can't believe some critics called Solaris a "Soviet" response to Kubrick's 2001. If you compare Solyaris to 2001 you'll see that Solyaris is far more spiritual, even religious (thus more "non-Soviet") than Kubrick's 2001. Tarkovsky was a profoundly spiritual man, which inevitably put him at odds with Soviet nomenclature, and eventually made him leave USSR. Plus this choice for the score "I Call Upon Thee, Lord Jesus Christ", it all kind of makes sense, doesn't it?
+Michael Ferns then you ought to watch the movie itself ... there is especially a scene where a kid is sitting in a park, winter, snow and all, and then he is reminded of that famous winter painting of Bruegel ... this movie is an all time never dying classic and that movie too!
Moving and lyric. Atmosphere and an electronic soundscape to match Bach's spirituality and Tarkosvky's metaphysical visions. Great work by Artemiev and his mastering the ANS synth.
This wiped me out & still does. It is the song of an old man who sees all the suffering of the world, of every living thing, but now sees he can do nothing about it, that nobody can. It is full of compassion, it wants to comfort, but is devoid of hope. Perhaps not quite; the world is a mystery beyond our understanding. Perhaps therein lies our only hope. A strange, mysterious & wonderful film itself. This music is perfect.
Agreed. Still you have to agree that they are both masterpieces of modern cinema. Also questions for thought: 1) Is the planet of Solaris supposed to be a metaphor for God or an idea from the heavens? 2) The monolith in 2001, a message from God or something from our own thought? I am up for subjective answers and different opinions.
Agree, but it's 2 diffrend films with some similar atmosphere. I will not call Solaris as a "Soviet 2001", but they both beautiful, both depressive, and little bit "scary".
This rendering of Choral Prelude in F Minor is eerie and haunting. It is indeed perfect for this movie also since it captures the vastness and mystery which both outer and inner space represents.
Oddly enough, the title "I Call Upon Thee, Lord Jesus Christ" is not mentioned in the credits. Instead it says, (in translation) 'The score includes J. S. Bach's chorale prelude in f minor', which I always took to be prevarication on the part of the Soviet Union's producers.
It’s originally a German folk tune transformed for organ by D. Buxtehude, Bach’s teacher. Bach developed the idea into this piece when he was 28 years old.
There's something almost Russian-sounding about this particular Bach piece - when I saw the film I wouldn't have guessed it was Bach even though now it makes perfect sense.
Do you really mean that Solaris is a "bloody film"???????? I hope I haven't understood well. This is one of my FAVOURITE pieces of music and I think that it's wondefylly combined with another kind of Art (with the capital A).
@FoliesEspagne If you have a piano and I take it for me, you are left without a piano. If you play a note, and I play that same note, what are you left without?
Truly one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. There's a really gorgeous transcription played on the piano by Dinu Lipatti which moves me even a little more - the piano is so much more intimate. But what a composition! Here's the Lipatti recording: ruclips.net/video/gkUZX77vNtc/видео.html
@Ilikelimpbizkit I believe that the performance on the Solaris Soundtrack was played by Soviet Organist Leonid Roizman. If you listen to the performance by Roizman on Melodiya (MEL CD 1001230), it sounds identical to the performance on the soundtrack
i love this song, learning it right now. i want this song to be played for my wedding (with bachs pelude in C major->BWV 846) AND funnel (along with chopins funnel march:)
@FoliesEspagne This embodies the spirit of free speech: "I'm free to say anything I want, even if somebody already said that before. And attribution is a matter or courtesy, not of obligation".
@Voyksed Right never heard of copyright or spiritual property? When I use paint to reproduce a Picasso I have not created a new work but have stolen the idea that Picasso invented. It would be fair to pay hommage to Picasso in that case. Anyway a bloody movie to misuse one of the best Bach pieces is still giving me fever.
@FoliesEspagne yes, I heard of copyright = right to copy. Never really heard of "spiritual property", only intellectual property, which is the concept I'm questioning. You can't steal an idea, because stealing an item implies living the owner of the item without the item. It is ironic that Picasso himself said "good artists copy, great artists steal". Bach incorporated notes from Vivaldi in his music. Tarkovsky incorporated a piece of Bach in his masterpiece movie.
@GilesRitter9 Correct those are just images. Even the "silent" Charlie Chaplin films had some piano rolls in the background. But that is besides the point. To get into your mind because you obviously think that your views are shared by the rest of the world: what will you think if your favorite classical music which you dearly love and you have precious memories associated with that music will be used in a any film? The images will substitute those associations. Mark my words.
The original Bach version is for the organ (like the present performance), but doesn't the film use an electronic synthesizer? I may be misremembering, though.
