Excellent ! I'm 18 and I love it too. i'm really pleased when I see my genration, whose I'm getting used to think that it has no consideration for great Art, appreciating those beautiful creations. By the way, Handel is not a classical but a baroque composer.
This performance is a little sluggish, in my opinion. But I've also heard it ripped through at speed and it loses a lot of the grandeur. Performances that I've heard that are a little faster than this one provide the perfect amount of pomp and ceremony.
I'm an American expat (retired teacher) having lived in Leipzig and Dresden Germany for the past 25 years. Though Handel spent most of his life "abroad ", he is still a son of Halle. The thrill of listening to his music at the source ( along with Bach's, among others, at the St Thomas Church) takes me to a transcended paradise that cultivates and nurtures a indescribable richness in my life...I'm eternally grateful daily...
@eldorta i am so very sorry and sad for u and the young lady due to the divorce, and I do hope and pray 🙏 that all will resolve this situation, with the help of ALMIGHTY GOD😢🎉
@energgo y porqué hay que traducir al anglosajón?😢 el anglosajón no tiene nada de la gracia necesaria para hacer traducciones, en cambio el idioma que aquí se utiliza es completamente válido para hacerse entender mundialmente ❤😊
I visited a small fireworks stand several years ago, on July 4th. The young couple running it had classical music playing, Handel, I forget which number. I joked and said they should be playing Music for the Royal Fireworks. The young woman held up her hand in a kind of "Aha!" gesture, reached down to fiddle with the machine, and this started playing.
4:29 Such an astonishing piece of music. I'm sure it won't be used for a Russian speaking artificial intelligence on Mars trying to protect humanity against the foes of darkness in 268 years from its release
Triumphal and majestic even ornamental and glorious,....pompompous....no...check your dictionary that word is synonumous to pretentious or ostentatious, which i do not believe is your sentiment
Some people equate the Baroque period with pompous overdecoration across the board, in music, architecture, or whatever else. I don't particularly agree with those people, but they do exist.
Is it me or does the rejouissance feel slightly menacing, boastful, despite being in a major key? Like, makes sense because it was composed to celebrate a military victory.
@@AnnetteMurphyger classical music as a general term encompasses the baroque era, classical era, and romantic era as well as others depending on who you ask
Every extant signature by the composer on scores, letters and documents uses the English form of his name *without* the umlaut; the exact same is true of the Italian born Giovanni Battista Lulli who adopted the French form of his name after his becoming a French subject. Why is it that some people insist on the anachronistic nonsense trying to Germanify Handel, but almost universally accept Lully as French rather than Italian, when in fact the cases of being born in one country, but naturalised into another are almost identical ?
Music of the pax aix chappelle to mark the cease fire commissioned of HRM George I, in 1721. Complete with cannons and fireworks. A declaration of power and of triumph for peace in England.
@Steve Wallschlaeger : never ever forget the historical background of any of these pcs of music originating in a time when those either making wars or peace ordered them to be composed. Thank God that monarchs of that time were equipped both with European classic education, talent and humanity so as to support and appreciate these masterpieces of European civilisation. Would anybody imagine that socialist/communist dictators of our times (Cuba, Venezuela, North Corea, Rhodesia ("Zimbabwe"), Putin-Russia) , who suppress all kind of individual art in their 'countries' and are rightly called monarchs or tyrants of our times, would ever do their share to human civilisation ??
