Great

I sang in the choir in this cantata back in 1969. The melodic line and the words are still fresh in my mind. What an experience this was . Being Jewish, I stuck out like a sore thumb in the Dutch Reformed church in which we performed (South Africa)

@@davidzetler1476 another Jew obsessed with Bach's sacred music here too!

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Amen!

We performed it live last week, in Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina, with our local Bach choir (amateur) and instrumental ensemble, conducted by Guillermo Lopez. A great pleasure.

Beautifully said...

These days people love really smooth audio like this, where all the sound blends like a rolo yoghurt. It's clean, but it's not soulful. I think no one understands Bach like Harnoncourt.

Vielen Dank

Thank you very much for your warm comment! You can enjoy more cantatas here: bit.ly/BachFoundationCantatas

What a difference between 'sparkles' and 'sparkless'! :-)

Excelente Mezzo soprano

So sad and happy at once

I am happy that you are not alone with tears...I often am moved to tears listening to these indescribable Cantatas...I'll bring a spare handkerchief next time ! :-))

Greetings whilst on holiday at isles near the Fastnet Rock. This blessed place and such treasures!

Mbro O'neil! It's a (T'was an) ordinary Friday night here in the Rocky Mountains. 23:19. Of course it just became extraordinary. ...as I bam-decide to go through with putting my 2cents out there to the global polis. Just now as I draft n draft text, like the dutiful little ant we all are.... the lovely, going-up and "allegretto" recorder/voice duet. The peculiar harmonic overtones of the Germanic "Blockflöte" here will have, with certainty, resonated in that heart of y/ours, which bleeds green 😁. Or, if you will, bleed the overtones of at least 50 shades of Celtic tinwhistle. I'm intoxicated by Bach's ingenious melody in this instance for a flute. But onward. As can often be the case while listening to JSB, the human mind-body can easily launch into a thing I don't quite get. The biblical version of this thing says--I think it was Paul: "Whether in the body or the spirit I know not [...]. And in another place, best I can do paraphrasing: "Whether I was in the 6th or the 7th heaven don't make much difference ... [ETC...more fodder for 2000+ years of theologians...] The thing? A sudden un-willed effusion of memories, subdued fireworks of every hue, philo-sophy (love of though in its naive sense, and who knows how many shades of human love? Will spare us all a neo-Finnegan's Wake. The world needed only that one tome of such literature. It was indeed necessary at that juncture of our common experiment named "Earth." And so: big thanks is due to the ancient-modern nation who gave us that, "The Portrait of the Artist," and everything in between. Wanna bet JamesJ and Hannes get on great somewhere over there on 'The Otherside?" Get along famously like neutral (NOT) Swiss and fiery Irish Fisherboatmen. Tonight, with all this near miraculous stuff coming to the mind-body of just one more jaded American: Why do I now actually believe there will be a globally instructive, happy-but-not-Hollywood ending to codeword "Ukraine?" Time will tell. ===== And to Herrn Dirigent Lutz: Who could have imagined the "Tragweite," also the after effects (Nachwirkungen) of the crazy Bach-cantata project that all of you amazing Swiss [et al.] Humanists, Benefactors and Performers embarked upon? Huge thanks for your bulldog courage, matched by skill. Somehow Bach and you lightened AND transfigured the mental image of that heartsickening news flash none of us will be able to erase. The one where we found out Mr. Putin really did go through with the unthinkable. The unthinkable, after everything we have all been through from 1933-Present. Well: time to rethink, right? And finally, what is it about this highly idiosyncratic cantata?! One none of us may have ever heard in such an ideal live performance? That penultimate chorus movement, which to me evoked the starry-night paintings of Van Gogh? Whose answer is in the so-well prepared Schlusschoral. And it seems all of you together experienced this new nuance--to us but not to Bach--of the concept 'state of mind.' Mark (Arizona usa)

And the people say AMEN

Absolument! C'est vrai!

Et le directeur aussi.

Et le compositeur aussi

Muchas gracias.

thank you.

and a very nice sound, möchte wissen welch type altflute (Marke)

si :)

Sí, entre col y col, lechuga

Everyone on stage will be happy to read this ☺️ Thank you for your comment!

Helpful Web site: www.emmanuelmusic.org/notes_translations/translations_cantata/t_bwv182.htm

Nicht nur die Flötistin. Die ganze Gruppe durchweg, angefangen mit den Sopranistinnen bis zur Cellistin hin, ist schön und attraktiv.

Paul Rupprecht Klar doch! Sorry. But .....

Hu Ko, ich wollte Ihnen keinen Vorwurf machen. Sorry; Sie haben vollkommen recht. Ich wollte nur Ihr Lob ergänzen.

Paul Rupprecht Alles ok, hab’s richtig verstanden. Wollte auch nicht uncharmant sein. Schönen Abend noch!

uns

Der Nachteil der Augen, dass sie meist das dominierende Sinnesorgan sind, wird wettgemacht durch einen unschätzbaren Vorteil; man kann sie schliessen!

Ausserdem eine sehr gute orchestrale Besetzung. Perfekt zusammenarbeitende Continuo-Bass-Cemb.-Sektion, schöner, lebendiger, harmonischer KOntakt zw. Geige-Blfl. (beide sind super!). Schade, dass der Dirigent der Blfl.-in vergessen hat, ihr Hand zu schütteln.)

You can find more info on our homepage: www.bachipedia.org/en/works/bwv-182-himmelskoenig-sei-willkommen/ Best regards

Armelle Plantier. Amazing recorder player

Guten Tag, danke für Ihre Frage. Wir haben alle Informationen umfassend auf Bachipedia zusammengetragen. Es wäre uns ein Anliegen, dass alle Interessierten ihre Informationen rund um unsere Kantaten bei dieser Quelle beziehen. Beste Grüsse

It is produced by the company Gallus Media. They work with all different types of high quality microphones.

@@Bachstiftung Thanks for the answer 😁

With you all the way! The comment is far from out-of-place! Felix pretty much worked himself into the ground--over against "yes go hang yourself" of the then intelligentsia--so as to ensure that this body of music be transmitted to further generations. ...that it be held in reverance, as Beethoven once said: 'as The Bible for composers and performing musicians.' (paraphrased) === But not just this! Often enough Mendelssohn's own compositions rise to the spiritual, technical, and affective level of Bach's. I turn frequently to Mendelssohn, as I do to, say, Franz Tunder, Brahms, Hugo Distler, Paul Hindemith, César Franck, Maurice Duruflé, the Randall Thompson "Alleluia," ETC ...... for strength, belief, knowledge, insight, calm, new ideas. 3-4 go to's thanks to Felix-the-God: His own cantata on "O Haupt vop Blut" Andante mit Variationen D Major (for organ) "Overture to Paulus" transcription for organ William T. Best Denmark (KZfaq search terms, spoon fed. Be astonished!! ...and not to discount the original for orchestram) The whole of M's Reformation Symphony. Thx for your very rightful comment, Mark (Arizona usa)

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