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  • beautiful...amazing..

  • @erroll9621 noi, no tots tenim la sort de ser tant trempats com tu, ja m'entens.

  • God visited Bach and inspired him... maybe God sang this tune for him... I can't find no other way to describe this music.

  • @jgbusquets if that is the only way you can find to describe it, then you are quite limited indeed.

  • BBC Proms 2004

    -Prom 47 of 2004 season. Royal Albert Hall, London, on Saturday 21 August 2004

    performers:

    Andrew Manze, 1st violin/director

    Rachel Podger, 2nd violin

    The English Concert

  • No emotion. Sounds like two robots going at it. Sorry.

  • @Nime64 agreed

  • When Asians do this, there's this tiny bit of it missing. Perhaps Godel can speak to this. Discuss.

  • just listen the dialog between the 2 violins ,,,

  • 29 people were owned by Bach

  • that there is this music and that I am able to be touched by it convinces me that there must be something we can call god.

  • @nurdieh555 maybe ourselves :D

  • Hammer - awesome! nix LOL!

  • And God spoke to Bach...

  • The notes first violin plays towards the end of the music really spice up! Who's edition is it? or is his own? Does anyone know if there is such edition?

  • @SeanMinn i didn't recognize it either. maybe it's just him. i agree, i also wanna know!

  • @SeanMinn LOL It's just some smalzy improvisation to cater to a low brow audience that enjoys a dog and pony show.. No "edition"!

  • 2:50 - 4:00 <3

  • Rachel violin sounds like shit... am I the only violonist who think that ?

  • @nilsvids yes you are

  • Excellent, thanks. Part 1?

  • The fact that there are dislikes for this says everything you'll ever need to know about humans.

  • According to a audio documentary he devoted this piece to his wife, if so he has done a good job of making the violins a personification of intimate love. and also writing a amazingly crafted piece of music which bach if famous for. Emotion, art, logic bach incorperates all these things into his music. That is why it sounds fucking awesome. :D:D

  • @dxf323 Normally, I would be VERY "critical" of this kind of comment! but I liiike it!

  • Gorgeous. His string work is underrated because he's so well known as a keyboardist. The Chaconne, Cell Concerto pt one. Like Handel he also masteed string composition.

  • @BaronVonLichtenstein You mean the cello suites? Handel sometimes never even finished his keyboard and string compositions. And honestly, most of those are mediocre anyway.

  • @NimbleTurtle13 Lookup Handel Complete Violin Sonatas. It isn't Vivaldi, it's understated bt sublime nonetheless. Writers write with their heads not their fingers. A great composer can write for any instrument, though it takes virtuosity to write for keyboards like Bach, Lizst, Scarlatti or Rachmaninoff, Vivaldi or Paganini for Violin. But writing is more than complexity or virtuosity. Bachs Chaconne is one of the best written violin pieces in human history and it was written by a keyboardist.

  • @BaronVonLichtenstein Handel's violin sonatas are the ones I did exclude as what I considered complete mediocrity. You seem to be not aware - like many - of the extent to which Bach played the violin. He was an extremely accomplished violinist. What makes Bach a supreme composer in all genres is because he composed abstractly, not narrowing his mind strictly by the sound of instruments. Compare with Scarlatti for example, whose pieces are more favored towards the harpsichord than the piano.

  • @NimbleTurtle13 i write a lot and learned to apply what I leaned on guitar to keys and visa versa. Or play the trumpet sound like a keyboard ostinata. The melodies come from the head, so the instrument doesnt matter. People learn things then cant unlearn them so they become predictable. Bachs Partitia 2 was the kitchen sink of violin technique. It would be avant garde if it came out today. Vivaldi wrote this piece that sounds like he was using a digital delay. Crazy ahead of their time.

  • Mala interpretación del pelon, yo lo podría a ver hecho mejor jeje

  • The musicians are high class. The interpretation seems romantic here and there, which I do not like.

  • Wonderful performance until the temporary meltdown starting at 5:37. Lovely sound overall.

  • sweet :) ah their chords not like this age. ''A'' (la) isn't like 440 around, sounds begining with ''E'' but its ''F'' actually. they chorded according to boraque style i guess. knowing that, notes was a bit flat at baroque days. and became sharper and sharper. players sharpened a bit more and more day by day their chords for more brillant and shiny tunes. and our notes are half tone sharp from the begining.

