Bach is a master, a time-traveling wonder. The spirit of his work frees itself from the shackles of time to bring you, the listener, resounding joy. Bask, humbled, in the warm light of his music.
Fault finders will find fault in heaven. Bach did,'n think he was God. He knew he was blessed. He gave thanks to the Source from where his blessings came. It came from God as he understood God. A la gloire de Dieu. Isten dicsosegere..... He thanked God for his gifts. I thank God for Bach...
I know! And most of his cantatas were written in around 3 years-- that's roughly 156 cantatas over that period. No computers, tape recorders, or electricity. He had greatly limited resources, too. How did he do it? The man was a marvel.
For most of the cantatas, the ones that Bach wrote in Leipzig around 1723-1725, that's true. But this particular one he wrote in the year 1731, because there was a 27th sunday after trinity sunday, which almost never happens.
Gregory, when you write a quadruple fugue based on the Fibonacci series and the golden ratio with GREG (G-D-E-G) as the countersubject please let us know. I'd love to hear it!
One time I was working for a guy and when I mentioned I had been a musician, he told me he was a descendant of one of J.S. Bach's daughters. Then he phoned his mom to remind himself which daughter. From then on I could see a resemblance and it felt something like I was hanging out with Bach. Although this guy knew nothing about music.
To give an idea of how skilled he was: This now-immortalized cantata that you're listening to right now, he had less than a week to write and rehearse.
Still, no matter for how many times I listen to this cantata, I always drop few tears during the minute 4:40 to 6:00 aprox. There is some sort of perfection in these harmonies that makes my brain to go to some other place, it is so perfect and divine but last for few seconds.
Bach elevates the lowest, humblest, most ignorant listener to the same aesthetic heights as the most privileged, sophisticated listener. His music is the great equalizer
Oca 2074: hai ragione! Il motivo è forse perchè non parla all'intelligenza o all'esperienza musicale.... Bach parla direttamente all'anima! Come in bwv 147 10; e altre. Questo è il mio pensiero. Saluti dall'Italia chiunque tu sia, ovunque tu sia.
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I never understand the atheist/Bach connection. There are many of them out there and I think they are fooling themselves. It's like saying how you admire a sunset but ignore the 200 plus parameters needed for life to exist on earth!
bach was more of a scientist of music. The ruling powers were the only institutions to give him a salary so he had to write for their agenda. He played the game & was great at it. The true Bach comes alive in his concertos or piano music. The passion & mastery of his craft is what many of us find fascinating. 300 years later & here we are, listening to his magical work.
and what of the fact that theres 'white power' hate music out there, one could also use that as proof that there is no god. Humans are both garbage and wonderful, no proof a god did it.
No. The proof of God are rational and they're called the Five ways and are explained by Aquinas in Summa Contra Gentiles, Book I. Nevertheless, the beauty we can see in this world, music included, is meant to point to the absolute Beauty by which we can say that something is more or less beautiful.
The music of angels, but mortals will do. Bach gave us a glimpse of the heavenly choirs. And so many years ago. It doesn't matter this music is for all times. The music of angels.
Bach is my favorite and there aren't a very large percentage of people that will listen to much less appreciate these gems. You know this is how he taught his congregation new hymns. Note the hymn tune in the Soprano in the first movement and the choral at the end. He would have already played this in the form of an organ prelude before the cantata (for those who may stumble on this and not know) . I just adore Bach too. thank you for the whole thing.
That ending is so moving, especially when you realize that he hid that same melody throughout the piece in different ways, all of which culminated to the final chorus. What a genius. I can see how this could inspire faith in people.
And so it has always been, that genius is always timeless and fresh and stirring to the human spirit! In this cantata BACH seems to pour honey into our ears and fortify the soul all at once.
+Shaun Darius Truer words have scarcely been uttered...The man was anointed, creating music that often leaves me speechless and motionless, lost in the moment, fully absorbing his greatness.AMAZING!!!
Thank you, Jane. Your words gave me chills. Contact me if you wish here: facebook.com/shaundarius.gottlieb I'm a concert cellist & photographer. I have a strong sense you are a lovely artist to know! poetphotos.com/music/source/preview2.html PS This isn't to sell you any music, only to share, Jane! Have a glorious year. By the way, this is also an excellent link to hear ALL of Bach's cantatas for free: www.bach-cantatas.com/index.htm
My dad is quite fond of whistling the violin melody in the fourth movement, and I never knew that it came from this cantata until now. Wonderful music and performance.
To think that some of Bach's music was lost. The people of Leipzig,the people of Germany and the world didn't know what they had.One greater than even Mozart or Beethoven. The greatest genius who ever lived. Thank God the Romantic composers re discovered him and were so amazed, otherwise dumb humans would probably never have found him and thrown out more if not all his music.
