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" What really counts in human life is the beauty of it ... "
" l'important, c'est la rose .... "
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als allereerste kennismaking een sfeerbeeld van de barokmuziek, het onnavolgbare "Ombra mai fu" van Händel uit de opera Xerxes,
door miljoenen beschouwd als de grootste aria ooit -alles is subjectief uiteraard-
uitgevoerd in Cardiff (BBC Singer of the World Competition) in 1989 door niemand minder dan de toen jonge (26) Dmitri Horovstovski, bariton ...
... beklijvend spektakel om nooit te vergeten ....
=== The opening aria, "Ombra mai fù", sung by Xerxes to a tree (Platanus orientalis), is set to one of Handel's best-known melodies,
and is often played in an orchestral arrangement, known as Handel's "largo" (despite being marked "larghetto" in the score). ===
Handel is regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time, and his works include Messiah, Water Music, and Music for the Royal Fireworks. He was strongly influenced by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition. Handel's music was well-known to such later composers as Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven.
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Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky (Russian: Дмитрий Александрович Хворостовский, born 16 October 1962), is a leading baritone opera singer from Russia.
Hvorostovsky was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia. He studied at the Krasnoyarsk School of Arts under Yekatherina Yofel (which, in turn was schoolgirl M.N. Rioli-Slovtsova, spouse of the outstanding tenor Pyotr Slovtsov) and made his debut at Krasnoyarsk Opera House, in the role of Marullo in Rigoletto. He went on to win First Prize at both the Russian Glinka Competition in 1987 and the Toulouse Singing Competition in 1988. Hvorostovsky came to international prominence in 1989 when he won the Cardiff BBC Singer of the World competition, beating local favorite Bryn Terfel in the final round. His performance included Handel's Ombra mai fu and Per me giunto...O Carlo ascolta from Verdi's Don Carlo. His international concert recitals began immediately (London debut, 1989; New York 1990).
Dmitri Horovstovski
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GRENZEN VERLEGGEN VAN HET MENSELIJK KUNNEN:
KASTRATEN VAN DEZE EEUW: Philippe Jarousski performing Georg Friedrich Händel
Philippe Jarousski performing Händel - sad song
" lascia ch'io pianga "
Barokmuziek voor na tienen ...
Baroque music after ten o'clock ...
... inoubliable ...
Jarousski and Friends: heavenly perfection - angelic cristal clear voice ...
exquisite performance ...
top of the top !
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Intro :
WHAT IS MUSIC ? ? ?
... a unique voice and a unique song ...
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BAROK :
Italië, Oostenrijk en Zuid-Duitsland zijn de bakermat van de meest fantastische en meest sublieme creaties van de barokmuziek,
eeuwige muziek die nu wereldwijd in alle continenten van onze planeet wordt gewaardeerd en bejubeld als hèt van hèt ...
Let's be proud to be Europeans ......
http://www.baroquemusic.org/index.html
en dank zij dit wonderlijk medium van YouTube kunnen wij getuigen zijn van deze globale bewondering ...
INTRO: BAROK
INTRO: BAROK II
hier de indrukken van een 16-jarige knaap uit Hong Kong .....
jeugdig, onvolmaakt maar subliem .....
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Most famous composers of all times:
PACHELBEL 1653 (52) - ALBINONI 1671 (79) - VIVALDI 1678 (63) - HANDEL 1685 (74) - J.S. BACH 1685 (65) -
MOZART 1756 (34) - VAN BEETHOVEN 1770 (56) - ROSSINI 1792 (76) - J. STRAUSS 1804 (73) - VERDI 1813 (87) -
" What really counts in human life is the beauty of it ... "
" l'important, c'est la rose .... "
most popular piece of classical music is the Canon in D major by Johann Christoph Pachelbel recently (1968) (re)discovered by Jean-François Paillard (France) in 1968 ... and from then a global hit ...
Jean-François PAILLARD (born 1928 - Vitry-le-François - France)
Johann Pachelbel Canon in D major (1680 - 330 jaar terug in de tijd ...)
extreem populair ... reeds meer dan 30 miljoen keer bekeken op YouTube ...
" When I played this music loud, little birds came sitting on my window-ledge ... "
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INTRODUCTIE tot de BAROK MUZIEK ... algemene en onvolledige KENNISMAKING ....
you can skip this intro ...
