Such a treat to see music so well performed but also well LIT, FILMED, EDITED, RECORDED, & MIXED!! Rare to have such clarity with all senses in some of these period performances. Bravo to everyone involved!
I agree, this can hardly be improved in every way, from the sound recording, to the visuals to the very performance itself. BBC at the proms eat your heart out. It is because of so many excellently produced videos on RUclips from documentaries to music such as this, why I resent the TV licence for a service I barely if ever resort to.
After listening some of these baroque compositions, a lot of more recent music no longer sounds so groundbraking. Almost everything we can think as original in art was already devised centuries before
I never heard this before, but the use of dissonance and paper inserted in the strings of the cellos and bas viol is remarkably avant garde, even today. And the cello "guns" and deliberate harpsichord dissonant stop. From 1673! Wow!
Um up to a point! How about this, that some modern composers followed Buber? … Berlioz mentioned a bloke who scored for a pile of plates that was to be dropped or pushed over, and another man who wrote trombone pieces to be played while floating on one’s back in the sea … a textbook on orchestration that I have talks of a Viennese dance composer about 1870 who scored for light wooden chairs to be smashed against the floor …and I’m sure that guns were occasionally called for, once by Moffat … credit due to the man who FIRST has the idea,and isn’t to be judged by his imitators … oh and Alkan used tone cloisters … c. 1860 …
Not even Schonberg nor Boulez expected this dissonance swag. I loved it! Expecting a contrapunctal passage and you got XXth century swag! Congratulations!
Great performance of a programmatic piece that is always fun to hear. It might be helpful for people who don't know the piece to know that there are eight sections (movements) in the piece and they are named: 1) 0:02 The troops gather; 2) 1:44 Each soldier sings a song from his own country (and obviously each is singing his own song while every other soldier sings his!); 3) 2:35 Fencing practice (presto); 4) 3:21 The march - the Roman god of war (violin solo w. Bass - cello and gamba not scored); 5) 4:37 Cavalry training exercises (presto); 6) 5:39 Sad farewell before battle (aria); 7) 7:50 The Battle; 8) 8:40 After battle - lament for the casualties.
As a casual music fan who is not familiar with a lot of classical music... this is amazing fun and my new favorite classical piece by far. Exceptional!
@@Tore_Lund should your question still be relevant, it's been done by several performers, so I would think it's safe to say it's a common practice at the very least. In general baroque composers now and then come up with something that sounds 20th century-ish, so it wouldn't be too much as a surprise to know it was Biber's intention.
I furthermore love the fact that you, contrary to many other uploads of classical music on RUclips, don’t cut the video transmission one millisecond after the last note! Reading your credits after each upload gives the listener time to let the musical experience sink in! GREAT work!
The creative dissonance caught my attention (both from an artistic standpoint, and the talent of the musicians to do it so well and still be clear), then I did a double-take at the paper in the strings, then smiled at the cello 'rifles' and the aftermath. Really well done, all around! Thank you all!
Imagine a contemporary composer trying to impress Biber: "Maestro, I've written a solo violin Piece were the player has to use an alternative tuning." "Nice. I've used practically all of them in my 'Rosary Sonatas', including one in which the 2nd and 3rd strings have to be crossed one each other at the bridge." "I also write for huge ensembles with complex polyphonies!" "Like the time I wrote a Mass for 53 vocal and instrumental parts divided into two choirs and six instrumental groups?" "Well, but I also use multiple tonalities justaxposed..." "'Battalia à 10', 2nd Movement." "...and makes instrumentalists 'preparing' their instruments to obtain unusual timbres out of them." "'Battalia à 10' again, cellos and violones having to both play 'col legno' and also put a piece of paper on the stringboard to imitate a snare-drum..."
This is Epic! It’s so strangely provocative, prompting us to laugh at a subject such as war - which made me feel kinda unsettled I have to say! I loved the interactions between the musicians. So well played and very creative. What a treat! Thank you!
Always a joy to absorb myself in your performance - this one particularly made me smile all the way through. I love watching you playing, interacting, smiling/looking at each other - oh and listening the music! The camera work is excellent too, picking out the importance of not 'rushing' from one shot to another but somehow making it seem as if we were actually sitting in the audience. I just love your recordings. Thanks you.
Bravo!! You guys are THE best! This is one of the reasons why I LOVE Baroque music:disonnance, beauty, humur, and at the end of the piece, the slow, melancolic descent into nothing that all war leaves on people...Baroque music was the BEST musiic, before musci started t become boring!! Indeed, please keepon playing!!!
