Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba | Academy of Ancient Music

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Academy of Ancient Music performs the 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba'; the Sinfonia to Act III from Handel's oratorio Solomon HWV67 [1748]. AAM are led by Bojan Čičić and directed by Christopher Bucknall at the harpsichord.
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ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC
director & harpsichord: Christopher Bucknall
leader: Bojan Čičić
Recorded at St. Jude on the Hill,
Hampstead Garden Suburb, London
January 2019
Music Producer: Adrian Peacock
Video director: Guy Wigmore
Recording Engineer: David Hinitt
Project: Academy of Ancient Music Season Sessions 18-19.
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@williamalston5604 Ай бұрын

I love this version of Handel's "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba". The tempo of the music is just right.

@cancelled_user Жыл бұрын

This is so beautiful I can barely Handel my emotions 🥲

@robinseay3486 Жыл бұрын

I Couldn’t Agree More! Such a Magnificent Musical Masterpiece🎶Evokes Pure Joy!!

@mikeggg5671 Жыл бұрын

You take that Bach!

@cancelled_user Жыл бұрын

@@mikeggg5671 Nah, I'm not Haydn anything!

@mikeggg5671 Жыл бұрын

@@cancelled_user you're going to get put on a Liszt if you keep this up

@someonespadre 11 ай бұрын

Ba-dum gish

@gerardmcnally Жыл бұрын

I just love Handel's music, this performance is exceptional.

@DonnaGisellaTranchel 5 ай бұрын

Handel - my favorite guy!!!💙💙💙💙💙

@LucienMarine 6 ай бұрын

The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, sinfonia for two oboes and strings by George Frideric Handel was created in 1749 at London’s Covent Garden Theatre as part of his new Biblical oratorio into the first scene of Act III in the oratorio Solomon. This one is rarely performed in its entirety, but Handel’s bright and lively interlude The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (in A major) is a widely appreciated processional set piece. In the Book of Kings, the Queen of Sheba travels from afar to visit the splendid court of King Solomon, arriving, as the bible mentions with a very great retinue, then camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stones. Handel’s music admirably captures the excitement of a lavish state visit of an exotic foreign Queen, and first-night London audiences would have had no problem reading of Handel’s depiction and the coming of a compliment by their reigning monarch, King George II. Be like a good Prince in love with glory, and make a story of you. This king must have been a lover of art. *Lucien*

@albionproperty 5 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤❤

@LucienMarine 5 ай бұрын

@@albionproperty 💙💙💙💙😘

@janetryan9779 3 ай бұрын

I was already familiar with the biblical account of this event, but appreciated your background information regarding the composition and initial performance of this great work! I have always loved this piece of music, and Handel is amongst my favorite composers.

@LucienMarine 3 ай бұрын

@@janetryan9779 O thank you Janet! It’s nice to meet a music lover. Handel is probably the one I admire unlike Bach who neither wrote an opera nor published a dialectical and musical book for to mention that this. I appreciate many this execution because it is played by a baroque ensemble. Sincerely *Lucien*

@janetryan9779 3 ай бұрын

@@LucienMarine Bach and Handel are my favorite composers, so- no surprise!- the Baroque period of musical composition is also my favorite. Yes, it’s great when the instrumentation matches with how it would originally have been performed…just sounds right. : )

@patriciayeiser6405 4 жыл бұрын

At that tempo, she would have arrived early! Wonderful oboe players.

@davelee8961 3 жыл бұрын

I had that same thought! Could probably back off on the tempo a bit, but still brilliant!

@MrDorkLard 3 жыл бұрын

It seems everyone is in a hurry these days :) : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eZxmi6aivNHMnas.html

@dnetz2145 3 жыл бұрын

@Patricia - Very astute observation.

@SiliconBassist 3 жыл бұрын

Am I the only one who is used to hearing it at this tempo? Lol

@kaykanaschan5738 3 жыл бұрын

Magical hands! Amazing!

