I am always pleased when a posting includes the applause at the end, especially after such a splendid production. It must be a wonderful and life-enhancing experience to bring such joy to people.
I caught this a couple of times on Mezzo, this superb tv network, and have read Sophocles' "Women of Trachis" which recounts the story playing out here. Beautiful production and singing, without ever overdoing it - and Joyce is so interesting to watch (in almost any opera or choral work she performs): her grasp of body language, gestures, darting eyes, raised eyebrows, half-veiled emotions and so on make her a very good, natural actress (she was exuberantly funny in Handel's Afrippina at the New York Met a few years back, livecast to theatres around the world). A real joy to watch this again!
Admirable ... Voilà un DVD , des interprétations , et une mise en scène qui devraient faire date dans l'histoire de la musique enregistrée , au même titre que le "Don Giovanni" de Losey , que "Les Indes galantes" de Garnier en 2003 , dirigées par le même W. Christie , que le "Cosi ..." mis en scène par Michael Haneke et dirigée par S. Cambreling , que "Le retour d'Ulysse dans sa patrie" d'Adrian Noble et dirigé là aussi par Christie , à Aix en 2002 il me semble ; on en oublie évidemment. Ne chipotons pas : globalement toutes les voix sont "outstanding"... ( Petite mention pour les choeurs , et pour Di Donato , pour sa voix bien sûr , mais aussi pour son éblouissant numéro... ) La direction de Christie , longuement filmée au début des 1er et 2ème actes , est une merveille de précision , de vigilance et d'enthousiasme : un magnifique spectacle à elle seule .
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한국 핸델교 교인들은 핸델주님의 헤라클레스를 맞이합니다, 이 아름다운 선율은 한국 200만 핸델교 교인들을 흥분 시켰습니다, 인류에게 위대한 작품을 유산으로 남겨주신 핸델 주님은 찬양 받으실 만합니다. 나의 주님 핸델이시여 인류사에 핸델주님 같은 위대한 음악가는 영원히 존재 하지 않을 것입니다,
@@javierm6234 Rameau was a huge figure in French music and there's no doubting his influence on Gluck, especially in the latter's own influential abandonment of the da capo form. It is however the German composer that he is quoted as having held in the highest esteem, reportedly naming Handel: "The inspired master of our art".
All too often,when a Handel Oratorio is staged it doesn't work;but this certainly does. Of course many of Handel's Oratorios are very close to operas.He started writing them because the Italian Opera had gone out of fashion. If staging them results in our hearing some of the lesser known Oratorios,then all well and good.
Noo it was not nor mroe than Messiah or Samson. From wikipedia: "The English language libretto was by the Reverend Thomas Broughton , based on Sophocles's Women of Trachis and the ninth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses ." My breast with tender pity swells At sight of human woe was written in English and a memorable line it is too
A giant masterpiece unknown by most. I have to laugh at the ignorant Bach people who belittle Handel because of their ignorance. This is something Bach could never do.
They were both masters, there is no doubt. And Handel has his particular talent for the dramatic, being, I think, better indeed at portraying the narrative flow of emotions in representative vocal works than was Bach (in his Passions and such, or even his secular Coffee Cantata) - but Bach was his superior in contrapuntal complexity, (a texture which lends itself poorly, in any extensive way, for drama anyway) this is hard to contest. And for people (like myself) who are in love with polyphony, that may be reason enough to personally prefer Bach, if only slightly.
@@mokemohaveer1 You, as most Bach people do, compare the two giants of the Baroque on Bach`s greatest strengths, not on Handel`s. Handel was a composer with no equal when it came to the voice. And his dramatic genius has no equal as well. He and Bach are equals in that they are different.
