Bach - Brandenburg Concertos No.1 - i: Allegro Moderato

[AlexViolaPlayer]

Quick question. What are those two guys playing? The two dudes (one has an ear pierce). What instruments are they playing and do they have any valves?

[MACFAILS]

@AlexViolaPlayer They are called Natural Horns. They use their hand positions inside the bell to change the notes along with their lips like modern brass players. The advancement of valves has greatly change the modern french horn (rotary valves for example).

[Diebattou]

Face it... Bach is for old people. Don´t spoil our "misfit teenager" proud.

[Bronheta]

@Diebattou You should read about Hermes.

[EcuadorFreak]

@Diebattou Your comment fazes no one; Pride.**

[Nekomarusanji]

es hermoso este concierto :D

[angelvgiobbi]

PLACER PARA MI ESPÍRITU...

[pasqualinoilbello]

why gay??

[valnuke]

0:20 gay detected

[ahain141]

@valnuke Ah, yes, indeed. The Corno Da Caccia: the most homosexual of all the baroque brass instruments.

[NoiseOverMusic]

@ahain141

I think it's a reference to his piercing.

[1isaacmusic]

Yep, best way to wake up ~ Birdfeeder at my window, joint in my hand, steaming cup of Cuban coffee, and Bach.with a sunrise :)

[martinjpedrozaprez]

Bach is the Big Bang of the music

[abandeli]

@martinjpedrozaprez

Totally agree!!! History of Music would be something very different without Bach.

[BsBellamy]

metronome power

[nezalrock]

magnificent poetry of bach

[mattjostr]

props to the cinematographer for pulling this together quite nicely

[throwscats]

Ahhh, internet anonymity, bringing out the worst in people since Al Gore invented the internet.

[phewwhataloonie]

The violinists should wear safety glasses.

[jasmine543210]

How does the first violinist play with her chin so far above the violin?! I would struggle to keep control.

[coolsnak3]

those horns kick my ass all over

[mahelander]

I was curious why the horns don't have any valves and controls. It turns out that they modify the tone by putting their hand in the opening.

[mill0625]

@mahelander This piece was composed in the 1720s, and the valved horn wasn't invented until the 1810s (and wouldn't be generally accepted for many decades after that). In order to change pitch, horn players of the time relied entirely on their lips, as well as the technique you described, known as the "hand-horn" technique.

[BreakingNRSTV]

Wheres the 'love' button?

[123gas321]

Whats the instrument that the woman at the front right has? 

[dirthauler8]

@123gas321 basson, or bass oboe

[mathgeek007]

@123gas321 it's a baroque bassoon

[gizemtimbuktu]

wonderful :)

[esamiga]

Just fantastic, absolutely beautiful.

[zhersheys]

I listen to classical, and progressive metal... anything that takes skill. Screw country and rap (crap).

[KennyParkz]

@zhersheys lol! rap is an artform in itself... you're just being ignorant... and country? maybe all that taylor swift is talentless but if you listen to banjo/country music it's pretty intense...have you heard the fingerpicking on that thing?

[zhersheys]

@KennyParkz No, the poetry of rap is an art form, the rap that we have now is not poetry. As for country, I have no logical reason for that disliking besides my own opinion. Finger-picking doesn't take as much skill as it sounds like anyway. I'm a professional musician for 13 years and support my family of 4 on that very well, I might have a little more qualification than you do to judge what is talent in music and what is not.

[KennyParkz]

@zhersheys well i can agree with you on how bad rap has become but just because you dont like a certain genre doesnt mean you can say it is talentless....you're a professional musician huh ? what do you do? what qualification do you have that gives you the right judge a whole genre and say it is talentless?

[glakagz]

this guy Bach must have been a genius...

[ShelbyRenee818]

Bach is timeless.

[LULLYxoxo]

This is THE best BB concerto. o.-

[pilotoatomico]

I knew this series of concertos before any other teenager did.

[andsowecamefromspace]

@pilotoatomico

I don't know about that, man. Bach died a looong time agoooooo.

[DestroyerofSouls666]

I wish all the alarm clocks in the world were set to classical music!!!!

And I'm a metalhead!

[sbdude101]

@DestroyerofSouls666 Yeah it's a little easier to wake up to classical as opposed to some "monster" vocals screaming "diiiiiiiiiiiiiee". :)

[nezalrock]

this is a real masterpiece

[Sophiestelle]

It is like make love in higher level; insted a bed, they have de «Eter»!

