One of the best versions of this masterpiece I have ever heard...absolutely brilliant.
@ozielich3 жыл бұрын
I agree! Just gorgeous and very profound!
@margaretharypkema92902 жыл бұрын
@@ozielich "Profound"... Excellent word to use! 👍
@jrhebda11 жыл бұрын
Truly divine and is surely one of God's favorite melodies.Thanks !
@oucutie16 жыл бұрын
.......all I know is the Stokowski sound and everything he touches turns to pure gold! His orchestrations/arrangements go into my ear then straight down to my heart
@ozielich6 жыл бұрын
Janet Smith beautifully put!
@manuelaformoso464714 күн бұрын
I think so. Stokowski is the best one. He understood Bach better than anyone.
@miguelcampos54602 жыл бұрын
Oh man this is so beautiful! I don't care that it's not "historical", it's gorgeous!
@ozielich2 жыл бұрын
I couldn't agree with you more!
@DanKislov29 күн бұрын
I fully agree with you
@manuelcarneiro52805 жыл бұрын
Listening, I return to late noons of my childhood, some in winter, when a radio station added a end-of-day commentary to this delicious song, and then I stopped. Meanwhile, my grandmother, imbued with the same love for the patience of all those decent days, prepared the next dinner and it all came out of her hands with magic. I will never forget.
@ozielich5 жыл бұрын
wow.... what a beautiful way to know this exquisite piece!
@ikmarchini4 жыл бұрын
That was beautiful. Thanks, Manuel.
@LigaraProg11 жыл бұрын
That's what makes variations so good. You can hear each composition in many different ways just by flicking through them on KZbin.
@ozielich3 жыл бұрын
Indeed!
@medjadjialdja40588 жыл бұрын
HEARTBREAKING !
@ozielich8 жыл бұрын
INdeed
@riotdiva15 жыл бұрын
This music, the performance, and the interpretation is ethereal. Thanks for reminding us of one of the all time best, Oziel.
@ozielich5 жыл бұрын
My pleasure, Julie! It is a rendition always in my heart.
@RBC00116 жыл бұрын
Superb. Bravo
@willthecellist9 жыл бұрын
It takes a great deal of skill to draw out the lines to such an extent.
@edgarallanlovecraft54859 жыл бұрын
The genius of this man is unfathomable. Which man? Both
@ozielich9 жыл бұрын
Bravo! Beautifully put.
@edgarallanlovecraft54859 жыл бұрын
+oziel garza-ornelas TY Oziel. I know many thing Leopold "over wrote" when he orchestrated Bach but my feeling is if you do not like it do not listen to it
@ozielich4 жыл бұрын
@@edgarallanlovecraft5485 A point I was making about both Stokowski and Bach, with some friends on a nice night as we listened to this and other pieces accompanied by cheese, bread, butter and wine was this.... Bach, took pieces by others as well as his own, and he re-orchestrated, rearranged, re-tempoed and then some... because the music was not dead. It lived and trascended its inception when first written on the staff. Stokowski, humbly, with that magnificent string section he had... simply... re-orchestrated, re-arranged and re-tempoed, respectfully, Bach's magnificent work.
@ronaldfeltkamp6833 ай бұрын
of whom? Stokovski's or of Bach ? Dont forget Bach is the creator; Stokovski only an executant; BHach is divine, Stokovski extraordinary; i am sure Stokovgski agreed with tnis formulatian !
@mariehammarsten49299 жыл бұрын
Wonderful! Have never liked air before but this version is sublime!
@fpereira779 жыл бұрын
+Marie Hammarsten I have always loved the piece, but this arrangement has become my uncontested favorite from the moment I've heard it.
@ozielich9 жыл бұрын
I love it too!
@tenecat30723 ай бұрын
merci! très BEAU! vers nice! Esther et Etienne Kervyn.
@ozielich15 жыл бұрын
i am still mesmerized by it. i know that there are performance practices in place now but... the aesthetic and the trust of his musicians and viceversa, make this stokowski recording one that will forever be 'definitive' in intensity as well as care, depth and even tenderness regarding Bach's air on the g string.
@margaretharypkema92902 жыл бұрын
Beautifully worded comment!
@ozielich2 жыл бұрын
@@margaretharypkema9290 Thank you!
@whaziel196911 жыл бұрын
Amazing Bach so pretty on Stokowski's version .
