David Starkey's MUSIC & MONARCHY 3. Great British Music
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Dr David Starkey's exploration of how the monarchy shaped Britain's music reaches the 18th century, when Great Britain became a dominant military and economic power, and the century which brought us patriotic classics such as God Save the King - the world's first national anthem - and Rule Britannia. Yet this was a time when the monarchy had never been more fragile, having lost much of its political and religious power and imported its ruling house from abroad. The supreme irony was that it was a musician from Germany, George Frideric Handel, who gave Great Britain and its new royal dynasty its distinctive musical voice.
Featuring specially recorded performances from Westminster Abbey Choir and a full baroque orchestra of Handel's Hallejulah Chorus and Zadok The Priest. Plus the Academy of Ancient Music performs extracts from Handel's operas and other works. Soloists joining the performances include Elin Manahan Thomas, singing 'Eternal Source of Light Divine' which was written for Queen Anne's birthday in 1714 and was performed by Elin to a global audience at the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
Also featuring what is believed to be the first public performance for 300 years of the music written for the Act of Union between England and Scotland in 1707 - sung by the choir of St Paul's Cathedral just as it was back then.
David also discovers the true stories behind Handel's Water Music, written to accompany George I on a trip along the Thames, as well as his Music for Royal Fireworks, full of military instruments at the insistence of the soldier-king George II. He also visits the country estate of Cliveden in Buckinghamshire, where Thomas Arne's Rule Britannia was first performed as an act of defiance by an heir to the throne.
www.bbc.co.uk/p...
Due to copyright claims, the following content has been removed from the video (otherwise the documentary would have been blocked worldwide):
1. The Lord is a Sun and a Shield - The Academy of Ancient Music (13:32 - 14:23), Universal Records;
2. Arne: Artaxerxes - Act 1 No 01: Overture. I. Poco piu che andante II. Larghetto III. Gavotta - Roy Goodman: The Parley of Instruments (32:41 - 33:12), Hyperion;
3. La Paix - London Classical Players/Sir Roger Norrington (39:19 - 39:49), WMG;
4. Music for the Royal Fireworks: IV. La Réjouissance - London Classical Players/Sir Roger Norrington (40:26 - 41:04), EMI Classics.
Ahhhh Händel. There can never be enough Händel.
Philae ESA
Truth!
The whole point of the programme is that via Italy, the composer had become Handel.
Watching from Wyoming--amazing series. Thanks, Starkey-you charm us again!😷
This was a really rewarding documentary to see, and told me a lot I didn't know.
Ditto
An amazing and brilliant analysis of the most well known works of music Dr.Starkey you are a genius
It's a pity that "God Save The King" got "blandified" over the years. The original version complete with Baroque trills is a lot more interesting to me. But I suppose it would be a bit difficult for sports fans to belt out!
Beautiful Elin Manahan Thomas
This opening performance of God Save the King/Queen is brilliant. Sounds like Purcell perhaps, although later on in this presentation Starkey tells us i is Arne---I wish we could hear that performed today and often.
"Handel with care!" & "Bach in one hour." Two jokes from my musicological studies days.
I can't tell by the credits the name of the wonderful young woman singing "Rule the Waves" in this and -really wonderfully - Jerusalem near the end of part 4. I'm thinking a student at Merton College Oxford or a scholar at the RSM/RAM. Any ideas? I'm picking on you, Todd, as a muso, but anyone any ideas? /Hugo
No, I couldn't say & it IS a shame that she didn't receive a screen credit for her excellent performance.
Thank you so much for trying. Quite an awful business so many young people toil without recognition, but I dare say we will hear from her when she's come into her own. My guess is that she's up at Merton. Best to you, Hugo
And same to you! Thanks!
What about "Chopin Liszt" I got a lined pad of paper with that across the top once .
