Bach - Quodlibet BWV 524 - Sato | Netherlands Bach Society

[@bach]

Update: English subtitles have now been added. For the complete translation and more background information about this work, please visit our website: www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-524/

[@Ennah08]

Thank you!

[@louiscouperin3731]

Thank you!!

[@HugoMarins]

Thanks for the subtitles!!! It would be marvelous having subtitles in the Netherlands Bach Society videos!! You are amazing!!

[@bibliopolist]

Why does it say "völkisch" on the website? This is no longer a word for "popular" or "folksy", but solely used for right-wing/nazi racial concepts of supremacy in German.

[@rickmarti77]

Dank U

[@manfredholt7329]

This is one of Bach's more humourous works that I was previously unaware of. Thank you, Netherlands Bach Society for making such high quality music accessible to the public.

[@johnlintern4811]

I would say exactly the same thing - brilliantly performed!!!

[@MorganBallardWheeler]

Indeed, I'm laughing my head off--I'm surprised the live audience is so stoic!

[@lekall4459]

The Quodlibet was a type of improvised harmony where the singers would improvise on popular themes. Usually, the lyrics would have partially humorous or malicious content, but conducted with innocence. Bach's family was famous of doing this type of presentation in their town, the young bach would even go to nearby town do similar acts for some money (Chorgeld).

[@tommasocona]

If Bach had written a single opera it would have been the greatest of the whole baroque era

[@jaikee9477]

Too many people seem to believe that Bach was just that stern, eminent scholar and genius looking down at us from those paintings. He also was a rather down to earth man, loving father, husband and a social institution in his town, responsible for a lot of students, musicians and their families.

[@thekantor1964]

Not even mentioning his greatest works - his Cantatas and other liturgical works! The order in his music reflects the order and truth in his/our Christian faith.

[@dmitrishostakovich1671]

"from all those paintings" There's literally only one (confirmed and widespread) painting of Bach

[@graupner1345]

Bach's sense of humour was well and truly disposed of in the 19th century. So it's about time we got it back. We tend to credit Haydn as being the first "famous" composer to consider it "safe" to put a lot of humour in music. This is not true - the secular and sacred music of Bach and his contemporaries and friends (like Telemann, Graupner, Heinichen, Zelenka etc.) is peppered with comical touches. Graupner probably had his congregation rolling in the aisles on several occasions judging by some of his cantatas!

[@Josh442]

@@dmitrishostakovich1671 Two, I think -- the rediscovered painting with his kids being the second.

[@marcaurele3115]

L'image austère du kantor en prend un coup ! Et oui , Bach n'était pas seulement le maître sévère que l'on imagine ! Un homme qui savait avoir ses moments d'humour . La NBS se met au diapason ! Bravo , mille fois bravo pour ce clin d'oeil !

[@schaulinmarkus6002]

10:03: Ich dachte bisher immer, er hat das Parodieverfahren nur innerhalb einer Werksgattung angewendet: Chorwerk wird mit neuem Text zu neuem Chorwerk. Dieses Video belehrt mich eines besseren. Ich kannte dieses Stück bisher nur als Variation Nr. 30 aus den Goldbergvariationen. Und wenn man meint, man kennt alles von Bach, dann findet man immer noch etwas, was man nicht kennt. Herzlichen Dank für die Horizonterweiterung.!

[@mikekeyes6102]

Absolutely magnificent performance of this rarely heard and most refreshing little masterpiece.

[@graupner1345]

Fantastic performance of this gem by the 22 year old Bach. And what a brilliant idea to make up for the abrupt end of Bach's autograph with a vocal version of the Goldberg quodlibet!

[@lioneldesmeules5041]

Alarcón did it in his recording dôme years ago. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fmPLm56bfMaUmdE

[@tmshadow8031]

Once again, a beautiful, comedic act that has me smiling from ear to ear. Bravo.

[@missvivaldi]

Hi fellow twosetter 👀

[@missvivaldi]

@Jacob H you don't happen to be the organist from TSO, do you?

[@martinc.-h.4841]

Very interesting, thx NBS for another marvellous performance.

[@reinholdhammers3909]

Herrlich!!! Danke der Niederländischen Bachgesellschaft u. schade, dass wir so etwas in Bach's Heimatland nicht mehr zustandebringen. Mein Sonntag ist gerettet...

[@EricNRice]

Musicians will recognize themselves here, no matter the period. I appreciate the "period" dress and beverages. An imaginative and compelling performance! Bravi tutti!

[@muyu69]

10:03 "It" starts here. Listening to Goldberg Variations, I thought var. 30 sounds like a song, but I never knew it actually had lyrics. Great performance and what a surprise! - Correction. It was actually Sato's idea! @t > As the end of Bach’s is missing, Shunske Sato uses this variation as a finale. > I haven't been with you in so long, come here. The stew has driven me away, If my mother had served me meat, I would have stayed longer. My young life is coming to an end. What nonsense is this ending, rubbish, folly, gossip, slapstick, fiddlesticks, swagger, stop! Bah!

