Bach - Mass in B minor (Proms 2012)

[@gmmgmmg]

Someone once said "Bach was better at music than anyone else has ever been at anything." I think it sums up pretty well how unbelievable Bach's genius is.

[@geovaughan8261]

I'd almost agree, except Bruce Lee existed. The only thing Bach could do to him is give him a killer soundtrack to beat the crap out of him by.

[@2357-l9p]

@@geovaughan8261 I resonate so much with these two comments. Personally a fan of both.

[@Ludwig1625]

I don't think you're right. Not when you have the likes of Mozart and Beethoven in there. Bach would have to be exponentially better than both combined, which is simply not at all true.

[@pseunition6038]

@@Ludwig1625 Bach wouldn't have to be EXPONENTIALLY better than both combined, since the statement is "Bach was better at music than anyone else has ever been at anything." and not "Bach was exponentially better at music than multiple people combined". Beethoven was a musical revolutionary, in a sense, which means he saw what music could become, but that doesn't literally make him the greatest COMPOSER ever. A composer is someone who writes music. The skill and valor of the rank "composer" by itself is only based on how well you can write music within the confines of MUSIC. Beethoven rigorously tried to defy the norms, as can be seen in his messy manuscripts, which makes him someone with a vision, which does not affect his rank as a composer at all, in my opinion. I believe there must be a better term for describing Beethoven...

[@marcossidoruk8033]

I always thougth that. who said it?

[@flavioalmeida1784]

Composer Ari Kast wrote about Bach, in his book: "If humanity ever needs an ambassador to make us look good, I'll gratefully point to him as evidence that we did something useful with our time here"

[@johannschiestl2772]

Wie WAHR !

[@GyromiteROB]

Bach is included in the Voyager Golden Record. He is indeed the musical ambassador of humanity.

[@vatansalvery]

If he knew about the new level that the humans have come to, he wouldn’t accept to be an ambassador, I believe.

[@shnimmuc]

One man`s opinion.

[@rampgamercracka4258]

@@vatansalvery who do you think he would nominate?

[@DEETALEH]

Although I'm not a Christian, Bach's masses often bring tears to my eyes. It is THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MUSIC!!!

[@marcalinewampire2102]

Same, I'm like literally almost crying.

[@alexvannes]

Maybe we all believe more in the God of the Bible than we realize or want to know...

[@value34]

@@alexvannes Or maybe bach was just a really great composer

[@roee6939]

@@alexvannes no.

[@richardfurness7556]

@@alexvannes It's more like a suspension of disbelief, you accept the theology for the sake of appreciating the art. Same thing happens to me when I watch a vampire movie.

[@bobpetras]

Our daughter died at the young age of 20 - 11 years ago. Throughout her short life I introduced her to the music of J.S. Bach. She loved it and admired the composer. She has now joined that greater multitude along with J.S. Bach whose confidence was in the Word made flesh. I've always have this vision that in the life to come she will say to me, "Hi Dad, I've met Mr. Bach, we should go together and meet him. He is such a wonderful man". He is and we look forward to meeting him in the future.

[@beuming1]

You will meet him. Deeply felt emotions and wishes are very powerful and shall be fullfilled. No doubt, there is no death.

[@robertferrieux9179]

Very moving. My thoughts are with you. May Bach give you courage and solace.

[@craigburkhart1616]

Bob Petras reading this while listening to this music moved me to tears. God bless you and your family

[@MrThomas1224]

Thank you, Bob. May the peace Christ gives continue to hold you and your family.

[@shopshop144]

What a concept, meeting Bach! I feel like writing a short story and I'm not a writer. Somehow, no matter what the age, I believe Bach's genesis would find a voice. Thanks be to God.

[@karl7108]

I must tell You a story. Late December 1980. I knew a group of young man (conscripts), all coming from remote mountain villages with archaic dialect and archaic, almost tribal social structure. None of them probably ever had opportunity to hear of Bach, lest ever to hear some of his musical pieces. They always set in their corner in the canteen, talking in their dialect, in their own world. That evening someone put a tape with Bach’s music. These rural, hardly literate guys stopped talking. Sat motionless and listened. Bach my friends.

[@karl7108]

Spudpail, Matt, thanks for a +

[@karl7108]

***** In former Yugoslavia.

[@MadanaBhatKhandige]

Bach was the voice of God, speaking to us in human form!

[@aagje54]

This is what real good music can do. Thank you for telling.

[@karl7108]

Thank You Harm. Best regards.