BAROK - BAROQUE MUSIC
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TOP 5 of baroque music :
... de gustibus non disputandum esse ...
J.S. BACH: Cantate BWV 147 Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (1723 - late baroque - sacred)
G.F. HANDEL: SICILIANO - Oboe Concerto nr. 1 (1703 - Hamburg)
G.F. HANDEL: LARGO - from the opera Serse (Xerses) (1734 - late baroque))
Johann Christoph PACHELBEL: CANON in D major (1680 - early baroque)
G.F. HANDEL : OMBRA MAI FU - from the opera Serse (Xerses) (1734 - late baroque))
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J.S. BACH - BRANDENBURG CONCERTO N° 2 in allegro moderato
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
most popular and most performed brandenburg concerto from Bach
the very top of baroque
... in a swinging smooth version ...
... Bach geeft zijn uitvoerders geen seconde rust ...
Johann Sebastian BACH: Jesus, bleibet meine Freude ...
Johann Sebastian BACH: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring ...
(J.S. BACH had twee vrouwen en 20 kinderen ...)
life performance of the world-famous cantate from J.S. BACH: Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring ...
... amazing, thrilling, unique, everlasting sacred eternal heavenly beauty ... (late baroque period)
The Triumph of the West !
one of the greatest compositions ('the' greatest ?) ever made by a human being ...
" I'm not religious, but man, this is some Music ! "
The best ever !!!
" This is perhaps the most beautiful music I have ever heard ... "
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G.F.HAENDEL - LARGO from SERSE: Most heavenly and heart-breaking piece of baroque music ever
Ludwig van Beethoven dixit: " Händel is the greatest composer that ever lived. "
(never married - no children "no time" ...)
the greatest
G.F.Händel
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-02-23 – 1759-04-14) ~ (74) ~ was a German-born composer who moved first to Italy and then to England.
a truly "European" composer ...
On taking British nationality he Anglicized his name to George Frideric Handel.
Largo from the opera Serse (Xerxes) by George Frideric Handel. Date: 1734
.... this is a tiranny of beauty .....
Largo from the opera Serse (Xerxes) by George Frideric Handel. Date: 1734
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Händel
is heaven !
Van in mijn prille jeugd sneed the sound van Handel door mijn lijf en leden…
“A
very touching sound indeed” as I wrote when I was only 18 ....
Handel
is the Master indeed for ever and ever ….
Het
meest sublieme stukje muziek is het Siciliano (hobo concerto nr 1)
Zijn Largo (Xerxes), zijn Siciliano, zijn Vuurwerkmuziek, zijn Watermuziek, zijn Halleluiah zijn stuk na stuk onnavolgbare sublieme scheppingen –
‘menselijke’
scheppingen dan nog – eeuwig – onnavolgbaar
Bach, Mozart, Pachelbel, Vivaldi, Beethoven zijn ook subliem en goddelijk
doch Handel is de enige die mij vanaf mijn prille jeugd heeft kunnen
‘betoveren’ met zijn door merg en nieren snijdende goddelijke
muziek ….
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Giovanni
Battista Bononcini
(18 July 1670 – 9 July 1747) was an Italian
Baroque
composer
and cellist,
one of a family of string players and composers. His father, Giovanni
Maria Bononcini (1642–78), was a violinist
and a composer.
Bononcini was born in Modena,
Italy, the oldest of three sons. (His younger brother, Antonio
Maria Bononcini, was also a composer.) Giovanni Battista studied the cello
in Bologna.
He then served as maestro di cappella at San Giovanni in Monte and afterwards
worked in Milan, Rome,
Vienna and Berlin.
From 1720 to 1732 he was in London,
where for a time his popularity rivaled Handel's.
(Their competition inspired the epigram
by John
Byrom that made the phrase "Tweedledum
and Tweedledee" famous.) Bononcini left London after charges of plagiarism
were proven against him. He died in poverty in Vienna, leaving behind a wife and
4 children.
He published his earliest works for the cello, his instrument, in 1685 in
Bologna. His works other include a number of operas,
masses,
and a funeral anthem for the Duke
of Marlborough. One of his operas, Xerse,
parodied material in an earlier setting of that opera by Francesco
Cavalli. This included the aria Ombra
mai fu. Bononcini's Xerse
was in turn
later adapted by George
Frideric Handel with a third (and best known) version of Ombra
mai fu.
