BBC Proms 2010 - Bach Day 10 - Sleepers Wake

[@brianmorrison7542]

Music like this makes life worth living

[@rr7firefly]

You know it. There are times when I think that we were surely blessed to have lived at a time when Bach's music could be shared worldwide. A real blessing.

[@ingegowans2831]

One of the most beautiful pieces by Bach - my favourite

[@mfrench601]

Mine, as well

[@aprilnugent]

I walked down the aisle to this song ❤

[@kahuna1574]

Mine as well ❤

[@Il_SRs]

This is also one of the favorites of Bach himself

[@CarlosFernandez-vx2rc]

Bach builds sacred pillars that support joy, peace and gratitude

[@nikolaiboyadjiev7120]

Blessed were those who were there to hear that live.

[@kizerchloealy]

I heard it live once, it was grand!

[@billace90]

Definitely!

[@calgordon98]

1

[@Loudes012]

Most beautiful, most elegant is the music of Bach!👏

[@FawazShalan]

And us....

[@cosmofoxgaming1268]

That melody and counterpoint are some of the greatest thoughts a human mind has ever had. Bach. You astound me.

[@dodu8281]

if u didnt listen, try maasaki - Fantasia for organ In G Major, Bwv572. it started so formal, but it got more and more amazing. there are at least 10 melodic tricks that i never heard before, at that time, and it took more than 200 years to hear those kind of intricate melodicity. last part is a crazy relentless arpeggio. last time i heard this after him it was philip glass...

[@alisadotson8403]

Glorious. It was my mother's favorite. This piece transported her I still see her with her eyes closed, smiling. I had it played as she passed away with a smile on her face.

[@jimsonnenberg1221]

Bach had a way with melody that is undeniable.

[@zombiemom6701]

My bridesmaids walked down the aisle to this on violin and organ. It’s one of my favorite pieces. I wish I hadn’t been such a bundle of nerves so I could have enjoyed it.

[@herbertschrauth4202]

Bach war der wohl genialste Komponist aller Zeiten 🎉

[@jadrola]

I could listening to this over and over... For better mood...

[@guillecastillo2144]

Escuchar a Bach siempre es una buena idea, sin importar como sea tu estado de ánimo, su música te regresa al carril del ritmo correcto, de la armonía, el equilibrio y de todo lo bello imaginable.

[@ronaldjones5589]

I was not able to play this well back in 1979, because I was to busy holding back tears, as I played it, I played the Voila, and This BBC Proms, almost brought me to tears, Thank You very Much

[@MrMrBilko]

I`m no fan of classical music but every human can identify musical genius when they hear it.

[@jianfongyaw]

The original pipe organ version sounds like a procession of stars, while the orchestral version sounds like a majestic sunrise.

[@arsantiqua8741]

The original is the Tenor chorale.

[@jamiemoreton4705]

The 1731 original, the fourth movement of the BWV 140 cantata, is scored for tenor voices (in unison), first and second violins and viola (in unison), and bassoon + organ continuo. The pipe organ version, BWV 645, is Bach's arrangement of the orchestral score for organ. This is an arrangement by English composer Granville Bantock (1868-1946). It seems to be based largely on the original cantata version, except that Bantock assigns the tenor voice line to the French horns. Listening closely, it sounds like Bantock has assigned the original continuo line to the low strings and winds, and has realised Bach's figured bass in the high and middle winds and strings. Source - I am currently editing and revising an arrangement of this piece for SATB choir and piano. I admire what Bantock has done with this piece - his work is much less ham-handed and loud than mine.

[@cosmofoxgaming1268]

@@jamiemoreton4705 great comment. Thanks for the info. I’ve always loved this version. I also love the more ‘historically informed’ versions too though!

[@peggyburch9242]

This is my all-time favorite Bach piece!

[@mariopizzol107]

Bach leads the soul to touch the sky! A foot in paradise. You are the ladder ..... Thank you.

[@aminaswanson3427]

Perfection that brings tears to our eyes...Thank you, Bach, for your gifts to humanity! You must be in heaven as this sounds like heaven

[@bobdonovan3465]

you said it perfectly, Amina!

[@dst4307]

Das konnte nur Bach, zwei verschiedene Melodien in einem Lied. Wenn ich sterbe und ich komme im Himmel, das erste was ich aufsuche ist J.S Bach

[@paulbleckner9854]

Sehr guter Vorsatz ! 😎

[@professorpsoop]

Sheer bliss. Bach is my 'desert island' composer

[@granluce7943]

My God... Stunning.

[@TerribleGamesTV2]

I'm playing this song with my friends as a quintet at our district's Solo Ensemble. This song is amazing.

[@TerribleGamesTV2]

***** It's super fun when you get really into it. Have fun!!!

[@freemanv4056]

Bach is beautiful.

[@richardcherry2262]

Absolutely breathtaking performance of one of Bach's most beautiful masterpieces!

[@Harpreetbsingh2001]

Amazing composition !! Sheer Genius ..

