J.S. Bach - Cantata BWV 4 "Christ lag in Todesbanden"
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- 1. Sinfonia
2. Christ lag in Todesbanden (Chorus) 01:40
3. Den Tod niemand zwingen kunnt (Chorus: S, A) 05:55
4. Jesus Christus, Gottes Sohn (Aria: T) 11:15
5. Es war ein wunderlicher Krieg (Chorus) 13:15
6. Hier ist das rechte Osterlamm (Aria: B) 15:27
7. So feiern wir das hohe Fest (Duet: S, T) 19:08
8. Wir essen und leben wohl (Chorus) 20:50
Lucy De Butts, soprano
Valerio Contaldo, tenor
Lisandro Abadie, bass
Ensemble Orlando Fribourg, choir and orchestra
Laurent Gendre, conductor
Concert at St-Michel church, Fribourg (CH), 03.07.2016 - เพลง
At long last... at LONG LAST... a TRUE "alla breve" in movement 2. Simply phenomenal.
Danke für JSB Soli deo Gloria! Manfred Spuhn
Amen
Thank you Very lively interpretation, vocalists , musicians and enthusiasts conductor 😊
My husband and I sang this in the Lutheran contada choir in Orlando Florida several years ago it brings back memories
My whole life I have never been so deeply touched and captivated by a piece of music. This Bach cantata hasn't let me go for weeks. Every time I listen to them, which I do very often, I get goosebumps, especially on the bass passage.
A special compliment to the musicians and the conductor of the Ensemble Orlando. I don't think there is a better way to render this cantata. The Dutch writer
and Bach lover Maarten 't Hart describes the cantata very aptly in his book "Bach und ich"...... as a powerful early work, impressive, dark, moving and great. I would highly recommend this book to any Bach fan.
Je me souviens d'un jour à l'armée où je rangeais le magasin avec l'aide d'un ami. La radio était allumée et diffusait du BACH. Mon ami qui avait appris à jouer du piano depuis l'enfance a reconnu son style immédiatement pour l'avoir travaillé et étudié pendant des années. Moi qui n'était qu'un profane je fus ébahi par sa culture mais là où lui ne percevait qu'une progression logique de notes, moi j'avais l'impression de toucher l'infini du bout des doigts. Les années ont passé et je n'ai toujours aucune culture technique de la musique mais la même émotion chaque fois que j'écoute Bach. C'est le ciel qu'il ouvre pour nous, nos coeurs qu'il remplit d'une force incomparable, nos âmes qu'il apaise...
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krass,
der Ort in welchen
das Licht 💛 der Auferstehung 💥 und des musikalischen 🎶 Geschenkes 🎁 Bachs und Gottes 💛 an uns ... hineinstrahlte ... 💛
This music is so exceptional and captivating. The lyrics take me through Christ's death and resurrection so smoothly. Martin Luther wrote it, but Bach gave it life! The performance is outstanding. Can't stop watching it, and always get back to it.
“Reason is the Devil’s greatest whore; by nature and manner of being she is a noxious whore; she is a prostitute, the Devil’s appointed whore; whore eaten by scab and leprosy who ought to be trodden under foot and destroyed, she and her wisdom … Throw dung in her face to make her ugly. She is and she ought to be drowned in baptism… She would deserve, the wretch, to be banished to the filthiest place in the house, to the closets.”
[Martin Luther, Erlangen Edition v. 16, pp. 142-148]
And again
But since the devil’s bride, Reason, that pretty whore, comes in and thinks she’s wise, and what she says, what she thinks, is from the Holy Spirit, who can help us, then? Not judges, not doctors, no king or emperor, because [reason] is the Devil’s greatest whore.
[Martin Luther’s Last Sermon in Wittenberg … Second Sunday in Epiphany, 17 January 1546. Dr. Martin Luthers Werke: Kritische Gesamtausgabe. (Weimar: Herman Boehlaus Nachfolger, 1914), Band 51:126, Line 7ff]
But in what context was he making such a statement? Here’s an interesting line from a book by John Osborne entitled Luther.
