Bach - Violin Concerto in A Minor BWV1041 - Mov. 1/3

[charlieyoung1988]

And when I woke I found that it was just a dream! After that night I drew several pictures of the sense of my dream. Several years later I even studied architecture and addicted into the classical music and arts of garden, I knew that classical music could bring me to another world of mantel, a pure and fantastic world. Personally I regard this piece of music's (Bach - Violin Concerto in A Minor BWV1041 - Mov. 1/3) color or season as the golden of autumn.

[charlieyoung1988]

where the music came from, suddenly we saw that there were several musicians playing Bach's work in the pavilion. "We should wait here for listening the music" I said. "But the day is getting dark and maybe we cannot see clearly the way down to the hill" my friend said. There was a wide level along the hill, all the hill was built as a baroque garden, the trees the plants, also the flowers and the walls, the architectures and sketches were so classical and beautiful...

[charlieyoung1988]

Here are some description about my mind brought by the music (part one). I found myself was among the top of a hill, faced to the falling down sun, the wind blew my face I felt a sense of cold. All the hill was golden because the trees and the grasses were all red and brown. There were just a friend and me on the hill...there also was a Renaissance pavilion in the woods. The day was getting dark, my friend and me suddenly heard that a melody of Bach's work, like this one! When we tried to find

[TheLostRelic]

Do the fingerings change in Baroque tuning? Or do they stay the same?

[alimaksoud1]

So spiritual and sublime I can listen to this piece for ever

When the angles sing to God, they sing Bach music

[pepys1633]

As much as I love Mozart's music, I think I love Bach's a little bit more

[sprygeoffreya17]

Funny thing, music. When my boy was a baby, I'd put him on my arm, and we'd dance him to sleep, and Bach's concerto's were his favorite, and this one in particular. I lost him at age 18 months ,17 years ago, and still this song makes me cry.

[captainnemo1111]

@sprygeoffreya17 may he rest in peace

[IsisSlovenska]

magniiiifico!! LOVEE Isis

[barracuda2111]

SUBLIME GRAZIE

[tangnatalaga]

Stay away from politics, and religion. It is guaranteed to start a debate. Lets just enjoy this piece of music.

[bubblycola95]

i agree! :) bach rox!!

[isitvalottioryoung1]

@tangnatalaga

Do you think that is what Jesus and George Washington would do?

;-)

[WeepingStellaMaris]

@tangnatalaga Ecumenist 

[Cantormatis]

well, bach was very much aware of Il Prete Rosso! the Vivaldi three movement concerto was Bach's model, and he wrote numerous of vivaldi. Yet he differs in employing much more counterpoint, including during the solo episodes.

[Violinrules555]

Wow, this is a lot better than many of the modern interpretations I have heard.

[MerlinTheDraconic]

Nice performamce, but it's a semitone flat. O__o

[HARMONICO101]

Baroque tuning. A=415 Hz, whereas modern pitch is A=440 Hz

[MerlinTheDraconic]

I'm quite familiar with baroque tuning, I just hate playing in it. I have friends with a houseful of medieval/renaissance instruments, and they joke about tuning the harpsichord a semitone flat just to annoy me (I have perfect pitch). Unfortunately, I've adjusted to A=440Hz, so anything else makes me feel odd. The playing itself is wonderful, and thanks for all the videos.

[HARMONICO101]

I don't understand why it seems so weird really. I have no idea if I have perfect pitch, but I know I have very good pitch, and it just sounds like its in A flat minor. That doesn't annoy me really. Playing it though takes a bit of getting used to though.

[Southsidebassman]

People like you bug me. Critisicising the little details in a pieceof music to make it just shy of perfect. And your "perfect pitch". BS. No one has perfect pitch. Even experts make mistakes. Stop bragging and just listen to the song. It's what Bach made it for and you're just disgracing him by speaking the way you are. Get a life and get your nose out of the air.

[MerlinTheDraconic]

I believe you have misinterpreted me. Perfect pitch, also known as absolute pitch, is the ability to discern pitch without an external reference. I know this concerto very well, having played it myself. I know exactly which notes should go where, and while they are all there, to me it sounds as though the entire thing has been shifted one note over, and it's jarring. I am not criticizing the skill of the violinist, or the integrity of the piece.

[Fim2007]

i agree...this piece does sound like it's shifted...i'm also playing the piece right now for my juries....however i dont have to worry about perfect pitch. :) *goes up to marimba.* :) :P

[MerlinTheDraconic]

Heheh. I forgot that a great many baroque violin pieces are played on the marimba. I wonder what that would sound like? Odd. It could be interesting, especially with a marimba-orchestra.

[Fim2007]

got an A on my juries. :) ...but yea....i'd still stick with the violins and orchestra.

[wcbroccoli]

@MerlinTheDraconic FYI, Renaissance instruments were not tuned at A415. They were tuned around A465, based on the tuning of Renaissaance winds, which remained the basis for the tuning of Baroque organs. The late Baroque A415 tuning was based on the tuning of wind instruments coming out of France. But for decades, even in Bach's day, Baroque church music was played at organ pitch ~A465; winds that could only play at A415 (or lower) had their parts transposed up.

[guerino07]

OMG the genius of Bach, I think his violin concerti exceed the Brandenburg Concerti: the counterpoint, the melody; ce'st brilliante

[polymath7]

I love the violoin concerti as well; It's a bitter shame he only wrote three of them.

Are the Brandenburgs the only concerto grossi Bach is known to have written?

[guerino07]

Known to have written yes, alot of Bach's orchestral works are missing. I'd say he only wrote the six. My favourite is the fourth.

[bubblykings]

Well, the Brandenburg concertos were the only concerto grossos Bach wrote.

[guerino07]

Bach's oboe concerti were very good, Bach also wrote the Italian Concerto, a concerto for solo harpsichord, he also arranged, Alessandro Marcello's oboe concerto in d minor into a solo concerto for harpsichord

[bubblykings]

Well, Bach was really busy in his life so I guess he couldn't write any more violin concerti! Well it is a shame i guess..only three. But I think it the most shameful he was never commissioned to write an opera! I wonder why no one asked him for an opera.

[bubblykings]

I know! Bach was DEFINITELY a genius! :)

[guerino07]

Johann Sebastian also wrote a concerto for violin and oboe, he also wrote many highly regarded harpsichord concerti, but most of those were based on or arrangements of works by Antonio Vivaldi

[JrockNerd]

Love it! :), I'm starting to get a bit into classical music nowadays.

[InSaneTK]

Check out Haydn's Cello Concerto (it's the first in the search if you search "Haydn Cello Concerto". Beethoven - Choral Fantasy, Chopin's Piano Concerto no. 1, 2nd movement.

Enjoy. :)