Bach - Magnificat - 03-04-Quia respexit-Omnes generationes

[amacine]

cuales son los nombres de los solistas...?

[achawall0fitakeche]

I dont undestand how there are 11 people that dont like this. ¿To much regueton?

[PierFrancescMicciche]

What's the intstrument at the incipit? a particular oboe?

[imlovinski]

I meant sober and right

[imlovinski]

very pure and "juste" interpretation

[larasoto1991]

Omnes was TOO FAST!!

[vfegfe]

@larasoto1991

Agreed! The choir was amazing but still the omnes is too fast, it was cool to hear but still.... give Bach a break ;)

[GaiusRota]

I wish... I wish I could write something as gorgeous as this.

[sstuddert]

Omnes Generationes was ridiculously fast.

[haarlemanna]

i was there, he is not playing wrong notes. he is playing the eb major version which is different from the d major version

[janeym]

Her voice is the combination of a beautiful pure soprano with a rich mezzo. So beautiful! Praise God. :D

[therising1]

1:38 to 1:46 doesn't even sound human...absolutely amazing!!!

[jscamach]

wich instrument is playin ton kopman ?

[LifeforArt]

@jscamach A Portativ.

[beethomozart]

this extraordinary score is a proof of Bach´s intense religiosity, perfect and sublime

[lekmioas]

I have perfect pitch and the key bothers me, Simply sounds too low and fast. The oboist playes two wrong notes: in measure 2 the second last note is A flat and in measure 9 the fourth 16th note should be an E flat. That applies in the c minor virsion I have. It is so sad when people get personal on this site! How about respecting a different opinion without feeling the need to insult?

[heijxje]

@lekmioas

There are two versions of the Magnificat: Originally Bach composed it in E flat Major and later he transposed in D major, the latter version becoming the most known. If the orchestra plays the D major version on authentic instruments with an A=415 Hz tune, it creeps towards C major and I can very well understand that people with absolute pitch can be very troubled when hearing it. It just does not sounds right to them. About the "wrong notes", I call that interpretation. :-)

[WUTaTALENT]

Nice sound although some of the soloists' timing was incorrect...lovely though. Lovely tonality .

[alessandro7875]

il tema del coro è ripetuto per 41 volte,tante quante sono le generazioni che intercorrono tra Abramo e Gesù Cristo. Bello è anche il gioco fra "ones" di generationes e "omnes": infatti su "ones"(ultima nota del tema) comincia "omnes" (inizio del tema), stante ad indicare il sovrapporsi delle generazioni.

[301250]

Stop being querulous folks, this English rose sings beautifully and has a timbre that's very British. Simply wonderful ie.soloists, choir, conductor n orchestra. sd goh (malaysia)

[UltravioletSlave]

Lovely.. but for some reason Im in love with Tarja's version...

[lojundolo]

I would prefer to hear a good boy's singing, and not these "baroque" singers poor of vocal technique and expression, even if they're adult and should have a lot of time to improve their singing.

[moonshiry]

vocal technique? i think their vocal technique is good. as for expression... mmmm... would belong to the theatre with musicals? at least shes smiling LOL

[jerroldtidwell]

poor technique, huh? I suspect this Soprano has more technique in her index finger than you will ever experience. Get a life!

[lojundolo]

How can you think that this little and difficult voice own a good vocal technique? But in "baroque" field, it's true, I heard even very much worse. Fortunately, Bach's music is always good, even if the performers are poor, and this is for the luck of a number of performers.

[jerroldtidwell]

You need help.

[lojundolo]

@jerroldtidwell thank-you jerrold, everybody needs God's help on this earth; I feel that it is my duty to point out that a lot of very important conductors, choirmasters and organists use to appeal to singers who have an incomplete vocal technique. They generally hate opera singing and full voice, so they make people believe that for ancient and baroque repertoire we need poor voices, without legato, without natural vibrato: couldn't they choose boys singers, if they want treble voices?

[dal1882]

плевать что камера плохая.. бах вечный и идиот отказался бы пойти на такой концерт

[meratenjou]

this gives me chills.....beautiful!

