BACH -MATTHÄUS -PASSION -DUETT (Spran, Alt) - Richter "So ist mein Jesus nun gefangen!"

If you want to hear Bach in the authentic German tradition listen to Richter's recordings. They emerge as revelations compared to the many recordings that are available today.
DUETT (Spran, Alt) "So ist mein Jesus nun gefangen!"
Chor: "Sind Blitze, sindDonner in Wolken verschwunden?"
Conductor: Karl Richter
Soprano: Helen Donath
Contralto: Julia Hamari
Munchener Bach Chor
Munchener Bach Orchester

[@cayanaraycaudhuri]

Looks like the singers are staring and talking to Jesus directly.

[@tommieboy1657]

Karl Richter is the one who has awakened my interest in Bach's music. And I'll always be thankful to him for introducing me into this world :) Donath and Hamari do a wonderful job. Their voices blend very well!

[@newhotmailit]

unbeatable purity. love the drammatic perfection and determination of the solits and the conducter as well. thx

[@InventosRabiosos]

El dúo mas hermoso, expresivo y emotivo que he oído en mi vida...¡ Ambas son dos grandes divas...¡ Cada vez que escucho esta pieza me parte el alma el poder trascendental de la música que fluye en ellas. Bravísimo Julia Hamari y Helen Donath...¡¡¡

[@StuffMadeOnDreams]

Yo siento lo mismo. Bien dicho.

[@jermainebrown3938]

I watch all the new productions that get posted on KZbin, and none of them seem to match the excellence exuded here. The tempo, the careful attention to diction, and enunciation are so perfect in this interpretation. I have been listening since 2013 and it's still as excellent as the first time I heard it.

[@joaoluizbh]

Absolutamente impressionante. Estonteante. Essa é a perfeição rigorosa de Bach. Arte. Não há dúvida.

[@annapaloma44]

When I am listening I could be with God and Jesus with all my soul and heart

[@Stukov16]

This is not only sung better than most recordings, it's shot better than most broadcasts nowadays, HD and what have you.

[@angelparker5897]

Dont know if anyone gives a shit but if you are stoned like me atm you can watch all the new movies and series on instaflixxer. Have been streaming with my brother lately :)

[@masonanders3354]

@Angel Parker definitely, been using Instaflixxer for since november myself :D

[@oraziosorgona6999]

Because they wanted to make it like some movie.

[@leonie516]

Heerlijk om naar te luisteren....

[@ianrwood21]

Karl Richter just has to up there with the great interpreters of Bach's music, whether conducting or playing the organ - the guy was just superb.

[@francoislebedel4428]

Fantastique. C'est la version de référence, à coup sûr. Je n'en vois aucune pour l'égaler. La maîtrise unique de Karl Richter, les voix superbes de Julia Hamari et Helen Donath marquent à jamais cette interprétation unique.

[@suboescaleras3755]

EStoy completamente de acuerdo con usted . Es una ejecución magistral . Un tesoro fonografico .

[@joaoluizbh]

Absolutety awesome. Stunning and bewitching. This is the rigorous perfection of Bach. Art. There is no doubt.

[@turdusmerula1831]

Julia Hamari is incredibly wonderful. Helen Donath as well.

[@susanstone2364]

There are many variations of the german performance of Bach. Karl Richter was a wonderful organist and conductor of Bach's works in the traditions of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Unfortunately, when the early music movement came along, Richter's work fell out of favor, and it is said he died a broken man. It is a shame. He was a marvelous musician. In my listening of Bach, and I have lstened to a lot of Bach and sung a lot of Bach, I believe there is room for more than one interpretation and style. To subscribe to only one ignores the practices of others that speak of other times and are ingrained in our culture. Being American does put me at some disadvantage, but I have been lucky to work with some fine Bach musicians. This wonderful duet from the "St. Matthew" is beautifully played and sung. I would walk to the ends of the earth to hear Julia Hamari sing. If you can hear Julia Hamari sing the Agnus Dei from Bach's B-minor mass, you will not be disappointed. It is on Rilling's first recording of the B-minor Mass around 1975. Apologies for the hyperboli. Fran Stone Lee, Mass.

