I heard these calls for the three years I was in the Army. Hearing them played like this got to my heart and I wept and wept the tears of an old solider. Co. A, 1st Battalion of the 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, Vietnam 1968. Thank you, Rachel.
Rachel, as a Canadian Army officer, I have participated to many ceremonies where The Last Post was played. I have only one word to describe your version: Amazing. Thank you for your support.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old; Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning We will remember them. Lest We Forget.
Thank You Rachel. I am a retired Armoured Corps Officer from the Malaysian Armed Forces trained in the UK and Australia. Your rendition of the Last Post on the violin is brilliant. It brought a lump to my throat. Yes, they gave their “yesterdays” for our “todays”.
Thank you so much everyone for your beautiful comments! Never ceases to amaze me how much my rendition has connected with people. I'm so glad to have shared it with all of you xx
Heard this kind of rendition only today, and as I was listening to it, I couldn't help feeling emotional. Thank you to those who gave their lives, and those who are still in the battlefield to help maintain freedom. Thanking also their families for their unselfish sharing of their loved ones for freedom's sake. Your sacrifice has never passed unnoticed in the eyes of God. God bless you all.🙏🙏🙏🙏
AS a veteran and a chaplain with the Canadian Forces ... I thank you for your passionate and moving rendering of the last post. I once played the violin but now I play the cello .. I am going to attempt to play this on the cello. thank you for a most inspiring and moving performance ... you have definitely broken the forth wall.
David Wilson, be carefull, you are about to offend Code Bainbridge - thinks the violin rendition is disrespectfull, Heaven knows what the cello will do for said, sad individual. Peace.
A very emotional Thank You from Southern Africa. My father served in North Africa and came home. I also served, but it is not appreciated in our current situation. Today I remember my schoolmates that did not return home from the Bush War. They shall not grow old.
Rachel, Today is ANZAC day in Australia. I just got home from the parade and received this link in my FB. What an unbelievably beautiful rendition of Last Post. Thank you for sharing it with the world. It is genuine goose bump material!
Hi young Lady; you play it very beautiful.I'm born in IEPER WEST-FLANDERS and my Father was 20 in 1914, so he was soldier in the Great War and his younger brother Henri is fallen in September 1918. I am 73 (only). Success.
The sadness of there loss and the too many lives its cost. Every home and every town or village paid and keeps paying. May we never let PC culture shame or tarnish the proud memory of those that paid and continue to pay the ultimate price. Lest we ever forget. Thankyou Rachel some mighty proud Grandfathers are up there.
You brought tears to my eyes. Three times I played it, trying to explain to my wife here in the Philippines why it was such an important day to we Australians and our brothers and sisters in New Zealand. And I choked on my tears all three times. I had to explain without the music playing. I would love to hear your rendition of Reveille too... would you consider this as a request please? Thank you so much.
Beautiful. Brought tears to my eyes. There will be no ANZAC day marches or public services tomorrow in Australia so this wonderful rendition has added poignancy.
Absolutely beautiful.had heard only the trumpet version till today.being a military daughter n a military wife.. hearing this live or otherwise brings goose bumps and tears.A big salute to all those soldiers who lost their lives in war fighting inside or outside their country.
I am a Ex Vet from Ireland. I performed at many service funerals over the years played by a bugler, this is the very best rendition I have heard. Brilliant thank you.
Following on from Normand's comment, I am a former Australian military officer and have also heard the Last Post played very many times - but only on the bugle. If possible, it is even more haunting on the violin. And so perfectly played. Thank you. Lest we forget.
Always makes me cry as I lost my father and two of his brothers in the last WW but as the violin is my favourite instrument of all, this is heartbreakingly beautiful. Thank you for your beautiful rendition Rachel.
I only wish I had seen this earlier. I work at Birmingham New St Station UK. I would have asked your permission to play this in our Atrium as we conduct our 2 minute silence in Commemoration of 11-11-11. This is Absolutely Breath Taking.
I find it hard to believe that 108 people have disliked this. It reminds me of a poem I once read about someone crushing a beautiful flower because he couldn't copy it. Anyway, ignoring their spite, Rachel's presentation is exceptional. Thanks for sharing it.
Many thanks for this moving recital of an old favourite. All the Indian armed forces (the Army, the IAF and the IN) play this classic piece of military music on ceremonial occasions. I do hope you will continue to regale us with your version for many years. Best wishes and regards from New Delhi.