“And I sat in my heap of pain until the words emerged and opened out, ‘The just shall live by faith. My pain vanished, my bowels flushed and I could get up. I could see the life I’d lost. No man is just because he does just works… This I know; reason is the devil’s whore, born of one stinking goat called Aristotle, which believes that good works make a good man. But the truth is that the just shall live by faith alone. I need no more than my sweet redeemer and mediator, Jesus Christ.”
Remember, Luther was reforming against the unbiblical theological approach of the Catholic church and the pagan approach to knowledge in the Universities of the time, which included its adoption of the Aristotalian view of science and God (which included the earth-centric view of astronomy which later was used by scientists and Catholics to persecute the heliocentric view), and specifically, the idea of dualism, i.e. the separation of the sacred and the secular, reason and faith, the body and the spirit."
Poor Soul.
Bach was 22 years old when he composed it, he renewed it 20 years later. This Cantata is closer to a Motette, so it is sometimes classified like a Motette.
Do you think the opening complex chorus was written later and added on, or part of the initial cantata? It is similar technically to the opening of BWV80, which we know was written in the 1730's, containing interesting and sometimes chromatic treatments of individual lines in rhapsodic episodes.
The music of Johann Sebastian Bach travels across time, is getting younger with every passing decade. Thank you, Master!
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I have marvelled over this piece for forty years. Composed at the age of 22...¡Dios mio!
Bach with these angelic voices takes me to seventh heaven. Bravo to the Maestro and to the voices and orchestral players.
JS BACH élève l'âme de l'homme à une hauteur que seule la musique peut lui permettre d'atteindre , lui procurant un dynamisme infini tout en le préservant de tte vanité stérile.
Merci pour cette très grande interprétation et aux techniciens du film , son et images.
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I grew up listening to the now-unfashionable Bach Guild performance. I'll never forget Hans Braun's growl! This is a superb recording of this most solemn of cantatas.
The conductor is magnificent. You can just see he is familiar with every single note.
Voilà un excellent rendu pour un dosage presque parfait entre finesse et pesanteur. Une atmosphère de mystère, de temps suspendu avec une économie (pour une fois légitime) de moyens. Un orchestre un tant soit peu trop discret qui laisse la place à un choeur séraphique. Une vision idéale et idéalisée qui ouvre en grand les portes du lithurgique et de la parole divine. Un Bach entièrement tourné vers le mystique et sûrement proche de la réalité de sa composition. C'est assez beau pour entrer en religion sur-le-champ. J'ai bien failli téléphoner à l'évêché après coup...Pffft. Bravo en tous cas à l'ensemble Orlando car bien des interprétations irritantes et modernistes qu'on nous sert depuis longtemps se trouvent effacées par cette poignée de musiciens assez miraculeux sortis d'on ne sais où...On a juste envie de dire "Vous voyez? Ca n'est pourtant pas si compliqué que cela de jouer le grand Kantor..." Il suffit de ne pas faire la course avec son voisin et de laisser se dérouler la partition sans la brusquer ni chercher à rivaliser avec le concurrent. D'y croire quoi!
Where have I been the last 6 years not to have heard this exquisite mvt 3 - how peaceful! Your subdued Interpretation of this lament is so appropriate for Bach's look-back prior to Resurrection. And his harmonic sweetness gives the entire movement a great sense of calm peace! We are so blessed!
Thank you ! Thank you !
Der Bass am Ende ist einfach unglaublich. EInfach sehr stark Emotional und Bewegend. Danke...und Amen
I love that the film cuts before the finale applause. That keeps the focus on the masterpiece and not the performance - though masterful it sure was!
We are so blessed.
We are hearing Bach better than Bach heard it himself.
That tenor solo... might just be the most soul touching rendition I've ever been blessed to hear
I love how they're all smiling while performing. Even the conductor is. Amazing.
There is no time without crying, while listening to " Christ lag in Todesbanden".