[@GamingRevenant]

Don't understand why the description of the video is truncuated, but here is the full list: I. Kyrie and Gloria ("Missa") 0:00:07 Kyrie eleison 0:10:33 Christe eleison 0:15:20 Kyrie eleison 0:19:06 Gloria in excelsis 0:20:49 Et in terra pax 0:25:35 Laudamus te 0:29:40 Gratias agimus tibi 0:33:02 Domine Deus 0:38:31 Qui tollis peccata mundi 0:41:33 Qui sedes ad dextram Patris 0:45:46 Quoniam tu solus sanctus 0:50:09 Cum Sancto Spiritu II. Credo ("Symbolum Nicenum") 0:53:48 Credo in unum Deum 0:55:40 Patrem omnipotentem 0:57:44 Et in unum Dominum 1:02:19 Et incarnatus est 1:05:37 Crucifixus 1:09:01 Et resurrexit 1:13:02 Et in Spiritum Sanctum 1:18:07 Confiteor 1:22:06 Et expecto III. Sanctus 1:25:15 Sanctus IV. Agnus Dei ("Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei and Dona Nobis Pacem") 1:30:38 Osanna in excelsis 1:33:21 Benedictus 1:37:51 Osanna (repetatur) 1:40:42 Agnus Dei 1:46:02 Dona nobis pacem

[@maxju3270]

thank you my dear

[@Matt-hn8jv]

Very usefull , thank you!

[@garylenard5402]

GamingReview

[@garylenard5402]

GamingReviews m

[@HelenaWilliams8696]

Many thanks for your kind generosity in sharing the complete program composition.

[@aclark903]

Bach is getting a lot of praise in the comments, but I think the choir & musicians deserve some praise too. God bless you guys!

[@MICKEYISLOWD]

Smh...they get paid don't they..? jk:)

[@johnnydavis5896]

The only way to play Bach is with excellence.

[@jurjenvanderhoek316]

@@MICKEYISLOWD What a nonsensical remark. Does the fact that they are paid make them less worthy of praise?

[@giussepemusicgaudenzi]

Without bach, none concert here. So yes bach have all the credits lol

[@humusiclab8974]

@@giussepemusicgaudenzi without musicians to perform the music, it's just text on a page. Performers also deserve praise for artfully recreating and interpreting the genius composer. Teachers need students as much as students need teachers. Composers and players need each other to be successful. Bach's music never would have gained popularity if there were only terrible performances and recordings of it.

[@walkispacheco88]

How can something like this come out of one person is beyond me.

[@danal81]

lol..there are those super humans in every field

[@hafizullahsufi]

Perhaps Bach didn't "create" it, but just wrote down what was transmitted to him...

[@danal81]

That is what it sounds like but the impression is there simply because it is so good

[@RonnyDoplo]

+Tom Berryhill exactly.

[@starnafin]

Who he

[@librenow1]

I grew up in Brooklyn, NY with very limited exposure to classical music. I must have been about 11 years old when I discovered my Fathers collection of 78-speed records, that I never heard him play. Out of curiosity I puy one record on the record player. I became emotionally enthralled. I didn't know who the composer was but it turned out to be JS Bach. I can't remember this particular piece but I started playing whatever records my dad had of bach. I am now seventy my love of Bach's music has not waned. If I were cloistered and had to choose only one piece of music that I was confined to listen to it would be The Bach Mass In B minor.

[@kecenqian7169]

If I was dying I would go out to this!!!

[@marije179]

I almost cried reading this, it's great that your love for classical music has been there for so long :) I'm 18 and I hope that when I am 80 it will still be the same if not more

[@orlandopezoascharpe3479]

...as far as catholic church has succumbed to discredibility and certainly devastated by its own atrocities ,when I listen to this I BELIEVE once more and I realize a supernatural force touched Johann Sebastian to make evident HIS existence through the magnificence of these sounds ….

[@Arisbe_obasmoqweef]

I felt that. What an amazing discovery.

[@jimhill4725]

Me too.

[@dieterseattle]

I've heard it ten thousand times. Never gets tiring. Infinitely powerful beyond words. All hail the great Bach.

[@lucianoramos8671]

I make echo of your words.

[@MrDemartone]

I agree

[@lucianoramos8671]

Charles Wyliesears I'd rather say for over 20 years

[@dejavu_4546]

i can not agree more!!!! power of soul

[@goscott444]

*_ALL, HONOR, PRAISE, PEACE, POWER, HOLY MIGHT, LOVE, BLESSING, GRACE AND GLORY TO OUR MOST PERFECT HOLY HIGH GOD JEHOVAH AND HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON YESHUA HA-MASHIACH, JN_**_3:16_**_-19 AMEN!_*

[@rh7189]

The irony is that the advent of KZbin has allowed Bach to be truly accessible to the masses

[@DannyEastVillage]

***** yeh. what cost?

[@digitalmaestrorich]

Or masses truly accessible to the masses?

[@AVIDEOGAL]

ONE OF THE MOST AWESOME THINGS ABOUT YOU TUBE, WHAT YOU SAID, SUCH A GREAT GIFT OF ALL MUSIC, IS THIS TUBE OF YOU......

[@1androo2]

Yeah!! At what cost?!?!

[@beuming1]

Tacos Buenos nevertheless...

[@rattywoof5259]

The choir I'm a member of will be singing this in December - can hardly wait!