Rachel. Thank you for your beautiful rendition of the Last Post. It brought a tear to my eyes. Long may the memory of the sacrifice of your Great Grandfather's live for ever.
your ancestors would be proud Rachel, we are all what we are today because of there sacrifices.as anex serviceman, l feel honoured by your moving tribute. Thank you.
My funeral arrangements have already been made. My final insistance was for a Bugler to play the Last Post. I am thinking perhaps I need to rethink that instruction. Simply Beautiful and very moving ! One impressed and Happy Vet!
The strident tones of the bugle have faded away moving over to the soothing,cacophonous sounds of of the violin peace, peace at last. What a beautiful rendition, thank you
I have heard the Last Post so many times, always with emotion, but this is the first time I have heard it played. with such emotion in the tone and timing. Thank you, Rachel Bostock
Rachel, that was beautiful and moving. The President of my (Australian based) American Legion Post AU03 posted in on our members page. I am so glad he did. I will listening to your videos.
Rachel, please accept my sincere and heartfelt thanks for posting this incredibly beautiful rendition of The Last Post, on your violin. It was very moving, I guess because you played it from your heart, remembering your two great-grandfathers, who sacrificed so much for our freedom. Thank you to them and the countless others who served, are serving, and those who fell on the battlefield, from WW1 till now. THANK YOU! Both my late husband and myself come from a long line of military personnel; five generations in fact, encompassing WW1, WW2 and many other theatres of war across the globe. Thank you again Rachel, for sharing your heart to honour and to bless those past and present. I will save this video for next year and every other year as, till now, I've only ever heard it played with a bugle. God bless you Warmest regards from Carolyn x
As an old soldier from a long-time military family, thank you Greatly for a marvelous heart-felt rendition of a memorable piece of music! Well Done! Absent Companions! Never Forgotten!
thank you for a beautiful tribute to all our lost men and woman of the services, whether they died overseas during the war or died back here they are all special people that put their lives on the lines for us!
You made me cry! :( Ihave always loved the last post because of the meaning of the music, and Taps for the same reason. I ahve subscribed, and congrats on making an old man cry. :(
Every time I listen to the Last Post being played I just get a feeling I can not explain, this young lady certainly is fantastic WOW how can you describe it. Well done Rachel I will be looking forward to listening to any of your music, and thank you.
G'DAY Hendrik,It may be as you say "even better than on the trumpet" BUT ...nothing compares with a bugler playing it ...on a British Bugle .Tradition.and I have been reduced to tears by a couple of excellent exponents of this amazing instrument ...one in particular was an Army colleague known affectionately by all as "Robbie"...
My grand-grand parents and uncles were trench soldiers and couldn't speak about it after the war. They were traumatized but won the war.A Fleming. Victory!
Blessing to you dearest Rachel beautiful emotive piece, it was lovely to meet you over the weekend.....keep on sharing the gift of music, may it take you where you have dreamed. My daughter plays flute for our local ANZAC day celebrations. Xo
Marvellous! With a lot of feeling. Can't be played better on violin!! I am from Flanders (= the Flemish or Dutch speaking part of Belgium), so in a way of speaking I am from "Flanders' Fields" (war poem John McCrae). All atrocities happened only 30 miles from my village. Incredible! Myself I play the Commonwealth Last Post on tuba on 11th November Remembrance Day. I prefer playing the Commonwealth Last Post to the Belgian Last Post because Belgium is an artificial country, and at the Menen Gate at Ieper in Flanders it is also the Commonwealth Last Post that is played every evening at 8 P.M.
Rachel ~As you said, this is particularly poignant with April A HUGE month In Australian WWI ` and subsequent~ even pre WWI military history~ I was sceptical at first ~ but then why wouldn't the beauty of the Violin sound not make a fabulous rendition~ Thank you !
I heard these calls for the three years I was in the Army. Hearing them played like this got to my heart and I wept and wept the tears of an old solider. Co. A, 1st Battalion of the 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, Vietnam 1968. Thank you, Rachel.
A former soldier says thank you. And you did it with such feeling. Reminds me of a sunset parade back in the day.
Gorgeous
Rachel, as a Canadian Army officer, I have participated to many ceremonies where The Last Post was played. I have only one word to describe your version: Amazing. Thank you for your support.
My pleasure Normand, thank you x
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
Lest We Forget.
Lest We Forget. Happy Remembrance Day.
This is beautifully said. ❤️
they gave their tomorrow for our today
Thank you from a former soldier. Beautifully played. Never thought that the violin could bring the bugle to life.