Everything drives me crazy.
The unitiy of key, which gives such a strong concentration.....the ending "hallelujah" a each verse....Lisandros "Osterlamm" and his pronuncation of "in heißer Lieb gebraten" together with his "hallelujah".... and the lyrics closeness of early christianity to judaism....
Leave it to this great Swiss group to capture the intricate clockworks of Bach with such precision and grace!
Lovely and stunning. One of Bach's first cantatas composed when he was still a very young man and already a master piece.
Yes - it's hard to believe this was an early work.
It was indeed composed originally in 1707 when he was 22, but the version we know (the one played here) is from almost twenty years later. The original is lost, and quite surely he reworked things with time, as he did with many other works.
@@yonahzur3755 Thanks for the info dear...so interesting!🎉❄❗
GENIUS ALWAYS REVEALS ITSELF FROM AN EARLY AGE. CONSIDER MOZART WRITING AT 4.
@@ronwalker4849 👌👍🎹🎼🎶
Absolutely beautiful. I listen to this at least once weekly, and believe it is the best version of this Bach masterpiece that I have ever heard.
My favorite cantate! There are times, i listen to this Every day. Addicting
ja, ich stimme zu.
It is nice, but for me it moves too slowly. I prefer the Cantata Iche Habe Genung:
th-cam.com/video/Q_5DG9BD-SU/w-d-xo.html
it's so sacred!
Richter's 1969 performance is far superior imo
Solti Deo Gloria! Alles den Leitung und den Orchester und Solist,Allelujah! István Salacz
Music for the glory of God and refreshment of the soul.
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Without JS Bach "God" would be a second rate entity.
@@gumdeu It's the other way around.
@@georgebreidenthal725 Kind regards to your invisible friend.
@@gumdeu May He be your invisible friend sometime soon as well.
La meilleure des interprétations de la cantate 4 de JSB ! Quelle finesse !
I write on the day that this cantata is most apt in the Church year as it is the day before Easter Sunday: Christ Lay in the Tomb. Finally we are seeing Bach performance without ego. Universal pathos right now hasn’t seen as much significance for many decades.
Beautiful performance! #4 holds a special place in my heart because it was the first Bach cantata I sang in my university choir many years ago.
So schön, dass es viele Tränen bringt!
I had the very privilege of singing this Cantata back in 1995. A memory for life at no doubt. Fantastic rendition here.
It is just so beautiful, so beautiful.
Magnifique musique
Quel joie et bonheur d’écouter de la musique classique
Merci
Foi um privilégio ter participado deste momento!
A really tremendous performance. All so beautifully interpreted and such accomplished playing under a quietly charismatic conductor.
I particularly loved the strings.
Transcendent piece of work and excellent interpretation
So eine innige und einfühlsame Interpretation!
Gorgeous. Bach is one of the best we can offer. He floats above us all in being beyond worldly things.
Yes
The pickup by the chorus on "Christ . ." after the orchestra pauses on the Sinfonia's Picardy Third is just incredible: fragile but convicted, quiet yet muscular. This moment is an amazing interpretive accomplishment. That juxtaposition by Bach of a minor, suddenly major, and return to minor third was a period conceit he loved but fortunately never overexploited.
But then we are further treated to a wonderful aria by the unforgivably handsome Lisandro Abadie, and final chorus with the most transcendent, wrenching orchestration Bach ever packed into a Cantata, including a succession of appogiatura, a delayed coda on the major VI, and one more, glorious Picardy Third! I love this work and this performance.
Choeur, solistes et orchestre magnifiques, chef remarquable d'intelligence et de sensibilité pour la plus belle interprétation de ce chef d'oeuvre absolu.
We performed this on Maundy Thursday. Our choir was small but our hearts knew the enormity of what we were singing. We sang “oh Sacred Head now wounded”. I’m crying as I write this.
bach had to write a new chorale every day and I'm glad he did because without doing that we wouldn't have this beautiful music
Phenomenal recording. Love Lisandro Abadie in Hier ist das rechte Osterlamm.
