Remember being so mesmerised by this amazing tune, asa a young lad of maybe 7 years of age, still does something for me as I have moved on to over 75 years. Love the choir singing this piece, it is magical.
A beautiful song beautifully sung. My mum Jean Clark is singing on this as she sang alto with the choir for nearly twenty years in the seventies and eighties . They were very successful and a talented group well led by the choirmaster Ted Parr, winning the Llangollen Eisteddfod one year! A feat they were rightly proud of. Sadly mum died some years ago but we played this song from the recorded album at her funeral it is so peaceful and was very fitting of the occasion it now holds a special memory for me and the family and we listen ad reflect regularly. Thank you for uploading this for many to enjoy also.
@@joannadziwisz8619 Rubbish. This is an English song written by an Englishman, and it is only to be sung in English - not German, Polish or any other guttural language.
Enchantingly beautiful. I have loved this tune since age fifteen when I first heard it in 1957 and love it more with the addition of the words of 'Where The Gentle Avon Flows' sung so beautifully by the Nelson Civic Ladies Choir.
Reminds me so much of my mother - she loved the song - although, it was sung in German - and it got played a lot every Sunday for years and years. Great song - and memory!!
i love this alot best version i ever heard i'm a child who litens to this kind of music i wish other children would to instead of music with cussing nd bad subject matters
I can't hear this piece, orchestral or vocal, without thinking of my late mother. I was 14 when she died almost sixty years ago but the tune and especially this version, makes her seem very close again.
Sounds like a beautiful song that was sang back when England still existed. What a bittersweet thing that I'm listening to it knowing what has happened to the land of my forefathers.
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU I didn't know that this tune had words written to it until recently, and have been looking for the right lyrics to it ever since. VERY SINCERE THANKS MY FRIEND.
This lovely song used to be played on the radio and performed by the Vienna Boys Choir in the 1950's after the war, so very beautifully sung here too, brings back fond memories of home, thank you so much for this.
How absolutely lovely this post is, I have never heard 'Elizabethan Serenade' sung before... Well done ladies absolutely beautiful... @ddekee33 you have posted a little gem... The very best regards from Wales UK :0)x
@robertpoet... I always loved the tune.. As a young child I thought it was written for me.. As my name is Elizabeth.. . I turned 75...... Best wishes from Ireland to where ever you are in the world Robert. ❤ God Bless
I listen to Classic FM and heard the instruments many times before. Heard the choir only last night and had to look out for all choirs. Thank you for the lyrics I can now follow the singing!
Thank you for this recording of the music which I have never heard again after my childhood. I even didn't know the composers name, just remembered the tune and the title. Now, 50 years later and just after discovering You Tube, the mistery is solved and I am touched. Also the choir-arrangement I like very much. Beautiful!
We have just begun learning this lovely song in our four part choir. This is by far the best recording I have found of it. So sweetly beautiful. Thank you.
I agree, I searched for ages to find the name and finally found it. I remember it from childhood on the radio and it brought back floods of memories and emotions, how special.
I agree with Elisabeth Christine Finne. The singing is beautiful, so the piano accompaniment mustn't drown it. I'm trying to play the piano solo arrangement and am struggling to get the right hand repeated double notes to subtly blend in, as this accompanist does.
Me too but the only thing missing there is my Bonnie fine plump wife! I use to be married more to the Military than I was to the mother of my child - no wonder we ended up going Our Seperate/Serenade Ways!! Sure I would like to get married one day but somehow I doubt that will ever happen perhaps because I'm to set in My ways and equally enjoy - getting that "Kick of Adrenaline" in doing what I'm good at in other words fighting foreign wars - well what else do you expect us former FFL(French Foreign Legionnaires) to do? Us good Contractors/Mercenaries do a Great Job even in awlful places including keeping the "Status Quo" afterall the only thing that counts is "Money in the Bank or in Gold/Silver/Investments". I love this version of Elizabethan Serenade as it depicts everything pure & joyous about Our Society. Makes a change from the "battlefield gunfire, chopper blades, hum of turbo - props or Jet engines but sometimes it takes awhile for our pilots to get our aircraft/rust bucket upto 7000ft sitting on your Helmet(Steel or Kevlar) above that its time for a wee dram & a snooze perhaps? Let us Men Protect Our Women & Kids even from the "Enemy Within" maybe form a Militia of Hardliners that can and will strike at any given time throughout the UK - in other words "Protecting Our Own"??
Thumbs up if you were in a choir in primary school and had to sing this song for a competition and place first lol. Awesome song. I was 8 years then and 28 now but it is as beautiful today as it was then. Sweet memories. I have always and will always love this song.
I was 4 1/2 when I started school and every assembly this music was played via a record. I loved it but it always reduced me too tears ! I struggled to try and hide my emotion by discreetly using my cardigan sleeve to dry the tears and runny nose!
It's graciously a final phase of the supreme bliss that listen to this masterpiece while reading these splendid words From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵 where deeply love and respect the Queen
Yes, beautiful singing by those ladies. A lesser known fact may be that the lovely air by the great Ronald Binge was set to words by the English poet, Christopher Hassall, sadly departed. I'm a writer and the whole affect on me was that I wrote a short story, a cameo really based on this version (with all acknowledgements of course). It evoked in me a nostalgia and feeling for by-gone times. I suppose that it was romantic really, but what's wrong with a bit of romanticism? - when today we've become so 'sophisticated' that we think those things are 'mushy' and silly. I called it 'Elizabethan Cameo', and I tried to 'get into' the whole theme and music.
Beautiful. Not a musician, I am an author of novels and short stories. Inspired, I sat down and wrote a 'cameo' based on Ronald Binges great composition, not forgetting of course the poet who wrote the lyrics.
I don`t want to shock you, but the melody of this song was derived from an old folk-song from southern Germany, named : "Ich hab mein Bier so lieb!" (transl. "I love my beer so much!" No joke! It was an old drinking-song of the 18.centenary and Jesuit-Monks brought it to South-America, where it`s nowadays still known by some Indian tribes. Ronald Binge took those melody and transformed it to an orchestral masterpiece! Also in Germany it`s well known and loved!
No it was written in 1950 or 51 by Ronald Binge an English composer. It had another title when he wrote it but it was changed to the Elizabethan Serenade around the time of QE2's ascension to the throne so as to create a spirit of a new Elizabethan era.
This is the first time I have heard this in English, and though it's far from the German lyrics, it is hauntingly gorgeous. I was 13 when I first heard it in Germany, and I have loved it every since!
@Janey Haynes Somewhat ironic - it was written by an Englishman, Ronald Binge, who served in the R.A.F. during WW2. Wouldn’t have thought that he would have had much truck with Germans.
Ok. I`ll try! But it will take a Little time! Few years ago I saw a tv-report about Indian tribes of the amazonian region. Some of them had contact to austrian jesuits, bevore the christian missions were destroyed by troops from Portugal. The melody of a german folk-song was one of the memories which was treasured by the Indian people- and it was exactly the melody of those perfect Serenade by Ronald Binge. Ok - I try to find it!
