Jonathan Peter Kenny - Matthaus Passion - Erbarme Dich

[voodoochild12889]

wow this is fantastic

[kerumble]

wow, beautiful playing.

[PointyTailofSatan]

I just realized. The violinist looks incredibly like the silent film actress Bridgette Helm.

[PointyTailofSatan]

Is she simply the 1st violin, or someone famous? I've never heard anyone capture the essence of Baroque violin better than this.

[2partsWhimsy1partWry]

Stunning!

[milosbar]

This version is amazing! Damn right amazing!

[TheTriana0]

this is divine

[Drakopulous]

A very vocal violinist, amazingly so. Thank god she no obnoxious vibrato. Watch as the counter-tenor follows her bow. Breathtaking performance and aria; gets me every time.

[Drakopulous]

The Bass line is the thoughts of a doomed man. Boom boom bom.

[kootryte]

@Drakopulous

No, it's a heart beating

[chmorzinski]

Ok thanks

[FinnJohnn]

Lovely

[chmorzinski]

The violin player has good intonation but not enough expression. And who's the guy standing in between the two performers?!

[sion7111]

@chmorzinski It's Peter, who is feeling pain and guilt because he has betrayed the Lord, so the counter-tenor sings "Erbarme dich" or "Have mercy on me", my God. Unexpectedly, Peter is not singing himself, so... who is singing? Bach? Us? Maybe the "sinner", and we all can fit in that character.

[lyriesch]

@chmorzinski

One of the other solo performers Matthaus is more than 2 performing musicians. ;-)

[Drakopulous]

@chmorzinski Needs more cowbell ( vibrato ) lol. Not 

[gonrolgonrol]

Does anyone know in which biblical context this is inspired of?

[vjunk]

@gonrolgonrol: The counter-tenor sings the part of the disciple Peter. Jesus has been arrested hours earlier and Peter has denied three times to the mobs that he knows Jesus (for fear of arrest). During his third denial, a rooster crows and Peter remembers Jesus' prophesy that Peter will betray him three times before the rooster crows next. Alone, a coward to his own revolution, Peter feels great guilt and remorse. All he can do is ask for forgiveness and express his sorrow. Thus it begins.

[gonrolgonrol]

@vjunk Many thanks! :)

So this is Peters lamentation!

[tamerlano236]

Nice. Great aria. Great Bach. The best version I've ever heard is Nicholas Spanos's. That is just otherworldly.

[pyrrooo]

@tamerlano236 no way, Scholl is way better

[tamerlano236]

@pyrrooo Tastes differ. I prefer Spanos's version.

[fabiocezar]

Esse violino... me deixa tão introspectivo.

[picklevalentine]

His voice is almost like an instrument, so lyrical. But I agree that he does not hit the consonants. To me, that is disconcerting. He also lacks the urgency that this piece requires. The singer needs to convey that he is pleading to God for mercy for his eternal soul. This is not a happy song. I don't know when this young man was born, but I am wondering if he will tighten this up as he ages and the timbre of his voice darkens.

The violinist is amazing, absolutely amazing. Thank you!

[tastibasti]

nice...very nice sound but the consonats missing a little bittttt

[gudnyvalborg]

this is so beautiful. one of my favorites of Bach.

[Consoltremass]

You don't get much better than this - an all star cast, truly mazing performance and certainly one of the best in the world !

[temporaryparisian]

@tessrosed: the violinist is Clare Salaman. As far as I know she still plays in the English baroque scene, but concentrates more on Scandinavian folk music, hardanger fiddle etc. She has a group called SYM.

[tessrosed]

@temporaryparisian Cool, thanks for the information :)

[hafoko]

he has such a warm and wonderful voice,,,,any more music of this counter tenor???

[tessrosed]

Please, who is the violinist?

[tessrosed]

This is an extraordinarily moving version. What an amazingly beautiful voice. I think it suits this aria perfectly.

[famousprincesses]

thanks for sharing

feel it especially on Good Friday

[bobstronge]

this is the best version...

I´ll cry all day now

[gzaenker]

Extraordinary talent the violinist!

[juliusadamsmusic009]

nice!

[arolo92]

Dios Wonderfulll!!

[leovandorp]

bit fast, not the right voice this wonderful music

[1627mas]

Qué suavidad, qué delicadeza...que delicia escuchar esto...

[MusicPortray]

This violin... got me chills...

[BWV2000]

La violinista toca muy bien el violin barroco.

[AristYdes]

Está bien, pero es GAY

[senesino83]

qué extraño que este tipo de comentarios venga siempre de latinoamérica...

[AristYdes]

porque somos mas machos

[algajerez]

Quizás las versiones de Michael Chance's o Jaroussky son mejores técnicamente, pero la expresividad que le pone Jonathan Peter Kenny, no la tiene ninguna de las otras dos versiones.