  • Perdon: EL violinista fue quien toco la nota falsa...

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  • hasta los grandes maestros se equivocan, chequen el minuto 5:37...

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  • @EstefanyMushi Las variaciones me parcen una sucesion de notas muy vella, sin embargo, es en el minuto mencionado (pocos segundos despues) donde cae una nota falsa (si es que se le puede llamar asi) ejecutada por la violinista. Inclusive, es evidente que ambos violinistas se dieron cuenta de este pequeño detalle, debido a sus expreciones cuando éste sucede (el violinista voltea a ver a la violinista, mientras que ésta muestra una leve sonrisa por el cometido)...

  • @6alem Bueno, la verdad casi no se nota, y más bien yo creo que se le salió un raspón, o no se como se le podrá llamar pero bueno, nadie es perfecto, hasta los más grandes les pasa, hasta a mi maestro le escuche dos veces y el es un gran violinista, la verdad que casi no se nota, al menos el lo disimula muy bien, y cuando ella sonrie parece q es porque esta disfrutando la música, y bueno como dijiste que fue en el minuto 5:37 lo escuché varias veces y no vi nada, la música es exacta.

  • @6alem Bueno, la verdad casi no se nota, y más bien yo creo que se le salió un raspón, o no se como se le podrá llamar pero bueno, nadie es perfecto, hasta los más grandes les pasa, hasta a mi maestro le escuche dos veces y el es un gran violinista, la verdad que casi no se nota, al menos el lo disimula muy bien, y cuando ella sonrie parece q es porque esta disfrutando la música, y bueno como dijiste que fue en el minuto 5:37 lo escuché varias veces y no vi nada, la música es exacta.

  • @EstefanyMushi perdon, esbribi vella... mas bien, es BELLA....

  • OMG Rachel Podger!!! <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

  • the female part seems to me Anne Sophie Mutter. Thank you for saharing!

  • I love it!! :)

     I wonder how meny times T wach this video??

  • A lot of people make these stupid god comments. I'm an atheist and I find this song absolutely brilliant. Good music is good music in itself, what an insult to give some dumb god credit. This was all Bach.

  • @LambdaQuarks

    Bach himself was deeply religious and wrote his music to please his maker, as well. There's no reason to find other people's belief in a divine being and/or its manifestation in this piece of music insulting.

  • @thefourthamendment

    Was making an observation.  I never felt insulted but thought it would be a bit insulting to Bach. If Bach had a belief or not makes no difference, he wrote the music and not god. Either way, forget what I said. I love the song.

  • I dont like this version!

  • Ridicoulous version, I hate it!! You should see Yehudi Menuhin and David Oistrakh. Fatal version!

  • Heaven, especially on period instruments. Just not the same on modern violins.

  • simplemente y excesionalmente hermoso, el violin junto con los otros instrumentos son música...:)

  • This is absolutely exquisite and expressive ..

  • For those who grew up listening to stalwarts like Stern and Perlman performing this, this performance might be difficult; however, this dynamic approach stripped of all the 20th century superfluous vibrato is simply amazing. These two are rock stars in my book. The inventiveness and muscianship here are top-notch. The only two negatives I could possibly dredge up are the inferior sound quality of the clip and Manze's adventure in harmonic invention at 2:44.

  • Mistic , Graceful ,Beautifuly harmonious, Eternal Masterpiece!

  • Manze is completely outclassed by the marvellous Rachel Podger.

  • @awyliu This isn't a competition. Andrew isn't perhaps blessed with the tone of a Gil Shaham, but he is a sublime communicator. He's been dogged by such comments - even back when he lead his county youth orchestra. Someone back then said I was a better violinist than AM - but here I am in IT, and it's Andrew making the records. You will (like I have) just have to accept he has an X factor. Although perhaps now Andrew is more of a conductor these days he has found his proper niche?!

  • @awyliu Ridiculous.

  • Ciertamente Bach no impuso tempos a sus creaciones.Aun asi 5:35-5:41,vaya...Si lo entendemos como improvisacion,¡vale!.

    lo que ocurre es que la perfeccion en este movimiento es casi una utopia.Pese a todo.¡Bravo!.