@Voyksed the music is very concrete and is note for note stolen. How more concrete must it be? It has nothing to do with ideas it is the note-for-note-product.
@GilesRitter9 You cannot take any film seriously when the music is stolen and the cineast should know that it takes away precious memories of the ones who love that particular music. You cannot undo that process. In the best case it is considered that the audience of the film never heard the music by Bach and that the people who like Bach will not be the potential audience. Stupidity is to call the music "the Solaris Theme."
@GilesRitter9 Sorry why don't you give an answer to my simple question? Investing in good filmmusic contributes considerably to the quality of the film ( for instance Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, Yann Tiersen). At least the cineast shows that the film without music is no film and stealing is of course out of the question Reminds me of an instruction of a Bachpiece for the electric guitar with the introduction "You probably recognize this piece as a car commercial".
@FoliesEspagne Stolen? Who stole what? If it took precious memories from you, I am so very sorry. If thats what bothers you, then let me assure you, the film gave some precious moments to other people too. Its film...not music and images...you must consider it as one whole thing. Its not a matter of "knowing" Bach or not. Its a matter of emotional impact. And Tarkovsky wasnt calling it "Solaris Theme", maybe you should read on him and find out how devoted and loving he was of Bach.
Just joking, remember Spinal Tap? "It gives us more power, when we crank it to eleven!" "Then why don't you just change the dial to ten?" "Because it gives us more power..."
@FoliesEspagne I believe you are condemning the very purpose of art. What does it matter if you are a "Bach lover" or not? If it touches your soul, its art...simple. Yes, the impact is in the music..but this is FILM- the impact is in the image AND the sound. Honestly, read some on Tarkovsky. You may come to see that if both him and Bach would have lived at same eras, they would have been the best of friends!!!
I also noticed a russian mood. Not that I understand them (russians) at all.. just collective incounciousness, or something like it. But it might be because of the interpreter of this piece, for Solaris, is russian.
@GilesRitter9 "Its a matter of emotional impact" Now we are getting somewhere. For Bach lovers the impact is in the music. Everything attached to it is an alien host, makes it a cheap commercial trick. Bad taste, no respect for the the artistry of the composer or the associations of the Bach-lovers. Is that so hard to comprehend?
This is my favorite version of Ich ruf.... never forget the first time I heard it.
Creates a very special mood that I love
i want this played at my funeral please
I had it played at my mother's funeral!
@@tiptopsound my deepest condolences :(
Hope you still alive, but yes: dito🎉
who here? #STAYINALIVE #TRYME100TIMES
Great music, great movie, great book! Bach, Artemjev, Tarkovski, Lem.
Four great men.
Great film and great soundtrack. Saw it in 1972 and have watched it many times since then.
The movie and music are the best representatives of magnificent Soviet's cinema and culture.
Mother Russia. A true powerhouse. People overlook Russian movies, but honestly Tarkovsky is in my list of top 3 directors.
La musica e' di un tedesco che si chiama Bach
The music is originally German and the movie is based on a Polish book.
大学１回生の時に女の子と見に行った。彼女は作品そのものもさることながらこの音楽に深く感動していた。
I saw this film at 19 with a girl friend. She was deeply moved to the film and this music.
can't believe some critics called Solaris a "Soviet" response to Kubrick's 2001. If you compare Solyaris to 2001 you'll see that Solyaris is far more spiritual, even religious (thus more "non-Soviet") than Kubrick's 2001. Tarkovsky was a profoundly spiritual man, which inevitably put him at odds with Soviet nomenclature, and eventually made him leave USSR. Plus this choice for the score "I Call Upon Thee, Lord Jesus Christ", it all kind of makes sense, doesn't it?
Makes me think of a snowy day among trees and buildings of concrete in a Eastern European/Soviet country.
+Michael Ferns then you ought to watch the movie itself ... there is especially a scene where a kid is sitting in a park, winter, snow and all, and then he is reminded of that famous winter painting of Bruegel ... this movie is an all time never dying classic and that movie too!
I'm trembling from the sheer, ethereal beauty of this. If this is the theme of the film I have to see it!!!!!
Did you like it?
Moving and lyric. Atmosphere and an electronic soundscape to match Bach's spirituality and Tarkosvky's metaphysical visions. Great work by Artemiev and his mastering the ANS synth.
This wiped me out & still does. It is the song of an old man who sees all the suffering of the world, of every living thing, but now sees he can do nothing about it, that nobody can.
It is full of compassion, it wants to comfort, but is devoid of hope. Perhaps not quite; the world is a mystery beyond our understanding. Perhaps therein lies our only hope.
A strange, mysterious & wonderful film itself. This music is perfect.