That was so satisfying 🥰
Magnificent Series🎵
I know virtually nothing about music - I'm just here for another of David Starkey's brilliant monarchy docos - but my god that performance of Al lampo dell' armi at 20:00 is quite seriously one of the most deeply impressive things I have EVER seen. What extraordinary talent.
Wonderful Programme 👍👍
Really enjoyed this....
God shave the King !
"O Lord our God, arise,
Scatter his enemies,
And make them fall.
Confound their politics!
Frustrate their knavish tricks!
On Thee our hopes we fix;
God save us all!"
Now why don't we sing this verse anymore?
Because, like so much we have lost, it just is no longer politically correct. Oh GOD it's sad!
We still do. It's just not included in the shortened version, but when singing the complete version of the song, it is still sung.
we lost Purcell far too early
When an onlooker heard the opening of "Eternal Source" sung by the countertenor Richard Elford (probably a haute-contre style high tenor rather than an alto falsettist) he said "Mr Handel, this reminds me of old Purcell's music." "O got te teffel", replied Handel, "had Purcell been alive he would have written better music than this."
Love Handel and Purcell!
And to think England was called "Die Lande Ohne Musique" - the land without music! By Germans, no doubt.
Does anyone know the lady who sings "Lascia Chio Pianga" from 6:35? Thank you! It features paradoxical simplicity and depth, as stated by the narrator. Fantastic!
Rebecca Bottone
Thank you! Regards.
I'm not a monarchist or a Christian but singing Zadok the Priest gets me a bit moist every time.
Who the heck is that amazing ginger counter tenor?
+Cole Tim Mead
Needs the full HD to show at its best .....
Who sung this beautiful version of the national anthem at the beginning?
William Purefoy (counter-tenor), Julian Forbes (tenor), Ashley Riches (baritone) with the Academy of Ancient Music
Thank You very much!
amazing counter tenor....Who is it. Great Voice with power (20:+)
Tim Mead
@@1968KWT Sounds like a female mezzo-soprano
Is his package intact?
@@ralphl7643 Not if he was born in the 17th Century !!!....
35:07 soprano name?
Nøderak Susanna Hurrell
does anyone know of a scene where i presume an actor playing Handel himself is conduction "From unto us a child is born" to a boys and mens choir? All the men are wearing wigs and theyre dressed from that era. It was in hd tho so i think it was filmed within the last 15 years. Thanks
It is called "Handel at the Foundling Hospital"
@@scottschwartz5106 also an excellent documentary. I loved it.
Beautiful Ronaldo soloist
20:00
Arrival of Queen of Sheba 49:32
What's the name of the music at 50:48
Alex Linton Händel Concerto Grosso
Did an Englishman just call football soccer? 22:00
The slang term "soccer" actually originated in England; the word is derived from "asSOCiation football" - that is, the sport governed by the Football Association [of England]. By a similar process we got "rugger", a contraction of "Rugby football", and a term beloved of the English middle classes.
Righto! Very interesting. I suppose I'm just wondering whether the term is ordinarily used there, irrespective of its origins.. perhaps you could tell me
ftumschk
Ephraim Wilson Hello Ephraim. When I was growing up (a few decades ago) in Wales, my friends and I referred to football as "soccer" nearly all the time. Expressions like "Did you see the soccer last night?", or "Let's have a game of soccer" were very commonly heard in and out of school.
Ephraim, as an Englishman living in England I can tell you that "soccer" is only ordinarily used here by a small segment of the population, well under 10%. Even those who (ordinarily) use the term soccer may refer to it as football depending on who they are talking to. On English television, it is Football (referred to as "the beautiful game" by Pele). I can't think of any football club here that refers to itself as a soccer club rather than a football club.
The presenter of the above TV program David Starkey attended grammar school in England and in common with other (especially older) grammar schoolboys and former attendees of independent (private) schools he naturally might say soccer, largely for traditional reasons , to differentiate from Rugby Football (Rugby League and Rugby Union).
Today, older teachers in independent schools might still say soccer but current schoolboys are far more likely to say football amongst themselves.
