Does anyone know the name of the tenor Evangelist or how to find it? for I just must hear more of his perfect; voice and see more of his marvelous disciplined performance control, to me a peer of the great Peter Schreier.
Dieses Stück gehört zu Weihnachten, wie der Hase zu Ostern ;) Meiner Meinung gibt es aber nur einen, der Bach wirklich kann: Johannes Nicolaus Graf de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt
I think Gardiner dances and poses just a bit to much haha. He gets a good sound, in fact a virtuasic sound, but so would lot of other conductors if they had the freaking Monteverdi Choir with the English Baroque Soloists. I guess his directing is better than his conducting? ...at least while being filmed haha.
@Wally773MTG Remember he created the choir and the orchestra, he didn't just "have them". Regarding conducting, some of the greatest conductors conducted in ways that can be called eccentric at the very least. Ever seen Carlos Kleiber conducting? Bernstein's occasional dancing was also priceless. Compared to them, JEG's conducting style is pretty modest.
@GrandOldPete Yes yes I know they wouldn't even exist if it weren't for him. And he is obviously a brilliant musical scholar and musician, one of the best. I have MAD respect for this man, I was merely poking a little fun at his technique (which I probably have no room for to do lol) but I wrote it so I have to own it...
@UnimatrixOne: Wie mir eine Londoner Cellistin vor Jahren einmal verriet, gab es bei Gardiner ohnehin nur zwei Tempi: "t.f." und "t.f.f." - "too fast" and "too fucking fast".
Ich mag diese schnellen Tempi ganz gerne, weil sie viel von der bach'schen Fröhlichkeit transportieren. Außerdem besteht dann eine kleine Chance, dass man ein WO mit vier Leuten pro Stimme singen kann, ohne in Atemnot zu geraten.
Der beste Bach-Interpret schlechthin ist für mich immer noch der Karl Richter, obwohl seine Interpretationen als "altmodisch" gelten.....na und...mir gefällt seine Musik....
@MeinnameistDreck not really...Richter is no good by today's standard. It'd be a brave act to release a recording like his now. sorry about replying in English; my German writing is too poor.
J.E.Gardiner ist meiner Meinung nach der Beste BAchinterpret unserer Zeit. Seine Tempi sind adequat, der Chor und die Musiker erstklassig, allem voran die Bläser, die Solisten toll.... Ton Koopman und seine Gruppen steht ihm nach, Herrweghe dagegen ist ihm sehr nah. Alle drei tragen zur verherrlichung BAchs bei und machen einem das Leben viel schöner!
Thanks so much for posting this. It is such a beauiful performance; we bought the DVD set! Incidentally, we celebrate the beginning of Advent every year by listening to Bach's Christmas Oratorio. "Jauchzet, Frohlocket!" is the very first thing to hit the stereo come Christmas season. If this doesn't get you in the mood, nothing will!
Ein Feuerwerk der Musik. Musik, die man immer wieder hören kann. Besonders gefällt mir dieser Chor. Eine absolute Spitzenleistung von der Truppe, wunderbar.
Oh, I remember singing this two years ago in my local church. It was fantastic. The feeling you get when you listen to it is nothing compared to when you sing it. Then the music runs through your whole body.
This movement is a parody of the 1st movement of BWV 214, which had nothing to do with a king. BWV 214 was performed for the birthday of
of Maria Josepha, Electress of Saxony and Queen in Poland. The text is
"Sound, all ye drums now! Resound, all ye trumpets! Resonant viols, make swell now the air! Sing now your anthems, ye vigorous poets, Vivat regina! How happy the shout!
Vivat regina! the hope of the Saxons:
Long live the Queen, may she flourish and prosper!"
"...was originally for the birth of a royal baby" ???
What "royal baby"?
This movement of BWV 248 is based on BWV 214, which was performed December 8, 1733 for the birthday of Maria Josepha, Electress of Saxony and Queen in Poland.
She would have been 33 years old.
A royal woman, yes. But not a royal baby.
And there was no change of season for BWV 248, since the Xmas season and the Maria Josepha's birthday both occur in December.
Think of architecture which employs the same elements of comumns, arches, windows, doors, plinths, statuary, domes, balustrades etc. These are all the materials which are re used in order to create a work of art. Just like a book uses the same words as in other books.
Only today the idiotic composers try to create something new and come up with unlistenable noise.
