Bach - Brandenburg Concertos No.6 - ii: Adagio ma non tanto

[kkasper007]

wow so beautiful >>..!!

[atbnorge]

The loveliness of Bach.

[Pretendkid]

Did anyone notice it was getting dark outside of the studio? <3

[titomayor]

its seems to be a mother giving birth to a child

[johnhofi]

Kein Gott, aber Gott war in ihm und er hat es gewusst...schoen waer's wenn wir so selbstbewusst waeren...

[davonindonesia1]

I wonder, what does 'Adagio ma non tanto' means?

[m1209l]

@davonindonesia1 it means: Adagio but not too much!

[bckm54]

@davonindonesia1 it means "adagio without my aunt or mother" :)

[Liebanus]

El mejor Adagio de este Concierto para mi.

[americanman2000]

im looking for the america and the courts theme can someone tell me where i can find it i tried looking it up on youtube, yahoo, and google, its concerti 123 bach and nothing please help thank you

[chrissamm]

I can't hear any misplaced notes. Interpretation is beautiful. Video and audio are out of sync though, slightly annoying.

[NORTHERNKONFLIKT]

BACH IST GOTT

[QPALZ100]

i was sleeping beautifully with the music, enjoying it when suddenly a misplaced note sounded at 2:22 ARGGGGHHH

reminded me of hannibal lecter closing his eyes with harshness when the flute guy misplayed/placed a note. heh

[petitequinte]

@QPALZ100 So I take it what you want is not necessarily Bach played with feeling by humans, but lullabies played by perfect machines? ;)

Don't take offense - I'm only being hard on you because I just played through all six brandenburg concerti with some friends, all in one night - for the sheer joy and passion of it, some of us sightreading a lot of the time. Wrong notes all over the place, but so much joy that I think it was one of the best performances I've had.

Food for thought. :D

[elmbudsman]

s@petitequinte It's easy when you stand on the shoulders of giants. Or, in your case, stand on their throats.

[petitequinte]

@elmbudsman ...where the hell did that come from?! Music students sightreading for fun and realizing that bringing life to the music is at least as important as technical proficiency... that's standing on someone's throat now? Well, excuuuuuuse me... o.O

[elmbudsman]

@petitequinte You're right. My bad. Playing through these with friends does sound like a lot of fun. And perfection is over- rated. Did you have to transpose any of the lines?

[petitequinte]

@elmbudsman Haha, no problem. I don't think we had to transpose anything, at least I didn't (I play viola). In some of the concertos we had to replace some instruments with others (we didn't have trumpeters, or a piccolo violin for Brandenburg 1 :P), so they may have had to transpose. For this one all the gambas were cellos, and I think all the lines fit within their range. It really is fun stuff to play through, especially at the end of the year when you're sick of polishing pieces... :D

[ImeldaDavies]

beautiful cheers for this

[lefekir]

These performers are simply divine!

[galinette1948]

mauvaise qualoite entrecoupes dommag

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[TengriAsura]

It only seems that the Baroque music in general was recently discovered around the late 19th century.

Anyway, good music.

[AndrewOrgelspieler]

Not so. Bach's sons kept his father's reputation alive, especially J C Bach in London, and in the early 19th centry St Matthew's Passion was rediscovered by the English.

[TengriAsura]

Interesting. Thank you.

[79pants]

It was Mendelssohn in Germany who famously organized the first performance since Bach's death of the St Matthew passion - in Berlin, Germany, 1829. Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach was really the only one of Bach's sons to have engaged in the promotion of his father's music and reputation. J. C. was famous for disagreeing w/ his father's musical paradigm.

[bersa888]

No, it never really "disappeared". But it is true that, since the late 1960's, recordings of baroque music exploded and grew exponentially to the point where... we don't really need another recording of the "Four Seasons", do we...? ;-) Also, baroque music is usually very "safe" and marketable, just like music from the Classic period. It's funny, because in the XVII and XVIII centuries new music was never really meant to be played more than once or twice...hence the great number of compositions

[Madrid1230]

why does the bass have six pegs on it?

