"Bach, number six."

The late Douglas Adams introduces, in a manner of speaking, the soprano chorale "Ach, bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ" from Bach's Easter cantata "Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden" (BWV 6). The soloist on the piccolo cello is Christophe Coin. The golden-throated warbler is Barbara Schlick.

BWV 6 refers to the cantata from which this movement is excerpted. This movement also exists in a transcription for organ chorale made by Bach, which was published during his lifetime as one of the set of 6 Schübler Chorales (BWV 645-650). See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schubler_Chorales

Incidentally, the Schübler Chorales were part of Douglas Adams's burial service. See here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3790659

The reciprocal of the 6th Bernoulli number is 42.

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[anisometropie]

Isn't this bwv 649 ?

[inwit]

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[Skoura]

Douglas Adams and Bach are both amazing. As Adams said, "Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what it's like to be Beethoven, and Bach tells us what it's like to be the universe."

Amazing video, thank you very, very much!

[Mjhavok]

It is interesting how you attribute something beautiful to god but attribute destruction to humans.

If god is responsible for Bach he is responsible the genocide in Rwanda. You can't have it both ways.

In reality though there is no such thing as god beyond the concept humans have created.

[CataKlysmiC]

As I started this video, Gus Gus "On the job" was going on in another tab and I thought this music was also part of the video... I just could not figure out what was going on in other comments.

[weavehole]

@chiejohinna

I should have known I wrote an essay about the DG books at school. (Twas only 19 years ago)

:)

[chiejohinna]

@weavehole , it's from Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

[mandarinfishorcagirl]

lol...i was looking for bach number six because of this book :P

[weavehole]

Hi, what's the reading from?

[xsunburstx]

Is it possible to get a full version of this interpretation?

[clyffe347]

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."

Aldous Huxley

Pipe down about "god", you're missing the music.

[DrPaulMutilation]

Nice one ;)

[ElFrankus]

4+2= 6