And I love the text too and the fact that I am a native german speaker. "Jauchzet, Frohlocket." That fit in so brilliant and seems so hard to translate.
que importa si bach se interpreta en una iglesia catolica o en una lutherana.... solo se interpreta...lo mas importante es ser fiel a la patitura y no al lugar...solo mantengamos vivo abach a traves de su legado musical
Sí sí, estoy totalmente de acuerdo. Ese era lo que yo intentaba decir también! (quizás esta confusión era porque mi español no es muy fuerte). Decía que Bach no es sólo para (por?) los lutheranos, pero para que todos lo disfruten.
como se hace actualmente. ¿Cuándo se ha tocado Bach en una iglesia lutherana o protestante?
la acustica no es escusa, porque iglesias catolicas antiguas tienen una identica acustica que las iglesias lutheranas, ya que, para construir dichos edificios usaban planos y materiales similares a los de las iglesias catolicas antiguas.
¿Eh? ¿Por qué dijiste, ".... pero tampoco sólo en iglesias católicas como se hace actualmente"? No tienes razón; su musica está tocado en todas tipas de iglesias, y también en salas de conciertos.
Ein purer Hörgenuss. Bach einfach Genial. Fantastisch gesungen von dem Monteverdi Chor.
Wenn man bedenkt mit so wenig Sänger und Sängerinnen ein solches Werk zu singen. Wenn man die Augen schließt denkt man ein hundert "Mann" starker Chor würde da Singen. Einfach klasse...
Leipzig was hardly a provincial town in Bach's time.
It was already a center of German law and the publishing industry.
Part of the reason Bach accepted the position was for the educational opportunities Leipzig afforded his children.
Bach's sons Wilhelm and Carl attended the University of Leipzig, and Bach himself had many friends who taught there and many students who studied there.
This performance provides inspiration beyond words for me. I hope it does the same for you too. The players are soooo good! Trumpets - WOW! Bach indeed wrote FOR God and his music is godly especially as performed by this group!
@UbuntuBird You are right, that J S Bach has been one of the greatest composers up today. But really to understnad the deep truth of this music implies to realize, that rankings of which one may be the best person refering to this or that ability is one of the least important questions in the universe
I love the beginning solo trumpet part which is at 0:36 seconds, which is rising for a exultant response from the audience and the heavens. And it gets that I believe in the mirror of the singing heard in the choir like wings wafting the rising and the falling of the voices like a wave dangerous and caresing us.
Gardiner is a great conductor. His Mozart interpretations aren't my favorites, but I adore his Bach! I hear he's a horrible taskmaster, but the outcome is divine.
thank you for posting - Gardiner & the Monteverdi Ensemble deserve more credit for their crisp and authentic performances- and it is good to actually SEE the period instruments also, esp the natural (baroque) trumpets. I cant imagine what it is like to play without valves...
Keine Musik zeigen, die Begeisterung und die Freude und das Feiern so viel Musikstück copyright Genius großen Johann Sebastian Bach, es ist wirklich wunderbar.
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Why is everyone so much more animated and exciting than the Germans? Does that mean that the original Bach was boring? Harnoncourt grew up in Austria, and then there are Herreweghe, and the brilliant unsurpassed English conductors (Gardiner, McCreesh)-- everyone simply does a better job performing Bach than the Germans (Mr Boring Rilling etc)
Don't generalise, please. Horses for courses I think. Gardiner does Bach so well but would not expect his Beethoven symphonies to come to Klemperer's or Furtwangler's standard
did anyone else spot baritone singer Dietrich Henschel? I first heard him sing the Quoniam tu solus sanctus(gloria) from the B minor mass performed at the Cathedral de Notre Dame. awesome music.
Wow, such full sound coming from such a small chorus. Such precise diction, intonation, and dynamic coloring too. They're using "authentic" instruments (wooden transverse flutes, unvalved trumpets, etc.), but still the orchestral force seems to be a little bigger than something Bach would have used in his time for an oratorio, no? Anyways, I suppose that it doesn't matter. I'm just surprised that the sound is so balanced with such a relatively large orchestral force compared to the chorus.
Right. Bach most likely used one singer per part in most of his choral works (the conductor Andrew Parrott wrote a book on it. It's very well researched). The recording of this oratorio by Pickett uses way smaller forces than Gardiner, but not one voice per part.
John Eliot rulez!!! He is so fantastic. I know him from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage and he is the best conductor and the best person in the whole world!!!
