Bach - Magnificat - 12 - Gloria patri

Einer der Wenigen, die Bach zum Klingen bringen!

love him!he must be very scaring if you play to his orchestra!!!!
mention 1:16 he gives the trill to the trumpet and he miss it although he was perfect in tune before!!!

I hate to resurrect a 10-12 month old thread, but this is unanswered here. Bach was German. Harnoncourt is aiming for a period-authentic performance with period instruments and how Bach's choirs pronounced the Latin -- with German diction rules.

As far as the interpretators of latin poems can be trusted, german is quite close to latin in its prononciation, much closer than english or french. So don't care, love Musik, wo immer sie gespielt werden möge.

Actually the answer to the ''riddle'' can be answered by looking closely to the lyrics: ''Sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper''.

Wow, that guys looks intense at the start!

God, I love to watch Harnoncourt during the last 30 seconds, So full of passion but serious enough not forget a single note. And of course I also love the music!

yeah if you listen to many of his works they mostly all end with a reprise, as deanmnaz says.

Well I wondered if it had anything to do with the nature of the music, being about eternal subject matter, which has no beginning and end. I've read that there is a lot of symbolism in the way Bach composed his sacred music, and thought maybe this was part of it - but it's just a speculation!

...well observed, could indeed also be what he meant to mean! maybe this one was the first one he ever did that way;-) don't know:)