All too often and for all the wrong reasons, the weight of the world changes to make heavy one's heart, but the music of Bach and the St Matthew Passion especially, brings us back to our centre, to that place whence Love itself came. If I did not already believe in God this music would surely make me want to. I have found such a home here, the home that is my heart in which Christ dwells. Thank you for this moment.
Here frozen in liquid amber, the incomparable artistry of Emma Kirkby and Michael Chance. The beautiful video production enables us to the beautiful expressivity of Michael Chance in delicious detail. Perhaps future generations will hear this and that humans of the 20th century were not completely lost.
Emma Kirkby is good here but not as good as she was in her thirties, when she had the voice of an angel. More vibrato here. But yeah, Chance is a great countertenor. And don't overlook David Thomas and Michael George, who did a fine job as well.
Tornado Sam Yes, that’s what Thomas and George did-a fine job-the best this world has to offer. Chance came in from another world and shows you what singing is like in heaven. Anyway, that’s how I feel hearing their singing. Even Kirkby seems a bit wooden singing next to Chance. But still magnificent to be able to be present for this historic performance. Miraculous, really.
Michael Chance love is music the perfect song Love it I wish I can meet him words that I cannot subscribe that from the heart perfect speaking from the heart love it
I agree. I love this tempo for the Matthäus-Passion, I think it fits much better than the slower versions. Many poeple will disagree, I know - it is a personal feeling 😊
THANK YOU For uploading this recording, this belongs to the best performances. We listen to the Mathew and John passion every year at Easter and this time somehow I came across this one and well, it’s great experience.
I was 17 at school in Eastbourne 1961 I have been captivated by the music of Bach ever since we had to give up trying to sing this beautiful work because we not up to it but loved it ever since
Great to have it on YT - sadly, Stephen Cleobury went into eternal rest last Friday. This brings back memories of watching that on EWTN every Lent and Holy Week. May he rest in peace.
@@tfvfdeee7647 Peter is a man. Counter tenors have the reach of a female alto voice. For me Andreas Scholl is the best (search for it: scholl erbarme dich)
The first part, the one with kids choral, is the greatest music ever created by human. Chaconne comes second and symphony 9 ( the first three movements only ) comes third. These three pieces are above masterpieces. They are from heaven without being touched by mortal souls
Thank you so much for uploading this impressive performance by the Kings 1993-1994, which has become my favourite version of this magnificent opus of J.S. Bach. May I repost this video on a Chinese website? In China, people are blocked from YouTb. I will mark your channel name and provide this URL there and I will not make profits.
Some people complain about the tempos here but for get to take into consideration that Cleobury has to accommodate the resonant acoustics of Kings. Great performance and who cannot be moved by the all male choir plus the wonderful voices of Chance and Kirby at their height.
I heard David Thomas's interpretation of "Mache Dich" and wanted the rest. Don't know this oratorio but I will have to hear the whole thing! Great to find the full upload of this performance. Thomas, Kirkby, George and Chance are all great singers and I think this will be a treat!
@@LindaPgh I would have to say it's much more accurate than Thomas's rendition. But his voice is more textured and not as smooth as in this interpretation. The middle part was the best for Thomas's version, the part a was a little muddier. He ended it very nicely though.
No habrá otra interpretacion tan excelente como la de Karl Richter con la Orquesta Bach de Munich.respetando las ultimas interpretaciones por diferentes orquestas pero mucho tiene que ver los directores de orquesta.La de Karl Richter es algo muy especial por no decir muy emotivo con sentimiento.
waoo what a concert, have been trying to download it but it simce the link is not connecting, keep telling me that the link is not available, what do i do to download it. i need help. Thanks
I saw Michael Chance AND Emma Kirkby in recital in Boston in the early 2000s and the voices are SPECTACULAR in person as well. A really good Passion! I think artists are allowed a little more musicality with Bach these days. There is something a bit sterile (albeit still beautiful) about the new early music movement days of the 80s and 90s. I can't put my finger on it. It's like the tiniest bit of rubato was not okay...I get it. But I'm glad we're a little looser nowadays. Still a beautiful, moving performance of my favorite piece :)
It would be nice to specify timecodes for numbers ... And in the browser, the numbers of the chapters from the Bible look like timecodes ... Can you use another character instead of a colon?
After viewing the magnificent performance of this monumental oratorio by the Tölzer Knabenchor, I couldn't imagine a better performance. So I agree with you Wolfgang.
Bach searched for God's music when he wrote. He regarded himself as a scientist, searching to discover the laws of the musical universe rather than an artist.
@@dorphmusiker3715 In this respect you are quite right. Of course, the rhetorical figures have already been known at that time but not lifted in the foreground. But think of the awesome, moving interpretation of "Am Abend ..." or "Mache dich, meine Herze, rein" or of the last choral "Ach Herr", for example. To my mind, these parts in the performance of 1958 with DiFiDi are outstanding.
