We had an albuim at home of his songs including this one. Wonderful. And it takes me back to my childhoood and those who lived with me...all them gone. Dad, mother, my brothers... I feel like crying but also feel blessed I grew up listening to so beautiful songs.
Probably the most Egyptian thing to ever happen to composer Albert Ketelby was that he lived on Egyptian Hill on the Isle of Wight - but who really cares? His music is so appealing. What a joy to hear it. This is one of my favourites from my childhood - and I'm just sure you'll enjoy it too...
Oh maid of beauteous tresses, And eyes of soft caresses, Your glance is all beguiling, And your lips are ever smiling; Let us float together, For ever and for ever, To some far distant Isle, Adown the mystic Nile.
O maid of beauteous tresses and eyes of soft caresses your glance is all beguiling and your lips are ever smiling Let us float together, forever and forever to some far distant isle a down the mystic Nile.
I've rediscovered this CD in my collection recently. Albert Ketelbey was truly a unique composer (whether Victorian or Edwardian). This is my favorite cut from a 1981 London Promenade Orchestra recording.
Musique magique, de reve, du temps passé et pour le plaisir de l'entendre ! Sans politique ou autre message --juste du plaisir à l'entendre ! Merveilleux!! Comme Blanca Yvonne, je suis transportée.... et aussi je suis d'accord avec Christian Jacq : oui. Kétèlbey aurait eu un succès énorme avec la musique de cinéma, dans d'autres circonstances.... Amitié à tous.
Ahh man, WHAT A LOVELY TRACK INDEED, its just so nice....very EPIC..so like a classic movie Soundtrack..& the wee vocal chorus fits in so well..with this lovely tune.. :)
ketèlbey was inspired and moved,one silent evening when he was somewhere in GOZO,MALTA and all of a sudden he heard the bells of Ta Pinu church ring.He was so moved that he composed here,where he was stationed as a musician.A tribute to Gozitan bells.The original manuscript of Bells Across the Meadows,as written down by Ketèlbey himself of course,is still kept in the musical archives at the Aurora Opera House Gozo.For more details you can click the website leone.org.mt/pages/teatru.asp
This brings back so many memories. I had a difficult relationship with my mother and at such times when things got out of hand, I would retreat to the lounge room, take out a record, often it was Kelelbey and thus escape to a land far away................,
Delightful: like many of Ketèlbey’s pieces, it’s a tone poem, depicting a scene in music rather than images. “Exotic”, oriental & Arabian/Levantine themes were popular when this was written; often based on romanticised & inaccurate images; rather, it seems from ZZombyWooff’s comment, as people today can still have inaccurate views of things originating from this region. Ramadan kareem!
@@MrDaiseymay 'Analyse to death'? A little harsh. What is the first word of the comment? I infer, although cannot remember, that I commented in response to a comment no longer here so the context is now lost.
Albert Ketelbey était un compositeur particulier car il composa des œuvres très descriptives et riches en couleurs. Il aurait pu composer pour le cinéma !
Oh dear, one of his jolly ones. It improves as it goes on. I've never heard it before. Maybe its chief pleasure is nostalgia, but as someone else has pointed out, the performance is everything. Restraint with Ketelby is good in my opinion . A rich food doesn't need a rich sauce.
Ik ben nu 83. mijn grootvader had tijdens mijn tienerjaren een grammofoon, zo een met zwingel want na elke plaat moest weer de veer worden opgespannen om de volgende plaat te b eluiisteren. en U beVandaag grijpt wel dat nu nog deze muziek nog altijd mijn lieveling is maar draaien, spelen en luisteren, urenlang. Vandaag is dit luisteren samen met weemoed en veel herinneringen.
UPDATE: My apologies to Jorge Vazquez Pacheco, who found the lyrics a year before I did.... 1:27 O maid of beauteous tresses and eyes of soft caresses your glance is all beguiling and your lips are ever smiling Let us float together, forever and forever to some far distant isle down the mystic Nile.
Oh, dama de hermosos cabellos y ojos que acarician suavemente; tu mirada es toda seducción y tus labios de sonrisa eterna. ¡Vamos a flotar juntos, por siempre y para siempre hacia aquella isla lejana, bajo el místico Nilo!
Noel Coward's famous line:" extraordinary how potent cheap music is" could have been written with Ketelbey in mind. Not a great composer, but so enjoyable and nostalgic.
