Handel - Music for the Royal Fireworks (Proms 2012) 

Soberbio comentario. Me interpreta al 100% . Viva Händel !❤Viva la música Barroca !!❤❤

I was once a trumpeter in an orchestra and also a bugler in a marching band. The bugle was the hardest and most honest of instruments as it needed great skill to produce good music. I honour Le Concert Spirituel for the magnificence of their output.

I'm no expert or musician but it seems like the original French horns are the most difficult to play. How do they do that?

@@josephanthony8585 This would have been the period where horns were first used as orchestral instruments, taken from their original use as 'hunting horns'. When they were hunting instruments, they would be played 1 handed so the player could also be on horseback. Without the addition of the extra hand to correct pitches inside the bell, the horn can only function on the harmonic series determined by the length of tubing given, which leaves many pitches out of tune with the equal-tempered system we use in virtually all western music. So when playing on the original instruments, it's actually near impossible to get perfection intonation, because you don't have the ability to correct pitching with your other hand! As far as difficulty goes, it's just a different style of playing to the modern instruments, as all the work has to be done with your embouchure; though the horn is widely regarded as one of the most difficult instruments to learn generally.

Seriously, this may be the first performance of Handel I've ever truly enjoyed, intonation be damned! I never enjoy playing Handel in a modern style-it comes off so staid and sterile. This has life and energy! Seriously incredible work by all involved.

You are right. Baroque music with baroque instruments. Maybe my favorite era.

Yes, but albeit bravery, I would have sacrificed historical accuracy for finer sound. My ear is not very good, but it is rather distracting.

JS Bach never really had the opportunity nor commissions to write the sort of ceremonial music Handel produced for the British royal family, or public occasions.

Igaluit never ever tire of baroque. There should be a baroque radio station

@@ianclarke1852 There is! www.francemusique.fr/radios-thematiques/la-baroque

Please dont forget bach,telemann and abollini

Yes. When I was a kid in the 80s girls played only flute, piano or cello. I’m happy things changed.

​@@jean-xavierbardant1082 Et de la harpe, vous avez oublié la harpe ! Et aujourd'hui certains hommes reprennent la place à la harpe, que les femmes avaient prise en bousculant Apollon de sa chaise 😊

No one said that men could play it better

This is truly a terrible time in our history - but the remedies of the past still work today! Handel was a God-send!

I empathize with your seeking out music for comfort. We all need emotional support to get us through difficult times. Handel and Bach are my mainstays to relieve stress. My thoughts are with you. I'm so glad we have such music.

Kueta35 My feelings and situations in pandemic covid 19 are the same way. Hendel’s music is marvelous.

One month later and I'm up at 4 am listening to the same music in the same country. Hope you're keeping well Kueta35

Hope you're feeling much better Kueta35. Bach and Handel are so calming to me. They wrote SO much music. keep listening. It will always help! Big hugs from Australia, and feeling a bit the same!

Este es uno de los MÁS GRANDES CONCIERTOS del Genial G. F. Handel... de carácter GRANDIOSO, IMPONENTE y de TRIUNFO!!!!... esa especial emoción me causa en mi espíritu cada vez que lo escucho. La presentación de la GRAN orquesta y su director impecables. Siempre es un PRIVILEGIO ver y escuchar este especial video !!!!

I thought the tempo way too fast causing it to lose a bit of it's intended majesty, otherwise, an excellent, breathtaking performance and recreation of a brilliant work.

@@crforfreedom7407 Do you know what the Royal Albert Hall rates are? I don't blame them.

@harisaro...And even more goosebumps if he saw the original Dracula, Nosferatu conducting it!....😂

@@crforfreedom7407 I mean, this is the tempo of a firework show, this was 1st performed precisely, in the royal fireworks.

Indeed! The timelessness of compositions like this is extraordinary!

Спасибо

Merci à toi!

Ahh carrément. Le pareil avec la musique de Louis XIV, c’est juste incroyable . Les soupers du Roy 🥂

A mon avis, la musique baroque est plus grand au monde 🎉

@@CHICHI-vn9kd pour moi aussi.

