Handel: As steals the morn (L'Allegro, HWV 55) Amanda Forsythe & Thomas Cooley, Voices of Music 4K
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- Опубликовано: 3 ноя 2019
- One of Handel's finest arias, As steals the morn upon the night, performed on original instruments by the Early Music ensemble Voices of Music. Presented for the first time in 4K, ultra high definition video--from our award winning concert "As steals the Morn," March, 2019. This concert placed first in the SFCV "Best of the Bay" awards, 2018-2019. Amanda Forsythe and Thomas Cooley, soloists. Marc Schachman and Anna Marsh, baroque oboe & bassoon.
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In memoriam Edward W. Tayler (1931-2018)
As steals the morn upon the night,
And melts the shades away:
So Truth does Fancy’s charm dissolve,
And rising Reason puts to flight
The fumes that did the mind involve,
Restoring intellectual day.
-William Shakespeare, John Milton & Charles Jennens
“As steals the morn” shows Handel at his very best as a composer: he employs full, rich counterpoint throughout the aria, and he provides extended melismas for the soprano and tenor voices as well as the oboe and bassoon. The text was originally drawn from Shakespeare’s Tempest:
(aside) “The charm dissolves apace,
And as the morning steals upon the night,
Melting the darkness, so their rising senses
Begin to chase the ignorant fumes that mantle
Their clearer reason... (Act 5, Scene 1)
The play as a whole was widely imitated in the baroque period, and Handel's librettist, Charles Jennens, combined Milton's "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso" and added his own "Moderato." Milton and Jennens borrow some of the evocative images and vocabulary from Shakespeare, such as "dissolve," "fancy," "charm" "morn & night," and scholar Laurence Lerner notes Shakespeare's influence on Milton's poems ("The English Poems of John Milton"). However, "As steals the morn" is based on Shakespeare and sourced from Jennens' contribution to the libretto, "Moderato."
L’Allegro premiered in February of 1740. The original cast was soprano Elisabeth Duparc (‘La Francesina’) a boy treble, tenor John Beard, and basses Henry Reinhold and William Savage.
Text:
As steals the morn upon the night,
And melts the shades away:
So Truth does Fancy's charm dissolve,
And rising Reason puts to flight
The fumes that did the mind involve,
Restoring intellectual day.
#Handel #Milton #shakespeare
High Definition Audio: Boby Borisov
Final audio and video master: David Tayler 
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Elegance personified. Superb woodwind playing and perfect instrumental colour, which brings out all the subtleties of this most English of Handel movements. Perfect understated lyrical singing too. Above all a wonderful demonstration of an ensemble bringing beautiful music alive by listening and reacting to every nuance of the performance of every member of the group. Bravo and let’s have more!
Well said this melody has been haunting me all day and tonight as I relistened I realised the outstanding genius of Handel in the duet going on with the woodwinds.
I love it too. But what's English about it ?
agree 100% with you
The plangent and wistful melancholy of the music rooted, as it is, in a simple Arcadian vision makes it quintessentially English in style composed by a native German!
@@alistairmacdonald2403 right you are, dear former colleague!
My Mom listened this execution many times in the last two months of her life. Her cancer was not human but you have done a miracle giving her a soft smile when she listened you. Thanks from my heart, heart of a son ..heart of musician too.
I’m so sorry for the loss of your mother 🙏Cancer is an ugly unrelenting thief,I lost my husband to it,4 months ago.Thank God your mother was able to be comforted by this sublime music ♥️🇨🇦
@@jeanwillis7774 You are very kind🙏 i am sorry for the loss of your husband. May him rest in peace 😞
I utterly applaud you. My Mum, a music lover, passed away some time go although it never occurred to me to sit with her and play such wonderful music as this. You put me to shame.
@@djperry211 You don t need...i m sure you was aleays in her heart also without music. I m Sorry for your Mom. I send my hug tò you, immagine that day next tomorrow i ll go in surgery for my cervical spine. I have all inside my Heart from my Mom and a letter from her from 1992 💓
@@francescoficarella1474 good luck with your surgery and thank you for your kind words.
