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- "Jesu, der du meine Seele" BWV 78
J.S. Bach
Choir and Orchestra of the Bach Guild
conducted by Felix Prohaska, Vienna, 1954
This is the wonderful duet from the pictured, and unfortunately now out of print, Vanguard Classics CD.
Pasted below is a nice review of this recording left by a listener at amazon.com.
A KNOCKOUT WAITING TO BE A HIT
November 26, 2003
By DAVID BRYSON (Glossop Derbyshire England) - (TOP 500 REVIEWER)
If you can find this record you are hereby incited to obtain it by fair means or foul. Everything on it is good. The comparatively well-known Actus Tragicus, Cantata 106, is sombre, grief-laden and desolate, the tempi slow and the expression devotional and unworldly.
What is pre-emptive about this disc however is Cantata 78, or rather the second number in Cantata 78, the duet `Wir eilen...' for soprano and contralto. It seems that every now and again this comparatively obscure piece comes to someone's notice fortuitously and sets off the same sort of reaction. It apparently achieved fame over the airwaves in at least two widely separated parts of America, a friend of mine picked it instantly as his wedding voluntary, I myself was bowled over by it when I first heard it 35 years ago, gave my copy to my mother thinking I could easily replace it, failed totally to do that and have been searching forlornly for it ever since. Somehow the piece has never `established' itself in the way Jesu Joy and Wachet Auf have done. You might hardly recognise it as Bach at all, at least to start with. He can be exuberant indeed, but I can think of nothing by him quite like this. A superficial first hearing almost suggests something from a Mozart opera rather than a Bach Cantata. It is not an elaborate piece at all, just a canonic duet with a simple accompaniment on a small organ. The two singers set each other off beautifully and although Dagmar Hermann really outshines Teresa Stich-Randall that doesn't seem to matter. There is something about the way the voices complement each other, even their oddly different ways of taking breaths, that is simply pleasurable beyond words.
The recorded sound is not spectacular, but it doesn't have to be. What is spectacular, though in a very unshowy way, is the duet itself. Do not go to your final reckoning without getting to know it or you may be asked why not. - เพลง
This is indeed the BEST recording of this duet ever! I first heard it in the 70's while in College. I never tire of it!
Without a doubt this is the finest version of this duet. Although written for a soprano and a counter tenor Mme Hermann makes this a perfect combination.
Magnifico ! 🦋
The best version of this Duet... for me ! I listen to it often, with joy and pleasure ! 💕 🌿 🌺
One of the loveliest versions of this stunning duet. 👍👏❤️
Bach on a merry-go-round. Utter dizziness. Pure heaven.
This was the first recording I ever heard of this Cantata. I was 12 years old. It is still my favorite.
Me too ! And every cantata could sing this great lady who was Madame Stich Randall. Remember the BWV 51, with Karl Ristenpart as dirigent and Maurice André at trumpet...
Well, that's called "imprinting"; but in this case, you're right - it's the best performance on record.
wonderful, there was exactly had this album at home when I was a teenager. When later on I bought a different version did not remember the name of the cantata, but immediately recognized, especially the duet that at that time I already accompanied the singing... not even thinking that the dream could come true. .
I first heard this luscious, joyful piece of music on radio station KPFA, Berkeley so may years ago I can't remember when but once having heard it, I tuned in to Mary Berg and the classical show every Sunday morning for many years... I fell out of the habit of listening to that show when I moved out of state. The sad news that Mary has passed reminded my of this Bach Cantata and I find myself starting my days again with it. The dancing organ perfectly matching the sparkling, sublime voices, How can one not love Bach?
I discovered this piece on Listener Sponsored Pacifica Station WBAI in NYC. Back in the Sixties, They used it (in place of the national anthem of course) as their sign on every morning. It eventually disappeared from the radio, but not my memory. I never wrote down the name or BWV of the cantata, and for decades the tune rattled around in my brain as I searched the Internet for it. It was only recently supplied to me by Paul Fisher, the staff announcer/engineer at the time. Although there are several recordings on You Tube, none are the WBAI veersion
. Paul does not remember the artists but is sure it was a Deutsch Gramophone record. Would you know they might be?
Rosalie Arntzen ich
I heard this on many many Sundays in the SF Bay area. When I worked for radical political figure Lyndon Larouche we performed this piece numerous times in our group.