[golli33]

Alfredo Bernardini es un grande , increible su musicalidad !!!

[bar0qu3]

devo dire che anche io preferisco la versione di bernstein...ma non si discute sulla qualità dell'esecuzione

[August45]

da recording sound is no good

[terryyes101984]

the latin she sung wans so bad!!!

[salomesandoval]

is german latin

[baaaba21]

German Latin preformed by a Dutch singer. :)

[brandon71085]

Deborah York is British actually. No less ironic though, I guess.

[snoopy5312]

She sang it using German Latin.

[payrollz1234]

Considering that this is a historically informed performance, and Bach's church would have been singing the Latin in a German manner, I'd say her Latin was spot on... it's not supposed to sound like Classical or Ecclesiastical pronunciation, it is supposed to be Baroque-era German pronunciation. :)

[QNWNENRNTNY]

Listen to the strikings of the notes! (Among others.) Just wonderful.

[gerubach72]

Malicious Pirate, the chorus sopranos sound flat due the the positioning of the entire performing ensemble. The soprano's higher vibration frequencies are hitting the roof of the church and colliding with themselves at a very fast rate of speed giving the listener a "flat" sound. Had Ton Koopman lowered the ensemble on to the alter (where everyone could get their money's worth and actually see the performance) the soprano's would sound more in tune. I'm just kidding... I think they sound fine.

[MaliciousPirate]

Just me or are the chorus sopranos just a tad flat?

[maxo65]

Thanks Ton! ...and thanks Johann Sebastian!!! The greatest, EVER!

[vonAdieux]

@maxo65

he surely is the greatest even! the only one who is close to him is Handel.

[starbreez3]

@vonAdieux Totally disagree, although it's a matter of tastes...

I think the closest to Bach is no one, he's very unique. He's my second favourite composer. First place goes to Vivaldi.

[1psoas9]

My favorite version is Bernstein's recording, which is romantic -- so much personal feeling in the solos, and such POWER in the choruses -- omnes means EVERTHING and EVERYBODY in his version, all generations will call her blessed, every last one.

THis version is lighter, gayer, happier -- more sub specie aeternitatis, where suffering and passion are things of hte past and barely remembered and lend no weight: i LIKE it, I like it a lot, but I really like it when God is mighty.

[63023FB]

GRANDE ALFREDO! Salutaci Ton!

[bearsdenoboe]

somebody changed the notes to protect the innocent?

[potatodar]

we sang this in chorus last year. EPIC WIN.

[hogsprinc]

my favorite, i love JS Bach,He Was the best,and is and will be.

this music has came right from heaven.

God bless you my beloved JS Bach.

[BayAreaBiker2001]

Bach was a church musician. One of his duties was to write music for the church services. They were intended for one performance each, but he did his job so well that his works continue to be performed to this day.

[aleiv]

Grandissimo Alfredo Bernardini :D

[SVENSKSOPRAN]

It was so refreshing to hear it so differently! I would love to meet with this man one say!

[FraAngelico440]

I love this performance. I especially love the unresolved flatted 9th on the fermata toward the end of the chorus--gives me goosebumps. I actually like these tempos. It's refreshing to hear the E-flat version--it's not quite the D version, but different and very refreshing.

[minvasive]

I actually like the treatment of Omnes Generationes. It really highlights the scalar movement of the Omnes figure as it passes through the parts. They could have done even more with the text, but the tempo works.

[cecilefornerod]

je trouve l aria peu précis elle ne chante pas les notes il ny a pas un réel phrasé on ne sent pas le dialogue avec le haubois. De plus je ne suis pas fan de cette prononciation. mais bon je suppose que c"est volontaire. il faut trouver le juste milieu entre la précision baroque et un peu de lyrisme vocal.!! mais ce n'est pas simple

[zazvar]

I was just blessed with the privalage to sing this Bach Magificat, this summer with the Oregon Bach festival stangland family youth choral academy! It was AMAZING! For me to just be 19 years old and be a tenor in this chior singing this is an honor!

[chasmesque]

Learn to spell.