Zum Niederknien schön! Es ist das letzte Stück, das ich meinem Mann am Sterbebett mit auf die Reise gegeben habe - er hat diese begnadete Aufnahme geliebt. Begleitet von solchen Klängen kann man diese Welt getrost verlassen.
I am losing my haring , and listen to the sounds that I can carry in my head when world finally become silent. The timelessness of this piece would make George Fredrick himself warmed if he were with us …….. and he would be very pleased . Thank you to the players .l have another sound to memorise that is worth memorising…….
Some of the most beautiful music ever written. It brings tears to my eyes.
Handel outdid himself.
something missing : Some of the most beautiful music ever written in English ... For centuries aristocracie used to speak French, mujsic theory was designed by Frenchman, remenber !
Merci, Louis Frédéric, c'est un intéressant point.
Just love this very professional and yet full-of-feeling performance. As for "restoring the intellectual day."..yes, yes, yes" Restoring sanity, love, beauty, cooperation, What we humans have, need, can aspire to, and simply enjoy, yes!!! .
What a gift for the mankind!
Amanda voice Is marvelous. By far the best performancer on this Handel's masterpiece
I can’t stop listening to this wonderful recording. It’s sublime.❤
Thanks for listening
I am only on my third month, so far could not stop,
This performance is beyond words. Thomas and Amanda are perfectly matched. And so are the instruments and the whole ensemble. So in tune with each other. This rendition really soothes my soul.
Thank you, Rita.
Must have listened to.. umpteen times.. but never has the gelling waned!!One of the best duets of all time!!the marriage of the orchestra.. sublime!! Ethereal!!
:)
Fully agree…can’t recall how many times I have listened to this splendid performance of Handel
This was my companion during the lockdown.
Me too.
Two years later and I keep wanting to thumbs up this piece of art. There are singers on this planet and then there are these two wonders of the world ❤️
:)
And in this band you will find them, esp these two!
Hard for me to listen to it without crying. From very young age my father used to play this aria. He became a chorister and toured Europe when he was 45-50. He died 5 years ago. Every time i listen to this i can hear him speaking to me. Beautiful. Hello everyone this is 2022. How are you?
How comforting for you to be able to remember your dear father with this beautiful aria and it’s superb performance by such a talented group,
What an incredible performance…even from the most critical perspective. Heavenly voices. What a lesson in controlled state presence! Love, kindness and compassion exude from these 2 soloists. I have had to watch this several dozens of times to soak in their positivity. It is so good that I became an instant donor…as a professional musician I don’t pull that trigger too fast. And…did I forgot to say thanks to Handel?
Thanks so much!
Diese Musik und die Stimmen sind so himmlisch und wunderschön, daß man dieses Duett den ganzen Tag anhören möchte. Herzlichen Dank für diese tolle Darbietung. 👍👏❤️🌻
Our pleasure!
ABSOLUTELY DIVINE I’m crying as I’m writing this review I’ve just Lost my wife of 50 years this 7 mins I could listen to for 47 mins thank you darling you have made an old man so happy but still crying god bless Xxx
Its a beautiful song indeed. my condolences. It must be a hard time and we wish you all the best!
May God bless you and keep both of you united mentally (Indian philosophy says Atma never dies).
Awwww- such love never dies. Sending love and I hope you are still listening.
God Bless you mate! I am so sorry to hear it! I have been married for 55 years and could not imagine life without my love!!!
Brian I will always think of you when I listen to this. Also Waft her through the skies...My most sincere condoleances, losing a loved partner is really difficult. I lost mine 12 years ago...We weren't together as long as you but I miss him terribly.
One of the most beautiful and perfect performances of a piece of music I have ever heard.
Thank you.
you are 100 % right
Absolutely. Perfection!
Un moment de grâce... Un pur bonheur ...
Hear hear
Every time I watch this, I'm entranced. The singing is glorious, with wonderful interaction between Amanda and Thomas. The winds are superb, with the singing oboe and the wonderfully expressive bassoon. What a wonderful performance of a joyous piece of music!
Thank you, Bill!
