J. S. Bach - "Ach wie flüchtig, ach wie nichtig", BWV 26 (1/6)

[diegooogle]

The opening is similar to BWV 111

[javierpe9103]

genial maravilloso coro i love bach

[bassoon1784]

This is truly great! I love the new dimension your video adds to the music! The pictures really fit the text. But who are the musical performers? Gardiner? Harnoncourt? It's such a great rendition of the cantata!

[flemishdreams]

Well on Youtube you need actually some images at least to honor the medium. If not, you can as well listen to an audio recording.

I had the vinyl recording of Archiv since I was in my early teens (some ice ages ago) but I gave all my vinyl away to a collector.

Anyways, if you're still virgin at 30, you must be obsessed by Bach. :-p

[rkwittem]

@bassoon1784 I think it's the Bach Collegium Stuttgart under Helmut Riling.

[pawtdtmd]

awesome thanks for posting

[jimbobboyorganist]

Wow...what a shot! Enlightening interpretation...taught me a thing or two about pure style. Found myself clutching the desk when the 'Opening Chorus' ended. Abundant thanks for posting.

[flemishdreams]

Great video creation!

[zavinullava]

Yeah, especially Orgy's "Candyass" at 2.14:)

[rieder1977]

Danke für dieses Video!

J.S. Bach ist eine wirkliche Bereicherung unser aller Leben.

[wcbroccoli]

Inquiring minds want to know who performs this.

Please correct your notes: "basso continuo including organ & horn".

Bassoon, yes. Horn, no way.

[The30YearOldVirgin]

This version is from Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart / Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, conducted by Helmuth Rilling and recorded at Gedächtniskirche Stuttgart, Germany.

[The30YearOldVirgin]

As for the horn, the reason why you probably can't hear it in is because it's "corno col soprano", i.e. horn plays the parts of soprano along with the choir. But there is a horn both in this movement and in the sixth one.

I sent you a link with the score through PM since I can't post it here.

I suggest you try to listen to the 6th movement: the performers sing not as loud as they do here, and the horn can be heard more easily.

[wcbroccoli]

A horn might be used to double the voices singing the cantus firmus. Indeed, the Bach Gesellschaft score shows "corno col soprano" (="horn with soprano") on the soprano line of the choruses. But that has nothing to do with "basso continuo".

Your notes state "basso continuo including organ & horn", as though the horn were part of the basso continuo.

The basso continuo would surely include an organ, even a bassoon, but not a horn.

[The30YearOldVirgin]

While I don't understand why do you read "basso continuo (including organ & horn)" instead of what's actually written there, I will concede that the current form (which, btw, it's the same used in bach-cantatas[dot]com) might be misleading.

I will thus change it from "basso continuo including organ & horn" to "basso continuo (including organ) & horn".

Thank you for your contribution!

[wcbroccoli]

When you write "basso continuo including organ & horn" it appears that organ and horn are both included in the basso continuo.

It would have been less confusing had you writen "...., basso continuo, including organ, & horn".

Also, "basso continuo" is customarily listed last, so it was unexpected to see "horn" appended.

And when you write "2 violins", does that mean "exactly 2 violins" or "Violins I & II"?

You had to ask. LOL

[wcbroccoli]

In the 18th c., the soloists sang WITH the chorus (unlike today where the soloists sit quietly and look pious while the chorus sings).

As Bach notes, singers in a church chorus are of 2 types: concertists and ripienists. BOTH sang in choruses, but the former sang the solos.

In other words, in the 18th c they thought in terms of the "concertino" and "ripieno"

divisions of a concerto grosso. Bach even titled his choruses "concerto".

[wcbroccoli]

I don't hear bassoon in this movement and don't see one listed in the Bach-Gesellschaft score. But I suspect bassoon would have been included, esp. when you have 3 oboes.

The basso continuo would have included

bassoon, cello, violone and organ.

And "corno", translated here as "horn", doesn't mean hunting horn, French horn, modern cornet or jazz player's horn.

"Corno" here refers to a Renaissance wind instrument called "cornetto" in Italian, "Zink" in German.

[dragonp67]

this is a good song ty

[dragonp67]

runescape

[TIBUIN]

ach ja, Bach-Kantaten!!

[Ghehes]

Espetáculo!!

[WolfgangSebastien]

Beuatiful video,very expressive!

Thanks for this inmortal music!

+*+*+*+*+*

[JankunAndrej]

The interesting concept..

[The30YearOldVirgin]

Thanks, I tried to do something different in this video: to give my own perspective on the meaning of the piece.

While some may love it, others will certainly hate it :) But that's the price one has to pay for having his/her own heart ;)

[Teigen64]

The accompanying pictures debase the music.

[The30YearOldVirgin]

Well, I appreciate your comment (really), but I must state that a slideshow or a video clip is always someone's personal interpretation of a song, theme or piece (in this case, my personal interpretation).

Since you're much older than I am, and therefore have a lot more life experiences in your curricula, leading to a higher emotional maturity (and consequently greater psychological depth regarding poetry and music), it's only natural that you find my slideshow unworthy of Bach's music.

[The30YearOldVirgin]

But here are two things for you to consider: 1. Anyone can make slideshows with pictures from Leipzig, or with pictures of classical instruments, or pictures of Bach, like I have done in my previous videos. 2. Bach's immortal music can never be debased by the doings of mortals... specially 30 year old virgins ;)] .

Thank you and best regards :)

[Funktionslogik]

abort thy doings, morta!

lest thou be undone...

neigh truly,

art thou 1 b00n 2  art ;)

[The30YearOldVirgin]

LOL! That's the most generous comment I've received! Thank you so much! :)

[The30YearOldVirgin]

By the way, you are quite old! ;)

[Funktionslogik]

107 years

is only my Felt age...

...w i s d o m - w i s e ;)

a modest life-style helps

2 keep 1 young BTW

but you sure know that !!!

((thepleasurewasallmine))

[BachLoveNat]

8********!!!!!

[The30YearOldVirgin]

:) LOLOLOL! Thank you so much!

[BachLoveNat]

It's !...LOL!

:D

YT is ... really lovely place....

and I can see beautiful videos ...thanks for that

I do like your works my friend!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BachLoveNat]

BRAVOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[The30YearOldVirgin]

Thank you so much, my friend! :)

I was getting tired of my usual video formula (images of cities, instruments and composers), so I decided to put something different in this video...

While I'm receiving some criticism because my choice of images, I found it quite refreshing to make this video :) Hey, can't please them all, right? ;)

[BachLoveNat]

YOU ARE RIGHT!!!!

and I can say this is my favorite video from your collection :)

[The30YearOldVirgin]

Well.... I'm speechless :) Thank you for all you're kind comments!

They alone are more than enough reason to make this video worthy of making! :)

Thank you, milady! :)

[BachLoveNat]

.... Thank you..sir :)