Bach - Cantata BWV 140 - Peter Schreier - Sleepers wake

[danielito1979]

makes my day, every day



[wishcraft4u2]

The top rated comment used to be the german lyrics to this. Now the two top comments I see are two comments by the same person, stating both that "20 people have hearing problems", once in English, once in Spanish. The former has 26 thumbs up and the other one 16.

I'm downvoting both. Can everybody please reserve their most common denominator style behaviors for video mixes of sonic the hedgehog and super mario cartoons?

[bassbass99able]

@wishcraft4u2 you put it so properly. 

[ismylife38]

@wishcraft4u2 It's portuguese

[wishcraft4u2]

@ismylife38 Ok I believe you.

[BrattyTbone]

beautiful rendition <3

[AndonElahi]

Twenty people are from hell!

[norastorgarlensiu]

Nolako, norainoko eta zenbaterainoko bakea dakarren gogorat ahaire hunek!

[bovenzee]

i couldn't say if Bach this ment to be faster - who knows? - it is beautiful!

[Raynor9X9]

@bovenzee Bach was a fan of variation.

[masonbarge]

He's not going to wake anybody up at that speed!

[krystovai]

@masonbarge

anche io concordo!!

[mariliamar]

@masonbarge well, the process of awakeing depends on each indivual´s rythm...I guess..

[SqueezeMyLemonBabe]

@masonbarge He's not literally referring to sleep.

It is based upon religion. Wake from your slumber in darkness.

[GAIASDREAMER]

It is a lot slower but it is far more romantic. Thank you for sharing this here.

Gaia.

[Sathoreas]

A bit to slow, but it's Bach, so its beautiful.

[gagga1213]

I agree, too slow

[bassbass99able]

@gagga1213 I dunno, I really like when some of Bach is preformed romanticly.

[antbughakeboy]

could someone tell me how the horn and oboe contribute to this work?

[britandveg]

@antbughakeboy They are symbolic of a peasant wedding :)...that's why trumpets are nowhere to be found in Cantata 140 :D.

[renumeratedfrog]

I invited my friends from IRC's Undernet #suicide channel to listen to this... None of them responded so far....

[MusicVideoLooker]

Please, too slow !

[zoxz9]

most of the time i listen to rock. But I have to admit, this is real music, so pure.

[randomvidsman2011]

@essenciademusica 20 peope do not have hearing problems but head problems, since they do not like the fact that the video is in 240p (not about the music)

[ghspinelli]

Eu acho que se Deus escutar essa Música ele chora! acho que foi o momento em que eu me senti mais triste na minha vida!!! é bem a imagem do video mesmo. Terrível e sublime.

[essenciademusica]

@ghspinelli Que linda descrição vc. fez de meu video!!! Parabéns!

[EchoTrain22]

20 people need to be punched in the face.

[TuneBlender]

Bach was made when god tried to divide by zero! x-D

[manthelittleearthgod]

I listened to this incessantly as a teenager.

[UniversalFlyer]

Just brilliant & wonderful. Can't stop listening this...

[jimmm7339ki3456]

It's Morning Somewhere!

[stgarc]

Listening to this while studying is damn near like taking adderall

[sniperquasi]

@nequillim yeah i'd agree, but it's impractical to do so.

love your vids btw.

[connorjames085]

is it me or does the music not fit the image?

[jrssjdca]

@connorjames085 It probably doesnt, but it doesn't matter. Wonderful soothing music to go with a nice piece of art

[Payloadz]

Bravo 8D.. 

[essenciademusica]

20 people have hearing problems

[jensbuhler]

@essenciademusica Actually this is 240p, maybe you have hearing problems?

[seponvi]

@essenciademusica agree !!!!

[easyguy4u]

@essenciademusica

not hearing problems. but this interpretation was recorded at an era when one had no idea how to play bach and Baroque correctly. so they played it perfectly in the way they knew: romantic. that was perfect these days. I remember my Frst Passion after Mathew 40 years ago. wonderful. but if I hear the recording today it sounds a bit strange. I think thats what these "do not likes" mean.