This group—Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque Soloists, and of course J.S.—they are the most important people in the world, no question. I really, truly believe that.
This is extremely impressive. I've sung Bach choral pieces and being a tenor I always found my throat in a right mess at the end. Ah well, the pains of amateur choral singing. This is how good it can be, and goodness isn't it just great?
Funny?? Ton is brilliant conductor, he show his commited in the way he conduct. Its amazing to watch him live. What "funny" had U meant?? I dont see sth like this. The most important thing is how he feels the Bachs music, how he interprets him and how he sends this feelings to audience!!!
I totally get your point, but I must agree with latitude—watching Ton is hilarious. He is, indeed, an amazing conductor, as is Gardiner, and hearing the productions of both is, quite simply, a gift from Heaven, but I guess God decided to throw a little humour in with the Dutchman's gift.
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Ton indeed is "funny" all right. Just listen to him play Bach's organ music elsewhere on YouTube. He is a bore, sarcastic, unorthodox, and disgraces Bach.
das ist doch in weimar in der Stadtkirche oder ?
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Does anyone know the name of the tenor Evangelist or how to find it? for I just must hear more of his perfect; voice and see more of his marvelous disciplined performance control, to me a peer of the great Peter Schreier.
russedav5 4 weeks ago
@russedav5 It is Christoph Genz. amznDOTto/ycxKm7
inwit 3 weeks ago
Mindblowing! How can you resist applauding such a performance!? Everyone must be high as a kite when it ends, an applause should be allowed. Bah.
daynewhurlrun 2 months ago
...fantastic......superstar Bach.....
ChrissysVideokids 2 months ago
Welche kirche ist das?
engelbertschoormans 2 months ago
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Dieses Stück gehört zu Weihnachten, wie der Hase zu Ostern ;) Meiner Meinung gibt es aber nur einen, der Bach wirklich kann: Johannes Nicolaus Graf de la Fontaine und d'Harnoncourt-Unverzagt
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BachsEnkel 2 months ago
what a choir..
daseladi 3 months ago in playlist Weitere Videos von inwit
An interpretation of an extraordinary taste and feel for the inner spirit of the Bach's music..A bravo is simply not enough.
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JEG can do no wrong.
maxtastic20 8 months ago
beefy.
adamkstockbridge 8 months ago
WOW <3
PrestigiousSail 9 months ago
to my butterfly friend :)
MrNAYDH 1 year ago
Bach - la musica assoluta!
basselyrique 1 year ago 2
I think Gardiner dances and poses just a bit to much haha. He gets a good sound, in fact a virtuasic sound, but so would lot of other conductors if they had the freaking Monteverdi Choir with the English Baroque Soloists. I guess his directing is better than his conducting? ...at least while being filmed haha.
Wally773MTG 1 year ago
@Wally773MTG Remember he created the choir and the orchestra, he didn't just "have them". Regarding conducting, some of the greatest conductors conducted in ways that can be called eccentric at the very least. Ever seen Carlos Kleiber conducting? Bernstein's occasional dancing was also priceless. Compared to them, JEG's conducting style is pretty modest.
GrandOldPete 7 months ago
@GrandOldPete Yes yes I know they wouldn't even exist if it weren't for him. And he is obviously a brilliant musical scholar and musician, one of the best. I have MAD respect for this man, I was merely poking a little fun at his technique (which I probably have no room for to do lol) but I wrote it so I have to own it...
Wally773MTG 7 months ago 2
das ham wir auch gesungen, aber es klang leider nicht so gut wie das hier :)
KarpfenKarpfen 1 year ago
How great must God be if he inspires people to create such pieces of pure and thus stunning beauty?
PatBateman82 1 year ago 2
@PatBateman82 So great that our finite minds cannot be begin to comprehend just how far he is beyond our powers of comprehension!
QuisSeperabit60 2 months ago
Very brisk tempo, this, but works for me.
youtubister 1 year ago
hahaa. das mussten wir doch tatsächlich für ne schulveranstaltung spielen... bisschen sehr schnell vielleicht zum nachspielen ...
Sylvia8765 1 year ago
impressive!! very very nice! and what a brisky tempo!
themastroiannis 1 year ago
My very favorite conductor. Isn't he the best?!
