Bach - Brandenburg Concertos No.4 - ii: Andante

[torontoBluejays87]

I am convinced that Bach was an alien from a far away star system many times more evolved than our own species, who travelled here to blow our minds. What he accomplished in his life was utterly inhuman...

[OceanJeff37]

Bach was the rapper of his time...he was the rock n roll... he was the heavy metal! Bach WAS IT, and I think he still is! LOL

[azzhyle]

did they release this version of the Brandenburg Concerto on a CD as well?

[danielzulauf]

Wow, so simple yet almost heart-breakingly beautiful.

[Shevaron]

I want to learn how to play the recorder just so I can play along with this. So much emotion in this composition by Bach.

[djfakt]

Ugh. The sound quality is demonstrated when the woodwinds are at the forefront. You can hear the aliasing in the sound, the low, low resolution. It sounds like old video-game shit...Try 3:07 or so.

CDs are trash when compared to vinyl but MP3s(!) are the worst. There are no depth, warmth, or fine edges with MP3s.

But alas, people don't care about quality now-a-days! Who cares, right?! They want it CHEAP (OR EVEN BETTER, FREE!), EASY, and NOW!

J.S. Bach was a REAL genius. Truly AWESOME.

[ktulhu113]

@djfakt Bacholoji has horrible sounding vids. I don't know what he did but they are killing my ears.

[MucusFelidae]

@djfakt "MP3s(!) are the worst"

Yeah, YOUTUBE is not known for sound quality,

but they did not promise either.

It's not their business.

[azulHYDproductions]

This one belongs to "My Life´s Soundtrack" playlist

[hmanwarren1]

It is hard to believe that Bach did not get the job in Berlin after these compositions. Just goes to show you about Prussians.

[gene15644a]

What astonishes me about Bach Concertos is that each voice can stand on its own. Each is beautiful, all together add up to more than the sum of the individual parts.

Bach was a frighteningly intelligent man and is an example of how to do Art.

[jkhalsa]

Thanks for posting this. I'm using it as a good example of the piece for my fellow musicians as we work towards a performance of it soon. It looks like the image is reversed. All the violinists bowing with their left hands. Beautiful sound, beautiful interpretation. The video image is compressed horizontally and makes everyone look too tall and thin. Oh well, better than short and fat!

[jkhalsa]

Never mind. The are in the mirror! That explains it. The videographer messed with my mind.

[ezekieloak]

Bach in da HOUSE! He da original gangsta, yo! And don you be fo gettin it, biatches. B-to-th-muthafuggin-R-O-U-K-E, homeboyeee.

Kickin' it Old School, yeaaah...

[Jozzilee]

All this conversation or the battling between Rap and Baroque is really pointless. Whoever started it should end it! Come on they are totally different genre of music and thus are not in a position to be compared. After all those recognised as classics has once definitely been popular, and those that are popular needs to be tested through time to become the classics. Bach is tested through time. Rap, well it awaits to be tested. But I am sure there will be some classics in rap in the future!

[rickytickytembo44]

smoke weed

[ProfChristiaan]

Splendid, J.S. Bach is the King of baroque!!!

[witchcraftlord]

this is baroque music, who cares about any other kinds of music right now, this is all we need, I love the DOORS but if I had to chose, I would rather listen to baroque music than anything in the world,

[Kingfick665]

good music is good music....if it mean something to you and move something in you, it's no matter what kind of music it is.... i hate this pseudo intelectual pride which judges everything which are not fit in its narrow minded world....people are different...but always worth the same....so music is different too but also worth the same if it mean something to somebody....

sorry for my nick and the bad english

[ilikehairbands]

@Kingfick665 If only more people thought like you did.

[Spryt07]

I don't really know how the conversation of Rap arose on this page, and am not really interested in looking up how. However I have to agree with the statement that not all rap is bad. To say that all rap uses profanity is akin to stating that all classical music soft violin music; it simply isn't the case. Much classical music is fairly simple and sexual in it's making, some rap is musically complex with genius harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic sounds, and intensely complex lyrical ideology.