[@dst0212]

Wow, Respekt

[@jiyoungpark9736]

Even the tuning at 1:25:00 sounds glorious. I love Bach's music. Praise God!

[@prevencaoderiscos8145]

Having heard the Kyrie, you can go home. It´s a cathedral of sound itself. A monument. Instead, there´s a whole torrential waterfall of music behind. Blessed who could sing it, it is a unique experience.

[@davidisher9816]

Prevenção de Riscos ń

[@inesdeerausquin5658]

I am super excited to sing it in 2 weeks! Can't wait.

[@gerberjason6947]

I am working on it now. Will perform the whole thing in 2025. Every practice session is a divine experience. By the way, I have done choirs for 40 years and this is possibly the hardest thing I have ever done. It is said that Bach wrote the vocal parts as though they were instruments. Definitely feels that way!

[@aartidevi9712]

this piece of music saved my life a long time ago. forever grateful to its magic.

[@wejmluva]

How?

[@DannyEastVillage]

It provided me a place of escape, and as I much later realized, nourishment through a horrible adolescence.

[@danielboelnielsen4605]

I can only say the words that Bach also finished every piece with : "Soli Deo Gloria - For the Glory of God Alone."!

[@donnamarchionni6239]

I sang this 47 years ago & it's still the most endlessly beautiful piece of music I know. There is always something new to discover in this. I've sung most of the choral repertoire and agree that Faure's and Mozart's Requiem are wonderful, as are Händel's Messiah & Mendelsson's Elijah, but nothing reaches inside me as does this piece. Today, for the first time in 14 months, I was allowed to see my husband without glass between us, to touch him and kiss him. Later, I realized I'd been singing Gratias agimus tibi all day long.

[@BirdogEd]

Even several hundred years after JS Bach wrote this wonderful piece, we are still lifting up the blessed Savior whose praise this concert exalts! In Christ Alone.

[@AloysiusEmanuel-.-]

Johann Sebastian Bach, the greatest composer of all time!

[@aliosmanturkylmaz1807]

After Mozart and Beethoven

[@AloysiusEmanuel-.-]

Only if they are in your dreams, my friend, but, anyway, it is your opinion, by the way, are you a Musician too?

[@aliosmanturkylmaz1807]

Aloysius Emanuel I am a flautist (amateur). Bach's suite no 2 is my favorite. I agree with your opinion about Bach. Yet I prefer Mozart Bethoven and Mahler.

[@AloysiusEmanuel-.-]

It's all right! How we know opinions about what we enjoy are important to ourselves. I have been trained in classical guitar for twenty-six years and sometimes I compose; I've been listening to Art Music since I was a kid and I've heard a few hundred composers. I also like Beethoven, being my second in preference, remembering that, in addition to Classicism, he was also considered the first Romantic. From Mozart I quite like, but my favorite composer of the Classical Period is Franz Joseph Haydn. What matters, above all is good Music! The flute is a wonderful instrument, keep practicing it!

[@idotamari5527]

Desole ! C'est impossible de citer les nom de Bethoven ,Maler etc. A cote les noms de JSBach, Hendel, Pergolesi, Corelli !

[@stevebordelon5361]

H. L. Mencken was a life-long agnostic but each year he would drive from Baltimore to Pennsylvania to hear a performance of this piece. He called it “one of the greatest masterpieces of all time.”

[@DannyEastVillage]

I've read his writing about going to the Bethlehem (PA) Bach Festival.

[@keplergso8369]

I think the Bach Mass in B minor is the masterpiece of the masterpieces. I LOVE many composers, but I could stay exclusively with Bach for the rest of my life, no problem ! The last minute of my life, if possible I should like to hear a Bach's piece.

[@mhwharp]

I agree and then I hear a piece like Brahms' The German Requiem and off I go again.

[@Arisbe_obasmoqweef]

Requiem Mass in D Minor for me. Or Adagio for Strings. But Bach is fantastic.

[@Arisbe_obasmoqweef]

@@bach-werke-verzeichnis5776 I only like the first 30 minutes, what he actually composed.

[@Artariastein]

Bach, der Komponist Gottes..., wie HILARIO ECKE es vor einer Woche hier kommentiert hat, besser kann man es nicht sagen! Die Musik von Johann Sebastian Bach, insbesondere die h-Moll Messe, hat bis heute eine wunderbare Wirkung auf die Menschen auf der ganzen Welt!

[@fibbonachi1]

+Artariastein Strenger satz nicht sehr schlagen. Don Giovanni, Lord of Hosts unterweisse wunderbare Wirkung sprache par Zarathustra! Margraf del Helsinki, Siri Sirichiu

[@bernhardmeier-limberg5053]

Das bedeutenste und schönste Musikstück, was je ein Mensch komponiert hat. Wir danken Gott! Großartig interpretiert!Bravo!