Andrei Tarkovsky led me here.
thank you for sharing this. this is one of my favorite pieces.
It`s my favourite book of all times.
This song feels like a marriage and a funeral
What’s the difference?
The banner is not from Tarkosvky's Solaris, but from the previous film some years before
Божественная мелодия
Agreed. Still you have to agree that they are both masterpieces of modern cinema. Also questions for thought: 1) Is the planet of Solaris supposed to be a metaphor for God or an idea from the heavens? 2) The monolith in 2001, a message from God or something from our own thought? I am up for subjective answers and different opinions.
Interstellar 2014 is the reason I rented this film afterward!
Agree, but it's 2 diffrend films with some similar atmosphere. I will not call Solaris as a "Soviet 2001", but they both beautiful, both depressive, and little bit "scary".
I want this played at my funeral.
Mind-boggling beauty.
great music,great movie...
This rendering of Choral Prelude in F Minor is eerie and haunting. It is indeed perfect for this movie also since it captures the vastness and mystery which both outer and inner space represents.
Oddly enough, the title "I Call Upon Thee, Lord Jesus Christ" is not mentioned in the credits. Instead it says, (in translation) 'The score includes J. S. Bach's chorale prelude in f minor', which I always took to be prevarication on the part of the Soviet Union's producers.
MASTERPIECE
It’s originally a German folk tune transformed for organ by D. Buxtehude, Bach’s teacher. Bach developed the idea into this piece when he was 28 years old.
I played this on 2023 on organ concert
There's something almost Russian-sounding about this particular Bach piece - when I saw the film I wouldn't have guessed it was Bach even though now it makes perfect sense.
RIP Artemiev
Do you really mean that Solaris is a "bloody film"???????? I hope I haven't understood well. This is one of my FAVOURITE pieces of music and I think that it's wondefylly combined with another kind of Art (with the capital A).
@DmitriyUA As we russian or soviets say - Hope dies last. And this music is about it. Bach is always inside us.
deadly beautiful
the music sounds haunting. I like it.
Underbart och meditativt........
@TheRandomSweed There is one undeniable connection; they're the only two genuinely intelligent, worthwhile science fiction films ever made.
Michael Isaac: indeed, all men should be buried accompanied by this Bach piece. It is incredible.
"Ich rufe zu dir Herr Jesu Christ" BWV 639...Opus639 "I cry to you Lord Jesus Christ"Johann Sebastian Bach
J.S. Bach music, played by Eduard Artemiev and the sound of the ANS synthesizer... Sweet music!
Divine!
Only tears.
БОГ ЕДИН И ОН ВО ВСЕМ!
i want this played at my wedding please
@FoliesEspagne If you have a piano and I take it for me, you are left without a piano. If you play a note, and I play that same note, what are you left without?
the final scene uses the same choral but with
Edward Artemyev's synthesizers on top.
i was actually thinking the exact same thing. seriously!
This music haunts me so. Why, I cannot tell. So I'll sign off....
Truly one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. There's a really gorgeous transcription played on the piano by Dinu Lipatti which moves me even a little more - the piano is so much more intimate. But what a composition!
Here's the Lipatti recording:
ruclips.net/video/gkUZX77vNtc/видео.html
@bickbenedict1111 i can hear hope in it too, even though it sounds incredibly lonely, this could make a person cry..
@Ilikelimpbizkit
I believe that the performance on the Solaris Soundtrack was played by Soviet Organist Leonid Roizman.
If you listen to the performance by Roizman on Melodiya (MEL CD 1001230), it sounds identical to the performance on the soundtrack
i love this song, learning it right now. i want this song to be played for my wedding (with bachs pelude in C major->BWV 846) AND funnel (along with chopins funnel march:)
...was it played at your wedding? :O
@@dinosaurcjI want to know too!
Not for everybody, but sublime
@FoliesEspagne This embodies the spirit of free speech: "I'm free to say anything I want, even if somebody already said that before. And attribution is a matter or courtesy, not of obligation".
Muy lindo
If you cut the soul, this is what pours forth.
this and some others too, from Bach and others, even modern pop music stuff ... :)
@FoliesEspagne "Bloody flims"? Have you seen the Solaris?
@miljenko1 Agreed. Tarkovsky's Solaris has nothing to do with Kubricks "2001" in any way.
@Voyksed Right never heard of copyright or spiritual property? When I use paint to reproduce a Picasso I have not created a new work but have stolen the idea that Picasso invented. It would be fair to pay hommage to Picasso in that case. Anyway a bloody movie to misuse one of the best Bach pieces is still giving me fever.
