As much of a Bach lover as I've ever been, listening to these orchestral transcriptions shows me Bach as a futurist as much as the crowning genius king of the baroque. This is a quality that many Bach devotees feel. In these pieces, Stokowski brings to life how much Bach's music influenced the next 150 years of music after his death. The blue print is all there, amazing. The greatest musical genius to ever live.
In this version Bach sounds a lot like some of the composers who learned SO much from his style-- Strauss, Wagner, Schubert, Brahms, Beethoven. You hear some of that bombastic, ENORMOUS Romantic, sound but it's truly faithful to Bach's musical sense, in my opinion.
Listening to Bach must be what it's like to listen to God's meandering thoughts while they brush their teeth. Thoughts about how great everything could be but isn't.
Keep in mind this piece was written for a _single_ violin. The fact that it can be transcribed successfully for an entire orchestra is unique. No other piece that I know of would hold up so well to such an expansion. This piece has tremendous internal potential energy, so much that even the orchestral transcription feels like it could be expanded. It's like an image that is small but is so resolved that it can be expanded to the size of the solar system and all the details would be as crisp as ever. It's like a black hole - an unimaginable amount of musical matter forced into an unimaginably small space. It is the gift that keeps on giving. The Chaconne is the clearest, best, signature of humanity.
Bach's mastery of harmony and counterpoint is beautifully enhanced in Stokowski's transcription. The extra depth and range of sound the orchestra brings is simply breathtaking. Simply wonderful to listen to!!
Bach's Chaconne is a towering work, surely one of the greatest pieces of music ever written. It is inconceivable to me that Bach intended it to remain within the confines of such a small instrument as the violin. But so it rested for centuries. Finally, Stokowski has expanded it to embrace the full orchestra, giving it the sort of treatment it so richly deserves. Truly, it is a testament to Bach's brilliance (and Stokowski's skill) that this transcription does such a masterful job of expressing what surely must have been his vision.
La rencontre intemporelle de Johannes Sebastian Bach et de Léopold Stokowski est un monument dédié au beau, à la musique classique , c'est absolument formidable et émouvant.... :-))
Ne mélangeons pas tout, le rap est expression artistique qui peut être d'une excellente qualité, mais s'il vous plaît ne comparons l'incomparable !!!! La chaconne elle est magnifique, géante, grandiosse!!! Je l'aime joué par Perlman au violon ou par hopkinson Smith sur luth baroque... Je pense que des rappeurs l'ont déjà largement samplé pour faire leurs instrus ... C'est intemporel, universel... Incontournable !!! Un must!
I have this on an LP called Stokowski Plays Bach. It’s a later recording but sounds very similar to this, and it’s magnificent. It’s something you play only late at night in darkness when you wish to contemplate the universe. It’s probably my favorite piece of Bach, quite miraculous.
Bach, the greatest composer of the baroque era. And dare I say the least appreciated compared to his quality. Mozart, the greatest composer of the classical era. And dare I say the least appreciated compared to his quality. Beethoven, the greatest composer of the romantic era. He singlehandedly ushered-in that era with his symphonies, et.al. Brahms, nearly as great as Beethoven, and as far as I am concerned, a peer in every sense. His quote, “Composing is easy. Knowing what notes not to write is hard.” Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Mahler (Symphony #2, omg), and composers this era, Moriccone, Zimmer, Bergersen, and countless others… The point is that greatness is universal. Each composer contributes to the wonderful experience that is music. Just like any piece of music, where any passage may move a listener to heights of emotion or a well-placed rest or emphasis can turn a tune from mediocre to impactful, each composer has similarly secured his/her place in the universal chorus that will continue as long as human creativity exists.
@@kneza96BG It only proves that Bach was a believer and naively thought it was ‘’God’’ who composed his music. It also proves that Bach was very humble.
@@leocadieux6781 If you want to believe that, sure. I'm no specifically christian,but listening to Bach i'm fully convinced that he had access to higher power :)
It is THE greatest work of musical art! Brahms, who wrote a left-hand version for Schumann, claimed, that he would gladly give up his entire production to be the creator of this chaconne.