Two Grand-fathers who gave their all, and never made it back. You have given us something beautiful to recognise their sacrifice. Thank you, so much.
Thank You Rachel. I am a retired Armoured Corps Officer from the Malaysian Armed Forces trained in the UK and Australia. Your rendition of the Last Post on the violin is brilliant. It brought a lump to my throat. Yes, they gave their “yesterdays” for our “todays”.
Thank you so much everyone for your beautiful comments! Never ceases to amaze me how much my rendition has connected with people. I'm so glad to have shared it with all of you xx
Wonderfull played by VIOLIN.-a recognation with respect , to remember the Brave Soldiers Who brought Us. FREEDOM and PEACE.
Cyriel De Vriendt more like disrespect it only should be played on a bugle
Rachel Bostock hi can you show your finger placings please my daughter wants to learn how to play this thanks!
Your immature and stupid comment indicates you have never served your country in the military or can play any instrument.
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Heard this kind of rendition only today, and as I was listening to it, I couldn't help feeling emotional. Thank you to those who gave their lives, and those who are still in the battlefield to help maintain freedom. Thanking also their families for their unselfish sharing of their loved ones for freedom's sake. Your sacrifice has never passed unnoticed in the eyes of God. God bless you all.🙏🙏🙏🙏
20 Year Australian Navy veteran with relatives who sacrificed so much in past wars. Your rendition brought 'tears' to my eyes. THANK YOU Rachel.
"Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. " ~Oscar Wilde~
Rachel - you have nailed it to perfection.
What a beautiful quote! Thank you so much x
AS a veteran and a chaplain with the Canadian Forces ... I thank you for your passionate and moving rendering of the last post. I once played the violin but now I play the cello .. I am going to attempt to play this on the cello. thank you for a most inspiring and moving performance ... you have definitely broken the forth wall.
I would live to hear that, Cello is one of my favorite string instruments
David Wilsot2
David Wilson p
David Wilson, be carefull, you are about to offend Code Bainbridge - thinks the violin rendition is disrespectfull, Heaven knows what the cello will do for said, sad individual.
Peace.
@@anthonytaylor9232 - I don't know what could possibly be considered disrespectful, but I do know there's an asshole in every crowd...
A very emotional Thank You from Southern Africa. My father served in North Africa and came home. I also served, but it is not appreciated in our current situation. Today I remember my schoolmates that did not return home from the Bush War. They shall not grow old.
Rachel, Today is ANZAC day in Australia. I just got home from the parade and received this link in my FB. What an unbelievably beautiful rendition of Last Post. Thank you for sharing it with the world. It is genuine goose bump material!
me too
Hi young Lady; you play it very beautiful.I'm born in IEPER WEST-FLANDERS and my Father was 20 in 1914, so he was soldier in the Great War and his younger brother Henri is fallen in September 1918. I am 73 (only). Success.
The sadness of there loss and the too many lives its cost.
Every home and every town or village paid and keeps paying.
May we never let PC culture shame or tarnish the proud memory
of those that paid and continue to pay the ultimate price.
Lest we ever forget.
Thankyou Rachel some mighty proud Grandfathers are up there.
You brought tears to my eyes. Three times I played it, trying to explain to my wife here in the Philippines why it was such an important day to we Australians and our brothers and sisters in New Zealand. And I choked on my tears all three times. I had to explain without the music playing. I would love to hear your rendition of Reveille too... would you consider this as a request please? Thank you so much.
Beautiful. Brought tears to my eyes. There will be no ANZAC day marches or public services tomorrow in Australia so this wonderful rendition has added poignancy.
Absolutely beautiful.had heard only the trumpet version till today.being a military daughter n a military wife.. hearing this live or otherwise brings goose bumps and tears.A big salute to all those soldiers who lost their lives in war fighting inside or outside their country.
I am a Ex Vet from Ireland. I performed at many service funerals over the years played by a bugler, this is the very best rendition I have heard. Brilliant thank you.
Rechael you bought shivers up my spine. What a wounderful tribute to those we left behind, some of them I served with. Thank you
Following on from Normand's comment, I am a former Australian military officer and have also heard the Last Post played very many times - but only on the bugle. If possible, it is even more haunting on the violin. And so perfectly played. Thank you. Lest we forget.
Always makes me cry as I lost my father and two of his brothers in the last WW but as the violin is my favourite instrument of all, this is heartbreakingly beautiful. Thank you for your beautiful rendition Rachel.