Not a great composer? The contrary, a very great composer. One of my favorites. I discovered his music about forty years ago and still I can't get enough of his music. No other composer has the same effect on me.
Stockhausen? Stockhausen? Ha! He was a boring fucker with no imagination at all! Its true, its motherfucking true!! Ketelbey kept doing his orchestral music for real, he did not fake it with sonic freaking mechanisms.
Katelbey is often attacked as inferior, when he was often the first in a particular genre, and familiarity can breed contempt, in his case this has held back appreciation of his very fine works. The multiple versions and settings for any instruments does not help, a poor performance is a poor one, and his reputation suffered at times.
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Albert Ketelbey should be known by so many more people. His talent is amazing... Listen to it and tell others. He is one of the best in my view.
And I am STILL saying it THREE YEARS ON, hardly anyone seems to have heard about him, his music is fantastic.
We had an albuim at home of his songs including this one. Wonderful. And it takes me back to my childhoood and those who lived with me...all them gone. Dad, mother, my brothers... I feel like crying but also feel blessed I grew up listening to so beautiful songs.
I share that loss with you. I'm the sole survivor of ten children
How sad, but this music brings them back
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Ketelbey wrote some of the most beautiful music ever heard. This is my favorite piece of his music. Thank you for sharing!
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Ketelbey recalls lost moments and times. He is sadly under appreciated.
Probably the most Egyptian thing to ever happen to composer Albert Ketelby was that he lived on Egyptian Hill on the Isle of Wight - but who really cares? His music is so appealing. What a joy to hear it. This is one of my favourites from my childhood - and I'm just sure you'll enjoy it too...
Absolutely beautiful, I love Ketelbey's music.
What imagery springs from the mind...truly good music, always a treat to hear...Ketelbey was a master whose brush was a pen...
Oh maid of beauteous tresses,
And eyes of soft caresses,
Your glance is all beguiling,
And your lips are ever smiling;
Let us float together,
For ever and for ever,
To some far distant Isle,
Adown the mystic Nile.
Thank you for stating those lucious lyrics, so clearly of their time, But TIMELESS.
Sounds like David Whitfield
I'm from Egypt and I love this masterpiece :)
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Delightful Ketelby should be heard in the Proms sometime.
You got your request with In a Monastery garden 😀
2009 awesome 👌
One of my favorite.
O maid of beauteous tresses
and eyes of soft caresses
your glance is all beguiling
and your lips are ever smiling
Let us float together, forever and forever
to some far distant isle a down the mystic Nile.
thank you Jorge
Wonderful!
Another of Ketelby's works that make the past days of yore come alive.(Fact or Fiction.)A wee bit of nostalgia maybe?.Thankyou.
I've rediscovered this CD in my collection recently. Albert Ketelbey was truly a unique composer (whether Victorian or Edwardian). This is my favorite cut from a 1981 London Promenade Orchestra recording.
errolfan
Lovely! Lovely! Thanks so much. And more like this one, please.
Musique magique, de reve, du temps passé et pour le plaisir de l'entendre ! Sans politique ou autre message --juste du plaisir à l'entendre ! Merveilleux!!
Comme Blanca Yvonne, je suis transportée.... et aussi je suis d'accord avec Christian Jacq : oui. Kétèlbey aurait eu un succès énorme avec la musique de cinéma, dans d'autres circonstances....
Amitié à tous.
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I alredy had this lp and play it every now and then, specially when want to calm down.
Ahh man, WHAT A LOVELY TRACK INDEED, its just so nice....very EPIC..so like a classic movie Soundtrack..& the wee vocal chorus fits in so well..with this lovely tune.. :)
Majestic.
ketèlbey was inspired and moved,one silent evening when he was somewhere in GOZO,MALTA and all of a sudden he heard the bells of Ta Pinu church ring.He was so moved that he composed here,where he was stationed as a musician.A tribute to Gozitan bells.The original manuscript of Bells Across the Meadows,as written down by Ketèlbey himself of course,is still kept in the musical archives at the Aurora Opera House Gozo.For more details you can click the website leone.org.mt/pages/teatru.asp
This brings back so many memories. I had a difficult relationship with my mother and at such times when things got out of hand, I would retreat to the lounge room, take out a record, often it was Kelelbey and thus escape to a land far away................,
Wonderful and inspiring and so Victorian!
Felicitaciones. Qué bella versión.
