Zelenka - Requiem in C Minor ZWV45 - Mov. 1-3/18

[chrisQ1000]

Masterpiece or not, the picture selected to illustrate the music is far from "pretty" (naturally, as a memento mori it need not be pretty), on the other hand, the music is "pretty" to the ear, and someone might find THAT unsuitable for a requiem... in my personal opinion, and speaking as an art historian, not a musician, the painting fits the subject, but not the music, as it was painted 200 years before the music was composed; a piece contemporary to the music might have been the better choice.

[lolfail9]

I don't see the issue. The painting is a very famous one- no one had issues when it was painted. If you DO have an issue with it, go yell at the dead artist, not the person who happened to use his masterpiece in a wonderfully made video. The fact that this has continued for two years is ridiculous.

@HARMONICO101 wonderful work. I love this series by zelenka- it is aptly presented, and a good recording. Stay in touch.

[UncomfortableSilence]

I don't know. I think the picture looks pretty great actually, the way he gently kisses the woman yet it appears as a bite. That's pretty wonderful, his use of ambiguity leaves a lot open.

[robinprinzing]

Looks to me like the "sucks butts" comes from wry humor connected with the name of the performers:

Performed by Fiori Musicali and members of His Majesty's Sagbutts & Cornetts

[lolfail9]

@robinprinzing Sagbutt=Trombone

[ComposerJMA]

Little known fact: The opening of my requiem is based off of this.

--JMA, noe-baroque composer

[plagueofangels666]

a lot of comments on the picture. is anyone listening to the music??

[Max0Inq]

I guess this is one of the most disturbing paintings ever painted.

Fortunately, the music is great.

[javiereguez]

PLEASE US CITIZENS, DEMONSTRATE PLEASE YOUR CULTURE. AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT BIT OF CULTURE INHERITED OF THE ANGLO-SAXON PEOPLE.

[lefthandovRA]

@javiereguez ???

[andrewMLhero]

@javiereguez Umm... Zelenka was Czech, not Anglo-Saxon. But I agree, we've strayed from our roots, unfortunately.

[jazzguitardotcom]

I sang the bass part along with chorale and chamber orchestra back in the summer of '93 at Indiana University. I remember that bass part shooting way up into the staff. It almost felt like a tenor part at times! "Sucks butts" described my singing to a T.

[charlesrommel]

ohhhhh my God ;; this picture is a beauty piece of art; and it matches perfectly with the Requiem!!! congrats friend !! and you Harmonico i hope you wont find it GROTESQUE!! when the angel come for you!!!

[ComposerJMA]

It is wonderful :)

[gajda1984]

given his birthdate, I really like how his music resembles the 17th century rather than the more familier Bach/Handel style of the first half of the 18th century.

[Poldark3]

The music is beautiful & the painting is for me also good.It is merely a depiction of death as would have been shown at that time,far better than some of todays efforts.

[loppezjo]

i love requiems its like the life force is me wants to jump out and say how much of a miracle it is to be alive.

[SongForLunatic]

It looks like (a little) from the Mozart's Requiem, I think! But, it's so beautiful !!!

[tommaso1618]

Many thanks Harmonico101, I´m a baroque violin player, love to listen at your videos.

Really good good job!

[XxxSakura101]

Why is a zombie raping a fat chick?

[scottcolumbus]

@XxxSakura101 is bacuse the zombie thought the fat chick is your mother so he had the chance to have another stupid son like you........ so many anime has rotted your mind stupid bastard

[XxxSakura101]

@scottcolumbus I would leave the witty comments to others more capable if i where you, you're just embarrassing yourself.

[XxxSakura101]

@scottcolumbus How eloquent.

[murphy456]

Thank you. I heard this about 16 years ago and didn't know what it was. I really love the artwork as well. I will subscribe to you.

[tiktaalikyou]

very nice music. the artwork is awesome.

[ElAqero]

......that picture is going to give me nightmares.

[ThePoliticalMusician]

This music completely describes me.

[murphy456]

@ThePoliticalMusician Me too

[shnimmuc]

It is too bad that the recording was done in a dead room. Thanks for posting.

