The second movement is like two rivers, sourced as one, flowing independently near each other - when one is brimming full, the other is silent and when the other starts to tide, the former retreats. At some points they do meet and then they continue to flow independently, finally falling into the sea. Bach was truly a gift of God
I've listened to this piece many times without reading the score, and I didn't notice the main theme played by the cello at 0:45. It makes me appreciate the piece even more!
The first movement is my absolute most beloved peace of music ever. The fugue theme is strong, and the counterpoint is just as the best example as it could be, especially the first bars of violin + cello so different in movement and melody.
Merci, Monsieur Gerubach, pour ce monument de l'écriture pour violons. Votre transcription montre comment chaque violon laisse à l'autre la ligne mélodique. Je l'avais perçu et compris, jamais entendu de façon aussi intelligible. Merci de nous faire découvrir l'art du Kantor.
I was in a competition in elementary school that had us memorize and be able to tell apart different classical music scores. For years after, I could not find my favorite piece from that collection. Here I am now, 10 whole years later finally able to listen to this score again.
I think 10:06 - 10:33 could be my favourite moment in all of the music I've listened too. A truly sublime and beautiful passage, it gets me every time. Thank you J.S. Bach and thank you Gerubach for these wonderful scrolling videos!
that high, ethereal, flowing, soprano violin sound dancing with the almost cello-like cantabile of the lower violin, with pulsing sighing motions in the background. Truly sublime, as you said!
Interesting, it is also my favorite passage, I also had fun memory of playing with my teacher and I was second violin, while I was immersed in the music and enjoying the moment, my teacher keep telling me that I was playing too fast, and I was sure I was keeping time, and she reminded me that she was playing 16th notes like a metronome, that was the end of the argument
Aha it's my 4th day playing violin and I'm playing the main theme that starts in the 1st movement. I've played guitar since 1995 so I guess violins up for grabs with guitar players, just need to work on tone production and I'll be able to record the symphonies I've written once I get in with the cello and maybe viola if I need to
Si ignoramos por un momento "la mitad orquestal" y solo vemos las dos lineas de los violines solistas, parece que estuvieramos viendo una fuga mas de Bach jajaja... un auténtico genio.
I totally agree 😩 It GRIPPED me as soon as I heard it and I had to replay it several times to take it all in. The orchestra part is just so STRONG at this point. I love it too much.
Adoro toda la música pero para mí el el barroco marca un antes y un después. Desde mis quince años me ha acompañado hasta hoy, a los 62. Gracias Don Juan Sebastián.
This is super genius, i have heard this piece so many times and just tried to study it, everytime i get to know something new about it. How did Bach come up with this masterpiece? The piece as a whole is fantastic but the third movt is just phenomenal, and i am not judging only by the solo parts..
The whole piece is great. I played the second mvt. with a friend at his wife's funeral, it was very moving. Unfortunately, I played it again at my friend's funeral a few months later. We played with 2 vlns., piano (Bosendoerfer at the church) and a bass.
Loved this video! I have to say that I can no longer hear the first movement (especially the motif with the ascending leaps of a 10th in the solo violins) without thinking of the performance Alma Deutscher did with Tanja Zhou that I watched recently. Somehow it just felt to me like it fit them!
Absolutely my favorite concerto by Bach. Am curious about the scrolling on the right, however. I can follow the music scrolling on the left just fine, but what are we seeing on the right side at the same time? Just curious if anyone can explain that - thanks.
The left screen is the two violins (double violin concerto) but the piece is for a larger group and the right screen is the other strings including viola, cello...
Yes, the left group is the soloists (two violins) and the right group is the concerto (violins I, violins II, violas, bass-line + figures). The basso continuo is played by cello or bass viol instruments (for instance the viola d'amore) and the harpsichord (or for instance lute instruments) which play/s chords indicated by the figures under the staff.
