Handel: Tune your harps (Esther); Voices of Music, Thomas Cooley, tenor 4K
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- Опубликовано: 20 июн 2019
- The aria "Tune your harps" from Handel's oratorio Esther. Thomas Cooley, tenor; Marc Schachman, baroque oboe. Ultra high definition video from the Voices of Music "As steals the morn" concert, March, 2019.
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In this aria, Handel skillfully creates a duet in which the singer has the main melody, and the oboe part has a dual role. The oboe alternates as a second singer, repeating or elaborating on the main melody using the rhythm of the text, and, at other times, providing an instrumental counterpoint, playing notes that would make no sense if sung, but which fit perfectly with the harmony. Handel seamlessly alternates from one style to the other to to create a deceptively simple but remarkably complex composition. The pizzicato accompaniment in the strings evokes the character of the harp which is the theme of the text as well as the symbol of the throne.
Voices of Music
Hanneke van Proosdij & David Tayler, directors
Lisa Grodin, Toma Iliev, Carla Moore, Maxine Nemerovski,
Linda Quan, Gabrielle Wunsch, baroque violin
Adaiha MacAdam-Somer & Elisabeth Reed, baroque cello
Farley Pearce, violone
Hanneke van Proosdij, baroque organ
David Tayler, archlute
Text:
Tune your harps to cheerful strains,
Moulder idols into dust!
Great Jehovah lives and reigns,
We in great Jehovah trust.
Tune your harps. . .
High Definition Audio: Boby Borisov
Final audio and video master: David Tayler
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A duet for oboe and voice, both sublime and the accompaniment well judged. The whole thing flows like honey over the soul.
Das ist Musik für die Seele. Wunderbar 😇🥰 Vielen Dank!!
I feel like floating in the air when listening to this rendition of Tune your harps.
This is so soothing. What a sweet and lovely instrument Mr. Cooley possesses!
I never thought tenor and woodwind could have such a strong resonance. Thomas’ voice is reverberating in my mind. Definitely incredible
As always Voices of Music transcend the ordinary and Thomas Cooley his excellent usual though I'm sorry no comments reflect the outstanding oboe of Mr. Schachman.
Thanks so much! It was wonderful to have baroque oboe for this set.
I love this
Great music, geat musicians. Voice of Tthomas Cooley: perfect for this aria, makes it look easy, perfect response to the oboe. the pizzicato: of the strings lets the music swing. So does the conductor. Beautiful picture. Thank you for this music maestro Händel
One of Handel's most beautiful works.
It really is!
As always it’s beautiful n fabulous 💕love this piece so much ❤️it’s calming n to me it’s the sound from heaven 🙏🏼
Thank you so much!
He has a angelic voice
Beautiful performance
Perfect voice and instruments. Love...
Wonderful voice Thomas..! Great job everybody..!😆
Thanks so much!
Pure delight. Gosh and wow ... !!
Mr. Schurmann is outstanding - what beauty and delicatesse...
So enchanting. Such a beautiful combo of tenor and oboe. Wonderfully performed. Thank you Handel and Voices of Music.
A lovely performance.
Perfection....Absolute perfection....Thank you all.
Our pleasure!
So beautiful...so inspiring...
Thank you so much!
Just beautiful!
Thank you.
What a wonderful voice - so emotionally moving ❤
The voice of Thomas Cooley is deeply emotional,and like many arias of Mozart music,is a balm to my heart
What an excellent performance and what a wonderlful concert this must have been in March 2019 (incl. As steals the Morn and Sweet Bird). Listened a lot of concerts during the last 40 years in Vienna / Austria / Europe with outstanding orchestras and solists, but this one goes right in the middle of my heart. Can't find more words, hope you'll perform in Europe in the near future. Warmest Regards
Beautiful.
Абсолютно замечательно. Большое спасибо за обмен.
Thomas brought tiers to my eyes.His voice is eternal and unforgettable.
The lyrics of this Handel air are beautiful. And Thomas conveys it so perfectly.
