Bach was inspired by Pachelbel, Buxtehude, Vivaldi and other composers. This is an excellent example of how one’s knowledge, skills and talent can benefit the entire society and future generations. I believe we have to thank Bach and other truly devoted teachers and professionals who share their experience in order to make our world a better place to live in.
Nothing wrong in what you write. But it's not near the truth: It must have been angels from heaven who inspired Bach's music - at least some parts of it!
this is an extraordinary performance, no wonder it has caught the attention of so many, you have to feel something listening to her if you have some sensibility
Just revisited this video after first watching it 3 weeks ago, and here I am, a grown man, weeping. Never have I heard anything so profound, so moving, so touching...so heartfelt. And when I closed my eyes and meditated to the text as she sang "Herz und Auge weint vor dir bitterlich", my own strength utterly failed to hold back the tears. What nourishment for the soul!
I sincerely hope while listening to this magnificiant piece of nusic, you would perhaps think for one moment of the sufferings of those Syrian refugees battling the earth's seas to reach freedom.
It’s just so amazing, there aren’t words....and the violinist deserves very high praise, as well. I’ve listened to just about every version of this aria on RU-vid, and there isn’t a singer who can touch Julia Hamari’s interpretation, in my opinion. However, I haven’t heard every version of this aria, bc it was around for a few hundred years before singers could be recorded. And musical taste is so subjective, and for some reason this is especially true for classical vocalists, so I can’t say it’s the best ever....I can only say-to my ears-this is perfect!!
@@voraciousreader3341 OTTO BÜCHNERS Violinspiel ist zum Weinen schön. OTTO BÜCHNER's violin playing is beautiful to cry. Le jeu de violon d’OTTO BÜCHNER est beau à pleurer.
In the 50 years since this video was recorded, there have been many wonderful performances of this aria but none come close to the beauty and emotion of this performance. Exquisite!
This performance has never been superseded. Absolutely astonishing. The dialogue of the voice with the violin is heart-wrenching. Indeed, Otto Buchner's violin play gives stability to this very fragile incantation of human suffering. Bach is unparalleled in his ability to give voice to this and help us connect with each other.
The beauty of this piece and the perfection of this performance is almost overwhelming. And what an incredible recording, both the audio and video. This really is a treasure.
+Whizzbizz Actually, it's the other way around. Violins were made to emulate the human voice but it's a rather pathetic attempt as the human voice is incomparable in its flexibility in timbre and expressiveness. You simply have to listen to Bach's arias and you will know.
@@juanstill This is interesting. Just woke up. Staring at this comment trying to understand that I'm not Juan Simon, and having a strong feeling that I wrote this. ⭐💪☕ God believes in Bach. How I love this point of view.
I love music, but I have never heard such a flawless and heavenly inspired interpretation of St Matthew's Passion. Hungarian singer here, Julia Hamari’s voice was forged in heaven. The orchestra is amazing. Otto Büchner and Julia Hamari deliver an out of this world performance of an indescribably moving piece of music by Bach. It's one of the best things I've ever listened to. Her voice is pure, untrammelled, pure perfection. It could make any doubtful mortal, like myself, and believe in God immediately considering the theme.
I’ve literally watched/listened to every version of this duet-male or female-that I can find on RU-vid and, in my considered opinion, none of them comes close to the beauty of voice, the incredible legato (thus showing an impeccable technique), the depth of commitment of the singer to the lyrics, and the _fantastic_ lyrical playing by the violinist. Julia Hamari’s musicality and excellent taste is beyond amazing!
Oh meu Deus! Tem piedade de todos aqueles que nasceram, que vivem e que morrerão sem nunca saberem que esta obra, absolutamente comovente e única, foi composta há séculos.
I've been obsessed with this video for nearly three years now. I keep coming back to it. The orchestra are amazing, but Otto Büchner and Julia Hamari deliver out of this world performances of an indescribably moving piece of music. It's still the best thing I've ever found on RU-vid.
Well, notwithstanding, there are many beautiful performances on youtube and I hope you find all of them and I wish you good luck for you will need it. I, myself am still looking and keep finding such pearls such as this one.
