In a complete contrast with us, they did not live with the past back then, it was the Spirit of God Which kept them ever renewed and ever fresh - by keeping that Spirit faithfully unchanged, they then lived completely under Its Inspiration, meaning they never fell to repetition as according to the earthly affairs - just like Heaven is Infinite, so was the Inspiration Which came from It, forever beautiful and new and refreshed!!...Today we do the opposite : we don't stay faithful to the Spirit and we change it, which then means that whatever inspiration we get is from the evil one, hence of bad quality and not to be trusted, which then means that automatically we have to go back to the past to have something decent to listen to, which then makes the past in an idol, and as a result nothing really moves, and nothing of importance and good really grows..... ✝️

@@uneqejam Nice christian propaganda - go preach somewhere else zealot

You mean 'brilliant pieces of sacred music' It's sacred and non-sacred. non-secular isn't really a term.

@@uneqejam 🤮🤮🤮🤮

Thank you so much. Your tireless efforts and outstanding musicianship are very much appreciated here in Sydney, Australia where our family is regularly moved (often to tears) by your music. As a musical family, we fully appreciate the dedication you have to creating the finest of music in the way you do. Many, many thanks - David and family. P.S. Your soloists are truly magnificent!

bellissimo concerto! grazie mille!

So many times I went to Pavia to see a friend. But she never came to Amsterdam but you did. Merci beaucoup

I love your crisp conducting style and interpretation. This music is divine.

Perfeito, claro coro e solistas!

Although possibly not authentic. Vivaldi’s girls at the Ospedale della Pieta would probably have sung with a natural vibrato, according to Vivaldi scholars

Unequivocally, without a doubt!

Хуйло Путина in this case you had better leave.

@@3cents3 I also prefer comments that focus on the music, as such. However, life today for many people seems merely materialistic, & hence, meaningless. As one of, perhaps the most emotionally powerful of what I call the Mute Arts (not verbally descriptive), fine music can convey strength, reassurance & optimism about life, unrelated to material advantage. If one values life, itself, this aspect of music displays inherent purpose; & life, definitionally, is not worthless if it holds purpose. The touchstone for this view, in research & medical/psychiatric practice, may be found in the work of Viktor Frankl & others.

Bach didn't write a Dixit Dominus, so no.

@TheSauce Group Not for Catholic motets, sorry. And not for opera.

Vivaldi was from Venice. Your point of course is about the spirit of the music. If you want to match his music to the places his inspiration might have come from, you should spend time between Venice, Milano and Vienna. After a trip Tuscany of course!

The nonsense about Toscana is the sort of clichè we Italians are forced to read all the time. Vivaldi was VENEZIANO, a long way from Florence, and as a priest he would probably fast VERY often and eat - not tomatoes and olives - but Venetian vegetables. Learning about Roman catholic "penitenza" food in the 18th century will not prevent you from enjoying his food immensely. Sorry but I HAD to write this.

@@MFuria-os7ln OK. Lets look at what you said. Which part of my post is cliche and nonsense exactly? I did not list Vivaldi's diet. I said his music filled me with joy and was evocative of Tuscan tomatoes and olives. Tuscany is farmland. It grows olives and tomatoes. It has sunshine and birds. So far correct? Where Vivaldi hailed from is immaterial. I am discussing what his music made me feel not his bio. By the way, he did not choose priesthood, his parents pushed him into it. He was technically a priest for 1.5 yrs doing duties as a priest. After which he became a full time composer and worked with an orphanage choir. He was also sick a lot due to asthma, so while he was an expert violinist, he did not give too many performances. Try to curb your righteous indignation and read my post carefully before making such dramatic statements to counter it.

Same here, it's beautiful.

I have cried several times listening to this. Purga! Catharsis!

OK, but God is only a concept for me but I admire and venerate the songs of men he is the inspiration.... ;)

Agreed, Michael David Rubin. Elevate us dear G_d, through our humility, to heights of divine joy. Let us die, through our astonishment, of thy glorious holiness. Job said "Now, I see, and am humbled."

Thank you so much.

@@MegaCirse No one is suggesting that you adhere to anthropomorphic superstition. Early man (+ especially, in the fertility cults, women, of course), may have needed to visualize an old man with a long white beard in the clouds, hurling thunderbolts, etc. What is interesting, & which derails scientific inquiry, is that human consciousness, itself, cannot seriously imagine anything different from human life as we know it, including all the other life forms of Nature. Just scan pop culture novels (books, remember?), video games or streaming entertainment fiction (apart from the "news" business), & one finds future scenarios filled with beings who resemble medieval or neolithic humans, perhaps with extra limbs or heads. So, Supreme Being? The concept of G-d involves a superior governing intellect for the order of Nature, a capacity for compassion (materially senseless & devoid of survival advantage), & a simple sense of connection to the larger universe. Science cannot employ consciousness to examine its basic tool, consciousness. What, evolutionarily, could possibly justify classical music - or any music, any "songs of men" &/or women? I find it simple (I'm a simple-minded man, as you can see) to regard classical music as The Voice of G-d, connecting me to an infinite dimension of time & space. In my unimportant condition, I seem to have stumbled onto an alignment with none other than Albert Einstein, as to meaning & purpose in the universe. Put another way, let's not label random or meaningless whatever we happen not to understand; that's petty egotism. I do not accuse you of that, Philippe; just a common quasi-intellectual position, not so?

Totalement d'accord, mais il faut aussi dire qu'il n'a pas n' importe quoi comme instrumentistes et comme choristes devant lui!!! ((... quand pourrons nous revoir ce genre de concert en live? ...))

Yes he is, I have been choir singing for two decades, never seen a director communicate and command so clearly what he wants form the musicians, and they clearly respect him and follow him with total confidence. This performance is on another level.

Eu tenho de concordar em parte com a duvida, mas deveria ser uma afirmação para haver total concordancia.

GENITUN いい

Wonderfully executed, congratulations

I do fullyagree with you

What language are you quoting?

@@jambones100 sorry stupid mistake "De torrente in via bibet"

So do good looking people make the music better - she's lovely. No vogue cover but she has an "X" factor. But when I swoon over Marta, I'm definitely not concentrating on the music. Still, when I think of this music, the first thing in my mind is.always Marta. It's a great place to start.

The bespectacled cellist who can be seen briefly right at the beginning of the 20:40 segment seems to be quite charmed by her, too.

she had some breath control problem there. Very good performance but there are better De Torrente out there.

It Is a real pity that Total Baroque has not published the names of choir and singers. Thanks foto the information

For the information

so they are not payed for the diffusion!!!!

@@melusine9496 i did not know that. They should be!

Bach knew Vivaldi’s music and thought highly of this prolific composer. If you are not familiar with the Now Hear This -Vivaldi episode, I highly recommend it.

God is Heaven and Everything so, Bach is Everything.

@@medievalmusiclover VIVALDI criou bach...Mas muito depois que DEUS criou VIVALDI...Por isso o italiano está na frente!...Tradutor: VIVALDI created bach...But long after GOD created VIVALDI...That's why the Italian is ahead!

me too. he is a magnificent composer

I envy you

Grazie per la tua osservazione che coglie proprio nel segno!

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