Not bad for its time. Herreweghe and Gardiner do better jobs though (to be expected - these are children; well-trained, talented children, but children nevertheless. Cleobury also just moves through it like clock work. One loses the context - a trial and crucifixion. The lack of articulation also makes it sound like one choir; not two. The antiphonal conversation between the choirs is entirely lost here. Pretty singing, but not memorable. This reminds us why Gardiner broke away from this aesthetic to found the Monteverdi Choir - to breath real character and authenticity into performances in lieu of "pretty singing". Chance and George are lovely though...
Craig Bloomfield Yes to the clockwise manner, something that I tax Bernstein's Beethoven Symphonies for in the lighter passages. He just beats the time. Same story here. But the singing is beautiful & sweet. And it does dance abit, a la Gardiner.
I don't know enough about the piece, but I agree that the boy choir is important. A boy soprano section is a prettier sound than women. Also, what happened to Thomas, Kirkby and Covey-Crump, who did outstanding jobs alongside Chance and George?
antiphonal singing is best acheived by distancing the two groups so the sound of each group comes from a different place. you can only get this from a live performance
Why does he have to rush through the final chorus? "We sit down with tears and call to you in the grave: rest gently, gently rest! Rest, you exhausted limbs! - Rest gently, rest well. -" Does that need to be sung so quickly? Come on, Mr. Conductor, slow down and put some feeling into it!
@@mauricioduron3193 For me personally there was a lot to love. Emma Kirkby, not at her most outstanding (her best was when she was in her thirties) but still beautiful, the great countertenor Michael Chance, the energetic David Thomas, an excellent Rogers Covey-Crump as the Evangelist, and a rich, magical performance of Michael George as Jesus. Martyn Hill doesn't really deserve any great praise, he was fine but not especially exceptional which is why I do not list him.
If you guys wanna get a taste of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Matthew Passion", listen to Otto Klemperer or Karl Richter! This performance form Cambridge is horrible. This is not a dance. Not a waltz. Gruesome. I stopped after 2 minutes. I can't stand it!
prokastinatore today Eine solche Bemerkung kann nur jemand von sich geben, dem der geistige Inhalt dieser Passion nicht an erster Stelle steht! Diese Aufführung atmet den Geist tiefsten Verstehens eines weltumspannenden Mysteriums!
All too often and for all the wrong reasons, the weight of the world changes to make heavy one's heart, but the music of Bach and the St Matthew Passion especially, brings us back to our centre, to that place whence Love itself came. If I did not already believe in God this music would surely make me want to. I have found such a home here, the home that is my heart in which Christ dwells. Thank you for this moment.
Beautifully expressed. Thank you.
I've sung this in the chorus several times. It's an absolute honour to be able to sing Bach's masterpieces.
Gorgeous performance! God be praised. 🙏🏼
Was für eine großartige Darbietung voller Wohlklang, Ästhetik und Spiritualität!
Magnifique !Le paradis sur terre. Mon âme s’élève vers ce qu’il y a de plus beau.
magnifique ! cet vrais , ecouter la vertion par karl richeter de 1958 , pour moi la meilleure .pierre xavier de chassot .
What a blessing of beauty and love J.S. Bach received from God and shared. What a blessing you enjoy and share! Thank you so much!
the most amazing vocals .... thank you so much, and with a touch of sadness that this isn't possible now.
Here frozen in liquid amber, the incomparable artistry of Emma Kirkby and Michael Chance. The beautiful video production enables us to the beautiful expressivity of Michael Chance in delicious detail. Perhaps future generations will hear this and that humans of the 20th century were not completely lost.
Emma Kirkby is good here but not as good as she was in her thirties, when she had the voice of an angel. More vibrato here. But yeah, Chance is a great countertenor. And don't overlook David Thomas and Michael George, who did a fine job as well.
Tornado Sam Yes, that’s what Thomas and George did-a fine job-the best this world has to offer. Chance came in from another world and shows you what singing is like in heaven. Anyway, that’s how I feel hearing their singing. Even Kirkby seems a bit wooden singing next to Chance. But still magnificent to be able to be present for this historic performance. Miraculous, really.
@@LindaPgh Oh yes!
Michael George is a titan of the bass world. Michaelangelo’s paint job on the Sistine was jolly good.
Michael Chance is my absolute favorite countertenor.
Michael Chance love is music the perfect song Love it I wish I can meet him words that I cannot subscribe that from the heart perfect speaking from the heart love it
One of the best performances for this piece.