Well that's an interesting point, but I'm not sure that the Romantic composers dealt with Bach very effectively. Jazz, on the other hand, arguably achieved more: see e.g. "Jacques Loussier Play Bach". Although this is a bit of a generalisation, Bach's music had rather fallen out of favour by the late C19th, and there was also a tendency for Romantic composers to try and "add to" Bach. Webern and the jazz guys had more success as their techniques are more similar to Baroque writing.
please help needed my music professor give me homework and asked me "how many times dose J.S Bach make the chorale tune in movement #4 cantata #140 " please can any one help me ..
nice thought I am a disillusioned believer when I listen to this music what I miss now is that wonderful feeling that tere is a good repeat A GOOD god up there ...
Yes, so true. These musical geniuses and prodigies live amongst us. And to think half of Bach's works were lost and a quarter of Mozarts. We must treasure their works.
Wat een heerlijk werk heeft de dienstknecht Bach Johann Sebastian hier van onze Heere God ontvangen. De Heere zei geprezen tot in Eeuwigheid! Hij de Heer is onze Vader !
Prachtige Cantate. Op 09-10-2004 deze cantate uitgevoerd met het koor Sursum Corda uit Rotterdam. Deze muziek is zo mooi, daar verbleekt alles bij. Met 7 tenoren de zeer fraaie koraal " Zion hört die Wächter singen " gezongen in een volle Laurenskerk, dat blijft je altijd bij.
Thank you a thousand times for adding the score! Having the sheet music allowed me to fully appreciate all the details of this glorious composition (and thereby both distract me from my writing as well as giving me inspiration!!!). The only thing I could imagine being better than having music plus score would be to have a split screen so I could see a video of the orchestra and the score at the same time as I listened to the music... But then I'd never get any writing done!
That's the trouble of writing with Bach in the background. I, like you, enjoy analysing the score as I listen. Unfortunately, I become so spellbound that I forget about writing.
Stirring, regal, magnificent, and beautiful, especially the first chorus. Interesting how 3/4 time can be made into a march. The runs of instruments, and later, the melismata of the lower voices, run joyful tapestries around the ironically legato march of the sopranos. A tour de force musically, but much more, a triumph of the Spirit. This music will live forever.
Bach! Il più grande compositore di tutti i tempi. Tutti i grandi compositori gli hanno sempre tributato l'elezione al vertice massimo della creatività e della genialità. Questa cantata è sublime ed eleva l'anima a Dio!
Non mi stanco mai di ascoiltare questa cantata, in tante versioni con diversi interpreti. E' una musica dolce, profonda che arriva prima alla mente ma poi esplode nel cuore riempiendolo col profondo e indiscutibile messaggio della parabola evengelica delle Vergini savie e stolte. Quando ascolto la cantata, condivido l'amore che ha per essa il carissimo Santo Padre emerito Benedetto XVI°. Brunello Veronese Milano
This is my favorite Bach musical piece. I like everything Bach. Heck I love the Baroque Period with its great music, and beautiful paintings. This song is so uplifting, and pleasurable. I love the choir. When I hear this song, all I can think is beautiful marriages, kingdoms and having a wonderful life in fantasy. Wonderful song. Thank you so much for loading this.
For the greater glory of God. Thank you JSB from the bottom of my heart and from the countless millions whose lives you have and will enlightened until time itself ends Your name and your music will literally live forever.
Agree heartily with Robin a year ago. The score is a wonderful demonstration of Bach's skill in this wonderful piece. I am an atheist and that has nothing to do with musical enjoyment. He displays the wonder of the human mind and the extraordinariness of evolution.
Ciertamente, las cantatas de Bach, son el epítome de lo sacro y lo sublime, la melodía y el contrapunto de la música coral con la parate instrumental, en esa convinación casi matemática, le imprimen ese aire tan celestial, que toca las fibras mas sencibles del alma
Grandissimo Harnoncourt, comunica tutte le emozioni struggenti ed entusiasmanti di questa cantata. E poi gli oboi barocchi sono una meraviglia!! Grazie per la condivisione. Great Harnoncourt, communicates all the thrilling and exciting emotions of this cantata. And then baroque oboes are a wonder !! Thanks for sharing.
Even an atheist can't help but dig this. I love this cantata. Fourth movement is my favorite part. I wish Disney would have given this the Fantasia treatment with an instrumental version of this piece, would have been wonderful.
Harry Morgan Just because it happened to you doesn't mean it will happen to any &/or all atheists. Atheists are so by conviction & cannot be influenced or manipulated so easily. They can certainly love Bach's sacred music, but all of Christianity itself, all the horrors it has spawned, obviously by arrogant "believers" & not the religion itself? But whenever any one religion professes to be the only true one, it is asking for trouble. If one is a believer, surely one believes tho' there are many religions, there is only one God?
Hyun Lee Yes, what God Bach believed in (or not). He was such a genius, if they'd asked him to write about Venus, he'd have done so brilliantly. His imagination was on standby.
The One Lord He made his music for. Bach said, "The ultimate end of all music should be nothing other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."