I only wish I had seen this earlier. I work at Birmingham New St Station UK. I would have asked your permission to play this in our Atrium as we conduct our 2 minute silence in Commemoration of 11-11-11. This is Absolutely Breath Taking.
Beautiful - thank you so much. Brings my Uncles I knew as a child so much closer!
Both your Great Grand Father's would be so proud of you...........
I find it hard to believe that 108 people have disliked this. It reminds me of a poem I once read about someone crushing a beautiful flower because he couldn't copy it. Anyway, ignoring their spite, Rachel's presentation is exceptional. Thanks for sharing it.
Amazing sound and replication of the traditional trumpet, and sensitively played!
Words cannot describe. Beautiful.
Many thanks for this moving recital of an old favourite. All the Indian armed forces (the Army, the IAF and the IN) play this classic piece of military music on ceremonial occasions. I do hope you will continue to regale us with your version for many years. Best wishes and regards from New Delhi.
Rachel. Thank you for your beautiful rendition of the Last Post. It brought a tear to my eyes. Long may the memory of the sacrifice of your Great Grandfather's live for ever.
your ancestors would be proud Rachel, we are all what we are today because of there sacrifices.as anex serviceman, l feel honoured by your moving tribute. Thank you.
My funeral arrangements have already been made. My final insistance was for a Bugler to play the Last Post. I am thinking perhaps I need to rethink that instruction.
Simply Beautiful and very moving ! One impressed and Happy Vet!
The strident tones of the bugle have faded away moving over to the soothing,cacophonous sounds of of the violin peace, peace at last. What a beautiful rendition, thank you
I have heard the Last Post so many times, always with emotion, but this is the first time I have heard it played. with such emotion in the tone and timing. Thank you, Rachel Bostock
Oh my goodness, hearing the Last Post always gives me goosebumps but that was exquisitely haunting. My goosebumps have goosebumps.
Rachel, that was beautiful and moving. The President of my (Australian based) American Legion Post AU03 posted in on our members page. I am so glad he did. I will listening to your videos.
Retired RCAF Captain. The best rendition I have ever heard. I will I could obtain a copy of this video. It deserves to be heard! Thank you.
I cried the first time and i will always cry so moving. Why so many dislikes?i love this so much.
32 Years in the Army 84 YEARS OF AGE You are a star Eric Richardson Colonel(Ret)
Thank you!
Rachel, please accept my sincere and heartfelt thanks for posting this incredibly beautiful rendition of The Last Post, on your violin. It was very moving,
I guess because you played it from your heart, remembering your two great-grandfathers, who sacrificed so much for our freedom. Thank you to them and the countless others who served, are serving, and those who fell on the battlefield, from WW1 till now. THANK YOU!
Both my late husband and myself come from a long line of military personnel; five generations in fact, encompassing WW1, WW2 and many other theatres of war across the globe.
Thank you again Rachel, for sharing your heart to honour and to bless those past and present. I will save this video for next year and every other year as, till now, I've only ever heard it played with a bugle.
God bless you
Warmest regards from Carolyn x
As an old soldier from a long-time military family, thank you Greatly for a marvelous heart-felt rendition of a memorable piece of music!
Well Done!
Absent Companions! Never Forgotten!
thank you for a beautiful tribute to all our lost men and woman of the services, whether they died overseas during the war or died back here they are all special people that put their lives on the lines for us!
I am in a STUPOR. Absolutely Fantastic. Hairraising deisplay of skill. Keep it going
So Beautfiful. Tears falling down my cheeks as I listen.
Brings tears to my eyes.... exquisitely bittersweet.
You made me cry! :( Ihave always loved the last post because of the meaning of the music, and Taps for the same reason. I ahve subscribed, and congrats on making an old man cry. :(
havingr been a solider for 22 years now retired you played this with so much feeling well done
Bob Mackay
What exactly is a "solider?" Can't find definition anywhere.
should read soldier 22 years in Army
Beautiful, thanks to you, on behalf of all those who won't grow old, as their Buddies do.
wow speechless, it does sound like a trumpet. the last post will always be in many of our hearts.. thanks Rachel xx
Brought tears to my eyes and made me write my first post. Thank you, your parents are proud of you more then they will ever tell you!
Rachel, greetings from Australia.
A beautiful rendition of the Last Post. Thank you.
So simple, yet so amazing. What a wonderful piece of violin playing.