[essenciademusica]

20 pessoas tem problemas de audição!

[tessaming]

@essenciademusica concordo!

[LyricBent]

The most beautiful music in the world, bar none.

[passepartout6]

@nequillim Oh right, because it's hurting you so much

[DavePerry2012]

Why is Justin Bieber mentioned and argued about in EVERY GODDAMNED MUSIC VIDEO ON YOUTUBE?

[cti1976]

@DavePerry2012 because recording companies pumps millions of bucks to promote him

[DavePerry2012]

@cti1976 Perhaps, but I still think it's turned into a neurotic obsession on YouTube. I mean, come on---an argument about Bieber on Bach video??? We have hereby reached the realm of the absurd.

[cti1976]

@DavePerry2012 I think they bought a lot of script bots to post so many comments about Bieber. The youtube is full of promoting ads for him and ppl wich responds to that comments also advertise this innocent looking young guy

[DavePerry2012]

@cti1976 Sounds plausible.

[jrssjdca]

@DavePerry2012 Yep, on Country, Jazz, Heavy Metal, Classic Rock, etc. He was even mentioned on a polka video. He's just ungodly unpopular, and unfortunately many choose to make a comparison to him and the video they're watching. His name lives on Bach videos. I'd prefer folks just leave him out of it and enjoy and talk about the merits of the video

[Exit89Drums37]

@nequillim You have got to be THE biggest fucktard on the face of earth...Lil Wayne??? Are you fucking shitting me? One of the most UNTALENTED bags of ass to disgrace the face of earth. Lady Gaga writes some catchy shit, but it's not genius. And BEIBER? What the fuck? That kid is a complete pussy and sucks huuuuuge floppy dinosaur penis. His balls aint even dropped yet and he tries to play himself off as the fucking love doctor. Oh wait, excuse me, USHER writes all his shit. Fucking dipshit

[MyBelovedIsJesus]

@nequillim Can't tell if stupid, or just trolling.

[noiseinthevoid]

Richter is the greatest.

[susanitalugano]

DUB...so schön

[TechnikAlsace]

@susanitalugano Bewundernswert, wie Bach doch Spiritualität, Intellekt und Musik verknüpfen kann...

[Azpatix]

Can't stop listening to this.... It's so beutiful!

[godsloved3]

Why the heck is there an image of a sad angel? Is she waking up? lol

[tonixb]

VVBeatiful, it's God thoughs?

[Azpatix]

Damn... Bach made so many pieces, and yet some are not in my taste, others are the most beutiful pieces of music I have heard.

This one is certainly going to my list. Im only in the beginning of the BWV list (the Cantatas) and it feels like it's going to take forever, and that the cantatas ins't as good as the other ones. But they certainly are at least equally as good as the rest of Bach's pieces, but still. They are not so popular and well known. That's to bad.

[BorgKing001]

u people do realize that all Bieber comments are from trolls and don't deserve a response, just set back and enjoy :)

[bassbass99able]

@BorgKing001 finally a person who realizes that!!

[wishcraft4u2]

I know most people here are in good faith, so allow me to explain something to you: people like nequillim are what is commonly known as "trolls". This means he posts comments on the internet that seem silly to himself but expects to get an outraged response to. This allows him to feel smarter than people because he is more cynical than them. Check out, for example, his one single youtube post. Its a "tip" on how to "hide secret files" in the recycling bin (which of course deletes them)

[lacouerfairy]

I always do my work while playing this. It's soothing and helps me concentrate.

[ReaIly]

One of Bach's marvels. 

[satchi123]

hey i think that biber is a genius...cz when i listen to him...he lifts my soul..and makes me experience all kinds of great emotions...what its my right...everything is subjective..even beauty.