The Genius that is pure J.S. Bach. The sad part of his life was that overall, Master Bach noted more for being a Kapelmeister than composer. John Phillipe Telemann was at that time a noted composer and both Bach and Telemann were great friends. Telemann was Godfather to one of Bach's Sons.
Christ is risen
A very subtle balance between musicians, choristers and soloists. Second movement reaches a poetical climax. I decide to subscribe
Incredible soloists!!! The tenor is suberb!
Со Светлым Праздником Христова Воскресения! Христос Воскресе! Праздник Праздников, Торжество из Торжеств! Бах вечное украшение праздника! Исполнение инструментальное и вокальное выше всяких похвал, славная дирижерская работа! От сердца к сердцу!
Bach es el padre de la música, sus ovras sublimes llegan al alma, saludos desde Chile 🎼🎶❤
That bass is badass! 5 strings and enormous tuning pegs. I need one!
Bravo à tous ces magnifiques musiciens qui y mettent tout leur coeur et tout leur talent.Quel chef-d'oeuvre du Kantor!
This was such a masterful,sensitive,emotional and very expressive rendition of this piece that I have come across in my short lifetime!! And Kudos too,to the conductor for his exquisitely fine and unique interpretation and musical articulations of the phrasings...really the most beautiful I've ever heard of this piece. It left me in a trance and totally in awe,almost as if I were having an outer-body,mind-altering and purely divine,religious,transcendental experience. I'd give this Conductor and his ensemble 10 stars for this performance.Bless them all and glory be to God Almighty,amen!!
couldn't have said it better than myself... first time listening, very nice.
@@nickhansen144 Thanks for your reply in agreeing with me that this was an exquisite and very moving performance.!!!Now that we are in the Christmas/New Years Holiday Season,I highly recommend you listen next to Bach's Christmas Cantata if you have the opportunity.!!!It's another one of his gems and also appropriate to the season!!!Enjoy and Happy New Year 2023!! No doubt,that Bach was a one of a kind freakin musical genious!! As a piano student I make time to study and practice his music everyday!!!J.S Bach himself was an extremely devoted man of faith and composed music ,to bring into the Church, more believers of the faith and to bolster and deepen their faith.You begin to realize this is true as you not only listen the the music,but also read the words that go along with each Cantata!! Each Cantata is like a sermon of instruction in the faith!!Enjoy and Believe in the Redeemer!!Amen.
A veces, cuando mi fe declina y me siento tentado de buscar otra salida de realizacion espiritual, escucho a Bach y en un segundo me siento en presencia del Señor Jesus. Con ninguna otra creacion artistica me sucede,salvo ciertos cuadros de Rouault, otro admirable genio.
Si tu fe declina es que hay una parte de ti que sabe que es mucho mejor actuar correctamente por decisión propia que hacerlo por miedo al castigo. No permitas que la mentira ahogue la mejor de tus dos mitades.
@@gumdeu gracias por tu comentario tan sabio. disculpa por no haberte respondido antes.
Amazing conductor.
Wunderbar gesungen die Osterkantate,Text und Melodie von Martin Luther
Unbelievable beautiful, interpreted with commitment and humility to God and Bach....Thank you....
This is one of my all-time favourite cantatas!! It has such an incredible unified tone & that tone can strip away all your emotional defences... Thank you EOF!! 👊👊
All the movements are in e minor, which for sure makes it sound "unified".
@@TheSimLord True true... plus each starts with B to A#... which also gives that unique shared characteristic... 🎶👊
Bestaat er hogere zang, mooiere muziek tot eer van God ?
Hoe heerlijk is ons luisteren naar Bachlot.
Magnifique. Mille Mercis Jean-Sébastien et mille mercis à chacun de vous.
Gracias, gracias, gracias. Saludos cordiales y muchas bendiciones para todos ustedes por presentarnos estas bellezas.
Absolutely amazing. I wish I could listen to this music live some time.