Well, thankfully that didn't happen, for Brahms gave us many great works of exquisite beauty as well, his second piano concerto comes first to my mind. Oh, and this way he didn't have to go out of his mind with excitement either, I think that was something he said about what would have happened had he actually written the work.
This composition of sheer beauty definitely deserved it that someone rearranges it for a full orchestra. Anyone that loves the chaconne should know this masterpiece of Stokowski.
The Bach work to hear after recovering from this d-minor Chaconne, and also orchestrated by Stokowski, is "Come, Sweet Death." These are why someone famously observed that JS Bach was the beginning and END of music.
I think many renditions interpret the pain JSB must've felt when composing this piece; but this one is so emotional, it pretty much seems to inflict that pain upon the listener. 🥺😭
Agreed, but I think that's what makes this orchestrated version of beautiful: it's so moving, yet so subtle in its delivery-- meaning, I've heard musicians on solo violin and piano, respectively, attack the chords and notes to, perhaps, emphasize the emotion, but it just makes the piece sound harsh. I love this rendering, if you will. All great music touches the Heart-- that which connects us all on a primal and metaphysical level. This is a trombeau to Bach's first wife, the mother of seven of his children. At 9:51 it also seems not only a memorial piece of painful emotions, but of celebration of her life-- for a short while, and then it gets somber again. What a lovely tribute to the love of his life. Itzhak Perlman's famous recording of this piece, as I'm sure you know, also conveys, through tempo and clarity of voicings, the emotions Bach felt, I would think, and intended to be experienced while listening to this masterpiece. Would you agree?
Bach did not look himself as a genius, he considered himself more like a humble workman. But his music will be sounding trough ages. The chaconne kept me afloat during a very dark time in my life. This orchestrated version is a very good way to appreciate the depth and revolutionary character of the piece
Bach/Stokowski. Less is sometimes just that....less. Stokowski brought the full sound of the full orchestra to Sebastian Bach’s compositions and the result? Full-blown, magnificent sound to the glory of the finest music ever written! I know (without a doubt) that Mr. Bach would have been so pleased to hear his music transcribed in this way utilizing a full symphony of which he only dreamed. Stokowski was divinely destined to ‘partner’ with Bach.
Many years ago, not long after I got a recording of the Berlin Phil playing this, I lost a child. One day, i came home and put this on, laid down on the floor and let it just flood all over me as i cried and cried. It's that sort of piece, and there aren't many pieces that do it. I must say though, I have done something similar with Great Gig in the Sky by Pink Floyd. :-)
He departs from the score at the very end by adding one extra statement of the theme, and changes some of the harmony a bit, but I actually am quite fond of these changes.
If this universe were completely empty, we all will be nothing forever, it is better than any life, it is better than everything, it is the best situation, ever, we don't have words to express this situation !!!! ✌😎 💔
Unbearably sad. Variations of this music were used in a 1940s horror film, BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS, which for some reason my grandmother took me to see at the age of 5. Scared me shitless.
Fun fact: Stokowski was from a tragically short-lived family, but his work with Bach touched the divine and he continued to conduct his transcriptions into his 90s.
This is almost a different piece, but it sounds wonderful. Have never really appreciated the Chaconne introduction but, in this orchestral transcription, I think it regains the meaning that the composer might have had in mind.
@@slipkinti Hideo Saito, Seiji Ozawa's mentor did a full orchestration that's been recorded by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Joachim Raff orchestrated it, Brahms and Busoni both did piano versions, and many more.
Je découvre cette transcription et suis fasciné, évidemment. Magnifique. A cette époque, les chefs d'orchestre avaient une imagination, une fantaisie et un courage formidables. Chaque interprétation donnait à entendre un autre aspect de l'oeuvre et c'était à chaque fois une découverte excitante. Aujourd'hui on entend mille fois la même chose. Et cette chose est en général vide, insipide, insupportable.