@@aragornthebrave I think Bach would be very sad to read this since he signed all of his works by "Soli Deo Gloria" which is a protestant latin phrase which mean "To the glory of God alone" and write some song to explicitly express the way God has been faithful with him. I think in particular of "Jesus joy of man's desiring" which he write after the loss of his wife to explain the fact that even without his wife, his joy can be in Jesus alone, the source and fountain of all true joy and comfort. (Sorry if my English is not perfect, I'm French).
Wow! Orchestration is unbelievable of this choir magnificent piece; joy, continuity and deeply profound to hear in all aspects, round and brilliant at all times, astounding!
Thank you very much, both for the upload, and for the excellent introduction - timings, translation, the NT passage, the note on the cantata, and the performers - this is wonderfully comprehensive.
mckavitt - Why this trouble that people nowadays have with the name of Jesus? Bach was a genius of course but his genius did not make him embarrassed at the name of Jesus. He knew full well he could never have created such an account of such a Man. No genius who ever lived could have created the Christian Gospels. What they tell is simply the greatest truth any human being could ever imagine - except it was not imagined. It was a Life lived and a Death endured. And a Resurrection no-one has ever explained away. We can enter into a relationship with this Man. Bach knew it. His genius was to create the greatest musical setting for the Gospel accounts as in the Matthew Passion, or as in this case for another part of the Gospel story. No! Not anyone & anything could have been Bach's inspiration for his greatest works. Only One, the One he clearly loved, could have been that!
As I write, it's Advent 1 and so I've been listening to various performances of this all day. This one is particularly nice - compelling, really. Thanks you.
OK, guys. This has gone far enough. This a most beautiful work Bach's and an utter classic. Besides, English is a Germanic language and most people get the words and meanings. Personally, I don't this work or any of Bach's any other should seriously performed in anything but High German, except for Latin, which I feel needs desperately to be sung, even in Recitativ, in English. Please understand my comments do not imply any bigotry, but how I hear the beauty and clarity of music and lyrics.
looking at the comments I see all varieties of folks: Dutch, Magyar, Portuguese, English, etc... basically, lots of people from everywhere are loving this... yes, I'm a "big jerk American" (but yes, we actually have "culture" here too, believe it or not; it's not always all "guns and hamburgers", trust me! We have good singers and well-tuned violins and fancy big pipe organs and Lutheran churches too), but when I hear Herr Meister Bach, my nationality and my religion definitely take a back seat to what's really truly important. :-)
i don't imagine that Johnny S Bach would've liked or been interested in "guns" too much, (from what I understand, he didn't have much time for the martial arts; the Bach family is not famous for being warriors, right?) ...but, I suspect he could've and would've enjoyed himself in the USA... i think he would be pleased to see the Lutheran Church alive and well; he'd probably be shocked to find his music revered as it is; scholastically, ecclesiastically; and, above all, purely musically ... i imagine that he wouldn't turn his nose up to some cheeseburgers and french fries and Coors light beer, had I the honour to offer it to him... and maybe some BBQ pork and Bluegrass music and line dancing too?! Bach loved life; he was a hard-working family man; he was a servant of God, not Man, although he necessarily had to work for asshole-prick princes, and he never got paid enough money... but, all them Bach kids needed to eat, whether or not they were any good at music... he was not a fancy foo-foo 'artist'... :-)
@@giuseppelogiurato5718 "Not one to take a beating lightly, Bach drew his sword and the fight was on. Dodging the stick, Bach made several thrusts that pierced Geyersbach's jacket before passers-by rushed in to prevent bloodshed. " www.wpr.org/bach-draws-his-sword
You got it, perfectly right you are. This is how these things came to light. There is fairly little of the holy talk I must overhear nowadays, and heavenly interpretations. You are clever Michael and I wish you found some modest joy in my works Ihr mit Bewunderung zur Vernunft und Verstand jawohl und Sie haben beide. Shoen. JSB
Thanks for posting this, especially with the score - it is a real pleasure to examine. The depth of this piece is present from the start; after only four bars I am completely captured by the spirit of it.
El contrapunto entre sopranos y líneas graves 4:39-5:25,es uno de los momentos mas sublimes,que me hallan sido dados a escuchar. El duo entre K.Equiluz y Alan Bergius (voz soprano),una maravilla. Esta grabación de la B.W.V.140, creo que es insuperable a la vez que canónica.
the music is no fairy tale. Life after death, religion, an actual heaven is the fairy tale to me. The music sends me to a place and feeling within my body not some supernatural place that I believe does not exist. The best description I have are heaven and god. I don't believe I travel there when I hear the music. I love Bach's music.