[@youngminkwon616]

29:40 The ‘Gratias agimus tibi’ part alone is just, a legend, I cannot even describe

[@captainarrg]

That is probably THE most chill conductor I have ever seen in my life! At the cut off of this fantastically performed piece, he just goes, 'yup, we did something. Ok, stand please.' This is one of my favourite pieces to both sing and listen to, and this is by far my favourite recorded version. Love it!

[@smokeyvolvo]

Yepp, Harry Bicket , that's how he rolls.

[@moeboe6293]

I. Kyrie and Gloria ("Missa") 0:00:07 Kyrie eleison 0:10:33 Christe eleison 0:15:20 Kyrie eleison 0:19:06 Gloria in excelsis 0:20:49 Et in terra pax 0:25:35 Laudamus te 0:29:40 Gratias agimus tibi 0:33:02 Domine Deus 0:38:31 Qui tollis peccata mundi 0:41:33 Qui sedes ad dextram Patris 0:45:46 Quoniam tu solus sanctus 0:50:09 Cum Sancto Spiritu II. Credo ("Symbolum Nicenum") 0:53:48 Credo in unum Deum 0:55:40 Patrem omnipotentem 0:57:44 Et in unum Dominum 1:02:19 Et incarnatus est 1:05:37 Crucifixus 1:09:01 Et resurrexit 1:13:02 Et in Spiritum Sanctum 1:18:07 Confiteor 1:22:06 Et expecto III. Sanctus 1:25:15 Sanctus IV. Agnus Dei ("Osanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei and Dona Nobis Pacem") 1:30:38 Osanna in excelsis 1:33:21 Benedictus 1:37:51 Osanna (repetatur) 1:40:42 Agnus Dei 1:46:02 Dona nobis pacem

[@janmapping6531]

Moeboe thanks!

[@inesdeerausquin5658]

The Osanna and Benedictus are attached to the Sanctus; the Agnus Dei is a separate entity.

[@lydiaustimenko8821]

Спасибо большое!!

[@scientificjokes1783]

thanks!

[@johnsedgewick9433]

The late Dr.Elmer Eisler said at one of our TMC rehearsals...."All the chords in 20th jazz music can be found in this piece"

[@Musicienne-DAB1995]

Absolutely! Bach laid down the most contemporary chord progressions hundreds of years before Duke Ellington was born.

[@davidbrown8763]

He is often referred to as the father of modern, city Jazz.

[@hunterjessup]

A lot of people say he was ahead of his time but I think we're lucky to look back on how musically progressive he was

[@jordimartinez6296]

@@hunterjessup The irony is that he was considered old-fashioned at his time, specially his last years

[@hellomate639]

Bach wrote a piece that uses all 12 tones in two measures. Deal with it, Schoenberg.

[@BastarB]

This is the best piece of music ever created by any human soul!

[@quabledistocficklepo3597]

Well, I've never been able to force myself to listen to the whole thing, but I'm going to make another try in the next few days. However, at this time I can only say that I've always found it to be supremely BORING, almost painfully so. Maybe you have to be religious to get something out of it. You know, like self-flagellation.

[@truthandlife3794]

I completely agree. Better than matthew passion and john passion in my opinion. I think that's mainly due to the dry nature of recitative though

[@lanfordvideos]

This piece can truly be said to emblemize the height and depth of human achievement in the field of music. Understandably, the senseless, slipshod, superficial music of today has a way of obliterating the appreciation that moderns have for the true classics. But listening to works like this (i.e. think Bach's St. Matthew and St. John Passion, Mendelsohn's Elijah Oratorio, Handel's Messiah, Mozart's requiem, etc.) over and over again will soon cure you of this acute illness that is destroying the aesthetic tastes of our entire generation. You will finally be able to experience the dimensions of true beauty, and the deeper meaning of life that accompanies their realization.

[@JimMaslowski]

Thank goodness with today's technology we are able to listen to it at the ease of our fingertips at home. Imagine, when originally performed only a slight few were able to appreciate the wonders of Bach and those truly gifted to create such masterworks of art. We are privileged! and those who choose to not appreciate these gifts, that is their choice.

[@awferrari1]

concert igreja

[@EN-yc4fw]

I can not imagine how being part of this all these wonderful men and women must be happy. I would've been.

[@guitusreflectum5426]

Grands compositeurs , musiciens , choeurs , élèvent leurs voix à la gloire de Jésus-Christ ,quelle beauté.

[@davelfl]

Bien dit, mon ami

[@valentincolasMangeon]

Content de croiser des français par ici :-)

[@rogerthompson5781]

This music will live forever! Heavenly, glorious and peaceful especially with International peace day on 21 Sept. What the world needs now is love and PEACE!!!!- music can contribute to it- this kind of music

[@andrewstasiw1827]

I have studied this entire piece of music - You can grab 16 measures anywhere in it and not find better from any other composer. BACH IS THE GOAT OF COMPOSERS (Greatest of all time)!!!

