Amazed by Shunske Sato's poise, universality and stunning career so far ! No doubt in the new paths he will choose he will keep thrilling and teaching us. Can't wait ! 💐
The best Christmas present we could have this year (and the world could really use one), would be to have the NBS post the full recording of this! (hint, hint ... ;)
I look forward with great anticipation to hearing the NBS performance of the Christmas Oratorio, long overdue. Thank you so much NBS. Peace & Joy for Christmas 2023.
Wow what a beautifully enriching way to experience the music with the story. I thoroughly enjoyed this. How fantastic that the crossed out music was preserved to grant us an intimate insight into Bach's process?! Bridging Heaven and Earth - the eternal quest through time!
¡Qué charla tan interesante! Nos brinda herramientas para apreciar la obra de arte, y al mismo tiempo nos invita a participar en las celebraciones de Navidad con mayor conocimiento de causa e intención: recibir en nuestros corazones una semilla de Paz y Amor. ☮☮☮
If that was possible compared to your standards, this is a top quality video production: commentaries, music, insight, history and beautifulness! (and free for everyone on YT!!!) Thank you forever NBS
Hi! I just wanted to say thank you for providing this video and all the other great music for us, it's a real joy to be able to watch all of these videos!
Thanks much for this! I've been going to the Bachfest Leipzig for the past couple of summers and have heard the Passions and the Mass in B-minor. But of course, not a single note of the Christmas Oratorio because it is so associated with Christmas. I even wrote their director Michael Maul an email suggesting that they do the Christmas Oratorio at Bachfest for those of us who never get to hear it because we are English speaking countries where we only get to hear Handel's Messiah. I live in Honolulu, Hawaii, 8,000 miles from Thomaskirche and can't just take a tram there. Btw, caught NBS performance of cantatas (including the utterly magnificent Ein Feste Burg BWV 80) at Nikolaikirche in 2022. The long standing ovation was well deserved.
I was just thinking this season, when is NBS going to do the Christmas Oratorio? Perhaps this year? And sure enough, they are! A wonderful masterpiece of Bach. Blessings to all at NBS!
I thought the same already last year! I also wonder whether the NBS version will become my favorite version -- after so many years in which the Gardiner version has been my favorite one.
@@hiw9528 honestly, if the NBS puts this recording up (this year?! Please!), it will definitely become my favourite and go to recording of the Christmas Oratorio. As good as the Gardiner is, the tempi for my taste are by and large too fast, and emotion is lost, which is not what you want with this (or any) Bach piece.
Thanks for all you do. Feel so fortunate to live at a time when you and your colleagues are making all of these performances and information available.
What an absolute treasure, the performance, the history, you all make some of the best videos on Bach, I can't wait to see you all live, love from the US
Classical Music's Enduring Allure. 🎶🕰 Whether it's the soothing notes of a sonata or the grandeur of a symphony, classical music has an unmatched ability to captivate the heart and mind.
The more one studies Bach--especially the cantatas--the more one sees that he was not only one of the great composers in history but also one of the best and more creative dramatists. Where other composers are up-front with text painting, Bach is more hidden. Like a cypher. Once the key is used, his intentions become clear, and it is thrilling.
The Oratorio has long been one of my very favorite pieces of music. I listen to it almost daily during Advent (I particularly enjoy the Harnancourt and Gardiner videos). Thank you for the background information. It is greatly appreciated. And I look forward to hearing NBS's rendition. Frohe Weihnachten!
Perhaps in future, Shunske could return in some capacity to continue collaborating with NBS on a part year basis. It seems there is a need for him right now to do more conventional touring, recording and works, other than Bach. He is an extraordinary musician and artist, so he has to go in the direction that his passion takes him.
A wonderful commentary. Thank you. If a couple of my musicology professors, when I was in Conservatory, had been this eloquent, I might have paid more attention.🤣
I really enjoyed how this video shows the relation of the Christmas Oratorio to Bach's earlier works, as well as the close look into the composition process of "Schließe mein Herze". Very informative and the excerpts make me eager to listen to the full work once it releases.