CCNutella 1 year ago 2
he is soooooooo amazing
jeanpaul20012 1 year ago
What a fantastic sound from such a small choral group!
bkennedytx1 1 year ago
viel zu schnell gespielt für meinen Geschmack
UnimatrixOne 1 year ago
@UnimatrixOne: Wie mir eine Londoner Cellistin vor Jahren einmal verriet, gab es bei Gardiner ohnehin nur zwei Tempi: "t.f." und "t.f.f." - "too fast" and "too fucking fast".
Ich mag diese schnellen Tempi ganz gerne, weil sie viel von der bach'schen Fröhlichkeit transportieren. Außerdem besteht dann eine kleine Chance, dass man ein WO mit vier Leuten pro Stimme singen kann, ohne in Atemnot zu geraten.
peudargent 1 year ago 3
@peudargent
Der beste Bach-Interpret schlechthin ist für mich immer noch der Karl Richter, obwohl seine Interpretationen als "altmodisch" gelten.....na und...mir gefällt seine Musik....
MeinnameistDreck 9 months ago
@MeinnameistDreck not really...Richter is no good by today's standard. It'd be a brave act to release a recording like his now. sorry about replying in English; my German writing is too poor.
pyrrooo 6 months ago
Mrmglgeo
MARAVILHOSO!
MrMglgeo 1 year ago
wunderbar!!!
sk8erjon 1 year ago
najo also wäre geil wen sich jemand findet für mia
kareenababy222 1 year ago 15
@kareenababy222 HAHAHAHAHA wtf
Tobyreinel18 6 months ago
@kareenababy222 Was willst Du uns mit diesem behinderten Deutsch mitteilen?
Memale2009 2 months ago
small choir gigantic sound! good performance
Axolo1991 1 year ago
Maravilloso, versión de lujo, impresionantemente perfecta. Gracias!!!!!!!!!!
Repiola56 1 year ago
one of my favourites!
enzerinckful 1 year ago
Lindo!
slstinoco 1 year ago
He one of the greatest, right there with Beethoven and Handel.
shnimmuc 1 year ago
Die jauchzen doch...aber dieses Mal, ohne Posaune!!!
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huntbot 1 year ago
This guy's such a genius. Farmer, I mean.
CaptainBluebear08 1 year ago
Gardiner macht das besser als ALLE anderen. Jaja, Geschmackssache, aber so dynamisch wie Gardiner ist niemand.
buenosdiers 1 year ago
J.E.Gardiner ist meiner Meinung nach der Beste BAchinterpret unserer Zeit. Seine Tempi sind adequat, der Chor und die Musiker erstklassig, allem voran die Bläser, die Solisten toll.... Ton Koopman und seine Gruppen steht ihm nach, Herrweghe dagegen ist ihm sehr nah. Alle drei tragen zur verherrlichung BAchs bei und machen einem das Leben viel schöner!
arossle 1 year ago 2
@arossle
Das erste Mal stimme ich Ihnen zu!!! Ich hab allerdings auch noch nie nicht zugestimmt.
buenosdiers 1 year ago
Thanks so much for posting this. It is such a beauiful performance; we bought the DVD set! Incidentally, we celebrate the beginning of Advent every year by listening to Bach's Christmas Oratorio. "Jauchzet, Frohlocket!" is the very first thing to hit the stereo come Christmas season. If this doesn't get you in the mood, nothing will!
elvensong100 2 years ago 2
Isn't it a little slow??
zanteson 2 years ago
@zanteson Actually, no. Interpretations of this work vary greatly. This is one of the faster ones I've heard.
elvensong100 2 years ago
@zanteson
Hahaha, this is probablz the fastest recording there is.
buenosdiers 1 year ago
This sends chills up my back everytime I listen to it. Bach was such a genius, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all!
dtscott13 2 years ago 5
@dtscott13 I'm new at this. I accidentally hit the 'poor comment' button. So sorry. What happens now?
elvensong100 2 years ago
sehr schönes tempo und auch schön gesungen
FeDubitellius 2 years ago
Ein unvergängliches Meisterwerk, das Weihnachtsoratorium! Diese Musik ist einfach majestätisch und erhebend.
Und auch die Darbietung ist hervorragend.
19StZ83 2 years ago 10
I always thought this was a Christmas piece.
chamberl 2 years ago
It is...
Mmilie 2 years ago
das ist mal ein geiles tempo!