[Sirgate1978]

Love the music and art work very

Mystique

[Sirgate1978]

Love the music and the art work truly

Mystique

[NachoMargahayu]

This reqiuem is awesome. very melancholic but lightfeeded as wel

[lilliahhassan]

Love the painting.Wish there were translation of song.Thanks ,Helen

[yucaseca28]

Great music, great painting! Enjoy them, everybody! Gracias a harmonico101!

[metteholm75]

The painter is Hans Baldung Grien, - but the music does make one think of El Greco.

[radaphhesig]

Zelenka is a very unusual composer - much like El-Greco is an unusual painter

[metteholm75]

Thankyou! What a beautiful, expressive music, - but the picture is chocking, - as death is! That picture is too much! I choose not to look at it.

[Mutch820]

Absolutely a wonderful piece! Thanks or sharing!

[clostermann9]

Picture is disgusting, but music is fanstastic...

[inchesa33]

music is amizing but pichture is fANTASTIC

[chopinandliszt]

the music's great, but the picture sucks butts... It really ruins the music.

[HARMONICO101]

Oh sorry, next time I'll be sure to cater to your insecurities and post a pretty little landscape with no deeper meaning or symbolism relating to the nature of this kind of music so you don't have any emotional reaction other than "Oh this is so pretty".

Read the requiem text. I have never made an image and music pairing in my uploads as perfect as this. Baldung's painting perfectly serves it purpose even after hundreds of years, which makes nothing less than a masterpiece.

[chopinandliszt]

I didn't mean that. What I'm saying is, I simply don't appreciate the picture. I like paintings with grotesque images, but this one just looks like one of those "scoobydoo" images. Don't take it too harshly. It's just my opinion.

[HARMONICO101]

"Don't take it too harshly"

You said this painting "sucks butts" and "ruins the music". How is one not to take that "too harshly"?

Troller I presume?

[chopinandliszt]

I apologize XD

[musicnerdalways]

@HARMONICO101 It does loose the professional take towards the music.

[PJinBston]

@HARMONICO101

Can’t he make criticisms without being flippantly dismissed as a “troll?”

I have to agree with him. You shouldn't tell people how to experience a piece of music. A picture suggests an interpretation and distract from the music. As for its artistic quality one needs to take into account when and for what purpose it was painted.

Of course you’re allowed to choose your images, and one can move it out of view

[cellointerest]

bravo.....i study cello...studied art for 5 years....i love this

[GangrenaD]

@chopinandliszt Selfishness is the incapability of apreciating the other´s point of view. Please restrain yourself from such inmaturites. As a conosieur, it is espected more of you.

[GangrenaD]

@chopinandliszt Selfishness is the incapability of apreciating the other´s point of view. Please restrain yourself from such inmaturites. As a conosieur, it is expected more of you.

[trustinthemusic]

@chopinandliszt holy fuck get over it please.

[PJinBston]

@chopinandliszt

Thumbs up for the comment, better yet if you'd ended the sentence with "sucks." I think "butts" is what ruined it for people. But heck, it's just a comment.

[Heremos]

Please tell me the name and the artist of that picture

[HARMONICO101]

It is "Death and the Maiden" (1518-1520) by Hans Baldung Grien.

[eethove]

@HARMONICO101 It's not, by chance, the origin of Schubert's "Death and the Maiden," is it? By the way, this music is superb, though I must say that the grotesque nature of the painting distracts from the angelic harmonies of this beautiful piece.

[anonyymi1234]

@HARMONICO101 penis market? anus market? ääs-market, siis :) ?

[wiseguylouie]

@HARMONICO101

It's an interesting picture....but that certainly does not look like a maiden to me, hehe

[alexxxxxx23]

@Heremos it is the most uglieest picture l have ever seen...... :D

[SmoczeFajerwerki]

Scary picture x(

But great music. Greetings from Poland.

[rleigh87]

absolutely beautiful

[pajaritodelodio]

is this one of the first requems that ever existed...can someone answer please?

[gambistico]

no the first requiem's are found in the earliest christian centuries.. in gregorian chant there are plenty of them.

