Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 (Freiburger Barockorchester) 

EuroArtsChannel It's not close. This group's interpretation of the Brandenburg Concertos are by far better than all the other interpretations I have heard.

I really think all Baroque orchestras should play at A415hz like Freiburg.

+EuroArtsChannel Both ensembles are more than accomplished professionals and deserve high praise. But here is my comparison : The Freiburg Orchestra is playing in a better acoustics room. The floor they play on extends all around them that carries the sound and it diffuses and mellows the sound in a pleasing way. The strings have a beautiful sound. The interpretation is more orchestral than chamber for the Mozart Orchestra with the right amount of excitement that it does not tenses this heavenly music too much. That is about all the good I have to say about this Freiburg performance. You might have guessed but i prefer the Orchestra Mozart interpretation. They have soul and move the music with moving and amazing accuracy. The Mozart Orchestras flutist performance is sublime absolutely. The first violinist is very refined virtuoso that is entirely in the music. The harspischordist is also of the highest caliber as a musician and delivers a transparent Bach to us without the bad rubato seen in the Freiburg harpsichordist and delivers all the note distinctly whereas i can tell you the Freiburg one does not, his fingers dont lift fast enough and he mars a lot of fast passages to the point that the musical intention is blunted. But mostly he is not even keeping a steady tempo when he should. It's beyond what is acceptable and irritated me slightly. As far as the overall interpreation the freiburg orchestra does a good job with nuances and conducting maybe better than the Mozart orchestra that has too many individual talents.

+EuroArtsChannel Orchestra of Mozart is better overall and the tempo is better. The solo violinist at least tries to assert himself more. Although I like Dantone, Freiburg harpsichordist's cadenza is WAY more stylish. I don't understand people who play that cadenza with a stiff tempo which reminds me of the dinosaur era of Bach harpsichord playing (1900-1970s).

+EuroArtsChannel Although there is no definitive way to compare this with performance practices of Bach's time (and this was locked away and forgotten in a mayonnaise jar on Funk and Wagnall's porch and never performed for how long was it after Bach presented it to the Margrave of Brandenburg and all involved had died?) I would have to give Freiberg the nod. There is an enthusiasm here that is lacking in other performances.

Has it?

Deborah really

Good application. The Brandenburgs were reportedly written for Christian Ludwig to help w/ his insomnia.

I've never been to an airport that plays it, although I think it's a good idea.

@Deborah this doesn't really seem like it would calm me down... Maybe it's just me but it's pretty fast and jumpy

yuh i will now use this is my powerpoint presentation on bach

@@marianna3188 great! The more people know, the better :)

God. Not god.

@@stupid28273 faute de frappe? :)

Gracias

Yes it so is! That Cadenza looks very hard to play!

Yes, it is some of the most complex harpsichord music ever. Bach bought a big harpsichord and composed that cadenza for it, and also for his own performance

Estevão Z Right now I am learning Invention 8, which is the first really hard Bach piece i have learned. My teacher says that no matter how much experience you get with him, Bach is never easy.

dasd282 Very true. He's a finger twister, and he loves accidentals and modulations. Don't believe it if some folks on RU-vid comment and say "Ah, he's easy if ya just know what you're doin". If they say that, chances are, they can't play!

dasd282 Gods yes! Fantastic!! I bet his fingers was sore the day after!

Nerd

@@epicfortnitedabber And, that is really ok.

Good for you. Few are chosen.

That sure sounds like a 12 year old boy.

@@epicfortnitedabber ur also here

Yessssss

Thanks! I just spit coffee all over my laptop! LOL

PLS LMAO

That guy is the star of this small concert. While everyone is just playing their instruments, he's living his! While everyone is just standing there when it's not their turn, he's eagerly waiting till he can start playing again!

@@CrossoverGameReviews he is certainly the most enjoyable person to watch in all six pieces imo

The serious questions (I mean it): 1. Who is God? 2. What’s the human soul? Could you answer your them?

I can agree with the latter... baroque music definitely does that.

​@@MARTIN201199 God: The Creator of everything, including the human soul, and the source of all good, including all human goodness. Human Soul: The thing that gives life to the human person. You are your soul and body. Without your soul, you are not human. It is literally what makes you human. Good music such as this serves to lift the human soul to contemplate God's goodness, whereas disordered music drags the human soul downwards to more base considerations.

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+Ser Stormcrow isn't it affectuoso?

MissRandomNomad0o The language is in Italian. imslp.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Concerto_No.5_in_D_major,_BWV_1050_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)

Ser Stormcrow well 'affectuoso' is how it was written in my music workbook :\

MissRandomNomad0o Are you Spanish or French, by any chance?

nope. but that's the way it was written in my book, so i'm probably wrong.

I love how I immediately knew which part you were talking about

@@luke-be8yw How do you know you were thinking of the same part?

Amen to that, brother!

And you can bet these ancient music players deeply love what they do. Which is not necessarily the case of musicians in symphony orchestras.