The thing is he can't. All of Bach's works were put into manuscripts in the mid 20th century and the resolution of those documents are poor. Furthermore, gerubach zooms in so that the music fits the screen. This makes the quality what it is. Personally it doesn't bother me.
@@nazaracanreapit This is ridiculous, frankly. The quality of the manuscripts has absolutely nothing to do with what resolution these videos are uploaded in. And if that mattered, it's not as if remastered editions of Bach's works weren't printed any more. (Though I don't know if it's a principle of this channel to use as original sheet music as possible.) And to top it all, you just ignored the fact that the comment was about SOUND quality, not video quality. (The original comment is misinformed as well, though, as UA-cam's audio quality caps at 480p; at that video quality the audio track is the exact same as in 1080p60.)
@@Maplaplaplapla Although there are many new editions of manuscripts, the Bach Gesellschaft manuscripts are the most commonly used. When the score is enlarged to fit one measure across the entire screen, it's resolution will suffer. Also, I did not address sound quality because every other response agrees with me in that the sound is perfectly adequate. I was merely explaining why the video is and has to be in 360p.
there might exist several versions, so the publisher in this case marked it for some reason. (if it was in the notes originally and not added afterwards by gerubach)
Yeyeye I know music is subjective and as an artform it's beauty may be interpreted in many ways, but anyone can fucking write like Mozart or Beethoven. They wrote beautifull things but it is the same complexity like all modern music: chord progression with focus on the texture of instrumentation (which is difficult to mess up). But Bach, to write like him requires not only skill but mastery of counterpoint. It requires a lot of fucking knowledge.
Awesome video. However the eye cannot watch in continuos movement. It needs to stop the image. It is east to read videos where 3 pentagrams are shown and the mark moves on the notes.
Could anyone please explain the music theory behind the F-sharp on the first downbeat of the second measure? It is not part of the key (D minor: one flat). Why did Bach elect to use that note instead of the F natural?
V_Anh_B I don' t think so. Look at points like 5:08, where accidentals fit normally in the score I think it's because of a mistake in the recording. I have this suspect because in other points of the movement where the same theme appears E flat is played instead
@@danielevelati2482 Hi there, I think the accidentals are applied for the whole chord, here is an example when you have a D with a just a sharp under it means that you have to play a D chord with a sharp on the 3rd and the numbers just show the chord progression I think
V_Anh_B I wasn't referring to the basso continuo, I meant the flat above the E in the first violin part, where instead a E flat is actually played in the recording
6:42-7:05 - exquisitely heart-wrenching! 7:19 - how can the pros make such a mistake, missing the B-natural? sometimes I wonder if they do it on purpose for kicks!
The second movement is like two rivers, sourced as one, flowing independently near each other - when one is brimming full, the other is silent and when the other starts to tide, the former retreats. At some points they do meet and then they continue to flow independently, finally falling into the sea. Bach was truly a gift of God
The 2nd movement is my most favourite music, it is so “struggente”.
After this video, everything keeps moving to the right when I look at it.
l mao
I've listened to this piece many times without reading the score, and I didn't notice the main theme played by the cello at 0:45. It makes me appreciate the piece even more!
As expected from the fugue master!
The first movement is my absolute most beloved peace of music ever. The fugue theme is strong, and the counterpoint is just as the best example as it could be, especially the first bars of violin + cello so different in movement and melody.
i misread your comment my bad
@@a.s6ng there's both cellos and violins in the orchestra
@@a.s6ng and so what?!?!
@@a.s6ng Concerto have soloist(s) and the orchestra
This music still amazes me every time I heard it. What a truly genius that Bach was. Great performance!
I feel the third movement doesn’t get enough recognition.
It`s my most favorite music. The third movement is a very emotional part.
Absolutely. 11:47 is one of the most beautiful passages i have ever listened to.
It's amazing! just like the first and second movements
absolutely
agree
Merci, Monsieur Gerubach, pour ce monument de l'écriture pour violons. Votre transcription montre comment chaque violon laisse à l'autre la ligne mélodique. Je l'avais perçu et compris, jamais entendu de façon aussi intelligible.
