So stelle ich mir Bach vor, es ist so überzeugend, so stark in seiner Aussage, die Bach immer wieder widerholend in seinen Werken darstellt! Das macht die Freudigkeit des Christentums aus!
This is remarkable! I had the pleasure of hearing Richter in Boston around the time of this recording. Listening to his work is an effective antidote to some of the more severe “authentic” performances heard today. Nobility, power and emotion all are communicated here.
Thomas Vendetti What an amazing opportunity to hear and watch the great Richter live! I'm very jealous. Along with his contemporary, Glenn Gould, these are two artists who passed away only two years after my birth but who have influenced my passion for Bach more than most others. (P.S. I do still enjoy some period instrument/authenticity performances, but I do believe that if Bach had the Münchener Bach-Chor or a Steinway, he would have used them)
Those who love the spiritual and deeply movingly inspired interpretation of Bach, will find nothing wanting in Doktor Richter's playing or conducting. He is keenly missed and mourned for none has come to take his place. I believe he said in substance that it takes a Saxon to interpret Bach properly. I do agree.
Focus, intense, powerful, yet fraught with spiritual insight which is missing the merely academic performances which in effect are really more romanticized than Richter. His performances are involving and allow the textual to shine through via the musical. After s as LL that’s what good choral art is, about the text. The text should govern the music. It is mystical. It is spiritual. It is religious. Bach signed all his work SDG (alone to the glory of God)
@@helensilver1381 Well said! So do I, he was the highpoint of the glorious Leipzig School, nobody after him used his deeply meditative and intellectual approach to Bach.
So stelle ich mir Bach vor, es ist so überzeugend, so stark in seiner Aussage, die Bach immer wieder widerholend in seinen Werken darstellt! Das macht die Freudigkeit des Christentums aus!
This is remarkable! I had the pleasure of hearing Richter in Boston around the time of this recording. Listening to his work is an effective antidote to some of the more severe “authentic” performances heard today. Nobility, power and emotion all are communicated here.
Thomas Vendetti What an amazing opportunity to hear and watch the great Richter live! I'm very jealous. Along with his contemporary, Glenn Gould, these are two artists who passed away only two years after my birth but who have influenced my passion for Bach more than most others. (P.S. I do still enjoy some period instrument/authenticity performances, but I do believe that if Bach had the Münchener Bach-Chor or a Steinway, he would have used them)
Those who love the spiritual and deeply movingly inspired interpretation of Bach, will find nothing wanting in Doktor Richter's playing or conducting. He is keenly missed and mourned for none has come to take his place. I believe he said in substance that it takes a Saxon to interpret Bach properly. I do agree.
Focus, intense, powerful, yet fraught with spiritual insight which is missing the merely academic performances which in effect are really more romanticized than Richter.
His performances are involving and allow the textual to shine through via the musical. After s as LL that’s what good choral art is, about the text. The text should govern the music. It is mystical. It is spiritual. It is religious. Bach signed all his work SDG (alone to the glory of God)
@@helensilver1381 Well said! So do I, he was the highpoint of the glorious Leipzig School, nobody after him used his deeply meditative and intellectual approach to Bach.
The movie was sad