[LiaSarah91]

@satchi123 If a song makes you happy, listen to it no matter what people say. But what's happening is people are becoming brainwashed into listening to whatever is played to them repeatedly on the radio,in the clubs, etc. There are songs I've heard that are complete rubbish but I like hearing them for the memories. Music can be about bringing back memories, which is nice, but then there's music that u can be amazed and touched by without ever having heard it before. Would Bieber's music do that?

[satchi123]

@LiaSarah91 of course bieber make me happy.

[asdf1231997]

@nequillim Hmm...let's picture it this way, you're finally down in your bed suffering, who would you choose? (Bieber who would just sing 'Baby' in a happy and inappropriate mood?) By the time you want him to shut up and you get so frustrated and throw your ipod on the floor, be careful that no one ROFLs at you :P (Go on, continue trolling classical...)

[whneo97]

@nequillim No offence, but you're retarded o.o

[Tsamnon]

Beautiful! 

[Sophiestelle]

I am in agreement with the people who think that the great brightness, beauty and deeph of this music, speak to us of a light that there is at the end of the dark tunnel!

[stargirlsusan]

only this can convince me that there is light in all the darnes, so life is worth living.

I must thive to be creative as the creator was.

[dixiedixie447]

@nequillim no hopefully we go back to how it was it back in the days of bach, beethoven, mozart and all the others

[pong224]

why are we talking about Justin Bieber and Lil' Wayne in a BACH video?! (FACEPALM)

[przebieglabrukiew]

Even here justin bieber comments. Why, oh why?!

Just wanted to say that Bach is perfect for studying :D I always find it much easier to focus with his music playing in the background

[aaron9099]

@przebieglabrukiew Compeltly agree, I love listening to classic music during studies, even more so when I'm studying philosophy or contemporary history...gets me in the mood I guess lol

[anotherhappyperson]

Would people please stop talking about Justin Bieber?

Both the haters and the lovers of him (or her if you seriously prefer it) are getting really annoying and clogging up you-tube.

[Alyss93]

@nequillim The artists you named are completely uncreative, with the same repetitive lyrics and chord progressions. Furthermore, a great deal of the pop songs today are derived from these compositions by "classical composers [who] are now dead" - without them, we would not have the music we have today.

Classical (and I use the term "classical" generically for Baroque, Romantic, etc.) composers explore a world of creativity and possibilities. They were unique in themselves, unlike artists today.

[SecondAgeOfReason]

I need to do a version of this piece. It's really great. For some reason it feels like I've died and am watching over my body or life or something.

[nbtothepower]

@SecondAgeOfReason lol great way of putting it! That describes my feelings exactly about this song.

[nbtothepower]

@nequillim you are one of the lowest scum on the earth if you say can somehow come to this video, smash Bach, and then say Lil Wayne is somehow better than classical composers. Classical music then was written for the intelligent and sophisticated. Trash like Lil Wayne has existed since Bach's time (though worse now) and they are never studied years later. You think Bach was "pop" music among the masses? Pop music is shit like you.

[bassbass99able]

You know whats awesome, bach once went to prison for hitting a guy over the head with a bar stool because the guy was talking crap. fact or myth, I choose to beleive that.

[Whisperlands]

@nequillim LOL You're kidding, aren't you?

[GustavAdolphusRex]

@nequillim Back in the days trolling meant something.

[Xodion413]

Calm down people, you're being trolled. Please learn to recognize it, and don't feed them your hate. It means they win.

Also, this piece is beautiful.

[Tenifus]

@nequillim Brain damaged? Look who's talking. And first off, this isn't classical, its baroque. All those "musicians" you just listed are disgraces to entertainment.

This music is history, so leave it alone if you don't like it.

Bach will live forever, those people are always no longer popular for no more than a few years ;)

[FXIX]

It's me or not? I saw many nequillim's (beiber fan) comment on every single beautiful music I clicked in; and this is Baroque, not classical!