  • I love how they "talk" to each other trough their communication here. They really get the Conversation clearly out that was so essential to baroque music.

  • Lack of talent can not be hidden: incapable violinists should not try to mask their inability by pretending that a lack of vibrato and a poor left hand technique are the real period traits. Shame on the entire " period music" fraud....

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  • Love the ornamentation! It's not overdone, but seems authentically more Baroque!

  • Poor Bach!!!!

  • omg that is awesome

    can this piece be played for 2 violins and piano ?

    is there anyone who could help me ?

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  • anyone know which orchestra?

  • I just can cry after this. It´s the most beautifull thing that I´ve ever heard in my life.

  • yes. this is the best version I have EVER heard. Thank You!

  • tHis sHit iZ TiGht yO !

  • Which proms seasons was this?

  • Es ist unglaublich, was diese Musik (diese phantastische freie barocke Interpretation) mit einem macht. Man kann sich dieser unglaublichen Lebendigkeit, Freiheit und Schönheit nicht entziehen!

  • Wow, those Baroque bows are pretty funky...I've never used one, does it feel a lot different from a more conventional bow?

  • Love this version as it is played in a more Baroque style, and with period instruments.... Though, I am a bit of purist ;)

  • me no like this

  • the baroque bows sound good

  • Me encanta, es intenso.

  • Just good music, nothing else: the right pitch, the right instruments, the right way to play; transcendental, no brassy vibrato, the Dorothy DeLay school seems forgotten.

  • Bestaat er wat mooiers?

  • I like the Illenyi's version better. Katica is more rockin' (=

  • this piece is so calming...and I also love her dress :D

  • 5: 37 - 5: 41 = There is like some beautiful melodic descending pattern that is not in the original composition, but sounds so beautiful. 

  • @jordyeddytally Welcome to the wonder of period performance and the recreation of Baroque-era improvisation.

  • @jordyeddytally Not just that, also 5:50 onwards to 6:05!

  • Que bom que esses geniais da música existem, eu digo existem, porque são eternos, imortais...Porque do contrário, o que seria de nossos ouvidos hoje em dia com tantas porcarias sendo lançadas como se fossem música...

  • I love how this isn't self-indulgent. Lovely.

  • You are right. It ´s the harmony between the musicians, that gives on the creeps. It´s wonderful.

  • imagine how amazing it was to have played with those two making beautiful music together.....

  • good

    

  • YEEES. So far the best version. Not as arrogant as other versions.

    Beautiful!

  • this movement is devine - no doubt about that. but it is more: it is human, it is bach. (like l. v. beethoven said: nicht Bach, Meer sollte er heißen - "his name should not be 'Bach' (=creek), but ocean")

  • Heart-wrenchingly beautiful. Awesomely magnificent!

  • Beautiful.

  • bach = the best. i have heard that this piece was meant to be like a conversation, or love-making, etc of two lovers. the two violins almost play to each other like an intimate pair.

  • @gaylordhomer4 Please//Not the "intimate pair"commparison.....TMI

  • Andrew is great!

  • This music is a distilled feeling, a perfume.

  • personally, i think the best version of this is the malcolm mcnab one - hes jst released a new album with him playing this concerto on trumpet! sounds amazing!

  • Yes, it is special because the violinists are at least partially facing each other, the first time I have seen this. I think they should be totally facing each other because each part drafts off the other. I have never seen it done this way and would like to recommend it to any great violinists who might be reading this. I think you, and the audience, would find it a moving experience.

  • @safetychoice The reason it isn't done this way is because it would require one violinist's f-holes to face the back of the hall/venue. This would make that violin acoustically handicapped compared to the other part.

  • mmmm se desafino en el segundo 5:38 pero muy buen trabajo, aunque demasiados arreglos y adornos le quitan casi todo lo barroco... ♥

  • Diese Musik - und wie sie gespielt wird - ist etwas von schönsten, was einem passieren kann.

  • ok, it's not a romantic type of performance, and it's also not a song. it's a piece. stop posing as real musicians if you're going to critique. what do you mean, I"M PLAYING THE PIANO PART OF THIS SONG?

  • @imbrial

    HA HA HA HA YOU ARE TOTALLY RIGHT MR.

  • This beautiful music appears in CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD♥ - one of my favourite movies.

    Thank you for the clip.

