 months ago 2
listen, you either achieve or you dont, i cant believe im seeing a belief battle over bach, jeez its like ronaldo on the football pitch, then a normal footballer, its called talent, as of right now, we all believe in preety nd soothing bach so everyone chill out and stop debating and advertising something you were taught, that was here before you, and will be here when your gone, and no one will ever know any truths about..
OVOXOFK 7 months ago
che meraviglia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
beethoven1357 7 months ago
is it odd if im 14 year old girl and i like this? was i born at the wrong time?!
KeroseneKid2019 7 months ago
@KeroseneKid2019 No, that's actually awesome. You're one of the few of your age that hasn't been indoctrinated and brainwashed by the atrocity that is mainstream music. This music=good for da soul.
tristan01101 7 months ago
@KeroseneKid2019 people like us who like this might be a minority, but it is really the people who don't like this who really are the ones born at the wrong time-this music is eternal and timeless. listen to this wonderful music no matter what other people say
goPistons06 7 months ago
Bro i don't think god is real.
thelonelydinosaur69 7 months ago
Lindo.
A música utilizada para o bem, para enaltecer o altíssimo.
Sem esses pop rock gospel ou católico dos dias atuais....
CristaoCatolico07 7 months ago
Bach is the incarnation of God in the form of music. No more, stop arguing for nothing faggots
dinizthemxking 7 months ago
my favorite piece of all time!!!!since I was 13!!!
Amazonas809 8 months ago
You can think its for god from god or whatever.... The artist ultimately pleases himself with his or her art... He sounds like a religious man it has that aura about it Im sure no one can deny that ... Maybe it takes a religious, no god fearing man to develope such a conscience for beauty? KMAH!
y4t4l0ck 8 months ago
What this music shows is that, if humans really want something or really believe in something, they can achieve amazing things. But it's still the human doing the creating, not anyone or anything else.
ycooreman 8 months ago
@ycooreman indeed, very true. But no-one knows what "the human" is. It's the Eternal Mystery. And those (scientist, religionist, atheist or otherwise) that think they know something, are deluding themselves. Life and Consciousness are un"knowable" in their essence. But there is Truth, and Beauty, and Love, and Transcendence. And thats what we all love in Great Art, and the Artists that create it. Like Bach, or Walt Whitman, or Terrence Malick, or Coltrane. All thats left after that is gratitude.
jef108 8 months ago
if this was made in the late renaissance, then i wonder what the middle renaissance was like.
michiru123456789 8 months ago
@michiru123456789
not the renaissance. this is considered the ''baroque'' period, musically. next stop, classical.
055697 8 months ago
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pinturner 8 months ago
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pinturner 8 months ago
Let's stop this absurd intellectual ranting aimed at inflating our already over-inflated vanity and self-love. Let's just listen with our whole baing to this incredibly beautiful music. We all might benefit from the effort. Dwight Ragle
ragle7 8 months ago 4
Atheist or not. I am not a religious person and definitely can't music. But from the moment I heard Bach for first time I simplely could not to want to hear. Some pieces I hear time after time and never tired.
Guangxi56 8 months ago
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!
such a state of awe and wonder!
it transports me there
RedCloudBeechWaveAhh 8 months ago
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!
such a state of wonder!
RedCloudBeechWaveAhh 8 months ago
George Lucas used this for the ending of his first movie, THX 1138. It's really a powerful moment.
AnimeFanatic5602 9 months ago
Thank God for Bach!!!
magpie4321 9 months ago 13
hmm... science, science, the universe, science, nebula, galaxy, science, probability of something called god, god being a man, us believing we are so important as to command any attention at all, science.
the end.
nanneella 9 months ago
@nanneella retard.
tristan01101 8 months ago
@Frodanatee I'm not really an avid Christian, but the truth is that this Passion piece is written entirely around the death of Christ and His Triumph over death and sin. Plus when you consider that JS Bach was a devout Christian to the point of tirelessly annotating his Bible and the fact that without the church Bach would never have been presented the money or opportunity or inspiration to compose any of these works.
Just a thought.
SouthernIvyLeague 9 months ago
@SouthernIvyLeague fair point. i wouldnt deny that.
Frodanatee 7 months ago
La pasion de Mateo de Bach es una de las obras más grandes, bellas y esplendorosas que se pueda tener. Muchas gracias a quien subió estos videos. Bach era Dios mismo.
pulidomx 9 months ago
Special Thanks to J.S Bach
ccsteamer 9 months ago
Thanks to Jesus Christ. Thanks to Koopman & Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Soloists. Thanks to YouTube : o )
ccsteamer 9 months ago 3
@ccsteamer You forgot to thank Bach you schmuck.