i love that all of the voice parts are in their own special clef! Like seriously, the Soprano part is in soprano clef, Alto is in alto clef, Tenor is in tenor clef, and bass in bass clef..... I LOVE IT! :D
featured on CBC radio Sunday Edition (Dec-21-2018) as one of those 'stranded Island music' pick - learned a lot from listening to Robert Harris' explanation of this Cantata
Die Komposition ist der Hammer mit den punktierten Achteln als Rhythmus und der Übergang zu den sechzehnteln und cantus firmus mit punktierten halben... alles wahnsinn :)))
Hello, if you like Bach's Choral Music, please check out Max Reger's 100th Psalm op.106 1st Movement th-cam.com/video/HzfB7j5HJiI/w-d-xo.html 2nd Movement th-cam.com/video/w7SM5yua444/w-d-xo.html 3rd Movement th-cam.com/video/9C1cqQUwRqg/w-d-xo.html 4th Movement (a Monumental Double Fugue over the "Cantus Firmus" Ein feste Burg") th-cam.com/video/yjfyIAMdCB4/w-d-xo.html A towering Opus, one of the finest Pieces of Music in the 20th Century, Reger was a true successor of the Tradition of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. Max Reger was a glowing Admirer of J.S.Bachs Music, some say he was the Bach of the Romantic Era. Please check it out! Thank you Maybe you can give me a feedback!
I fight with a very Serious Depression. And this Music really Helps me. Thank you for Sharing this ...
Bach's music has very soothing qualities, as Bach himself suffered with a great deal of grief. Stay strong!
Bach is a master, a time-traveling wonder. The spirit of his work frees itself from the shackles of time to bring you, the listener, resounding joy. Bask, humbled, in the warm light of his music.
he made some decent music
Fault finders will find fault in heaven. Bach did,'n think he was God. He knew he
was blessed. He gave thanks to the Source from where his blessings came. It
came from God as he understood God. A la gloire de Dieu. Isten dicsosegere.....
He thanked God for his gifts. I thank God for Bach...
What's even more impressive: J.S. had only a week to write and rehearse each of his cantatas, and this is the kind of gold he came up with.
I know! And most of his cantatas were written in around 3 years-- that's roughly 156 cantatas over that period. No computers, tape recorders, or electricity. He had greatly limited resources, too. How did he do it? The man was a marvel.
For most of the cantatas, the ones that Bach wrote in Leipzig around 1723-1725, that's true. But this particular one he wrote in the year 1731, because there was a 27th sunday after trinity sunday, which almost never happens.
thexalon he’s a genius
thexalon Bach is an archangel of music! From god himself.
@@Musicienne-DAB1995 156? As far as I know he wrote 224 cantatas.
Bach was the best composer of every time and every land!
It is a secret to me how it is possible to compose music like this.
It's not just a secret to you, it's a mystery to 99% of musical theorists.
Please, don't talk out of your ass. Any first year composition student is able to write in the style of Bach.
Gregory, when you write a quadruple fugue based on the Fibonacci series and the golden ratio with GREG (G-D-E-G) as the countersubject please let us know. I'd love to hear it!
One time I was working for a guy and when I mentioned I had been a musician, he told me he was a descendant of one of J.S. Bach's daughters. Then he phoned his mom to remind himself which daughter. From then on I could see a resemblance and it felt something like I was hanging out with Bach. Although this guy knew nothing about music.
To give an idea of how skilled he was: This now-immortalized cantata that you're listening to right now, he had less than a week to write and rehearse.
Faith in humanity... is never lost, as long as Bach's music endure.
No truer words! ❤
Bach's elevation of Lutheran melodies into the stratospheric heights never ceases to astound and awe the humble listener. What a beautiful cantata!
Still, no matter for how many times I listen to this cantata, I always drop few tears during the minute 4:40 to 6:00 aprox. There is some sort of perfection in these harmonies that makes my brain to go to some other place, it is so perfect and divine but last for few seconds.
Me either
My favorite Bach cantata..... And such a delightful performance of the piece. Thanks for sharing.
mine too.Having enjoyed for many years both Eduard Mauserberger and Karl Richter's recordings this is also very good.
versio Dei Digna
Bach elevates the lowest, humblest, most ignorant listener to the same aesthetic heights as the most privileged, sophisticated listener. His music is the great equalizer
Oca 2074:
hai ragione!
Il motivo è forse perchè non parla all'intelligenza o all'esperienza musicale....
Bach parla direttamente all'anima!
Come in bwv 147 10; e altre.
Questo è il mio pensiero.
Saluti dall'Italia chiunque tu sia, ovunque tu sia.
Hello, if you like Bach's Choral Music, please check out Max Reger's 100th Psalm op.106
1st Movement th-cam.com/video/HzfB7j5HJiI/w-d-xo.html
2nd Movement th-cam.com/video/w7SM5yua444/w-d-xo.html
3rd Movement th-cam.com/video/9C1cqQUwRqg/w-d-xo.html
4th Movement (a Monumental Double Fugue over the "Cantus Firmus" Ein feste Burg")
th-cam.com/video/yjfyIAMdCB4/w-d-xo.html
A towering Opus, one of the finest Pieces of Music in the 20th Century, Reger was a true successor of the Tradition of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.