[@frednicolas3811]

There is no conflict. Bach was in oblivion untill Mendellsohn redescover and obviously re-wrote it to his time taste and feeling. There is no "practise of that Day". We must pay tribute and go away from préciosité

[@nonconfundar]

I love the organ at "eröffne den feurigen abgrund" ,simply beautiful :)

[@TheJacrespo]

One can imagine the day of the rehearsal in the humble church of Bach, those listeners, a bunch of old peers and old ladies in amazement listening to not a boring traditional used-to-be piece of music for the cult but a dramatic opera ... in the church... this Bach must be crazy!!

[@jlcarrera9670]

Este es el pináculo de la creación humana, en cuanto a música, no existe nada más elevado, no hay algo más allá. Bach es la cúspide así de simple.

[@benjamincuevaseninde]

-- Deux voix qui s'accordent à merveille, un duo d'une beauté absolue. --

[@charpini]

For your information I go every year to the Matteaus Passion in Naarden Holland, mostly it's a counter tenor like Daniels who performs I really do love it, the antique instruments and the voice from that time in that church makes that experience totally complete.

[@carlosalbertosanmiguel142]

tan bello que lo debo escuchar muchas veces y no me canso dos cantante brillantes.

[@peter92305]

Bach requires clarity and precision of the very highest order. Never in all my years have i seen or heard a better interpretation.

[@Jesusandbible]

I heard a great flute interpretation once by Chris Hinze

[@misjeus]

The "smile"is also a singingtechnique , especially with the higher notes....

[@frednicolas3811]

Nothing more precious than these vefy two voices

[@annamcancarini6953]

Karl Richter is unparalled as Bach's interpreter.

[@AlexBrasil32]

Bach é realmente magnífico!

[@ArthurSteagallConde]

Impressive, the art in its essence! Awesome Karl Richter performances. Impressionante, a arte em sua essencia! Desempenho impecável de Karl Richter, desde 1981, o mundo ficou menos luminoso e o barroco, um tanto pálido!]

[@antonio6773]

Colosales las dos cantantes, Karl Richter tuvo el genio de saber impregnar tanto dramatismo a este pasaje en donde se narra un momento desolador. Quintaesencia pura.

[@ryszartkoemata1193]

Najlepszy duet świata!

[@diogofernandes9474]

I know of no alto that achieved what Julia Hamari achieved singing Bach. To my knowledge she is top of the heap.

[@fooberdooge3103]

@@truesoundchris Triggered?

[@patdaley9098]

@@truesoundchris When it comes to vocal technique, you have no clue. Both are fabulous oratorio singers, open, relaxed, flexible, never running out of breath.

[@CitlaliCruz656]

Gracias Felipe Por compartirnos esto!!!!

[@davetubervid]

This is extraordinary. All the debate about 'authenticity' and HIP pales into insignificance when confronted with a performance of this overpowering emotional intensity.

[@donnrutkoff922]

agreed

[@koemata]

piękna Helen Donath i piękna Julia Hamari

[@annapaloma44]

When I am listening I could be with God and Jesus with all my soul and heart annapaloma

[@alejandrodalay]

Others times, others sounds, so awesome! Good interpretative intensity.

[@VeroniqueCG]

Thank you to one commenter on another page who led me here to Richter. This is beautiful :-)

[@pavel197936]

Потрясающе!!!

[@frednicolas3811]

These two were one of a kind

[@RomanGolubev_A]

Totally agree with the poster. They are a revelation!

I have this recording in LP since 1983, but this video appear in 2008. It was a great surprise when I found it. Thanks for your comment.

[@maia529]

Amazing!

[@entresonsgrupo]

Isso é de outro mundo!

[@mindshell]

great composition, like all that wrote Bach- full of spririt and deep faith!

[@aleiv]

Bellissimo!!! Grazie

[@johnjohn-zg3pe]

wonderfull!!!