[dis0guise]

May not even be by Zelenka, or might be partly by him. The unusual tunes are very Zelenka, but the style isn't quite. Still, a very beautiful piece and this is this only recording I know of, and out of print I believe.

Very disconcerting picture, but not inappropriate for a Requiem.

[HARMONICO101]

I agree with you. It has a Zelenka weirdness, but the style is almost entirely archaic. Zelenka liked to quote the old school only in occasional movements. Also the energy isn't the same.

[bubblykings]

aaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! SCARY PAINTING!!!!! But everything's alright after I scroll down...

nice music :)

[zeaghan]

She was alive when they met. He was dead inside. She wanted love so badly she thought 'If I lay down with him one more time, he will live." Until ultimately she realized he relished death and resented life as a result he resented her. You can't give life to someone who'd rather be dead nor can you make them happy with a moment of an expression of love. They are perpetual sadness. Love and life eludes them and to those who dare to love the dead, their fate is death.

[MerlinTheDraconic]

Oh god, that's a really disturbing picture. It may haunt my nightmares.

[FranklyMisterShankly]

Even after all these years, in an age where we're constantly assaulted by thousands of images daily, it still manages to serve its purpose.

[AytidaRed]

interesting piece and recording.  i like it

[RebekahElena]

scary picture.

[AbeTakawa]

Oh...

What a horrible picture.

[HARMONICO101]

Death can be a horrible thing. :)

[XxOakDryadxX]

Yes it can be, but death is inevitable. I find that we all must embrace death and not fear it. Consider death as another stage in our life. Thank you for posting such a marvelous and inspiring piece.

[homousios]

Yes you are very right

[FranklyMisterShankly]

I actually think it's brilliant. The two figures embrace as if they were lovers, yet the faces reflect a much different reality. The painting plays with yielding to theseductions of the world - with death, ironically, playing the role of the ultimate seducer to whom no one can escape. Note also how death isn't so much kissing the woman goodbye; the prominence of the teeth suggest a kind of a final consumption. In any case, it fits in perfectly with the this Requiem.

[HARMONICO101]

Indeed! This painting as a whole I found quite striking. His paintings are macabre, but they are filled with tremendous emotion.

[7StrangeFruits]

what is the title of the painting?

[kittyfilica]

Is a painting od Hans Baldung, the title is the death and the maiden

[7StrangeFruits]

thank you

[ilovebach123]

amazing.....i love it.

[fjollejolle]

just love this one. makes me wanna die under an oriental carpet.

[Nganguen]

Tout juste transcendental!!!Tellement expressif...même l'image est si émotive,expressive!!!Ô Zelenka!

[debartzen]

¡Maravilloso.Hondura,profundid­ad..,

El cuadro.¿caramba el cuadro.?Podrías haber puesto otro.Por cierto,¿Quién lo pintó y cómo se llama.?

[ultranom]

Don't have words for this.

[perronid]

Awesome!

Perfect song....

Very powerful chords...Perfect harmony...

Thanks Harmonico

[KyotoMelody]

Very macabre!!! Thanks for sharing.

[jorgepoveda]

Al escuchar un compositor desconocido (Zelenka) afianzo la idea de que la forma de dirigirse al Creador que empleamos actualmente ( a base de rock,salsa y otros similares,muy de moda en ciertas iglesias cristianas fundamentalistas...) esta a tan astronomica distancia del profundo respeto con el cual lo hacian los compositores del barroco,que si en verdad Dios pudiese "escuchar" enviaria a los compositores barrocos al Cielo y los actuales al otro lado.

[sealknebrot]

If God had a favourite composer, it would be Zelenka.

[contrafagotto]

It would be BRUCKNER.

[tartinitrumpet]

What a grim picture. Thanks for posting this. Zelenka is all too rare.

[HARMONICO101]

No problem! maybe I should have posted a less distracting painting... oh well. I like it alot.

[PeriodinstrumentfaN]

A kiss with Death... grim. Rare indeed. Thanks for posting !

[ssc70402]

Wow X.X , who drew this and at what time??

[HARMONICO101]

Very macabre isn't it? This is "Death and the Maiden" by Hans Baldung Grien painted in 1518-1520.