My God, Every aspect of Matthias's and the others' playing astounds me every time....and what a wonderful arrangement for this ensemble to play. This is one of those groups that I feel like won't hear about much because they don't hype themselves very much...but they're about as legendary and "legit" as you can get. They seem the German variant of the Philip Jones Brass to me....
Never get tired of listening to this performance, And at the end of each viewing, I kept asking myself, "Why does the audience react like they've just heard a mediocre school band perform."
Thank you for your comment. Myself and sveral people had the same feeling as you about the audience.This church --St. Thomas--is where Bach served as Cantor(Music Director, as it were) It seems they're just neibor people with little knowledge about J.S.Bach and brass instruments.
It's so comforting to know that at the beginning of the 2nd mvt. the horns are actually human beings. I thought they were robots for a little while. Still the best brass ensemble in the world, by far.
Interesting, Never knew works like these existed. I only knew the transcriptions for orgue. Well, Bach was a composer, who never had problems to appreciate other composers work. And he had taste of course. The second movement is of exceptional beauty!
Can't believe how lucky I was stumbling upon this fantastic video. Trumpet playing is of course great with beautifully played valve trombone solo with gorgeous tone.
Thank you for your comment I think the horn you mentioned "piccolo french horn " is “Corno da caccia." Valves are controled with players' right hand. As you know French Horns have valves for left hands. Once I read principal trumpet player Matthias Höfs plays 17 different instruments!
I am truly mystified with the 27 Dislikes! How can you not whole-heartedly adore this display of brass playing at its very finest!?? It just doesn't make sense!
Too true. Even though this is not my preferred arrangement (so who cares?), actually "disliking" it is utterly absurd and an uncouth, incompetent and bigoted reaction to outstanding, stellar musicianship, sadly common for today's infantile narcissism frighteningly resembling the Stalinist USSR we're now too like, especially higher (evidently on crack) education (e.g. those mindless hypocritically demanding repeal of the 1st Amendment, of course only for those who disagree, as it was with deranged '60s Berkely bigotry that likewise didn't really riot for true free speech (i.e. for everyone), only their own, but it it's not free for EVERYONE it's not truly free for ANYONE.
Absolutely... if you're minded to listen to this music in the first instance, how can you possibly dislike this mastery? Incredible playing and musicianship.
Thank you for leaveing lovely comeent. Enrique Crespo is a very skillful. He plays the slide trombone, the euphonium as well. The right side trumpet player is Matthias Höfs. For further details, pleas searcha "German Brass" in Google. Sorry for incovenicece but it is inhibited by RUclips to show URL here.
This song is awesome. Our Saint Louis de Montfort high school band played the second movement for graduation 2017. Thanks to Mr. Gregory Escaro, our amazing band teacher!
straordinario! intonazione perfetta, suono magnifico, rotondo, pieno, musicalità strepitosa, carattere ed esperienza! Uno dei gruppi d'ottoni migliori al mondo! Un onore ascoltarli :')
ESPECTACULAR!!! y que frío el público. Lo que tarda en arrancar a aplaudir y con que pocas ganas. Yo les vi en directo en Valencia y me parecieron increíbles.
@sosome57 Thank you. Those instruments are ones in different keys, as you say,and strictly speaking, not only trumpets. One player uses different instruments, such as Flugelhorn,Corno da caccia,etc.
@hockeywarrior Thank you. This is really amazing performance. 1st trumpet player arranged BWV 972 for this ensemble,but I feel as if this is the "original."
Absolutamente increible esta interpretación, son los mejores sin duda. Lo que me choca un poco siendo español es la frialdad de los alemanes en los aplausos al final, en españa la gente hubiera silbado, chidado y lanzado vivares o bravos pero así son, poco expresivos. BRILLANTE.
This is amazing, the first mov. sounds like the opening or the tittle music of a fantasy game like Fire Emblem, Final fantasy or Dragon quest. when the title is shown.
What a lovely version of some lovely music! Thank you. The acoustics don't make the most of the excellent playing, it feels as though more microphones were needed in strategic places.
Who are these excellent brass players -- does their group have a name? Excuse me if I missed it--I'm tired after a long day of saving brass items to my youtube list
What a lovely version of some lovely music! Thank you. The acoustics don't make the most of the excellent playing, it feels as though more microphones were needed in strategic places. Are they period instruments? There is a softness to the sounds of some which suggests they are. I agree the applause is tame, I would also have been much more enthusiastic. Does this ensemble have recordings out? It would be interesting to hear the quality of the recordings because the playing is so good.
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If anyone was wondering, the amazing piccolo player's name is Matthias Höfs.
My God, Every aspect of Matthias's and the others' playing astounds me every time....and what a wonderful arrangement for this ensemble to play. This is one of those groups that I feel like won't hear about much because they don't hype themselves very much...but they're about as legendary and "legit" as you can get. They seem the German variant of the Philip Jones Brass to me....
Magnificent! As an ensemble, brilliant; but Höfs is from another planet!!!