Xerse
is an opera by Francesco
Cavalli -
specifically, a dramma
per musica about Xerxes
I. The libretto
was written by Nicolò
Minato, and was later
set by both Giovanni Battista Bononcini
and George
Frideric Handel.
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I
think it was Sibelius
who was asked what score he would take along with him to an isolated island ....His
answer " Handel's Largo"
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George Frideric Handel " SICILIANO" ('Siciliana') (Largo) - Concerto No. 1 in B flat for oboe, strings and continuo
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) - Hobo Concerto (omstreeks 1703) - Händel was toen 18 jaar en woonde in Hamburg -
" ... het derde movement, de prachtige 'siciliana', loopt vooruit op veel van de overige stukken die hij in deze vorm zou schrijven ... "
" the ultimate tiranny of beauty "
only 2,43 minutes stay in heaven
the ultimate tiranny of beauty concerto nr 1 in B flat for oboe, strings and continuo by G.F Händel (circa 1703)
the young G.F. Händel
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niet zeer geslaagde uitvoering: zie vooral derde beweging " Siciliano " (time: 4.30)
alhoewel één van de topstukken van Händel, zeer moeilijk te vinden op YouTube ...
see time 4.30 : siciliano
G.F. Haendel: Oboe Concerto no. 1 - adagio - allegro - siciliana (largo) (time= 3.30) - vivace
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Georg Friedrich Händel (George Frideric Handel) - The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
from the oratorio Solomon (1749)
(time: 3,30)
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G.F. Händel "OMBRA MAI FU" from the opera XERXES (Serse)
male performance: Dimitri Hvorostovsky
" Hvorostovsky at Cardiff 1989 ... The best for me. Young, full off emotion and so soft a voice....mmm "
... hij zingt caro en het moet cara zijn, hij is een bariton en Händel schreef dit voor castraten doch het is en blijft een machtige indrukwekkende historische uitvoering ...
he has the looks ... he's the man ...
17 jaar later Dimitri Hvorostovsky
G.F. Händel "OMBRA MAI FU" from the opera XERXES (Serse)
" I find 'Ombra mai fu' to be one of, if not the greatest aria I've heard "
male performance countertenor (high voice)
Philippe Jaroussky countertenor "Ombra mai fù" (opera Serse) by G.F. Händel
... onnavolgbaar subliem ...
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Händel vond inspiratie bij:
Giovanni Battista Bononcini
(18 July 1670 – 9 July 1747) was an Italian
Baroque
composer
and cellist,
one of a family of string players and composers. His father, Giovanni
Maria Bononcini (1642–78), was a violinist
and a composer.
Bononcini was born in Modena,
Italy, the oldest of three sons. (His younger brother, Antonio
Maria Bononcini, was also a composer.) Giovanni Battista studied the cello
in Bologna.
He then served as maestro di cappella at San Giovanni in Monte and afterwards
worked in Milan, Rome,
Vienna and Berlin.
From 1720 to 1732 he was in London,
where for a time his popularity rivaled Handel's.
(Their competition inspired the epigram
by John
Byrom that made the phrase "Tweedledum
and Tweedledee" famous.) Bononcini left London after charges of plagiarism
were proven against him. He died in poverty in Vienna, leaving behind a wife and
4 children.
He published his earliest works for the cello, his instrument, in 1685 in
Bologna. His works other include a number of operas,
masses,
and a funeral anthem for the Duke
of Marlborough. One of his operas, Xerse,
parodied material in an earlier setting of that opera by Francesco
Cavalli. This included the aria Ombra
mai fu. Bononcini's Xerse
was in turn
later adapted by George
Frideric Handel with a third (and best known) version of Ombra
mai fu.
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G.F. Händel "OMBRA MAI FU" from the opera XERXES (Serse)
female performance: Joyce DiDonato
G.F. Händel "OMBRA MAI FU" from the opera XERXES (Serse)
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When the East (Hong Kong) sings the West ....