The music is sublime. To me it is even more interesting when we look at the progression in performance practices looking back to Harnoncourt and the Concentus Musicus contrasting those performances which were for their time seismic with today’s marvelous work. It’s wonderful to behold and a joy which takes me back forty years as though it was yesterday. Thank you for continuing the exploration and development which enriches all of us in ways we may not fully grasp. Peace
Brilliant! thank you Sato-san. I finally learned something new, this is a fantastic way of explaining background and context to this divine music. I hope to see more of this. Greetings from the Wild West.
What a delight to follow visually and auditorially players who have become familiar to us out here in cyberland, AND to have the text of this magnificent oratorio so thoughtfully expressed.
Great music from the master that is Bach one of my all time favourite composers. Regarding Christmas which is Yuletide reimagined, I wish one day, that our European nations can return to their native folkish roots a.k.a. Pagan, but updated for the modern world. Over one thousand years of Abrahamic mind control has diminished our connection to our own ethnic folk faith that is many thousands of years old.
Maestro Sato, My sincere thanks for your impeccable scholarship. It was a joy to watch this piece. I only humbly disagree on one point. It is true that the shepherds were called upon to sing a lullaby to baby Jesus in No. 18. However I don’t believe that number 19 was misplaced by Bach. I believe that Schlafe mein Liebster was coincidentally intended as a lullaby from Mother Mary to Jesus as evidenced by the intimate lyrics a mother would sing to her baby. I may be wrong, but it is something to consider. Thanks again for this beautiful video!
It is very very pity, that Shunsuke Sato is no more musical director of this Bach Society. On 30 May 2023, Sato resigned as the concertmaster, soloist, and artistic director of the Netherlands Bach Society after a farewell concert. Perhaps nobody can play better the role of artistic director in this society than Sato.
Klaus Eidam in his Bach bio Das wahre Leben des Johann Sebastian Bach (The True Life of Johann Sebastian Bach) was able to set the record straight because he did what Spitta and everyone else that followed him didn't do: he read the Leipzig city council records. Eidam devotes several pages to the Christmas Oratorio. Bach reutilized secular music for sacred ends, but never the reverse, which would be similar to taking an altar flower and sticking it in one's buttonhole.
Some of the arias and recitatives in the Oratorio arguably represent the voices of Biblical characters: soprano - an Angel, contralto - Mary, Tenor ´- the Evangelist and bass - Herod. The lovely aria "Schlafe, mein Liebster" seems to be sung from the perspective of Mary watching her son.
Gerne hätte ich die Ausführungen des Herrn wenigstens mit deutschen Untertiteln gehört, so jedoch bleibt das eigentliche Werk von Herrn Bach, was überirdische Musik ist.
Sato is one of the great violinists in the world. And this talk further cements his status as world-treasure.
Was für ein intelligenter und gelehrter Violinist-Dirigent!
Sato is so cool.
Can't wait till this is released!
Amazed by Shunske Sato's poise, universality and stunning career so far ! No doubt in the new paths he will choose he will keep thrilling and teaching us. Can't wait ! 💐
Thank you Sato for this great, informative commentary.
The best Christmas present we could have this year (and the world could really use one), would be to have the NBS post the full recording of this! (hint, hint ... ;)
I look forward with great anticipation to hearing the NBS performance of the Christmas Oratorio, long overdue. Thank you so much NBS. Peace & Joy for Christmas 2023.
This was so scholarly and interesting. I will now listen to the Oratorio with new interest and new ears!
Mr. Sato and the NBS: thank you so much for creating this very interesting and beautiful short.
What a documentary! ❤ Thank you!
Wow what a beautifully enriching way to experience the music with the story. I thoroughly enjoyed this. How fantastic that the crossed out music was preserved to grant us an intimate insight into Bach's process?! Bridging Heaven and Earth - the eternal quest through time!
Thank you very much, Sato-san and orchestra for this fantastic comment on Bach’s artistic work practice. It was most enjoyable.
Please give us the oratorio as a christmas gift it would be more than perfect ty NBS💙💙
¡Qué charla tan interesante!
Nos brinda herramientas para apreciar la obra de arte, y al mismo tiempo nos invita a participar en las celebraciones de Navidad con mayor conocimiento de causa e intención: recibir en nuestros corazones una semilla de Paz y Amor.
☮☮☮
If that was possible compared to your standards, this is a top quality video production: commentaries, music, insight, history and beautifulness! (and free for everyone on YT!!!)
Thank you forever NBS
Awesome introduction.