Here I am listening, listening again to this luminous perfect sound. Could my heart hold more? Let me see.
So beautiful. Shut the coyotes right up! Long live Mary Berg and God Bless Her Soul!
Thank you NNN for posting this music.
Felix Prohaska also used Stich-Randall for his Cantata No. 51. The aria "Hoechster, mache Deine Guete" is a gem!
Stich-Randall recorded Cantata No. 51 twice, once with Prohaska and again with Karl Ristenpart. I wonder how professionals
compare the two recordings.
The Ristenpart may be competent, but the Prohaska--An angel sings to me as I fall asleep. Intimate connection to the music.
Only the Ristenpart is on TH-cam.
This is the most divine recording. I have heard others (and own the Philippe Herreweghe one) but this one transports the spirit in a special way. It's very sad that the disc no longer available to buy.
I have a CD copy in the S.F. Bay Area this piece was played ever Sunday morning by Joseph Spencer. The show was called musical Offering.
This is a jewel of a recording! Their blend is perfection and phrasing is just marvelous.
Can you tell I like this a lot??
I'm so happy to have found it!
Bellísimo. Conmovedor.
Excelente versión.
I remember buying this album at the former record superstore and Chicago icon, Rose Records many years ago. It was one of the first classical "choral" records I ever purchased and fell in love specifically with this duet. I have played it over and over again. As one comment stated, it is not just the precision of the singers, it is also the wonder of the music. It is a perfectly crafted duet that stands as well alone as within the cantata. Still one of my favorite duets of all time!
This wonderful recording brings back so many fond memories.
I am in Heaven. I am in Heaven. With God and a triumph of Angels. And Bach on his throne. Heaven.
Sublime. Heart stopping. Oh that we have ears to listen and hearts to know.
Maravilloso
Toscanini called Teresa Stich-Randall "the find of the century" and it's not hard to see why. Breathtakingly beautiful and precise. Utterly sublime. :-)
Absolutely!
que plaisir ecouter cette selection de la cantate 78 de bach. Stich Randall... superbe! et Dagmar Herrman magnifique. Merci pour votre post!
I've lost track of this duet through the years, with these soloists. First heard, In the 50's, on WFMT, Chicago. It still stops me in my tracks, Sixty years on.
me too, it was in Viet nam for 60 years, a gift from France and it was
on the old thick disk of the Grammophone the sound I never forget, it takes me back to my early childhood
Teresa Stich-Randall is here the most suited spiritual vector of producing on the mind the highest sensations of feeling and reason. Thank you for posting this video !
Eine feine Stimm-Mischung zwischen Sopran und Alt wie man sie selten in dieser Harmonie antrifft. Und trotz ihr Entstehung noch vor der authentischen Klangbewegung besitzt die Aufnahme viel Ausdruck und dramatische Kraft (nicht zuletzt durch die Orgelfarbe). Vielen Dank für die Kenntnisgabe dieses Dokuments. Prädikat: sehr hörenswert!
my favorite too...amazing performance
Thanks for uploading this & allowing us all to enjoy it.
This is a classic. I own this vinyl and sought out the digital. Perfection.
merveilleuse !
I am so glad to see the great BACH Lover so happy to listen to this very beautiful piece which he heard 61 years ago. and have enjoyed reading comments of these nice people who have shared their sentiments here . Greetings from Agadir Morocco.
How delightful to find this here! I discovered this while back in Chicago and fell in love with it and decided I had to learn it. I hope to sing it again, sometime soon.
My introduction to this sublime cantata some thirty years ago was via this very recording. To hear it again is a true joy. Thank you.
I had this recording as a kid. Loved it then, and love it now. Thanks for the memories.
Unspeakably beautiful.
The most beautiful piece of music....ever.
Quelle belle harmonie que ces deux voix !
Magnífico !
I heard this on KPFA on a Sunday morning in my office at MSRI in the Berkeley Hills. I will never forget that experience. For our own good we better listen to the message conveyed here.
Ugh, this is so beautiful, I almost can't handle it!
... che motivo! ...che bellezza!
Thank you for sharing this glorious recording - absolutely delightful. Beautiful singing, Miss S-R a delight (as usual) and v impressed by Miss H (lovely flexible chest voice without hooting) . Sheer joy.
Bright and witty.I loved it.