@shin-i-chikozima 8 ай бұрын

The Beauty and Gorgeousness of Sheba must quench and moisturize the parched soul of us earthlings

@trishtraynor 4 жыл бұрын

Wonderful memories of this being played at a friend's funeral. He planned it himself, and this is what accompanied the coffin as it left the Canongate Kirk. We were all trying not to giggle. Joyful, beautiful and in my memory as camp as Christmas. I love music.💖

@gillianmooney4542 2 ай бұрын

What a lovely thing to say. G

@jasonsummit1885 3 жыл бұрын

Just love that this is played on baroque instruments, so it sounds like it would have when Handel wrote the piece.👍

@robjohnston1433 4 жыл бұрын

I love it this fast! There are a lot of very slow versions around but this tempo really makes it glorious and worthy of the Queen of Sheba. I would like this to accompany ME wherever I go! Oboes are especially fab!

@patriciayeiser6405 3 жыл бұрын

I love the obvious enjoyment that can be seen on the faces of the musicians. They aren't just playing notes. Wonderful, AAM!

@infledermaus Жыл бұрын

If I had managed to become a professional musician, this is the only genre of music I would have played. I love baroque music!

@patriciayeiser6405 Жыл бұрын

@@infledermaus Mozart and Haydn and Bach family aren't bad, either.

@halo5725 2 ай бұрын

I can't play a musical instrument in any way, but when I listen to music like this I wish I could make sounds like it. It must be the same joy as fixing things

@shin-i-chikozima Жыл бұрын

WheneverI listen to this masterpiece, I feel like I am witnessing the arrival of that Queen of Sheba with Handel

@aj3569 3 ай бұрын

Fabulous! Heaven captured in a melodious reverberation. ❤🎉

@alanthistlethwaite8436 2 ай бұрын

Handel was sent by god to give joy to the world.

@Juan-jq8zd Ай бұрын

Yep Handel is a miracle of the music 😊

@mikesoule1352 4 күн бұрын

Are they all playing period instruments?

@georgehahn2979 7 ай бұрын

Spirited and driving performance. Orchestra hits the mark every time. No sloppiness. Love the lute.

@dougr.2398 2 ай бұрын

Lite or theorbo? Impossible to hear it!

@havingalook2 3 жыл бұрын

The joy this brings to the listener. And I can see the joy on the faces of many of the players. Well done. I liked the tempo, made my blood race.

@cosmofoxgaming1268 2 жыл бұрын

Simply breathtaking. I’ve only just started properly drawing from the well we call “classical” music. The font is deep and full of wonders.

@malachatterjee8868 Ай бұрын

Emotions are already handled for you. You can go soaring

@EricRoss57 4 жыл бұрын

Concerning the sinfonia's tempo, it is more than fitting, for as the title suggests, the queen's visit to Solomon's Israel was a joyous occasion. Very nice performance!

@jaynelindill9267 3 жыл бұрын

I keep coming back to this recording. Thank heavens for young musicians like Christopher Bucknall who want to play this music and keep it alive!

@melissalysk1039 2 күн бұрын

This was played as I walked down the aisle at my son's wedding. I was thrilled that the organist suggested this!!!

@prestleygemini1060 9 ай бұрын

Sunday 7:05 in the morning of 17 september 2023 listening to handel i know that my sunday will be wonderful.

@Momo-ku2ex 2 жыл бұрын

I feel like this performance is so precise and perfectly modulated, for example the beautiful part around 2:38 with the descending bass and the building ostinati holding back just enough to make the payoff starting around 2:44 all the more satisfying

@JimParshall 5 ай бұрын

I love this song and this performance. I used to use this song to sell high end audio all the time and then used it later to help teach storytelling with music and sound for the video game industry. It has always been one of my very favorites and you folks do a wonderful version!

@jaynelindill9267 3 жыл бұрын

This makes my heart sing! Truly authentic and joyful.