I agree. I love this tempo for the Matthäus-Passion, I think it fits much better than the slower versions. Many poeple will disagree, I know - it is a personal feeling 😊
@@MaatKaRe777 To the best of our understanding, it is historically more accurate, too.
@@peterodonnell4404 Thank you for your answer! Then it is an intuitive feeling ☺
10/04/2020 : crying like a baby for this beauty ! surely in these times of world-suffering #BachRocks !
Wish I could cry. Even music as beautiful as this is not triggering one drop of a waiting Baikal. 11 March 2022. Blessings Mark.
"Here frozen in liquid amber, . . . the beautiful video production. . ." [LindaPgh]
THANK YOU For uploading this recording, this belongs to the best performances. We listen to the Mathew and John passion every year at Easter and this time somehow I came across this one and well, it’s great experience.
Happy Easter, sister! God's blessings be upon you and your family! 🙏🏼
I was 17 at school in Eastbourne 1961 I have been captivated by the music of Bach ever since we had to give up trying to sing this beautiful work because we not up to it but loved it ever since
Well done ! German is a very difficult language for English people. Very well done indeed thank you.
Great to have it on YT - sadly, Stephen Cleobury went into eternal rest last Friday. This brings back memories of watching that on EWTN every Lent and Holy Week. May he rest in peace.
Thank You for the kind notice. May he rest in peace. Amen.
Es tut mir leid, in Frieden zu ruhen. 🙏😇😢💖
Emma Kirkby shines again.
Listening during the 12-3 hour on Good Friday. So thankful for beautiful music and performers such as this!
1:25:24 has been my favorite part in this piece for freaking years
the performance wasn't good
a female should perform it.
search ((erbarme dich)) and listen how big is the difference
proof it then
@@tfvfdeee7647 Peter is a man. Counter tenors have the reach of a female alto voice. For me Andreas Scholl is the best (search for it: scholl erbarme dich)
@@tfvfdeee7647 Michael Chance not good? I'm sorry, he is one of greatest countertenors I know. And I he great with this aria.
I cried... this is divine
God's blessings be upon you and your family! Happy Easter! 🙏🏼
The first part, the one with kids choral, is the greatest music ever created by human. Chaconne comes second and symphony 9 ( the first three movements only ) comes third. These three pieces are above masterpieces. They are from heaven without being touched by mortal souls
Thank you so much for uploading this impressive performance by the Kings 1993-1994, which has become my favourite version of this magnificent opus of J.S. Bach. May I repost this video on a Chinese website? In China, people are blocked from YouTb. I will mark your channel name and provide this URL there and I will not make profits.
Some people complain about the tempos here but for get to take into consideration that Cleobury has to accommodate the resonant acoustics of Kings. Great performance and who cannot be moved by the all male choir plus the wonderful voices of Chance and Kirby at their height.
I love the tempos myself. They are hardly far off the norm, anyway.
I heard David Thomas's interpretation of "Mache Dich" and wanted the rest. Don't know this oratorio but I will have to hear the whole thing! Great to find the full upload of this performance. Thomas, Kirkby, George and Chance are all great singers and I think this will be a treat!
Have you heard this one? ua-cam.com/video/jM16AYlGP7g/v-deo.html
@@LindaPgh I would have to say it's much more accurate than Thomas's rendition. But his voice is more textured and not as smooth as in this interpretation. The middle part was the best for Thomas's version, the part a was a little muddier. He ended it very nicely though.
No habrá otra interpretacion tan excelente como la de Karl Richter con la Orquesta Bach de Munich.respetando las ultimas interpretaciones por diferentes orquestas pero mucho tiene que ver los directores de orquesta.La de Karl Richter es algo muy especial por no decir muy emotivo con sentimiento.
Emocionante. Muy bueno
waoo what a concert, have been trying to download it but it simce the link is not connecting, keep telling me that the link is not available, what do i do to download it. i need help. Thanks
I saw Michael Chance AND Emma Kirkby in recital in Boston in the early 2000s and the voices are SPECTACULAR in person as well. A really good Passion! I think artists are allowed a little more musicality with Bach these days. There is something a bit sterile (albeit still beautiful) about the new early music movement days of the 80s and 90s. I can't put my finger on it. It's like the tiniest bit of rubato was not okay...I get it. But I'm glad we're a little looser nowadays. Still a beautiful, moving performance of my favorite piece :)
Magnificent
RIP Stephen Cleobury
es una música superior, justo para el gran éxtasis..
The hymn of the King's College boy chorus to sing is pretty and is refreshing "Matthew passion".
Thanks for uploading this. Brings back a lot of memories as a chorister at Jesus College. Didn’t think I’d ever see the recording!
What voice were you in the recording?
Soprano. We were from guest Choristers from Jesus College Choir.