Immer unfassbar gefasst, offenbar sogar der junge Bach. Danke aus Flandern.
Interpretation superbe . Sans commentaire. Bravo
Wonderful...so much concentration. I felt like watching actual scenes while I'm not Christian and don't even speak German. Music tells me all, and I cry. 【edit】Now I listened to this for the second time, and I totally lost control when Bass aria started, crying out loud for no reason or the reason I had absolutely no idea. It's not just like the singing is excellent but something in it, the whole spirit of this performance that made me broke in tears, unstoppable. This is the best I've ever heard. Thank you so much for sharing this.
Your heart had been touched by the Infinite Unconditional Love through Bach's music. I can't stop listening to all of his Music over a year since I've discovered beauty. May God bless you and your loved ones!
This music not tells you all.
It's God that tells you all through music and then you cry. Bach can do anything through Jesus Christ that bless him.
@@jokodubga6535 I made clear that I don't believe God. You need to realize things are much different for those who don't, even when we both appreciate the same beauty.
Unglaublich sympathisches Ensemble, dieser vibrierende Tenor, dieser Dirigent mit seinem Charme würden mich umhauen, läge ich nicht schon mit Kopfhörer auf dem Sofa. DANKE.
A masterpiece and an adequate performance: Joyful and nice.
Such stunning music so beautifully performed! Such a blessing to be able to listen to on TH-cam.
Wie fantastisch! Danke! Ich weine.
Maravilloso, son pocos, pero no necesitan más, me impresionaron, los felicito, me encantaron.
Beautiful! I listen to every sunday morning.
Beautiful Performance, 1a Soloists!! Thank you!
Great conductor's vision and interpretation of the piece...tempos just right not too fast not too slow and total understanding of the choir and orchestra...wow
oh, what a beautiful performance. the balance and dynamic subtleties are absolutely breathtaking. i could barely breathe myself during the second movement. bravi tutti!
Nádhera....vďaka za krásny zážitok všetkým interpretom.
Wonderful, superb! One of the best (if not the best) interpretations of Bach's perhaps best-known cantata. Highlight for the choice of tempi, especially for the duet "Den Tod niemand zwingen kunnt" (in this recording performed by the choir rather than soloists): what sonority, what harmonics! Congratulations to Ensemble Orlando Fribourg. :)
A Masterly Performance !. Superb All Round. Wonderful Sound. Many Thanks, Greetings From Scotland.
What Artwork ! What Interpretation !
Great music, great interpretation👏👏👏
Just superb, superb. And it dances, as it should.
Me gusta mucho esta versión delicada, respetuosa y elaborada de un clásico. Gracias.
Wonderful!
Danke
Actually sang this (the soprano part) in a spring concert of a boys choir of a Catholic school in a northeast Detroit suburb. I was about 12 then...the choir and choirmaster were extraordinary. Incredible experience!
I also sang this, as a boy soprano in a church near Cleveland Ohio.
Addictive. Beautiful.
a beautiful performance, even BWV 4 being favourite one
¡Sublime! Mil gracias.
Exquisite interpretation; masterfully performed, led by a sensitive and gifted conductor.
I very much enjoyed this video. one of my favourite pieces.
A lovely and alive venue. And superb recording techniques.
Happy Easter!
cheers
Happy Easter to you too!
beautiful performance....such moving music.
Божественная музыка, бальзам для души 🙏
A wonderful rendition. More words are not needed.
And a couple of friends who I love were on the right side of the conducteur! Michel has the most lovely bass voice, Héléne soprano!
It seems that my soul is sucked into this wonderful performance and this solemn chorus
Well it is about the time to listen to this, I guess (happy Easter 2019 to everyone)!
One of my all-time favorites. What a beautiful performance. Thank you so much!
In this performance,
all is full of far superior splendor
dasWesen dieser Musik außergewöhnlich gut getroffen. Sehr durchdacht und ergreifend musiziert.
Beautiful job, People
Fantastic bravo !!!
Brilliant! Bravo!