You are not a dork. You are very talented and musically educated. It takes skill to sing Bach cantatas. As for crying, I teared up too when I saw this wonderful peace move for the first time (especially the Ciaccona!). You have every right to cry when such a treasure like this cantata is inherited for all the world. You are a Bach lover like me and thousands (maybe millions!) of others.

Absolute masterpiece, apparently composed when Bach was in his early 20s, when he visited Buxtehude. Vox Luminis recently made an absolute gem of a recording of it, paired with Actus Tragicus.

You're seeing Bach wrestling with the fact that woodwinds were tuned to chamber pitch, about half a note lower than today, while the strings, choir, and organ are tuned to choir pitch which as you can see is a minor third higher than chamber pitch. Bach transposes the bassoon part to match. Later, in Leipzig, where the organ was well tempered rather the mean tone tempered, he simply transposed the organ and wrote everything else in chamber pitch.

Oh my goodness. I'm so happy after singing along with this, I'm crying. Wonderful memories of singing in my high school and college days. Yes, I know: I'm a dork. But I'm a happy dork, so thank you for posting this! ^_^

3:40 Here lies the infamous Bassoon obligato that almost got Bach killed by a furious bassoonist :S

@AML2000: Your knowledge of Bach is very impressive! Your input and observations are valued and I thank you taking the time to share them.

12:46 Brahms

A very wise "AML2000" posted 9 months ago: "You're seeing Bach wrestling with the fact that woodwinds were tuned to chamber pitch, about half a note lower than today, while the strings, choir, and organ are tuned to choir pitch which as you can see is a minor third higher than chamber pitch. Bach transposes the bassoon part to match. Later, in Leipzig, where the organ was well tempered rather the mean tone tempered, he simply transposed the organ and wrote everything else in chamber pitch."

That is a great observation. I saw the facsimile of the original "copied" score and came to the conclusion that the bassoon is using a "movable clef". In BWV 106, the recorders have movable treble clefs as well. I won't venture to guess but I sure hope Christoph Wolff sees this to satisfy our curiosity.

I read psalm 25 on the bible and I thought it was so beautiful that I looked it up on the internet to know more about it. What a wonderful surprise when I found Bach had used some of its verses for the Cantata. Beautiful.

So stylistic and helpful for those who are following and learning. Thank you for sharing!

Bach's early cantatas are often overlooked but are so much more emotionally deep than the later ones, at least to my ears. This work is more similar to the cantatas of Buxtehude and Pachelbel than later Bach, which also have that same emotional deepness. I highly recommend them to everyone I know who wants to try and understand Bach.

The moments of dissonance in the Ciaccona between the hovering voice parts and the rising ground bass are so moving.

I've heard many of Bach's cantatas, and I have yet to hear one with as much emotional depth as this one. It's not as blatantly sad as bwv 131, yet it impacts me just as much. Especially "meine augen sehen stets zu dem herrn".

Чудесная музыка, очень люблю И.С.Баха. Непревзойденный гений своего и нынешнего времени.

Lovely, I'm see happy to see you still upload new Bach pieces even today

Thank you for the effort you put into these videos. Truly one of the better corners of KZfaq!

This music is absolutely a blessing. Thank you so much for downloading. It is just what I need to keep me going.

This piece is a absolutely gorgeous. The homage to Buxtehude’s kantagen in the lower strings of the trio Aria is to me evident, as in the violins of the next movement.

This is such a profound and moving piece, Bach is the master of using chromaticism tastefully to express yearning.

12:47 Ciaccona. I marked this time for myself.

(Translated by iGoogle from English to German): Sie sind herzlich eingeladen. Die Ciaconna ist in der Tat wunderbar. Welche Rolle werden Sie singen?

Thx, gerubach. Impressive Bach (as usual....). Love the chromatic line and unusual bassoon with strings

But thank you very much for your discussion of actual pitches played by Baroque organs. Fascinating stuff.

This is simply amazing. Everything you put on is perfect.

a good help for rehearsal in every tone-sort.

Around 13’30” we hear the music of Bach’s own past and learning assimilated.

I believe Bach is the biggest musical genius.

Either the "Knabenchor Hannover", Dir. Heinz Hennig or "Collegium Vocale", Dir. Philippe Herreweghe

Every Baroque playlist should contain J.S. Bach. This work contains both homophonic and polyphonic textures spread throughout. The soprano solo in the 3rd movement is actually a duet with the violin. The tempo changes are found both inside of movements and in-between movements. All of the movements end with a strong cadence.

Danke für das Video! Ich singe diese in zwei Wochen! Die Ende ist wunderbar ja?!

Thanks to G+, I can't reply below. It's both the Hanover Boy's Choir singing soprano and alto, and the Collegium Vocale singing alto (countertenor), tenor and bass in the choruses. It seems that the Hanover choir didn't have a strong men's section when they started recording these cantatas with Leonhardt, although recent videos show they do now.

Brahms brought me here.

Britannica brought me here; it says this was an inspiration of Brahms’s symphony #4, finale

Unbelievable,this marriage of text and sound…not really human…

Estou apreciando a bwv 20, ano que vem é 2.020!

8:55 canon in D again

Supongo que esa será la razón porque en realidad el Fagot está doblando el Bajo Contínuo. Preciosas las series de 7ª del final del Chor. Saludos desde España. I guess that is the reason, the bassoon is actually doubling the continuo. Beautiful 7th series at the end of Chor. Greetings from Spain.

How wonderful is gerubach? Even the translation is displayed. How many staff I wonder or is it a solo work of love?

It's the BWV 150!

It is actually performed at A=440. Kia

11:45 for me Bach is showing Lord's power to save us by writing such a complicated fugue

Definitely boys

The Ciaccona is just beautiful. I'm not a believer either

It is the first cantata by J.S Bach !

5:35

очень похоже на Blute nur, du liebes Herz!

Tenore :D

Quick question, does anyone know why the Bassoon/Fagotte in this score is written in A?

C

O primeiro violino não toca não?🤔

Dieu

Am I the only one who thinks that this cantata doesn't really sound like Bach wrote it? I mean there are some greate fugal and contrapunctal parts in there but overall it doesn't really sound like Bach to be honest... the harmony is fairly simple and the individual parts are not as sophisticated as in most other cantatas...