#bwv 244

[eternal--returned]

Johann Sebastian Bach ֍ St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Pt. 1: No. 1, Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen

O Lamm Gottes unschuldig Am Stamm des Kreuzes geschlachtet Allzeit erfunden geduldig Wiewohl du warest verachtet All Sünd hast du getragen Sonst müßten wir verzagen Erbarm dich unser, o Jesu

[aschenblumen]

Johann Sebastian Bach, Matthäus Passion, BWV 244 (47. Erbarme dich). Karl Richter, director Julia Hamari, mezzosoprano

[spilladabalia]

BACH - "ERBARME DICH, MEIN GOTT" - MAGDALENA KOZENÁ - "SAINT MATTHEW PASSION"

[takmiblog]

マタイ受難曲

　マタイを聴いて、私がもっとも驚き且つ感動するのは囚人バラバにかわってイエスを十字架にかけよ、と叫ぶ群衆の凄まじい迫力を描いたあたりである。不吉な減七和音で、 「バラバ！」 　と叫ぶ群衆の劇的迫力は言語に絶するものがある。のみにかぎらない、全曲を通じて、およそ神の子イエスを罵��、彼は死に当るものだと叫び（四十二曲）イエスの流す血の責任はわれわれとわれわれの子孫の上にかかってもいいと言い（五十九曲）、更にはユダヤの王ばんざいと嘲弄する（六十二曲）愚かでこう言っていいならまことに涜神的な群衆を、驚くべき迫真力でバッハは描破している。こんなことが、だが許されていいのかと日本人の私は怪しむのである。

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(http://www.audiosharing.com/people/gomi/tenno_koe/ten_10_1.htm)

天の聲　－西方の音－

五味康祐

[the-perfect-wagnerite-again]

Morning/Afternoon! If you have the time, do you have any recommendations for getting into classical music? Thank you

Taste for music, like any faculty, is a trait that can be trained and refined. Classical music is an enormous catalog with dozens and dozens of styles, more than any one person can reasonably experience in a single lifetime. Most people gravitate towards particular styles or composers that they like best, so the initial challenge for a lot of people new to classical music is finding a good entry point.

My personal recommendation is banal and predictable, but I think it's the most effective: start as far back as you're willing to go, and work your way forward to the present. In the process, you'll experience both the history of western music and its development over time. As you go, you'll find you enjoy some composers more than others. I happen to have a particular fondness for Bach, Schubert, and (of course) Wagner, but you might find a stronger affinity with Mozart, Tchaikovsky, or Saint-Saëns.

While it would be impossible for me to give a full listening guide to all of what I consider the essentials for art music in a single tumblr post, I can at least point to the Big Names as a starting point. I'll try to include videos that match quality recordings with sheet music, because I firmly believe that following along with a score mentally crystalizes a work's form, even if you can't read music yourself. A fun video I also recommend is this journey through the melodies of history's best composers, a highly abridged music appreciation course in just a few hours (timestamps in the video for convenience):

The Early Stuff

I tend to skip past chant and Renaissance music, despite their importance, because they're especially challenging to the modern ear. Early composers like Palestrina and Monteverdi mark a transition from the modal styles of ancient music to the more traditional tonalities of the music we know today. Monteverdi is also the first to compose what we would properly call "opera" today, though I won't link any but the most important operas in this post because they're all 3+ hours in length.

Essential listening:

Allegri: Miserere

Monteverdi: Vespers della Beata Vergine

The Baroque

Here's where the good stuff really starts. The baroque period was an artistic response to the Reformation and its aesthetic priorities. Baroque music, like art, tends to be highly ornamented, harmonically complex, and texturally dense. Counterpoint is a big feature of baroque music, and in Bach especially. Almost all baroque composers have merit, but if you were to pick only one to listen to, nobody could fault you for choosing Bach. I'm including some of my favorites of Vivaldi and Handel here as well. Bach never touched opera, which is a shame, though he got close with his St Matthew and St John Passions.

Essential listening:

Bach: St Matthew Passion, BWV 244

Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in g minor, BWV 542

Bach: Orchestral Suite No.2 in b minor, BWV 1067

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (popular for a reason!)

Vivaldi: Gloria, RV 589

Handel: Concerto Grosso in B-flat Major, HWV 313

The Classical

Like the baroque, the Classical period of art was a reaction, this time against the opulence and excess of baroque art (actually there were smaller, more molecular movements in-between baroque and classical, like the galante, but for brevity we'll skip those). The Classical period is stylized by elegance, simplicity, and symmetry. Think of the columns of Greco-roman architecture or the streamlining of Enlightenment thought. Big names of this period include Haydn, Gluck, and Mozart. We see here a shift away from the complexity of baroque to clear and distinct melody and harmony.

The Classical period also brings us the symphony in its nascent form through Haydn, who composed over 100 of them. The symphony is especially important because, along with the opera, it will become the world-building form of the musical landscape. Mozart, possibly the greatest melodist who ever lived, further perfected both the symphonic form and the opera. His tragically early death means we will never appreciate the true apex of his powers.