This is the weirdest and most delightful thing I've heard from this era. I love performances that really bring these works to life, like a cast putting on Shakespeare and really feeling it!
Such a unique piece!! AGHHH The cello battle was so well done! I was laughing my head off, especially when the poor harpsichordist "dies". The music makes you feel quite rude for laughing after that with such a beautiful lament for the wounded.
Esta obra me fascina, es literalmente adictiva , la podría escuchar por horas y horas. La versión de Voices of Music , con instrumentos de época barroca es la mejor . Son fantásticos ! Saludos afectuosos desde Chile !!
An absolutely riveting performance of this delightful price - - but then what else would one expect from this premiere ensemble! Thanks for the many ways your music, from meditative to maniacal brightens my day!!👍👍😃😃 Big BRAVOS !!!
Just love the feeling I get waiting for a VOM premiere to begin. Reminds of the feeling I had when my father would tell me we were going to a Phillies' game when I was a little kid.
Estoy absolutamente encantado con su canal. Son de los mejores y más grandes exponentes de la música académica. Definitivamente soy su fan desde hace años y seguiré siéndolo por mucho más ❤️💫
Esta interpretación muestra en todo su esplendor la viveza de la musica de muchos autores barrocos como Biber.El cojunto realiza una auténtica creación que nos alegra en estos duros tiempos del Covid
Wonderful even the polytonal mouvement... would like to know the reaction of the audience at this period.... absolutely stunning. Is there any equivalent in musical history?
Bravissimi!!! - all the comments below said it all. There is nothing 'smart' I can add to them, only that I'm totally 'hooked' by all your performances, as well as by this one. Thanks for uploading.
It is amazing the inventiveness of this 17th century composer injected with the energetic bravado of these 21st century virtuoso musicians. I enjoy every technique employed by the composer to gives us the feeling of the sound of battles (drums, muskets, marching armies) as well as the climactic “death” in battle of the harpsichordist. This piece continues the long tradition of programmatic music.This piece reminds me of the classical Chinese opus written for the pipa titled Ambush from Then Sides in which the plucked and fast arpeggios also represent the sounds of battles, in this case the Battle of Gaixia in 202 BC. Thank you for sharing this fine example of the “battaglia” music form. Who could said renaissance or baroque composers and musicians did not had fun!
Baroque music does not come any better than this ! An absolute joy to listen and watch ! And Biber's music is not just funny and radical but also searingly beautiful, especially in the Aria and the Lament. I wonder if Bach might have known the Aria... I'm sure he would have been an ardent admirer of it.
CON QUESTA INTERPRETAZIONE CI VIENE RICORDATO CHE LA MUSICA, OLTRE A TUTTO IL RESTO, DEVE ESSERE ANCHE DIVERTIMENTO. LA BELLA SIGNORA VIOLONCELLISTA DAI CAPELLI D'ARGENTO E DI UNA SIMPATIA SENZA LIMITI: SI DIVERTE E CI DIVERTE. GRAZIE
This was so joyful to watch , you can see that every musician enjoy their work and also the communication between each one , I can't describe it properly but thanks for the upload.
This is a brilliant performance of a work I've loved since I was first exposed to the Nicholas Harnancourt Archiv album in college! I love the superb musicianship coupled with the sense of fun that underlies the tavern and battle scenes.
Such a treat to see music so well performed but also well LIT, FILMED, EDITED, RECORDED, & MIXED!!
Rare to have such clarity with all senses in some of these period performances.
Bravo to everyone involved!
I agree, this can hardly be improved in every way, from the sound recording, to the visuals to the very performance itself. BBC at the proms eat your heart out. It is because of so many excellently produced videos on RUclips from documentaries to music such as this, why I resent the TV licence for a service I barely if ever resort to.
Period instrument performance has improved a great deal since the early days.
After listening some of these baroque compositions, a lot of more recent music no longer sounds so groundbraking. Almost everything we can think as original in art was already devised centuries before
Such a fun piece. I love the cello battle. I imagine Biber wrote The Rowdy Pub as a joke, but It sounds so ahead of his time.
I always remember the first time I heard it....
Such fun to play....
I love telling people I love listening to Biber, It's my way of being a smartass.
I never heard this before, but the use of dissonance and paper inserted in the strings of the cellos and bas viol is remarkably avant garde, even today. And the cello "guns" and deliberate harpsichord dissonant stop. From 1673! Wow!
Biber was way out there!
The Cello battle was very funny. I had never seen somethig like that. I loved It
They killed the harpsichordist!
@@WilliamFord972 Well... cellos may be very dangerous sometimes!
@@pablodiasschechtel6603 The camera work there is solid, too!