G. F. Handel's Hallelujah Chorus
GREAT VERSION FROM FRANCE - G.F. Handel's HALLELUJAH
concert des Lycées - 2005 - METZ - FRANCE
Philippe Jarousski and Friends: "Lascia ch'io pianga" G.F. HAENDEL Rinaldo
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Johann Sebastian BACH: Brandenburg Concertos No.1 - i: Allegro Moderato
the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
J.S. Bach - Brandenburg Concertos No.3 - iii: Allegro
the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
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JOHANN CHRISTOPH PACHELBEL (born in Nuremberg-Germany) 1653-1706 (only 52 when he died)
the world famous " CANON in D major "
one of the TOP HITS in classical baroque music (naar ruwe schatting reeds meer dan 30 miljoen bekeken op YouTube ...)
Pachelbel's Canon in D major, a piece of chamber music scored for three violins and basso continuo and originally paired with a gigue in the same key, experienced a tremendous surge in popularity during the 1970s (believed to have originated through a recording by Jean-François Paillard in 1970), which made it a universally recognized cultural item. Now one of the most recognised and famous baroque compositions, it has in recent years become extremely popular for the use in weddings, rivalling that of Wagner's Bridal Chorus. Numerous musical adaptations and arrangements of the canon for diverse ensembles exist and the main theme (or the associated harmonic sequence) is frequently adapted by pop music artists including Aphrodite's Child, Blues Traveler, The Farm, and Coolio, much like the opening of Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565. The gigue that originally accompanied the canon never received the same amount of popularity, even though it is a lively energetic dance.
"when sadness drifts away ..."
Pachelbel's Canon in D major: everlasting soothing music .....
... a universally recognized cultural item ...
Pachelbel's
Canon,
also known as Canon in D major (PWC
37, T. 337, PC 358), is the most famous piece of music
by German
Baroque
composer Johann
Pachelbel. It was originally scored for three violins
and basso
continuo and paired with a gigue
in the same key.
Like most other works by Pachelbel and other pre-1700 composers, the
Canon remained forgotten for centuries and was rediscovered only in
the 20th century. Several decades after it was first published in
1919, the piece became extremely popular, and today it is
frequently played at weddings and included on classical music
compilations, along with other famous Baroque
pieces such as Air
on the G String by Johann
Sebastian Bach.
Johann Sebastian BACH - Air on the G String
nog puurder, nog authentieker : een vluggere versie met authentieke instrumenten uit die gouden tijd: de BAROK
Johann Christoph PACHELBEL CANON in D MAJOR
is this the very best musical composition ever made by a human being ?
THE VERY BEST COMPOSITION EVER ???
Johann Christoph PACHELBEL (Germany 1653-1706 - only 53 when he became human history)
predecessor to J.S. BACH and G.F. HANDEL
(Central European Music - The Triumph of The West)
CANON in D
major
by the LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
( up to now the most popular classical piece of baroque music worldwide - so old and so very eternal ! )
CANON in D on glass harp
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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (nog geen 35 toen hij stierf ...)
... the world gets brighter each time this song is played ........
.... a genius at work ......
Arcangelo Corelli (°1653 Fusignano - +1713 Rome - only 60 when he became eternal human history ) Adagio (del Concierto de Navidad)
Adagio from Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 8 in G Minor
Corelli's achievements as a teacher were outstanding. Among his many students were included not only Geminiani but the famed Antonio Vivaldi. It was Vivaldi who became Corelli's successor as a composer of the great Concerti Grossi and who greatly influenced the music of Bach.
--- één der grootste meesters van de barok ---
THE SPLENDOUR OF BAROQUE MUSIC !!!
Arcangelo Corelli Adagio from Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 8 in G Minor
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Luigi BOCCHERINI: Italia for ever !!!
Menuet - Luigi Boccherini - String Quintet in E Major, Op.11 No.5
Menuet - Luigi Boccherini - String Quintet in E Major, Op.11 No.5
Tomaso Giovanni ALBINONI (Venice 08.06.1671-Venice 17.01.1751) Concerto pour haubois (for oboe) (Adagio)
... most divine piece of italian baroque ... early 18th century
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni Concerto for oboe solo, strings & b.c. in D major (Op. 7 n. 6)
Tomaso ALBINONI : Adagio in G Minor
Albinoni (1671-1751) - Concerti (12) a 5 in C major for two oboes op 7 no 11 - Allegro
VROEGE BAROK - EARLY BAROQUE
Jeremiah Clarke - The Prince of Denmark's March (Lovely Rendition)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Wagner's Bridal Chorus from Lohengrin "HIER KOMT DE BRUID"
Mendelssohn's Wedding March
Kunst met een grote K of Decadentie met een grote D ? The choice is yours .....