Greatest composition by the perhaps greatest composer and musician of history... the ending fugue in the Dona Nobis Pacem movement us so powerful, like a sun beyond the horizon at dawn

[@jimhill4725]

I have no idea how many times I have listened to this, but it's still not enough.

[@susanstone2364]

I read some of the less than enthusiastic responses to this piece. Bach wrote the Kyrie and Gloria to demonstrate his composing skills in pursuit of a job he never got. At the end of his life, he composed, compiled from earlier music, and completed the mass, paying to have the mass bound. I highly recommend singing this piece, because I felt the piece revealed more to me as a singer. One of the highlights is singing "Crucifixus" ending almost in silence and then blasting into the "Et Resurrexit" Also the "Cum Sancto Spirita" at the end of Part one. It may not be to everyone's taste, but it was a monumental undertaking by one of the great composers. To quote MIchael Torkel "Why would you ever need a Psychiatrist, when you could just listen to Bach's B-minor Mass. FranStone

[@alexxela8956]

I would love to sing this masterpiece live one, for now, I want to learn some violin parts (e.g. 25th minute of this performance; that song, and 10th minute song). I mean this geniuses was a total freak! He has summarised a whole era and created a new one!! Best ever musician/composer/songwriter/organist we have ever known. Not one of the best, but the best, no doubt! The Mass in B Minor is the best composition ever written in the history of music. No doubt.

[@glenxaris]

I would love to have the ability to sing this piece. Music such as this gives me hope for humanity. If we can create something this beautiful, perhaps we can overcome ourselves and create such harmony in other areas of life. This is my hope; this is my prayer.

[@TaoCampina]

I agree that this transition from the "Crucifixus" to "Et Ressurexit" is a peak of the latin mass and Bachs composition of it is one of the best one.

[@Renee2004lr]

Bach wrote the Kyrie (by itself) last. Almost the entire rest of the Mass is comprised of individual sections taken from his over 200 Cantatas. Most of the Gloria is in a single Cantata. Oh, and the "Cum Sancto Spiritu" at the end of the Gloria was taken much too fast. I've never heard it that fast before and I've heard at least four or five different conductors for this work.

[@lucillebonds4332]

Susan Stone Nice to read you mention about psychiatrist. No psychiatrist before. Not sure of the date. We Roman Catholics never need if ut

[@harveyvivian3114]

Every now and then God anoints someone with inspiration that could only be described as a foretaste of the Divine realm. Bach was blessed with such an anointing....and earthen vessel filled with the wine of heaven. Our hearts are gladdened and we rejoice that God's Spirit has come amongst us.

[@hinata12324]

La mejor misa del mejor compositor. Sublime, majestuosa... adjetivos comunes presentes en toda la obra de Bach.

[@Beniamin_]

Oameni buni, cum puteţi pune dislike la asa interpretare cerească? E minunat! Foarte frumos! Mersi foarte mult!

[@aclark903]

I didn't, but better an actual mass than a mere concert, right?

[@idotamari5527]

Ido T Bach nous ouvre les portes du ciel par sa musique eternelle .

[@jamesdovenworth1212]

The music of the greatest composer of all time ..... always heal my soul

[@teresacesati4860]

Mozaart

[@teresacesati4860]

Ascoltidamo mozartt

[@smjohn1651]

Bach created a musical heaven on Earth with the Mass in B Minor. This is a charismatic performance by Harry Bicket & The English Concert.

[@karlberlin5422]

Eine unglaublich berauschende Musik. In allen Bereichen hervorragend . Es erinnert mich an grosse persönliche Momente. Gerne lasse ich mich in diese heilende , Lebens bejahende Atmosphäre gleiten.

[@alexxela8956]

Genius of geniuses! Gorgeous composer, so inspiring, beautiful, masterful, emotional, romantic, dynamic, and so many more adjectives that would never fit in the universe....

[@Gurci28]

One of the greatest works by one of classical music's greatest composers, the B Minor Mass is both majestic and mysterious. It is majestic in its complexity and sweep, as well as its use of various styles and quotations from music written throughout the composer's career. Source: Music of Baroque

[@polskapianist]

He ascended into the Heaves ,took captive captive and gave gifts to men.

[@danieldekok6949]

equal numbers of men and women singing. That's a refreshing change...Period instruments... and some of the most glorious music ever put to paper.

[@jamesobrien2845]

This is truly enjoyable. This music is eternal. Thank you kindly, Herr Bach.

[@Samgurney88]

Listening to Bach is listening to the mind of a man whose thoughts were pure music, and through which a great spirit speaks.

[@gotnotruck]

THE BEST PIECE OF MUSIC EVER COMPOSED BY THE GREATEST COMPOSER WHO EVER LIVED, OR SHALL LIVE.

[@alanchristensen5543]

Out of all the powerful music that Bach created, I think this Mass has to be the most beautiful, reflective, and the most technically perfect fusion of orchestra power, choral voices, and dynamic vocal soloists. When I am working in my yard, grading papers or pondering the major decisions of my life, I find this piece of music to be just the right fit for reflection.