@@VoicesofMusic I have watch the solo over n over can't stop watching it wonder work voice of music
It must be one of the most perfect pieces of music for joy and relaxation
Wish I heard this when I was ten years of age, I am 76 now. Great and inmensly beautiful.
The most beautiful composition and the best rendition of harmony and balance of perfection achieved.💞🌷🙋♀️🙋♂️🙏
The gentle movement of their swaying bodies says it all. Truly magnificent.
I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve listened to this - each time is just as alluring as the first!
Thank you.
Amen!
Agree, I'll never get tired of this! So beautifull.
It's a masterpiece.There's no doubt about it.😍
@@Bigbassdrum60
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Congratulations to the sound engineer, the balance of voices and orchestra is perfect.
Thank you. Much appreciated.
Napenda sana huu musiki
I am listening to classical music for almost seventy years and I have not heard a performance to equal L'allegro. Instruments, voices, performance are all fused seamlessly to deliver Handels creativity.
We are blessed to have such harmonious beauty so readily available to us. Buiochas do gach duine i Voices of Music.
I love classical music so much and all my life, I am 56 years old. To be honest, since a short time I discovered Barok Opera's, Haendel, Rameau, Vivaldi, and I love it so much. It gives me so much pleasure, comfort. And now these times with Covid 19, it is a pleasure to sit at home and listen to this beautiful music. I wish all listeners all over the world: stay safe, enjoy this beautiful music, one day this virus will be gone. Music will be always there, greetings from the Netherlands.
Thank you. Stay safe.
My thoughts exactly. Well said Jan. The music created by these people is sublime and what’s more they all enjoyed playing their part to our benefit.
Music been pretty much my life this year, stood down from work at home and music.
You are probably already aware of this but if you love Baroque music, you have chosen a very good country to be born in. Many of my favourite period instrumentalists are Dutch. There is a very strong early music tradition in the Netherlands and I've been to several excellent early music concerts in Amsterdam and Utrecht.
We will stay safe and enjoy this beautiful gift that haendel gave to us
So beautiful. This 2023 effed up world needs this kind of music and peace.
Moves me to tears everytime I hear it.
:)
Is it just me: so many Handel arias get inside my head and stay there for days. He seems to have this ability to conjure up these incredibly catchy tunes, in a way that few other composers have. This is no exception and it’s beautifully performed ... and presented, with lovely interaction between the singers. I keep coming back to this again and again. Wonderful
And the lyrics seem to be so relevant.
That is exactly Handel's appeal. Were he alive today, there is little doubt Handel would be scoring for films and the theatre.
@@captebbtide I don't think Handel would wish to be associated with any of the films or theatre of today, nor would such a giant of genius deserve to be reduced to such ignominy.
No, it’s not just you. You’ve explained very well why I come back to this often and why, when I watch it late in the evening, I smile and decide it’s bedtime. We are living in dreadful times and witnessing appalling cruelty and heartbreaking suffering in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world. This recording is for me a reminder of our civilisation and humanity - a brief moment of calm, joy and renewal.
Handel is by far my favourite composer. He produced a full opera per year for decades, each with several #1 hits on them. His ability to capture the human heart remains unparalleled
Tears streamed at such exquisiteness.
Believe me, I have never seen, heard, watched or told by anybody so far, that singing is such beautiful and comparable to overflowing of natural honey freshly taken from big trees. I felt as if I had tasted that sweet honey through the more sweeter singing of the two incredible singers . Since I am not stony - hearted I was forced to shed some tears. Not to mention that this kind of magical experience is not possible without an excellent orchestra. Thanks everyone!
You are very welcome :)
This is the honey of western Christian culture.
I frequently return to listen and watch this wonderful performance and each time I can’t help but to admire the individual contributions and involvement of all the 17 musicians here who’s obvious commitment to achieving perfection makes it very special. They move as one.
Bravo for including singers amongst the musicians.
I agree !
In a dark world a little light! The clouds part and there is such joy in this. Thank you so much.
I wish I could thank the performers technicians, and administration of Voices of Music a thousand times for the thousand times I've listened to this. So agreed: elegance personified, from composition to presentation to performance to recording. Grazie millle!
I have listened to this beautiful music and singers many times. Amazing!
