Bach - Motet ''Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf'' BWV 226

[mrnnhnz]

Very nice performance of an excellent piece of music. Pretty impressive doing it without holding the score in front of you!

[mr4goalie]

Jungs, ihr habts einfach drauf...

[xdard1]

Herrlich - immer wieder ein Genuß!

[bachkirche]

By "three-part vocal composition" I assume you mean a composition with three sections. The piece itself is written for a double 4-part choir, and thus is in 8 parts.

[MrZigzag13]

It always amazes the wonders that young boys can do! It's brilliant, they are so talented, im sure the director is a great one! It was wonderful hearing them! Thank you! God bless!

[chaconazo7]

@MrZigzag13 I bet this boys don't have Wiis or Xbox or Playstation 3 at their homes and feel more pleasure singing these difficult music instead. Trully amazing and inspiring!!

[tritonusgesang]

Diese Interpretation ist beeindruckend schön! - Tendenz ist heute, die Töne nicht gar so klebend zu singen, sondern sie zügiger und kürzer zu nehmen, als noch vor 30 Jahren! -

Wie mag Bach diese Motette interpretiert haben? -

[wcbroccoli]

The "sticky" singing you refer may be an artifact of the resonant acoustics of the location.

How would Bach have interpreted this motet?

This performance includes continuo accompaniment. But the surviving performing parts from Bach's time include strings doubling the 1st choir and winds doubling the 2nd choir.

[MisterHowe]

For Bach (like in many Church ensembles today), instrumentation was often flexible depending on what was at hand. I think Bach would have been satisfied with this interpretation, as he would with a handful of others.

[wcbroccoli]

But what was "at hand" was much more than upright piano or Hammond organ found in many churches today.

Unlike church ensembles today, the large towns in Germany of Bach's time maintained Latin schools (e.g, the St. Thomas School) to train boys in music, singing and instruments to perform in the churches. These performers were not the volunteer church choir & musicians typical of today's churches.

Such towns also provided instruments. Bach himself studied in a Latin school.

[wskfan]

Es gibt eine aktuelle Aufführung dieser Motette.

Ich lade sie gerade hoch..:)

Offensichtlich ist sie sehr gefragt, wenn ich die Zahl der Aufrufe hier sehe. Von wann ist denn Deine Aufnahme, Editor ?

[PerrrfictKats]

LIke they say in the movie " Wizard of OZ" [1939] "JOLLY good time!!

[bachkirche]

Is that Bach's grave behind them in the center? The camera pans right over it.

[dseymour2001]

Yes, you can see the grave from 2:10 to 2:29. You see the baptismal font in front of altar. The grave is in front of the baptismal font in the floor in the center.

[wcbroccoli]

Not exactly. By the mid-19th century there was no gravestone or other marker to signify Bach's burial place. But for more than a century after his death, groups of St. Thomas scholars paid tribute to him annually on July 28. Tradition established that his grave was about 6 paces from the southern church door.

On Oct. 22, 1894 an oaken casket presumably containing his remains was exhumed. The remains were then reburied in a stone sarcophagus and placed in a tomb under the altar of St. John's...

[wcbroccoli]

...St. John's and the surrounding cemetery were destroyed in WW2, but the tomb presumed to contain Bach's remains was intact. In 1950, the 200th anniversary of Bach's death, the sarcophagus was transfered to the chancel of St. Thomas.

So what you see in this video is a tomb in the St. Thomas chancel that presumably contains Bach's remains. But this certainly is NOT Bach's original burial place or grave.

[IceBear86]

macht zum Singen auch einen riesen Spaß. Sehr anspruchsvoll (Bach und seine ewigen Koloraturen), aber in diesen Sound kann man sich einfach "reinlegen"....

[henksouders]

oh dear jolly good time

[gjroest]

Words of comfort, sung by a choir that sings this work very well! Sehr schön ausgeführt. Hat Bach in seiner Zeit es auch so schön gehört? Ich kann es kaum glauben.

[SIROCOguitar]

Magnificent!

[MBLM2008]

Sehr schön, klasse!

[karel1]

Thanks,I like Thomaner very much.