[@franskhan8477]

The Mathew Passion is a close second. In my mothers country Holland even today in Holy Week there are literally hundreds of performances throughout the Land.What greater tribute to this Colossus of Wester Music.

[@patbiat929]

Bach, you weren't died, you live and you will live for ever. Because of the work from your compositions, I decide to sing these until my death in a choir I will find. Thanks for my first technical director Jean Paul Bosangela to give me an impetus to decipher and love that kind of music, I m proud of you and God bless J.C Bach and others masters of baroque music. 1:46:01

[@davidwallover5733]

No matter how many times I watch this performance (and it is quite a few times by now!), I never cease to amazed, both at the performance and at the work performed. Beauty, truly transcendent.

[@arphod]

This is regarded as among the greatest human musical achievements of all time.

[@cheydinal5401]

Literally the second the music stops for a moment: Everyone coughes

[@bjcantrell1990]

Yeah, that's proper concert etiquette

[@georgeovitt5443]

It's England. Phlegm is the National Liquid.

[@nakivad]

LOL

[@MoreChannelNoise]

Yes it tastes better than the beer.

[@tcaw8813]

Marko Fahrenheit I tell them to play freebird

[@AlexanderMcAllister]

1:46:02 "Dona nobis pacem" - "Grant us peace" I'm not religious, but for me the final movement to the Mass in B Minor is what I imagine ascending to heaven must feel like, and that glorious final cadence feels like floating through the pearly gates and coming face to face with God himself... All of his music is stunning, but the Mass in B Minor is arguably J.S. Bach's crowning achievement, I've heard it so many times and I still get tears in my eyes when I listen. No other music moves me as much as Bach's.

[@wilsonholandacavalcante181]

Have you heard the Matheus passion?

[@Musicienne-DAB1995]

Finally listened to the entire Mass in B Minor. And the fans are right! It is splendid and stupendous work! Bach's powers of invention, emotion, profound spiritual belief and sheer musical genius make for a fitting curtain call in one of the last works he ever wrote. Incredible to have experienced this.

[@shin-i-chikozima]

Bach’s greatness is immeasurable and unfathomable

[@МарияКрижевская-ж6о]

Это правда! Согласна!💯 Сверхчеловеческий гений!

[@shin-i-chikozima]

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[@bliptoadous]

I am transported, inspired, grateful, humbled, and thankful. God blessed Bach and us with this expression of divinity through the form of music. Sometimes giants of craft walk among us with a purpose supernal.

[@fifismith2377]

Dislikes for this???? Why,it's perfection who are these haters? This is God given music 💜

[@fifismith2377]

Jay Preis I guess so,thank you for responding & fortunate to be here at the same time as you :)

[@danieldekok6949]

put it in perspective, chum. We have 97% of the respondents in favor--and I would hazard a guess that the 3% wouldn't have liked it if Bach himself led from the keyboard.

[@itemeodem2616]

.....God is listenning....gut für die Seele und den Geist

[@Cylindricity]

WE SHALT BREAK THEM WITH A ROD OF IRON! -some bible dude

[@Cylindricity]

I'm an atheist btw, I know it's hard to tell it apart from the rest of your religious BS, but that was me making fun of your religion.

[@susanprattis5779]

It would be lovely to have the chorus, conductor, orchestra and soloists identified here too. This is a fantastic rendition from a professional chorus, orchestra and soloists. I have sung the choral lines 3 different times, in different vocal sections as my voice changed, and never get tired of seeing a performance listening to this music.

[@Olga6328]

0:00:07 Kyrie eleison 0:19:06 Gloria in excelsis 1:02:19 Et incarnatus est 1:05:37 Crucifixus 1:09:01 Et resurrexit 1:25:15 Sanctus 1:40:42 Agnus Dei

[@hopefullylost4012]

I do not believe in God. But Bach frees me from uneasy doubt if spirituality only exists accepting Christianity, any religion for that matter. Many times, feeling being forgiven, long forgotten to be done so, with tears, heals my wounds and nurtures me with purifying comfort. I see one man's effort to offer the best to his God so beautiful that I see divinity. And that is a very good feeling. Thank You Bach.

[@fredbaumann3360]

Those who are "Hopefully Lost" can be "Eventually Found," as I was. JSB's music was an important part of that for me... Like a loving Father, He awaits that glorious day...

[@MartySlabey]

This music is sung for and to Christ......

[@Tguchi26]

Your story sounds like a longing for the lord in a way. How you feel when you listen to this, it’s like God using music to comfort the soul. This just simply could not be written straight from that mans mind, he was faithful and blessed. God used him to speak to so many people and comfort them in a very special way, and I feel like they dismiss that

[@baafimainoo]

These musicians are so good, giving life to the music not every choir can pull this of flawlessly. ♥⚡And to the technicians that managed the sound, so perfect !