[Spryt07]

quite often we judge a music, by what we hear initially without trying to see if something deeper exists beneath the surface. I was often the target of insults earlier in life due to my intense love of classical music. and i too disliked rap with a passion, seeing it as nothing but insulting to women and minorities and violently motivated. But after listening to such RAP songs like, Counting Stars, Think Different, Lady Brown, and Aruarian Dance by Nujabes. Escape Earth and Leaving by Diverse

[Spryt07]

I began to realize that Rap could be an artistic medium and was not simply ghetto music full of filthy lyricism and repetitive nonmusic, but the product of a creative soul attempting to reach for heaven with the meager resources he had been given. Go listen to some music without judging and seek to enlighten your mind instead of insulting what you don't understand. IF you look hard enough sometimes you find buried treasure.the nicest diamonds aren't always found in the mall, some are Underground

[PTCello]

Rap music has no value. I won't say it's not music, because "music" has so many valid definitions. However, Bach died in 1750 and people still discover him today. He earns his pedestal with each new youngster who hears his undying genius.

Rap stars from yesterday are forgotten tomorrow.

And remember

"You can't make CRAP without RAP"

hahahaha

[daharmaster]

Excelente interpretación sigan así!!

[Jagguar20]

Wicked. I can't imagine how a human being could create such amazing pieces. Just listen to Bach's works with attention; there is so much going on. His comosition skills are top-notch, but specially in the Brandemburg Concertos IMO.

[baroquegeek]

I just sit and listen and wonder how could someone come up with all of this. The counterpoint is mathematically perfect and it is extremely beautiful at the same time. Everything lines up beautifully with its own melody that still is a part of the larger puzzle. Did he know he was doing all of this? I am sure he did not realise the impact that his music would have on the world. On top of that, this interpretation is REALLY good and I have heard lots of versions, but this is one of my favs.

[JamaicanGingerCake]

@Jagguar20 Maybe... just maybe, he wasn't a human being and instead an angel from the godless heavens who came to ease the pain of us mere mortals. However it's only a theory in the early stages of construction (so don't quote me on it). :)

[jakethepianist]

@JamaicanGingerCake Or, Bach was an alien, as suggested in a Douglas Adams novel (I think it was Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency). ;)

[Frundsberg4]

Beautiful...

[swingballbros]

Because the beginning is looking into a mirror

[duffer8391]

Thanks. I was a bit hasty to comment - it became obvious as I paid more attention.

[swingballbros]

That's not a problem my friend.

[AHRMA174]

Geez, Duffer, how much of the video did you actually watch?

[duffer8391]

Thanks for the reply. You're right - I was a bit hasty in my comment.

[lovegame2k9]

bach is back!!!!

[violincellista]

bringing sexy bach : )

[xSnoweyexp]

I think 99 % of all people are afraid of classical music. their undevelloped brains and ears can't handle it. Back in the 16th 17th 18th century people had no other choise. The people back than where way more creative and musical. Come one give me a break men rap and trance etc is fuckin bullshit. Rap is no music genre. I think everyone can make nice sounding logical lines. To compose true music is a different story. Thats blood sweat and tears and talent wich a lot of people don't have.

[Sickdrummer1]

Absolutely.

[nelsa151077]

Spell check 101 dude

[ajdicks]

you are correct that most modern music is uncreative and unmusical but that certainly doesn't mean all classical music is as fresh and exciting as mr j.s. bach. many classical pieces are too slow and tedious or the loud passages are very jarring. there are examples of fine and poor quality in every genre.

[xSnoweyexp]

Yeah thats true but at least they where musical. Maybe not that good but they made music and thats what its about. Nowadays people don't make music, they just learn a couple of chords and put them togheter and voila you have a new hit. Thats rediculous. Music doesn't have to be complicated but sometimes I thing it just gets too less musical. Don't call it music than. Pure and good music mostly gets rejected. I can make a pop album in one day but true music takes years of playing and composing.

[RatedPi]

Totally man, keep chillin.=D

[KremeDeMentia]

Rap is music to shoot people by. Classical music is nothing but joy and energy made flesh.

[FOOLYCOOLY]

You have a flawed idea of what rap music is...

[KremeDeMentia]

Dude - I have eyes to see with. I've lived near a ghetto. Let me tell you: the people in this video and the people that listen to them ARE NOT THE ONES GUNNING EACH OTHER DOWN! AND, i hear the disgusting lyrics - where the word "woman" is never used and BITCH ALWAYS IS. Do you really think that there's no connection? Really? It's you that are blind to what rap "music" really is. It was good in the 80's. Now it's about killing cops and making pussy wet. It's for subhumans who shoot each other.

[FOOLYCOOLY]

Yes, a lot of rap is utter crap. But the reason you're mistaken is that you're mistaking mainstream for underground rap. Popular rap music has a lot of stereotypes about women and stuff about violence in it, but most songs that praise that kind of thing is just marketing. And that music isn't the cause of violence, although it does reinforce stereotypes.