Jean-Luc Truelle:
Une note de français, pour exprimer l'enchantement créé par cet orchestre d'une cohésion magnifique et par ce duo, dont les voix s'enchevêtrent de manière fluide.
Les voix sont parfaites, les regards touchants et discrets. La musique de Haendel est d'une douceur, d'une mélancolie prenantes.
Comme le dit Stefan ZWEIG, la musique a fait plus pour la paix que toutes les conférences et négociations.
Peuples européens, qui se rapprochent dans ce moment tragique, assumons et diffusons ce message, chez les Ukrainiens et aussi chez les Russes.
Tout à fait d'accord avec vous ,et félicitation pour l'avoir dit en français et de ne pas vous être cru obligé de le dire dans la langue de Shakespeare
I should have said it in English ! Un autre jacobin
this was played at my Uncles funeral, last week, have not had my ears away from it since, this version is outstanding.
he was a great lover of classical music, and am thankful that he led me to this wonderful piece.
God rest a lovely soul.
Since I discovered this amazing performance I completely fell in love with voices and the beautiful wind instruments. It has become a daily treat !
:)
one of the videos which has seen me through covid lockdowns.
@@VoicesofMusic I am in LOVE with this band!
This is what happens when everything comes together just perfectly. The always shockingly good Voices of Music ensemble, combined with exquisite voices from the soloists that match the sound colours of the woodwinds, and then on top of it all, the recording engineering is flawless. What I mean, is that this is perfect.
Thank you!
I can only agree
@@adriaanmeerman3453 Me too!
Please donate so they are still there after the pandemic!
❤
I absolutely love this. Have listened to it many times. It fills my heart 💖 with joy of Jesus.
Thoroughly spendid in every respect. This is music making at its best.
I can't stop listening to (and watching) this. Everything is in perfect balance; Amanda has the perfect voice for Handel, pure, sweet and with just the right amount of delicate vibrato to provide the baroque ornamentation a beautiful, subtle expression. And Thomas also has the perfect lyric tenor timbre, tone and control, they complement each other perfectly. Their interaction (and the beautiful woodwind solos) make me open my eyes, closed as I feel in Heaven, surrounded by this glorious sound...
Thank you!
Yes !
Very well said :-)
Yes!
You put it perfectly. I've listened to quite a few other performances and they all lack something compared to this. The elegant expressiveness of Amanda's face is also a joy to behold. It's all perfect. Thank you so much, Voices of Music.
I so agree. This combination is perfection indeed.
God gives us a glimpse into heaven every now and then.
Wow , such Wonderful and prescious tunes tones of musical message to me hence the music was soothing and comforting dearlier today 24-12-2022 during the passing away of my Mother at age 90.Thanks so much...what an experience of Grace divine.🙏Mom🙏💐
So sorry for your loss....
@@VoicesofMusic ,Thanks so much...❤️
Love it more every time I hear it again and again.
Samesies
They truely making Handel proud of such a beautiful flowing rendition of perfection👌🙏👍
I think when Handel wrote this piece he had in mind these two voices to sing it. Amanda has the perfect 'Handel voice'. And Thomas matches her
Just the expressions on these musicians’ faces, the pure joy of performing and hearing the beauty that they’re producing. It’s mesmerizing. Lucky are those who are able to find this in their life
Thank you, be safe.
What a voices, like an angel, now 15 march 2020 Corona virus is all over the world, also in my country the Netherlands, I wish all the people who suffer all the best. Keep faith, comfort you with this beautiful music. I pray for Italy.
Jan-Pieter van Waasbergen Thanks, we are in so much suffering 😔 Love from Parma. .
best wishes to you too
And the rest of the world!
Jan-Pieter van Waasbergen, I too thank you. I hope the whole world comes out of this fog.
@@alessiogiovanninegri1174 The Israelis, GSK and Cambridge university will win through to ultimate victory.. but what about the Next one ? , the next Covid....
Amanda Forsythe had a wonderful voice and her eyes!!! Thomas Cooley and the Voices are great.Thank you very much!
You are very welcome.
What can I say. I haven't been so moved by music for a long time.
