Handel: The Water Music (Bath Festival Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin)
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
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The first performance of the Water Music is recorded in The Daily Courant, the first British daily newspaper. At about 8 p.m. on Wednesday, 17 July 1717, King George I and several aristocrats boarded a royal barge at Whitehall Palace, for an excursion up the Thames toward Chelsea. The rising tide propelled the barge upstream without rowing. Another barge, provided by the City of London, contained about 50 musicians who performed Handel's music. Many other Londoners also took to the river to hear the concert. According to The Courant, "the whole River in a manner was covered" with boats and barges. On arriving at Chelsea, the king left his barge, then returned to it at about 11 p.m. for the return trip. The king was so pleased with Water Music that he ordered it to be repeated at least three times, both on the trip upstream to Chelsea and on the return, until he landed again at Whitehall.
King George's companions in the royal barge included Anne Vaughan, the Duchess of Bolton, the Duchess of Newcastle, the Duke of Kingston, Madam Kielmansegg, the Countess of Godolphin, and the Earl of Orkney. Handel's orchestra is believed to have performed from about 8 p.m. until well after midnight, with only one break while the king went ashore at Chelsea.
It was rumored that the Water Music was composed to help King George steal some of the London spotlight back from the prince who, at the time, worried that his time to rule would be shortened by his father's long life, so he threw lavish parties and dinners to compensate for it. The Water Music's first performance on the Thames was the King's way of reminding London that he was still there and showing he could carry out gestures even grander than his son's.
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Our parents had this album when I was just a young child. I still have it on vinyl. This is the version of Handel's Water Music that I grew up with and I still love it. Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks for your appreciation.
Exquisite music! Thank you. Lovely selection.
You're most welcome.
Thank you for posting this. I've heard many recordings of this wonderful piece. This one is by far my favorite. Most of the others employ noticeably faster tempos. This version is more stately :-)
thank you for watching
Oh yes to the tempo. it seems everyone is obsessed with speed and volume. This performance is magnificent. I cannot bear to listen to other versions.
I have the LP of this and it is one of my most prized.
Thanks for watching. I extended the hornpipe section a bit at the end with a bit of editing. Not sure if you noticed that.
@@christophermacintyre5890 I did not notice. I'm don't know what you mean by "extending" with "editing" - I thought you could couldn't add things with editing if you didn't have the master. Would you mind some further detail? Thanks
@@NoferTrunions I mean the part at 51:00 with the flute. The recording does play this part twice. It starts with the middle section for some reason and plays the flute part only at the end. Made a copy of the end and tacked it on the beginning. This is how it is played in every other recording I've ever heard of the piece. I don't know why they did that with no intro... or perhaps the website I got if from had a glitch or something. I don't know.
@@christophermacintyre5890 Unfortunately the album is in storage and I don't even have a turntable setup at this time - so I can't check the LP. However upon listening to it, I believe the flute part is indeed omitted - jumping right in with the strings is a grander finale. (but that is a memory before when I moved 25 years ago.)
@@NoferTrunions I hope I wasn't too presumptuous by making the edit... but that's how that part "goes" for me and I opted to change it at the time.
where is the video footage from?
Shenzhen, China