HerlockSholmes123 7 months ago 25
@HerlockSholmes123 and that takes the cake for greedy god lovers from a man made religion. Or was it alien?
TormentedStatue 6 months ago
@TormentedStatue Yes, it was Cthulhu.
HerlockSholmes123 6 months ago
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I like this comment ^.^
Loiginer 7 months ago
Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen,
Sehet - Wen? - den Bräutigam,
Seht ihn - Wie? - als wie ein Lamm!
Sehet, - Was? - seht die Geduld,
Seht - Wohin? - auf unsre Schuld;
Sehet ihn aus Lieb und Huld
Holz zum Kreuze selber tragen!
gardenofmushi 9 months ago
Wonderful music!
JensBlauenschild 9 months ago
Im glad the reason this music is put on here is to argue religion. When will it ever end? I am going to the Darwin sites on here and say he travelled to the islands to proclaim the Good News of Christ victory over death. Bach was a very religious man and defended his piety vigorously during his life. This music he wrote is sacred. I struggle with many questions about God and my own beliefs. Thankyou Darwin for sacred beliefs, Bach for secular music...for commenters..I am being sarcastic.
davids2000 9 months ago
My father sang this as a boy with the Concertgebow in Amsterdam. This music is food for the spirit and the tears cleanse my soul.............. Praise be Lord!
dianavanderomero 9 months ago
Just like God himself, Bach's music is way above from all those artificial things that we could call "religions".
0ri0n77 9 months ago
@0ri0n77 Bach didn't think that.
rumpranger65 9 months ago
@Frodanatee, Claiming categorically that there is no God is also speculation and a bias - and since certainty is impossible you too are expressing "faith" in your own religion, athiesm. It's called cognitive dissonance not to recognize the very thing in yourself. An internal contradiction. If you'd qualified that you know that you can be certain that there is no God, you would at least be honest.
martha1spur 9 months ago
@Frodanatee, Claiming categorically that there is no God is also speculation and a bias - and since certainty is impossible you too are expressing "faith" in your own religion, athiesm. It's called cognitive dissonance not to recognize the very thing in yourself.
martha1spur 9 months ago
I came here to troll about Mel Gibsons Passion but in the end it turns out that Passion isn't a Mel Gibson movie
krrreten 9 months ago
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gregorio66 9 months ago
Wonderful music!
JensBlauenschild 9 months ago
Luck implies chance, not design.
PhysicalsimForever 9 months ago
@PhysicalsimForever and who knows what "chance" is, and what it's origin and function is?
jef108 9 months ago
@jef108 chance is probability , its "origin" is the same as any in the universe, as in when the universe began chance began ( presuming the universe DID in fact begin) some believe chance IS the beginning. In its basics is the indeterminate nature of sub atomic particles in relation to their predictability under known laws of physics in an in a state that is not in superposition, (as superposition of states would mean more then one universe each determining the outcome of the other.)
maiinf 8 months ago
@maiinf ...nice description of a point of view, or "belief". A lot (if not all) of what we call science is in fact just describing mechanisms, and not at all accounting for their ultimate origin or meaning. It is not because one can (sort of) describe a mechanism, that it is no longer a miracle. In true science we should never forget that what we "know" now, is exactly that: what we know nów. What we call "chance" might turn out to be not such a "blind" thing as what we now believe it to be.
jef108 8 months ago
@jef108 yes science is exactly that, a way of describing mechanisms as accurately as possible and having those descriptions capable of predicting outcomes.From those outcomes we can learn, and if need be (often) alter our descriptions to better understand these outcomes. When we talk about "ultimate origin" the matter is philosophical, some scientists believe that the origin was a flux in dark energy, other believe that there is, was & never will be an origin.With no proof any answer is correct
maiinf 8 months ago
@maiinf indeed...but there is a difference between scientific materialism and science as a discipline. Science as a discipline is a form of free enquiry that is not supposed to predetermine results or superimpose a point of view on reality apart from the investigation of reality...
jef108 8 months ago
@maiinf ...Scientific materialism, however, is a philosophy. It is not science, although it tends to be associated with the scientific movement. It is an ancient philosophy, the philosophy of materialism. It is a reductionist philosophy. It reduces reality to what is called “materiality”, and it wants to base all notions of reality on that philosophical presumption. . . .
jef108 8 months ago
@jef108 while philosophy is is a subject so vast i can not claim any expertise with it , i did read about "Scientific materialism" an idea built upon sound (early) scientific observations but there the validity ends.To blindly follow any scientific theorem to the letter and believing it is complete is I believe to be ignorant of evolving nature science itself. In direct contrast to this "matter only" belief is that as humans we often see the results of forces that are immaterial to us.
