J.S. Bach / Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56 (Herreweghe)

[@professionalmusician1172]

This is probably my favourite recording of a very beloved composition. Herreweghe's reading finds a beautiful balance of sumptuousness and transparence which seems hard to achieve: Most newer interpretations on period instruments are rather dry and unsensuous, while the older and more traditional ones tend to be thick and mushy. I find Peter Kooy/Kooij's rendition equally ideal: A beautifully rich and rounded bass-baritone voice (which at the time of the recording had an almost belcantesque quality), able to sing dense legato lines - unlike the note-by-note-spelling of many singers specialized in early music -, but also impeccably neat and clean. I especially like his perfect controll of vibrato and his beautiful straight notes: never tense, but perfectly relaxed and 'on the breath'. Thank you for posting this!

[@schieteensklop]

Bach bringt Ruhe und Friede.

[@rayff7740]

Essa cantata é algo tão pacifico e calmo excelente Js Bach

[@willybaumann2149]

1 00:00 Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen (Arie, Bass) 2 06:54 Mein Wandel auf der Welt (Rezitativ, Bass) 3 08:47 Endlich, endlich wird mein Joch (Arie, Bass) 4 15:31 Ich stehe fertig und bereit (Rezitativ und Arioso, Bass) 5 16:56 Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder (Choral)

[@jsnauwaert]

Opening area proves - again - that nobody can match Bach's tremendous genious and expressive, emotional power, combined with flawless intellectual capacities.

[@odettefrancois6566]

Bach es el padre de la música, sus obras sublimes llegan al alma, saludos desde Chile, 🎼🎶❤

[@redbrian3655]

A favorite Cantata matched with a favorite painting!--- well done and well thought-out. BRIAN

[@smartalek180]

A gorgeous performance of a superlative work -- and one that I hadn't heard before being introduced to it (here at YoutBue, yay) by its use as an intro theme on what looks like a teevee broadcast of a series of Bach Cantatas. Thank you so much for promoting it here -- and especially for doing so in true hifi bitrates! And appreciation, too, for mating it with the apt Cole painting.

[@gerardbegni2806]

THis is one of the most known cantatas of JS Bach, under the inspired baton of Herreweghe. This record is a gem.

[@tšanchezt]

Bach and Hereweghe, the perfection

[@MrPaevo]

I would rather have an incomplete set of Bach cantatas by Herreweghe than any of the complete sets available.

[@claudiozuniga913]

Yes I agreed 100% The voice the instruments just is what I want to hear the REAL BACH. THANK YOU.

[@flemmingranch8777]

"Jeg vil gerne bære dit kors" det passer jo fint her i Påsken med dens sørgelige historie, og musikken passer fint til......

[@real1213]

Sick shit Yo! Bach's ma nigga!

[@nightoil6567]

For anyone who doesn't speak German: 00:01 Aria - Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen I will gladly carry the Cross, it comes from God's dear hand, and leads me, after my troubles, to God, in the promised land. There at last I will lay my sorrow in the grave, there my Savior himself will wipe away my tears. -- 06:56 Recitative - Mein Wandel auf der Welt My pilgrimage in the world is like a sea voyage: trouble, suffering, and anguish are the waves that cover me and to death itself daily terrify me; my anchor however, which holds me firm, is mercy, with which my God often appeases me. He calls thus to me: I am with you, I will not forsake you or abandon you! And when the raging torrents are come to an end, then I will step off the ship into my city, which is the kingdom of heaven, where with the righteous I will emerge out of many troubles. -- 08:48 Da capo aria - Endlich, endlich wird mein Joch Finally, finally my yoke must fall away from me. Then will I fight with the Lord's strength, then I will have an eagle's power, then I will journey from this earth and run without becoming fatigued. O let it happen today! Finally, finally my yoke must fall away from me. -- 15:33 Recitative, Arioso - Ich stehe fertig und bereit I stand ready and prepared to receive the inheritance of my divinity with desire and longing from Jesus' hands. How good would it be for me, if I could see the port of rest. There at last I will lay my sorrow in the grave, there my Savior himself will wipe away my tears. -- 16:59 Chorale - Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder Come, O death, brother of sleep, come and lead me away; release the rudder of my little ship, bring me to the secure harbor! He may shun you who will, you can delight me much more; for through you I will come to my loveliest little Jesus. Translation from www.emmanuelmusic.org/bach-translations/bwv-56

[@TheWiscats]

Beautifully done, but one expects that from Herreweghe. Fine bass voice. Is that Marcel Ponseele on the oboe da caccia?

[@MitchBoucherComposer]

It's most likely him, yes.

[@filipadamzielinski1812]

6:55

[@armandogonella2770]

I M M E N S O B A C H

[@andrewmargrave7518]

The baritone is quite good. This recording and the Ton Koopman recording both take the cantata a half-step down. By contrast, the Harrell, Prey, Fischer-Dieskau, and Souzay recordings are all at or very near standard pitch. Since the solo writing is mainstream baritone, not at all for a bass, a baritone can do this cantata a half-step lower without critical loss of projection and downrange resonance.

[@MitchBoucherComposer]

The recording isn't taken a half-step down; they are using period instruments. In the Baroque era, all instruments were turned down a half-step (A=415). The work is in g minor, which sounds like our modern F# minor.

[@nawfalsalman3074]

The singer is Peter Kooy, he is bass not baritone.

[@jsnauwaert]

Oops! Geious -> genius

[@enzodibujos1091]

La wea bacan wn.