Essential listening:

Mozart: Symphony No.40 in g minor, K 550

Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 in d minor, K 466

Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K 622

Haydn: Symphony No.94 in G Major, HoB I:94

Haydn: String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op.33 No.2

Salieri: 26 Variations on 'La Folia'

The Romantic

Another movement of reaction, this time against the strictures of form and propriety of the Classical. Here we shift from elegance to raw emotional power, the composer transforming from a functionary of the elite to independent artist. None exemplified this shift more clearly than Beethoven, whose symphonies to this day reign as the greatest ever produced by a human being. Beethoven infused his music with the currents of his soul in a way no composer had, and after him, music changed forever.

The Romantic period saw a flourishing of music as an art to such a degree that abridging it here for a tumblr post is unironically difficult. Brahms, Bruckner, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Lizst, Wagner, Verdi, and on and on and on. The extreme variety of composers and the sheer emotional impact of their output make the Romantic period a particular favorite for many music appreciators, myself included.

Essential listening:

Beethoven: Symphony No.5 in c minor, Op.67 (MANDATORY)

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 in c minor, Op.37

Brahms: Symphony No.4 in e minor, Op.98

Brahms: Violin Concerto in D Major, Op.77

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

Schubert: "Gretchen am Spinnrade," Op.2 D 118

Liszt: "Liebesträume," S 541 No.3

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake Suite, Op.20a

Saint-Saëns: Symphony No.3 "Organ," Op.78

The Post-Romantic

As we move past the 19th Century, we see an absence of what we would call artistic "movements," so admittedly the designations of composers within this time period begins to feel arbitrary. Instead, in the wake of the revolutionary movements of the 1800s, we see a development of national schools of style. The French, the Germans, the Scandinavians, the Russians, the Italians, and even the Americans each cemented themselves into distinct artistic camps based on national histories and aesthetic preferences. These schools would pave the way for the modern music of the 20th century.

Essential listening:

Dvorak: Symphony No.9 "New World," Op.95

Debussy: Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune

Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain

Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op.35

Elgar: The Enigma Variations, Op.36

Prokofiev: Scythian Suite, Op.20

Modernity

With the 20th Century came the World Wars and the collapse of the West's meta-narratives about the world. Music was no longer directed as an aesthetic process in the interests of artistic narratives, and instead became an exercise of modular, individual expression. Here is where music becomes the most difficult, because tonality is no longer a central priority. That said, you'll likely still find some composers that resonate. The torturous dissonances of Shostakovich are always popular with young men, while the Catholic mysticism of Messiaen is challenging from the exact opposite direction. Vaughan-Williams and Britten carry on the tonal tradition while Schönberg and Stravinsky went in wildly atonal spaces.

Essential Listening:

Shostakovich: Symphony No.4 in c minor, Op.43

Poulenc: Sonata for Flute and Piano, FP 164

Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis

Messiaen: Chronochromie

Britten: Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

Sorry this took me so long, I could have gone on like this for another 20 paragraphs, but it turns out there's a limit to how many videos tumblr lets you embed in a single post. This is just a list of recommendations to get you started, don't be intimidated by its size. Every composer is unique, and they each bring a personal language to their art that you'll gradually become more acquainted with the more you listen. If you want any recommendations on particular composers that strike your fancy, don't be afraid to ask.

[landrysg]

Music for Palm Sunday

J.S. Bach, St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244

Beautifully performed by the Netherlands Bach Society

[arno-vision]

Enjoy your weekend - IAV[060]J S Bach - La passion Selon Saint Matthieu (BWV 244) - 1st Partie

via @YouTube

#musicvideo #weekendfun #LoveandDeepspace #ClassicLiterature #art

[ded-lime]

Music asks babyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

6, 9, 10, aaaaand 16

6:A song that makes you want to dance Dead Man's Party by Oingo Boingo maybe? dont think i ever dance much

9:A song that makes you happy 地獄はどこですエンマさま by 羽生まゐご. its a very charming song and sounds like early autumn to me

10:A song that makes you sad questions that got me googling emotion wheels (did not help) most of what i can think of is from games due to association with sad from said games, so ill pick vignette: panacea

16:One of your favorite classical songs hmm does 'song' imply that it has to have vocals and if so i am really tempted to send miku version for the funny. Mattew Passion, BWV 244: Aria: Buss und Reu (Alto)

[sakurabreeze]

Andreas Scholl - Bach: St. Matthew Passion - Matthäus-Passion - BWV 244 ...

[ripempezardexerox]

Panas tranqui

Bach - St Matthew Passion / Matthäus Passion BWV 244 (reference recording: Nikolaus Harnoncourt)

[irritablepoe]

*sighs dreamily* remember how he used to communicate with classical music to convey his evil plans?😔🙏

[nenyabusiness]

Shuffle Tag: Classical Edition

Thank you, @pursuitseternal! The only actual playlist I have is piano only, because, you know, classical pianist etc etc, but here we go. (Highly recommend the second one! Swedish romantic composer.)

How about you, @maironiiel?

[aschenblumen]

Johann Sebastian Bach, Matthäus-Passion, BWV 244 (Segunda parte, nº 39: «Erbarme dich»). René Jacobs, director Barbara Fink, mezzosoprano RIAS Kammerchor Akademie für alte Musik Berlin

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SAINT MATTHEW PASSION

J.S.Bach

Uwe Heilmann

2023/04/16

Daiichi Seimei Hall, Tokyo, Japan