[@elielribeirodonascimento3709]

Any word could really describe the feelings which fill our souls when we hear these musics... To God all the glory!

[@cynthiaphillips131]

This was an exquisite performance! Our choral group has been rehearsing this piece since the beginning of the year and will be performing it twice on March 11 and 12th. It's such a challenging piece, but so rewarding to sing. I simply love Bach, and so does my husband, who says it's such a religious experience to not only listen but to sing this marvelous piece!

[@Triczterztricz]

+Cynthia Phillips I hope it went well :)

[@Evangelist1909]

I never tire of listening to this wonderful music. Each time, something new, something uplifting. I always smile as I see Carolyn enjoying listening to the music.

[@Amrei39]

wunderschön, DANKE für das eingestellte video - diese musik tröstet mich u. läßt einen im moment die kriegerische welt vergessen.

[@iloveamerica007]

Mass should be like this all the time

[@jonnsmusich]

He IS!

[@karlhess5321]

It was written by a Lutheran.

[@rastislavkrupka]

So wenig Bach römisch war und sein wollte, so sehr war er katholisch darin, dass Intensität der persönlichen Christusbeziehung und Eingebundensein in die communio sanctorum über Zeiten und Völker hinweg für ihn eine unauflösbare Einheit bildeten.

[@mq9demo]

@@karlhess5321 That Lutheran was a court composer for a Roman Catholic king.

[@lorian4366]

​@@karlhess5321 yet something induced him to write a Catholic mass

[@stephenoni2019]

Sir Roger Scruton brought me here. My love for this kind of music kept me. I can't believe I have never come across this, this is amazing!

[@janesmith5912]

This is wonderful. It is one my favourite pieces to sing. I almost know it off by heart. No one has ever written music as well as Bach.

[@HoeeSayy]

There’s a scene in the movie ‘V for Vendetta,’ where Stephen Fry’s character is asked about why he keeps a copy of the Quran in his home (the movie is set in London). His response is, “I don’t have to be Muslim to find its imaging beautiful or its poetry moving.” I see a lot of the comments here and can’t help but think of that scene. This titan of a piece reaches far beyond any single ideology.

[@incription]

Yeah, I'm an atheist but I find all the christian symbolism fascinating and the music beautiful.

[@gregdiprinzio9280]

People just want to ignore what it's about and re-purpose it for the suppression of truth and a tidbit for their captive souls. If it's reaching beyond it's to put its hand over the mouth of false religion, pointing to the Cross and heaven ward at the risen Lord Jesus Christ.

[@akrebs74]

Brilliance in music. An absolute angel sent from above was Bach.

[@pianoworld233]

Bach was a true master of music and tremendous many years ahead of other composer. Truly beautiful

[@solcarzemog5232]

What an EXCELLENT interpretation!! The choir's investment is amazing, tons of musicanship and emotion! BRAVO

[@mikumaiku]

Oh Gosh, I went in tears so quick within the first seconds of the whole video (0:09 - 0:41). I really got touched and overwhelmed when I listen to a heavenly-majestic good opera concert.

[@alancartwright2244]

Just a wonderful piece of music, by the Master - so delicate, yet powerful. Never tire of listening to or singing this!

[@billp4380]

As I age upon this earth, I find increasingly, that only two things make total sense, music and poetry,,,,,,,

[@rickd3196]

Hear hear!

[@gerry1202]

It's the best that we humans can do.

[@windstorm1000]

very true!

[@karlhess5321]

I think music & poetry are beyond making sense. When they are good, they point us to what is beyond sense & reason & proof, to God.

[@adriatorras8077]

MUSIC FILOSOPHY AND ART(PAINTING)

[@youngminkwon616]

I have no words. I can only say that I am overwhelmingly blessed to be able to, just, witness this piece of mastery.

[@jamesfox4376]

As Bach would say (in German)... To God be the glory! And may we all soak up and relish in the beauty of this incredible work and performance of it.

[@JakubLebioda]

The greatest piece ever composed on the earth!

[@ВладимирБелов-ф3ю]

Впервые услышал Херри Бикет. Нет слов ,потрясающе! И оркестр и солисты, и хор! Какие новые краски и образы! Просто великолепно! Не ожидал.

[@altovela]

Yo descubrí a Bach..... con esta Misa..... y desde entonces mi visión de la música cambio para siempre !.......esta obra es genial desde la primera a la ultima nota.... y está interpretación en particular es fabulosa..... Bach...... Bach.... Bach.... por los siglos de los siglos !!!!

[@vKarl71]

I wonder what Bach would have thought to hear such a huge orchestra & chorus perform his masterpiece. I'm glad to have the option to hear it performed big or small.

[@keithhulks7049]

I am just starting on a voyage of discovery. In the past I only knew Bach through his keyboard and orchestral works. At age 74 I am only now betting to know his choral works. The B minor Mass is sublime. I still have the Passions to hear.