Oh, God. I have studied classical music for 32 years now, and I have never, I mean NEVER heard such a flawless and inspired interpretation of St Matthew's Passion. Her voice was forged in heaven. It's almost a spiritual extracorporeal experience.
@@donnrutkoff922 Yes, why did we not know about her? I am from the Netherlands and a real Bach fan and who are you? WHY don't we know this gorgeous voice? Was she not allowed to our concert halls?
Know her since the eighties Tarkovsky movie 'Offret" , which includes Hamari's version. (little different version) which you can see here; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PlV4k2GNGmo.html
Es ist schwer, nicht gerührt zu werden, wenn man Julia Hamari diese Arie singen hört. Buße, Barmherzigkeit und Hoffnung werden gefordert. Es ist ein Kompendium von so tiefen Gefühlen, dass unsere Seele vor Liebe weint.
Sono pienamente d'accordo! Questa musica è così perfetta e così assoluta che qualsiasi parola su di essa non può che essere inadeguata..e questi grandi interpreti lo hanno compreso perfettamente..ed è per questo che queste storiche interpretazioni colpiscono commuovono ed esaltano spiritualmente.. anche noi che viviamo nell'era digitale.
What an interpretation. Amazing Ms. Hamari with a voice from heaven. Mr. Buchner makes the violin sing as beautiful as Ms. Hamari. Great orchestra. Thank you Mr. Bach for such a marvelous music. I am a 70+ years old classical music lover. I discovered them recently. Where have you been RU-vid all these years? Thank you for enriching our lives. Love to all.
I could stare at her singing this piece all day. She's perfect. The music's perfect. The camera work is terrific. Seven minutes and 34 seconds of delight.
Well, it depends on the aria. For example, the Agnus Dei from the Mass in D minor was performed most exquisitely by Hertha Topper with the same forces as in this recording.
Tarkovsky’s movie, Sacrifice has this music in the ending credit. It took me a while to find this piece.. i think her version matches closest to the one from the movie. The most beautiful cinematic scene was completed by this heavenly music.
How can this video have so many dislikes?You don't have to be religious to appreciate the sincerity, sadness and profoundity of this music. This is as perfect as art gets.
I read in Wikipedia that just this performance of Julia Hamary was used by famous Russian film director Andrey Tarkovsky in his last film The Sacrifice.
No, it isn't the best film of Tarkovsky. Andrey Rublev is much better, but it is devoted to specific Russian problems and may be not understood by world audience.
+Leonid Odin The Sacrifice is superb, but Stalker is magnificent and Mirror and Andrei Rublev are barely surpassed in cinema history (Sansho the Bailiff by Mizoguchi is the peak).
+icorry56 Nah, honestly, the film is nonsense. I've watched all his films many times and read a lot about him and by him, including his diaries. By the end of his life he had started to take seriously many 'spiritual' things such as meditation, magic, theosophy and so on. It seemed that he didn't know what to choose or how to explain the world around and tried everything 'unusual'. The whole idea of the film is pure crap and non-Christian at all. I don't like Nostalgia either. However, the other films are great, true masterpieces. Even his film school graduation project.
+Alexander Kuptsov You say: "The whole idea of the film is pure crap and non-Christian at all." Does being Christian prevent eveything from being crap? Or what do you mean?
As many times as I have heard this aria sung by both men and women, nothing ever seems to compare in emotion, richness and "passion" as this version sung by Julia Hamari. Thank you. Your upload is the clearest on RU-vid.
This is the most beautiful Bach creation I have listened to since JSB came into my life in 1951 during the St.Matheus performance in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Most solits singing this aria are inspired by the sublime musical balance between voice and instrument of this work, that they usually reach the optimum of their ability.
Comparing this with later interpretations, no one comes close. I remember when I first heard this on vinyl in my teens, the impression is the same, 40 years later. Genius.
It's a pity that nowadays Bach's works are almost always given in a hurried way which is neither appropriate for the content nor of the time the music was composed in. If you feel like dancing when listening to Bach's 3 Kyries at the beginning of his Mass in B Minor, something is terribly wrong!
+Andre Berbie I fully agree with you: I just compared Hamari with Galou, Otter, Stutzmann...this is the best in all. What is astonishing for me is the perfect baroque interpretation of Julia Hamari, in a performance of probably 40 years ago. Well, the violin plays with a little much vibrato, but the sound is beautiful and the pathos really high.