Merci de nous faire découvrir l'art du Kantor.
I was in a competition in elementary school that had us memorize and be able to tell apart different classical music scores. For years after, I could not find my favorite piece from that collection. Here I am now, 10 whole years later finally able to listen to this score again.
I think 10:06 - 10:33 could be my favourite moment in all of the music I've listened too. A truly sublime and beautiful passage, it gets me every time. Thank you J.S. Bach and thank you Gerubach for these wonderful scrolling videos!
4:55 to 5:05 does it for me
that high, ethereal, flowing, soprano violin sound dancing with the almost cello-like cantabile of the lower violin, with pulsing sighing motions in the background. Truly sublime, as you said!
Interesting, it is also my favorite passage, I also had fun memory of playing with my teacher and I was second violin, while I was immersed in the music and enjoying the moment, my teacher keep telling me that I was playing too fast, and I was sure I was keeping time, and she reminded me that she was playing 16th notes like a metronome, that was the end of the argument
This still remains my favorite violin concerto
Aha it's my 4th day playing violin and I'm playing the main theme that starts in the 1st movement. I've played guitar since 1995 so I guess violins up for grabs with guitar players, just need to work on tone production and I'll be able to record the symphonies I've written once I get in with the cello and maybe viola if I need to
We played a shortened version of the first movement 2 years ago in our orchestra. Great stuff!! Thanks gerubach! :)
Si ignoramos por un momento "la mitad orquestal" y solo vemos las dos lineas de los violines solistas, parece que estuvieramos viendo una fuga mas de Bach jajaja... un auténtico genio.
11:47 is one of the most beautiful passages i have ever listened to Edit: 14:15 has the same idea. I can't decide which is better!
siento que el del minuto 14:15 es el mejor, siento que va con mayor fuerza
I totally agree 😩 It GRIPPED me as soon as I heard it and I had to replay it several times to take it all in. The orchestra part is just so STRONG at this point. I love it too much.
It shouldn't be possible to write something like no 2. But there it is. A gift and a miracle from Bach to us.
Adoro toda la música pero para mí el el barroco marca un antes y un después. Desde mis quince años me ha acompañado hasta hoy, a los 62. Gracias Don Juan Sebastián.
0:18 MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE I DISCOVERED IT A BIT OVER TWO YEARS AGO AND I LOVE THE HARMONIES
This is super genius, i have heard this piece so many times and just tried to study it, everytime i get to know something new about it. How did Bach come up with this masterpiece? The piece as a whole is fantastic but the third movt is just phenomenal, and i am not judging only by the solo parts..
The whole piece is great. I played the second mvt. with a friend at his wife's funeral, it was very moving. Unfortunately, I played it again at my friend's funeral a few months later. We played with 2 vlns., piano (Bosendoerfer at the church) and a bass.
I always love your videos. Thanks for helping bring beauty into this world.
This is the best channel I've ever seen.You have done very good job.
Loved this video! I have to say that I can no longer hear the first movement (especially the motif with the ascending leaps of a 10th in the solo violins) without thinking of the performance Alma Deutscher did with Tanja Zhou that I watched recently. Somehow it just felt to me like it fit them!
I love this concerto especially the well known 2nd movement.
George Frederick Handel You do huh lol
I personally like the first movement more but that's because I played
It. It truly is a sublime song
xpk ryanx Alsp prefer first movement, but it’s technically not a ‘song’, surprisingly.
I like how the melody is interleaved between both violins (counterpoint). Great job Bach!
Practiced for so long...I miss my violin
get it back. RIGHT NOW
what happened to your violin?
The first movement fugue is amazing.
this and the bwv 1060 are just fantastic
¡Mi favorito el tercer movimiento de esta obra magistral! 😍
A true masterpiece
There is JS Bach.......and then a bunch of other composers....
true
And then... there is Beethoven XD
Haha Bach is overrated.