@@TheTexturizer Oh, one of the little boys! I always thought boy Sopranos sound so much better in Baroque music than women. Such pure voices.
Oh wow! Thank you for this gorgeous performance! 🙏🏼
Maravilloso.
Emozionante !!!
Bravo!!!
It would be nice to specify timecodes for numbers ... And in the browser, the numbers of the chapters from the Bible look like timecodes ... Can you use another character instead of a colon?
it is clear the numbers refer to the gospel - mt = matthew
This video right here is the only argument I’ll accept for god’s existence
1:16:30 Geduld
I feel our german performances are more refined. especially the chorus parts.
After viewing the magnificent performance of this monumental oratorio by the Tölzer Knabenchor, I couldn't imagine a better performance. So I agree with you Wolfgang.
Great!
Muy bueno!!
That really wasn't David Thomas' evening. He's usually way better than that, alas.
I can see why you say that. He's still good though. "Komm Susses Kreuz" was great.
Bach searched for God's music when he wrote. He regarded himself as a scientist, searching to discover the laws of the musical universe rather than an artist.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️😄🥰🥰
29:44
1:06
2:14:15
2:36:45
The interpretation is a little weird (esp the rhythm) but very beautiful sound.
Karl Richter's 1958 issue is absolutely the Best.
I totally agree! That version from 1958 will never be beaten. Richter himself never reached this level again.
Richter was genius. Too bad all of his smoking and stress ended his life so early. But thankfully we have recordings!
Not in period instruments
Karl Richter had no clue of the rhetoric aspects of Bach's music -
@@dorphmusiker3715 In this respect you are quite right. Of course, the rhetorical figures have already been known at that time but not lifted in the foreground. But think of the awesome, moving interpretation of "Am Abend ..." or "Mache dich, meine Herze, rein" or of the last choral "Ach Herr", for example. To my mind, these parts in the performance of 1958 with DiFiDi are outstanding.
2'13'13' Ach Golgatha (Michael Chance)...
Not bad for its time. Herreweghe and Gardiner do better jobs though (to be expected - these are children; well-trained, talented children, but children nevertheless. Cleobury also just moves through it like clock work. One loses the context - a trial and crucifixion. The lack of articulation also makes it sound like one choir; not two. The antiphonal conversation between the choirs is entirely lost here. Pretty singing, but not memorable. This reminds us why Gardiner broke away from this aesthetic to found the Monteverdi Choir - to breath real character and authenticity into performances in lieu of "pretty singing". Chance and George are lovely though...
Craig Bloomfield Yes to the clockwise manner, something that I tax Bernstein's Beethoven Symphonies for in the lighter passages. He just beats the time. Same story here. But the singing is beautiful & sweet. And it does dance abit, a la Gardiner.
the boy choir is essential. Bach composed this for boys voices not women voices.
I don't know enough about the piece, but I agree that the boy choir is important. A boy soprano section is a prettier sound than women. Also, what happened to Thomas, Kirkby and Covey-Crump, who did outstanding jobs alongside Chance and George?
antiphonal singing is best acheived by distancing the two groups so the sound of each group comes from a different place. you can only get this from a live performance
0:21 ❤😂🎉😢😮😅😊
Why does he have to rush through the final chorus?
"We sit down with tears
and call to you in the grave:
rest gently, gently rest!
Rest, you exhausted limbs!
- Rest gently, rest well. -"
Does that need to be sung so quickly? Come on, Mr. Conductor, slow down and put some feeling into it!
Presumably, there was in this 2 hr. 45 min. live performance nothing at all worthy of a positive mention.
@@mauricioduron3193 For me personally there was a lot to love. Emma Kirkby, not at her most outstanding (her best was when she was in her thirties) but still beautiful, the great countertenor Michael Chance, the energetic David Thomas, an excellent Rogers Covey-Crump as the Evangelist, and a rich, magical performance of Michael George as Jesus. Martyn Hill doesn't really deserve any great praise, he was fine but not especially exceptional which is why I do not list him.
I found the ending plenty moving, myself. Appropriately solemn and sombre.
Ich will 40:40
роскошный альт
Ciekawe czy ABBA by to zaśpiewała?
Soidelcoro😎😎😎
Omomido
Why just a choir at the background?!
What were you expecting?
If you guys wanna get a taste of Johann Sebastian Bach's "Matthew Passion", listen to Otto Klemperer or Karl Richter! This performance form Cambridge is horrible. This is not a dance. Not a waltz. Gruesome. I stopped after 2 minutes. I can't stand it!
prokastinatore today
Eine solche Bemerkung kann nur jemand von sich geben, dem der geistige Inhalt dieser Passion nicht an erster Stelle steht! Diese Aufführung atmet den Geist tiefsten Verstehens eines weltumspannenden Mysteriums!
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