[@tabby7189]

"turnips and cabbage" is a more literal translation of "kraut und rueben" than stew

[@franciscoe.novalessalinas4981]

Interesante y Refrescante Performance. SATO MAESTRO GENIAL. GRACIAS DESDE MÉXICO

[@tony1961chl]

Voces y música una maravilla , no puedes dejar de ver y escuchar, hubiera sido mágico con vestuarios de la época,gracias.

[@andreasschierlinger7742]

Ist schon eine nette Idee, an das Fragment noch eine Vokalfassung des Quodlibets aus den Goldberg-Variationen anzuhängen... Danke für diese hinreißende Performance.

[@gordonbrandstadt2593]

Thank you Shunske & NBS for having fun with this Quodlibet by that serious gentleman.

[@topsecret1837]

This has the stylings of a sit-com, standup, opera, and the modern (pardon my French) shitpost in a single piece. It’s like he wanted to make people think he grew another head or went nuts writing something with a strange, random sense of humor, especially for that time. Amazing the jokes still hold up!

[@PeteSchult]

Indeed, I was thinking it had a certain Carolingian (as in Lewis) feel: "it seem[ed] to fill my head with ideas--only I don't exactly know what they are!"

[@xavierjarvis588]

I really appreciate the subtitles! I love this kind of stuff. Thanks once again, NBS!

[@eadghe]

This sounds fun! I guess this is the first time that I feel the urge to sing along to such music, although I can't sing like that.

[@patrickrmcouderc3533]

Exuberantly fabulous. i love the vigorous waving of the arms. Bravo NBS.

[@ChrisDuerk-pw2dd]

Perfekt. Und sehr amüsant. Danke. ❤❤❤

[@lauracompagnoni1239]

This is really enjoyable. The musicians and the singers are fantastic. Thank you so much for this beautiful rendition.

[@tšanchezt]

Absolutely wonderful and with a masterful interpretation. Thanks so much.

[@cenkacar5679]

i now understand Bach is not actually a bach, Bach is an ocean!

[@dibaldgyfm9933]

Beautiful voices, I love the alto, Yosemeh Adjei - but the others, too. It dawns upon me that this is a corona-setting of scene and orchestra. What a splendid job, they use the distance so well.

[@zigosepalum5641]

Ils font les fous, mais l'interprétation est parfaite. Un très agréable moment musical.

[@Van.K.T]

I don’t understand one word but it was beautiful. Thank you sharing this, free of interrupting Ads :)

[@bach]

Thank you! You can find a translation of the text on our website (under 'Texts'): www.bachvereniging.nl/en/bwv/bwv-524/

[@rohancrafford8050]

It is a fantastic piece and frightfully humorous too. Perhaps, for beauty's sake, not understanding is better.

[@Karen-ul9hd]

@@rohancrafford8050 Just knowing that it's complete nonsense might be enough

[@Van.K.T]

@@rohancrafford8050 it is really hilarious. The actors/singers did so well not breaking their characters!

[@marckg6950]

More engaging than many operas

[@mariod7473]

Charming, love the excellent soloists...great tenor, very good soprano, excellent alto, amazing bass (wink wink Bachstiffung).

[@PARISAAH]

I can't say how much I enjoyed watching and listening to this! Thank you so much for sharing it with us! So lively and lighthearted ♡

[@crossiqu]

What a fresh and wonderful surprise!!! I wonder why I didn't know the piece Congratulations NBS you are all superb

[@dfaltin]

I really enjoyed this. Great composition and wonderful performance.

[@acrid8952]

I *really* want to see the bloopers. I wonder how many times someone bursted out in laughter and whereat. But it would be fun regardless.

[@mauriziomariadinitto1718]

Fantastico ! Just what I needed to cheer me up. Maurizio.

[@mariateresafau6930]

Una interpretació extraordinària. Moltes gràcies!

[@m.j.r.dehaan1824]

Wat een leuk muziekstuk van Bach . Mij totaal onbekend. Ik dacht alle werken van Bach in huis te hebben maar dit stuk ontbreekt ! Wat een leuke uitvoering is dit . Weer eens wat anders dan alle serieuze muziek 🎵 van Bach. Echt om van te lachen. Met een warme muzikale groet 🖖 uit Hoorn Nh.

[@hbm293]

10:04 The ending quodlibet used also in the Goldberg Variations😃

[@q-tuber7034]

The quodlibet manuscript is incomplete, so they capped it off with Goldberg.

[@hbm293]

thanks, that's what I've also seen in the other comments too.