Pitonznz 2 years ago
One can't but listen to Bach without feeling royal and ennobled!
lichtbroeder 2 years ago 4
A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
chamberl 2 years ago 2
Ein Feuerwerk der Musik. Musik, die man immer wieder hören kann. Besonders gefällt mir dieser Chor. Eine absolute Spitzenleistung von der Truppe, wunderbar.
kolkrabe19 2 years ago 3
i love to listen that studying physics! I feel as I could walk throug the sky!
Pikcius 2 years ago 3
Oh, I remember singing this two years ago in my local church. It was fantastic. The feeling you get when you listen to it is nothing compared to when you sing it. Then the music runs through your whole body.
Kamelie 2 years ago 4
Real Masterpiece uncer real maestro... This is A music.
kimweonill 2 years ago 2
You can really feel the joy of the savoir's birth in this music! Just beautiful.
ChrNGK 2 years ago
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bersa888 2 years ago 3
This movement is a parody of the 1st movement of BWV 214, which had nothing to do with a king. BWV 214 was performed for the birthday of
of Maria Josepha, Electress of Saxony and Queen in Poland. The text is
"Sound, all ye drums now! Resound, all ye trumpets! Resonant viols, make swell now the air! Sing now your anthems, ye vigorous poets, Vivat regina! How happy the shout!
Vivat regina! the hope of the Saxons:
Long live the Queen, may she flourish and prosper!"
wcbroccoli 2 years ago
The words were not merely changed. The librettist had to match the syllables!
The text of BWV 214 was changed to this:
Triumph, rejoicing, rise, praising these days now,
Tell ye what this day the Highest hath done!
Fear now abandon and banish complaining,
Join, filled with triumph and gladness, our song!
Serve ye the Highest in glorious chorus,
Let us the name of our ruler now honor!
wcbroccoli 2 years ago
"...was originally for the birth of a royal baby" ???
What "royal baby"?
This movement of BWV 248 is based on BWV 214, which was performed December 8, 1733 for the birthday of Maria Josepha, Electress of Saxony and Queen in Poland.
She would have been 33 years old.
A royal woman, yes. But not a royal baby.
And there was no change of season for BWV 248, since the Xmas season and the Maria Josepha's birthday both occur in December.
wcbroccoli 2 years ago
There's no direct mention of a baby or a birth in this movement.
wcbroccoli 2 years ago
Hey... it was all a joke!!!! ;-)
bersa888 2 years ago
Hendel and Scarlatti borrowed from themself and his father A:S: and recirculated works between Italian arias and the Messiah.
They needed material,, and they worked with what they had. Mozart worked with CPE Bach´s themes also and filled them out.
mrmolinodelahoz 2 years ago
@mrmolinodelahoz Really not surprising when one considers the amount of music these gentlemen cranked out! As for me, I'm so glad they did!
elvensong100 2 years ago
Think of architecture which employs the same elements of comumns, arches, windows, doors, plinths, statuary, domes, balustrades etc. These are all the materials which are re used in order to create a work of art. Just like a book uses the same words as in other books.
Only today the idiotic composers try to create something new and come up with unlistenable noise.
mrmolinodelahoz 2 years ago
Fantastic....one of my favourites music pieces.
And I love the text too and the fact that I am a native german speaker. "Jauchzet, Frohlocket." That fit in so brilliant and seems so hard to translate.
rufus10000 2 years ago
gardiner es un genio...!
que importa si bach se interpreta en una iglesia catolica o en una lutherana.... solo se interpreta...lo mas importante es ser fiel a la patitura y no al lugar...solo mantengamos vivo abach a traves de su legado musical
lulyscap 2 years ago 2
Geniales , se escucha PERFECTO Wonderfull es un coro espectacular , precioso me encanto !!!!! bye
Monchimag 2 years ago
I cannot think of a more joyful piece of music.
madeupinblue 2 years ago 4
Handel's Dixit Dominus?
saintsaens21 2 years ago
Not even close
janmoeyaert1 2 years ago
Bach "cum Sancto Spiritu in gloria Dei Patris " from the B minor Mass ?
or the Osanna from the same work ??
ThorSpirit 2 years ago
para:baldwalrus7 y Darioalquimia :
la musica es un bien cultural del que tenemos derecho de disfrutar
BlitzRogue 2 years ago
Sí sí, estoy totalmente de acuerdo. Ese era lo que yo intentaba decir también! (quizás esta confusión era porque mi español no es muy fuerte). Decía que Bach no es sólo para (por?) los lutheranos, pero para que todos lo disfruten.
baldwalrus7 2 years ago
paf!