Je suis à chaque fois ravi à l'écoute et au visionnage de cette perle de vidéo...Il y a quelque chose qui s'est passé. Entre les deux solistes merveilleux et cet orchestre hors norme,.
The acoustics of this room are phenomenal. You can see it in the smiles on the singers faces when they sing their first lines. There are notes hanging around that roof from the ‘80s 😂 The performance is simply stunning
I would do much to be sitting in the audience sometime for this ensemble!!! I know most VOM fans feel the same. So DONATE!
Shame that you are only allowed to give this performance one thumbs up. Wonderful.
Beautiful blending of two very good singers, especially great woodwind work and wondrously beautiful work by Handel - and some profound truths in the text.
My favorite duet honoring Truth and Reason. I love it.
Thank you.
And boy, do we need them, now more than ever!
What a glorious celebration of The Enlightenment, both the lyrics and Handel's wonderful music.
Agree!
By just saying beautiful I don't do justice to this heavenly music made on Earth.
:)
The more I listen to this breathtaking piece of music I realise that the divine is present here on earth.
The divine is present wherever there is beauty and the perfection of that beauty; and that is what is found in Handel's music performed here.
Utter bliss. The soloists are perfect for this, the accompaniment is beautifully played and all are perfectly in tune with the genius of Handel.
Handels music initiates the wonder of life in me. This is imbedded in my memories from my first classical music class. I discovered a rich ornate unimaginable world of beauty and joy. This from my mentor who played I; our city symphony.
Handel had a unique understanding of the human voice and creates this woven musical fabric of instruments, singers and melody. Wonderful !
Bonjour, oui, c'est magnifique.
@@dieterbarkhoff1328 He really really does that for me too!
wonderful to see people who know and mean what they verbalize😘
As steals the morn upon the night,
And melts the shades away:
So Truth does Fancy's charm dissolve,
And rising Reason puts to flight
The fumes that did the mind involve,
Restoring intellectual day.
@Ce Koch: Thank you !
Is this Milton?
@@srothbardt Yes, but as a development of a theme and phrase from Shakespeare's "The Tempest," with further massaging (to fit the music) by Charles Jennens.
Her voice is absolutely stunning. Substance and clarity. Just beautiful.
:)
In addition to simply loving the ensemble--Forsythe and Cooley made themselves part of a seamless, gorgeous whole,--I have another idiosyncratic appreciation: the synchronized knee -bending of March Schachman and Anna Marsh, baroque oboe & bassoon. Their harmonious physical experience of the music is right there in the dance.
Totally agree!
Как замечательно пара поет, какие артистичные и красивые! Голос Томаса - просто волшебный!
It is simply astonishing that people can make such a beautiful sound.
When music is so beautiful it actually hurts....! Got this on repeat.
I agree with you
Time spent listening to Early Music is definitely a refreshment.
Lol... Looping this seems to be a common event. Me too!
I´m in love with Thomas Cooley´s voice.
Yes, he is perfection..
I am too.
The sopranos and tenors completely destroyed it. Altos and Bass complemented this without question.
God bless W.A. Mozart who I've had the joy of studying and playing.
Greetings from East Africa.
Capt. Allan Katatumba
The performance is creamy, sensuous, uplifting, transcendent. Shakespeare’s piercing illuminations into ourselves. The brilliance of Handel. That these gifts prevail to this day, that we can hear and see such radiant performances as this, as all of VoM’s, is a bloody miracle, what all considered. Be thankful.
Such an amazing work by Handel....
James Bell Agree absolutely with 46 words of your brilliant 47 word review; the 47th word (an adjective), is completely inappropriate, inaccurate and simply wrong!
Эта музыка возвышает!! 😇
I love Cooley's voice -- gorgeous timbre and musicality - his voice is perfect for Handel!
Ich habe mir die himmlisch-schöne Arie immer wieder anhören müssen und bin begeistert von der Interpretation aller Musiker, möchte aber die beiden herausragenden Gesangssolisten besonders hervorheben: Beide haben unglaublich schöne Stimmen und passen wunderbar zusammen, ab 2:41 kommt die wunderbare lyrische Tenorstimme herrlich zur Geltung - zum Weinen schön!!!
