C.Richter was such an expert on bach, the quality of the sound and performances is so high, there are so many other groups that are dedicated to JS BACH but I find CR recordings the most satisfying.
Was it Wilhelm Friedrich, Carl Phillip Emanual who added the trumpets and drums? I can't imagine this Cantata without them now. "A Mighty Fortress Is My God" .
If you like the famous and highly regarded first movement of this famous piece, try checking out the similarly constructed and similarly complex 1st movement of his cantata 77: ua-cam.com/video/6hM2qVqb47k/v-deo.html It has a very different feeling and mood, though. I don't understand why it isn't just as famous.
Kind of exciting... and thanks to his kid for the fun horns and drums. First movememt sounds kind of just like a lot of shouting in this performance. Also, IMHO, first movement is perhaps Bach's most overrated work. Very "impressive" with all the fancy counterpoint, and it impresses like a circus stunt. Fun for a superficial thrill. Or as a bombastic celebration, which is I think how the whole cantata has been used liturgically/historically.
@@consti1873 I suppose you are trying to say that you disagree with me, which is a fine opinion. But as the first movement is commonly regarded as his best cantata movement, it cannot of course really be underrated. I just don't happen to agree with that consensus, I find the movement showoffy, a little melodically unpleasant and jerky, and far less moving than many others he wrote.
@@jsbrules I get what you mean by "showoffy". But then you could probably say this about most of his bigger choruses. His way of composing, well, constructing such a piece is so incredibly complex, that it might just seem like a showoff. Especially if it is indeed true, that the trumpets and timpani was added later by one of his sons. If you listen to the version without them, it's a much more intimate piece. If you listen to the opening choruses of BWV 147 or BWV 66 for example, they are very complex and "showoffy"as well but if you think about the occassion they were dedicated to, it just makes a lot of sense to write them that way. And given that Reformation Day was a big holiday back then, especially for such a strong protestant believer as he was, i understand why he considered only the most ostentatious work to be fitting for a day like this.
@@jsbrules It's hard to say that anything that Bach wrote is overrated! I definitely agree that this piece, and particularly this performance, is loud, bombastic, and sometimes hard to follow in terms of the counterpoint. But golly gee, it still sets my hairs up on end. I can only wonder what effect this particular work had in drawing people over to Lutheranism. Imagine walking into the new church in town, and hearing this! I'd be like, "Oh, THIS is what God sounds like!"
Eine erhabene Interpretation in majestätisch würdigem Tempo. Eine „feste Burg“ aus Tönen.
Karl Richter era un genio la carica musicale era viva a tal punto che tutto diveniva estasi e assoluto rapimento.
Alla Maggiore Gloria di Dio.
Immense Karl Richter ! Divin J.S. Bach !
C.Richter was such an expert on bach, the quality of the sound and performances is so high, there are so many other groups that are dedicated to JS BACH but I find CR recordings the most satisfying.
El Maestro Karl Richter es insuperable
La mejor version de esta cantata
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GRACIAS INFINITAS.}
perfetta esecuzione
Was it Wilhelm Friedrich, Carl Phillip Emanual who added the trumpets and drums? I can't imagine this Cantata without them now. "A Mighty Fortress Is My God" .
Wehr are the subtitles?
On the internet.
If you like the famous and highly regarded first movement of this famous piece, try checking out the similarly constructed and similarly complex 1st movement of his cantata 77: ua-cam.com/video/6hM2qVqb47k/v-deo.html It has a very different feeling and mood, though. I don't understand why it isn't just as famous.
Kind of exciting... and thanks to his kid for the fun horns and drums. First movememt sounds kind of just like a lot of shouting in this performance. Also, IMHO, first movement is perhaps Bach's most overrated work. Very "impressive" with all the fancy counterpoint, and it impresses like a circus stunt. Fun for a superficial thrill. Or as a bombastic celebration, which is I think how the whole cantata has been used liturgically/historically.
i think you mean underrated
@@consti1873 I suppose you are trying to say that you disagree with me, which is a fine opinion. But as the first movement is commonly regarded as his best cantata movement, it cannot of course really be underrated. I just don't happen to agree with that consensus, I find the movement showoffy, a little melodically unpleasant and jerky, and far less moving than many others he wrote.
@@jsbrules I get what you mean by "showoffy". But then you could probably say this about most of his bigger choruses. His way of composing, well, constructing such a piece is so incredibly complex, that it might just seem like a showoff. Especially if it is indeed true, that the trumpets and timpani was added later by one of his sons. If you listen to the version without them, it's a much more intimate piece. If you listen to the opening choruses of BWV 147 or BWV 66 for example, they are very complex and "showoffy"as well but if you think about the occassion they were dedicated to, it just makes a lot of sense to write them that way. And given that Reformation Day was a big holiday back then, especially for such a strong protestant believer as he was, i understand why he considered only the most ostentatious work to be fitting for a day like this.
@@jsbrules It's hard to say that anything that Bach wrote is overrated! I definitely agree that this piece, and particularly this performance, is loud, bombastic, and sometimes hard to follow in terms of the counterpoint. But golly gee, it still sets my hairs up on end. I can only wonder what effect this particular work had in drawing people over to Lutheranism. Imagine walking into the new church in town, and hearing this! I'd be like, "Oh, THIS is what God sounds like!"