For me, this is one of those (very rare) occasions where the transcription is an improvement on the original in terms of colour. the original is for violin - and you have to be one heck of a violinist equipped with a Stradivarius to do it justice - here, with full orchestra, and its expansions, it is easier to understand and appreciate the music with greater depth. In terms of orchestration, this work seems to me at least to be the companion piece of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor's transcription, in terms of woodwind orchestration. I have recently bought an oboe and playing it is no harder than my clarinet, so I do long to play this with an orchestra some day...
You know that Bach uses the oboe I think in all his cantatas. It is an instrument of great beauty. Rostropovich, in spite of beeing cellist, wrote a beautiful text about the oboe which he love.
I told my fellow violinist that the chaconne sounded so much better on my guitar than on his violin ( he disagreed); until you hear this orchestral version. Beautiful lyric version. Stokovsky, did I ever hear of him before? Bach keeps you amazing. So many interpretations. Thanks for posting this amazing version.
Mais uma vez chorei com uma transcrição de Bach feita pelo Stokowski. A primeira vez foi com Passacaglia + Fugue. Cheguei aqui como indicação do UA-cam - amém, algoritmo! - e estou emocionado com essa experiência. A beleza me comove. 🇧🇷
Cette version pour orchestre donne de la majesté à cette oeuvre puissante de J.S. Bach et aussi à certains moments de la légèreté ou au contraire de la gravité comme chez Mozart ou Schubert
Greatness! and tragedy - almost unbearable! Bach wrote this work shortly after returning home from a journey - only to find, that his young, healthy, pregnant wife and their expected child had both died.
@@card797 that's right, everybody must be and is free to express their preferences. in any case we are in front of two giants, maybe the best musicians ever. best regards.
These pissing competitions are ridiculous. Why the necessity to crown a ‘king’ . It is so limiting and antithetical to the wonder and universality of music as a whole. Just enjoy and marvel.
Merveilleux pour les uns,kitch et quasi-crime de lèse majesté pour d'autres...Pour ma part, j'entends un très sincère hommage à JS.Bach, une profonde compréhension de l'œuvre et de ses potentialités, une imagination et une connaissance de l'orchestre exceptionnelles.Loin du définitif "bon pour l'asile" de Toscanini (beaucoup plus compréhensif pour Respighi, soit dit en passant).
🇮🇹 Bellissima...... Fa riflettere e mi domando..... Ma cos'è successo alla musica di oggi? 🇬🇧 Awesome... It makes me reflect and I wonder.... What happened at today music?
It certainly is Gods laguage and also Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Wagner, Schubert, Vivaldi, Tschaikowsky, Smetana, Dvorak and many many more.
There is no sound nor has there ever een a sound like the Stokowski sound nor will there ever be again!! Of all the sounds in this world ( and outer worlds) the only sound of consequence is the Stokowski sound!!!!
Eliot Z., I agree, except that J. S. Bach was almost forgotten between 1750 and 1829, when at the age of 20 Mendelssohn-Bartholdy launched a Bach-Renaissance by performing his Matthäus-Passion, and that Bach influences to this date and will continue to do so.
Just to think that it was Felix Mendelsson who, in a sense, championed the discovery of Johann Sebastian Bach, who really was the foundation of modern classical music. And just to think some say that some of Bach's manuscripts were used to wrap fish. Mesmerizing transcription and performance.
Solo la genialidad de Juan Sebastian Bach pudo transformar una gran tragedia personal en esta magnífica obra que consigue hacernos sentir en el presente su inmenso dolor de hace siglos.
I forget the exact context of this anecdote, but it has to do with Carl Sagan soliciting suggestions about what music to include on the Golden Record in the Voyager 1 spacecraft. One person asked about this supposedly paused for a moment and then said, "The complete works of Bach - but that would be boasting."
Боже, как прекрасно!!!! И.С.Бах - это Величие Вселенной, а Стоковский - это удивительное погружение в бездонный смысл этого непостижимого Мироздания!!!
Back in Bach's time, orchestras in Germany were very small and the instruments had more limitations. I can only imagine what monumental symphonies he would had composed if he had access to modern orchestras.