Curiously, one independent school (Harrow School) plays a game (exclusive to the school) with a giant leather pork pie shaped ball and calls this Harrow Football, a boy can spend 5 years there without ever fully learning the rules, this is played in addition to Rugby and traditional football (or soccer).
If you use the term soccer in England today you may be thought of by others as a bit "old school" or perhaps as "a bit posh", or simply as being a USA citizen.
The Gentleman from Wales might say "soccer" because it may simply be colloquial dialect in his part of the UK where the game of Rugby (Rugby Football or Rugger) is so very popular indeed.
Another possibility is that the BBC TV often sell its programmes internationally and especially to the USA where the word soccer is used.
In England, we refer to the game of soccer played in the USA as football, and the other game you play (football) as American football (which is a derivative of mid 19th century Rugby Football and Association Football, and subject to rule changes by Walter Camp "the father of American Football).
So there you have it , use of the word soccer (in England) depends on cultural influence, largely defined by socio-economic background and to some extent influenced by age of the person and birthplace/current residence or even occupation..
did u eat this kid
Sorry, but the oldest national anthem is the Dutch 'Wilhelmus'.
Always love the inestimable David Starkey, but this series isn't what I thought it'd be. A more fitting title would have been "Choir and Monarchy." So much with the choirs.
Wow David Starkey, I have to stop you there when you call the British national anthem the oldest. The Japanese has the oldest music, I believe from around 900 bc and the Dutch anthem is from the 16th century, text and music. The British is not the oldest at all.
According to Wikipedia, the Dutch national anthem is older as you say but did not become the official anthem until 1932. The Japanese anthem has ancient lyrics but was not set to music until 1880. So in a way Starkey is correct, God Save the Queen is the oldest official anthem continuously in use.
@@Londonfogey Also note Dr. Starkey specifies it is the oldest IN EUROPE. He doesn't mention Japan at all.
@@elizabethsohler1847 In a way, God Save the Queen is not really a 'national anthem' because it is about the sovereign, not the nation, dating from the time when one's religious denomination was more important than the country one was born in (hence why we have had Dutch and German monarchs). Nearly all other national anthems are about the country itself or its people, which is largely a 19th century concept. It might be better to call it a 'state occasion song' or just a hymn.
@@Londonfogey You raise an excellent point which I hadn't even considered. I think there is another piece that Brits also consider an informal national anthem but I don't remember the title.
@@elizabethsohler1847 Probably 'Rule Britannia' or 'Jerusalem' (although the latter specifically refers to England, rather than Britain).
Thomas arm looks like he was kicked by a horse
dude, stop being a sell out, drop the adds. thumbs down.
dont care This video is copyrighted actually :-) When I uploaded it, there was a message "Matched third party content". I suppose the administrator of the content has the right to display ads here. So I don't make money from these videos since I don't own most of the uploaded content. Btw, you can use the AdBlock plugin for Chrome.
Odd how a German King and composer helped define a nation which tried to destroy it's own cultural heritage in the name of "God'."
If you're referring to Henry VIII and the Anglican Church, it had nothing to do with God and everything to do with lust.
England imported a German born composer, but through him imported Italian music tweaked to English taste; if you want to hear ‘proper’ German music, just listen to JS Bach or Telemann.
The Anglican Church is a unique cultural heritage in its own right: regardless of religion or denomination, the Book of Common Prayer originating in 1549 is one of the greatest repositories of the English language in existence, whilst the Anglican choral tradition remains today in its cathedrals, larger churches, and chapels, second to none.
Neither George I nor George II defined the nation, even at this early stage supremacy had passed to parliament; Handel though did define English music - as David Starkey pointed out - in a way George I never did, by in essence, becoming British.
@@elizabethsohler1847
This is such a simplistic and inaccurate caricature that it needs no response other than to label it as such.
I sat through 2 episodes of Starkey talking up a bunch of has-beens and no-names just for the Handel.