[@焼き芋-w1g]

Quodlibet is so interesting that I listen to it many times with Cafe Cantata. When I listen to it, the scene of the song comes to my mind and I just laugh. The acting of the singers was very interesting because I had never seen it before. Thank you very much for your wonderful song and acting.

[@athanhellene3642]

Superlative performance!!!

[@bobh5087]

This was really wonderful. Many thanks to everyone. 👍❤️ (But it would have been far more wonderful with English subtitles.... although there are two links below, from NBS, to a rather lengthy, insinuating, bawdy and hilarious English translation.) Even though Bach never wrote an opera (that we currently know of, at least), his secular choral/vocal works (this piece, and the Coffee, Hunting and Peasant cantatas, etc.) give us tantalizing hints as to what a Bach opera might sound like. They'd have been truly magnificent, no doubt - like everything else he composed !

[@grantyoungblood7895]

@@maniswolftoman My music history classes (way back when) always taught me that Bach DIDN'T write staged opera for a very simple reason: no one ever asked him to!

[@Josh442]

Some of the "secular cantatas" are titled "drammi per musica" -- one by Bach himself -- and would have been performed in costume. So essentially one act comic operas.

[@gradpigodemosviedaff]

Thank you for staging this apparent nonsense! At first I thought, that the final part with the Goldberg-Quodlibet was original, but since the ending is lost, I assume, it is an addendum by you? It fits perfectly however, great choice!

[@bach]

Thank you for the compliment! Adding the Goldberg quodlibet was indeed a choice by Shunske Sato.

[@yvescambefort3365]

@@bach L'addition finale du Quodlibet des "Variations Goldberg" est très séduisante pour l'oreille, mais néanmoins un peu choquante par rapport au reste de l'oeuvre.

[@gerald10er]

Fascinating. I would guessed this was Monteverdi in a hall or mirrors...it seems clear that Bach was very familiar with the earlier Italian operatic style, with all of the contrasting affects, arioso passages, and figuration.

[@peterconnor6874]

Who says you can't have fun with Bach? Many thanks from Yorkshire!

[@florian8599]

7:41 Contemporary commentary at its finest! LOL!

[@wenhaoyang969]

This is simply awesome! I don't know what else to say...

[@alessioparone5722]

Beautiful performance and plenty of fun and of course in an artistic way that is simply strange and happy too. Really good work and quality

[@alessioparone5722]

The humorous manner to interpretate this work is really enjoyable

[@gauriblomeyer1835]

Sehr gut gesungen. My father kept a small boat for 4 Persons in Berlin and painted the word Backtrog on the boat. People in other boats on the Wannsee in Berlin admired the wording and thought that my father (professor for civil law at the Free University Berlin) was the head of the baking society. What I am missing is the Alto voice. Really excellent is here the use of the German language, which is almost impossible to express correctly by all singers coming from Anglo/American countries. Chapeau !

[@Lindamaine]

Wonderful wonderful!

[@jungsuplee1171]

Unbelievably funny yet beautiful performance. Bravo.

[@rozalinapiano]

Bravissimo! 👏 👏 👏 👏 Lesson on how to handle Comedy of Errors! that isn’t easy at all times, but worth trying… Superb insight into the mind of genius! What a surprise! 💡 I am so glad to find this incredible gem at least now ! 🎉 NBS rocks! (Wish my life was simpler when this was released…. and simpler now as well…) Oh, and great and funny intro into fugue form too!

[@pralaysangma8019]

Such a nice song by Bach and what a performance by these group, so naturally singing without any efforts.

[@Moravaginable]

Such beautiful voices!

[@manuelmorante9465]

¡BRAVO! ...🤩 😍 👍 ...👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@araujo_sergio]

Maravilloso 👂🏼🎶❣️

[@evabarlia6820]

This is such an amazing and fun performance! Thank you!

[@lorenzocassoni]

The last part is like variation 30 of Goldberg variations, that is also a quodlibet, amazing

[@yousafe007]

It is in fact the same price, the voices here are sung. The first 8 bar/ of the Goldbergs are based on a very common base line during that time, and that exact baseline is used over and over in each of the little variations in this Quodlibet. The base line is in fact that of a Chaconne, hence its commonality

[@q-tuber7034]

The quodlibet manuscript is incomplete, so they capped it off with Goldberg.

[@Sophie-sv7mt]

This was hilarious. Thank you, NBS!

[@anabergamin9832]

Loved 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Magnific 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Bach ia wonderfull 👏🏻👏🏻😘

[@musicarrangestudio9134]

This unusual atmosphere amuses me!

[@danielbelokon]

Wish you'd put the texts as subtitles on youtube! Either way, wonderful.

[@bach]

Done! English subtitles have now been added.