How insightful! It is such a pleasure to hear Sato walk us through the different stages of this magnificent composition.
Hi! I just wanted to say thank you for providing this video and all the other great music for us, it's a real joy to be able to watch all of these videos!
Thanks much for this! I've been going to the Bachfest Leipzig for the past couple of summers and have heard the Passions and the Mass in B-minor. But of course, not a single note of the Christmas Oratorio because it is so associated with Christmas. I even wrote their director Michael Maul an email suggesting that they do the Christmas Oratorio at Bachfest for those of us who never get to hear it because we are English speaking countries where we only get to hear Handel's Messiah. I live in Honolulu, Hawaii, 8,000 miles from Thomaskirche and can't just take a tram there. Btw, caught NBS performance of cantatas (including the utterly magnificent Ein Feste Burg BWV 80) at Nikolaikirche in 2022. The long standing ovation was well deserved.
the perfect gift!
FANTASTIC
I was just thinking this season, when is NBS going to do the Christmas Oratorio? Perhaps this year? And sure enough, they are! A wonderful masterpiece of Bach. Blessings to all at NBS!
I think I'll have a new favorite recording of that piece 👀
I thought the same already last year! I also wonder whether the NBS version will become my favorite version -- after so many years in which the Gardiner version has been my favorite one.
@@hiw9528 honestly, if the NBS puts this recording up (this year?! Please!), it will definitely become my favourite and go to recording of the Christmas Oratorio. As good as the Gardiner is, the tempi for my taste are by and large too fast, and emotion is lost, which is not what you want with this (or any) Bach piece.
Thanks for all you do. Feel so fortunate to live at a time when you and your colleagues are making all of these performances and information available.
BEAUTIFUL! And very interesting.
What an absolute treasure, the performance, the history, you all make some of the best videos on Bach, I can't wait to see you all live, love from the US
Danke für diesen Beitrag - der ein großes Geschenk ist.
Just great!! Thanks for unveiling some mysteries, doing it in such an engaging and entertaining manner.Tutti bravviii!!👏
He's a good teacher is Maestro Sato.
Classical Music's Enduring Allure. 🎶🕰 Whether it's the soothing notes of a sonata or the grandeur of a symphony, classical music has an unmatched ability to captivate the heart and mind.
The more one studies Bach--especially the cantatas--the more one sees that he was not only one of the great composers in history but also one of the best and more creative dramatists. Where other composers are up-front with text painting, Bach is more hidden. Like a cypher. Once the key is used, his intentions become clear, and it is thrilling.
What an amazing commentary on such a great piece of music!
The Oratorio has long been one of my very favorite pieces of music. I listen to it almost daily during Advent (I particularly enjoy the Harnancourt and Gardiner videos). Thank you for the background information. It is greatly appreciated. And I look forward to hearing NBS's rendition. Frohe Weihnachten!
Thank you, NBS! What a fascinating talk. And yes, for me too this is one of my all time favorite music.
Sato is missed in NBS . Thanks for sharing this treasure .
Perhaps in future, Shunske could return in some capacity to continue collaborating with NBS on a part year basis. It seems there is a need for him right now to do more conventional touring, recording and works, other than Bach. He is an extraordinary musician and artist, so he has to go in the direction that his passion takes him.
Thank you very much NBS for this wonderful Christmas gift. ❤🤗
A wonderful commentary. Thank you. If a couple of my musicology professors, when I was in Conservatory, had been this eloquent, I might have paid more attention.🤣
I really enjoyed how this video shows the relation of the Christmas Oratorio to Bach's earlier works, as well as the close look into the composition process of "Schließe mein Herze". Very informative and the excerpts make me eager to listen to the full work once it releases.
Sato makes it clear that Bach possessed a rare intelligence, and knew exactly what he was doing. This is a very interesting mini-lecture - thank you.
Wow!! I was waiting for this, not lying!
Very enlightening !
This was really informative and very enjoyable. Thank you!
What a gem of a documentary!
This was wonderful!!!
The music is sublime. To me it is even more interesting when we look at the progression in performance practices looking back to Harnoncourt and the Concentus Musicus contrasting those performances which were for their time seismic with today’s marvelous work. It’s wonderful to behold and a joy which takes me back forty years as though it was yesterday. Thank you for continuing the exploration and development which enriches all of us in ways we may not fully grasp.