Philip Gregory Sougles You do indeed go to heaven. Bach is God!

hemiolaguy Amen amen!

I think you're underestimating us. We just so get every single thing about this. It's completely overwhelming. It's tears and gratitude and ecstasy. No...we get it brother. As far as "Bach is the greatest musician of all time", Yes - WE know that but I've lived with fantastic. musicians who dub Beethoven and/or Mozart for that honor. It's subjective and I'm kind but once you've peaked on acid with the gushing colorful mandala of Bach's No 5 in D rolling in tears and hallelujahs,- well - you are just forever tainted because you realize - this is God.

danke!

Hallo, wie geht's dir? Ich liebe Deutch!! XD (English: Don't think im crazy, ok, I'm just kidding *;)*)

seems like i wont fail this gcse after all

Thank you for this comment! Now I can’t wait to go listen to all those other performances!!

Check out Robert Hill's interpretation as well. Probably my personal favourite.

he did a private harpsichord lesson with me, absolutely great

That whole section from 6:08 to 8:47 has intrigued me since I first heard it as a teenager on some Musical Heritage Society cassettes that came in the mail. I would play and re-play this movement in part because I loved that passage so much. It's easy to think of Bach as some dour Seventeenth Century Lutheran organist who focused only on the mechanics of composition and not on the musicians who would play his works, but this passage is a part of his canon where you see him elevating one instrumentalist to the center of all the audience's attention. It's somewhat akin to when a jazz band lets one of the saxes go at it with a solo in the midst of a song. All we need here is for the conductor to encourage the audience to give a round of applause to the harpsichordist mid-piece as the rest of the "band" plays on.

This concerto is supposed to have been written for a musical contest between Bach and another famous musician of the Baroque era. That is why the harpsichord part is so difficult.

I love what Douglas Adams wrote about this in The Salmon of Doubt: Whatever new extremities of discovery or understanding we reach, we always seem to find the footsteps of Bach there already. When we see images of the strange mathematical beasts lurking at the heart of the natural world-fractal landscapes, the infinitely unfolding paisley whorls of the Mandelbrot Set, the Fibonacci series, which describes the pattern of leaves growing on the stem of a plant, the Strange Attractors that beat at the heart of chaos- it is always the dizzying, complex spirals of Bach that come to mind. Some people say that the mathematical complexity of Bach renders it unemotional. I think the opposite is true. As I listen to the interplay of parts in a piece of Bach polyphony, each individual strand of music gathers hold of a different feeling in my mind, and takes them on simultaneous interweaving rollercoasters of emotion. One part may be quietly singing to itself, another on an exhilarating rampage, another is sobbing in the corner, another dancing. Arguments break out, laughter, rage. Peace is restored. The parts can be utterly different, yet all belong indivisibly together. It’s as emotionally complex as a family. And now, as we discover that each individual mind is a family of different parts, all working separately but together to create the fleeting shimmers we call consciousness, it seems that once again, Bach was there before us. When you listen to the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, you don’t need a musicologist to tell you that something new and different is happening. Even two and three quarter centuries after it actually was new, you can hear the unmistakable thrumming energy of a master at the height of his powers doing something wild and daring with absolute self-confidence. When Bach wrote it, he put himself at the harpsichord instead of the viola he more usually played in ensembles. It was a happy, productive time of his life when he was at last surrounded by some good musicians. The harpsichord traditionally played a supporting role in this kind of group, but not this time. Bach let rip. As you listen to the first movement, you hear something strange, new, and terrifying giving birth to itself. Or maybe it’s a giant engine, or even a great horse being prepared for a Herculean task, surrounded by (you can’t help jumbling metaphors when language tries to keep up with music) a flotilla of helpers fussing around it. You hear it ticking over, trotting having a little canter here and there, getting a bit frisky, and then taking a trial run as its helpers encourage it onward, keening with bated breath. It hauls itself back in again, does another quick circuit. . . and then the other instruments fall silent. It stands free and alone, pawing at the ground, breathing deeply, gathering its strength, trotting forward . . . And then it makes its move-running . . . hurtling. . .flying . . .climbing. . . clambering. . . pushing. . . panting. . . twisting. . . trashing . . .pounding at the ground . . . pounding . . . pounding . . . suddenly breaking away, running onward desperately, and then, with one last little unexpected step up in the bass, it’s home and free-the main tune charges in triumphantly and it’s all over bar the weeping and dancing (i.e., the second and third movements). The familiarity of the Brandenburgs should not blind us to their magnitude. I’m convinced that Bach is the greater genius who ever walked among us, and the Brandenburgs are what he wrote when he was happy.

He was basically really full of himself and wanted to show off how awesome he was. Not unlike many guitar solos today.

You should check out Jeff Loomis then.

It's amazing

I know right look at his face he's like 'oh god get me out of here'

Looks more to me like "I got this. I was born for this. This is my purpose."