The Virgen “Funeral of Queen Mary”
vs
The Chad “Solaris 1972 Main Theme”
@FoliesEspagne yes, I heard of copyright = right to copy. Never really heard of "spiritual property", only intellectual property, which is the concept I'm questioning. You can't steal an idea, because stealing an item implies living the owner of the item without the item. It is ironic that Picasso himself said "good artists copy, great artists steal". Bach incorporated notes from Vivaldi in his music. Tarkovsky incorporated a piece of Bach in his masterpiece movie.
@GilesRitter9 Correct those are just images. Even the "silent" Charlie Chaplin films had some piano rolls in the background. But that is besides the point. To get into your mind because you obviously think that your views are shared by the rest of the world: what will you think if your favorite classical music which you dearly love and you have precious memories associated with that music will be used in a any film?
The images will substitute those associations. Mark my words.
far better than 2001 space odyssey
@miljenko1 Maybe not really a Soviet response, but a Slavic/Eastern-European response nonetheless? That would definitely explain the spirituality.
The original Bach version is for the organ (like the present performance), but doesn't the film use an electronic synthesizer? I may be misremembering, though.
I'm pretty sure the film had this exact same version.
@Voyksed the music is very concrete and is note for note stolen. How more concrete must it be?
It has nothing to do with ideas it is the note-for-note-product.
de ahi el famoso programita de sun systems.
@BILMANDUDE Yes, it is F minor. At least the original organ transcription I play from is.
the russians led me here :)
me too :)
@GilesRitter9 You cannot take any film seriously when the music is stolen and the cineast should know that it takes away precious memories of the ones who love that particular music. You cannot undo that process. In the best case it is considered that the audience of the film never heard the music by Bach and that the people who like Bach will not be the potential audience. Stupidity is to call the music "the Solaris Theme."
Man this movie really tested my patience.
@thefourthway let's not forget but give credit to the writer of Solyaris....Stanislav Lem!
...AFTER THE FALLOUT , 200 YEARS LATER
@GilesRitter9 Sorry why don't you give an answer to my simple question? Investing in good filmmusic contributes considerably to the quality of the film ( for instance Philip Glass, Michael Nyman, Yann Tiersen).
At least the cineast shows that the film without music is no film and stealing is of course out of the question Reminds me of an instruction of a Bachpiece for the electric guitar with the introduction "You probably recognize this piece as a car commercial".
Solaris...
@TheRandomSweed Thr's nthng to compr Solaris is the POEM, 2001 is a show :-))
where can i learn how to play this on the organ?
@FoliesEspagne Stolen? Who stole what? If it took precious memories from you, I am so very sorry. If thats what bothers you, then let me assure you, the film gave some precious moments to other people too. Its film...not music and images...you must consider it as one whole thing. Its not a matter of "knowing" Bach or not. Its a matter of emotional impact. And Tarkovsky wasnt calling it "Solaris Theme", maybe you should read on him and find out how devoted and loving he was of Bach.
Just joking, remember Spinal Tap?
"It gives us more power, when we crank it to eleven!"
"Then why don't you just change the dial to ten?"
"Because it gives us more power..."
@FoliesEspagne I believe you are condemning the very purpose of art. What does it matter if you are a "Bach lover" or not? If it touches your soul, its art...simple. Yes, the impact is in the music..but this is FILM- the impact is in the image AND the sound. Honestly, read some on Tarkovsky. You may come to see that if both him and Bach would have lived at same eras, they would have been the best of friends!!!
I want this played in my shower
Interesting
fascinating
@qazplmthv I had this played at my mother's funeral.
Where, but WHERE can I find this?!
Plus some vibraphone/marimbas I think.
Un milagro
I love many classical composers, but this sounds faint even when I turn the volume nob to 11. Can someone post a better version of this?
does anyone know what Bach recording this is from? who is the soloist?
@TheME274 for your wedding? haha
@FoliesEspagne You can't steal an idea. You can only steal concrete things.
Then you do not hold strong enough bonds with your associations.
Preludio Coral para órgano en Fa Menor BWV 639.
Yep it is like graffiti on an architectural monument as the Sydney Opera House.
I also noticed a russian mood. Not that I understand them (russians) at all.. just collective incounciousness, or something like it.
But it might be because of the interpreter of this piece, for Solaris, is russian.
@metdursun indeed
@gusheneshin
Edward Artemyev on synthesizer ANS.
@GilesRitter9 "Its a matter of emotional impact" Now we are getting somewhere. For Bach lovers the impact is in the music. Everything attached to it is an alien host, makes it a cheap commercial trick. Bad taste, no respect for the the artistry of the composer or the associations of the Bach-lovers. Is that so hard to comprehend?
Bach
Yaaawn