Bach - Wachet auf from Cantata No 140 - Sonny Landreth

[@goodun2974]

I've come to expect the unexpected from Sonny Landreth, but this goes far beyond the usual benchmarks for him!

[@carlmaestre2011]

I've been preaching the amazing Sonny Landreth for many years, but this absolutely mind blowing.....

[@johnthomas-km2bf]

This was brilliant. Sonny never ceases to amaze me.

[@loilt5091]

With all due respect to Ry & Derek, I've maintained for a few decades now, that Sonny is the absolute master of blues based, electric slide guitar...this is a prime example, he takes it to other places, covering so many other facets, genres & styles. His Louisiana upbringing gave him a distinct advantage, growing up in such a diverse gumbo of music...it's in his very DNA👍 🇨🇦

[@edreynolds3745]

What an incredible honored and honorable person. Met him once. Knew me from reputation. Humble / talented /VERY GENEROUS in spirit. I hung on every note he played. Sincerity / uplifting. Real. Thanks fror the love and positivity in all the the notes you play.. Can't say enough re my appreciation.

[@MichaelFix]

impeccable intonation...beautiful!

[@richardburnett5314]

Sonny is on pandora.com/Library

[@richardburnett5314]

Touching app for Pandora find and touching it

[@deaddocreallydeaddoc5244]

Another really amazing aspect about Sonny is how accessible he is. In 2016, he did a little show in Portland, OR. After the show, he came out to shake hands, sign CDs, and pose for photos with fans. And that is how I got one with him. What a remarkable individual!

[@francobonanni3499]

He plays with great passion this is what music is made of...a great artist.

[@RiquezaEmGotas]

If there is one player that rivals Beck's intonation and expressiveness on the guitar that guy is Sonny Landreth! Thank you for this beautiful rendition.

[@philipmcglasson533]

Got to see Sonny at the Festival International de Louisiane 4/30/22 here in Lafayette. I was mesmerized and make no apologies for it.

[@MOzarkMike]

beautiful things can sometimes make a grown man cry. I am not ashamed.

[@PJohn-gc8xv]

Incredible virsion of Bach. I listen to Classic music everyday. And new trials are much interesting.

[@marctoleds6259]

Such an amazing guitar player! So much feeling obn it!

[@perisbrodsky4242]

I always thought of Sonny as Paganini, but this works.

[@cooder-pv1pp]

The only slide bar master in the world Creative musicians now reach new heights

[@digglerdsrecordings9680]

Superb! He adds so much to this by playing with the slide. I don't know what to say.

[@vajraman2067]

There are too many twits out there, from all walks of Life, who are always offering a "Master Class" for this and a "Master Class" for that. Pay attention-This is an actual Master. Know why? I've heard him interviewed before and he never fails to mention in one way or another that he considers himself a Lifelong STUDENT of music and the guitar.

[@1blastman]

The true Masters feel that way - they never stop learning their instrument and it's possibilities.

[@sagecreekwitt3301]

This is a real treat to watch this. Thanks for posting!

[@garygilbertson8379]

Enjoyed that immensely!

[@fdboucher]

Magnifique! :-)

[@HillCountryVista]

Once I overcame the cognitive dissonance of an electric slide solo alongside Bach's church music I was blown away! Would love to hear more musicians take on this challenge. Go Sonny!

[@jbilou7350]

my favorite cantata

[@hanslundgjerdingen4019]

Well done sonny,i like it.bestfrom Norway.🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😉😉😉😉😉😉

[@philipmcglasson533]

Great player from Acadiana.

[@TheSummoner]

Wachet auf(, ruft uns die Stimme) *is* the cantata, the piece is called Zion hört (die Wächter singen).

[@simmjz5738]

just breathtaking! Sonny is one of a few great people and player!

[@tommyrawlings3046]

Bach #1

[@Gbhbbgvsbnjhhdchhb]

Breathtaking

[@kimwestwood8840]

My buddy Sonny

[@winkiened2]

♫"I think that the reason he sounds so different is 'cause of where he's from. I can hear fiddles a lot in his playing, just from the way he raises the notes. Slide is just another voice you can have. You can really make a guitar sound like a person, and Sonny knows what that's about."♫ Dobro ace and Multi Grammy winner: ~Jerry Douglas ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

[@chokkan7]

I'm starting to wonder if Sonny can't tune an engine with that guitar...he seems able to do anything else with it.