Max Reger was a glowing Admirer of J.S.Bachs Music, some say he was the Bach of the Romantic Era.
Please check it out! Thank you
Maybe you can give me a feedback!
had this played at my mother's memorial service. Though she was an atheist she loved JSB and this in particular.
Peter Byerly I had the first movement played at my much-missed father's funeral in 1985.
I never understand the atheist/Bach connection. There are many of them out there and I think they are fooling themselves. It's like saying how you admire a sunset but ignore the 200 plus parameters needed for life to exist on earth!
bach played for GOD,atheist or beliver it make you somehow near him
bach was more of a scientist of music. The ruling powers were the only institutions to give him a salary so he had to write for their agenda. He played the game & was great at it. The true Bach comes alive in his concertos or piano music. The passion & mastery of his craft is what many of us find fascinating.
300 years later & here we are, listening to his magical work.
Bach and his music might have been pious but even non-believers have ears!
The proof of a God in my opinion is how music like this with a chorus in a language that I don't speak can bring tears to my eyes. Just beautiful!
It's called Bach's genius
Still doesn't prove there's a God
and what of the fact that theres 'white power' hate music out there, one could also use that as proof that there is no god. Humans are both garbage and wonderful, no proof a god did it.
No. The proof of God are rational and they're called the Five ways and are explained by Aquinas in Summa Contra Gentiles, Book I.
Nevertheless, the beauty we can see in this world, music included, is meant to point to the absolute Beauty by which we can say that something is more or less beautiful.
Yeah, also always brings me tears, this joy of Bach's genius demonstrates us God, even to a non-religious contender like me.
The music of angels, but mortals will do. Bach gave us a glimpse of the heavenly choirs. And so many years ago. It doesn't matter this music is for all times. The music of angels.
Bach il compositore da me preferito. Quando ascoltate questi brani, insieme ad essi leggete il testo...strepitoso.
Dio quanto canta canta Bach
Bach is my favorite and there aren't a very large percentage of people that will listen to much less appreciate these gems. You know this is how he taught his congregation new hymns. Note the hymn tune in the Soprano in the first movement and the choral at the end. He would have already played this in the form of an organ prelude before the cantata (for those who may stumble on this and not know) . I just adore Bach too. thank you for the whole thing.
That ending is so moving, especially when you realize that he hid that same melody throughout the piece in different ways, all of which culminated to the final chorus. What a genius. I can see how this could inspire faith in people.
The faith would be preexisting. Bach wrote his works in order to inspire the faithful to devotion.
I love the singing of those children, it evokes some of the precious moments of my childhood with my friends, really move me to tears
Beam me up, Bach! This is easily my favorite Bach Cantata. Sublime.
And so it has always been, that genius is always timeless and fresh and stirring to
the human spirit! In this cantata BACH seems to pour honey into our ears and fortify
the soul all at once.
+Shaun Darius Truer words have scarcely been uttered...The man was anointed, creating music that often leaves me speechless and motionless, lost in the moment, fully absorbing his greatness.AMAZING!!!
Thank you, Jane. Your words gave me chills. Contact me if you wish here:
facebook.com/shaundarius.gottlieb
I'm a concert cellist & photographer. I have a strong sense you are a lovely artist to know!
poetphotos.com/music/source/preview2.html
PS This isn't to sell you any music, only to share, Jane! Have a glorious year. By the way, this is also an excellent link to hear ALL of Bach's cantatas for free:
www.bach-cantatas.com/index.htm
There are some excellent free links in my post above!
Simply sublime. So uplifting and a wonderful piece for the beginning of Advent.
My dad is quite fond of whistling the violin melody in the fourth movement, and I never knew that it came from this cantata until now.
Wonderful music and performance.
To think that some of Bach's music was lost. The people of Leipzig,the people of Germany and the world didn't know what they had.One greater than even Mozart or Beethoven. The greatest genius who ever lived. Thank God the Romantic composers re discovered him and were so amazed, otherwise dumb humans would probably never have found him and thrown out more if not all his music.
I so totally agree with you. I devote so much of my time to listening to him he is the greatest
Well that's an interesting point, but I'm not sure that the Romantic composers dealt with Bach very effectively. Jazz, on the other hand, arguably achieved more: see e.g. "Jacques Loussier Play Bach". Although this is a bit of a generalisation, Bach's music had rather fallen out of favour by the late C19th, and there was also a tendency for Romantic composers to try and "add to" Bach. Webern and the jazz guys had more success as their techniques are more similar to Baroque writing.
please help needed
my music professor give me homework and asked me
"how many times dose J.S Bach make the chorale tune in movement #4 cantata #140 "
please can any one help me ..
RichardMartin2 Generalisations are for the ignorant,:also this one.
Sing it! It isn't hard....Mandeep Singh
nice thought
I am a disillusioned believer
when I listen to this music what I miss now is that wonderful feeling that tere is a good repeat A GOOD god up there ...
When the voice calls me, I want to be awake and ready!