maiinf 8 months ago
@maiinf... immaterial, yes, like wifi;)... Who knows what our understanding of the nature of reality will be in the near or distant future. We might just discover that life is a dream in the mind of God, and that God is ourself. The Self. Buddha, and co. have been saying it for 1000's of years. Sooner or later, science will catch up...
jef108 8 months ago
Es ist doch gleichgültig wie man zu Gott steht, die wunderbare Schönheit der Musik Bachs ist es, der glaube ich sehr gläubig war und aus diesem Glauben heraus sein Werk schuf
aljoscha24 9 months ago
You guys need to stop ganging up on Frodanatee, his comment is perfectly valid. Many composers were commissioned by the churches of their day and wrote beautiful devotional music, but it doesn't prove the existence of God. Even atheists can write glorious works that are transcendent, numinous and can be attributed to just about anything. In fact, most religions have music written to a said God, does that mean they all exist? Music is the larger part of the equation here and Bach was a master.
KeithWhalen11 9 months ago
Слава Богу, что Он сотворил такого гения, как Бах!
mariatravkina 9 months ago
En hommage à Dieu (qui EXISTE) toutes les églises, temples, synagogues, mosquées, ashrams ne devraient accueillir que la MUSIQUE et rien d'autre.
JeanChemla2 9 months ago
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让人感动的曲子。
kongliliushuang 9 months ago
让人感动的曲子。
kongliliushuang 9 months ago
DEMIAN
Raider1648 9 months ago
olom gottes unschuldig am stam des kreauzes geduldig enz
megamanzero012 9 months ago
Sublime
35m 9 months ago
impresionante sin palabras ton koopman el mejor
vitusfer 9 months ago
I'm an atheist and love this. Beautiful music created on earth by a human being. All the talk about god talking through JS is simply stuff you can't know (speculation based on bias). I give credit to the man and his genius personally
Frodanatee 10 months ago 42
@Frodanatee You give credit to Bach and he firmly gave credit to God. So isn't that you giving an indirect credit to God? :)
Personally i accept i know little about theology god etc. But if God and his ideals were enough to inspire Bach and many other composers to create such music i'm convinced God is something good, worth believing in =)
wnxg4nd4lf 9 months ago
@Frodanatee, hi. Without offense, you can give credit to the composer (the creator of the work) because of his work. It's beautiful, isn't it?. So many beautiful things are around you, that someone must have created (composed?) them. Music reveals the composer's character. Literature reveals the writer's character. The Creation reveals the Creator's character. Such inspiration and work that we find in Bach are not but the revelation of a higher character: the Highest Grace. Read the Bible :-)
datoreviol 9 months ago
@Frodanate and all others. Yes wonderful, And fact is it was created by man. Enjoy it for how you perceive it.
BoogieWoogieBanjo 9 months ago
@Frodanatee Do you realize how ridiculous you sound? Probably not.
trajan75 9 months ago
@Frodanatee but you knowing his belief, what would you think his answer be?
prietocwb 9 months ago
@Frodanatee The Divine "works" through us, whether or not we "believe". Theists or atheists alike, it doesn't matter what fits or doesn't fit into our little head. Crediting the personal ego for transcendence is like taking credit for your own birth. Kind of silly...but no matter indeed, we can all enjoy Bach, whatéver we believe. He touches the heart.
jef108 9 months ago 34
@jef108 Ok, taking credit for your talent is not silly; what you call a divine gift, we call LUCK. He was lucky to be born talented and the credit goes for developing his talent and for his hard work.
vdvloversister 9 months ago
@vdvloversister c'mon, there's no such thing as talent or luck, even the great Bach did not believe in talent or luck. Here's a direct quote from Bach, "I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.”
rustydog1236 9 months ago
@rustydog1236 It's not a matter of believing or not in luck, it's the chance you get to be born with certain affinities, and making the most of them! It's all I'm saying! I disagree that only work is required. 99%, of course, but without that special gene...
vdvloversister 9 months ago
@vdvloversister c'mon, there's no such thing as talent or luck, even the great Bach did not believe in talent or luck. Here's a direct quote from Bach, "I worked hard. Anyone who works as hard as I did can achieve the same results.”
rustydog1236 9 months ago
@vdvloversister sure...you (who's "we"?) call it luck (whatever that is), I call it Divine...And listening to Bach, I think Divine befits him better. Whatever other problem you have with religious terminology, I don't care. Nobody understands these things anyway ;) Be happy. Live and let live.
jef108 9 months ago
@jef108 Touché mon ami! Like Owebama saying about his birth: "I remember it"
magpie4321 9 months ago
@jef108 and he touches both the heart as well as the brain! he's so unbelievably a genius as there are only a few more like him in music ...
dadautube 8 months ago
@dadautube hear! hear!
jef108 8 months ago