Oh, I like your feeling! "Höfs is from another planet!!!" Nice words!
UNBELIEVABLE PLAYING! I can't believe how tame the clapping is at the end! I would be standing up, screaming after a performance like this.
They are "The finest performing ensemble on this earth".
Valve trombone?! Did not expect that.
Third movement is AMAZING.
Trumpeter on the left has quite a collection on the floor with him!
Hofs' playing always knocks me out, but the whole ensemble is exceptional. Is that Einstein on horn?
This is just unbelievable! I've watched this many, many times and it never gets old. Amazing!
Their sound and musicality is perfect. I find no flaws in their presentation of the music. It is divine!
Incredible skill by all of the brass group but especially the lead piccolo......."exceptional technique". As a trumpet player I'm completely in awe!!
Wow!... The piccolo trumpets sounds purely amazing !
An amazing performance. I love Matthias Höffs piccolo trumpet sound. Amazing!!!
My absolute all-time favourite on all of RUclips (return to this every few years).
Perfect joy from start to finish, a most precious piece of Art.
The moment at 5:41 brings tears. So lovely.
+loudlong
I appreciate your impressive comment.
I really appreciate your beautiful comment "Vivaldi is a devotional father and his music is for God." Excellent！ It is me who must say "Thank you."
German Brass - live ein absolutes Highlight! Blech in höchster Perfektion. Wunderschön!
Never get tired of listening to this performance,
And at the end of each viewing, I kept asking myself, "Why does the audience react like they've just heard a mediocre school band perform."
Thank you for your comment.
Myself and sveral people had the same feeling as you about the audience.This church --St. Thomas--is where Bach served as Cantor(Music Director, as it were)
It seems they're just neibor people with little knowledge about J.S.Bach and brass instruments.
It's so comforting to know that at the beginning of the 2nd mvt. the horns are actually human beings. I thought they were robots for a little while. Still the best brass ensemble in the world, by far.
what an incredible depth of talent in this group. perfection in brass form
Ladies and Gentlemen! Dr. Einstein on French Horn!!
Maravilloso Enique Crespo y Mattias Hofs y los German Brass.
VIVA VIVALDI
VIVA BACH
I have listened to this dozens of times and get goosebumps EVERY time! Such magnificent playing! BRAVO!!
Thank you. I feel as if this arrangement for brass ensemble is ORIGINAL. It looks like Vivaldi's RV 230 was givn another life by Bach.
Interesting, Never knew works like these existed. I only knew the transcriptions for orgue. Well, Bach was a composer, who never had problems to appreciate other composers work. And he had taste of course. The second movement is of exceptional beauty!
Stunning.
Fantastic.
What a lovely version of some lovely music! Thank you.
This is amazing.
Can't believe how lucky I was stumbling upon this fantastic video. Trumpet playing is of course great with beautifully played valve trombone solo with gorgeous tone.
Whoa, these guys are beasts!
I love it....nearly every day....thank you so much...
Bravo!!! Fabulous performance.
Bravo, Wonderful Music! Matthias Hofs can really lay it out on the piccolo trumpet; incredible playing!!! Super!!!
Un pur moment de plaisir !
Quel régal !!!
Glorious music. Thank you composers and players !
They never fail to amaze me again, and again. Danke schön! Sehr sehr sehr gut!
SUPER !
Wonderful trumpet performance. Thank you for j6ngt to uploading this piece.
Thank you for your comment I think the horn you mentioned "piccolo french horn " is “Corno da caccia." Valves are controled with players' right hand. As you know French Horns have valves for left hands. Once I read principal trumpet player Matthias Höfs plays 17 different instruments!
Excelente !!!!!.
wow!!!! Bravo!!!
I am truly mystified with the 27 Dislikes! How can you not whole-heartedly adore this display of brass playing at its very finest!?? It just doesn't make sense!
they only know beatles, stones.
ondaride777 I don’t know. Don’t forget Penny Lane.
Too true. Even though this is not my preferred arrangement (so who cares?), actually "disliking" it is utterly absurd and an uncouth, incompetent and bigoted reaction to outstanding, stellar musicianship, sadly common for today's infantile narcissism frighteningly resembling the Stalinist USSR we're now too like, especially higher (evidently on crack) education (e.g. those mindless hypocritically demanding repeal of the 1st Amendment, of course only for those who disagree, as it was with deranged '60s Berkely bigotry that likewise didn't really riot for true free speech (i.e. for everyone), only their own, but it it's not free for EVERYONE it's not truly free for ANYONE.
Absolutely... if you're minded to listen to this music in the first instance, how can you possibly dislike this mastery? Incredible playing and musicianship.
Simply: Heavenly.
A really clever arrangement, and really superb playing.
Vi ascolto con una gioia incredibile...strepitosi.
Thank you for leaveing lovely comeent. Enrique Crespo is a very skillful. He plays the slide trombone, the euphonium as well. The right side trumpet player is Matthias Höfs. For further details, pleas searcha "German Brass" in Google. Sorry for incovenicece but it is inhibited by RUclips to show URL here.