[Eumirnp]

Como me encanta esta!!!! i love this!!!! yeahh!!!!

[daseladi]

Bach was of course a genius- but no talent ll lead you to such levels of musical beauty without enormous work and teachings and hearing of others.

Nowadays, after two hours of fiddling with a computer program you consider yourself a musician:) Even better- you let the program compose -and call that music then -techno:) LOLOLOL!:)))

The so-called music -industry is making complete idiots of the people. Bad about kids -cannot defend themselves- others that listen to such - serves them right.

[MrPanetela]

Bach was to music as Da Vinci was to painting. Now, with good teaching and equiptment, many can learn to paint excellantly, but there will always be one Da Vinci. The same holds true for music. Todays simple rhythms, simple lyrics songs can never compare with the likes of Bach. To ask the majority to sit and relearn how to listen to classical music would be too much to ask for. Kings eat banquets while peasants eat crackers, let them enjoy their crackers.

[gentilguy]

there were lots of small musicians, probably playing anoying tunes like the bard in Asterix, but they didn't write their music or because history only keeps the best, that's what we have left from this era, and we were lucky to have Bach's compositions, I think he was almost forgotten after his death.

[Sergiosteady]

God created Bach. Bach somehow created music.

[Pretendkid]

The July 4th fireworks are going on here in Manhattan, NYC, and I'm blaring this because this is way more festive than Katy Perry's "Fireworks" or band music

:D

[seriedad03]

muy buena la interpretacion lastima que no es perfecta a lastima pero sigue siendo bonita.

[nixxon60]

Poor people all dressed in black.......

[OhNoyate]

NOT EVEN THE HOUSES THAT COMMISSIONED THIS MUSIC GOT TO SEE THIS.

[OhNoyate]

LOOK AT THE STRING PLAYERS! THEY ARE DANCING!

[jezmuff]

Damn this is such a fine recording!

[LULLYxoxo]

The finest of Bach <333333333333

[webytime]

omg. I'm fresh out of the womb and I like this music.

[jliverstone]

Bach>Rappers

[MrTweeel]

the Brandenburg Cocerto group is my kind of noise... Is there any truth to what I read somewhere that these were composed in the common country style of his time? That would explain my loving it so much,since I know so little of many other composers other than the big three...Bach, Beethoven,Mozart

[theEmperorsTarot]

@MrTweeel It is true with Bach you hear the German style of Baroque which can be heard with many of the more known and great composers, I love Bachs work and consider them some of the best, other composers I would recomend you listen too, to get a taste of the french style look up Jean Baptiste Lully and Jean Phillipe Rameau. Other German composers you might be interested in are of course another biggy Franz Joseph Haydn and Heinrich I F von Biber is an amazing composer

[kezza140884]

period instruments! oh how i heart this

[TheHumannBee]

If 'potheads' make good music then I won't discriminate. That being said, I agree that Bach is a genius (of course).

[Rick6315]

every person in that orchestra is more talented anything on the radio or tv

god luv um...

[saauden]

quienes serán esas 28 personas a quienes no le gusta esto...están en el hueco de la ignorancia¡¡

[jahng0]

this song sucks

[maurosalsa1973]

La genialidad y la disciplina representadas en cada una de las obras de JS BACH

[Jonahman10]

I love the horns!

[CalifornianGuitarist]

@melomane49 Who's the conductor in this case? The woman at the far left?

[melomane49]

@CalifornianGuitarist

The conductor, it would seem, is the 2nd violinist from the left.

[Tenifus]

I'm proud to say I'm a teenager and I have this music on my iPod.

[kenijaru]

@Tenifus you shouldn't be proud of it, but rather... the rest of the world, regadless of age, should be ashamed of not doing the same thing.

[andsowecamefromspace]

@Tenifus

great, there's a comment from someone just like you on any video of a piece composed for orchestra.

that's a lot of people. so i suggest you save it. most people who watch these videos also regularly listen to the music from the composer.

[chopper84a]

@Tenifus i'm proud to say I'm a newborn baby, still covered in amniotic fluid, and I have this on my iPod.

Please stop this "I'm young but I listen to art music, please like me" comments. Just stop it.