Felipe kmcz those who believe Bach is overrated have a lot of time till there ears and musical understand reaches a higher and deeper level
I see, St. Matthew's Passion is overrated, let's all listen to "Oops, I did it again"
You are a great guy!! thank you!
One of the best Basso continuo by Herr Johann Sebastiän Bäch
This looks like it took a LOT of work. Good Job.
Thanks for uploading!
Obra maestra, genios de la musica!!
Obra maestra!!! Todo lo de J.S. Bach es obra maestra
very good performing, i like how the cello sounds here
I do not think at all it is a very good performing, a good exhibition of speed but very flat
Se escucha mas el double bass que el cello, y siceramente me gusta mas asi
This one is gold!
best interpretation i've heard
감사합니다❤
Absolutely my favorite concerto by Bach. Am curious about the scrolling on the right, however. I can follow the music scrolling on the left just fine, but what are we seeing on the right side at the same time? Just curious if anyone can explain that - thanks.
The left screen is the two violins (double violin concerto) but the piece is for a larger group and the right screen is the other strings including viola, cello...
Yes, the left group is the soloists (two violins) and the right group is the concerto (violins I, violins II, violas, bass-line + figures). The basso continuo is played by cello or bass viol instruments (for instance the viola d'amore) and the harpsichord (or for instance lute instruments) which play/s chords indicated by the figures under the staff.
Well bach violin works are awesome
a masterpiece
this scrolling is excellent!
Nocturnal Snake, which one, the comments, or the BWV 1041? I’d think it’s the piece right?
12:41 and 13:48 are RV 522 (3rd mov.).
Awesome.
ooohw that Generalbass-notations give me eerie flashbacks.
Bravo , It makes me cry ! I've heard that when Bach made this piece He
was thinging about an angel talking with God. Is ti true ?!
I wish I knew, that's a good thing to look up
14:15 to 15:05 Perfection
0:23 3:59 10:33
I just love ittt
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ittttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
Amazin
10:38 tercer movimiento
the bomb
10:45 и до 11:14 - наиболее красивый и запоминающийся момент в третьей части, таких два. В конце тоже есть
It's funny: my favorite part doesn't look that spectacular on paper.
damn! i forgot Tchaikovsky
0:23
Why 360p? UA-cam compresses the sound badly at those lower framerates. Upload at 1080p/60hz at least, please.
360 .. is good
netspirit79 I'm having no problem at 360.... probably cuz I have an Android!
The thing is he can't. All of Bach's works were put into manuscripts in the mid 20th century and the resolution of those documents are poor. Furthermore, gerubach zooms in so that the music fits the screen. This makes the quality what it is. Personally it doesn't bother me.
@@nazaracanreapit This is ridiculous, frankly. The quality of the manuscripts has absolutely nothing to do with what resolution these videos are uploaded in. And if that mattered, it's not as if remastered editions of Bach's works weren't printed any more. (Though I don't know if it's a principle of this channel to use as original sheet music as possible.) And to top it all, you just ignored the fact that the comment was about SOUND quality, not video quality.
(The original comment is misinformed as well, though, as UA-cam's audio quality caps at 480p; at that video quality the audio track is the exact same as in 1080p60.)
@@Maplaplaplapla Although there are many new editions of manuscripts, the Bach Gesellschaft manuscripts are the most commonly used. When the score is enlarged to fit one measure across the entire screen, it's resolution will suffer. Also, I did not address sound quality because every other response agrees with me in that the sound is perfectly adequate. I was merely explaining why the video is and has to be in 360p.
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE!!!