[@BenFletcherGuitar]

From 2010?! I can't believe I've never seen footage of this before, I thought it was really well done. There have been a few electric guitarists take that sound in to the orchestral realm, but it doesn't always work. I thought Sonny was great here, obviously totally different to anything he normally plays and must've been bricking it on the inside!

[@richardburnett5314]

A Master he is all uve seen

[@charleseldridge6191]

knocked my socks off! Sonny is *awesome*

[@DidivanFrits]

breath taking!

[@arnaldosampaiodemoraesgodo5027]

Sonny talks to God. There is no other explanation for such a virtuose. Great!

[@1blastman]

God passes through Sonny's playing for sure.

[@davidlilker6054]

Just lovely. Hats off to the Acadiana Symphony Orchestra. I just wish someone had rented Sonny a tuxedo.

[@davidlilker6054]

@@JDubzDrumz Sonny is one of my all-time faves as well, although I've had the chance to see him only a handful of times. The last was at a little brewpub here in Northern California, and he was as you said, super nice and super humble. Never saw him play acoustic before, and it was a treat.

[@philipmcglasson533]

One like I wore to the Krewe of Rio Ball couple weeks ago.

[@commontater8630]

Nah, he looks fine. Soloists don't have to wear tuxedos.

[@emmawatson9180]

Cool. Not what I expected!!

[@motman52]

The orchestra "rose to the occasion" 'cos Sonny served them Pan-Fried Catfish + Cornbread prior to the performance.

[@philipmcglasson533]

Crawfish etoufée

[@motman52]

@@philipmcglasson533 Dunno? All French to me. A Foreign Languge 'cos I Am Canadian. ("Breaker-Breaker!") ("Roger That.")

[@loilt5091]

@@motman52 I'm eh-🇨🇦ian, too...

[@boomstick1643]

He is a national treasure...!

[@cr9843]

Oh Sonny, how I worship thee.

[@mcsmith732]

This is as gorgeous as it is unexpected!

[@KoxxMobilhome]

Incredible!!!

[@diegogamba2601]

Meraviglioso!

[@mikeshay9138]

You realize that Sonny played that without sheet music in front of him like all the orchestra members had? Maybe I missed it but I didn't see any. True musical genius.

[@AndrewCadie]

it’s usual in orchestral music performances for the soloist to play from memory, while the orchestra play from dots. Both are amazing - the orchestra members are almost certainly sight-reading.

[@commontater8630]

Sonny Landreth displays amazing talent, but playing this without sheet music is not particularly amazing.

[@AladinSarsippiusSulemanagic]

Fabulous arrangement! I'd love to hear it in the original Eb 👏👏👏

[@speedsalot]

WOW! Amazing player.

[@plealypaul8019]

Masterpiece!

[@williamhayes4610]

If this doesn’t absolutely impress you,, then you and I could never be friends.. Sonny coming to St. Louis in December Can not wait. Been impressed since first time I saw him at Jazz Fest about 23 years ago Crossroads, Rock n Bowl, John Hiatt, Cindy Cashdollar in Austin , Jimmy Buffet . I mean it’s like an All Star roster that

[@dainhuston]

This is why Mr. Landreth is Eric Clapton's guitar hero and mine included. Boy your in for a treat if you have not heard "Spider gris" it's a original Master piece

[@Monyornothin]

I need to see Sonny live!

[@1blastman]

Come to New Orleans Jazzfest - he plays at several venues around town beside the fest.

[@Monyornothin]

@@1blastman i just missed him this April in New England. Soon !!!

[@riccardoriccardi6986]

Bach once happened to sit at a fortepiano, played a few chords, and declared that he didn't like that instrument at all. Which means that he wrote his scores precisely for the instruments he had in mind, and wanted them to be played with those instruments. And I agree with him, even though his music is to such a point absolute that it might be played even with an ocarine or a pan flute.

[@jbilou7350]

never imagined sonny would play it

[@laurengreenewhyte1925]

Oh, Sonny Boy!!

[@aaronjames1810]

I probably would have preferred a little different voicing in the first 2mjnutes, but at the 2:00 mark he starts making choices that are now living rent free in my head

[@RiverbluffMusic]

This would have been up Jeff Beck's alley - but I did not expect it from Sonny. One master interpreting another. Beautiful.

[@albanantonarnold]

gotta agree with you- Landreth deserves more recognition, he's a bad boy!

[@vascobento5398]

Every time he plays this a Klavier dies.

[@craigwalker7415]

WoW ! ~

[@SmoT76]

!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sonny strikes again👍

[@alistairewen9558]

Last time I saw him, he was back in john hiatt !!!!