Stowkowski was for a time organist at Saint Bartholomew's Church in New York City. He left that post to take up his work as Conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Wspaniały J.S. Bach i nasz polski daleki rodak Leopold Stokowski ., który pieknie dyrygował. Kiedyś w polskim radiu bardzo często słyszało sie muzyke powazna i wszelkie orkiestry pod dyrekcją Leopolda Stokowskiego. To były lata 50 siąte, 60 siate i 70 siąte, i tez pod dyr . Bruno Waltera, Teraz słyszy sie hip hop i disko-polo i angielsko jezyczny szmelc. Szkoda.
As much of a Bach lover as I've ever been, listening to these orchestral transcriptions shows me Bach as a futurist as much as the crowning genius king of the baroque. This is a quality that many Bach devotees feel. In these pieces, Stokowski brings to life how much Bach's music influenced the next 150 years of music after his death. The blue print is all there, amazing. The greatest musical genius to ever live.
In this version Bach sounds a lot like some of the composers who learned SO much from his style-- Strauss, Wagner, Schubert, Brahms, Beethoven. You hear some of that bombastic, ENORMOUS Romantic, sound but it's truly faithful to Bach's musical sense, in my opinion.
"The greatest musical genius to ever live"
No question that Bach is right up there with that other "B": Brian Wilson
Listening to Bach must be what it's like to listen to God's meandering thoughts while they brush their teeth. Thoughts about how great everything could be but isn't.
Facts!
@@doublehelix3952you are joking right?
One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed.
I AGREE WITH YOU FROM PARIS
Keep in mind this piece was written for a _single_ violin. The fact that it can be transcribed successfully for an entire orchestra is unique. No other piece that I know of would hold up so well to such an expansion. This piece has tremendous internal potential energy, so much that even the orchestral transcription feels like it could be expanded. It's like an image that is small but is so resolved that it can be expanded to the size of the solar system and all the details would be as crisp as ever. It's like a black hole - an unimaginable amount of musical matter forced into an unimaginably small space. It is the gift that keeps on giving. The Chaconne is the clearest, best, signature of humanity.
Brilliantly said! Thank you and may God bless you and your loved ones!
What a wonderful comment to make. You have a beautiful mind.
The Chaconne...the finest quarter hour of Western music...?
Well-said.
Thank you for this beautiful yet accurate, detailed description of this brilliant piece.
one of humankind's greatest achievements. I have listened to the Chaconne thousands of times and each time its brilliance beauty grows on me.
Joshua Bell called it that: one of mankind's greatest achievements, and I couldn't agree more. This piece literally changed my life.
Just came her to listen to the opning chord but ended up listening to the whole piece.Mastery of Bach.
Bach's mastery of harmony and counterpoint is beautifully enhanced in Stokowski's transcription. The extra depth and range of sound the orchestra brings is simply breathtaking. Simply wonderful to listen to!!
How right you are !
Bach's Chaconne is a towering work, surely one of the greatest pieces of music ever written. It is inconceivable to me that Bach intended it to remain within the confines of such a small instrument as the violin. But so it rested for centuries. Finally, Stokowski has expanded it to embrace the full orchestra, giving it the sort of treatment it so richly deserves. Truly, it is a testament to Bach's brilliance (and Stokowski's skill) that this transcription does such a masterful job of expressing what surely must have been his vision.
Wow i totally agree with your comments. I cry every time i hear this composition.
Very well worded, such a masterful performance of this great piece of music
La rencontre intemporelle de Johannes Sebastian Bach et de Léopold Stokowski est un monument dédié au beau, à la musique classique , c'est absolument formidable et émouvant.... :-))
Quand meme autre chose que cette musique contemporaine qui ne veut rien dire et de ces pseudo artiste rappeur
Tout à fait d’accord 😌
Ne mélangeons pas tout, le rap est expression artistique qui peut être d'une excellente qualité, mais s'il vous plaît ne comparons l'incomparable !!!! La chaconne elle est magnifique, géante, grandiosse!!! Je l'aime joué par Perlman au violon ou par hopkinson Smith sur luth baroque... Je pense que des rappeurs l'ont déjà largement samplé pour faire leurs instrus ... C'est intemporel, universel... Incontournable !!! Un must!
