Bach. Cantata BWV 61. 1

[felixnauta]

The audio sounds excessively compressed.

El audio suena excesivamente comprimido.

[jjuan54]

i am not luteran, nor catholic but, the only way you're gonna construct such a

cathedral, a monument of divine proportions wich is how most composers and musicians,( and of course people like me that only admires the music) see all Bach's work, is by a deep religious, or spiritual inspiration, i personally think, being a genius is not enough, bach's music is something beyond that, that's the reason he's at the top of all western music.

[campososwaldo]

God really exists thanks to Johann Sebastian Bach!

[SiebenbuergerSxn]

This performance is a little slow and, at this pace, loses some of the joy that Bach was likely trying to convey with this coomposition.

[Judingo]

@vdamionov

Bach considered himself hungarian or so i read in some book about nothing.

[anhatinum1]

piękne

[legendbach]

Bach, the best of all times, no doubt.

[rveiagol]

BACH....No comments...

[vivascargill]

surpassingly beautiful and as he always wrote "for the glory of God"

[susanauruguay1]

MARAVILLOSO. COMO TODO LO DE BACH.

[vivascargill]

Bach was God's humble servant.

[UbuntuBird]

Bach is just amazing! oh man!

[basjo1987]

Bach did believe in God. And did put SDG (Soli Deo Gloria) under a lot of his compositions. I believe in God too.

God gives the Gifts He wants, to who He wants to. But to everyone who ask Him, he wants to give the Gift of believe, and love.

[wcbroccoli]

@basjo1987

Many people in Bach's time appended SDG to their writings!

When I attended a Catholic parochial school, the nuns made us do the this!

It's just something we, and Bach, were taught to do, But we didn't invent the idea of adding "SDG", and neither did Bach!

[basjo1987]

@wcbroccoli If you listen to His cantata's: The feeling that bach express with the music. Or if you listen to the opening Choir of the John Passion, and feel how deep it is. Then it is very hard to say that God doesnt mean something for Bach (i know you didn't say that). And when i listen to his music, i think he wrote the SDG from his hearth.

[wcbroccoli]

@basjo1987 Everyone in Bach's time was religious. Religion was regulated and enforced by the state. Local citizens of the town were taxed to maintain the local church(es), church instruments, the clergy, town and church musicians. Large towns like Leipzig supported a Latin school (e.g., the St. Thomas School) to train boys to perform church music. The young Bach himself was trained in a Latin school! It was a very different time with regard to the function of religion in society.

[jusitke07]

@wcbroccoli In other words, for those who didn't have the option to support religious organizations were forced to by the local authorities/Gov't anyway?

[wcbroccoli]

@jusitke07 Under the Peace of Augsburg treaty of 1555 German princes were allowed to select either Lutheranism or Catholicism within the domains they controlled. Subjects, citizens, or residents who did not wish to conform to the prince's choice were given a period in which they were free to migrate to different regions in which their desired religion had been accepted. Generations of Bachs had been Lutherans. Religion was taught in the schools & imposed top down.

[wcbroccoli]

@jusitke07 You have to understand that church canatas were composed to serve the liturgy of a particular congregation. The sermon would be preceded and followed by a cantata. The chorales included would be the traditional favorites of the congregation. Cantatas were not composed as concert hall entertainment or abstract works of art. Bach didn't tour the country giving concerts of church music.

[wcbroccoli]

@jusitke07 This particular cantata was composed when Bach was organist and concermaster at the ducal court in Weimar (1708-1717). The only audience would have been the two co-reigning dukes, their families and guests, in the Wilhelmsburg palace church. The court musicians were highly skilled, and Bach was well rewarded, financially, paid more than his predecessors and eventually, as much as the capellmeister.

[bersa888]

@basjo1987 : I agree with you 100 %. Bach's music was informed, inspired and motivated by his deep faith. But it does not follow that God was actually there to guide his hand ;-) Don't get me wrong, of course you can believe that if you are religious, but for me and many others, Bach was "simply" (that's the rub) the greatest musical mind who ever was, without which all of his honest and true faith in God, praying and training wouldn't have been enough to write what he actually wrote :-)

[bersa888]

The greatest composer who ever walked the Earth.

[mamadeus081]

I completly agree. He is more than a man ,but less than a god!!!

[mamadeus081]

We don't have be a bad species to recognize we have limits.

[basjo1987]

He is just a man, but recieve a huge amount of talents from God :-)

[meekosara]

Just because you say it is wrong doesn't make sense either. God gives everyone gifts. It is up to you to find and use them not him. We have free will and have been given choices. The intellect is not asleep just aware and open to many ideas and not just what can be seen. It is amazing the snobbery and the insulting manner of those who do not believe in God show for those who do. God fearing people are stupid or brainwashed....who brainwashed you with these feelings?

[luv2sing1619]

agree he was still a pretty mad composer and WaY AhEaD of his time

[meekosara]

Oh my........actually I am a very accomplished musician and I do know and see the tricks that Bach and let's face it all musicians use. I don't agree that Bach was the greatest musician who ever walked on earth....that is another debate completely. I also think that Bach was only human and should only be seen as that and nothing greater. I don't necessarily want to debate the merits of God, because you are allowed your views and I acknowledge them. I think that his is not the place for debate.

[NimbleTurtle13]

@meekosara Hilarious. Few major Classical composers (Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven) and all Romantic composers learned a great deal on composition techniques just from this one man alone. Brahms always waited for a copy of new Bach pieces because apparently, "there you'll find everything". I agree that we should not worship Bach like a God but that attests to the power of his music.

[rveiagol]

I think is the great composer who ever exists in the universe...

[bersa888]

@rveiagol : you are probably right :-)

[quinn244]

@bersa888 amen to that.

[angelo21556]

molto bello coro .. orchestra ... evideo ... grazie

[oo0lxl0oo]

Sorprendente; hasta en la calidad del video. Gracias amigos.

[ugahur]

Wow... Divine... everlasting!!

[saturne46]

Le choeur Arnold Schönberg est magnifique?

[Krohm64]

Impresionante. Expresivo en todos los sentidos...! qué pasada...