@sandusky09019 жыл бұрын
One of my all time faves. This recording is so evocative, it stirs up me up so much every time I listen to it
@ozielich9 жыл бұрын
It is quite moving isn't it?
@camillebouchard643610 жыл бұрын
Wonderful !
@margaretharypkema92902 жыл бұрын
I don't know what to say... my heart is too full ❤️
@faraalmond9326 Жыл бұрын
This is the best ever I've heard … Thanks Stokowski
@scarletapril1210 жыл бұрын
Sublime.
@brookebodden62485 жыл бұрын
Simply Exquisite!
@ozielich5 жыл бұрын
Nicely put, Max. Still my favourite version.
@MrFpam11 жыл бұрын
Bach would be amazed, but I doubt if he would be turning in his grave. He took all sorts of liberties with his own (and others') music. He would be most amazed that anyone was still interested in this music and performing it in so many different ways. Even the title Air on the G string has stuck to it, although that is far from Bach's intentions. That is one of the aspects of Bach's greatness, that his music can withstand vastly different interpretations!
@ozielich4 жыл бұрын
Excellent point, Frank. After all, he slowed down many a chorale into long expressive preludes and sometimes he made them a lot faster in other arrangements of the same chorale.
@organgoesheavy2 жыл бұрын
@@ozielich You two speak to my heart!!! The point is that there is no such thing as objective music. Without the artist, without the interpreter, there is nothing.
@micaelabonetti9492 жыл бұрын
You too speak to my heart. Will you please listen to this same Air with RNO conducted by Pletnëv? Magnificent. 😢
@Maryeverjoy2 жыл бұрын
Merveilleux
@mariaalejandralopezsanchez73726 ай бұрын
Lo más bello de escuchar❤
@manuelaformoso46473 жыл бұрын
Stokowski hizo aún más grande a Bach. (Si de alguna manera eso fuera posible, claro). Gracias por compartir la belleza de la Música, que inspira al alma y nutre la existencia. 🙏♥️
@ozielich3 жыл бұрын
Qué bellamente lo has expresado, Manuela. Stokowski, con Bach, en efecto, inspiran y nutren el alma y la existencia!
@manuelaformoso46473 жыл бұрын
@@ozielich Muchas gracias por valorar mi comentario. Me limité a expresar lo que siento. No concibo la vida sin la compañía de la Música (con mayúsculas). En esto, Bach es sublime, y Stokowski viene a ser un excepcional ayudante, consiguiendo una perfecta simbiosis. 💚
@ozielich3 жыл бұрын
@@manuelaformoso4647 Así es. He escuchado tantas nobles expresiones de esta pieza pero ninguna más hermosa, noble, inspirada y me atrevo a decir, trascendental, como ésta.
@manuelaformoso46473 жыл бұрын
@@ozielich Gracias de nuevo. No creo merecer tantos elogios, pero admito que para mí supone un enorme consuelo saber que alguien comparte lo que siento, lo que pienso. A veces, me resulta difícil encontrar las palabras adecuadas con las que describir tanta belleza... Mil gracias por contribuir a difundirla
@ozielich3 жыл бұрын
@@manuelaformoso4647 Pienso lo mismo, Manuela.
@manuelaformoso464714 күн бұрын
Os sugiero que escuchéis el Arioso de la Cantsta BWV 156 de Bach, en la versión de Leopold Stokowski. Es sublime.
@antmenah14 жыл бұрын
Antmenah wrote 11-07-2010, An endless border of beauty and a sweet token of tenderness and love
@windmillwilly4 жыл бұрын
Day month year or month day year?
@ozielich14 жыл бұрын
@jbhchan You are right this was the Stokowski Symphony mix of Phila core and NY Phil a great combo but yes phila has that sound that is so warm and intense
@parkthoven13 жыл бұрын
feels like daydreaming on the cloud without noticing time clicking~~
@osmartapia88647 жыл бұрын
la mejor version de la vida!!!
@ozielich7 жыл бұрын
Osmar Tapia. Muy de acuerdo!
@corinnetinsun11203 жыл бұрын
THE GRAND MAESTRO LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
@ozielich3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely!
@bettinadrew8 жыл бұрын
outstanding
@rgkrenkel13 жыл бұрын
Great love making music.