Perhaps Michal Chance's or Jaroussky's versions are much better technical details, but the expresivity that Jonathan Peter Kenny puts, the another two versions don't have. Amazing, so so beauty performance

[oliveratto]

His voice doesn't sound like a countertenor's, but as a child's . The music is really good, but Michael Chance's or Jaroussky's versions are way much better. They have a deep voice and here we can see Kenny is missing technical details in some parts of his performance.

[yourdearmirror]

It dosn''t really reminds me about : ABBA - Chiquitita

[violistarevirtuoso]

Yeah! How come Chiquitita is the first related video to this? Bizarrrrr

[louloubeb]

She play very good violin,

5*

[tato4527]

que pensaría Bach si viera como una de sus mejores obras sigue siendo interpretada de una forma tan hermosa, que pensaría él, el Dios de la música...

[cgrtandil]

Bien dicho: el alfa y la omega...

[57anthony]

It also does depend on one's mood probably, but for me this is one of the most impressive compositions I know.

Thank you for this clip.

[atirisdes]

@57anthony this is the greatest music ever, you dont need to know more

[milosbar]

@57anthony I personally do not think so, everytime i hear this it blows me away, it´s just beautiful. That´s why Bach is known to be the father of music.

[joycedusoleil]

es la mejor versión que he escuchado en toda mi vida !!!! perfecto!!!! sin el odioso vibrato en la voz y el violín.... aaaah, soy feliz...

[tato4527]

tienes toda la razón, la simpleza de la interpretación del violín conjuga a la perfección con la hermosa voz del contralto Jonathan Peter Kenny... no ha nada más conmovedor, no lo hay.

[tato4527]

de las que he oído, sin lugar a dudas esta es la interpretación que más me impacta, la que hace Julia Hamari es más dramática, pero esta, pienso yo, es más melódica y acorde a lo que reclama "ten piedad de mi Señor", es una humilde opinión.

[MrAsmodeo666]

The music doesn't need translations. Feel it my friend!!! Thismasterpiece was produced and ideed by goodness towards a genius. If you feel something strange in you, you'll be understand the essence of this masterpiece.

[3NUNS]

@MrAsmodeo666 : Yes !

[downloader46]

someone can please translate it to english?

[fredg77]

I saw this production at BAM this year. It was one of the most profound music experiences I've ever had in my 27 years of life!!! Jonathan Miller is a genius. Bach's music is so evocative that it only makes sense to perform the passion this way, and not in a standard concert format where everyone stands in a line, faces forward while chorus and musicians stay still.... so boring

[danyto75]

Merci d'avoir mis en ligne la vidéo complète de cette version. Ce voix de haute-contre est très pure et son discours dramatique est fidèle à l'intention de Bach.

Allez écouter la version de kathleen Ferrier, pour la version en voix de femme; Wonderfull

[LordMagros]

Petter Kenny is really good, but in my opinion the best interpretation of this aria is with Rene Jacobs

Petter Kenny es realmente bueno, sin embargo en mi opinion, la mejor interpretacion de esta aria es con Rene Jacobs

[bartraso]

I listen now Michael Chance's version. I'm not agree is better than J.Peter-Kenny. J.Peter-Kenny is more intimist and sweet

[ilovevicecity]

Bach is god

[doppelgriff25]

The dramatization is also quite horrifying...

[doppelgriff25]

Playing Bach without ornaments is like playing Tchaikowsky's piano concerto with a cembalo. It just sounds quite sectarian. I love this aria though. Who doesn't?

[Juhanissimus]

It's almost impossible to play Bach wrong... still, these people do a lousy performance... Bach is human, his music is like breathing...this one sounds like a showpiece for American audience...

[elvis2517g]

"Erbaaaarme deeee..." I absolutely love this piece, and what a wonderful voice!!

[mradaChris]

Wonderful!

[stamatis53]

Can anyone give me links to other fragments of this version of St Matthews Passion? Saw it on TV last year and thought these guys and girls lifted the passion into an opera.

[stamatis53]

JS Bach was the basis of all music made ever after. Listen to for instance Abba's 'Head over heals' intro. It would fit in the Mattheus Passion.

[cgrtandil]

I wonder how such a music could be ever composed. J. S. Bach is "mein Gott". Sometimes , when listening his adored compositions, I can't hold my tears of joy. It's the same when listening Antonio Vivaldi. Those two were from another planet, from another dimension.

[whomakemefeel]

Genius Mass great performance amazing tenor by Jonathan Peter Kenny go head J.P.Jenny you have that high sense of greatness like Philippe Jaroussky and Andreas Scholl. I like your throat completely.

[brumpchelichka]

fagottist, I think you're right. In my opinion Bach never intended to put any ornamentations whatsoever.