Me refiero a que cuando se hacen grabaciones
de Bach con ambientación sacra
lo hacen sólo en iglesias catolicas....!!!!!
no digo que no se interprete bach en todas
partes.
Mandenme un video de la misma calidad visual con ambientación de iglesia, pero en un templo protestante, aún así sería parte de la minoría.
Saludos
Darioalquimia 3 years ago
Genial, pero por qué están en una iglesia catolica
si Bach era protestanta y seguidor de Lutero?
Darioalquimia 3 years ago
Si, era Lutherano; pero no se debe de tocar Bach solo in iglesias Lutheranas.
baldwalrus7 3 years ago
.... pero tampoco sólo en iglesias católicas
como se hace actualmente. ¿Cuándo se ha tocado Bach en una iglesia lutherana o protestante?
la acustica no es escusa, porque iglesias catolicas antiguas tienen una identica acustica que las iglesias lutheranas, ya que, para construir dichos edificios usaban planos y materiales similares a los de las iglesias catolicas antiguas.
Darioalquimia 3 years ago
¿Eh? ¿Por qué dijiste, ".... pero tampoco sólo en iglesias católicas como se hace actualmente"? No tienes razón; su musica está tocado en todas tipas de iglesias, y también en salas de conciertos.
baldwalrus7 3 years ago
I like gardiners shadow ;) and the music of course
amatibassoon 3 years ago 3
Grandissima prestazione, di una gioiosità coinvolgente ed esplosiva
bosca67 3 years ago
absolut vom besten!
9867432 3 years ago 3
J.S.B :* :* Ich liebie
nie919 3 years ago 3
fantásticos coro y orquesta
adrianitube 3 years ago 2
Genial!
Pfarrer1Szafera 3 years ago
J.S.B-love,love
te amo
nie919 3 years ago 4
i think this is almoust pefection interpretation in Bach.
AlexOrganMusic 3 years ago 5
Gardiner is a big director ¡¡¡ está version es la mejor que existe ¡¡¡¡ VIVA BACH ¡¡¡¡
BACH RULES ¡¡¡¡¡ WE LOVE HIM ¡¡¡
avesillasday 3 years ago
You said it !!!!
Bach forever ...
gjfurn38967 3 years ago
Superb work from Gardiner, et al
And Happy Christmas to call lovers of wonderful music everywhere!
Paracelsus72 3 years ago
A great and prosperous new year to you, thank you for a nice post, a rare event on u tube!.
archiecat989 3 years ago
Yeh! merry christmas to all. Always nice to hear the timpani again... :)
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otterhouse 3 years ago
Masterful.
m9hymas80 3 years ago
Unübertrefflich, einfach genial!
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onetwothreeandmore 3 years ago 3
Ein purer Hörgenuss. Bach einfach Genial. Fantastisch gesungen von dem Monteverdi Chor.
Wenn man bedenkt mit so wenig Sänger und Sängerinnen ein solches Werk zu singen. Wenn man die Augen schließt denkt man ein hundert "Mann" starker Chor würde da Singen. Einfach klasse...
5554955 3 years ago 4
This is the standard I grew up with when it came to Bach. The Montiverdi choir is just great!
ButterflyTB 3 years ago 2
wuidih...katanya peteeerr ama emli mo kozert...
archezus 3 years ago
This is amazing - what a big sound you get with only this few singers... and the instrumentalisation is exceptional as well!
Yossus 3 years ago 28
I cant imagine him laboring in obscurity to produce this for some provincial german town...I wager hes smiling now tho
jimmbo13 3 years ago
What romantic 19th century drivel.
Leipzig was hardly a provincial town in Bach's time.
It was already a center of German law and the publishing industry.
Part of the reason Bach accepted the position was for the educational opportunities Leipzig afforded his children.
Bach's sons Wilhelm and Carl attended the University of Leipzig, and Bach himself had many friends who taught there and many students who studied there.
wcbroccoli 3 years ago 2
Wonderful performance.
I've sung this before, and even though it was a year ago and I don't speak a word of German, I still remember nearly all of it.
And I'm in high school. Such is the power of Bach at his best.