[@davidbrown8763]

Absolutely exquisite - miraculous. I absolutely love this music and this interpretation.

[@Bobby_OWilliams]

Thank you for posting this. Beautiful. Used to rock my granddaughter to sleep with this. As she got a little older and bigger she'd stop what she was doing tp listen and often drift into a nap. It was special music, just between her and I and forever touches me sweet memories of her.

[@tonyh9970]

I know this is an older post but it's a really beautiful memory you have and I'm glad I got to see it. I look forward to similar experiences when my kids are old enough to give me grandkids. I just wanted you to know that. Take care.

[@thantenn6031]

This is my absolute favorite Bach piece! 😍

[@TristanMA]

A famous Bach piece for the Advent portion of Christmas Art Music History.

[@pedrozaragoza2253]

Sublime. Gloria in Excelsis Deo!

[@donefinished]

Yes, hallelujah. Glory to God in the Highest!!! 😭🙏🙌 There will be music like this in heaven!

[@AmeerBrontoari]

Beautiful beyond words.

[@musicsavage]

This piece is brilliant in any version.

[@carterdreves6019]

Perhaps the finest performance of this classic I have ever heard. c. flutist, nj somerset symphony

[@VeronicaBryan-j6v]

Utterly Divine.

[@Kinjutsuu]

But the level of genious mind required to compose this could only be the one master, great maestro Bach.

[@zalbrill5312]

My absolute favorite among Bach's cantatas. Sublime.

[@boyaoli343]

OMG this is so beautiful. I even cant control myself. I'm crying....

[@michaelbock19641]

Boyao LI , have a Look to : Bach-Cantata BWV 140 - Peter Schreier- Sleepers wake, I think it is even better!😀

[@boyaoli343]

YES! I love the slower version.

[@michaelbock19641]

Another wonderful Cantat from Bach, and true story when he first allowed a woman to sing in church, can be found at this link: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/b5bTaqqFg9CIaMU

[@michaelbock19641]

Boyao LI kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqK9dmhqnpKgq6c

[@fahdsbahi9888]

me too

[@yourtravelswithbruce]

LOVE this piece of music

[@Claudiacasquinha]

Que Deus seja louvado pelos dons maravilhosos que concede à humanidade! Não é por acaso que a Música é a Primeira das Sete Artes: no Céu os Coros dos Anjos cantam sem cessar: Glória a Deus!!!! 🥰😇🎶😍

[@rselwyn1000]

Your comment gives glory to the one who gifted these talented people to play and Bach to base this Cantata on the wise and foolish virgins in Matthew 25

[@algoy001]

Wake up calls us the voice :-) I love this piece of music.

[@LuizEduardoGaspar-f7i]

The most beautiful music theme ever. Glory of mankind.

[@DaveTAM]

Beautiful rendition.

[@charlotter7990]

I have so much chills that I'm freezing. This is pure heaven... I want this to be played, this version, with violin, if I ever get married.

[@dst4307]

Schön. Amen

[@pimikiaji]

What a beautiful music! I was moved. 優しさとあたたかさに包まれるような素敵な曲です。

[@jayejaye33]

i have been searching for this song forever! back in high school we played this song and it really opened my eyes to seeing the beauty in music and how much art is actually in music! Bach is the man!!!

[@chriskennard5920]

I absolutely love this piece of music, it is my favourite of all time by, of the course, the BEST of all time, J.S. himself. And best of all, the string version...is sumptuous. Well done all of you!

[@peggyburch9242]

My favorite Bach!

[@karinberryman2009]

Bravo!

[@_poozer_3470]

How fitting it should be that this piece is known as "Sleeper's Wake" for it summons a profound awakening within oneself. Do you hear the fervor? It calls forth the soul, relieving it of cobwebs and stagnation. Rejoice! If you have but ears, your spirit does fly today.

[@afemabenedictdeogratius139]

Beautiful presentation good tempo. Bravo!!

[@alexchu599]

I need to play this in my orchestra for trumpet ngl it sounds and amazing but a bit hard to play for me, it is enjoyable]

[@chriscoates5427]

Too many interpretations of Bach just plod along and are too slow. This is spot on. Nice and light and floating!

[@rebeccawhalen7892]

The King of Mashups!!!! Absolute genius!!!

[@vw0602]

Amazing piece!

[@yutubero]

Neat. Always a pleasure hearing this orchestra

[@CARMENbored]

just beautiful. Nothing else is to say. Thnx for uploading it.

[@Abmarp]

Have Mercy!!!!! Wonderful! Thank You Jesus!

[@mbdev95]

What's cool about Bach is that he already wrote a Romantic piece of music, even before Romantic era started :D

[@alexc302]

This is far from what Romanticism is...

[@mbdev95]

Alex C I think I poorly worded my statement. Sorry. What I really mean is Bach already wrote music that is far different from any other composers in Baroque era.

[@alexc302]

Now that I agree with.