[sam1322xx]

I sang Quia Respexit before and i have heard a few recordings and this is probably the strangest one of all.

it is TOO FAST. She seems to not sing a few notes in the first few lines and the ornimentation is very odd.

I don't like it in Eb.

[Elphaba415]

It's actually just done in a more baroque style. Improvisation like she did here was very common during Bach's time; and it's not too fast, everyone's interpretation is just different. The recordings you hear are just very modernized according to current taste.

[chasmesque]

There is a reason why accepted versions are accepted. This is an interesting academic exercise but doesn't warrant becoming mainstream.

[natedawg1026]

not performed the way i'm used to hearing it, so sounds foreign, but i imagine there are an almost infinite number of interpretations of this beautiful bach piece

[ackabane]

I actually like this tempo of Omnes Generationes.

I think Bach could have very much intended Omnes Generationes to be a quick succession of voices in contrapunctal fashion - allowing for a full "Omnes" word painting.

[afffred]

thats not the version i know... a lot of the notes seem wrong i guess there are many versions...

[emenems1]

TOO FAST - Omnes generationes

[gianm73yout]

This is the E flat version, BWV243a.

[gianm73yout]

This is the E flat version, BWV243a.

[HARMONICO101]

Omnes generationes is just such a spectacular movement. Awesome in the true sense of the word.

[Rik77]

Im so used tot eh D major version that it is hard to like this. It just sounds too different and I miss the flutes in the choruses. However, I really like the dissonance at 3:09. It's very daring and a shame Bach decided to resolve it in the later version.

[141407078989]

and at 03:09 soprano 2 stays in d??? why is that???

[SimplyDavid42]

I agree, that's strange... and not written by J.S Bach !

[norcalrobbie2]

They're playing a different version of the Magnificat. It was originally written in Eb major (BWV 243a), then transposed to D major (BWV 243), which is the version we usually hear. Bach also toyed with a few orchestral things here and there, including the soprano D at 3:09 and that discrepancy you heard at 1:52.

[141407078989]

what the hell happend around 01:52???

That's not how this air is usualy played

[jackeddemon]

it's a mistake

[OedipusColoneus]

Deborah York is a marvellous soprano...

[eumhpie]

the choirs is briliant, the soprano solo less so...

She swallows her words, and just sounds..weird??

[barramundo]

THe choir is really good!! unfortunately, the soprano (even if she has a good voice) was not so good, she should be less "heavy"... :oS

[jakobdkp]

She doesn't screw up at the end, or anywhere else for that matter. This is not the normally heard/played/recorded D major Magnificat, BWV 243. It is the much less known E flat major BWV 243a version. It was composed first, in 1723, but Bach made a new version later on, changed a few notes, and transposed the whole thing to D major, and for some reason that is the one that is mostly used. So, not wrong, but different from the composer's hands.

[NihilNominis]

Slava tvoie, Boze, slava tvoie.

[edreika]

=/ Mi apreciación es que lamentablemente la interpretación de la soprano es muy pobre en matices, sobre todo en dinámica. Es triste pues estamos hablando de profesionistas =/

[tamerlano]

The soloists kind of suck, no? She barfs up the beginning of the piece pretty badly.

[onionpizza]

Hey, the woman who plays "quia respexit" missed some notes and made up some. She chose to be creative at the wrong place wrong time. Since JSB is not here to throw his wig at her, $10 fine:-)

[NihilNominis]

Would be a waste of a wig. At any rate, Koopman's magnificent choir more than compensates.

[NihilNominis]

I love the way Bach wrote the end of 04, beginning it as he did the other segments, but cutting it off so shortly. It's as if he wanted to say, "I could have done this a million times".

[BarGiuli]

Alfredo Bernardini for president.

[xKiyohime]

Ara, My Freshman class chorus is singing the bach magnificat. :)

[lolols]

ive sang this, it is an amzing piece !

[DarkGadjika]

she sings awful, i sang it too, but better!!!!

[DarkGadjika]

ba da prost mai canta fumeia , ce dreaq , macar sa-i dea cineva o oglinda, ca sa vada ce boccie e, manca-v-ash !!!

[Arab0]

tu te uiti la femeie sau la interpretat?