[oOspicNspanOo]

Good question!

The violone has 6 strings and is a member of the viol (a.k.a. viola da gamba) family. While violin-family instruments typically have 4 strings tuned in fifths, viol-family instruments typically have 6 strings (sometimes 5 or 7) tuned in fourths and thirds like a guitar. Viols also have frets like a guitar, though not as many. Finally, viols are bowed underhand while the violin family is bowed overhand.

I would like to learn to play a 7-string bass viola da gamba some day....

[animeviolalord]

Hey!!!! The English Concert's bassist has a 3-stringed double bass.  Do you know what it is?

[Lesamisdeloeillet]

Cecil Forsyth writes in his famous book about orchestration: "... In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries various types and sizes of Bass were in use and (...) in the matter of stringing and tuning each player did what was good in their own eyes. The instrument which had emerged in the latter half of the eighteenth century was a three-stringer(...)" and then he continues by explaining how the double-bass got its fourth string,.. Hope this helps...

[animeviolalord]

Thanx!!! It helps alot

[79pants]

But you'll notice the 2 violas da braccia (playing the upper parts) are bowed in the normal ("overhand") fashion. I'm fairly certain the "overhand"/"underhand" issue is one of personal choice on the performer's part. If they use a German bow, it is held underhand. If they use a French bow, it is held overhand. The violas da braccia only have 4 strings

[79pants]

Actually, I think I may be wrong. Sorry. Are the two soloists playing modern violas?

[eddo98]

no... they're baroque violas... there are some people that have to use shoulder rests b/c they have longer neck's.

as far as bowing goes... for upper strings, we all hold the bow pretty much the same.

gamba's use the "underhand" bowhold and thus get a more "push/pull" feeling and the bass and violone use different stuff depending on the type of bow they have. :)

[dannibennett17]

it would be a good video if the sound wasn't at a different time to the video

[Ephs512]

I totally agree! They are producing beautiful music, but having the sound/video off takes away from the enjoyment of it when watching.

[energycore345]

i myself play the viola. but i still lack knowledge, i got only a year :D but i was inspired to play it when i heard this concerto at first.

[violatione]

Simply Beautiful!!!!

[a20008137]

qué nobleza

[Draxor99]

xD, nice. Try never listening to rap music for the rest of your life, maybe you'll be able to play it.

[KingKoopa]

What an idiotic statement.

[Draxor99]

How so?

[Shadowtech666]

Lol Draxor im laughing so hard! VERY true!

[solti]

lol

[somel1000]

Despertando consciência.

Awakening conscience.

[solti]

how can i create music like this?

[violatione]

OK this is how it's done. Drop whatever you are doing. Fly to Freiburg and study with these musicians for a few years. Practice 5 hours per day and do everything that they tell you. That should do it. Listening to rap doesn't matter although you have to listen to this stuff a lot more.

[solti]

thank you very much for the tip. but i dont think practicing 5 hours a day is enough for me.ü

[energycore345]

i think this concerto was made in E minor :D

[MageSutek]

B flat major.

[llmanll]

this movement is specially good :P

[dcfacacio]

i really really love this piece, we played this, i played the viola 1 and my mentor played the 2nd..

Praise GOd!!!

[kenplaysviola]

Very nice, but why is the video/audio out of sync? it's annoying and distracting. Fix please!

[straypixel]

Afraid this is a generic YouTube issue. Try restarting and the sync may improve.

[kenplaysviola]

Still no good. I tried refreshing and playing in different browsers and the video and audio are out of sync. I think the uploader needs to fix this, not Youtube.  All my other videos on Youtube play fine

[kenplaysviola]

I love this piece, but the audio/video is WAAAAY out of sync in this video

[nwlad1983]

One of my fav Bach adagios!

Heaven!