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Cider House Rules (John Irving) theme -Forest Relaxation- Music by Rachel Portman, a female composer ...
... a perfect bridal intro ....
Written by prolific British composer Rachel Portman
- the first female composer to win an Academy Award for Best Original Score (for the film 'Emma') -
pics include Rachel, director Lasse Hallstrom and the films cast!!!
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MODERN AMERICAN MUSIC : is she the best ??????
or simply an old piece of meat ?????
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MODERN MUSIC FROM THE SOUTH ... Jody Bernal - Que Si, Que No
Jody Bernal
Jody werd geboren in Colombia op 12 november 1981 en is nu (2010) dus 28 jaar.
Hij werd geadopteerd door Nederlandse ouders toen hij 6 maanden jong was en is
opgegroeid in Delft.
Al snel bleek dat hij 3 grote passies kende in zijn leven: zingen, sporten en misschien ooit de kans te krijgen om zijn biologische ouders te kunnen ontmoeten.
Zingen deed hij reeds vanaf zijn 8e jaar bij jongens zanggroep De Buddy’s uit Delft. Met deze groep trad hij o.a. op in de soundmixshow van Henny Huisman.
Maar ondanks zijn sportieve en muzikale leven in Nederland, verlangde hij zeer naar het moment waarop hij kennis zou kunnen maken met zijn biologische moeder. Naarmate hij ouder werd is deze wens steeds sterker geworden. Geholpen en gesteund door zijn adoptie-ouders, werd zijn moeder in Colombia opgespoord. Na een intensief telefonisch contact ging zijn grootste levenswens in vervulling en vloog hij op 1e kerstdag 1999 naar zijn geboortestad Bogota. Daar ontmoette hij zijn nieuwe familie: moeder, broertje en zusje. Samen met hen vierde hij het nieuwe Millennium. Zonder overdrijven was dit de gelukkigste periode uit zijn jonge leven. Toen hij terug kwam, bracht hij het nummer "Que si, Que no" mee. Hij wilde hier een opname van maken om zijn moeder in Colombia te verrassen.
Na deze opname viel zijn uitvoering echter zo in de smaak dat hij werd uitgenodigd om mee te doen aan het programma "Your Big Break" .
De reacties op zijn televisie-optreden waren overweldigend. Vele platenmaatschappijen toonden hun belangstelling en bijna dagelijks werd hij gevraagd om ergens op te komen treden.
Dit onverwachte succes brengt zijn carrière in een stroomversnelling. De eerste single was ook meteen een schot in de roos: "Que si, Que no" stond wekenlang nummer 1 in de Nederlandse Top 40 & Top 100.
Lyrics:
Que si que no
Escuchame mi amor
tu sabes lo que quiero
Me dices que no entiendes
Se que estas mintiendo
Te pido por favor
Me trates como un tonto
Decides de una vez
Me estas volviendo loco
REFREIN:
Que si, Que no
Que nunca te decides
Yo se que tu me quieres
Y no me lo dices
Que Si, Que no
Que nunca te decides
Tu sabes lo que quiero
Y aun no me lo dices
Que Si, Que no
Que nunca te decides
Tu sabes que lo quieres
Y no se lo dices
Que Si, Que no
Que nunca te decides
Tu sabes lo que quieres
Y aun no se lo dices
COUPLET:
Eschuchame mi amor
te pido un alegria
Te ruega todo el dia
Te ruega todo el dia
Te pido por favor
Me tienes como un tonto
Regando tien to loco
Regando tien to loco
REFREIN:
Que Si, Que no
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LATIN AMERICA .... JOY OF LIFE .... HOT, SWEATY and SPICY ...
most moving song ever
Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman
Time to say goodbye
TOP OF THE TOP
DANCING QUEEN - ABBA - 1976
ABBA donned traditional 18th Century costumes when they first performed this song for King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden the night before he was married to Silvia Sommerlath on 18/06/1976.
over 16 million visitors !!! - zie enkel op YouTube