@@WilliamFord972 a casualty of war. hehehe ^_^'
@@WilliamFord972 And she stayed dead for the whole next section! Or was she only the wounded that they were lamenting?
Biber was a genius, composer that was ahead of his era. It is a contemporary XXI century sound.
Um up to a point! How about this, that some modern composers followed Buber? … Berlioz mentioned a bloke who scored for a pile of plates that was to be dropped or pushed over, and another man who wrote trombone pieces to be played while floating on one’s back in the sea … a textbook on orchestration that I have talks of a Viennese dance composer about 1870 who scored for light wooden chairs to be smashed against the floor …and I’m sure that guns were occasionally called for, once by Moffat … credit due to the man who FIRST has the idea,and isn’t to be judged by his imitators … oh and Alkan used tone cloisters … c. 1860 …
Oh yes...jazz in there, plus The Beatles!
Not even Schonberg nor Boulez expected this dissonance swag. I loved it! Expecting a contrapunctal passage and you got XXth century swag! Congratulations!
"skeet skeet god damn" - Mozart? idk
Maybe Charles Ives.
Great performance of a programmatic piece that is always fun to hear. It might be helpful for people who don't know the piece to know that there are eight sections (movements) in the piece and they are named: 1) 0:02 The troops gather; 2) 1:44 Each soldier sings a song from his own country (and obviously each is singing his own song while every other soldier sings his!); 3) 2:35 Fencing practice (presto); 4) 3:21 The march - the Roman god of war (violin solo w. Bass - cello and gamba not scored); 5) 4:37 Cavalry training exercises (presto); 6) 5:39 Sad farewell before battle (aria); 7) 7:50 The Battle; 8) 8:40 After battle - lament for the casualties.
I think the march is just the march, not the god of war. But it's an interesting puzzle.
This is so much better than election stuff. Play on!
We will play on!
As a casual music fan who is not familiar with a lot of classical music... this is amazing fun and my new favorite classical piece by far. Exceptional!
Thank you, it was fun to play!
Thanks bro. heinrich is my ancestor lmao
@@VoicesofMusic The bass and cellist holding music sheets to their fingerboards! Is that your invention or is it in the partiture?
@@Tore_Lund should your question still be relevant, it's been done by several performers, so I would think it's safe to say it's a common practice at the very least. In general baroque composers now and then come up with something that sounds 20th century-ish, so it wouldn't be too much as a surprise to know it was Biber's intention.
I furthermore love the fact that you, contrary to many other uploads of classical music on RUclips, don’t cut the video transmission one millisecond after the last note! Reading your credits after each upload gives the listener time to let the musical experience sink in!
GREAT work!
This is so wonderful and creative. I love this aspect of baroque, with so much variety, unfettered and enthralling
The creative dissonance caught my attention (both from an artistic standpoint, and the talent of the musicians to do it so well and still be clear), then I did a double-take at the paper in the strings, then smiled at the cello 'rifles' and the aftermath. Really well done, all around! Thank you all!
You are very welcome.
Imagine a contemporary composer trying to impress Biber:
"Maestro, I've written a solo violin Piece were the player has to use an alternative tuning."
"Nice. I've used practically all of them in my 'Rosary Sonatas', including one in which the 2nd and 3rd strings have to be crossed one each other at the bridge."
"I also write for huge ensembles with complex polyphonies!"
"Like the time I wrote a Mass for 53 vocal and instrumental parts divided into two choirs and six instrumental groups?"
"Well, but I also use multiple tonalities justaxposed..."
"'Battalia à 10', 2nd Movement."
"...and makes instrumentalists 'preparing' their instruments to obtain unusual timbres out of them."
"'Battalia à 10' again, cellos and violones having to both play 'col legno' and also put a piece of paper on the stringboard to imitate a snare-drum..."
This is Epic! It’s so strangely provocative, prompting us to laugh at a subject such as war - which made me feel kinda unsettled I have to say! I loved the interactions between the musicians. So well played and very creative. What a treat! Thank you!
You are very welcome.
Pop music from the 1600's ... I actually can say I like "pop music" now!!
this is one of the many reasons YT is a Godsend. this is marvelous
Always a joy to absorb myself in your performance - this one particularly made me smile all the way through. I love watching you playing, interacting, smiling/looking at each other - oh and listening the music! The camera work is excellent too, picking out the importance of not 'rushing' from one shot to another but somehow making it seem as if we were actually sitting in the audience. I just love your recordings. Thanks you.
agree with you ! totally ! ! there is só much to see and that is very important too . . .