[@자유롭게훨훨]

아름답고 훌륭하다. 이런 연주와 음악을 들을 수 있어 행복합니다. 감사합니다.

[@denisdavidoff624]

It's amazing how Bach's name was absolutely forgotten after his death for about a century and then rediscovered. His works and sheet scores preserved. "The scripts don't burn", as it was said.

[@kevinli8109]

I wish something like this can be performed at my church. What a wonderful offering to God it would be to produce such music.

[@hilarioecke515]

Bach, el compositor de Dios.

[@randybunt6360]

Great music by the world's greatest conductors and ensemble's what more do you need to say!

[@prokastinatore]

Diese Musik ist von einem anderen Universum. Aus einer anderen Welt, die so sehr viel freier ist und so viel mehr Raum hat. Egal ob ein Mensch religiös ist oder an keine anderen Kräfte oder Götter glaubt....Es ist unendlicher Raum in einer ganz neuen Dimension, die wahrscheinlich bis heute nur von Johann Sebastian Bach gedacht werden konnte. Die gesamte Architektur dieser Messe sprengt die Grenzen des Vorstellbaren in der Musikgeschichte. Es ist Logik, Mathematik, Physik und doch dienen diese Disziplinen nur, um die Form herzuleiten. Wie aber kommt es, dass es in Menschen absolute Kontemplation und unendlich viel Raum bietet? Das man , nachdem man sich ausgeheult hat, nur noch mit offenem Mund staunend da steht mit offenem Mund und anfängt, dass Fragezeichen dahinter, wie ein einzelner Mensch so etwas schreiben konnte, zu lieben? Es gab Händel, Scarlatti, Rameau, Couperin und später Haydn, Mozart und noch später Brahms und Mahler, die sich mit Spiritualität auseinandergesetzt haben aber keiner der genannten Komponisten konnte so formvollendet komponieren! Unfassbar! Ich werde die h-moll Messe bis an mein Lebensende wieder und wieder hören und immer wieder Neues entdecken. Nichts verbraucht sich hier!

[@danmiclea2644]

For Bach to compose this in a cold room, at the light of a candle, (no I-phone or computers) is the same like the Egiptions build the piramides 2,300 years ago without excavators or cranes .

[@johnries5593]

It's considerably more believable. The only tools Bach needed were his own mind, paper, writing instruments, and possibly a piano or some other instrument to test on. And the most important of those was the human mind, which has pretty much had the same capabilities throughout recorded history.

[@lincyu8]

indeed. those computing gears would be completely unnecessary distractions, noises, a great minus.

[@geliopouthapesei]

John Ries Pianos were not popular back then. They had harpsichords and the less-known "pianoforte" (which eventually became the piano. It was a harpsichord with dynamic control)

[@derekjoseph8485]

Dan Miclea thats rather a very explorational effort to spell ‘pyramids’

[@VIM365]

I believe the Egyptians* built the pyramids about 4650-4660... don’t know were you get your information. He also wouldn’t really need the light of a candle, because he was essentially blind while composing this.

[@therickdoble]

Excellent performance -- this work is one of the great cathedrals of sound -- as magnificent as the building and the stained glass at Chartres

[@lizzyborg]

That was the most beautifully sung Agnus dei, dear Iestyn. Thank you.

[@zoli82032508]

I am standing in front of Bach and I don't know what to do with Him. I just admire Him.

[@FlexingClassicalMusic]

Classical music has an enduring charm that spans centuries, evoking emotions and telling stories through its timeless compositions. Each piece feels like a journey through history and the depths of human expression. 🎻🎼

[@walter9029]

Listening to this I remember my emotion, when I was 14 and attended a performance of Parsifal in the opera. "I hope this will never end" was my thought back then listening to the grail scene...

[@leontate2351]

This glorious transcendent performance reminds me of the quote, "Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me." John 5:39 (KJV). Bach's music testifies of Him.

[@musicaveranyc1874]

As I've gotten older I've come to find et incarnatus est to be my favorite. The melodic tension, suspenseful string lines, powerful vocal dynamics, and masterful text painting make it incredible to hear.

[@klsveen]

I remember listening to the Kyrie Eleison in the car and I just burst out crying, despite having listened to it a million times before. I almost lost control but luckily it went well. I’ve never listened to a piece of music with the capacity of generating such extreme emotions in a person.

[@davidchangbr]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_(music) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_in_B_minor I) 1-0:00 2-10:35 3-15:21 4-19:05 5-20:49 6-25:30 7-29:43 8-33:00 9-38:31 10-41:30 11-45:45 12-50:29 II) 1-53:49 2-55:40 3-57:40 4-1:02:15 5-1:05:35 6-1:09:00 7-1:13:00 8-1:18:05 9-1:20:44 III) 1-1:25:10 IV) 1-1:30:35 2-1:33:20 3-1:37:50 4-1:40:35 5-1:46:00

[@AMY8843]

Thank You! :)