DAS ist Musik!

And what an excepcional conductor is Herreweghe!

Easter 2020. A ray of hope at a dark time. Thanks J.S. Bach, the master of music

Bach - one of the voices of heaven.

This is one of the most moving versions I have heard so far. Everything is precise, perfect and still sounding so human, so dramatic. The Matthäus-Passion's opening is, in my view, an exceptional, opera-type opening, surpassing even Mozart's openings. A part that always has me verging on crying is "Seht! Wohin? - auf unsre Schuld!" (Look! At what? At our fault!" with the preceding very dark modulation and chords.

Something crisp and clean about this performance. Totally captures that sense of precision I associate with Bach. Yet still sublimely moving.

Самый красивый хорал Баха! Самый глубокий и проникающий в самое сердце

Utterly beautiful. A world without the great Bach is unthinkable.

Erbarme Dich, O Jesu, Ermbarme Dich.

Whoever is tired of Bach is tired of life. Søren Bendtsen.

This is so beautiful, the first time listened to it I had tears in my eyes.

No one does depth and nostalgia like Herreweghe.

To me this is the greatest performance on record of this masterpiece. I have been listening to it on record for ages. Sad also how the current pandemic makes public concerts like this a distant memory.

Beyond beautiful

The bass in this masterpiece is splendid!!

this is music for god, whatever god is

purifying experience. I feel lighter after listening to this.

I just want to thank my mother for giving me a longplaying rekord (LP) with this work of choir - before I even knew who Bach was . She obviously knew me better than I did myself. I am so grateful to my dear mother, but I can’t thank her- because she is not here on earth anymore , miss you my dear mother; and thank you again for giving me this knowledge of music ❤️

There has never been a better performance of this most stunning musical moment than this one, and I’ll stand by that!

music of heaven played by great professionals

In alles blijft Bach groots om te beluisteren !

Magnifique, j'ai appris à écouter la bonne musique, merci

This is so beatiful.

I am from the United States but I LOVE LOVE this musiic!! I gave a CD back in the day when I visited him that had this and many more lovely works of ABSOLUTE the best music...and it made my elderly father close his beatifal blew eyes and nod to the cadence of this work... I am so so so THANKFUL I had a lovely, genuine, kind, loving, intelligent, gifted, hard working, honest man who claimed me for his daughter and me...OH MY...YES ROBERT DONALD ...YOU WERE THE ONLY MAN AMONG MEN!!! you dressed impeccably, never EVER SAID AN UNKIND WORD ABOUT ANYONE ....YOU are MY DAD...AND I WILL FOREVER BE GRATEFUL TO HAVE HAD YOU IN MY LIFE...I miss you, Dad....especially our Saturday afternoon chats in the dining room, just you and me...yapping and chatting...over a plate of cheese, crackers, pickles...and a couple Cold beers.... I MISS YOU DAD!!!

One the best play JS Bach - Passion Mattew. Bravo!

Simply magnificent!

Sin duda la versión que más me gusta, y el mejor director, maravillosa obra.

Splendid! The most beautiful version I evered heared of this particular part, was at the final end of the movie THX 1138, an SF Movie from 1971. This made such a hugh impression on my as a young kid, that it became my favorite piece of Bach. Unfortunately I never find out which orchestra was performing int that particular version.

Dieses Stueck ist mein taegliches “Brot”.

Love Bach's music🍃So beautiful

Simplemente hermoso y celestial

Lovely - thank you for posting.

Beautiful with so many many love fr Rotterdam nl Best ever

Wer versteht, was diese Musik aus Menschen macht (und welche Menschen solche Musik machen) versteht die Deutschen, im Guten wie im Bösen.

....perfetto....

Amazing

Einstein has done an amazing job, conducting this movement.

gr8 music, bach ist einfach grossartig! =)

Here's a totally uninformed opinion (although I do play piano and have sung in church choirs - not GREAT at either but not a novice) - I like it. A great deal. Enjoyed this post so much. Thank you for sharing with us.

OH, do I like this version!

My first real encounter with classical music. Watching the movie THX1138, the end was astonishing for me. I can't describe the whole movie here, but very compact. In a future world where man are controlled by maschines, one person can escape. Leaving the underground city where he spend all his live, he climbs out of the there through a steep tunnel. And at the very end he opens the manhole cover and steps out, seeing for the first time the sun, which is going majestically down, coloring the world red and yellow. You can only see the silhouet of the man covering his eyes, and birds flying. And at the background this incredible music. Amazing!The music and image was burned in my young head and since then, I discovered the beauty of classical music.

best ever!!

Go to church every Sunday

Bach era o cara mesmo!

Shalom!

Extraordinary, lucid performance!