Peace
I agree with all of you. We need a full recording this year. I’d love it.
Thank you. This is so beautifully done.
I've been waiting for this moment
Kedves Nagy Adrienn! Csodálatos, amit csinálnak!
Köszönjük! ❤
Brilliant!
thank you Sato-san.
I finally learned something new, this is a fantastic way of explaining background and context to this divine music.
I hope to see more of this.
Greetings from the Wild West.
Thanks for an enlightening and enjoyable video, though I would welcome Enlish translations of the "tainted" and other German texts quoted by Shunske.
What a delight to follow visually and auditorially players who have become familiar to us out here in cyberland, AND to have the text of this magnificent oratorio so thoughtfully expressed.
Thank you Jesus Christ!
We can enjoy composing, playing, singing and listening the beautiful holy musics about you the Lord today.
Great music from the master that is Bach one of my all time favourite composers. Regarding Christmas which is Yuletide reimagined, I wish one day, that our European nations can return to their native folkish roots a.k.a. Pagan, but updated for the modern world. Over one thousand years of Abrahamic mind control has diminished our connection to our own ethnic folk faith that is many thousands of years old.
Ha sido un placer.
Maestro Sato, My sincere thanks for your impeccable scholarship. It was a joy to watch this piece. I only humbly disagree on one point. It is true that the shepherds were called upon to sing a lullaby to baby Jesus in No. 18. However I don’t believe that number 19 was misplaced by Bach. I believe that Schlafe mein Liebster was coincidentally intended as a lullaby from Mother Mary to Jesus as evidenced by the intimate lyrics a mother would sing to her baby. I may be wrong, but it is something to consider. Thanks again for this beautiful video!
Performing Day 3 of the Christmas Oratorio tomorrow!
What a stunning piece of music, simply deleted by Bach, to be replaced by something else:). I would have loved that aria too!
詳しい解説をありがとうございます。バッハの音楽に対する情熱も素晴らしいものですがそれだけではなく神への音楽の捧げもの、という大きな目的が有ったのではないでしょうか。個人的にはフルオーケストラよりも室内楽の方を好みますのでこちらのチャンネルは昔から拝見しております。どうぞ良いクリスマスと新年をお迎えください。
Mooie uiteenzetting
🙏
Great, danke! ❤🇩🇪 Gibt es schönere Musik? 🥲
🕊️💞💝
It is very very pity, that Shunsuke Sato is no more musical director of this Bach Society.
On 30 May 2023, Sato resigned as the concertmaster, soloist, and artistic director of the Netherlands Bach Society after a farewell concert.
Perhaps nobody can play better the role of artistic director in this society than Sato.
Klaus Eidam in his Bach bio Das wahre Leben des Johann Sebastian Bach (The True Life of Johann Sebastian Bach) was able to set the record straight because he did what Spitta and everyone else that followed him didn't do: he read the Leipzig city council records. Eidam devotes several pages to the Christmas Oratorio. Bach reutilized secular music for sacred ends, but never the reverse, which would be similar to taking an altar flower and sticking it in one's buttonhole.
*Muhteşem bir DÂHİ'nin evrensel bir hediyesi;TANRI'nın sonsuz sevgi ve şefkatiyle yücelen!..* *J.S. BACH💙 🌹❤♾🌹💙NBS.* 🤝🙏👏
is there a way to hear the complete christ. ortario by the nbs? the passions and mass in b where heavnly! really want to hear the christmas ortario!!!
Some of the arias and recitatives in the Oratorio arguably represent the voices of Biblical characters: soprano - an Angel, contralto - Mary, Tenor ´- the Evangelist and bass - Herod. The lovely aria "Schlafe, mein Liebster" seems to be sung from the perspective of Mary watching her son.
Ah, my favourite Jewish-American player of the baroque double bass.
Wow. Good to know that Christ Komödie is the 1711 version of Monty Python's Life of Brian!
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Gerne hätte ich die Ausführungen des Herrn wenigstens mit deutschen Untertiteln gehört, so jedoch bleibt das eigentliche Werk von Herrn Bach, was überirdische Musik ist.
P r o m o s m ☹️
his pedantic inhaling sounds are obnoxious
Too much talk.
Excelente...