[koosloop]

Zion hört die Wächter singen, das Herz tut ihr vor Freuden springen, sie wachet und steht eilend auf. Ihr Freund kommt von Himmel prächtig, von Gnaden stark, von Wahrheit mächtig, ihr Licht wird hell, ihr Stern geht auf. Nun komm, du werte Kron’, Herr Jesu, Gottes Sohn, Hosianna! Wir folgen all zum Freudensaal und halten mit das Abendmahl

[Leeurider]

@koosloop Everyone give this guy all your thumbs up. He's 9 comments below me. Do it NOW! Let's detrone that Justin Bieber shit for something useful (the lyrics)

[profesorsergio]

@koosloop Danke!.

[randomvidsman2011]

@koosloop WTF

[171timbo]

Beautiful



[Megollyen1]

@nequillim Oh really? We were still "savages" in Bach's time? I really hope this comment is a joke because I know for sure Justin Bieber and Lil Wayne will be forgotten completely within the next few years. Lady Gaga will probably be remembered forever because she's crazy. People have enjoyed this music for hundreds of years. Most modern music is completely forgotten in less than 10.

[Futuna26]

@nequillim I hate the way Youtube doesnt give me more down votes to put on comments like this.

[DarcyD04]

This is absolutely beautiful!  This masterpiece is also featured in "Mr. Holland's Opus" in the part where Cole starts directing and closes his eyes. I could listen to this all day.

[igotoohard]

@nequillim You're an idiot. All great contemporary music stems from classical music. That's where you get music theory. You're confused because you are ignorant/arrogant. So go ahead and enlighten yourself before you make comments that are innate. 

[000slimm000]

@nequillim your lack of  intelligence makes me amazed only a brain damaged person would consider Justin Bieber a genius.

[FXIX]

@000slimm000 I saw this fanboy/girl saturated in many classical music videos. If I see this beiber fan in real life, I will greet him/her, then walk away; you know why? because that beiber fan does not even deserve me to beat him/her up!

[MrEbertScientist]

@000slimm000 Don't feed the trolls.

[Mogansss]

@000slimm000 Isn't it obvious that he's trolling? o.O

[WangDugay]

@000slimm000 maybe he is a marketing genius?

[vonbiron]

Sounds to flat for my taste, and contrary to the name - a lullaby ;-p))))

[mangamad223]

Beautiful, the image is also amazing

[koosloop]

. Choral T Zion hört die Wächter singen, das Herz tut ihr vor Freuden springen, sie wachet und steht eilend auf. Ihr Freund kommt von Himmel prächtig, von Gnaden stark, von Wahrheit mächtig, ihr Licht wird hell, ihr Stern geht auf. Nun komm, du werte Kron’, Herr Jesu, Gottes Sohn, Hosianna! Wir folgen all zum Freudensaal und halten mit das Abendmal.

[Radioatividade1000]

Linda música! Johann Sebastian Bach é o maior compositor entre todos os mestres da "Arte dos Sons". Amém!

[rosario980]

La más hermosa melodia que he escuchado nunca,genial Bach.

[monday1429]

Wow. I think this is my favorite recording of this piece! Great orchestration.

[satchi123]

thers something about that picture thats great

[habville]

Beautiful....



[xpinay4lifex]

loved this. very beautiful and calming to listen to. thank you for uploading!

[davonairos]

wow

[ardiyiap]

Oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!!! I love this!!!!!! This is amazing!!!!!! Always is in my mind! WOWWW!!!!!! I would like to see an orchestra playing this! EXACTLY THE SAME!! :3

[kozzzh]

@ardiyiap

Yes, I wish Richter was still alive and visit my country, he's the great conductor

[ardiyiap]

@kozzzh I wish that too! :7 hehehe n_n

[dmg20011]

Such a beautiful piece... It's sad that most people don't respect art like this anymore. How did we get the awful music that we have today out of masterpieces like this?

[bassbass99able]

Classical Music is stronger than ever before actually, It's Now just being attacked by Pop noise.