My eyes started leaking too - wonderful, just wonderful!

Discovered Handel's music during a visit to Kensignton Palace in 2002. It is wondeful and I could listen to it every day.

Indeed my friend, indeed. The symphony is blessing my soul 🙏

That conductor is well worth following, no penguin suit, white stick or pomposity , just an expert in the baroque era. All hail Herve Niquet.

Beethoven said that Handel was "the master" when it came to composers of the Baroque era.

@@DonaldWMeyers-dwm Thank you Go for it Good luck!

@@DonaldWMeyers-dwm Taken out of context, Beethoven’s words are as misleading as your comment.

¡Buena compadre!

nice, but no fireworks ? :D ok, it's unfair, but the piece was meant for "open space" and splendor on river thames, not for indoor performance

I agree. Wonderful.

Yes. Very fantastic from Córdoba

He has a unique style for sure

relieved... that I don't need to practice to perform at the Proms!

Herve Niquet is more than a conductor, he is pure genius with French Baroque and his own ensemble helps him deliver heavenly music.

Beethoven called him the finest composer of all

Yeah, very powerful kettle drum solo.

The trumpeted were having fun with the pose 😊

It is now time to watch 'The Madness of King George'.

All of them are masters though. Bach has different styles. Handel has different styles too.

Mdebacle It’s a shame that the movie had to be given such an Americanised title for something so absolutely British; the correct form in English would have been ‘The Madness of George III’ (or possibly ‘...King George III).

Handel’s (sic) music is essentially Italian-style massively tweaked for English ears; what is it you identify as particularly French here (apart from the superb French performers) ?

I was there :)

Additional color. The musicality of the performers carries the day.

I didn't understand your answer Additional color. The musicality of the performers carries the day@@geoffstemen3652

Of course, when you consider the setting of this piece's premiere (i.e., outside), it would make sense to intentionally sacrifice some refinement for the sake of power. In my opinion, that approach is much more conducive to this particular piece.

The English concert orchestra with Harry Bicket do a great one on period instruments as well. Blows the awful one on the opening night of the proms (2024)out of the water it was almost unrecognisable.

I thought that was Count Dracula conducting.

@wkruit..Still...a bit overtempo for the type instruments used. Made musicians appear sloppy when they were working hard.

Thomas Campbell Centuries of advancement?? I think not.

Agree with everything you say. Would have loved to have lived in peaceful tes in the past.

Sorry That should be times

And joyous!

Therefore eccentric !

The boat would sink. XD

​@@georgeluft7881 I just imagined the boat sinking and all the musicians, Handel, and the King getting soaked. The wigs saggy. Lol.

@@millennial8441 Are you talking about the Music for the Royal Fireworks (1749) or the Water Music (1717) or are you just confused ?

Vraiment grand chef, avez vous écouté et vu son interprétation du Gloria de Vivaldi sur RU-vid, où l'on s'aperçoit tout à fait de l'amour parfait qu'il a pour les choristes, c'est rare ..

désolé de vous contredire, mais mon sentiment est que l'orchestre pourrait tout à fait aussi bien faire sans lui...

@@jean-pierredjukic155 Comentarios como el suyo sorprenden... por el grado de ignorancia.

@@Osvant1 La musique baroque s'est longtemps jouée sans chef au sens où on l'entend aujourd'hui mon cher monsieur. La notion de chef d'orchestre est née d'un impératif technique mué en argument promotionnel dans la période classique puis romantique. Ceux qui font la musique sont les musiciens. Les chefs qui jouent, en particulier à la basse continue , ceux-là ont toute mon estime. Seulement voilà, on veut des stars et des leaders incarnés...

@@jean-pierredjukic155 Inclinons-nous devant l'Oracle!

Yes, great composer and great conductor.

And a great orchestra!

Power ?? Modern instruments have a louder sound.

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Scored for that much double reeds and brass.

logicalempiricist I know that it's the "rule" regarding chamber music, but does it holds for music for larger orchestral ensembles?

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