“Tune Your Harps to cheerful strains;
Moulder idols into dust…”.
Handel’s librettist was a master wordsmith.
Magnificent voice, flexible, sweet, and deeply masculine. The oboe is a soft and delicate touch, as Burney described Besozzi's sound.
Well said!
tres tres beau!
Ahhhh I absolutely love the pizzicato ❤️🌟
God I love the baroque oboe. So much more depth and character to the sound compared to a modern oboe, but SO much harder to play well.
C'est un enchantement !
Stunning x
JUST heavenly
Peace and joy sounds
The oboist is superb
Agree!
Sublime
beautiful
So beautiful..... thank you ♡
Perfect!
Stunningly beautiful, every part of it !!! Sometimes dreams come true . . . S I G H
Lovely!! Beautiful music!!
Beautiful. Thank you. ❤️
Enhorabuena por la calidad 10 de todo
DIVINE!!!!
Tout est joli!
Wonderful tenor and gorgeous performance!
Wonderfull! Heavenly music
stunning as always. Its one of my life dreams to watch one of your concerts live. I aboslutely love this.
Thanks so much!
Thanks. I enjoyed that
You're welcome
Brilliant
Descubrí a Haëndel en una de las etapas más críticas de mi vida. Aún sigo abriendo el oído a las delicadas y armoniosas composiciones de ese compositor y siempre, me estremecen.
Obrigado por isto, continuem assim vocês são incríveis.
I have only recently come across this group and Mr Copley. What a joy to include you all on my listening list. The quality of the sound is perfect. I must mention the oboe player - - - sensational.
Thanks for listening.
Another world.
:)
This is such a lovely performance, I had tears in my eyes listening to it! Especially the singer and the oboist stood out to me, I liked the way they used variations and improvisations of the melody in the reprise section! I'm German by the way, so please bear with me if my English is not perfect.
Like Handel....
@@kennethlapointesongwriter3330 That's a good one! Indeed, I'm a huge fan of Händel, but not because he was German, but because of the wonderful music he composed.
@@davidpartydoc1005 Haha, yes. I thought of Handel instantly when you mentioned you were German and your English wasn't perfect. Especially when he was upset, with a singer or player lol. He went from Germany to Italy to England where he stayed. Buried in Westminster Abbey. Beethoven reportedly called him the greatest composer of all time. Not a bad compliment!
ravishing...Thank you all.
Our pleasure!
buitengewoon prachtig !!!
This was a really great concert! I felt privileged to be able to attend the Berkeley performance.
Thanks so much--that was a memorable concert!
Excelente performance!!
What a pleasure to hear a good tenor after the recent batch of exhausting countertenors.
Honey for the ears.
Beautiful thank you 😊
You are very welcome.
Bonito...bonito...bonito...
🔥🔥solo 🥳
Great video!
Wonderful. Thank you
thank you
You're welcome!
トマス・コーレイの歌唱が大好き、彼の歌うこの歌曲、もう何百回聴いたことか。楽譜まで買ってしまった。
I have heard it hundreds of times :)
Coisa linda de se ouvir 😀
Muy hermoso!
Thomas Cooley is of course superbe, the baroque oboeistetoo - what is interesting seeing the violins being plucked rather than played with a bow.
They are holding them horizontal and plucking with the thumb, like a lute.
@@VoicesofMusic I can see that of course! But it is interesting to see vioins being played like this.
Superlative
Handel with Bach and Beethoven are the true apex composers
Add Mozart and I would agree.
@@petermellor289 I get your point, but ‘true apex’ (ie greatest!) composer lists just become subjective lists of personal favourites - as favourites that’s fine, but pretending to be something else is not.
Mozart obviously is a great call, but apart from his last five symphonies for example, very few of them indeed under the microscope compare very well with those of Haydn; similarly, Beethoven did not consider himself a better opera composer than Rossini.
Again, however does any sensible person compare Tallis and Byrd with Wagner, or Monteverdi with Shostakovitch?