[claudiogoldman]

I'd like to post a different vision of things.Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy,Stravinsky etc are a treasure of mankind. It's sad that some people never had the opportunity to upgrade their souls with this quality.

At the other side, there are also popular songs that are real treasures (for my taste of course) like The Beatles, Freddie Mercury, Elton John, Ray Charles, James Brown, and many many more... Sad again when sadly ignorant people listen to cheesy songs with no quality at all...

[sigam0]

this helps me remember that everything is going to be ok

[ericoschmitt]

whats the original key signature? my orchestra is playing that in G major but everywhere i see E flat major...

[ericoschmitt]

@ericoschmitt yes.. ive asked the bassist who works there, he transposed it "for easier playing"

thats for himself, because there are clarinets and other Bb tuned instruments playing it. and the flutes have to go too high, and frequently out of tune on the highest notes -.-

but i play cello, so its ok for me in any key

[astrolabius2]

Ta bueno pero para mi esta muy lento. Me acuerdo de una version de Robert Shaw que era mas agil . Tal vez porque sea la que primero escuche , esta me resulta algo empastada.

[anntoulhery]

sublime! Merci

[vbb148]

Wenn Sie die Musik durch Herrn Bach nicht verstehen, dann lassen Sie sich wahrheitsgemäß eine der Welten die größten Komponisten entgehen.

[AdmiralPrussia]

I think that god was speaking through Bach, I love CPE Bach, but this is something truly heilig! I wish there was music like this today, perhaps even in English.

[leonalopecico]

Lo escucho una y otra vez, y cada una de ellas me parece tocar el cielo con la punta de los dedos.

[CerebralCortexan]

No matter what happens tomorrow, or for the rest of eternity, I feel happy knowing I can die to this music...

[thoughtheglass]

and when we called out for another drink, the waiter brought a tray

[lettrism]

@thoughtheglass well spotted.

[StellaCadente271]

Wonderful

[XxMinka]

yay we played this song over the summer in our orchestra camp!!!!!!!!!!!!!! fun fun fun

[bassbass99able]

@XxMinka HOW DARE YOU CALL IT A SONG, YOU PIECE OF SHIT!

[XxMinka]

@bassbass99able hey now... what the hell is your problom.... Can I not express how much I like this song? well it is a song. and if you dont like what I call it I could give a damn. I wasnt put on this earth to please you. now, Id apreciate it if you didnt muck up this channel with your rude comments.

[ErnilEnNaur]

This is actually my favorite piece of music of all time. To me it sounds like Bach translated those moments when one's heart is filled with so much joy -or pain - that it seems you cannot go on, but you do into music. I know it's based on a parable, but to me it sounds like something completely different. Bach was - is - the greatest composer I have ever heard.

[tpno2005]

What a blessing Bach was to mankind. And I say that as an atheist.

[Kurtlane]

Goodness, how spoiled have people become.

I actually remember teh time when one could just listento music without videos. Or contemplate a painting or a photograph that didn't move. It was so much better, because one really listened to music, without having it interpreted for oneself by almost always a very mediocre video interpreter.

Who says everything has to move all the time? What is wrong with being quiet and still for a while?

(cont.)

[Kurtlane]

Same thing with tempo. Now, everyone but everyone is playing everything with breakneck speed, whether the piece demands it or not. What is this, a sport competition?

This piece right here is performed at the speed it requires. Karl Richter is a terrific conductor, he makes no mistakes. The problem is not in him but in so many listeners who get bored with anything under 100 mph.

The loss is theirs.

(cont.)

[Kurtlane]

Again, who says everything has to move all the time? What is wrong with being quiet and still for a while?

O tempora, o mores!

[TEgnoto89]

Wayyy too slow

[renumeratedfrog]

I love how two completely different melodies can combine into something that is even greater than the sum of their parts.

[Auser21]

Pqp!!! Eses era o ultimo lugar que esperaria ser mencionado esse Zé Ruela do Bieber...