Quoi qu'elle ait pu chanter, Madame Stich Randall touche au parfait. Là encore...
Genius...
Beautiful tone . lovely recording .
sublime , magnifique , la perfection , BACHserait heureux
perfection! - thanks nnn
Я послушал 100 раз и не могу остановиться
Extremely beautiful and joyful!
Cette interprétation (que j'adore depuis... 1961) est une merveille. Les cantatrices sont comme galvanisées par un organiste exceptionnellement enthousiaste. Certains pensaient que Bach ne pouvait pas être joyeux ? M. Prohaska a démontré le contraire, en soutenant ce tempo endiablé !
(However, I never found who was the organist!...)
I agree, and this performance on the Vanguard LP was my introduction to it as well. Perfect diction and note separation by the soloists and an especially joyfull and appropriately "hasty" participation by the organist.
I am sure that Bach was joyful even before he composed this wonderful piece. He shows all of us that it is possible to take all the burdens we have to carry and still be joyful. I think this is the essence of Bach's music: To believe in God, to believe in the redemption through JESUS and to be an example of a LIFE full of work and trust.
Ce tempo n'a rien d'endiablé mais correspond aux souhait du compositeur : Allegro !
@@louismarie92 Sans doute. Mais jamais, dans toutes les versions que j'ai écoutées depuis 60 ans, l'organiste ne soutient un tempo aussi enlevé...
@@IvanGreindl, en effet Felix Prohaska, comme je le dit plus haut, respecte la mention Allegro voulu par Bach ! Ça n'est pas courant, mais pourtant spécifié sur la partition !
Superlative is the only word for this. Many thanks for having uploaded this music from heaven.
I remember listening to this for years before your program. Brings back a rush of memories! Thanks, Charles!
Brillant!
This was the sign-on music for KPFA RADIO in Berkeley from the mid-Fifties to the Seventies. The sign-on was shortened by cutting out the development section, so Pacifica listeners in Northern California will be startled to hear the entire piece. But there is no performance as thrilling as this one. Charles Amirkhanian, Music Director at KPFA 1969-1992.
I did hear the whole thing once on KPFA when Bill Sokol played it one Sunday. It felt like such an event! I was 12 I think, which means it was 1973 or 1974. I had moved to Berkeley two years earlier. Listening to KPFA made me want to play music and go on the radio. I took up the cello. In Berkeley High School I played in the orchestra and played chamber music with someone else who wanted to be on the radio, Sarah Cahill. Years later she invited me on her show and I got to do the station ID which was a dream fulfilled. Then I moved to New York and eventually became the overnight host on WNYC after Jon Schafer’s show and then I did a stint at WGBH and am now at WETA having done radio for over twenty years, all inspired by listening to people like you and Bill Sokol (and at various times Charles Shere and Julian White and Ron Erickson and George Cleve and lots of other people I’m forgetting…) Thank you for inspiring my career.
My favorite cantata, ever!
Stich-Randall, nearly forgotten!
The organist on this recording is Anton Heiler, a prominent organist in Europe. He died in the 1970s, I believe.
Anton Heiller (15 September 1923 - 25 March 1979
@@karlovacable Outstanding work. Bless him.
Many, many years ago I spent six weeks in Berkeley, taking a couple of summer school courses, one of which started at 8 am. The local public radio station, KPFA, went on the air at 7 am, playing this duet. So I heard it every morning for six weeks. This recording? I don't remember. But this is a lovely performance.
This is wonderful. Is it possible for someone to upload this magnificent cantata in full?I'd be ever so grateful.
Exquisite.
Of the vocal versions here on You Tube, this is the BEST one! My only complaint is the tubbiness of the orchestra sound, though they are great too! A lovely piece.
wowzers!
Je ne veux pas commettre de sacrilège mais lorsque j'ai découvert cette cantate vers 1958 (version Stich.Randall) j'ai ressenti une très forte émotion dont curieusement une certaine sensualité n'était pas exclue.Je la réécoute aujourd'hui en 2014 et je retrouve cette même émotion et sensualité. Parler de sensualité lorsqu'il s'agit de Bach parait paradoxal....réfléchissez bien! Pas tant que ça!.
Funnily enough there was a nun fashion show in a Fellini film around 1970 where this music was playing as the nuns were roller skating on the runway with their too large starched floppy white headgear.