[simple382]

@chopper84a

He didn't ask for likes, they were given to him.

[chopper84a]

@simple382

[chopper84a]

@simple382 fair point. feel bit bad now.

[KoKMovies]

@chopper84a umad?

[KennyParkz]

@chopper84a you took the words right out of my mouth lol god im sick of stupid kids being all proud that they listen to classical music and think they're special coz of it.....

[rovemcanus1]

@chopper84a My potential offspring swimming in my nuts vibrate in joy to the sounds of Johann Sebastian Bach.

[ModernNorseman]

@rovemcanus1 ROFL!  fucking brilliant comment

[Catandthespoon]

@chopper84a Finally someone said it! Good comment - let's hope it has the desired effect.

[VerdeckterVermittler]

@Tenifus iPod? I pood.

[Faidros62]

@Tenifus I am an old guy and I listen to this musik even though I don´t have an iPod.

[Ryndika]

@Tenifus lol

[HyperIntake96]

THIS IS ART

[c03storm]

Thank goodness for classical music, i do not think that i could survive without it.

Thank you for the wonderful music.

[CalifornianGuitarist]

@hgw0601

No conductors in Baroque period.....I see. But Mozart lived in the late 18th century and there are conductors for performances of his symphonies...although granted Mozart is after the Baroque era.

[hgw0601]

Was is das nun? German folk music?? Lach mir nen Ast, wenn ich den Rest hier les! Jawollo, und Göthe war ein Frankfurter Lokaldichter oder was?? Manchmal hab ich das Gefühl, dass die Leute von Bach so viel Ahnung haben, wie ein Krokodil vom Weihnachtsbaum! ^^

[CalifornianGuitarist]

There's no conductor.....and where are they playing?

[hgw0601]

@CalifornianGuitarist

In the Baroque Era it wasn´t supposed that there is a conductor. The tradition of conducting is an invention of the 19th century. Ensembles like the FBO strictly interpreting Bach as close as possible to the historical traditions. And there´s NO conductor in the 1720s.

I´m not sure, but I think the vanue is in Freiburg.

[melomane49]

@CalifornianGuitarist

There is always a conductor, but not someone standing in the middle of the orchestra, with his back to the public.

In the baroque era, the conductor was usually one of the musicians, sometimes the keyboard player, sometimes (like here) one of the violinists.

But there are examples, in the baroque era, of conductors. Lulli conducted by stamping the ground with a huge stick. It is reported that he died of gangrene after he hit his foot by mistake while conducting.

[ThunderAppeal]

When they arent around trying to kill Jewish people the germans can produce some very nice music and cars.

[PunkSkaterSkye]

finally an orchestra who's members rock the fuck out!!!

[hanselarrieta]

yes,yes.

[jrubensbrasil]

simply the best

[mahela1993]

audio quality doesn't seem too good.. but thanks for posting.

[0571352]

Wonderful!!!! Simply brilliantness 

[jezmuff]

Brilliant! Bravo! This has always been my favourite concerto; I think because of the ensemble. I've never heard a better performance either!

[3lm3r]

parece la vecindad del chavo cuando se pusieron a tocar

[Pretendkid]

CLASSY

[TimTrOn3000]

Is this performed on period instruments?

[robertrstevens]

Das tief ausgeschnittenes Kleid (0.40 Zeitpunkt) hat mir sehr gefällt!

Es lebe Bach!

[Fordrasyle]

Pure awesome, & looks like the violinists are having fun :P

[Duckyhunter]

Happy birthday, Bach.

[flogesopp16]

Bach was a genius. Music WAS previously in time MADE by geniuses. Music now a days is made by potheads and retards.

[olszymon]

@flogesopp16

Lutoslawski, Grisey, Varese and many more... were geniuses too. So I cannot agree.

[TheEriekayaker]

@flogesopp16 : have to say you are absolutely correct. This music lifts you up up up. I can't imagine the genius it takes to write this.

[MegaBoris45]

@flogesopp16 agree totally!! however, you left out degenerates, perverts and shameless hedonists.

[DrArtist08]

@flogesopp16

Ever tried listening to Emily Bear? 

[soryy708]

@flogesopp16 Hey, watch your generalization - I'm a music maker too you know.

[rockdrumr429]

@flogesopp16 You know not life; or you would know to cherish music, as life, in ALL it's glorious forms!

