Wow, this cantata is my new favorite. I just get lost in Meine Seele...the amazing suspensions, the slow pace is perfect. The 2 arias with the chorale is almost Ivesian. The final fugue with the rising chromatic line then adding the descending suspension line from Meine Seele is pure genius. Not to mention the word painting. Incredible work.
@NooticusАй бұрын
As many of the other top comments say, Harnoncourt's recordings are truly the benchmark to me, especially when it comes to these early cantatas where the sadness and deep emotion really is palpable. The boy sopranos with the slow tempi and marked strong style is so complimentary to this music. I've been listening/watching/singing along with this video for years now so I thought it was about time I left a comment. Thank you Geru (once again), for getting me into Bach, and not just Bach but these phenomenal early cantatas which are some of the most underrated highly emotional moving music. Bach's early cantatas and motets bring me closer to some form of God than any other music; their eclectic nature, contructed like patchwork quilts is something so unique to just these few works.
@anncarter822 жыл бұрын
I may be in the minority here but I love this version. I think the slow tempo works very well.
@NooticusАй бұрын
Incredibly well.
@MrDaffman2 жыл бұрын
23:54 that contralto descent always fills my ears with pleasure 🤤 I feel amazed how clear you can hear this voice line in this version
@signumcrucis41722 жыл бұрын
Bach has made me a true believer.
@legendbachАй бұрын
It's the first time I hear this cantata and it's amazing how Bach continues to surprise me. The section from 10:22-15:12 is probably one of the greatest sections ever written, the counterpoint is just sublime!
@Nooticus10 күн бұрын
Amazing to see yet another generation/group of people discovering Bach with this channel, just as I did 7-ish years ago. Bach is still my life
@jgunther33985 жыл бұрын
This is Bach's earliest existent cantata.
@kneza96BG4 жыл бұрын
how old was he when he wrote it?
@Ivan_17914 жыл бұрын
@@kneza96BG 22
@linwoodbond49493 жыл бұрын
From what I read, BWV 4, Christ lag in todesbanden, is his earliest cantata, composed for Easter, 1707. This cantata, BWV 131, was also composed in 1707; so definitely one of his earliest cantatas.
@NooticusАй бұрын
@@linwoodbond4949 some scholats say BWV 150 was the earliest. either way, 131, 150 and 4 are definitely the three earliest. they all have a magic to them
@iliasvlastos65607 жыл бұрын
10:59 what a great fugue.
@Apyyre6 жыл бұрын
Stunning
@OdinComposer5 жыл бұрын
Thought the same!
@bono8943 жыл бұрын
First time hearing it today. So beautiful.
@SlateFx3 жыл бұрын
@@bono894 Same here, feels like every week I'm discovering a new mind-blowing 10/10 passage from Bach. This one is absolutely special, I can already tell it will be with me through the decades, something to draw strength from, that is what his music is to me, an endless well of strength and beauty. So thankful Bach existed.
@Nooticus3 жыл бұрын
@@SlateFx ^ this exactly
@Brigitte6199 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much for the scrolling and the translation!
@ottavva5 жыл бұрын
GERUBACH you are doing a great service to God by making these scores KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU
@jazzguitarfreaky7 жыл бұрын
Überirdisch.Bach you are the greatest.
@ricardocoimbra92592 жыл бұрын
The orchestration is quite diferent: 1 violin and 2 violas. This is Bach's earliest cantata that we are noticed. He was 22 years old (1707).
@rickmarti7711 жыл бұрын
interesting and informative. Sehr klug. Danke schoen.
@jazzguitarfreaky5 жыл бұрын
Dieser Mensch J.S.Bach war von der höchsten musikalischen Muse Gottes geküsst. Das größte musikalische Originalgenie aller Zeiten.
@Chris043557 жыл бұрын
22:46 - 25:07 make up the vast majority of bwv 131a (written for organ, basically almost the entire piece is based in this time slot, on the organ, only the first chord and the final bars are different)
@nemianyamele22657 жыл бұрын
in fact BWV 131a is actually just a transcription of this fugue for organ. Whether or not bach wrote this transcription is unknown but it certainly came after the cantata!!