Wenn mich die Stimme anruft, möchte ich wach und bereit sein!
Yes, so true. These musical geniuses and prodigies live amongst us. And to think half of Bach's works were lost and a quarter of Mozarts. We must treasure their works.
The last movement brings tears to my eyes...but then again pretty much the whole thing does
Thank you for posing this cantata. I love the Music of Bach very, very much, especially this cantata
Wat een heerlijk werk heeft de dienstknecht Bach Johann Sebastian hier van onze Heere God ontvangen. De Heere zei geprezen tot in Eeuwigheid! Hij de Heer is onze Vader !
Cantata 140 is exquisite, refined and magical to the auditory sense. Listening to this composition one gets transcend through the music.
The composition is so grand and exquisite. This is what heaven must feel like to enter.
Prachtige Cantate. Op 09-10-2004 deze cantate uitgevoerd met het koor Sursum Corda uit Rotterdam. Deze muziek is zo mooi, daar verbleekt alles bij. Met 7 tenoren de zeer fraaie koraal " Zion hört die Wächter singen " gezongen in een volle Laurenskerk, dat blijft je altijd bij.
The Al-le-lu-ja starting at 4:40 puts me into orbit.
Me too ....
The first verse of this cantata is absolutely magnificent! and Thomas Hampson's voice is to die for!
Bach, ein ewiges Vorbild ...
Thank you a thousand times for adding the score! Having the sheet music allowed me to fully appreciate all the details of this glorious composition (and thereby both distract me from my writing as well as giving me inspiration!!!). The only thing I could imagine being better than having music plus score would be to have a split screen so I could see a video of the orchestra and the score at the same time as I listened to the music... But then I'd never get any writing done!
That's the trouble of writing with Bach in the background. I, like you, enjoy analysing the score as I listen. Unfortunately, I become so spellbound that I forget about writing.
Una de las mejores cantatas escrita por uno de los mejores músicos: un lujo.
Stirring, regal, magnificent, and beautiful, especially the first chorus. Interesting how 3/4 time can be made into a march. The runs of instruments, and later, the melismata of the lower voices, run joyful tapestries around the ironically legato march of the sopranos. A tour de force musically, but much more, a triumph of the Spirit. This music will live forever.
The alto line at 4:39. It's best with the CD and a good stereo for the articulation, which is amazing
Bach! Il più grande compositore di tutti i tempi. Tutti i grandi compositori gli hanno sempre tributato l'elezione al vertice massimo della creatività e della genialità.
Questa cantata è sublime ed eleva l'anima a Dio!
Whatever I am doing, however I am feeling, this makes everything better! Thank you for posting this, but more, thank you Bach for writing this!
Non mi stanco mai di ascoiltare questa cantata, in tante versioni con diversi interpreti. E' una musica dolce, profonda che arriva prima alla mente ma poi esplode nel cuore riempiendolo col profondo e indiscutibile messaggio della parabola evengelica delle Vergini savie e stolte. Quando ascolto la cantata, condivido l'amore che ha per essa il carissimo Santo Padre emerito Benedetto XVI°. Brunello Veronese Milano
This is my favorite Bach musical piece. I like everything Bach. Heck I love the Baroque Period with its great music, and beautiful paintings. This song is so uplifting, and pleasurable. I love the choir. When I hear this song, all I can think is beautiful marriages, kingdoms and having a wonderful life in fantasy. Wonderful song. Thank you so much for loading this.
I performed the II. Recitative many years ago with the Ames Choral Society (Iowa) what an amazing piece of work...
First listening of the intro today while looking at the ocean by my window... Made me cry !! Love is the only word mates
For the greater glory of God. Thank you JSB from the bottom of my heart and from the countless millions whose lives you have and will enlightened until time itself ends Your name and your music will literally live forever.
Preciosa cantata de Bach, inspirado en lo Espiritual su bella melodía exaltando a Dios y a mi amado y único Señor Jesucristo.
Agree heartily with Robin a year ago. The score is a wonderful demonstration of Bach's skill in this wonderful piece. I am an atheist and that has nothing to do with musical enjoyment. He displays the wonder of the human mind and the extraordinariness of evolution.
Ciertamente, las cantatas de Bach, son el epítome de lo sacro y lo sublime, la melodía y el contrapunto de la música coral con la parate instrumental, en esa convinación casi matemática, le imprimen ese aire tan celestial,
que toca las fibras mas sencibles del alma
the unearthly beauty of this music is the best argument for the existence of God
So amazing! I can't believe Bach could compose something this amazing!
I can believe Bach did it, but only Bach ;)
Какая жизнеутверждающая музыка🤩.!Само совершенство!
Grandissimo Harnoncourt, comunica tutte le emozioni struggenti ed entusiasmanti di questa cantata. E poi gli oboi barocchi sono una meraviglia!! Grazie per la condivisione.
Great Harnoncourt, communicates all the thrilling and exciting emotions of this cantata. And then baroque oboes are a wonder !! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the high quality upload.