VerucaSaltines 3 years ago 3
This performance provides inspiration beyond words for me. I hope it does the same for you too. The players are soooo good! Trumpets - WOW! Bach indeed wrote FOR God and his music is godly especially as performed by this group!
stratect 3 years ago 5
doesn't this just send you!!!
jmdez 3 years ago
Tooooo good
RALsyatyou 3 years ago
This music is the best ever!
Bach is the number one.
He made music for God!
Nobody made music so perfect!Thanks..Danke.
UbuntuBird 3 years ago 23
@UbuntuBird You are right, that J S Bach has been one of the greatest composers up today. But really to understnad the deep truth of this music implies to realize, that rankings of which one may be the best person refering to this or that ability is one of the least important questions in the universe
berniewa2008 1 year ago
was für ein FEST für den GEIST ! Boah !
dihydrodingsbums08 3 years ago 3
Oh i wish you could post the tenor aria "Frohe Hirten". It's sooo good with Anthony Rolf Johnson... :)
enterandeject 3 years ago
I love the beginning solo trumpet part which is at 0:36 seconds, which is rising for a exultant response from the audience and the heavens. And it gets that I believe in the mirror of the singing heard in the choir like wings wafting the rising and the falling of the voices like a wave dangerous and caresing us.
sparebone 3 years ago 2
Wonderful and brilliant performance. Brings out the dance in Bach
tonyinvan 3 years ago 3
Thank you!
draugsvoll01 3 years ago
"I hear he's a horrible taskmaster, but the outcome is divine."
I don't think you could achieve anything as divine as this if you were not a 'horrible taskmaster'.
I love Sir John Eliot Gardiner with all my heart & soul. Thank you for showing me perfection is possible.
otrolog 3 years ago 5
Only for Bach though. Brahms is beter conducted by Herreweghe. Thanks for sharing :)
Lotiolenti 3 years ago
Sir John E. Gardiner's Christmas Oratorio interpretation is simply perfect!
Bach + Sir J.E.G. = perfect expression for the Joy of Christmas! jauchzet! frohlocket! hey!
vyhladko 3 years ago
Gardiner is a great conductor. His Mozart interpretations aren't my favorites, but I adore his Bach! I hear he's a horrible taskmaster, but the outcome is divine.
KristalAV 3 years ago
I don't like his Brahms either. Herreweghe is better for that. His Bach is the best though. Choir size is perfect, too.
Lotiolenti 3 years ago
thank you for posting - Gardiner & the Monteverdi Ensemble deserve more credit for their crisp and authentic performances- and it is good to actually SEE the period instruments also, esp the natural (baroque) trumpets. I cant imagine what it is like to play without valves...
rob15348 3 years ago 2
how delightful yet majestic! I love gardiner's interpretation for Bach's music...one day I wish to be in a part of baroque ensemble
summerz86 3 years ago 2
Is that a Viola Da Gamba?
GWAR1018 3 years ago
Hermosa version. Normal en Gardiner.El Coro, como siempre:Fascinante.
carloslopezluna 3 years ago
I love this!!! thanks for sharing!
mozartinio 3 years ago
This is really, really good! As to be expected from these guys. Thier recording of Bach's magnificat from the 80s is still the best in my books.
HARMONICO101 3 years ago
Beautiful incredible just incredible
operamom1118 3 years ago 4
thx ! it is awesome!!! it brings u to heaven
paladinne 3 years ago
Now this is the way it should be played
san6166 3 years ago 3
Keine Musik zeigen, die Begeisterung und die Freude und das Feiern so viel Musikstück copyright Genius großen Johann Sebastian Bach, es ist wirklich wunderbar.
whomakemefeel 3 years ago 2
he is a wonderful conductor ! One of the best that ever exist !
54spiritedwill54 3 years ago 3
Gets my vote for the best recording of the Christmas Oratorio...yes they are so much more passionate arn't they?
inanes 3 years ago 2
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Why is everyone so much more animated and exciting than the Germans? Does that mean that the original Bach was boring? Harnoncourt grew up in Austria, and then there are Herreweghe, and the brilliant unsurpassed English conductors (Gardiner, McCreesh)-- everyone simply does a better job performing Bach than the Germans (Mr Boring Rilling etc)
buenosdiers 3 years ago
Don't generalise, please. Horses for courses I think. Gardiner does Bach so well but would not expect his Beethoven symphonies to come to Klemperer's or Furtwangler's standard
mozgreen 3 years ago
Prachtig!