  • A beautiful performance of the romantic type. The addition of ornaments to the repeated sections is very well done.

  • Se adornan innecesariamente.Tinte mas romántico que barroco.Aún así,muy bien.

  • Corte sereno con adornos innecesarios pero creíbles.

  • BWV 1043

  • I've always thought that this movement, more than any by Bach, is a reflection of his faith in God, as if in the end there is a serenity in his certainty. It is sublime.

  • @qvetch god is irrelevant

  • @vernymax well in the case of Bach, God is very relevant seeing as Bach composed many pieces intended to be performed for the mass.

  • @BBRENTTAGHAPP Composers wrote music for the Mass because they were hired to do so, had a commisson to fulfill or were seeking favor or an appointment, not because God moved them to do so. Bach submitted his original B-minor Mass (Kyrie/Gloria) to the Catholic Polish King/Saxon Elector in Dresden (then the musical capital of Germany) hoping to get royal/electoral protection in dealing with the Leipzig town officials. Eventually Bach was named Royal Polish and Saxon Electoral Court Composer.

  • @wcbroccoli how do you know that Bach was not also inspired by God? To write something of such quality and reverence isn't very easy. And by parody do you mean a piece based on a preexisting work?

  • @BBRENTTAGHAPP How do you know he was inspired by a god? How do you even know there is a god, goddess, gods, or overlords? "Parody" is the term musicologists use to refer to a repurposed a composition & was very common in the Baroque. The Osanna from B minor Mass was adapted from 1st movement of cantata BWV 215 written to celebrate the anniversary of the election of Augustus III, the Duke Elector of Saxony, as King of the Polish Commonwealth.

  • @BBRENTTAGHAPP Most of the music in Bach's B-minor Mass was not written for any Mass. Most of the movements are parodies of cantata movements. Even his other so-called "Lutheran Masses" are parodies of cantata movements.

  • @wcbroccoli "Music's only purpose should be the glory of God and the recreation of the human spirit." - J.S. Bach

    

  • @BBRENTTAGHAPP That is what they taught since the Middle Ages! and in the Latin schools Lutheran boys attended in Bach's era. Bach attended a Latin school! Where do you think he got these ideas? In the Catholic parochial school I attended they taught us to write things like "All through Jesus", SDG ("For the glory of God alone", JJ (Jesu help). Do you think Bach invented these things? Everyone in Bach's era was deeply religious.

  • @wcbroccoli everyone, including Bach.

  • @BBRENTTAGHAPP Yes, everyone was religious. But that doesn't mean any god was telling them what to write.

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  • @BBRENTTAGHAPP Yes, everyone was religious, but no god was talking to any of them. No one was any more inspired by a god than a painter is inspired by a sunset..

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  • @BBRENTTAGHAPP God said to Bach, "When you write the Osanna, you should reuse the very cool congratulatory music you wrote for the Saxon Duke Elector/King in Poland. Just change the words to "osanna in excelsis" and make a few changes to the music to fit the new words. No one, including BBRENTAGHAPP, will know the difference. I, your God, will still get the credit for divinely inspiring you.

  • @wcbroccoli well let's get feisty now. first off, i never said that this was God's music. it's BACH's music. second, the point i was making was that Bach's reverence/awe of God played a major role in his compositions. and didn't Bach sign his manuscripts with "AMDG" which means To the Greater Glory of God? so chill out buddy, goodness.

  • @BBRENTTAGHAPP I never said you said that. As with all composers of his era & before, Bach's approach to creating sacred music was the same as secular music. That's why he had no difficulty or objection to converting a congratualory piece into a sacred piece. Adding SDG, JJ, etc. was not unusual in Bach's era and predates him. When some people say Bach's sacred music was "Inspired by God", they mean they believe God intervened in the creative process, not merely that the composer was devout..

  • @qvetch I always think about God (and all the beauty he has created) when I hear this movement, I love it and I admire Bach so much, he is my favorite composer, nothing compares to Bach... I feel so emotional with this music, and I wanna say to others, that Bach was very religious SO probably he was thiking about God when he wrote this, anyway it' s the way WE think and OUR feelings about God, and those that are not believers may have a little respect to us, so think what you want about this

  • This a beautiful rendition, i love it when 2 masters get together and do things a bit different - particularly when they know the piece so intimately. So, thanks.