[@jacobrivers19]

Alex C actually this particular arrangement of sleepers awake reminds me a bit of Mahler

[@CanberkDuman]

***** Reminds me Mahler and Holst too. Probably because of his Planets suite, Jupiter's E flat choral part.

[@ama07]

Beautiful! OMGosh beautiful.

[@KCQUANN]

thank you for sharing

[@高元介-d8k]

Very Amazing ！

[@peacefuljeffrey]

Sooooo incredibly beautiful. = )

[@Gonche64]

wonderful

[@jimsonnenberg1221]

Something abt all these musicians in one place, the setting and the resonance of the concert hall is just thrilling to me.

[@aeroboy83]

marvelous, brilliant, stunning, gorgeous and it takes me away!!!!!!!

[@jys8569]

this is beautiful...

[@eustaciascrubb1676]

Beautiful 👏 🙌 👏 🙌 👏 🙌 ❤❤❤❤❤

[@jennyrabbit6413]

marvelous ❤❤❤

[@MrNICOYA2009]

Juan Sebastian si sabía crear buenas rolas, Dios lo tenga en su gloria.

[@Seoulite2]

It is very lovely sound. Also I am missing London. Once I visited Royal Albert Hall in 2007 bbc proms....It is becoming long time ago....

[@winstonedwards5758]

Soothing music 🎶 🎵

[@renatewober7246]

My favorite is Bach and the Royal Orchester

[@pdunderhill]

I listen to Bach and wonder what his concept would have been like with a contemporary Band, bit sharp maybe in comparison but tighter as an ensemble. Happy Easter.

[@Tang0Fox1]

Nice. Thanks for uploading this video.

[@orlandochino4753]

Magnífico

[@nnachooooo]

I'm 14 and our full orchestra's playiing this song.. hope we sound like this! ._.;;

[@JimMaslowski620]

Glorious

[@adriepram]

This is sooo soothing I actually fall asleep instead when hearing this hahaha

[@Splattercatgaming]

Apparently half the audience had whooping cough.

[@doggoman50]

They always seem to at concerts.

[@TheMarcHicks]

I agree. It's so frustrating. You don't need to cough, then the moment you know you can't, you get an annoying tickle in your throat. It's like when you have gloves on your hands & can't scratch your head ;).

[@SpaghettiToaster]

@amr hima People just can't control themselves. I've been to several concerts with a cold or bronchitis and even then I could hold it for a few hours.

[@josephcrisp8953]

Corona

[@teatrolites3446]

Lol, I was at a Chicago symphony orchestra concert like a year and a half ago, and they were playing the planets, and there was a poor highschool student on a trip who could not stop coughing during the piece, I felt bad for him

[@daveybernard1056]

nice, thanks

[@shirmy723]

polyphony at its very best!

[@Costa998]

Our heritage

[@Johnadams20760]

bach didn't know it, but he wrote the tune for Pale shade of winter way in advance

[@TheMarcHicks]

You're thinking of Air on a G String....not this piece.

[@jobhartgers1854]

Brava!!

[@DavidJordan-l4p]

Was this arranged by a Romanticist? (Like Gounod's Ave Maria.')

[@walshamite]

In some concert halls of Europe, cough sweets are handed to the audience members as they arrive. Would this not be a useful prophylactic at the Proms?

[@cooldebt]

Also to those attending Keith Jarrett concerts!

[@SpaghettiToaster]

@@cooldebt All concerts really.

[@avislibreapp9636]

It's a dream

[@javadkhakbaz8016]

So majestic. Too bad the video does not give the rightful share to the wind section. The role of the wind section is huge. And the video just shows one player.

[@debbiehendriks9674]

Zo mooi! Kippenvel, iedere keer weer.

[@annakimborahpa]

Man, I'm waiting for Rick Wakeman to do a youtube commentary on Bach's Sleeper's Wake.

[@feroe6740]

Cette musique aurait existé même si Bach ne l'avait pas composée. Comme un souffle de la nature. Une évidence.

[@JeanChristopheBallarini]

There should be at least two french horns to do the men's voice it would make it more vibrant and shiny, the strings are a pleasure though and numerous. Very passionate!

[@iD3LTA220]

@angey3120 I'm not familiar with toccata and fugue but Messiah is slow I believe. I'm not in an orchestra anymore so idk. No time for it in high school ;P

[@alexgordon7637]

Wachet auf indeed.

[@MaxLifter1000]

9th symphony eh? I'm sure Beethoven was well aware of Bach's use of counter melody.

[@donefinished]

Powerful technique.

[@timothyj1966]

duh - that's what I just posted - was talking about the orchestration the horns, woodwinds, arrangement more of the Romantic Era than Baroque.

[@1040吳廣鴻]

Good

[@williamainsworth3777]

Counterpoint at its very best

[@angey3120]

we had to do this song really slow!!!! well in middle school at least

[@angey3120]

@iD3LTA220 we had to also do Messiah by handel

[@johnnydavis5896]

No one in music better discusses the relationship between God and man than Bach.

[@klaus442]

im 12 years old i I liek music like dis o.O

[@jackyt22]

You're 25 now???