@understand52384 ай бұрын
Oh god i love bach i love him
@NooticusАй бұрын
my thoughts exactly after listening to any of his early cantatas. the feeling of love is so intense
@aimilios4394 жыл бұрын
14:19 The last note of the repeated ones in sopranos theme. The chord that all the instruments and voices construct is out of this world, very dissonant. For just that moment that the chord lasts, my knees can't support my weight, like traditional harmony almost doesn't support this moment's existence.
@Nooticus3 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure at 12:38 there is the same extremely dissonant chord, but I think it might last for slightly longer, making the dissonance even easier to hear and appreciate. This comment of yours ^ is one of the best on youtube, and one I keep coming back to. I am not Christian, but Soli Deo Gloria.
@aimilios4393 жыл бұрын
@@Nooticus You are right, though it's in a minor context, and mine is in a major one, so that's why I probably noticed it there. Thanks for the kind words. I've never been able to believe in a higher Being, so I'm not Christian too. But listening to Bach is probably the closest I've been to any God intellectually. Thank you for reminding me this great musical moment by commenting!
@Nooticus10 күн бұрын
@@aimilios439 I still come back to and think about this comment. One of the best ever on KZfaq.
@aimilios43910 күн бұрын
@@Nooticus It's a great honor to hear that from you, a fellow musician and passionate commenter! I also come back to this moment for more reasons than I could put into words. Let's hold dear those moments since Geru has passed, and I will see you again on the threads of KZfaq I call home. I hope you and I progress in music and in happiness so that we may live and produce more moments like this. I truly thank you!
@Nooticus10 күн бұрын
@@aimilios439 Thank you so much, you are so incredibly lovely wow!
Bach must have really deep bass vocalists to have a part to descend down to C2, two ledger lines below the bass staff. C2 is not an easy note for me to sing as a bass.
@codedancer1015 жыл бұрын
18:38
@codedancer1015 жыл бұрын
10:43
@arrivedarci35633 жыл бұрын
solo tenora warte posłuchania
@codedancer1015 жыл бұрын
15:13
@jonathanvalk7268 жыл бұрын
the tempo is good, but the violin sounds very sharp, and I don´t like the voice of the bass
@ollebor0911 жыл бұрын
26 minutes later...
@amyjones36389 жыл бұрын
Love the scrolling aspect but this is a terrible recording. Any way to redo this with a Herreweghe recording of Cantata 131? Infinitely better. Bach is not Bach when it's so slow and plodding.
@albertclemente87399 жыл бұрын
Amy Jones Aus der Tiefe rufe ich Herr zu dir; no more questions :) Just one thing: Bach didn't wrote always the tempi. So, when he did most to have a special meaning. Adagio and Largo must to mean something!
@murmurmerman8 жыл бұрын
Don't be silly. Metronomes weren't invented until the early 1800s-- during Bach's time, these markings referred to character (or sometimes, metrical inflection), and didn't get specific tempos attached to them until later. I performed this cantata during undergrad, and believe me, it works a lot better when it's a little faster-- especially the middle chorale, which was so slow I didn't even recognize it at first.
@albertclemente87398 жыл бұрын
+Andrew Hudson actually this is not right. Indications had a sort of meaning related to tempo, as you can read in some treatise, like Quantz. If you phrase right, you don't need speed.
@albertclemente87398 жыл бұрын
+Albert Clemente btw, hear harnoncourt version: they habe plenty knowledge about it, and performed at this speed, so it's right to play this fast/slow
@ApplepieFTW5 жыл бұрын
Amy Jones as an addition to this discussion, check out the recording of the Netherlands Bach society (which wasn't out there when this all was posted)
@marcalsubiras57794 жыл бұрын
It's 36, not 131.
@Nooticus10 күн бұрын
think you're watching a different video lol
@djmotise3 жыл бұрын
A very questionable tempo in one movement.
@boulenger63 жыл бұрын
Bach is unger because too much pub !!!!
@arrivedarci35633 жыл бұрын
tragiczne wykonanie....
@michakrzysica62203 жыл бұрын
Jeśli wykonanie Harnoncourta jest dla Ciebie tragiczne to bardzo współczuję.