[Sylverling]

@rockdrumr429 Yes. While acknowledging that there are, also, decidedly unglorious forms of music.

[Sylverling]

@flogesopp16 And, in a stunningly similar vein, music WAS previously critiqued by potheads and retards, so music nowadays...

[colourfulwithaU]

@flogesopp16

Music is still made by geniuses at the same fair rate that it was in the common practice period. There are many mediocre classical composers - just look at Kuhlau.

[Thetranceman672]

@flogesopp16 your ignorance of modern music is astounding. it's not hard to brownnose Bach and other Classical masters. it IS hard to discover - and accept - the genius of todays composers.

Listen to some new MUSIC. learn a thing or two about MUSIC.

[semperwifi1]

@Thetranceman672 I'm always on the lookout for good avantgarde music of any genre. Who are some modern composers you recommend? Thanks.

[JWayMusic]

@flogesopp16 so probably you're not a musician yourself? thanx for the compliment anyway :-)

[aacochran]

@flogesopp16

HEY! On behalf of potheads everywhere, I gotta say: don't make fun of the retards, man.  Not cool.

[trumpetmaner]

@flogesopp16 Is Eric Whitacre a pothead and a retard?

[NiclasThobaben]

@flogesopp16 Its a shame that there arent composers who are famous and composing in the old style. Im one, but Im not famous...its a shame that this music dies...

[mim0o0pyon]

@flogesopp16 yanni is not retard lol and yet he's genius and modern musician ..(.and i love bach's music so much :))

[zeroflowne]

@flogesopp16 I don't know what's worse - that you made this ignorant, judgmental comment, or that it got so many thumbs up.

[Smiilez03]

@zeroflowne it's a shame that such a comment got so many thumbs up. it's so stupid -.-

[gingijumper]

@flogesopp16 yeah zeroflowne is rite music is different now but that doesnt make it worse!

[tadtomd]

@flogesopp16 And that is exactly what people before said about Bach. I too love this music, but that is no reason to put down the genius that undeniably exists today.

[liniaalverrekijker]

@flogesopp16 I don't agree. John Adams and Arvo Pärt are still composing.

[HerrWarja]

@flogesopp16 You can't really compare baroque music/classical music with modern styles. There are bad and good music of all genres.

[pokefan1994]

@flogesopp16 and little girls people think are boys

[simple382]

@flogesopp16

How do you know pot heads and retards are not geniuses?

[CuttyKitty1]

@flogesopp16 It's the times not the people. There is no way that people became stupid all of the sudden. Can one be truly creative in a rat race? I don't think so. People should be allowed to work at their own pace, but we are all like slaves or robots. We now pay the consequences.

[siffbart]

@flogesopp16 maybe if you stop listening charts it will change your opinion. There are still geniuses :-)

[9UnneccesaryPerson4]

@flogesopp16 What's the difference?

[Tcc80s]

@flogesopp16 LOL funny :) But I mean there are SOME talented people out there...just not many :)

[lucia08111]

ゴルツさんいいなぁ。

フライブルグバロックオーケストラの演奏は落ち着いて聴ける。

[Giuseppe6281]

"Noi ascoltiamo della grande musica e i nostri dolori sono parte di qualcosa al di là della nostra comprensione, e così infinitamente preziosi.

[NightWalker47]

I love it! My orchestra is doing the Ghosts of Brandenburg by Richard Meyer, but I hope we can do this song soon.

[billybloggins]

I am biased, being a Brit, but I can recommend the Academy of St Martin in the Fields as doing very lively and musically accurate version of all the Brandenburgs - I have them on CD and they put the bubbles back in your Champagne when they start playing!

[RobinHautbois]

Well, I'm Canadian and I have to agree with FanOfJanis! Although Canada is very well equiped with Taffelmusik Baroque Orchestra, Aradia Ensemble and Orchestre Baroque de Montreal, this has to be the liveliest interpretation that I've ever heard! I also have to commend them for playing "straight", not to many weird stylistic gimmicks that other European ensembles have used.

[labmonkey1996]

This is magnificent. I am so happy to have stumbled across this little piece of musical heaven. Gracias!

[Haaglander]

Fantastic

[Fukkensaved]

Really love the polyphonic texture. I tend to enjoy songs like this more after repeated listening. There's so much to pay attention to, you still keep hearing new parts of the melody even after the fourth or fifth time around.

