Bach - Matthaeus Passion - 29

[zrshwe]

Chorale O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß, Darum Christus seins Vaters Schoß Äußert und kam auf Erden; Von einer Jungfrau rein und zart Für uns er hie geboren ward, Er wollt der Mittler werden. Den Toten er das Leben gab Und legt darbei all Krankheit ab, Bis sich die Zeit herdrange, Daß er für uns geopfert würd, Trüg unsrer Sünden schwere Bürd Wohl an dem Kreuze lange

[jreterno]

A introdução deve ter sido inspirada no tema do movimento largo da Oferenda Musical. Ou o contrário. Lindo.

[xyldinnc]

I have loved this piece since first hearing it in 1972. I recorded it from a radio station in Chicago and played it til the tape was too stretched to be any good. I bought the vinyl then recorded it on cassette for my car. It has been my soundtrack for moving from Chicago to Connecticut to Minnesota and is now sought out every Lenten season. This music is so timeless and yet has never been as widely appreciated as Handel's Messiah.

[oyogoyog]

this whole presentation is too fast, just my opinion, it should be slower

[vaughangarrick]

three people are gonna get a visit from me later tonight-how can you hate this?

[055697]

i love every note of the st matthew passion! why three people would dislike this is beyond me but i guess there is no accounting for bad taste.

[dadautube]

tried hard to download this part and part 30-x so far but it just doesn't work. parts 35-x & 39-x have also downloaded with no problem.

[thinedoor2]

And Koopman is at least among the very best interpreters of his music in the last 50 years.

[thinedoor2]

So gorgeous, and one of my favorite Bach choruses. It perfectly embodies the manifold genius of Bach: dense, overwhelming arrangements and rhythms complementing simple melodic lines, a passionate effort to project deep empathy and experience alongside a profound and eternal complacency. And that is Bach.

[sasha42196]

That was very eloquent.

[6134447]

It is so great. This is my favorite part.

[fadisaleh1]

Great, amazing, Goldy and Divine .. That's what Bach is ..

[MilitantTVNetwork]

After all, they say "there is the music of Bach, therefore there must be a God"

[dadautube]

or if there is a God truly out there, then we get to know 'it' through men like Bach ...

[newbach36]

Its incredibel isent it. He wrote so much music and never failed once. He must has been touched by God. Bach is the greatest composer ever.

Btw this is my favorite Choral in Matthaeus passion. It Simply Beautyfull.

[claudimirm]

É incrível como um homem como esse bersa888, sendo tão culto, pode fazer um comentário desses. É o imperfeito ouvindo o perfeito. Jesus falou certa vez prá não jogar pérolas aos porcos. E certamente aos porcos falta o discernimento. A idade e a cultura não acrescentaram nada a esse indivíduo. É uma pena!

[dadautube]

couldn't agree more but read Bible or other similar text of religious content through different eyes to interpret it differently and then certain parts of it will truly sound beautiful, useful even. let's not forget Christianity has its roots in other, older ideas such as Hednoism or Mithraism and so forth, which in turn had been great in their own time, only to become contaminated by "organized religion" and heavily influenced by money and thus losing their true 'heavenly' essence ...

[bersa888]

Yes, I agree.

[sasha42196]

@ bersa888: I am sorry but this is a very arrogant comment. To you, Bach's music may be "proof" behind your worship of human intellect. To many others, it is "proof" of its divine inspiration. Music or musical genius don't prove or disprove God or the Bible. Rather, to quote Bach himself: "The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God..."

[freestylefan1]

@sasha42196 or more accurately, "To the Glory of God, if he exists"

[NihilNominis]

@freestylefan1 No, that would not be a more accurate quotation from Bach. Bach said what he said, and if you don't like it, deal with it. Quoting him accurately does not bear on the truth claims he makes; rather, it is our duty to him and to truth in general.

[toppix7]

GREAT!

[waeman]

i think that people at year 2500 will still listen to Bach and enjoy .. his music deeply touches the human soul

[Shogunmiyuchan]

Sometime in the future, I will be writing a Cantata of my own, on the Chorale, "Ein Feste Burg" based upon the ST. Matthew Passion and Bach's own Cantatas becase he is the greatest composer who ever lived, and that's not ever going to be up for question.

[moskva40]

Whenever I write music, it's with Bach in mind. People tell me music is to reflect the zeitgeist . . . mein Geist ist mit Bach in alle Ewigkeit.

[NihilNominis]

Sie mussen denn den Geist zuziehen machen, wo sie ihn wöllen.

[mozgreen]

Bach lives today through his music

[derange123]

However beautiful, hearing this always makes me sad. But that might just be intentional...

[snakefl]

BEAUTIFUL!!