This is so beautiful I just wish my husband was alive to hear it he would love it.
Just wonderful Ms Bostock!
Very poignant indeed. Thank you for a beautifully rendered Last Post.🦘🐨
Beautifully played with emotion...Just right. Thank You
Thank you Andrew :)
Awesome, well played. Thank you.
Every time I listen to the Last Post being played I just get a feeling I can not explain, this young lady certainly is fantastic WOW how can you describe it. Well done Rachel I will be looking forward to listening to any of your music, and thank you.
Absolutely breathtaking! I'm a very grateful veteran for hearing this. Great job and thank you.
WHAT A BEAUTIFUL PERFORMANCE, SHIVERS UP MY BACK.
That was Beautiful. Thank you xx You have an amazing Gift.
i literally have shivers running down my spine as you played this. thankyou. Lest We Forget
Absolutely wonderful. Made the hairs on my arm. Stand up
Beautiful rendition. My grand father was in the army and my father got really emotional after hearing this
Fabulous rendition, even better then on the trumpet. Thank you!
G'DAY Hendrik,It may be as you say "even better than on the trumpet" BUT ...nothing compares with a bugler playing it ...on a British Bugle .Tradition.and I have been reduced to tears by a couple of excellent exponents of this amazing instrument ...one in particular was an Army colleague known affectionately by all as "Robbie"...
This really is deeply moving and it conveys, for me at any rate, what remembrance is all about. Simply beautiful.
A beautiful and hauntingly sensitive rendition....Thank you Rachel.
Rachel came across your rendition of the last post on a friends FB page ad he had once been a member of our armed forces. Absolutely stunning.
No sound can equal the beautiful tone of a violin.
I teared up at this, lol and man enough to admit it. Thanks to all Allied service men and women past, present, and future.
Everything in the video was beautiful.
My grand-grand parents and uncles were trench soldiers and couldn't speak about it after the war. They were traumatized but won the war.A Fleming. Victory!
Stunning performance, Rachel.
Fantastic! Truely beautiful rendition! Lest we forget.
I've participated in too many ANZAC and Remembrance Day services to count. And that is the most moving rendition of the Last Post I've ever heard.
Stunning rendition Rachel. Your Grandfathers would have been proud of you. Very proud.
Magical! Thank you Rachel...
Blessing to you dearest Rachel beautiful emotive piece, it was lovely to meet you over the weekend.....keep on sharing the gift of music, may it take you where you have dreamed. My daughter plays flute for our local ANZAC day celebrations. Xo
Thanks so much @Sharon Zadkiel it was great to meet you too! I most certainly will! Blessings to you :) xx
This is probably the best thing I've ever seen on RUclips! Very well done! Thanks for posting it.
Thank you - how beautifully done
Marvellous! With a lot of feeling. Can't be played better on violin!!
I am from Flanders (= the Flemish or Dutch speaking part of Belgium), so in a way of speaking I am from "Flanders' Fields" (war poem John McCrae). All atrocities happened only 30 miles from my village. Incredible! Myself I play the Commonwealth Last Post on tuba on 11th November Remembrance Day. I prefer playing the Commonwealth Last Post to the Belgian Last Post because Belgium is an artificial country, and at the Menen Gate at Ieper in Flanders it is also the Commonwealth Last Post that is played every evening at 8 P.M.
Absolutely beautiful, thank you
Absolutely mesmerising
So beautiful. Makes me feel so comforted for a Last Post.
What a beautiful rendition
Absolutely Beautiful !!!!.
Beautiful. Coming from an Armed Forces family brought tears to my eyes even though ANZAC Day was months ago.
Well done. We will remember them. My wife is Lynda Bostock daughter of Ronald Bostock.
How beautifully done.
Fantastic....Never sounded better...Thank You for that.xxx. me Jack....!!!
Simply beautiful......thankyou
Just stunning brought a tear to my eye
Amazing, Thank You ... from a South African Veteran.
Thank you Love your rendition.
Rachel ~As you said, this is particularly poignant with April A HUGE month In Australian WWI ` and subsequent~ even pre WWI military history~
I was sceptical at first ~ but then why wouldn't the beauty of the Violin sound not make a fabulous rendition~ Thank you !
Breathtakingly Moving! Thank you so much for hours of practice to produce such magnificent and heartfelt performance for all who have fallen. Helzy
Damn bloody BEAUTIFUL.Thank you
Love the violin version , such an expressive instrument. Peace.