I find that the correct spelling is "Heiller." He was Austrian and lived from 1923 to 1979. I heard him in a recital at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, N.C. (USA) around 1973. I've never heard anyone else improvise the organ part in this duet with such flourish.
I love this piece and fortunately have my own recording and like others I never tire of it.
Love this!
This Vanguard/Bach Guild issue is hands-down still the best recording ever of this marvelous duet. Some people say that it's the happiest music that the often sombre Herr Bach ever wrote. The soprano and mezzo are, the tell us, "hurrying (toward Jesus) with weak yet eager steps". In other recordings the singers seem to take a running pace, and in yet others a leisurely one. Here the pace seems just right. Soprano Stich-Randall is very rightly praised for this recording, but alto Dagmar Hermann is wonderful as well. The only saving grace of the number one Jack Nicholson stinker movie, "Man Trouble", is that it contains this aria (with Ellen Barkin voice synching the soprano part).
a favorite of the Bach aficionados at Oberlin circa 1958-60.....
que dire c'est fantastique
Perfección!!
Frequently heard on WNCN in New York City, played by the oh so sorely missed Bill Watson on Listening With Watson.
Bach was a devoted Lutheran! They appreciated the Bible too! He was influenced by Vivaldi and other Italians but his style is still quite distinct!
Maravilhoso!!!!!
HUH ? 1954 ! I do love this !
My heart is in rapture at this one
"Jesu, der du meine Seele" BWV 78
J.S. Bach
Teresa Stich-Randall and Dagmar Hermann
Choir and Orchestra of the Bach Guild
conducted by Felix Prohaska, Vienna, 1954
Sí, Jerry Turner, era el hallazgo del siglo, pero no tuvo la suficiente promoción, ella la hermosa mujer, dueña de una voz magnífica. En fin, injusticias del arte y de la vida!
Whenever I listen to this piece I imagine kids in clean white clothes playing in green field on a sunny day.
Have just bought this on eBay for 74p!! Bliss!!
A wonderful recording...but I disagree with David Bryson that Dagmar Hermann "outshines" Teresa Stich-Randall. To me, they are equally fine. Perhaps the microphones were not properly placed.
Maravilhoso!!??
My 🐱 Juju and his pal "Big Fellah" dance about every time they hear this and both agree that Papa Bach is the best, better than their catnip and Friskies Treats!
Bro this shit slaps
In the 1960s WFMT used to frequently play - on their Morning Program - a version of this cantata done by the Heinrich Schutz Chorale that was even better, more sprightly and actually jazzy. I've been looking for it for years and years. Anybody?
That's interesting. I first heard this recording on the WFMT morning program, and I had to call the announcer (Jim Unrath) to learn the title. I then went to Rose records on Wabash to buy it. It's still my favorite.
That's it. WFMT/Chicago used it to sign off. I like the one on Angel w/ Edith Mathis, s and Sybil Micheloe, a. I'm not looking for any correct historic performance standards on this one.
Words are wholly inadequate to describe this priceless jewel, which of course is true of Bach overall, but especially the sacred vocal works, truely absolutely timeless, even far more relevant and important to the Church and true art than when they were composed. Yet the opening work is equally important, providing the crucial context of Who this Glorious One they're in such a devoted hurry to follow IS (wir eilen mit empsigen Shritten), without which the duet's far less meaningful.
Wonderful. Was this not originally a DGG recording?
There is a Harnoncourt recording although this section with boy soprano is not at the same level as this performance.
Does anyone know what key this is in?
Bb major. Most more recent recordings are a semitone lower.
Much better than Karl Richter's recording from 1961.
Herrweghe also.
Sorry for my bad english.
Maybe you right, but Harnoncourt deserves acknowlegde for the project with boys instead of higt educated women.
Excellent, although I prefer a more Baroque singing style as opposed to the more operatic style used here.
Another subjective comment stated as fact, unfortunately too frequent on youtube!
It doesn't sound lugubrious to me, nor do I find the bass heavy-handed!
your comment how trite and superficial
oh man the notelength is backwards on the soprano, how aweful!
The organ (and especially it's registration) is all wrong for this spritely and cheerful music... too lugbubrious. And the bass continuo is pretty heavy handed as well. Too bad.
Ridiculous... ! ;-))