Gang violence comes largely from poverty, and most underground rap/hip hop is actually protest against such things, and the government.

[FlipmodeSquad1]

There is a difference in rap and Gangsta rap..

it is a cultural expression of a large group of people that grows up in bad conditions and is created and labeled by people like you..

You imply its the other way around, that gangsta rap causes people to live in bad conditions, have traumas and shoot each other..

You indead have a flawed idea of what rap music is..

Theres also rap based on jazz/soul music combined by beautiful poetry.

you simple minded moron.

[KremeDeMentia]

Rap is 'music' written by people too lazy and untalented to create a melody. It's a regression to violent primitivism. It is the opposite direction of Bach.

you puerile cum-dumpster.

[altyair]

bach, the best

[SonofDostojevskij]

I have to say that I like Vivaldis flute concerts match better then Bachs

[kontrabassman]

This awesome the bass player sounds good!

[FatetoAshes]

agreed

[newbach36]

To think that Bach created such tremendius variantion in his music with the limitations the barouge gave him fills me with the greatest admiration. He was a trrue genius

[usa303]

one isnt ignorant because of the music they listen because many rap song have great lines of poetry

but one defines his ignorance by his comments and his total disrespect to one of the greatest minds this world has ever seen

if u dunnot like this type of music then respect those who do

[TheSilhouette]

Rap is to Bach as Etch A Sketch is to Rembrandt.

[astonspider]

Great simile ... but I think we'd have to say "a broken Etch a Sketch"!

[bigmandrel]

@TheSilhouette I disagree. Rap is the spoken word, i.e., poetry, and therefore very musical. Like recitative, like sprechstimme, and it can be done badly and commercially, or it can give meaning and value. Thus, it is the content/performer that make a work special and not the particular style of music.

And I'd rather see Rembrandt give a go on an Etch A Sketch than hear an unskilled musician play JS Bach

[HolyMotherofGrid]

@bigmandrel Well said!!! Each genre of artistic expression can be both composed and performed (and recorded...) either well or not so well - and in suitable contexts, each type of art can be perfectly acceptible and edifying!! (well, with notable exceptions, such as flatulism-based entertainment, lol!!)

[acc96build]

@TheSilhouette Naw... Rap is to Bach what dark is to light.

[mfleming98]

@TheSilhouette

haha nice comparison, but I believe Rembrandt could still rock an Etch a Sketch and make it look good :)

[kunstderfugue]

@mfleming98 bach would probably make a fugue with 4 rappers ^^

[pflubber]

@TheSilhouette as much as I don't like rap, I don't agree. it's too different to compare. people get stuck on a view that the music they like is the only real music, but what is music? compared to visual art, classical paintings can be a display of raw skill and observable beauty (like this music), abstract paintings can be an exploration of form and colour for contemplation (like progressive music), and advertisement animations are meant to be catchy and fun (like pop). very different planes

[Lytton333]

@TheSilhouette ..or as baby-talk is to Shakespeare.

[89murph]

Grow up you stupid whore!

[Sumeroid]

One of Bach´s most brilliant pieces. An extraordinary stroke of genius in the mind of a genius = heavenly music. Bach is a prophet of everything good in mankind. Soli Deo Gratia...

Very apt interpretation, by the way.

[RealDeal1967]

Only Bach can create such beauty in very moving and heartfelt piece...brings one close to tears.

Many thanks to the musicians, played wonderfully.

[hapzone]

When was this filmed?

[tnix80]

this whole concerto is my favorite of the brandenburgs and maybe of all time.

bach=genius

[ezev8logos]

this is one of my favorite too

[iMarc89]

This is probably my all time favourite movement of all the Brandeburg concertos. I don't know why but I feel it has the most beautiful interplay between the different sounds.  The change in the texture and dynamic ranges is fantastic.

It's just immense.

[MasterK1ller123]

I just played and the presto movement with an ensemble group, very good music.

[bach50]

Words cannot describe the feelings this music produces. Absolutely beautiful.

[triskiniki]

in this sinfoni my heart is like a dragon.......

[coolasshole23]

how beautiful, so relaxing, I was looking for this for years. and I finally found it, than you.

[654321654321]

this is fantastic.

[terrydonaldson]

I'm the one in the midle - front line- oboe babe

[bertubus]

You're not joyning my band, yoo carn't spehl.

midle!_? - huh!

[qfiggly77]

sorry, that isn't an oboe :)

[dagibag77]

beautiful!

[Tutsikiyanacek]

Amazing!