I have this on an LP called Stokowski Plays Bach. It’s a later recording but sounds very similar to this, and it’s magnificent. It’s something you play only late at night in darkness when you wish to contemplate the universe. It’s probably my favorite piece of Bach, quite miraculous.
With a glass of red wine? May I join you?
I AGREE WITH YOU FROM PARIS
Dare I say it, I believe Bach was the greatest composer who ever lived.
Im totally agreed with you
hmmm. ludwig v. may have something to say about that.
@@carlschumacher3257 Yes agree, but a little too heavy on the bongo''s.
@@carlschumacher3257 he would (and did) agree
Bach, the greatest composer of the baroque era. And dare I say the least appreciated compared to his quality.
Mozart, the greatest composer of the classical era. And dare I say the least appreciated compared to his quality.
Beethoven, the greatest composer of the romantic era. He singlehandedly ushered-in that era with his symphonies, et.al.
Brahms, nearly as great as Beethoven, and as far as I am concerned, a peer in every sense. His quote, “Composing is easy. Knowing what notes not to write is hard.”
Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Mahler (Symphony #2, omg), and composers this era, Moriccone, Zimmer, Bergersen, and countless others…
The point is that greatness is universal. Each composer contributes to the wonderful experience that is music. Just like any piece of music, where any passage may move a listener to heights of emotion or a well-placed rest or emphasis can turn a tune from mediocre to impactful, each composer has similarly secured his/her place in the universal chorus that will continue as long as human creativity exists.
Unbearably sad, this man possessed such a power, such a unique talent to create the best music the world has ever heard.
And to think some people find Bach emotionless. His musique is one of the most emotional i know.
The music of Bach has always touched me on a truly deep & primeval level....his music is so hauntingly beautiful.
Bach was a very devout Christian. This is God`s music.
Julia Walker No, this is Bach’s music... 🤦♂️ it is BACH that composed this, not ‘’God’’
@@leocadieux6781 “I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.”
― Johann Sebastian Bach
@@kneza96BG It only proves that Bach was a believer and naively thought it was ‘’God’’ who composed his music. It also proves that Bach was very humble.
@@leocadieux6781 If you want to believe that, sure. I'm no specifically christian,but listening to Bach i'm fully convinced that he had access to higher power :)
It is THE greatest work of musical art! Brahms, who wrote a left-hand version for Schumann, claimed, that he would gladly give up his entire production to be the creator of this chaconne.
Well, thankfully that didn't happen, for Brahms gave us many great works of exquisite beauty as well, his second piano concerto comes first to my mind. Oh, and this way he didn't have to go out of his mind with excitement either, I think that was something he said about what would have happened had he actually written the work.
@@mydogskips2 Yes, Brahms said that if he had been able to have conceived and written this work he would have gone mad.
Beautiful! It is amazing how he orchestrated this!
This composition of sheer beauty definitely deserved it that someone rearranges it for a full orchestra. Anyone that loves the chaconne should know this masterpiece of Stokowski.
I AGREE WITH YOU FROM PARIS
while listening, you feel like a small part of a part of this huge universe ...
Heart + soul + mind = the music of J. S. Bach.
Tellement beau !! mercI pour ce post Christian ...Je ne connaissais pas Stokowski
The Bach work to hear after recovering from this d-minor Chaconne, and also orchestrated by Stokowski, is "Come, Sweet Death." These are why someone famously observed that JS Bach was the beginning and END of music.
Questa ciaccona potrebbe essere la chiave per aprire il cuore dell'umanità. Interpretazione intensa e ricca di senso, grazie.
I think many renditions interpret the pain JSB must've felt when composing this piece; but this one is so emotional, it pretty much seems to inflict that pain upon the listener. 🥺😭
Absolutely! Bachs music often does!
Agreed, but I think that's what makes this orchestrated version of beautiful: it's so moving, yet so subtle in its delivery-- meaning, I've heard musicians on solo violin and piano, respectively, attack the chords and notes to, perhaps, emphasize the emotion, but it just makes the piece sound harsh.
I love this rendering, if you will. All great music touches the Heart-- that which connects us all on a primal and metaphysical level.