@@ALBICOMUS1954 Genau! Voices of Music is eine fantiastische musikalishe ensemble. Sie haben auch viele hervorragende Leistungen auf RUclips fur uns zu geniesen.
Every time I am on youtube I listen to this. It is hauntingly beautiful. If music be the food of love, play on.
Agree!
Was so captivated by the music, that I only now read the libretto - the Age of Enlightenment indeed! Makes me proud to belong to the human race. Gives me hope in the bleak current geopolitical environment : the war in Ukraine, domestic difficulties and discontent, that will use our reason to end war, poverty, tyranny and all those cancers on the body politic.
Hello Amanda Forsythe and Thomas Cooly !
Dit is hoge school zingen!
Ik luister dit regelmatig en elke keer weer kippenvel.
Wat is dat mooi !
Never seen someone singing so relaxed as Mr. Cooley. That reveals years of hard work, or simply the proximity of a lovely lady.
1+1=10.
I can’t put into words how sublime this is. Speechless in awe and delight.
Wonderful ! How sad the world would be without music !
'restore intellectual day'. so beautiful.
I had to listen to it five times in a row and felt like replaying it another five times, the melodies, the singers and the oboe so perfect and the text so fitting to our life
As the Enlightenment movement in art and thought was dawning on the West the simple things in life were rediscovered by the artists, and Handel was one delightful example of such spirit, it feels simplistic to our ears but it was astonishment to the Eighteenth century.
This truly beautiful performance has been an anthem of lockdown for me, bringing a quiet confidence that the night of Coronavirus will be pared away by a new dawn.
Completely agree. This is pure balm. What a joy to have access to such beauty.
awesome, inspiring and touching thought that of yours mr borrows
I close my eyes and am in paradise
Her dinlediğimde etkileniyorum. Çok çok huzur verici. Muhteşem sesler, muhteşem performans.
:)
I love the Baroque oboe and bassoon. All too rare to hear them.
This baroque bassoon sounds like a saxophone.
You can find Vivaldi's concerts for these instruments, they are brilliant
..and as a little extra treat for us from Handel, the soprano's voice matches the oboe perfectly, and the tenor's matches the bassoon [especially 3:40 - 4:15].
If you love the baroque oboe, look up the Voices of Music recordings with Gonzalo Ruiz, a truly masterful baroque oboist. You won't regret it!
And, even rarer and more beautiful still, the Baroque oboe d'amore...
I love the way the two instrumental soloists begin a charming dance and finally move in perfect harmony together as the melody soars.
Exquisite performance of gorgeous music. Thank you!
Quelle douceur ! Quelle richesse de son! Quel accord entre chanteurs et musiciens. Un bijou !
Merci
Only Handel can do this. And aren’t they on top of it and enjoying it!
The more I listen to this, the more I love it. Absolutely perfect.
Thank you.
I agree wholeheartedly! I think I have played it about 50 times! Enjoy it more each time. Perfection!
zo mooi deze uitvoering gebracht met de originele instrumenten en twee top solisten
That women's voice. Beautiful. The camera should be on her. God bless women. ❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏
I just love this couple working together. Heaven on Earth.
It is a heart stealer. God knows how Handel created such a masterpiece.
God inspired him.
@@darchir2079 Those days were HARD for ordinary people so God gave us GF Handel. I really think it worked just like that!
I think I transcended to another place whilst listening to this.
This is so beautiful, the singers, the woodwinds, the strings, everyone.
This duo has hit the jackpot, what a great combination.
This is what happens when feeling is put into the piece-----stunningly beautiful!
Hanneke, je zorgt voor prachtige muziek, dankjewel!
Himmlisch, wunderbar. Meine groooosssssse Freude. Danke, danke vom tiefsten Herzen Elsbeth Winterthur Schweiz Danke 🙏 💓
A gentle, elegant rendition. Souls floating in undulating space surrounded by the mantle of peace.
That is a very perceptive observation.
I keep playing it again and again - it is soooo beautiful. It’s wonderful that humans can create in this way and send it out to the cosmos.
absolutely exquisite.....exquisite