Both Bach and Handel were born in 1685. (supposedly). Did Bach ever hear anything by Purcell? Who knows... but Handel undoubtedly did,

This music also anticipates Joseph Haydn (See The Creation, The Seasons and Gott Enhalte Franz Den Kaiser) and Ludwig Van Beethoven (See Beethoven's Consecration of the House ( Die Weihe des Hauses) Overture, The Fantasy (Fantasia) for piano, vocal soloists, chorus, and orchestra, Op. 80, usually called the Choral Fantasy, and, indeed, the Choral Symphony which is the logical conclusion of the symphonic process at least until the advent of Johannes Brahms.

yurhosed Bach & Teleman (b. 1681) knew each other and their music, and the latter also was a friend of Handel, who used to visit while holidaying at home in Halle. Even wrote oratorios not unlike Handel's. These guys knew of each other and would have known of Purcell's music. Purcell was basically Handel's immediate predecessor as Court composer.

Simply superb, Alfred Deller inspired my favourite countertenor James Bowman, Purcell music, has some similarity, with Buxtehude, not surprising really has they lived in the same period.

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TY for this extra & vitally interesting information.

mckavitt13 You are welcome. I forgot to mention tht the Hanovers inherited because they had an earlier Stuart connection.

+FRAGIORGIO1 Yes, thank you!

mckavitt13 You are quite welcome.

Thanks, we never get reminded of much of our history except that Henry VIII and his doings, William deposed James II, Mary's father, a Catholic, by a successful invasion, did he not? Parliament went along with this as they preferred a Protestant, odd goings on.

Sing in cheerful and harmonious ways

Thank you, Ahmed, but change "da" Viol to "the Viol".

I love Purcell's music. So beautiful.

Alfred Deller has a beautiful voice which one always recognizes easily.

See nature rejoicing has shown us the way with innocent revels to welcome this day.

No 💩?? LOL

+trebcabb Do not despair. We In our late eighties still enjoy precisely the same experience. It can keep you young.

+Michael & Vivienne Goldblatt In my 60s, i still bubble w curiosity & the joy of discovery. Keeps one young, indeed. :-)

Father, now in his 60s, subscribed to Spotify and keeps doing exactly that, and every time I visit he shares his dicoveries with me. :-) (At one point it was an organ arrangement of the New World Symphony. Then he was discovering marches from around 1900. Last time he was partial to Imants Kalninš' symphonies.) This one is partially an old one and partially a new one to me - I heard bits years ago, but I've never heard the whole thing and could not even remember the name properly when I suddenly remembered it today... good thing I still found it, it would have been harder without the internet.

Agreed!

I"m glad you appreciated it at such a young age.

My older sisters sang in a choir and sang this, so I think I fell in love with this piece at a similar age. I never had a recording, so I really appreciate the internet for allowing me to find it about two decades later even when I barely remembered what it was.

A "nation" did not compose this music.

Nobody said the music was composed by a nation. Is English not your first language? That could be the only reason for your crassly imbecilic remark.

superb music from a superb nation, now repeat it 25 times every morning you seedy w&b...h

Totally agree with you Mickel and apologise on behalf of the nation (if I may!) for strangely disparaging previous comment. Of course it's great music.

@Michael Evans I have read your obviously considered and eloquent points. Now fuck right off please!

Что великолепного???

​@@user-ic7oo6mq3q Музыка Перселла!

Произведение Генделя Ода на Рождение Королевы Анны также очень красивая, особенно когда вступают соло два контртенора, и сам Гендель учился на произведениях Люлли и Перселла, чтобы не отходить от канонов церкрвной музыки и светской Королевской..Эту музыку барокко вполне можно охарактеризовать, как Истинно Райская, Браво Великим Мастерам! 👏👏👏❤️❤️❤️

Michelle O'Brien Good for you. Enjoy and Happy New Year.

+FRAGIORGIO1 yes - William III and Mary II were the first British monarchs to live in Kensington Palace - Christopher Wren remodelled the existing buildings for them.

gwedi elwch Thank you for that information. Are you Welsh? I ask because of your first and last name, which I cannot identify as to origin. Regards.

Yes - 'gwedi elwch' comes from the early Welsh poem Y Gododdin ... the full line is 'a gwedi elwch tawelwch fu' .. 'after rejoicing there was silence'

gwedi elwch Very interesting! I have some Celtic blood too, from Scotland. So your name means After rejoicing? The --fu-- is related linguistically to Latin --Fui, fuiste, fuit-- I went, you went, he/she went. and is related to English --be--, believe it or not. Regards, O man of Harlech !

Alfred Deller countertenor and his consort.

You can buy it on CD on: www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00CRMJN6G/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I agree, I also prefer the performance you mentioned.

love listening to deller.

What is justly это по вашему Будьте счастливы ?

​@@levon3194Да! По звукам звучит именно так!

@@levon3194 У Вас это: " Что справедливо", но по звукам, не в переводе звучит, как Будьте счастливы и эта фраза даже очень ярко выраженная, когда хор поет - все вместе то есть Tutti

En 1757, les troupes de la Compagnie anglaise des Indes orientales prennent le contrôle du Bengale dont ils pillent le trésor. À Amritsar, les troupes britanniques ouvrent le feu sur une foule de manifestants, tuant 379 personnes et en blessant 1 200 autres.

Very true, but Uncle Alf (Alfred Deller) was a modern-day pioneer. Still nobody to touch the young Deller in lute-song. As he got older, his voice became very mannered and less flexible, and I don't rate his son (Mark, his duet partner) as a singer much at all.

+mattbod I think his voice was at its best in earlier years singing Dowland, when he could produce a sound on high notes so pure and sweet that none could match - not even Bowman at his best. The counter-tenor voice, like the lute, is almost impossible to record perfectly. It's also worth noting that the full recording includes 'Sound the Trumpet', where the counter-tenor voices are doing the job of being the trumpets (the trumpeters - two brothers called Shore - were apparently on holiday, which is why the text refers to "the list'ning shores" - I think Bowman told me this.)

Yes.

you have an extremely bad taste

What or whom do you mean by "Royal Leech"?

sorry Mr Deller but you are not on form....