Me encantó, muchas gracias por compartirlo con el mundo, una joya clásica, un abrazo!
ОЧАРОВАН!!!СПАСИБО!!!
Maravilhoso, amei!!!
thank you! I play Trumpet/piccolo. I find this incredible.
this is incredibly well played music!
amazing
Brillantissime interprétaion ! On en redemande !...
I think so too. I sitll fell their performance is incredibly excellent.
MARAVILLOSO PERFECT
What a lovely version of some lovely music! Thank you. The acoustics don't make the most of the excellent playing.
I love the trumpet piccolo
Super !
Simplesmente maravilhoso e muito próximo da perfeição! Bach com certeza era algo musical aqui na terra...
Unfathomably Beautious. The Light fills my Soul.
This song is awesome. Our Saint Louis de Montfort high school band played the second movement for graduation 2017. Thanks to Mr. Gregory Escaro, our amazing band teacher!
Magnificently Beautiful!! :)
Im stunned...
wonderful! wow
+pilot spotter I totally agree with you. and am glad to see your comment. Thank you.
straordinario! intonazione perfetta, suono magnifico, rotondo, pieno, musicalità strepitosa, carattere ed esperienza! Uno dei gruppi d'ottoni migliori al mondo! Un onore ascoltarli :')
ESPECTACULAR!!! y que frío el público. Lo que tarda en arrancar a aplaudir y con que pocas ganas. Yo les vi en directo en Valencia y me parecieron increíbles.
blasting it on my new stereo....crying
@sosome57 Thank you. Those instruments are ones in different keys, as you say,and strictly speaking, not only trumpets. One player uses different instruments, such as Flugelhorn,Corno da caccia,etc.
I totally agree with you. Thank you.
Great musicians !! congratulations, amazing performance
excelente
Geweldig!!
@hockeywarrior Thank you. This is really amazing performance. 1st trumpet player arranged BWV 972 for this ensemble,but I feel as if this is the "original."
Superb..marvelous!!. I listen to it often. Cannot understand why The audience is cool
Absolutamente increible esta interpretación, son los mejores sin duda. Lo que me choca un poco siendo español es la frialdad de los alemanes en los aplausos al final, en españa la gente hubiera silbado, chidado y lanzado vivares o bravos pero así son, poco expresivos. BRILLANTE.
The best Ensemble in the world!!
Eu concordo com você. Provavelmente eles são os melhores brass ensemble no mundo.
Wooow que hermoso control del instrumento, para mi los alientos son los más dificiles, pero estas personas hacen que parezca muy sencillo :)
MERCI Messieurs encore Bravo
Best..
Yes you are very right.
This soloist has such beautiful hands.
I wish my plating was half as good as his!
tres jolie
ロータリトランペット、ピッコロとらんぺっと、ヴァルブトロンボーン…音が柔くて、暖かくて教会音楽に凄くいい楽器だな…
聞いてて涙でてきた
嬉しいコメントをありがとうございます。
これは、バッハがずっと務めていた、そしてお墓がある、ライプツィッヒの聖トーマス教会ですからね。バッハそのもの、のような場所です。美しいですね。
Ich stimme Ihnen zu. Es ist wirklich erstaunlich, dass jeder Spieler bei technischen und künstlerischen Niveau Solisten 'ist
Me llega al alma, bellísima música.
ramiro ortega Gracias por tu hermoso comentario.
Cierto!!
A score for A piccolo Trumpet is available at Maurice Andre's website.
This is amazing, the first mov. sounds like the opening or the tittle music of a fantasy game like Fire Emblem, Final fantasy or Dragon quest. when the title is shown.
Bravo to the tenth power!!!!
What a lovely version of some lovely music! Thank you. The acoustics don't make the most of the excellent playing, it feels as though more microphones were needed in strategic places.
Hello. I also think they are the finest brass ensemble I've ever seen.
This is totally amazing... Where can I get the sheets of this arrangement??
Saint thomas de Leipzig.
C'est toujours beau...
Love the tight semiquavers at 7:01!
Who are these excellent brass players -- does their group have a name?
Excuse me if I missed it--I'm tired after a long day of saving brass items to my youtube list
German Brass
Dare I say the finest performing ensemble in the world. Debate me. But you won't, because you likely agree :)
Hahaha! Your are absolutely right. I totally agree with you! Thank you
That lead trumpet. 'Nuff said.
Wonderful Playing! Also, does anyone know what kind of french horn is shown at 1:07?
Fanfare italienne de Bach Vivaldi
What a lovely version of some lovely music! Thank you. The acoustics don't make the most of the excellent playing, it feels as though more microphones were needed in strategic places. Are they period instruments? There is a softness to the sounds of some which suggests they are. I agree the applause is tame, I would also have been much more enthusiastic. Does this ensemble have recordings out? It would be interesting to hear the quality of the recordings because the playing is so good.