Just spent a whole afternoon listening to every version of this, for about the 10th time. This is my favourite. Always remember that in *Saul* it depicted the awfulness of mass death in war, not one person's funeral march.

so wunderschön, ich empfinde trauer und hoffnung bei diesem lied.. zur zeit höre ich es täglich..

Beautifully played, with great solemnity. Brass, strings and woodwinds all in perfect harmony. Most moving performance...

De Duitse Bundeswehr speelt deze Trauermarsch bij de uitvaart van hoogstaande personen uit de Duitse politiek, zoals bij de uitvaart van Helmut Kohl. Zeer indrukwekkend.

What a fantastic performed piece of music. The best I have heard. Excellent and beautiful.

Die beste Interpretation, die ich kenne. Wundervoll.

Many thanks for sharing this with us. I think Haendel would be proud on the performance of this orchestra !!! Just great !!!!

Eine Interpretation, die mich sehr berührt hat. Schön dass dieses große Werk wieder in so einem beeindruckenden Rahmen dargeboten werden kann!

Brings tears to my eyes!

besser kann man dieses Stück nicht wiedergeben! Wunderschön!

Einfach nur wunderschön!

Sehr schöne Musik, perfekt dargeboten.

wonderful and deeply moving interpretation of Handels music....

It's wonderful feeling is so much Fr.David

immer wieder gut für eine Gänsehaut

the music is sooo beautiful I really enjoyed it. Thank you for this lovely oratorio. Good Job everyone well played, well done.

thank you for this wonderful piece of the oratory Saul, it´s played excellent.

Tears run my eyes when performing this..

Astounding and deeply moving all at once. Truly sublime.

If this music created by human ingenuity and intelligence is profoundly exhilarating how much more must be the profound must be the quality of music we will experience in heaven in the presence of God?

one of the greatest German Composer next to Bach and Beethoven

watch this every night just in case I die in my sleep: indescribably heavenly..

Beautifully played

Beautiful & Powerful!!!

Just listened to this performance after listening to Stokowski's lush Late Romantic orchestration in order to compare that with what Handel himself wrote. Stokowski gilded the lily here. Handel stands on his own magnificently.

Played at the May 1910 funeral of King Edward VII. Lord Esher wrote in his diary afterward "There never was such a break-up. All the old buoys which have marked the channels of our lives see to have been swept away."

I do liked this piece that I always said it must be played on my funeral. But I will scared the mourners to just sit up for a while to listen

Solenne, splendido, degno di altri uomini e di altri tempi.

Congratulations! Very exquisite! The trombones, usually associated with the supernatural world are wellcome!

Beautiful!

Mooiste uitvoering ooit!

in Tongan tradition, we play this song when we carry the casket to its final resting place.

Deze mars is een van de mooiste marsen die ik ken.

I love this song...

I shall never forget when Paa-Fio played this piece on the organ in Apirede Presbyterian Church for Dad when he died. Paa-Frederick Mancka.

Schitterende uitvoering en opname. Bedankt!

Belíssima execução!

No doubt about it. Handel always knocked out a good tune.

I should have had this played at my wedding

A thrilling performance of this beloved classic at a time in Pavarotti's long career when he had everything working for him vocally.

Zum heulen schön!

Bellísimo!!!

“All the old buoys which have marked the channel of our lives seem to have been swept away”

Beautifull

Sehr schöne Interpretation 😚

The English Concert - Händelfestspielorchester Halle - MDR Rundfunkchor - Hallenser Madrigalisten - Händelfestspielchor - Chor der Oper Halle - HOWARD ARMAN - conductor

Fabulous-makes the hairs on back your neck rise and tears at your guts!

Brilliant

sehr sehr gut !

This is more than a good tune. It is music fit for purpose

Fantastic

Played during General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson's funeral march

top !!!!

Wonderskoon!

Btw, if you think this is too slow, try the Stokowsky version....

how can anyone give a thumbs down???

I'm listening to this so as to more fully appreciate "Our Mutual Friend" by Charles Dickens.

It would be nice if the orchestra was identified. I do not understand why people post music here without identifying the performers.

Fantastisch

哦，最優秀的天使，謝謝你的慷慨。 我祝福你現在和永遠。 願你一生都知道極大的幸福和幸福。

EXCELLENT!! INDEED!!THANKS!FROM(U.K.)

Simplesmente fantastico

Anyone here after queen Elizabeth’s death it might be played at her state funeral

Exceptional

Remarquable interprétation

My brother was in South African special forces. When he was kia, the military bands played this at his funeral while they slow marched to his grave. It was terrible, a beautiful pics of music, but absolutely terrible.

waar gespeeld? Leeuwarden?

This was played by a military band at the funeral of a young soldier I knew

Un thème très connu bien interprété

Wunderschön Edda Lemmer

This is a Beautiful Piece of music,I can not hear it Often enough...Any Way to get this Recording?

this song is on my last playlist.....!

Rebel Tuba, Too slow?? It's a funeral march! One doesn't hurry in a funeral...

es ist alles so traurig

Simply beautiful - for lack of a more apt description. Who is the conductor?

Even Bach was a big fan of Handel and walked 10 miles to see a Handel opera.

I believe those are actually sackbuts.

Today it is played at Helmut Kohl's funeral

Came here cause a cop whistled this in a random detective story by J.H. Chase I was reading.

applauding at the end of this piece is highly inapppropriate, imo.

Höre dazu Beethovens Weihe des Hauses, eine Referenz an Händel.

This music was also played at the funeral parade of Colonel Anthony Durnford, hero of Isandlwana

Wow! Ek hou baie daarvan

Herzzerreißend

Period Instruments are wonderful but I don't think that is Christopher Hogwood?

It's usually played at British State funerals but it wasn't played at the funeral of Queen Elizabeth ll.

😔

Those trombones are MADDDD

This song should had been played in a wedding or something but all this sad thing about hedels death is all about him

Schitterend!!!

what are the instruments at 1:30 please?

play Händels funeral march for the queen too. Her family is also little german

Fuer uns alle kommt der Tag die Stunde des Abschieds, so last uns leben wie es Gott will. Vielleicht kann bei meinem Begraebnis am Ausgang der Kirche gespielt warden, wenn auch nur per Cassette.

Is this what McNamara'S Band plays when they "play to funerals"?

What a WONDERFUL comment, Pauline. It would be plagiaristic of me to imitate you, so I refrain out of respect. I would add, if I may, that what grabs me is the appropriately sour tone of the trombones/sackbuts. No one else gets even close. As for the flutes, appropriately, again, mournful, are there really 4 flute parts in the original, or has Arman doubled them? In the circumstances, perfectly legitimate.

Played at the execution of many pirates Under the Black Flag by David Cordingly

Name of tune?

Ich finde, es ist eine ergreifende Interpretation dieser wunderbaren Musik. Wenn ich richtig vermute, ist hier der Dirigent Paul Goodwin mit dem Kammerorchester Basel. Leider habe ich bisher keine Aufnahme dieses wunderbaren Konzertes bekommen können.

Lieflik!!

Handel #dotd in 1759 ⚰️