[wcbroccoli]

You are both welcome to your opinions and preferences.

However. ornamentation is a part of the performance practice of the period.

You should see the ornaments Bach added to his personal copies of his published works.

[vdgplayer]

How did you form this opinion?

This violinist is playing the ornaments that appear in the original performing part from a performance Bach directed.

[guitar98765]

wow that contra tenor is breathtaking...

[fagottist]

i mush prefer the violin part without the little ornamentation at the start. i feel the ornamentation spoils the flow of the melody a little.

[wcbroccoli]

The notion of long, flowing lines played with an endless slur mark has nothing to do with the Baroque. That is a 19th c. aesthetic.

Ornaments are a natural part of Baroque performance practice, so natural that the composer didn't have to write them in. In Bach's time, they rarely played music of dead composers. They mostly played contemporary music. Musicians only had to know contemporary performance practice.

[amabeline]

Piękny głos i śpiewa bardzo muzykalnie.

Skrzypce mogły by być lepsze.

[HerrvonFreizeit]

This is the best violine on this subjekt for my understandings,vocal is respectable, but violine is better to my ears then usual.Violine in this part must be frendly with modesty. And it is.

[St00sh13]

I was lucky enough to attend a performance of the St. Matthew Passion, directed by Jonathan Miller, in Glasgow. This is the most powerful interpretation of "Erbame Dich" I have ever seen. The fact that the string player and the counter tenor stand over him, almost chlostrophobically, helps to show the depth of the feelings Peter has.

[appelsientje112]

Erbarme Dich

Mein Gott

Um meiner Zähren willen

Schaue hier

Herz un Auge

Bitterlich

[dbertels]

My favourite Bach excerpt from my favourite Bach mass. I believe the 'male' voice doesn't have this annoying vibrato that female singers tend to produce in the upper registers. But that's a matter of taste of course. It's also more authentic since, if I'm not mistaken, in Bach's time, female singers weren't used in the choirs.

[Haaglander]

This is so flubbergasting beautiful .....

[mzxrandom]

The melancholic dissonance between the voice and the violin is so overwhelming at points.

[abbiz]

Anyone got Buß und Reu from this performance? Can't seem to find it :( he makes it so good... gosebumps 2k!

[ikeaantwerp]

devine music mmm

[Nesciio]

cuts straight through the soul

[schlagersuesstafel]

she really looks like elaine, nice 90s style and still the most touching performance of that aria i ever heard

[InspiredIndividual]

His performance would indeed have been the best I ever heard, but for his terrible diction... That really spoils it somewhat for me. But alas, I still recognize he's doing quite a good job.

[janjohandealgenman]

beautifull, best performence of the passion in my opinion. btw the violinist looks a bit like elaine from seinfeld don't you think?

[oorlam]

It's Erbarme Dich not Dee.

[GeminiAmbience]

That was his/her point exactly.  LOL

[tomistocles]

Who's the Dee in 'Erbarme Dee' ?

Nice restrained performance, good sound, terrible diction.

[Nesciio]

*grin*

[trahew1]

By far the best interpretation of the passion..!!

[egooidios]

... too far!!!

[kuzeeyy]

puff

[DannyKnopfler]

real baroque....

[leocorhei]

Sublime

[Mario3933]

wasssen das? so was lol

[erikkournikov]

sissy but sooo beautifull hehehe congratulations

[joycehays]

Sublime music of a genius, never diminishing, down through history.....only adding more and more devotees.

[kakokikiriko]

does anybody know the name of the violinist?

[rushwriter]

I just finished watching this as well. The counter-tenor is amazing. His voice is so beautiful, I had to stop everything I was doing and just listen.

[JMCaldwellAcademy]

omg!!! That's what I had to do also....

[luisfcdarcadia]

Where's the rest of the passion???

Someone post it in this version please!

[alberspower63]

This is from the Jonathan Miller production. It is a semi acted production and has been on tv many times. I recorded it yet again, as it was on Dutch tv yesterday- Good Friday. It is very moving and Jonathan Peter Kenny is sublime as counter-tenor. I have been watching it all day!!

[berndschafer1]

Sagenhaft, wunderbar, göttlich!

Bach sei Dank

[JMCaldwellAcademy]

huh? jk jk can u like, understand what the guy is singing? can u understand what I'm typing? lol :b

[MartinMemelink]

Our German fellow said:

Faboulous, magnificent, devine!

thank you Bach

-I'd say not bad for a 16-year old Dutchman...

[JMCaldwellAcademy]

who's 16? the guy singing? doesn't look like it though...or the German dude?? :)

[MartinMemelink]

Bit of a strange reply, sorry. Like the contertenor a lot!

[BachLoveNat]

Great aria.....

beautiful singing....