[TheCrenshawpunch]

perfectly

[PhysicalsimForever]

This doesn't sound like F major.....

[Sylvain894]

Strange music !!! I would never imaginating making that kind of late baroque stuff, but maybe easier or humanier ones. This one with the winds makes me think of Water music by F.G.Haendel ! Is it coincidency or true fact ? Bach did that number for a madgrave(right pronounciation??) guy who never played this music; cause maybe the skill was too high ??

[iamthe3rd]

That's my living room

[8MasterX]

Bravo!

[Gunoung]

I have a personal playlist of all 6 concertos made out of your videos, and its all I listen too while doing homework. Thanks for these great uploads. :)

[kocsisattila1]

absolutely amazing, better than the MAK version from Goebel, and the version from Bach Collegium Japan (Suzuki). This is very autenthic and fresh in the same time.

AMAZING!!!

[shadowalker00]

for anyone that bashes lady gaga she has excellent production, failure to recognise this just shows you don't have a clue about music and listen to classical in a failed attempt to appear sophisticated (i think her music is shit for the record just making a point)

[SensoryOssuary]

@shadowalker00

if by "excellent production" you mean compressing everything to sound as loud as possible on the radio, synthetic instruments, and rampant dependence on autotune, i guess your right.

[shadowalker00]

@SensoryOssuary yes actually :)

[MisTheMusa]

che meraviglia!!!!!!

[TheEmperor9985]

At 0:56 the violin woman on the left tries to poke the eyes out of the man next to her.

That's so unfriendly.. Erbarme dich !

[miffy3698]

guys i need help in this pience how do i desrcibe the harmony in this piece is it a unison consonant dissonant major minor chromatic or in parts

[NSProductions1432]

Is it just me... because every time I watch this, the tempo goes faster?

[K3Horn]

that horn player is amazing!!!!

[fishcop444]

is it me, or is the sound distorted? otherwise, nice performance, great band!

[classicbach1]

I love bach.I think Bach taked revelation from heaven and composed it.

Thank you.

[Mazarbul]

@classicbach1 You know what they say about heaven? That when God's awake angels listen to Bach, but when He's not looking they're listening to Mozart. ;)

[royb98]

@classicbach1 you mean took

[deruntergang1996]

@classicbach1 this is what people always hated and will hate... but there always will be those who love it and will love it in the future HOERA FOR BACH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[andrewhowes101]

@classicbach1 that seems demeaning to bach's natural and hard earned skills as a composer, to say 'this is too good for a human to have done'. -- I'm not denying the mastery, only the method.

[NSProductions1432]

This is better then the shity music out now.

[101aua]

THe violin on the left looks like shes holding the bow way above where ur supposed to be.

[AnnaM0322]

@101aua The higher bow hold is an acceptable baroque practice. Since German baroque bows curved the opposite direction of bows today playing with a higher hand position can help create the musical effect of a baroque bow =]

[InbictaProductionzZ]

@AnnaM0322 if you look cautiously, you'll see they are using baroque bows, which are curved outwards.

[InbictaProductionzZ]

@101aua its exactly supposed to be held like that. it's a bow technique, which allows swifter movements and a great spiccato

[NSProductions1432]

A lot of people in my school make fun of me because I like classical music, but without that, there would be no music...

[Max0Inq]

@NSProductions1432 Don't desert you passion because of some retards! During 3 years of my high school education I was treated like some loon nerd with no life as I liked music other than rap/metal (with respect for some bands). When I finally attended musical academy this year I feel like I'm taking a breath after years of suffocating. People who laught at you probably won't gain nothing from life - you will.

[NSProductions1432]

@Max0Inq Haha, thanks! I'm just saying that classical music is better then the 'Music' today, because every song from Bach tells a story...

[Thetranceman672]

LMAO! check out 0:40. first two violins...



[TourismPicks]

This is almost as good as Lady Gaga

[roundtable5]

@TourismPicks who's Lady Caca ?

[acc96build]

@TourismPicks At least I haven't listened to her... I don't hear good things about her.

[hippojuice23]

@TourismPicks you're almost not as good as Gaga but worse than you think!

[Lit0z1]

Cuando me dijeron que bach existia fue cuando escuche a Bach, y fue cuando me volvio el gusto por la música!!