All these composers mentioned are ‘true apex’ composers in their own way...and you could add plenty more with equal justification!
Muy bonito
A bit of a random question, but who built the continuo organ used in this video? I notice that it's a different one from the van der Putten used previously. Bennett & Giuttari?
Bennett & Guittari, Opus 1~the very first one made.
Bach - Concerto for Oboe and Violin in C Minor BWV 1060R Allegro III
idea!
All the strings are pizzicato throughout, to suggest harps.
2:00
Handel got rich in England.
JS Bach didn't get rich in Germany.
Wonder what that says.
They were contemporaries.
What does it say? That the monarchy paid better than the church? That fortune and talent are not synonymous? What do you think it says?
Of itself...very little other than perhaps illustrative of their entirely different paths to greatness. They held little in common apart from identifiable characteristics of e.g. harmony and counterpoint. They were both geniuses.
@Robert Lee, Countertenor Do you think really that Handel planned his music to be played for centuries after his dead ? I don't think so. For me, I think he was more of a businessman than Bach. But I agree fully with you when you say that the preservation of Bach's music has been a concordance of chance, and I thanks god for that!
❤️
Why did you carry this air one tone below? What is the reason?
We liked the color. It works out to A=370 Hz, or E Flat Major.
@@VoicesofMusic It is impossible that the baroque oboe that Marc uses is in tune with 370 Htz! All the more there are oboes at 390 Htz or 400 Htz, exactly like the tune, which was used in some European regions, for example in Rome where Handel had been in his youth, but Esther is a late oratory composed of the Saxon in old age, so I don't understand why change the tone, in fact Marc is playing in C minor! This would be the first oboe that I see at 370 Htz! probably S. Dalton built it specifically for this air?
It's completely normal and typical to play Handel arias in different keys. Handel did this over and over. It's just a regular oboe played (brilliantly) a tone lower. Winds players did this all the time. It's not C Minor; it's E Flat Major.
Okay, but there is no 397 HTZ oboe! He made a simple transport.
Then I like to think, that Handel made transpositions of his arias every time in a slavish way, as if the compositions he had made in real tones, were not very dark or light depending on the inventiveness of the instrumentalists, who at the time, according to your opinion, they constantly changed shades, to adapt them to their personal taste, a little like you do. Perhaps Handel didn't know how to write in the correct tonality, or he wrote next to any of his air (or almost) that could be accommodated for use! Did I interpret correctly
@@giuseppenalinoboe As far as I know, it was customary at the time to do pretty much anything that was humanly possible. You could improvise, play the parts in a different order, repeat sections you knew the audience loved, leave out stuff that might put the audience to sleep, use the wrong instrument and even let a vocalist cover for a drunk oboist who failed to appear for work. The rules of music we have today, didn't exist yet, so people did whatever was fun, or what they knew would sell tickets.
Schuman is to the oboe what Dickey is to the cornetto :P
Handel: Tune your harps (Esther)
Tune your harps to cheerful strains,
Moulder idols into dust!
Great Jehovah lives and reigns,
We in great Jehovah trust.
Tune your harps…
トーマスの声を聞くと、自分でも善人になれそうに感じる。
:)
Cada parte de el vídeo es cultura
I did'nt name myself "Baroque Hearted' for nothing did I?.....jn
Cuper
Sorry Schachman.....Mr Schurmann is my chemist...:-()
:)
Op de score zie ik geen partij voor de hobo, alleen voor de zangstem en voor de toetsen, kan iemand mij dit uitleggen s.v.p. ?
Ook lukt het me niet om te ontdekken welke melodielijn met het mooie pizzicato wordt gespeeld, ook hiervoor graag wat hulp;
Vast bedankt !
in de partituur van boven naar beneden: hobo-vi 1-vi 2-tenor-bas. Het pizzicato is in alle strijkinstrumenten. De enige stemmen die langer doorklinken zijn de zang, hobo en orgel.
Thank you !
Beautiful tenor but the oboist gives him a run for the money.