3tristan 4 years ago
the first violin looks a little bit like anne sopfie von otter hahahaha, I said what's she doing there? mezzo-violin? LOL
141407078989 4 years ago
does anybody knows if the last concert they made in barcelona-catalonia is filmed? because it would be very very nice for that to be in youtube!!!
141407078989 4 years ago
nice
ilectrologos 4 years ago
I just love Bach. He`s the best musician ever.
After I heard his music I don`t really like anything else.
analuzinator 4 years ago 5
did anyone else spot baritone singer Dietrich Henschel? I first heard him sing the Quoniam tu solus sanctus(gloria) from the B minor mass performed at the Cathedral de Notre Dame. awesome music.
bergeronf 4 years ago 2
Wow, such full sound coming from such a small chorus. Such precise diction, intonation, and dynamic coloring too. They're using "authentic" instruments (wooden transverse flutes, unvalved trumpets, etc.), but still the orchestral force seems to be a little bigger than something Bach would have used in his time for an oratorio, no? Anyways, I suppose that it doesn't matter. I'm just surprised that the sound is so balanced with such a relatively large orchestral force compared to the chorus.
scyldschefing 4 years ago 2
Right. Bach most likely used one singer per part in most of his choral works (the conductor Andrew Parrott wrote a book on it. It's very well researched). The recording of this oratorio by Pickett uses way smaller forces than Gardiner, but not one voice per part.
norcalrobbie2 4 years ago
There is no music more meaningful to me than Bach's. The pillar of fire like in Exodus, guiding musicians to nobler things.
GeorgeMaxwellDuPre 4 years ago 3
you say the perfect word describing the atmosphere of musik
paladinne 3 years ago
Wir singen mit unserem Schulchor bald das Weihnachtsoratorium
ekliseklis91 4 years ago
Magnifique!!
3akkk 4 years ago 2
Herrlich habe das früher im Knabenchor selbst mitgesungen, ist eine schöne Erinnerung
Rabenheini 4 years ago
I'm speechless, it's so great !!!! A choir of 20 which sounds as if they were hundreds. that is magical.
Ritzounett 4 years ago
This is the way this piece was meant to be: divine!!
berlineagle 4 years ago
god this is awesome
LambChowder 4 years ago
We´re doing this song in our school choir right now and it´s soooo hard to sing. Respect to everybody in this choir!
Faruk4Ever 4 years ago 2
¡sublime!
Ventiturbini 4 years ago
John Eliot rulez!!! He is so fantastic. I know him from the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage and he is the best conductor and the best person in the whole world!!!
AlexandrosV 4 years ago
This group—Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque Soloists, and of course J.S.—they are the most important people in the world, no question. I really, truly believe that.
moskva40 4 years ago
when can i see the rest of the oratorio?pls. upload....plsssssssss.
solti 4 years ago
This is extremely impressive. I've sung Bach choral pieces and being a tenor I always found my throat in a right mess at the end. Ah well, the pains of amateur choral singing. This is how good it can be, and goodness isn't it just great?
SinoSene 4 years ago
so good
solti 4 years ago
John Eliot Gardiner ,Trevor Pinnock ,Robert King ,Karl Richter ! men with wisdom From GOD .for make high His Glory !
like true shadows of servant of GOD :Johann Sebastian Bach !
Diusaum 4 years ago
you're right!
mozartinio 3 years ago
But the musicians performance is the best I have ever seen executing this oratorio. And this is what really matters.
senhoredson 4 years ago
John is not as funny to watch conduct as Ton.
latitude310 4 years ago
I couldn't agree more ! But he is a wonderful conductor ! One of the best that ever exist, I mean !
kali555b 4 years ago
Funny?? Ton is brilliant conductor, he show his commited in the way he conduct. Its amazing to watch him live. What "funny" had U meant?? I dont see sth like this. The most important thing is how he feels the Bachs music, how he interprets him and how he sends this feelings to audience!!!
Thexenion 4 years ago
I totally get your point, but I must agree with latitude—watching Ton is hilarious. He is, indeed, an amazing conductor, as is Gardiner, and hearing the productions of both is, quite simply, a gift from Heaven, but I guess God decided to throw a little humour in with the Dutchman's gift.
moskva40 4 years ago
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Ton indeed is "funny" all right. Just listen to him play Bach's organ music elsewhere on YouTube. He is a bore, sarcastic, unorthodox, and disgraces Bach.
jasonc001 4 years ago