Merci !

Phillippe smiles at about 1:16 because he has just heard a very unique harmonization by the very clever (and inspired) J S Bach....

Best ever ever and ever groeten v uit Rotterdam nl 0

Esto es absoluto.

maybe it wasn't clear enough, but that is what i had in mind when i first wrote the comment. cheers!

Devine music!

wow thx for this

Danke

Robert De Niro: "When you love someone, you've gotta trust them, there's no other way" His car:

@RealHogweed- look at what 1 Corinthians 1 to 11 says about inspiration. I am very certain that we can take that very literally. Gods spirit is literally present when 2 or more people decide to pray for something in Jesus's Name - see Matthew 18:19 and 18:20. I have experienced that numerous times. So what I am trying to say is this: It is very realistic to believe that Bach was doing the best he could to compose this music and was seriously inspired by God himself to get it done. Just like God's spirit is literally present in any church because there are multiple people present and praying.

Für die Matthäuspassion die absolute Referenz. Ein Geheimnis: es gibt keine Trennung von Solisten und Chorsängern..

😊😊😊

Damn. Bernie Sanders really knows how to conduct

Versione ottima >:)

i hate both the atheist and the religious comments about this music, this is the product of the sheer genious of a man, inspired by a god no more that Homers Iliad was inspired by the pagan gods. to say that god is responsible for this is an offense to bach himself, and to say this is bad only because it has a religious theme is madness. i can appreciate this, no matter if i'm atheist or not.

Molto bello,grazie.

ヘレヴェッヘのマタイ受難曲が私の基準になっている。

ah, i'd say that the indirect argument is all another story :) my point was that if this kind of music would be all a product of gods mind then we should be able to see people that never studied music theory compose this stuff. i'm sure Bach put a tremendous effort in composing his music, and then hundreds of years later people come and say: "NOPE. god did it."

These disqualifications are needed?

And do you think Bach believed the latter? Personally, I don’t. However, coming back to your original post, every Christian, including Bach, would obviously affirm that “God is responsible for this” at the very least indirectly through creating this universe and sending us the Messiah (thus creating the basis of this piece) :p

it depends on what we intend by "inspired". of course the theme was inspired by the idea of some god. but when i wrote that cooment i was thinking about people that believe this music is a direct product of the mind of a god, with bach being merely some sort of intermediary.

Boki nabija preglede. III VIO muzicka skola josif marinkovic zrenjanin

Kommt, ihr Tötcher, helft mir klagen

good

The recording sounds 1/2 tone lower - E flat minor instead of E minor - for some reason.

Nah, that’s not what I meant. In that case we simply misunderstood each other.

Qui vient de la musique

2:55 Taylor Swift is singing in the choir :D

An offense to Bach? What you wrote might be one but certainly not the claim that his music was inspired by God. He himself would have agreed with that.

E il coro dei bambini lo stanno maltrattando nel retropalco?

Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir tragen..

God bestaat, dit is het bewijs.

It's sublime music. What, are they supposed to look like they're on Lawrence Welk and grin through the whole thing? Not arguing on behalf of Xtianity, btw. Black happens to be "concert dress' - the tradition handed down as a kind of uniform. I'm not fond of it myself but haven't been able to come up with a suitable alternative.

I believe it wouldn't be an offense AT ALL to J.S.Bach - to say that God was responsible for this or even that this piece was created by God himself. I think that J.S. Bach would agree - but to assume this one needs to be an old-fashioned Middle Ages kind of person.

si eres español dale a like

A bit too fast, even when many make it even faster. This is 52 bpm., good tempo is 40 - 45. (3/8 measured)

God? is dat die persoon zonder wiens wil geen mus van het dak valt en geen haar van mijn hoofd valt? Dan wordt hij bedankt voor die ingegroeide teennagel

Beautifully written but lyrics lack a little bit of depth, i would refer this bach guy to lil baby or dababy or one of the babies out there making millions right now

ich mahe eine vicksen

No idea what the conductor is doing. Looks like a mixture between epilepsy and contemporary expressionist dance. Kudos to all performing artists for achieving perfection nonetheless.

...turning a lament into a happy bouncy dance tune might be going a bit too far. Normally, I like Herreweghe's approach to things, but he's gone a bit off the rails here.

Where are the "dramatic" elements? The fast heart rate during "Kommt Ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen" ? It's a 12/8 metro but that does not mean to make a "waltz" out of it. Are humans feeling like this while there's grief in the air? And why always put an accent ? ONE-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-ONE-2-3-4......? WHY? Ist gruesome! Horrible! Listen to Karl Richter (1971) and his performance ( "Münchener Bach-Chor").....

klingt scheiße