[banginghats2]

This is just part four of a the amazing seven part cantata. How could he write something so profound in just a few days? Astonishing.

[ComposerKuandohan]

@banginghats2

The best things come from your heart.

It's easy to write something beautiful, you just have to let it happen.

Too many people worry about making something good when they really just have to write without worry.

Which is what Bach did, write without worry. :D (except for money. lol) Just be in the moment, that's great advice for anything.

Do what you love in the moment.

[torstvillinger]

Sir(s): If I may, at this Date and Time, state here, attest to the full, and question of Ye, namely, "What is It Which I now make here?" I make a Quiet Place for Us, as does the Eagle Which works by Night. He comes to know more and more of the Night Hours and of Others in the Dark of Night. And yet, "It Seems," how finely the Twilight falls upon the Wing and sets the feel for soft light from an Eagle-lit Candle in the Ruins of His Lone Acropolis. I have been here a long While, and I set It Out.

[krokigrygg]

The more music i get to know from Bach the more impressed i get...

[Josh15Rauh4]

We are singing this in school. Can not get enough of hearing this song.

[53531640]

@clau893 ... I would love that wallpaper too! Wish someone could send it to me in an email.



[pablosalaco]

Imagine the people at the church when they first heard this Cantata, Talk about a spiritual experience.

[paripe]

El legado de Bach es eterno. Su influencia en la historia de la música y en su evolución, decisiva. Bach exploró todos los ritmos, armonías, fugas, contrapuntos, escalas. Fué algo incomprendido en unos tiempos en que aparecían nuevas "modas". Sin embargo, en el laboratorio musical que era su mente, se cocían soluciones y propuestas que se adelantaban siglos a su tiempo. A veces, escuchando a Bach, percibimos algo que nos recuerda al jazz, a un solo de rock solista, a música cósmica o matemática.

[Giuzippper]

11 people fall asleep with that beatiful composition and pressed by accident the dislike =p

[beast543210]

this performance is beyond criticism. absolutely divine. there is some eternal quality in it. something that touches heaven.

[MrsClassicRockFan]

I'm in the orchestra at my school, and I'm playing the double bass to this song..it's a very beatiful piece and fun to play.

[andr3i68]

An immortal piece of art!...

[pantera577]

Cada dia que escucho a BACH vuelvo a descubrir la maravilla que creo y lo valioso de su existencia en nuestro mundo.

No hay duda de la gandeza de sus creaciones y su interminable legado.

[CharmedQuarkZ99]

Marvelous

[cmdxr]

esto es español

si alguien sabe que agogica dinamica y textura tiene esta pieza y me lo dice estaria muy agradecida

[torontoBluejays87]

@essenciademusica boo.

[Biff947]

This is one of Bach's longest-phrased melodies.

[AvanLotharion]

Do you know what 'asskickingsong' means? 

[TheAngelsong1]

this is known better by choiristers as zion hears the watchmans voices

[ImmotalDragon]

Not to make a super cliche comment or anything....but how could you possibly dislike this video?

[Forcroi]

@ImmotalDragon I did not push any buttons, but for my part, its way too slow...

[banginghats2]

@Forcroi I agree it would be better slightly faster. Still a good performance though.

[Ono42012]

@Forcroi i think the tempo is perfect remember its called sleepers wake not GET THE FUCK OUT OF BED LOLOLOLOL xD

[danielleosimpson]

@ImmotalDragon I "liked" it but honestly, this isn't a video - it's audio with a picture ;). A lot of people "dislike" that - not because the music's not great but this "should" be a video, not radio format.....

Daniel Léo Simpson

Composer

San Francisco

[xen05z]

@ImmotalDragon Isn't the picture just so pretty?

[cortem762]

@ImmotalDragon Because the dislike button exists and people click it for fun

[katlynnec]

@ImmotalDragon Does anyone know the name of this artwork - love it as much as the music!