This is a trombeau to Bach's first wife, the mother of seven of his children. At 9:51 it also seems not only a memorial piece of painful emotions, but of celebration of her life-- for a short while, and then it gets somber again.
What a lovely tribute to the love of his life.
Itzhak Perlman's famous recording of this piece, as I'm sure you know, also conveys, through tempo and clarity of voicings, the emotions Bach felt, I would think, and intended to be experienced while listening to this masterpiece.
Would you agree?
Comfort of this performance is beyond words
I'm on cloud🍒🌸🍒🌸
Bach did not look himself as a genius, he considered himself more like a humble workman. But his music will be sounding trough ages. The chaconne kept me afloat during a very dark time in my life. This orchestrated version is a very good way to appreciate the depth and revolutionary character of the piece
Imo the best arrangement for orchestra of Chaconne there is... love it!
Bach/Stokowski. Less is sometimes just that....less. Stokowski brought the full sound of the full orchestra to Sebastian Bach’s compositions and the result? Full-blown, magnificent sound to the glory of the finest music ever written! I know (without a doubt) that Mr. Bach would have been so pleased to hear his music transcribed in this way utilizing a full symphony of which he only dreamed. Stokowski was divinely destined to ‘partner’ with Bach.
This doesn't touch me more than a single violin playing honestly
This is so emotional
Many years ago, not long after I got a recording of the Berlin Phil playing this, I lost a child. One day, i came home and put this on, laid down on the floor and let it just flood all over me as i cried and cried. It's that sort of piece, and there aren't many pieces that do it. I must say though, I have done something similar with Great Gig in the Sky by Pink Floyd. :-)
He departs from the score at the very end by adding one extra statement of the theme, and changes some of the harmony a bit, but I actually am quite fond of these changes.
a VERY faithful rendition of this timeless classic!
Stokowski & Bach, say no more.
Amen!
Bach & Stokowski in this order. Have I more to say. ;)
Stokowski did pull me into a better world today in the midst of chaos, eternal thanks. He was a great Maestro. I do know friends of him in L.A.
If this universe were completely empty, we all will be nothing forever, it is better than any life, it is better than everything, it is the best situation, ever, we don't have words to express this situation !!!! ✌😎 💔
Unbearably sad. Variations of this music were used in a 1940s horror film, BEAST WITH FIVE FINGERS, which for some reason my grandmother took me to see at the age of 5. Scared me shitless.
Lol, I'm going to watch it now!
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing!
Fun fact: Stokowski was from a tragically short-lived family, but his work with Bach touched the divine and he continued to conduct his transcriptions into his 90s.
Stokowski, one of the best Conductor's of all time!
this interpretation reaches sublime peaks.
This is almost a different piece, but it sounds wonderful. Have never really appreciated the Chaconne introduction but, in this orchestral transcription, I think it regains the meaning that the composer might have had in mind.
I played this arrangement, loved every second of it. This is definitely my favorite arrangement of Chaconne.
@@Im_Schiz It others arragement we have?
@@slipkinti Hideo Saito, Seiji Ozawa's mentor did a full orchestration that's been recorded by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Joachim Raff orchestrated it, Brahms and Busoni both did piano versions, and many more.
@@ThomasDawkins88 Thank's
Oh My GOD!~ Thank you! I this is what I heard in my head whilst playing solo piano - now my practice regime begins again!
Lost of words ....tahnk you !
So beautiful and loving sad melody..
Один гений -Бах встретился с другим гением Стоковским. А нам повезло это услышать.
С Новым 2021 годом от Рождества Христова! слушать и понимать музыку ~ это тоже талант!
@@margarita.aleksandrijskaja Я согласна совсем с Вами!
amo esta musica, genio Stokowski
Je découvre cette transcription et suis fasciné, évidemment.
Magnifique.
A cette époque, les chefs d'orchestre avaient une imagination, une fantaisie et un courage formidables. Chaque interprétation donnait à entendre un autre aspect de l'oeuvre et c'était à chaque fois une découverte excitante.
Aujourd'hui on entend mille fois la même chose. Et cette chose est en général vide, insipide, insupportable.