@catalpa7973 жыл бұрын
Not if it's in s bdsm dungeon
@adriankapratomo77254 жыл бұрын
Bach - Air on G-string (slowed+reverb) (Stokowski Remix)
@ozielich4 жыл бұрын
Lovely!
@claudiavillanuevapalma73359 жыл бұрын
Una interpretación y una Dirección extraordinaria
@ozielich3 жыл бұрын
Efectivamente! Muy conmovedor.
@Krtek25410 жыл бұрын
Dear Einarabelc, This is "Air on G String" not a tune in G major (mian theme played by the first violin section). Original version is played in D major by string orchestra. Later, a German violinist WilhelmJ transcribed to violin solo in C major, playing throuout the whole piece on G string only. As for this Stokowski version, the main theme is played by the cello section, which is quite differect from Bach's original version but it is so beautiful as everyone may agree.
@charlesbarry67305 жыл бұрын
Listening and appreciating music is a matter of taste. Simply enjoy different versions of the same piece and stop criticising.
@geiryvindeskeland72082 жыл бұрын
Charles Barry, I am sorry for my inadequate English. Charles, quote: «..music is a matter of taste». Oh no, it isn’t that simple! Old music is an important part of our history. Therefore we should understand the need of listening to the music also in a historical context. In Bach’s day, the composers used «tempo ordinario» if they did not add any tempo indications. Bach don’t say anything about slow tempo in his well known Air. The time signature is C, and without tempo indications, the tempo should be «tempo ordinario». Hey counted four beats per measure, but what kind of beat? Heart beats! A human function normally with 60-80 heart beats per minute, some sources say 50-80. In this performance the number of heart beats per minute are 26… Therefore we know that this pace is way too slow, a romantic version far from the original style.
@MrFpam11 жыл бұрын
Correct!
@Derukugi212 жыл бұрын
@Serendip123 Oh come on. In the Baroque era, music was not for recording and playback by experts... everybody played the music themselves, with whatever instruments where in the house at the time. Guess how many interpretations of the same piece where there.
@lenanielsen59034 жыл бұрын
🕊 Stokowski🤝Bach 🕊 Sublime
@ozielich4 жыл бұрын
Indeed! Simply sublime!
@ozielich14 жыл бұрын
@Serendip123 interesting comment serendip. i know that stokowski was a product of his time... living hearing, playing music in a way he knew, which i know is obvious and certainly beyond 'style' this is a musical interpretation of great beauty. as stokowski said in interviews, 'bach was a red-hot blooded man, he probably would be turning in his grave if he heard my orchestrations'.
@zaferteomete26195 жыл бұрын
FANTASTİC MUSİC
@i3ish14 жыл бұрын
magnificent
@DevinGarcia-y9z6 ай бұрын
Music like Johann Sebastian Bach is very sincerely
@tenecat30723 ай бұрын
😍
@mrblondeno212 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. But always reminds me of the movie Seven
@jonathanlazaro.123917 күн бұрын
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🍷
@spinypenguin11 жыл бұрын
I personally like Voices of Music's interpretation of this song better but this is still beautiful. :)
@pcf25812 жыл бұрын
well all you boffins! its just a bloody good track! love it for ever.
@ozielich3 жыл бұрын
Me too!
@Nadianva11 жыл бұрын
Can I stop feeling please?
@ozielich13 жыл бұрын
@rgkrenkel indeed!
@sethlewis691711 жыл бұрын
Kirinpheobe, please, I agree with MTT, director of SF Symphony when he said, "Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven invented (as it were) music" thus, implying the foundation these composers laid for the rest of us concerning music. Bach's intention for His pieces were to glorify God. Nevertheless, the purity of baroque harmony mixed with the passion of Romantic orchestration and performance is a marriage that even Bach would have loved!
@hansdekorver73654 жыл бұрын
Transcription by Stokowski , for instance the beginning played by the cello section. Stokowski made at least 42 arrangements / transcriptions of Bach s works , " the Air " in 1923.
@ozielich4 жыл бұрын
Never do I stop listening to it. It's downright sublime.
@JeroenBaxexm11 жыл бұрын
I only really like 2 names in music for real. Autechre and Bach. The rest is just less intriguing IMHO.
Beautifully stated. It is one of the most glorious interpretations and arrangements of this piece one could ever hope to find. They breathe together, play together.... do ritardandi together and then some....I join you in thanking J.S. Bach and thanking Leopold Stokowski.