Oh welch wunderschöne Musik!!! Soli deo gloria!!!
God couldn't exist without Bach.
Bach did not exist without God
Música con una perfección absoluta. Qué sería de nosotros si no hubiese existido BACH?? Gracias, Dios mio.
Bach is one of the God's voices... Not possible to listen his music without be touched by God... or by something which touch us...
Even an atheist can't help but dig this. I love this cantata. Fourth movement is my favorite part. I wish Disney would have given this the Fantasia treatment with an instrumental version of this piece, would have been wonderful.
Atheists enjoy Bach even more because they know it was all his own work.
Harry Morgan Just because it happened to you doesn't mean it will happen to any &/or all atheists. Atheists are so by conviction & cannot be influenced or manipulated so easily. They can certainly love Bach's sacred music, but all of Christianity itself, all the horrors it has spawned, obviously by arrogant "believers" & not the religion itself? But whenever any one religion professes to be the only true one, it is asking for trouble. If one is a believer, surely one believes tho' there are many religions, there is only one God?
The music is Bach's work for God. I hope you come to find your meaning for God too, because He will provide you with a way when you come to Him.
Though not much a christian, this makes one want to know who the Bach's god is.
Hyun Lee Yes, what God Bach believed in (or not). He was such a genius, if they'd asked him to write about Venus, he'd have done so brilliantly. His imagination was on standby.
The One Lord He made his music for. Bach said, "The ultimate end of all music should be nothing other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul."
Actually, the god was Bach's himself. I am saying this as an atheist.
@@VideoperesTR I think Bach's god was music itself.
@@aragornthebrave I think Bach would be very sad to read this since he signed all of his works by "Soli Deo Gloria" which is a protestant latin phrase which mean "To the glory of God alone" and write some song to explicitly express the way God has been faithful with him. I think in particular of "Jesus joy of man's desiring" which he write after the loss of his wife to explain the fact that even without his wife, his joy can be in Jesus alone, the source and fountain of all true joy and comfort.
(Sorry if my English is not perfect, I'm French).
Wow! Orchestration is unbelievable of this choir magnificent piece; joy, continuity and deeply profound to hear in all aspects, round and brilliant at all times, astounding!
Гаммы...... Бах умел их сочинять. Просто и завораживающе.......... Гениальный Бах!
i love classical music so much more now that im taking a music appreciation class this semester
この曲でクラシックに、バッハに目覚めました。
この速いテンポと、ボーイソプラノのバージョンが大好きです。
アップしてくれてありがとう。
Thank you very much, both for the upload, and for the excellent introduction - timings, translation, the NT passage, the note on the cantata, and the performers - this is wonderfully comprehensive.
This is probably some people's favorite cantata because it sounds so much like Mozart honestly
Or rather, Mozart sounds so like this.
Many thanks for uploading this beautiful performance!
Heavenly. Truth and beauty allows us to lift up our eyes to the heavens.
Wunderbar ....
stupendous to know, that Jesus was Bach inpirations.
Marcelo TS Why? Anyone & anything could have been. He was a GENIUS.
mckavitt - Why this trouble that people nowadays have with the name of Jesus? Bach was a genius of course but his genius did not make him embarrassed at the name of Jesus. He knew full well he could never have created such an account of such a Man. No genius who ever lived could have created the Christian Gospels. What they tell is simply the greatest truth any human being could ever imagine - except it was not imagined. It was a Life lived and a Death endured. And a Resurrection no-one has ever explained away. We can enter into a relationship with this Man. Bach knew it. His genius was to create the greatest musical setting for the Gospel accounts as in the Matthew Passion, or as in this case for another part of the Gospel story. No! Not anyone & anything could have been Bach's inspiration for his greatest works. Only One, the One he clearly loved, could have been that!
@@WPFinlay And he signed all his works with "Soli Des Gloria" : To God alone be the Glory.
Noone talks as much about God on the internet as atheists... it just never stops to amaze me.
As I write, it's Advent 1 and so I've been listening to various performances of this all day.
This one is particularly nice - compelling, really. Thanks you.
It doesn't get better than this.
Какая прекрасная музыка!
Thanks for sharing AV
Destacada obra maestra del ingente y magistral repertorio bachquiano. Magnífica interpretación de la agrupación de N. Harnoncourt
First movement, I love the way the sopranos just float on top with while now while everyone else is fugueing away under them.