Merci
Oui et non, les chefs n'ont jamais aussi bien interprété certaines œuvres, notamment baroques, qu'aujourd'hui.
Quelle imagination tu as! Dans le bon sens.
@@guilhemchameyrat Rien ne nous que les chefs d'aujourd'hui interprètes au mieux les oeuvres baroques
Sublime interpretación, de las que más me gustan. Saludos a todos!!!
As a violinist, I cry listening to, and playing this.
I don't know shit about playing the violin... but this version of this song brings tears to my eyes too. It is deeply inspiring.
Il pensiero musicale di Bach non si può legare a nessun strumento, esso è libertà come dimostra questa magistrale interpretazione.
This is fascination pure
For me, this is one of those (very rare) occasions where the transcription is an improvement on the original in terms of colour. the original is for violin - and you have to be one heck of a violinist equipped with a Stradivarius to do it justice - here, with full orchestra, and its expansions, it is easier to understand and appreciate the music with greater depth. In terms of orchestration, this work seems to me at least to be the companion piece of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor's transcription, in terms of woodwind orchestration. I have recently bought an oboe and playing it is no harder than my clarinet, so I do long to play this with an orchestra some day...
You know that Bach uses the oboe I think in all his cantatas. It is an instrument of great beauty. Rostropovich, in spite of beeing cellist, wrote a beautiful text about the oboe which he love.
I told my fellow violinist that the chaconne sounded so much better on my guitar than on his violin ( he disagreed); until you hear this orchestral version. Beautiful lyric version. Stokovsky, did I ever hear of him before? Bach keeps you amazing. So many interpretations. Thanks for posting this amazing version.
¡Hermosa versión, excelente!
Lovely. Thank you.
beautiful...
Анатомия души. Благодарю.
Mais uma vez chorei com uma transcrição de Bach feita pelo Stokowski. A primeira vez foi com Passacaglia + Fugue. Cheguei aqui como indicação do UA-cam - amém, algoritmo! - e estou emocionado com essa experiência. A beleza me comove. 🇧🇷
Exquisita y profunda música..¡¡. !! Maravilloso Bach ¡¡¡
Cette version pour orchestre donne de la majesté à cette oeuvre puissante de J.S. Bach et aussi à certains moments de la légèreté ou au contraire de la gravité comme chez Mozart ou Schubert
Love love love
Greatness! and tragedy - almost unbearable! Bach wrote this work shortly after returning home from a journey - only to find, that his young, healthy, pregnant wife and their expected child had both died.
😪
Thank you for telling us this
To amuse themselves, the Angels play Mozart. Before the throne of God, they play Bach.
i agree with you but i'd change the position of the names in the sentence.
@@math11235 I disagree.
@@card797 that's right, everybody must be and is free to express their preferences. in any case we are in front of two giants, maybe the best musicians ever. best regards.
These pissing competitions are ridiculous. Why the necessity to crown a ‘king’ . It is so limiting and antithetical to the wonder and universality of music as a whole. Just enjoy and marvel.
To open hearts, they play Beethoven.
✨✨✨
Beautiful 🦋
Maravillosa interpretación
Merveilleux pour les uns,kitch et quasi-crime de lèse majesté pour d'autres...Pour ma part, j'entends un très sincère hommage à JS.Bach, une profonde compréhension de l'œuvre et de ses potentialités, une imagination et une connaissance de l'orchestre exceptionnelles.Loin du définitif "bon pour l'asile" de Toscanini (beaucoup plus compréhensif pour Respighi, soit dit en passant).
God in music. So we can understand...
Interesting and very educational adaptation. It brings out more musical material than a solo instrument can do.
Meraviglia assoluta!
very emotional exectly for today..
🇮🇹 Bellissima...... Fa riflettere e mi domando..... Ma cos'è successo alla musica di oggi?
🇬🇧 Awesome... It makes me reflect and I wonder.... What happened at today music?
Siamo in due a domandarcelo
Flyalp in tre!
@@bigbeddie All'umanità? Alla cultura? All'arte? Ai valori? All'etica? Serve un alleanza tra gli ultimi umanisti sopravvissuti
Flyalp a trovarli ...