[@frednicolas3811]

The most precious and beautiful "thing" i Know on earth

[@jhonwfly]

Que lindo, Fantástico!!!!!

[@Ikyds]

WOW!!!!! WOW!!!!!!

[@Jesusandbible]

Truly remarkable. Chris Hinze does this great on his album "Sketches on Bach". "Have lightning and thunders their fury forgotten! Have lightning and thunders their fury forgotten! Have lightning and thunders their fury forgotten! Then open O bottomless pit all thy terrors! Destroy him! Overwhelm him! With tumbult of rage! The treacherous betrayer! The murderous blood! The treacherous betrayer! The murderous blood!"

[@MarchMar]

Wooooooooonderful!

[@j.marin.8150]

increible...increible...

[@guillaumefleury1968]

the best for ever !

[@michelroussanne906]

Merci !

[@fgbowen]

Awesome awesome awesome - Stunning! Absolutely. Thank you for uploading this. fgbowen

[@Ikyds]

My Jesus now is captured. Leave him, stop, do not bind! Moon and light have sunk through pain because my Jesus is captured. Leave him, stop, do not bind! Leave him, stop, do not bind! They lead him away, he is bound.

[@lichtsmonch]

Divine!!!

Here is other version, that I like more: Behold, my Jesus now is taken, Leave him, halt, bind him not! Moon and stars have for grief hidden their faces, Since my Jesus now is taken. Leave him, halt, bind him not! They lead him away, he is bound

[@konstantinoskallianos6691]

Κορυφαία ερμηνεια απο τις δυο κυρίες. Πάντα κορυφαιος ο αλησμονητος C. Richter

[@Francys5FS]

ἑλληνιστὶ λέγεις;

[@konstantinoskallianos6691]

@@Francys5FS Ναἰ καὶ χαίρομαι.

[@paradiddleday]

Well, it may not be period-authentic, but it is sure one uplifting performance!

[@davekaos8628]

Johan had been lifted up to Heaven ,just to proclaim : Jesus is Lord ! Two Angels sang about His Experience.

[@fredki]

En un seul mot '' bravo'' !

[@slate42]

Thus hath my Jesus now been taken

[@RomanGolubev_A]

An old 80s video recording of Herreweghe's Matheus passions with Knabenchor is great one too. I think it equals Richter's.

[@MatheusTodt]

nossa muito bom a contralto consegue descer mais do que eu

[@gruppenfuhrergil]

O que dizer de Helen Donath, Julia Hamari e Karl Richter? Eles escolheram Bach, se dedicaram à obra de Bach, o maior compositor de todos os tempos... Karl Richter o conduz como ninguém! Helen Donath e Julia Hamari o interpretam com maestria, alma e coração... A alma humana nunca mais será a mesma, nunca mais se contentará com a mesquinhez depois de ouvi-los...

[@Glauber753]

Muito bem!

[@kostisspantidakis7589]

can theses voices ever been surpassed by "authentic" countertenors and alti ?!

[@charpini]

well, that a matter of opinion and your are entitled to have yours different than mine, the visual one I mean with looking at a man and you hear a total different voice that you would expect, that also is important and plays a big roll in the whole acceptance. I myself like it and I love Heandel's music specially written for them ( women in that time were not supposed to sing on stage) Philippe Jaroussky is one of my favorites. I go every year to Naarden to see the Passion, Daniels performed

[@vizilo]

Bach and his galaxy...

[@barbaraleus728]

Revelation is the word...

[@edysonurieldiaz]

Una obra de arte de Bach. DUO( soprano, contra-alto) Así es hecho preso mi Jesús. La luna y las estrellas se han ocultado a causa de su dolor, pues mi Jesús ha sido hecho preso, ya le llevan maniatado CORO

[@MrInterestingthings]

Boulez ,Stockhausen and Stravinsky are a revelation but this music sounds like it comes from some place timeless in the psyche yet it is as old fashioned strict counterpoint . REVELATION whenever I listen to a number from the passions. There isnothing like this music !

Thank you for the correction.