@SevenDeMagnus7 ай бұрын
Cool, he seemed to have lowered it. I feel like I'm flying with angels on my way to be accepted to heaven at most, in the least, I'm just flying on a hanglider that has infinite power.
@PointyTailofSatan3 жыл бұрын
BTW: this piece is the basis of Procol Harum's Whiter Shade of Pale.
@ozielich3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I had heard that! Makes perfect sense. Thank you for posting.
@MIKKI919110 жыл бұрын
Tant d'expression avec si peut de notes, que dire de plus sinon que c'est là la vraie musique !
@ozielich8 жыл бұрын
Vous avez raison!
@Kegeljan5 жыл бұрын
Le tempo adopté est l'un des protagonistes majeurs de cette version !
@ericashmusic888911 жыл бұрын
Beautiful piece,beautifully played,.. & by the way ,have you tried lately,if at all, getting about 40 mixed string players to play the appogiatura together ?as one!! ! at the same time,? correctly ! ??..(ah well- ) you might leave it out as well then.& FWIW, Bach was also quite happy to do his arrangements of other composers pieces, & take liberties with the both tunes & orchestration.
@ozielich5 жыл бұрын
My very point! These guys were amazing and Stokowski, made them brilliant.
@einarabelc510 жыл бұрын
This is not the G key is it? Is this on D?
@oibruv38893 жыл бұрын
being on the G string does not imply being in the key of G, if anything it discourages it, as the tonic note would in its lower parts be on an open string with senza vibrato, which is negative for this performance, although not the original baroque performance due to performance style at the time being senza vibrato anyway, nevertheless the open string is still often less sonorous
@eiichifumoto98528 жыл бұрын
its deeper concerning than original
@ginomorales89893 жыл бұрын
When you hear something like this, you start to think that, despite allthe horror in the world, we can be better people
@ozielich3 жыл бұрын
Nicely put and couldn't agree with you more!
@micaelabonetti9492 жыл бұрын
"Beauty will save the world" (Dostoïevski, Prince Mishkin, "Idiot"). Stokovski's arrangement and Bach's himself are proof of it. Sublime.
@ginomorales89892 жыл бұрын
@@micaelabonetti949 Great quote. I have that book somewhere. I promised myself that I will read it in some distant day.
@micaelabonetti9492 жыл бұрын
@@ginomorales8989 Please, Gino, open this book as soon as possible! Now! I'm already finishing my third reading of it. Fourth one won't be far away... Profoundly mesmerizing, a book (an author, Dostoïevsky) that can change one's life, gracing it. 🙏
@ginomorales89892 жыл бұрын
@@micaelabonetti949 Rereading a book is the highest tribute to an author. The good old man must feel really proud somewhere. I have already read Humiliated and Offended, The Gambler, White Nights and Memories from the Subsoil. I have a stack with Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, Demons, and The Brothers Karamazov pending. If you think it's a good read to deal with persistent sadness, I promise to read a few pages of The Idiot tomorrow (it's 5:00 am in my country). Thanks for your time.
@spinypenguin11 жыл бұрын
Piece, then. c(:
@oucutie16 жыл бұрын
I know nothing about “over writing” excess this and that
@gerardwoillet21637 жыл бұрын
Popold est super,mais la c'est nettement un peu lent
@angryface71357 жыл бұрын
"Bach provided the sentimental shit, Stokowski squeeze the sentimental crap out of it." Eichmann
@legefy12 жыл бұрын
ASUKA! DON'T DIE ASUKA!
@jparks65448 жыл бұрын
Who knew Bach like skimpy underwear.
@MrFpam11 жыл бұрын
It is not a song!
@giampaorrigo3 жыл бұрын
Zzzzzzzzzzz
@hartmutbader60567 жыл бұрын
I love Bach's original version more than this bombastical romantic revision
@ozielich7 жыл бұрын
Hartmut Bader thank you for your comment.
@hansdekorver73654 жыл бұрын
O.k. , but this transcription has also his merits. ( 655 likes and only 11 dislikes )
@fpereira774 жыл бұрын
This arrangement has more soul than any other I've ever heard. And I've heard many. I really prefer the slower tempo (usually the versions that are around 5:30 or 6 minutes are the ones I prefer)
@pavelvedernikov85023 жыл бұрын
I fell asleep. There is no spiritual energy in this version