…omg I don’t know if I can do this :( I need to play the left down violin…
Although I only need to play the first movement
What sign is this "_?_" 2:54 in double bass? doesn't match in listening. some notes. (goes up a fifth no a second in the music) any one ?
it goes up a 4th
there might exist several versions, so the publisher in this case marked it for some reason. (if it was in the notes originally and not added afterwards by gerubach)
Yeyeye I know music is subjective and as an artform it's beauty may be interpreted in many ways, but anyone can fucking write like Mozart or Beethoven. They wrote beautifull things but it is the same complexity like all modern music: chord progression with focus on the texture of instrumentation (which is difficult to mess up).
But Bach, to write like him requires not only skill but mastery of counterpoint. It requires a lot of fucking knowledge.
Awesome video. However the eye cannot watch in continuos movement. It needs to stop the image. It is east to read videos where 3 pentagrams are shown and the mark moves on the notes.
here because i procrastinated on learning my part and now i have to preform in front of my teacher RIP
I love this channel, but it's now telling me 'this video is not available' 😢
gerubach's recent videos are not available for mobile UA-cam app users :(
+Jaehaerys III cool, thanks jaehaerys.. Also thanks gerubach, these vids are very helpful.
No hay necesidad de saber de musica para decir que Bach es el mejor
Who the hell would downvote this?
because of 360p propably, can't be because of the music
The undead
Some people are snobbish and get mad over little things they don't think are "historical" or some minor mistakes
me! utterly flat, too fast but not fluid. Listen to
it more carefully. This is not baroque.
Maybe they couldn't "Handel" it!!?!
5:44 shouldnt first violin be playing E flat?
Dave Miller I’m guessing it was not in the edition being performed, but yeah I think most play the E flat
please do the concerto in g minor 1056r
Ajmal T presto?
Could anyone please explain the music theory behind the F-sharp on the first downbeat of the second measure? It is not part of the key (D minor: one flat).
Why did Bach elect to use that note instead of the F natural?
Borrowed chord from G minor.
PkrBarMovie it makes it more dramatic and interesting and helps the c natural feel more.... natural. I'm not good with musical theories
I think it’s from D melodic minor. Just a hypothesis.
I believe most music in minor keys at the time were written in the melodic mode (85% sure)
@@eternitydragon8638 F# is not part of the D minor melodic scale. However, it is part of the G minor melodic scale, which here makes sense.
You have to practice every day, at least but not limited to 30 minutes
10:35
Sorry, does the flat signature on the 1st violin part at 5:44 indicate a mistake during the recording?
No it's there because there is not enough space because of the slur
V_Anh_B I don' t think so. Look at points like 5:08, where accidentals fit normally in the score
I think it's because of a mistake in the recording. I have this suspect because in other points of the movement where the same theme appears E flat is played instead
@@danielevelati2482 Hi there, I think the accidentals are applied for the whole chord, here is an example when you have a D with a just a sharp under it means that you have to play a D chord with a sharp on the 3rd and the numbers just show the chord progression I think
@@danielevelati2482 you can double check by typing "Figure Bass Notation"
V_Anh_B I wasn't referring to the basso continuo, I meant the flat above the E in the first violin part, where instead a E flat is actually played in the recording
#415isdawae
No hay prisa... 🙈🙉🙊
Te odeio locomotiva, por me fazer tocar essa música
这得有上过床的默契才能合奏吧
What kind of monster dislikes this???
I think it sounds more like Vivaldi than Bach because it is a violin concerto. Vivaldi wrote far more violin concerti than Bach.
Well Bach was a fan of Vivaldi
6:42-7:05 - exquisitely heart-wrenching!
7:19 - how can the pros make such a mistake, missing the B-natural? sometimes I wonder if they do it on purpose for kicks!
Is this a fugue?
bstchld anyone LMAOO
Hey! Just sent you a message here on UA-cam! Hoping to hear back from you. :)
The sheet music is total disaster. Where are the parts of the two solo violins
i never understand why go through the effort of doing the scrolling bits
Just keep the score as it is just much better
too rush , sorry
My fucking god, why is it so hard to play e flat instead of e. It is so obviously wrong.
0:21
0:22
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