Gracias Skorrigan
Saludos desde medellín, Col
Delightful: like many of Ketèlbey’s pieces, it’s a tone poem, depicting a scene in music rather than images. “Exotic”, oriental & Arabian/Levantine themes were popular when this was written; often based on romanticised & inaccurate images; rather, it seems from ZZombyWooff’s comment, as people today can still have inaccurate views of things originating from this region. Ramadan kareem!
Need you annalyze it to death, just enjoy the Music and lyrics, they speek for themselves.
@@MrDaiseymay 'Analyse to death'? A little harsh. What is the first word of the comment? I infer, although cannot remember, that I commented in response to a comment no longer here so the context is now lost.
i remember listening to this work as i read the fu manchu novels of sax rohmer. the two are hence linked in my mind.
Thanks,Beautiful Music Selections
Beautiful ! Thank you for posting :)
Beautiful
very beautiful music
+Thomas Roell ..yeh :)
C'est magnifique
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Yes yes, I've heard the criticism of Ketelby. I've also heard the same criticism of Leroy Anderson. Snobbery never changes.
Ketelbey isn't a great composer in the sense of Bach, Beethoven, Mozart et al, but on his own terms he is a master and a delight.
IGNORE
Albert Ketelbey était un compositeur particulier car il composa des œuvres très descriptives et riches en couleurs. Il aurait pu composer pour le cinéma !
Oh dear, one of his jolly ones. It improves as it goes on. I've never heard it before. Maybe its chief pleasure is nostalgia, but as someone else has pointed out, the performance is everything. Restraint with Ketelby is good in my opinion . A rich food doesn't need a rich sauce.
toute une symbolique de l,amour simple retrouve
IDIOT
Ik ben nu 83. mijn grootvader had tijdens mijn tienerjaren een grammofoon, zo een met zwingel want na elke plaat moest weer de veer worden opgespannen om de volgende plaat te b eluiisteren. en U beVandaag grijpt wel dat nu nog deze muziek nog altijd mijn lieveling is maar draaien, spelen en luisteren, urenlang. Vandaag is dit luisteren samen met weemoed en veel herinneringen.
UPDATE: My apologies to Jorge Vazquez Pacheco, who found the lyrics a year before I did....
1:27
O maid of beauteous tresses
and eyes of soft caresses
your glance is all beguiling
and your lips are ever smiling
Let us float together,
forever and forever
to some far distant isle
down the mystic Nile.
BEAUTIFULLY POETIC
Fantástica.
Lindo, lindo. Lindo...
Esa música me transporta a esos misteriosos paises orientales de cuentos, princesas, y principes, magos y reyes.
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INMEJORABLE INTERPRETACION
Freaking AMAZING :) Thank YOU :)
Musica magica!
Wundervolle Musik
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Preciosa😮😮😮😮😮😮😗😗😗😗😘😘😘😘🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂meparto de risa con la voz...
Lawrence Dale is the tenor..
que ritmazo,es fascinante,que explosividad cuando se liberan las trompas
💕💕💕🥰
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i have a T-shirt with his photo on it
I didn't quite get what he was so beguilded about. Her eyes and smile are just fine. 😉
Oh, dama de hermosos cabellos
y ojos que acarician suavemente;
tu mirada es toda seducción
y tus labios de sonrisa eterna.
¡Vamos a flotar juntos, por siempre y para siempre
hacia aquella isla lejana, bajo el místico Nilo!
Ahhh aaahh aaahhh Every are ver y but so madrinolas.
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Tried to get into the above web site, could not find any archives
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Noel Coward's famous line:" extraordinary how potent cheap music is" could have been written with Ketelbey in mind. Not a great composer, but so enjoyable and nostalgic.
Not a great composer? The contrary, a very great composer. One of my favorites. I discovered his music about forty years ago and still I can't get enough of his music. No other composer has the same effect on me.
Stockhausen? Stockhausen? Ha! He was a boring fucker with no imagination at all! Its true, its motherfucking true!! Ketelbey kept doing his orchestral music for real, he did not fake it with sonic freaking mechanisms.
Idiot, and so was coward, when she was at her most Bitchy.
Katelbey is often attacked as inferior, when he was often the first in a particular genre, and familiarity can breed contempt, in his case this has held back appreciation of his very fine works. The multiple versions and settings for any instruments does not help, a poor performance is a poor one, and his reputation suffered at times.
IGNORE THE SNOBS, WHO THINK ANYTHING POPULAR MUST BE INFERIOR.
Lovely! Lovely! Thanks so much. And more like this one, please.
All Ketelbey's creations are on YT.