[kiya3]

crying violin ( or really cello) and countertenor weaving the melody with these heart breaking words

[vixenutza]

This is really one of the greatest pieces of music ever composed.I strongly believe that Bach has reached some levels of beauty and splendor beyond any limits of human understanding.

[39neilm19]

Soo moving the voice is awesome, having the violinist in view is so touching, the person standing there with head bowed I assume is the person who plays Christ? Such quality of violin and much more the voice is so touching!!!

[fennavis]

The man with the bowed head is actually Peter, who has just denied Christ.

[39neilm19]

Off course! thanks for the information, and have a great Paasdag!weekend

[irismichael]

Es una versión verdaderamente maravillosa de un aria tan bella que es casi difícil soportar tanta perfección. El texto en español es:

Ten piedad de mí, Dios mío,

advierte mi llanto.

Mira mi corazón

y mis ojos que lloran

amargamente ante Ti.

¡Ten piedad de mí!

[bartraso]

Estoy de acuerdo, No conozco muchas versiones de pero de todas las que he oido me quedo con esta. Mejor un contra tenor que no una soprano para este aria. Muy acertado la entrada del violín, me gusta más que la habitual. Por cierto no sabrás como conseguir el dvd, verdad?

[Boriskovich23]

Extraordinary, not only sound but whole atmosfere. Would you be so kind to post

some more videos, or tell us where to get

full video. Can you tell us something about other artists from video - violin players, ...

This is best performance of Erbarme Dich I

have ever seen.

Thak you. Please some more.

[juanchoargentina]

me gustaria si alguno puede darme la traduccion al español de esta impresionante aria de J. S. BACH.

[buraka9]

god sended both song and bach

[totocea]

trop sexy ! Belle expression en tout cas, bravo ^^

[toisa13]

Tłumaczenie polskie.

Zmiłuj się nade mną,

Mój Boże,przez wzgląd na me łzy

Spójrz tutaj,

Serce i oczy gorzko płaczą,

Zmiłuj się nade mną ,

Moj Boże,przez wzgląd na me łzy.

Regret and hope of St.Peter in beging for forgiving.What a theme! what a drama!

[linux007]

Original Text Arie Erbarme dich, mein Gott, um meiner Zähren willen! Schaue hier, Herz und Auge weint vor dir bitterlich. Erbarme dich, mein Gott. English Translation Aria Have mercy, my God, for the sake of my tears! See here, before you heart and eyes weep bitterly. Have mercy, my God.

[bschwartzberg]

I love the blend he has with the rest of the group. Too many soloists try to stand out, where he becomes a member of the orchestra. Absolutely beautiful

[memecapotte]

what a magnificent voice. Love the viola part too

[engine1385]

Nicely done and nicely filmed -- but what a piece of music this is! Stravinsky said of Bach "you can smell the rosin in his violin parts."

[corodecamaravit]

Lindo timbre de contratenor.

Na minha opinião o mais completo... empostado e cheio de harmônicos.

Será que eles gravaram somente essa aria?

^^

Bruno Rebequi

[linux007]

Eu vi a gravação em uma mostra "ovation" da televisão.Era sobre Bach. Eu penso de que é mais melhor no youtube que canta esta parte.

I saw the recording on a Television show "Ovation." It was about Bach. I think that he is the best one on youtube singing this piece. Sorry if my Portuguese is bad.

[AliMoni2007]

Good try. Congrats!.

[berndschafer1]

wooooooooooow

best of counter tenor

[amfortas83]

Very beautiful. Viola obbligato and voice perfectly match. The voice is superb, but I can hear some breathing imperfections.

[hydestein]

His voice is so beautiful! But judging from the skills he is not as good as Michael Chance.

[rantech]

wow i love this aria.. i will buy the entire dramatization of course ^^

[renoirjean2006]

A great Moment.

[instrumentlada]

A beautiful timbre without the "German school" singing in the back of the mouth.

This is like the natural voice element in the steps from base to soprano.

So wonderful... rejoice God, that we, pity, do have such voices among us!

[linux007]

Great, Just Great

[friendlybarman]

Hey...who are they?? the sound is perfect, and all the perfomance!!

[GeminiAmbience]

Where is this video from? I've been searching for it with Google but I only keep finding a CD of highlights from Miller's staging...is the full passion this is taken from available on DVD?

Thanks,

Jim

[jleerobbie]

Jim, did you ever get an answer? I would love to have a full video of the entire Passion.

[GeminiAmbience]

Unfortunately I did not. :(

[GeminiAmbience]

GORGEOUS voice...like a marriage between Michael Chance and Andreas Scholl.

A great performance.

[malwida]

Wonderful recording, violin and voice, both very emotional and yet very reserved and giving full honor to the music.

[madavar]

a great version, very good voice and tempo