Bravo!! You guys are THE best! This is one of the reasons why I LOVE Baroque music:disonnance, beauty, humur, and at the end of the piece, the slow, melancolic descent into nothing that all war leaves on people...Baroque music was the BEST musiic, before musci started t become boring!! Indeed, please keepon playing!!!
Bravo !!!!!!!
Excelente
Perfeito
🎻👏🙌🎶
Brazil - São Paulo
Utterly beautiful. Thank you so much:
Our pleasure!
One of my favourite ensembles! And you have very interesting information under video! Thank you very much!
Bravissimi!!!
"Grande" battaglia dell'ottimo Biber
Grazie.
I fully enjoyed it: Thank you very much.
Glad you enjoyed it!
All are superb. The principal violinist is phenomenal.
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
The Rowdy Pub piece is literally my FAVORITE part! Although it's a musical riot, I love it anyway especially the suspenseful part at the end!
It's way out there.
the extended techniques and the polytonality in the second movement.... it all feels so modern!
Out of this world!
You are amazing!!! Congratulations!
Thank you so much!!
I love the recording quality of your music. Sounds like I am actually there. Kudos to who ever does it.
This is the weirdest and most delightful thing I've heard from this era. I love performances that really bring these works to life, like a cast putting on Shakespeare and really feeling it!
Listen to les elements from Jean-Frery Rebel. The first chord will shock you.
Admirable all of them. What pleasure they give us. Thanks ever.
I wonder, have you made any CD's? If not, WHY? You are all great in every performance I've ever heard!!!!! Just PERFECT!!!
This is absolutely beautiful... Thank you all
Our pleasure!
Foreshadowing of Charles Ives! Amazing to realize that the good music of the present looks wholeheartedly to the music that went before it!
And the bass viol strings prepared, a la John Cage, to sound like snare drums.
Absolutely stunning. Nothing short of it.
Such a unique piece!! AGHHH The cello battle was so well done! I was laughing my head off, especially when the poor harpsichordist "dies". The music makes you feel quite rude for laughing after that with such a beautiful lament for the wounded.
wonderfully creative work :)
Thank you very much!
Esta obra me fascina, es literalmente adictiva , la podría escuchar por horas y horas. La versión de Voices of Music , con instrumentos de época barroca es la mejor . Son fantásticos ! Saludos afectuosos desde Chile !!
Muchas gracias!
An absolutely riveting performance of this delightful price - - but then what else would one expect from this premiere ensemble! Thanks for the many ways your music, from meditative to maniacal brightens my day!!👍👍😃😃 Big BRAVOS !!!
Thank you so much!
The cello fight made me smile! :) And the camera moves conveyed it so well too! A good piece I've never heard of - thank you so much!
You are very welcome.
Just love the feeling I get waiting for a VOM premiere to begin. Reminds of the feeling I had when my father would tell me we were going to a Phillies' game when I was a little kid.
Wonderful performance! Thank you for such passionate playing and understanding of music. (and RIP for the cembalist.. )
:)
So theatrical! Had never heard this before, what a delight. Thank you!
Our pleasure!
Who are these people? The first violinist plays like a goddess. I have never heard a violin sound so good.
Thanks so much! Stay safe.
Bravo! And keep posting great performances of great baroque music!
Amazing! I love Biber. Thanks for this beautiful rendition and keep them coming...
Great as usual. I always look forward to videos from VoM.
Estoy absolutamente encantado con su canal. Son de los mejores y más grandes exponentes de la música académica. Definitivamente soy su fan desde hace años y seguiré siéndolo por mucho más ❤️💫
Thank you!
I need to take a look at the score! ;) Superb piece of art and superb performers!
My heart feels heavier revisiting this piece as the events in Europe unfold.
Esta interpretación muestra en todo su esplendor la viveza de la musica de muchos autores barrocos como Biber.El cojunto realiza una auténtica creación que nos alegra en estos duros tiempos del Covid
Wow! Thanks a lot for Heinrich Biber)
Wonderful even the polytonal mouvement... would like to know the reaction of the audience at this period.... absolutely stunning.
Is there any equivalent in musical history?
Spectacular! Really!
Many thanks!
i needed to listen to this for School ( and i usually dont listen to stuff like this) but i really liked this, especially the Mars part.
I love how you used your feet instead of the instruments for the percussion, really, it was wonderful!
Just discovered Biber, and boy what a piece. Thank you so much. Really enjoyed (a serious baroque fan).
Biber is just amazing....
I'm trying to think of something better than seeing a new upload from these amazing musicians. I'm failing.
Bravo. Brilliant music making and great humor.
Thank you!