[@silviaherreraubico948]

Que joya! Gracias

[@andrearodigari4840]

I never knew a genius without the sense of humor 🤣!

[@1earflapping]

Glenn Gould?

[@felixbd4402]

@@1earflapping Glenn Gould actually had a wicked turn of humour sometimes, just not most of the time haha

[@1earflapping]

@OrganicOrganist That's as may be. I was just making a quick smartass answer to Andrea's remark.

[@catholicdad]

Dank u!

[@judithwhitehouse2149]

Whatever is going on, this is great fun , and indisputably JSB - more, please!

[@wolkowy1]

:) :) :) Wonderful charming and nevertheless most professional music performance of the humorous Bach. Bravisisissimi!!!

[@RachaelLongLastName]

I think I’ll come back to this when I’m fluent in German

[@joyfulyes]

New and improved, it has subtitles!

[@jack-danielbalantine156]

I love every thing of this video!!

[@nemianyamele2265]

No way... 7:45 he really said Corona and brought out a MASK!?

[@stonehong1]

It's amazing performance!!!

Too bad Bach didn't compose any operas. They would have been fun.

[@michaelinlondon]

Personally, I am eternally grateful that opera composition was never included in any of Bach's job descriptions, so that artless, talentless oh-so-clever opera directors don't get to mess about with him. As for "staged" performances of oratorios and cantatas, don't get me going...

[@tenor-haute-contre]

@@michaelinlondon I agree, I prefer to listen to CDs nowadays since some stagings of Baroque operas are just unbearable, as much as they are rare.

[@theodosios2615]

@Minh Duc Le - Tenor (& Haute-contre!) Orfeo being an exception!

[@Igor_Itkin]

Endlich! Das Warten hat ein Ende. Danke!

[@Ag27462]

So singen sie so gut ! So wunderschöne Harmonie deutscher Lieder, die ich so gerne höre.

[@bsku0765]

Quodlibet is one of the most enjoyable musical forms haha

[@SilvioNobre]

Wonderful thing!

[@lizbethfullemann554]

love this, but for once I wish there were subtitles

[@Ennah08]

I thought so too. But when I read the text it didn't make much sense anyway - and some of it is in latin :)

[@bach]

English subtitles have now been added!

[@lindawetherby837]

Hilarious! Even ribald! I can imagine him as a young man writing it for his wedding feast!

[@eduardoperetdias6257]

Wunderbar

[@GilbertoGuarino]

Great achievement! N.B.S. is as usual ahead of the curve.

[@catharinapaulif]

Now that is really important!

[@annefrance9282]

Tolle Sänger, die sichtlich Spaß hatten! :D

[@Joggelschorsch]

Wohooo Julian!

Increíble ❤️

[@felipediazcristianismo]

So funny and classy LOL hahahah love it !

[@josecarlospistilli7753]

Maravilha ❗❗❗❗❗

[@porpozontokonto9161]

Çeviriyi yapan Thomas'a teşekkürler. Tüm eserlerde çeviri istiyoruz. Şimdiden teşekkürler.

[@ツィンパンズィー]

10:04 バッハはこの曲がお気に入りだったんだろうか

[@DS-ni1mi]

Ein wunderschöner Abschluss des Tages, an dem ich zu ersten mal in der Grote Kerk van Naarden war

[@DS-ni1mi]

... Wo schon so viele tolle Aufführungen von NBS stattgefunden haben. 1000mal DANKE

[@martywinick]

Very funny and excellently performed.

[@ascanbe3321]

Is the added ending (which I recognised from the Goldberg Variations) arranged by Bach or someone else? Where might I find it?

[@bach]

The ending is indeed based on the "Quodlibet" variation (no. 30) of the Goldberg Varations BWV 988. It was arranged by Shunske Sato for this performance (it has not been published).

[@ascanbe3321]

Would definately buy it if it were available!

[@607]

There are Dutch and English subtitles... but German subtitles are missing.

[@tabby7189]

12:06 the grimace in the back

[@aimilios439]

Didn't expect a Goldberg variation here. Is it the one with the "pop" song reference? I don't think so.

[@osr1126]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@okgoogle7388]

Interesting!

[@ГуглЯндексович-ш3г]

Что поют, о чём поют не знаю, но красиво так.

[@antismatic]

You should add english subtitles (via CC) to your videos

[@katsujyu]

somebody could do some english captions... i would be very happy

[@Ennah08]

If you look into the description, there's a link to their website where the text is available in both original and in english ;)

[@bach]

Subtitles have now been added!

[@ana-ch3ie]

quodlibets are less common than secular cantatas, motetes, etc. but quodlibets are very complex, and applies a very intrincated contrapuctus

[@bertspeggly4428]

Chat GPT tells me that the lyrics of this splendidly silly Bach piece are randomly taken from popular songs of the period.