Julia Hamari is also on aria duty in Rilling's Matthew Passion recording from about 1979. Her Erbarme from that just shades the Gonnenwein, I would say, but I would be hard pressed to choose between it and the above effort, as there's something about looking at her singing which adds to the performance and clouds comparison. Her perfect intonation, soprano like clarity of tone, and deep emotion sets her up there near the top for me.
Most beautiful performance I've ever heard of a mezzo- soprano singing Bach: Julia Hamari indeed was "In trance and out of this world!" Thanks so very much for sharing!!!
The combination of forces under the late Richter, in this masterpiece, so deeply emotional and heart tearing is superb. It is quite unlike the latest fashion of bloodless vampire singers who suck the very soul of the music instead of allowing themselves to be engulfed in its potency and be devoured by the very desire to express...
Make sure you understand that every face is different. So yes, looking at other singers is very interesting, but don't copy it exactly, as every has a different facial structure. I love that she is showing her teeth.
Quand on pense que quantité de gens n'écoutent jamais de telles merveilles. Ce type de morceaux musicaux et lyriques devraient réunir la totalité des humains. Cela rendrait le monde plus uni et solidaire.
She had a natural vibrato, her voice was never a small voice but rather lyrical and at the end of her career she had a rather dramatic voice, it was the 70's at this time and the technical conception of music was different and just listen to the old recordings and the singers really sang loudly and nowadays it's forbidden and each season has its moments and ours will be overtaken in the future also in the next generation and so is life and particularly love her voice - (Julia Hamari) and the German technique in German music with German conception is a perfect junction ... 😀
Some please make option for lyrics in german and english: Erbarme dich, mein Gott, um meiner Zähren willen! Schaue hier, Herz und Auge weint vor dir bitterlich. Erbarme dich, mein Gott. Have mercy, my God, for the sake of my tears! See here, before you heart and eyes weep bitterly. Have mercy, my God.
Julia Hamari est excellente et vraiment pénétrée par la dramaturgie de cet aria, peut être un sommet de la musique de tous les temps. Je la place au même rang que Nathalie Stutzman. Toutes deux absolument fabuleuses, bouleversantes. Le premier violon est sublime, envoûtant.
Erbarme dich, mein Gott, um meiner Zähren willen! Schaue hier, Herz und Auge weint vor dir bitterlich. Erbarme dich, mein Gott. Have mercy, my God, for the sake of my tears! See here, before you heart and eyes weep bitterly. Have mercy, my God.
This is the benchmark forever, as far as it's about Bach's "Erbarme Dich" Das ist für alle Zeiten der Maßstab für die Interpretation von Bachs "Erbarme Dich"
This should have more views then it gets, the hard work Bach put into making the Matthäus Passion. The tranquility of this piece leaves me to tears. Music today, isn't even music, it's utter trash. The Erbarme dich will (to me) be one of the greatest achievements in all music.
I am still trying to understand what those 85 dislikes ( as now ) are about... I guess you can't please everybody uh?... I could prefer such or such interpreter to others ( we all have our own taste ) but to disqualify these supperb artists it is to me,a sign of a profound ignorance!!!!
.. according to the Wikipedia, she made her debut as soloist in this performance, and I find it the finest of the 18 in the RU-vid playlist. She became a professor of singing, and certainly knew how sing this aria. Let us hope she has passed on her great gifts. It says much for Karl Richter than he chose her for the part. I am sure there is a story behind that, not covered in the Wikipedia at present ...
Hello every one, Bach said once, " I make music for the glroy of God", and therefore the Glory of God is Jesus and Bach knew very well WhoJesus is. If you are reading this, I invite you to accept Jesus in your heart and you will know the real life for you and for your family and you will escape from the judgments that are happening ritgh now and from the coming also . Jesus transform the heart of people whom believe in Him , because the problem of every human is inside of them. God Bless you in Jesus Christ.
Incredible, extraordinary, powerful and yet so smooth. What an unbelievable performance from all involved in this interpretation, and I've heard this many times by other orchestras/singers. Bravo! As for JS Bach, there are no words to describe his music. Beautiful.