OK, guys. This has gone far enough. This a most beautiful work Bach's and an utter classic. Besides, English is a Germanic language and most people get the words and meanings. Personally, I don't this work or any of Bach's any other should seriously performed in anything but High German, except for Latin, which I feel needs desperately to be sung, even in Recitativ, in English. Please understand my comments do not imply any bigotry, but how I hear the beauty and clarity of music and lyrics.
looking at the comments I see all varieties of folks: Dutch, Magyar, Portuguese, English, etc... basically, lots of people from everywhere are loving this... yes, I'm a "big jerk American" (but yes, we actually have "culture" here too, believe it or not; it's not always all "guns and hamburgers", trust me! We have good singers and well-tuned violins and fancy big pipe organs and Lutheran churches too), but when I hear Herr Meister Bach, my nationality and my religion definitely take a back seat to what's really truly important. :-)
i don't imagine that Johnny S Bach would've liked or been interested in "guns" too much, (from what I understand, he didn't have much time for the martial arts; the Bach family is not famous for being warriors, right?) ...but, I suspect he could've and would've enjoyed himself in the USA... i think he would be pleased to see the Lutheran Church alive and well; he'd probably be shocked to find his music revered as it is; scholastically, ecclesiastically; and, above all, purely musically ... i imagine that he wouldn't turn his nose up to some cheeseburgers and french fries and Coors light beer, had I the honour to offer it to him... and maybe some BBQ pork and Bluegrass music and line dancing too?! Bach loved life; he was a hard-working family man; he was a servant of God, not Man, although he necessarily had to work for asshole-prick princes, and he never got paid enough money... but, all them Bach kids needed to eat, whether or not they were any good at music... he was not a fancy foo-foo 'artist'... :-)
Of course! And I like bluegrass as well :)
@@giuseppelogiurato5718 Well, he did tbrraten a dude with a sword. so....
threaten"
@@giuseppelogiurato5718 "Not one to take a beating lightly, Bach drew his sword and the fight was on. Dodging the stick, Bach made several thrusts that pierced Geyersbach's jacket before passers-by rushed in to prevent bloodshed. "
www.wpr.org/bach-draws-his-sword
I keep coming back to this video. It's so good.
You got it, perfectly right you are. This is how these things came to light. There is fairly little of the holy talk I must overhear nowadays, and heavenly interpretations. You are clever Michael and I wish you found some modest joy in my works Ihr mit Bewunderung zur Vernunft und Verstand jawohl und Sie haben beide. Shoen. JSB
My favorite among all Bach's cantates.
My favorite cantata, one and the only one.
Thanks for posting this, especially with the score - it is a real pleasure to examine. The depth of this piece is present from the start; after only four bars I am completely captured by the spirit of it.
Belle, transcendantale. Le travail du maître du baroque. Personne n'a réussi Bach dans la magnificence de la musique contrapuntique et fugue!
Todo lo que ha compuesto Bach me gusta Lo que más la " Pasión según San Mateo " y esta composición es bellisíma
Thank you for the information. He sounds wonderful.
El contrapunto entre sopranos y líneas graves 4:39-5:25,es uno de los momentos mas sublimes,que me hallan sido dados a escuchar.
El duo entre K.Equiluz y Alan Bergius (voz soprano),una maravilla.
Esta grabación de la B.W.V.140, creo que es insuperable a la vez que canónica.
Johan Sebastian wat heb je hier ons een mooi werk gegeven het is een werk van de kwaliteit van luther
Thanks for this post! Ich liebe diese Kantate!
Good point. It speaks to the skills of the composers that they can pull this off so well.
Casei ao som desta cantata. Simplesmente magnifica e gloriosa como toda musica do maior compositor de todos os tempos.
Bach: lo máximo en música!!!
Bach nor any of us would or could NOT exist without God!
the music is no fairy tale. Life after death, religion, an actual heaven is the fairy tale to me. The music sends me to a place and feeling within my body not some supernatural place that I believe does not exist. The best description I have are heaven and god. I don't believe I travel there when I hear the music. I love Bach's music.
So excited! We are working on this for the Spring'14 Concert. One of my fav Bach Cantatas..
i love that all of the voice parts are in their own special clef! Like seriously, the Soprano part is in soprano clef, Alto is in alto clef, Tenor is in tenor clef, and bass in bass clef..... I LOVE IT! :D
featured on CBC radio Sunday Edition (Dec-21-2018) as one of those 'stranded Island music' pick - learned a lot from listening to Robert Harris' explanation of this Cantata
It is so much fun and a lot of ear training to follow the voices in the screen. THANK YOU so much for this
Die Komposition ist der Hammer mit den punktierten Achteln als Rhythmus und der Übergang zu den sechzehnteln und cantus firmus mit punktierten halben... alles wahnsinn :)))
Hello, if you like Bach's Choral Music, please check out Max Reger's 100th Psalm op.106
1st Movement th-cam.com/video/HzfB7j5HJiI/w-d-xo.html
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4th Movement (a Monumental Double Fugue over the "Cantus Firmus" Ein feste Burg")
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A towering Opus, one of the finest Pieces of Music in the 20th Century, Reger was a true successor of the Tradition of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.
Max Reger was a glowing Admirer of J.S.Bachs Music, some say he was the Bach of the Romantic Era.
Please check it out! Thank you
Maybe you can give me a feedback!
Of course! All great music lasts. I love listening to rock and roll and hearing snippets of classical composers...