@@jimberg3088 I have found most Handel lovers are great Bach fans as they should be, But the reverse is not always true, and I attribute that to ignorance. Much of Handel`s output is opera, and for many that takes patience which unfortunately many don`t have. It should be remembered that Bach wrote 4 works that take multiple hours to experience, while Handel wrote at least 65.
shnimmuc it’s bizarre, who would put on this video just to say “Bach is better” I’m a great lover of Bach but opera is a bit new experience to me, never liked it before but something finally clicked and can’t seem to get enough now. Love Handel, just as must as Bach or Telemann.
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I am always pleased when a posting includes the applause at the end, especially after such a splendid production. It must be a wonderful and life-enhancing experience to bring such joy to people.
The great maestro Christie at work, always a pleasure!
I caught this a couple of times on Mezzo, this superb tv network, and have read Sophocles' "Women of Trachis" which recounts the story playing out here. Beautiful production and singing, without ever overdoing it - and Joyce is so interesting to watch (in almost any opera or choral work she performs): her grasp of body language, gestures, darting eyes, raised eyebrows, half-veiled emotions and so on make her a very good, natural actress (she was exuberantly funny in Handel's Afrippina at the New York Met a few years back, livecast to theatres around the world). A real joy to watch this again!
Saw this in Paris and New York. It was absolutely incredible. In fact I saw them twice when I went to New York.
Splendido oratorio
Act 1 (27 numbers): 1. 0:05 2. 4:03 3. 6:13 4. 7:39 5. 12:58 6. 13:44 7. 17:26 8. 18:55 9. 20:31 10. 21:41 11. 25:37 12. 26:12 13. 28:33 14. 33:59 15. 34:39 16. 38:32 17. 39:35 18. 41:25 19-21. deleted 22. 43:55 23. 45:41 24. 47:21 25. 53:27 26. 53:57 27. 56:19
Act 2 (30 numbers): 1. 58:54 2. 1:01:10 3. 1:01:34 4. 1:07:10 5. 1:07:58 6. 1:11:40 7. 1:12:57 8-9. 1:18:35 10. 1:19:04 11. 1:24:00 12. 1:24:31 13. 1:31:05 14. 1:33:22 15. 1:38:44 16. 1:39:00 17. 1:44:23 18. 1:46:28 19. 1:47:03 20. 1:51:20 21. 1:51:51 22. 1:56:47 23. 1:58:26 24. 2:03:38 25. deleted 26. 2:05:27 27. deleted 28. 2:06:50 29. 2:09:50 30. 2:10:04
Act 3 (19 numbers): 1. 2:13:56 2. 2:19:10 3. 2:20:37 4. 2:23:47 5. 2:24:04 6. 2:28:12 7-8. 2:30:21 9. 2:32:48 10. 2:38:20 11. 2:44:25 12. 2:45:59 13. 2:54:45 14. deleted 15. 2:56:25 16. 2:57:11 17. 2:57:26 18. 3:00:51 19. 3:01:12
God bless you
Voilà un W.Christie inspiré avec un ensemble digne du maître!
Admirable ...
Voilà un DVD , des interprétations , et une mise en scène qui devraient faire date dans l'histoire de la musique enregistrée , au même titre que le "Don Giovanni" de Losey , que "Les Indes galantes" de Garnier en 2003 , dirigées par le même W. Christie , que le "Cosi ..." mis en scène par Michael Haneke et dirigée par S. Cambreling , que "Le retour d'Ulysse dans sa patrie" d'Adrian Noble et dirigé là aussi par Christie , à Aix en 2002 il me semble ; on en oublie évidemment.
Ne chipotons pas : globalement toutes les voix sont "outstanding"... ( Petite mention pour les choeurs , et pour Di Donato , pour sa voix bien sûr , mais aussi pour son éblouissant numéro... )
La direction de Christie , longuement filmée au début des 1er et 2ème actes , est une merveille de précision , de vigilance et d'enthousiasme : un magnifique spectacle à elle seule .
56:19, sublime.
Ganz herzlichen Dank und WUNDERSCHÖNE AUFFÜHRUNG- HERKULES läuft gerade in Karlsruhe und wird 2023 wieder aufgeführt- im Rahmen der Internationalen Händel-Festspiele Karlsruhe 💖💖💖💖💖
1:42:06 my heart... he sings so beautifully
It's truly breathtaking
More exciting than most "real" operas. Really engrossing.