Wonderful, wonderful music. Thank you.
Thank you so much 😃 Please take a moment to vote www.surveymonkey.com/r/YYGQ9PK
The Aria is magnificent, so rich, so beautiful.
Incrível!!!!
Bravo 👏👏👏👏
Abraços de Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Bravissimi!!! - all the comments below said it all. There is nothing 'smart' I can add to them, only that I'm totally 'hooked' by all your performances, as well as by this one. Thanks for uploading.
¡Fantástica interpretación!
¡La Señora Moore es magistral!
¡Gracias por compartir esta belleza!
Thanks!
This is very well performed! Thank you for sharing this!
Our pleasure!
I love this!
Awesome ‼️ perfectly presented. Big congratulations to each one of you.
Thanks so much!
It is amazing the inventiveness of this 17th century composer injected with the energetic bravado of these 21st century virtuoso musicians. I enjoy every technique employed by the composer to gives us the feeling of the sound of battles (drums, muskets, marching armies) as well as the climactic “death” in battle of the harpsichordist. This piece continues the long tradition of programmatic music.This piece reminds me of the classical Chinese opus written for the pipa titled Ambush from Then Sides in which the plucked and fast arpeggios also represent the sounds of battles, in this case the Battle of Gaixia in 202 BC. Thank you for sharing this fine example of the “battaglia” music form. Who could said renaissance or baroque composers and musicians did not had fun!
Thanks for this recent upload! Wonderful sonics and video as always.
Thrilling with this UHD/4K resolution.
Groundbreaker!!
Thanks for stopping by :)
My pleasure, but regarding your channel it’s less of “stopping by” but more like pulling over and parking for good.
A rare and joyful treat! Thank you very much.
That deceptive cadence at 7:34 is perfection, both in how its voiced and how its executed. I've listened to it like 20 times now.
Penso che la gioia del suonare insieme sia uno dei doni più grandi che Dio ci abbia fatto. Grazie, grazie, grazie per questo gioiello
Hello!! ❤️ I loved seeing so many friends and hearing such a fantastic performance!!! Congratulations and hope you’re all well!!! 🎉🌟
Thank you so much!!
Excellent - many thanks for posting!!
SO BEAUTIFUL, WELL DONE !!!!
Thank you so much!!
Música siempre contemporánea. Bravo!!
Fantástico tempi and performance. Bravo
Baroque music does not come any better than this ! An absolute joy to listen and watch ! And Biber's music is not just funny and radical but also searingly beautiful, especially in the Aria and the Lament. I wonder if Bach might have known the Aria... I'm sure he would have been an ardent admirer of it.
Brilliant rendering. Keep up the good work and thus make listeners happy
Thank you, we will do our best!
Excellent channel! Congratulations!
This is a great performance!
Oh my lord I love this one so much 💕💕💕can’t stop listening to it repeatedly
This is absolutely wonderful.
Thanks!
CON QUESTA INTERPRETAZIONE CI VIENE RICORDATO CHE LA MUSICA, OLTRE A TUTTO IL RESTO, DEVE ESSERE ANCHE DIVERTIMENTO. LA BELLA SIGNORA VIOLONCELLISTA DAI CAPELLI D'ARGENTO E DI UNA SIMPATIA SENZA LIMITI: SI DIVERTE E CI DIVERTE. GRAZIE
Bravo merveilleux!!👍😍👏👏
You're always n. 1 !!! 🥇🔝
awwwwwwww.......
Classical music is not dead. It's just changed eras. Baroque music is fun and exciting.
This was so joyful to watch , you can see that every musician enjoy their work and also the communication between each one , I can't describe it properly but thanks for the upload.
Well said!
Thanks for your buffaresceri!!!
Any time!
That Extreme-Quodlibet is SO modern !! Great performance. Thanks !
graceful, joyful, infectious
This Biber is completely awesome!
Many thanks!
This seems like a fun piece to play! Best rendition yet!
Thanks!
This is a brilliant performance of a work I've loved since I was first exposed to the Nicholas Harnancourt Archiv album in college! I love the superb musicianship coupled with the sense of fun that underlies the tavern and battle scenes.
Thanks! Nikolaus Harnoncourt really was an innovative pioneer. I was fortunate to watch some rehearsals in the 70s in Vienna.
still can’t believe this was written so long ago
I didn't know Biber. This music was written 5 years before Vivaldi was born! It seems to me very innovative for that time!
Absolutely brilliant wow!
If a performance on a dire subject could be called charming this is most certainly it. A wonderful musical experience.
Love it! Great music, superb performance, masterful acting :D
Thank you very much!