@vaughangarrick 2 жыл бұрын

Just scrolled through 8 of these and so far this is the best....

@Musica-xo3uv 4 жыл бұрын

Perfecto tempo! Joyful allegro... Thank you.!

@Rob-rr2cp 3 жыл бұрын

Heavenly light and beautiful. Amazing grace...

@jfcgate 2 жыл бұрын

What a performance such beauty ! Can't help but smile listening to this.

@larssilverek6818 3 жыл бұрын

This song makes me genuinely happy!

@freedomandrantforall 7 ай бұрын

Wow. Hearing this always brings me joy no matter what is going on.

@shin-i-chikozima 3 жыл бұрын

This specutacular performance they play with exquisite skill and breathtaking technique and beautiful attire is beyond description , inspirational and comfortable to the ear and the mind There is something extraordinary in their specutacular performance From Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵

@Tomsonic41 3 жыл бұрын

I actually prefer it at this tempo, even though it sounds like she'd be running for her life!

@SkipperNunana 3 жыл бұрын

Why, I imagine there'd be a bustle around her instead while she herself will remain regal and graceful. :)

@randykrammer1295 Жыл бұрын

Love the music and love the musician's great enjoyment of their craft. Superb.

@geovannyg.m.1323 3 жыл бұрын

¡Hermoso! Sonido atemporal e idílico...

@abfou123 10 ай бұрын

Exciting, stimulating and beautiful, thanks Handel, and yes, the musicians do look happy, thanks Academy of Ancient Music.

@Mr.Sid3 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely fantastic! Very well played.

@NeilGastonguay Жыл бұрын

Exciting rendition of this wonderful music.

@alenkapintar8660 8 ай бұрын

Simply perfect! Beautiful music and brilliant good performance.

@paoloiannoni9805 11 ай бұрын

Beautiful music i adore

@eslermanu47 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant my favourite piece of music

@expoers Жыл бұрын

Classic example that music is the extraordinary and excellent art of combining sounds, Thaks for posting and share!

@snejitikova2797 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing playing the orcestra were great. I really like it

@amnonamnon8479 4 ай бұрын

Vibrational frequency, sending shivers down my spine

@stevenscott6787 11 ай бұрын

I’ve not seen this piece performed better. So very well done! Everyone in it is so great!

@notrappaport5340 Жыл бұрын

I love it at this tempo!

@mariajosecoimbra8905 Жыл бұрын

Amo essa composição de Handel. Ela me traz muita alegria e boas energias.

@venzislavvladimirov3046 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing performance, bravo!!!! 😲😲🤔👍👍👍👍

@isabelleaupetit7059 7 ай бұрын

Merveilleux !

@musicalzest 5 ай бұрын

Beautiful music of great virtuosity and remarkable skill. The joy of music through the ages, lives here right now!! Most majestic and divine performance! [`Salutes!!]

@petergrundy8081 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful musicians perfect I close my eyes I can feel the mood of crowd as she and her court sweep by the anticipation the wonder

@tonymercer7759 4 ай бұрын

Another splendid performance of Handel by the AAM !

@channelejg5862 6 ай бұрын

Adore this piece!

@neilstewart5407 Жыл бұрын

The beautifully invigorating yet satisfyingly calming piece of classic classical music. The piece of divine music that first got me interested in the beauty of Classical music. All those superlatives and I still haven't done it justice! But AAM certainly do, and I love it played at this tempo and with so much joy! Thank you

@littlellamblet 9 ай бұрын

I feel the Queen is so excited and beaming in her face to meeting Solomon!😊

@lindadavies6109 Жыл бұрын

Just brilliant 🌟👏👏👏👏🌟

@ireneyoung8696 5 ай бұрын

Just beautiful.

@loesbakker1779 10 ай бұрын

heel mooi gespeeld leuk om naar te luisteren

@tarikandia5825 3 жыл бұрын

This peace of melody makes me feel so real! That music take my energies up to to joyful! Sorry for my english but I feel so excited after listening to this magnificent melody 😍

@edelahaye 3 жыл бұрын

"piece" ...