  • This particular section- I imagine it to be what the relationship of a binary star would sound like if their synergy was translated through the medium of classical music- each singing to each other, intrinsically bound to each other till their end in the great vastness of the universe.

  • Rachel doesnt look soooo good and right now im playing the piano part of this song.

  • listen to Handel´s largo. The two baróque titans (that I really love) had the same idea for the intro of largo.

  • Fantastic. The best Bach I ever ...

  • This is so beautiful. I'm glad you decided to post this version, despite the numbers.

    Thank you!

  • what concert is this?

  • Double violin concerto in D-minor, don´t know the BWV number.

  • ottima esecuzione

  • Well, England has always had great actors!

  • I'm in Love

  • Very good!

  • After the first note i felt as if i was some where peaceful away form the bloody world

  • @freakmommy i feelt like i was in the shire in the lord of the rings!

  • when i heard the first note i knew it was going to be beautiful: she controls the bow with peace as it always should be

  • the bows are just baroque. the a's are tuned to like 436 (A flat). I play a lot of my bach the same way. wish i had a baroque bow though

  • Best recording of the piece IMO. The baroque instruments really make the difference.

  • Отличное,барочное исполнение!

  • Is they play con. Curdina?

     btw godo palying both.

  • my favorite piece of classical music, i'm obsessed with it!

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  • Period playing in the Royal Albert Hall, that's SF!

  • however its still amazing

  • It's ok. Kind of like when you make waffles and you look in the fridge and there is no syrup. or like a veggie burger.... Best version in Jean Lamon and Tafelmusik's...... the playing here is consevatory blah... Show me some guts not dry toast. I don't care how someone looks, should be beyond that. This is why the music industry is a fucking joke.. NO moxy all fluff

  • While I agree that Lamon is truly great, I must say I have no idea how it is possible to refer to Manze as "conservatory blah" (I DO like the choice of words though, conservatory blah IS a huge problem, particularly here in the US). Actually, I have studied with Jean and Ivars and I would suggest that the Tafelmusik paradigm is actually a bit more conservative than Manze. Check out the recording he did of the Emanuel Bach 183 Sinfonias... it's truly wild!

  • yeah maybe "blah" is a bit much.. lol maybe the recording itself is what I don't care for it is a bit dry. Tafelmusik's recordings of these concertos have a luminous quality of sound and unity of direction ensemble-wise. I don't know what it is about the recordings but I consider them the benchmark. I do not wish to disrespect Manze, he has done more for music than I have typing on this computer and I give him props for what he has acheived and like other recordings of his.

  • You know, I must admit, though, that when it comes to Sebastian Bach in particular, I would almost always take Lamon over Manze. I find her to be more refined, and for some reason that seems to lend itself to Papa Bach's personal brand of über-Germanicism...

    Tafelmusik's Brandenburgs, for instance, remain the unchallenged gold-standard for me!

    Just thinking out loud here, I didn't mean to pick on you earlier!

  • omg i can't believe it either it shouldn't happen

  • they over exadrate at all and out of tune notes happen to anybody

  • Yet another picture perfect female soloist....lookism is alive and well

  • Se sono archi barocchi, perchè li impugnano così vicino al tallone?

  • un capolavoro assoluto...

  • Thanks so much for posting this. I remember seeing the live TV broadcast of this from the Proms, and being mesmerised by the playing and the rapport between the two violinists. Wonderful, intimate music making and a great performance.

  • the best music of the world! :)

  • And also: The ornaments Andrew Manze plays at the end of the movement are just wonderfull. And any musician knows how damnd difficult it is to ornament Bach!!

  • Just wonderfully played!

    And here at last the artists really seem to care only about the music and not themselves!

    BRAVO

  • thats a baroque bow

  • does anyone know how to do trills?

  • Thats a cool Bow.

  • esta muy bien representado hasta con clave y todo

  • Oh, yes, they are both using baroque bows.

  • @irinastroh And baroque violins and gut strings. You can tell by the lack of resonance created by a modern bass-board in the instrument and non-metal strings and the shortened fingerboard (they didn't go up all that high back then).

  • One of the best performing of this piece?definitely!

  • SIMPLEMENTE SUBLIME.

  • this is what im calling musik

  • I want to b at