It's truly collosal.
In this piece, --Bach was trying to make the solo violin become an orchestra. RIchard
Beautiful
Magnífico!
Wonderful!
Oh thank you very much for upload this Masterpiece. If God exist probably Bach´s music would be his language.
Hieroric Existe!!! Y Bach es un regalo que nos hizo para hacer más llevadera esta vida.
Gracias por su repuesta, Francisco.
He does and Bach`s music IS His language.
It certainly is Gods laguage and also Mozart, Schubert, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Beethoven, Wagner, Schubert, Vivaldi, Tschaikowsky, Smetana, Dvorak and many many more.
Marvellous ❤️
Thank you
There is no sound nor has there ever een a sound like the Stokowski sound nor will there ever be again!! Of all the sounds in this world ( and outer worlds) the only sound of consequence is the Stokowski sound!!!!
Bach y Stokowski dejan sin aliento. Si hay un Dios, esta es su Música.
Eliot Z., I agree, except that J. S. Bach was almost forgotten between 1750 and 1829, when at the age of 20 Mendelssohn-Bartholdy launched a Bach-Renaissance by performing his Matthäus-Passion, and that Bach influences to this date and will continue to do so.
Just to think that it was Felix Mendelsson who, in a sense, championed the discovery of Johann Sebastian Bach, who really was the foundation of modern classical music.
And just to think some say that some of Bach's manuscripts were used to wrap fish.
Mesmerizing transcription and performance.
Almost too much to bear......just incredible....Heavenly!
This is simply marvelous! However, y'all should check out Saito's orchestration of Busoni's piano transcription.
Solo la genialidad de Juan Sebastian Bach pudo transformar una gran tragedia personal en esta magnífica obra que consigue hacernos sentir en el presente su inmenso dolor de hace siglos.
Спасибо.
Umas das minhas favoritas ❣
FANTASTİC MUSİC, FANTASTİC ORCHESRATİON
I forget the exact context of this anecdote, but it has to do with Carl Sagan soliciting suggestions about what music to include on the Golden Record in the Voyager 1 spacecraft. One person asked about this supposedly paused for a moment and then said, "The complete works of Bach - but that would be boasting."
Боже, как прекрасно!!!!
И.С.Бах - это Величие Вселенной, а Стоковский - это удивительное погружение в бездонный смысл этого непостижимого Мироздания!!!
Leopold!
Back in Bach's time, orchestras in Germany were very small and the instruments had more limitations. I can only imagine what monumental symphonies he would had composed if he had access to modern orchestras.
Wow !
Concordo plenamente com Daniel. Só faltou dizer , Olé!!! ao gênio JSBach.
attractive and well built orchestration... Stokowsky should have been an organist since here have used the orchestra as an organ....
wasn't he (also) a violist?
Elected to membership in the Royal College of Organists at age 16! I wish that recordings existed; as he was organist for several prominent churches.
He was an organist. RIchard
Studied for a time with Sir Henry Walford Davies of London's Temple Church.
Stowkowski was for a time organist at Saint Bartholomew's Church in New York City. He left that post to take up his work as Conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
本当にありがたい世の中になったものです…☺️
Es gibt fast zu viel Unvergessliches Vergessenes
The intro would fit so well in very dramatic movie scene.
Wspaniały J.S. Bach i nasz polski daleki rodak Leopold Stokowski ., który pieknie dyrygował.
Kiedyś w polskim radiu bardzo często słyszało sie muzyke powazna i wszelkie orkiestry pod dyrekcją Leopolda Stokowskiego. To były lata 50 siąte, 60 siate i 70 siąte, i tez pod dyr . Bruno Waltera,
Teraz słyszy sie hip hop i disko-polo i angielsko jezyczny szmelc. Szkoda.
This has got to be the slowest version ever recorded (or played, for that matter)
Бах именно футурист, предвидевший будущее музыки и будущее человечества. Не случайно его музыка часто звучит в научно-фантастических фильмах.
What I'd give to see Bach listen in on this...
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Great
Wandering through heaven
NAMASTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.....................