@tarikandia5825 3 жыл бұрын

Emmanuel Delahaye grcias 😊

@ccona2020 Жыл бұрын

Amazing. Thanks. 🤗🙌👏

@oulunsaloensemble 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic and joyful! 🎶

@michaeljohnson1157 Жыл бұрын

Ich Liebe den 🎻 Violinen, verein ! ( ...und die Damen...!! Sehr glorreich und gewandt____

@albertwessels71 Жыл бұрын

so beautiful.

@carolpountney7627 10 ай бұрын

So beautiful ❤

@stuarthenlis5740 11 ай бұрын

I love classical music. This work is one reason I love classical music!

@box6497 11 ай бұрын

U make pop / hip hop music in matter of time (small time) like even weeks (for a music (rest - words and more) normaly about 6 months. But Classical music is way harder to create/compose (For geniuses like Mozart it wouldn't take that much (Maybe 1 week or more) Less than a month normaly. But for others it may take months ba... Years (even 3 if they had alot to do) working on others every day, so yh.

@sarahsnowe 9 ай бұрын

Start your day dancing to this and you're off to a good start!

@juliehoulding1271 5 ай бұрын

You can dance and exercise too with The Hallelujah Chorus!

@adenekanadekunle6305 17 күн бұрын

A delivery so perfect, a tempo so exquisite, a performance so enthralling and a Magisterial composition Handel could only have written for Majesty.

@lenanielsen5903 4 жыл бұрын

Very beautiful 🍃love it🍃

@colinmccauley3301 Жыл бұрын

one of the most memorable DJ's on Boston's PBS station in the 60's and 70's was Robert J. Lurtsema who had a radio program in the morning and played only Classical Music, this was his introduction music

@Marrio49 3 ай бұрын

As well as William Pierce from WGBH Boston, who was the announcer for many many years of the Boston, Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall. Knew him well as I worked in Symphony Hall throughout college at New England Conservatory of music.

@matteoromenghi 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent!

@robertwatt9012 5 ай бұрын

I love the piece, and I love the fact thatit found its way into the Score for "The Singing Detective"

@christinegerard4974 7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much !

@Tamerlano1997 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing! Bravissimi! You made my day!

@vicjones3992 11 ай бұрын

The AAM seem to "get" Handel's music better than any other orchestra....this performance is sublime❤

@michaeljohnson1157 Жыл бұрын

Such ACCOMPLISHMENT ~~

@victorwiley3739 Жыл бұрын

Incredible; and I never would have found this other than it being in a movie (BAPS) YAAAY ME!

@mariaisabelrondelli3638 Жыл бұрын

Gracias por compartir.

@michaeld9731 3 ай бұрын

Beautiful!

@rev.stephena.cakouros948 Жыл бұрын

Well done and uplifting.

@fionakelter9379 Жыл бұрын

A great piece of classical music

@SiliconBassist 3 жыл бұрын

Wonderful performance!

@beatrizandrade3939 3 жыл бұрын

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💕 Belíssimo!

@jeffkim6729 8 ай бұрын

Perfection!

@Gardenbelley 4 ай бұрын

Happy birthday to gerog frederic handel! This is a lovely performance

@leesai1728 2 жыл бұрын

wonderful!

@jimroberts3651 3 ай бұрын

One's views on how a piece "should" be performed usually depend on whose version you were first familiar with. I first heard this piece in the 1950s when it was the fashion to play it more slowly. At this speed you have visions of the Queen and her entourage donning their running shoes and sprinting in.

@gdj6298 2 ай бұрын

Unless they are walking at half-tempo. Or unless this is not meant as entry music, but just to herald the imminent arrival. Or, as another commenter said, it is meant to evoke the scurryfunging of the staff before the arrival.