[@kevinwilson2082]

Holy cow.

[@TheMonolake]

Just tapping in to the electric

[@drphelps9017]

The question I have is; how on earth do these people even get together? Craigslist? Wanted: slide guitar player to perform with baroque symphony. Must have his own glass slide.

[@nicolasnikopol7946]

Awesome !! Sonny is really 50 years ahead any guitarist (dixit Eric Clapton)

[@troutpoutLA]

amazing! tito get me some tissue

[@misterranksz3950]

I just found this song....im watching the nerd Avgn playing Friday the 13th for the commoder 64 and this song is there wow

[@FURDOG1961]

0:00

[@Gattobuono]

One of the like is from Bach himself.

[@craiganthonyfutch]

Amazing. Wish he would do more vivaldi

[@OWK000]

Nice, but not the tone quality from the guitar I would have picked to go with this cantata.

[@stuarthearn9890]

dear Sonny, gettin' old, but forever Brilliant!!

[@janstaugaard4098]

Paganini on electric 🎸

[@bobturnley2787]

Love this piece of music by Bach. And I've really enjoyed Landreth playing his own music. Landreth playing Bach changes the piece into a work by Landreth-Bach. It's not bad but it's not Bach.

[@ThomasEhbauer]

Thats Bach at His best

[@bobturnley2787]

@@ThomasEhbauer Sure, if you hate Baroque music.

[@gregorybeavins738]

I believe the English translation would be something like “Wake Up”?

[@bobjones2041]

"toke weed" in Portland OR

[@commontater8630]

Close. The usual English translation is Sleepers Wake.

[@aliasreco]

Why can't he play it as fast as js bach foundation sings it... The classicals do this way faster and swingender....

[@cliffcox7643]

Artful, but still prefer the OG version

[@WilliamMusicEater]

:-)

[@prototropo]

o. u. c. h.

[@lawrencegallagher3722]

A great player, no doubt, and a lovely piece for sure, but am I the only one out there who thinks it sounds a bit silly?

[@riccardoriccardi6986]

I do agree with you. it sounds silly, and grotesque as well.

[@lawrencegallagher3722]

@@riccardoriccardi6986 Ok, we might be the only two, but at least we're not alone🙃

[@alaino4185]

Sounds like Jeff Beck

[@trigonzobob]

What the hell did I just watch?!? My favorite guitarist playing with an orchestra? I loved it, but, why, Sonny?

[@ivangrbic9992]

Why not

[@doda26]

@@ivangrbic9992 Exactly!

[@johnmaceachern5452]

Because he can

[@sagecreekwitt3301]

Are you serious? You must not play an instrument. Musicians aren't limited by genres.

[@johng2880]

Why Bach? because Bach.

[@Steve_K2]

I'm a long time fan of Mr Landreth, but it's painful to hear him from the opening guitar notes. It just doesn't work for me.

[@johncutts481]

This just didn't work.

[@donaldhilliker2312]

um ....erm.........no,,,,,,,,,, didn't work for me

[@zentratuskrypto3521]

(not really) funny how the arrangement mostly omits the chorale melody, i.e. what the tenors sing.

[@RezaGanjavi]

The slide guitar ruins it - straight notes would have been so much nicer.

[@SuiGenerisMan]

Very talented but this doesn't work for me AT ALL and i think the rest of you are just being sycamphantic. Harps and Strats with overdrive, a tube screamer and slide? No. It's not about opinion or taste, that wasn't pleasant. Picking something so well-known too, way too risky of a choice. Like cocaiane and LSD, some things just weren't meant to go together. All you people raving in the comments? It's perfectly normal to appreciate talent while admitting you just saw something that doesn't work. You're never going to listen to that piece again, nor do you want to, come on. You don't have to be a musician to understand that was not great. Plus he made 4 mistakes and had 2 pauses because he got lost, so even the performance wasn't THAT "amazing".

[@frankrowley4700]

Awful

[@johannesfreutel4387]

im sorry but this guitar sounds horrible to me xD

[@meistersinger7600]

I agree with you. This Guitar was not the best choice, but Sonny is a great Guitarplayer. No doubt.

[@muzikyolculugu76]

get your ears checked.

[@cr9843]

Feel sorry for you. Good God.

[@ismaelbelda1]

Unbelievably embarrassing and pretentious. So so so bad. So misguided. This is pure kitsch, and he's clearly making a fool of himself.

[@carminefesta2328]

A Frankenstein-type experiment. But they didn't create a creature out of dead material. They dismembered a living thing to create a monster.