Bach - B minor Mass - 01 - Kyrie eleison
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this sounds familiar. is it in a movie?!
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beautiful
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@Keithj136: It's supposed to lift you up to heaven -- to knock you out dead literally, stupified in awe, with its sheer elegance.
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@PABoi00: Regardless/whatever, Bach was a GIANT of the classical baroque period. His music was heavenly whether he intended it to be spiritual in nature or not.
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@PABoi00 Your points are well taken, but they appear to be in response to somone else.
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Richter definitely is the top performer of his time and knowledge of the work at that time...but with more scholarship, we now know that this interpretation would probably not have been what Bach had wanted or done had he in fact performed the piece.
My hat goes off to these courageous musicians...because they sound BEAUTIFUL regardless!
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@beatlesmack9 Bach might not have approved of this...but we will never know...He never got to perform the work!
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@polymath7 I would caution you to be careful about saying that "All of Bach's music was Soli Deo Gloria"...because it was not. Many instances of Bach's music, especially during his time in Cothen was NOT specifically for the church. After 1723, When Bach moved to Leipzig, the compositions he wrote for the Collegium Musicum were also not intended to be sacred in nature.
While he was Lutheran, he was also a businessman, He did what he had to do to support his family.
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it sends me to sleep.......in a nice way :)
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@blackfloyd23 Yes, without doubt or debate, it is astonishingly, staggeringly, immensely, ineffably impossibly beautiful.
I ABSOLUTELY love Richter's method of conducting. So precise...it reminds me of what I would term the "British school" of conducting cathedral choirs. Would this be a baroque style of direction? Does anyone know where I could learn more about this method?
Wally773MTG 1 year ago 5
@1hakon i love bach, but miles davis puts me to sleep. i guess im alone there
jcracker 1 year ago 4