I agree! He´s 100% focused on his art and playing. You know he´s practiced the piece a 1000 times and is perfectionist. How amazing!

@@clara2625 nah look at woman at 11:30 hehe

+Wing Low His secular music maybe is always happy - not his sacred - see Matthew's' Passion.

Agreed! Arpeggios on any stringed/keyed instruments are insane

Ser Stormcrow Amazing!!

yes. my thoughts as well

kappelmeister123 Was it ever performed? I heard somewhere that this piece (along with the other Brandenburg Concertos) was never performed by anyone until it was founded again in the 1840's. I could be wrong about that.

+Ser Stormcrow It's great, but check out also Karl Richer's version - his playing is beyond comparison, for me

+A AAL I've seen that one. By far my favorite!

So true

+Eduardo Fernández And what about Michael Behringer, the harpsichord?

Yes if only he didn't write hundreds of other compositions also. Some say he was not possibly human, God certainly guided him.

@@ericastier1646 Don't attribute Bach's thousands of hours of study to god. What he did he accomplished by himself.

@@lelouchlamperouge600 Did Bach come to this world by himself ? Are the laws of physic that allowed his brain to operate run by Bach ? Was Bach's inspirational driving force to write predominantly sacred music a self egotistic achievement ? Was the first thing you would hear in Bach's mouth : "Me , me me, me. It's me, I am the greatest" ? Are jacobin haters, murderers and genociders from the french revolution still around in France today ? Do they profess egotistic, self pride ,vain, hatred values and think they can order others to banish spiritual elevation ? Bach was inspired by God and the creation. The purity and constancy in his work is a direct reflection of his religious faith.

Bach was definitely a genius of the highest order!One cannot understand how a mere mortal can compose such divine and sublime music which stood the test of time! t's just mind boggling!🎼🎻🎶🎵

@@ericastier1646 Selfless creation and selflessness itself doesnt require deity

Can any music in the universe exceed this in beauty and intellectual content?

wysiwyg248 Precisely!

wysiwyg248 This piece is absolutely perfect for the harpsichord. That sparkling glitteriness is just beyond compare, and cannot be imitated by a piano.

It's good, in the classical sense; But most classical pieces, including this one, just don't convey much emotion to me, if at all. And yes, there are several songs that do fill me with joy.

not sure where you live, Eric S. but if the first movement starting at 3:45 does not remind you of Winter and snow like Pieter Bruegel's the hunters in the snow ans such, I'm not sure what will as I've stated previously

"Who are you! Who loves Classical Music at 12?" Someone who's life was changed by BACH.

Johann Rosario Me! I loved classical music from a very early age!

@@JohannRosario1 It is me, brother I am nine and I play this concerto like a pro. No joke. I am level ARCT on RCM and this piece is really enhancing. I wish to learn more on Bach.

@@paules3437 It is me, brother I am nine and I play this concerto like a pro. No joke. I am level ARCT on RCM and this piece is really enhancing. I wish to learn more on Bach. I play it.

Do you understand how boring your comment is?

I find this comment rather haughty and insulting if not patronising!Every person has the right to express his/her feelings the way they want to!

He was another son of God sent to comfort mankind.

+Gaylon Vickers You're not alone. It happens to many who appreciate the music.

Bach IS a barrockstar!

that's the sort of thing my music teacher would say. should i try it on him?

However bad the joke may be it’s true

Bach was a viola player. That harpsichord bit, he played that to impress a girl. Real talk.

I'm sure that was in his mind when he composed this.

Agree with everything except this small thing: I'd replace your Mozart with Beethoven. Mozart was a purveyor of the pinnacle form of the era during his time (the Classical period specifically), similar to how Bach was also considered someone who was 'stuck' in the old style during his time, even though he perfected and revolutionized that era of music. Bach's contemporaries didn't know/understand all of what he did at the time (hell we're still figuring it out), until figures like Mendelssohn helped bring back Bach's music post mortem. Mozart didn't particularly revolutionize anything in terms of polyphony in the grand sense, not to say that he wasn't extremely prolific and revolutionary in certain other aspects of music (such as scope, certain counterpoint, structure, his operas, etc.) and that he didn't use/expand in a polyphonic sense -- of course he did. However it is Beethoven who essentially ushered in the beginning of the Romantic period, revolutionizing polyphony in terms of expanding the palette and helping contribute to the eventual rise of programmatic music. Whatever you think of his music in particular, Beethoven would be a better analogy. Nothing again Mozart. But your comment is otherwise pretty spot on.

Bach wasn't the originator of the polyphonic tradition by any means but he was unquestionably the greatest master of it.

​@@XavierMacXBeethoven loved Bach & called him "The God of Harmony"

Maravilloso concierto

Daniel Wesley hahahahahahahhahaha

1:02 He came Bach!

Poor Viola...

A good job is what an ordinary worker does!

C'est vrai.

The name of it is a harpsichord, hope this helped!