한국 핸델교 교인들은 핸델주님의 헤라클레스를 맞이합니다, 이 아름다운 선율은 한국 200만 핸델교 교인들을 흥분 시켰습니다, 인류에게 위대한 작품을 유산으로 남겨주신 핸델 주님은 찬양 받으실 만합니다. 나의 주님 핸델이시여 인류사에 핸델주님 같은 위대한 음악가는 영원히 존재 하지 않을 것입니다,
Stunning performance, very nice!!! :))
Fantastic thank you
Now we Know where Gluck fond thé inspiration for his opera’s reform
Gluck kept a personal shrine to Handel. A portrait illuminated by a candle he kept constantly lit.
I believe Gluck was mainly inspired by Rameau, as Harnoncourt said. Check Rameau's Castor et Pollux (1737), for example.
@@javierm6234
Rameau was a huge figure in French music and there's no doubting his influence on Gluck, especially in the latter's own influential abandonment of the da capo form.
It is however the German composer that he is quoted as having held in the highest esteem, reportedly naming Handel: "The inspired master of our art".
All too often,when a Handel Oratorio is staged it doesn't work;but this certainly does.
Of course many of Handel's Oratorios are very close to operas.He started writing them because the Italian Opera had gone out of fashion.
If staging them results in our hearing some of the lesser known Oratorios,then all well and good.
IT is not an oratorio but a musical drama like an opera
Many of Handel's oratorios are actually operas, musical dramas. Examples: Hercules, Semele, Saul, Samson, Athalia, Alexander Balus, etc.
@@Musica-xo3uv but do you know why they called as oratorio instead of opera?
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Where is this version of the English Liberato from? Wasn't the original in Italian?
It is an oratorio (English)
Noo it was not nor mroe than Messiah or Samson. From wikipedia: "The English language libretto was by the Reverend Thomas Broughton , based on Sophocles's Women of Trachis and the ninth book of Ovid's Metamorphoses ." My breast with tender pity swells
At sight of human woe was written in English and a memorable line it is too
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1:38:48
A giant masterpiece unknown by most. I have to laugh at the ignorant Bach people who belittle Handel because of their ignorance. This is something Bach could never do.
They were both masters, there is no doubt. And Handel has his particular talent for the dramatic, being, I think, better indeed at portraying the narrative flow of emotions in representative vocal works than was Bach (in his Passions and such, or even his secular Coffee Cantata) - but Bach was his superior in contrapuntal complexity, (a texture which lends itself poorly, in any extensive way, for drama anyway) this is hard to contest. And for people (like myself) who are in love with polyphony, that may be reason enough to personally prefer Bach, if only slightly.
@@mokemohaveer1 You, as most Bach people do, compare the two giants of the Baroque on Bach`s greatest strengths, not on Handel`s. Handel was a composer with no equal when it came to the voice. And his dramatic genius has no equal as well. He and Bach are equals in that they are different.
@@shnimmuc How fortunate we are to possess for all time God's musical gifts : Bach AND Handel! Love both for different reasons.
@@jimberg3088 I have found most Handel lovers are great Bach fans as they should be, But the reverse is not always true, and I attribute that to ignorance. Much of Handel`s output is opera, and for many that takes patience which unfortunately many don`t have. It should be remembered that Bach wrote 4 works that take multiple hours to experience, while Handel wrote at least 65.
shnimmuc it’s bizarre, who would put on this video just to say “Bach is better” I’m a great lover of Bach but opera is a bit new experience to me, never liked it before but something finally clicked and can’t seem to get enough now. Love Handel, just as must as Bach or Telemann.
Handel nélkül nem telhet el nap.
Vagy Rameu, Lully :)
@@gnadler53 azok is, bár most Sosztakovics és Bruckner van nálam soron:-)
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