Great Composers Bach（BBC TV series）pt.7

J.S.Bach occupies a pivotal place in the histor... (more)
Added: November 24, 2007
J.S.Bach occupies a pivotal place in the history of music.His compositions reprensents both the height of the Baropue and the beginning of the Modern Age of music .Filmed in Leipzig,London and America,this documentary both fascinating anf authoritative features specialy-filmed extracts with Jonh Eliot Grandiner conducting the Monteverdi Choir and English Baropue Soloists, performing the Mass in B minor,Andras Schiff playing the GoldBERG variations,Jacques Loussier improvising on the Toccata and Fugue in D minor as well as demonstration by Ton Koopman,Tini Mathot,Joanna Macgregor and the Thomanerchor of leipzig.Biographical and critical commemtary is provided by leading Bach scholar,Christoph Wolff and Robert Marshall,while Charles Rosen and Jonathan Miller dicuss Bach's masterpiece the St. Mathew Passion.

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[johnsmith21197]

@Nykytyne hahahaha. I would rather live in the Middle Ages than in the age of the Roman Empire. The Roman Era was an era of immorality. The Middle Ages was a step forward. You also have not mentioned that the literature produced in the Middle Ages rivals even that of the Romantic Era.

[johnsmith21197]

@Jitpring I like what you have said about the "myth of progress" but don't be such a pessimist.

[obscurecult]

DAMN, what's the name of the guy singing at the end?

[mehulpanditful]

@sea9023 Thank you so much...yes it is absolutely amazing..!! I just marvel at his harmonic sense...!! I am a music student and i just want to study all this...i am buying a piano next month and then ill start my studies on Bach's music...!!

[sea9023]

it's Matthaus Passion - 39. Aria A - Erbarme dich. amazing isn't it? Bach may very well be an alien from planet "harmony"

[mehulpanditful]

Can somebody PLEASE tell the name of the piece being perfomed at 1:05...

[Tand0oriCh1cken]

@hockeywifeca I know but his voice was so high pitched, I didn't expect him to sound like that..

[hockeywifeca]

@Tand0oriCh1cken Nothing shocking or surprising about a countertenor singing  Bach!

[LINX29X92]

2:30 he was grabbing his nuts

[Tand0oriCh1cken]

Wow its sounds beautiful and I've never this piece before but 2:30 was so unexpected it made me lol.