[@rhwesley]

does not sound like the sixties the music is really beautiful

[@dreioktaven]

Take it to the seventees. It's from 1971 :-)

[@FloripanoBR]

Thumbs up if somehow the alto scared a little!

[@raymondedling4479]

Richter certainly has his own agenda as in his 2LP DGG set of the Goldberg Variations seemingly calculated to induce fever dreams.

[@angelicbaby92]

This is beautiful but dayum . . . that mezzo soprano just never heard of being quiet, did she? The soprano voice never has a chance to flourish and she has way more dynamics than the mezzo. What shocks me too is the soprano's facial expressions. I've never seen someone sing with such a closed mouth before. O_O Beautiful song though and I love the choir.

[@sightscreen66]

Well, to my mind Richter's dramatisation of Bach is a thoroughly worthwhile contribution to the Bach landscape. Yes, I'm sure that Bach academics will find much to criticise, but Richter has contributed a lot to my appreciation of Bach and for that I will be always thankful.

[@raymondedling4479]

The music is timeless but Richter has them goose stepping!

[@oraziosorgona6999]

This duet is somehow the monument to femininity.

[@amabeline]

Behold, my Savior now is taken, Moon and Star, Have for grief the night forsaken, Since my Savior now is taken. They lead Him hence; with cords they bind Him Chorus: Loose Him! Leave Him! Bind Him not!

[@bachkirche]

Richter's recordings are dramatic and beautiful, but if you want to hear Bach performed in a more "authentic" manner (the way it was likely performed in Bach's time) Harnoncourt or Rifkin is a better choice.

[@alipitogen]

Are those reeds in the intro in tune with each other and the chosen nature?

[@ludwigvanbeethoven61]

Emanuel Macron? IS THAT YOU?! xD

[@nganir]

@rosinlr - agree. Richter's stoicism is equally absurd. Given the material he was dealing with, he had to have worked really hard at that....

[@alfonsodominguezvaldes8833]

¿What does elder Emmanuel Macron conducting this aria?

[@UtopiaXXX]

Are there any better versions? If so i would like to know ... highly doubting the possibility...

[@cadecannon159]

My favourite recording is one of Richter’s, but with Annelies Burmeister and Adele Stollte. I haven’t seen many live ones. Conductors tend to rush or drag it down. I also have one of Klemperer’s recording too, and I love his conducting, but didn’t care much for the soloists. You can’t sing everything by German composers like you’re trying to grapple your way up the Matterhorn.

[@RomanGolubev_A]

Pardon my mistake, that was Christmas oratorio, not the passion

Karl Richter

[@BUDAWIEN]

traurig, so eckig, so grausam kalt...

[@P1B1U1H1]

Does Mr. Richter wear a toupee?

[@Jesusandbible]

Why is there are glitch in the stunning pause moment, as they sing "Have lightning and thunders their fury forgotten" PAUSE "then open o bottomless pit all thy terrors....." ??? spoils it. That pause is so subtle. I think it might have influenced the Beethovens 9th Symphony pause

[@therealtornadosam]

I feel like it needs to be quieter. The oboes are really loud and blaring. The voices are pretty good though.

[@davidvargas7686]

4:05

[@Marzziooo]

@emalag999 For me too!

[@vampierkill]

Was meinen Sie damit?

[@kltoh1974]

Think the duet is too slow and draggy. Not sure if it's on purpose to show the sudden momentum pick up by the chorus.

[@jedandcats]

I could hardly hear the music for the excessive vibrato!

[@patdaley9098]

What excessive vibrato? You apparently do not like normal voices. Some vibrato is natural, it is built in to the nerves and the muscles, and you can suppress it only by forcing the voice.

[@amabeline]

So ist mein Jesus nun gefangen. Laßt ihn! haltet! bindet nicht! Mond und Licht Ist vor Schmerzen untergangen, Weil mein Jesus ist gefangen. Laßt ihn! haltet! bindet nicht! Sie führen ihn, er ist gebunden.

[@charpini]

they were not, remember Farinelli ?

[@mclaire12]

enough-!!!