John Dowland | Now, O Now | Lute Song by Les Canards Chantants
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- Les Canards Chantants are trailed (or guided?) by a mysterious lutenist during a day out on a vintage steam train.
'Now, O Now I Needs Must Part' from The First Book Of Songs Or Ayres, 1597 by John Dowland.
Les Canards Chantants are:
Sarah Holland - Soprano
Robin Bier - Alto
Edd Ingham - Tenor
Graham Bier - Bass
Special guest appearance by Jacob Heringman on Lute
Filmed on location at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway
George Reece - Director
George O'Regan - Director Of Photography
Jon Hughes - Sound Engineer
See if you can spot the station used as 'Hogsmeade' in the Harry Potter movies! All aboard the Hogwarts Express!
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Some things are just so exquisitely beautiful they bring tears. This is one.
That makes two of us.
Absolutely.
Want to try another one? Not Dowland, but incredibly beautiful. I think I've listened to it twenty or thirty times, and it gets me every time:
th-cam.com/video/IwdeqVmXlHk/w-d-xo.html
The final chord sounds for all the world like a pipe organ.
O yes
Oh, grow a pair.
Imagine the house parties when this was released. Just hearing choruses of people singing such music, with friends and family accompanying on instrumentation. Fantastic.
After milling through hard rock with heavy metal. I have found treasure. And tears bring out heavenly illuminance.....!!!
This puts to shame the garbage that passes for music these days. This is heavenly!
You don´t have to criticize other music or musicians in order to appreciate this one.
Agreed. At least there are some of us who still appreciate class.
how right you are when you say that and I bet what's happening now in this country would not have been allowed to happen in this country back in the days when this piece of music was composed !!!
Nobody's impressed, grow up
This brought back memories for me of a lovely English summer day spent with my niece as she showed us around Goathland. As Australians it brought the country where they filmed "Heartbeat" to life for us.
Sadly, we didn't have Les Canards Chantants to sing John Dowland for us.
Pure Magic...Glory to Thee All...thank you Father of Creation Master Dowland
0:41 He must have arrived at the train station 2 hours early, if he tought he had time to tune before embarking.
what a delight to hear Dowlands masterpiece sung with such perfection
sung and played!
Dowland was the pop-star of his day.
Now, o now, I needs must part
Parting though I absent mourn
Absence can no joy impart
Joy once fled cannot return
While I live I needs must love
Love lives not when hope is gone
Now at last despair doth prove
Love divided loveth none
Sad despair doth drive me hence
This despair unkindness sends
If that parting be offence
It is she which then offends
Dear, when I from thee am gone
Gone are all my joys at once
I loved thee and thee alone
In whose love I joyed once
And although your sight I leave
Sight wherein my joys do lie
Till that death do sense bereave
Never shall affection die
Sad despair doth drive me hence
This despair unkindness sends
If that parting be offence
It is she which then offends
Dear, if I do not return
Love and I shall die together
For my absence never mourn
Whom you might have joyed ever
Part we must though now I die
Die I do to part with you
Him Despair doth cause to lie
Who both lived and dieth true
Sad despair doth drive me hence
This despair unkindness sends
If that parting be offence
It is she which then offends
Thank you
The lutenist complements this beautiful quartet of voices so well. BRILLIANT!!!!!!
Absolutely beautiful music 👍👍
Master musicians.
1597 still relevant to today
J’ecoute pendant des heures.Une beaute inexprimable 🙏🙏🙏
It's wonderful to see and hear my favourite Dowland song being performed so beautifully and combined with gorgeous impressions of a nostalgic train and picturesque landscape.
So much beauty. Are not love and music the ultimate truth about human life?
I am going to put your question in a frame on my wall :)
So much beauty. Are not love and music thé ultmate truth of our everyday Life ?
This has become one of my most favorite TH-cam videos. Culture, class, excellence.
Je ne compte plus le nombre de fois où j'ai dû écouter cette pièce et visionner cette vidéo. C'est d'une beauté tellement exquise!❤
Das ist wunderbar, herzlichen Dank fürs Hochladen!!!
What an angelic performance! Loved the setting onboard a vintage train. ❤
What a beautiful rendition of this piece! My husband, brother in law and sister in law and I all love singing this together.
The musical performance is incredible, the creativity is pairing it with the vintage railway. Absolute stunning visually, and totally unexpected.
Thank you, Frances! We're still not entirely sure why it worked, but it did...
This is truly wonderful. Showing the singing parts in quarto format in the early part of the video demonstrates how this music was something that could be done at home, or in a tavern, among friends. And the singing and playing is so lovely.
MAY GOD PRESERVE THIS WONDERFUL PART OF ENGLISH CULTURE AND SPIRIT!!! ✌🏽
It’s like traveling through the UK and being immersed in its history for those of us who cannot travel at the moment.
Wise words.
We share the same thoughts and impressions looking through the window on a wonderful landscape accompanied by heavenly music.
I wish my morning train ride into the city was like this.
Steam trains, Yorkshire, Hogwarts, Lute, Renaissance, Vocals. All these are my favorites.
I can’t even tell you how many times I have listened to this! Love love love ❤️ it and MerryChristmas to all!
I came on this by chance. Timeless joy.
La plus belle interprétation de Now, O Now que je connaisse!
I have ridden the NYMR 2 or 3 times and see parts of it most weekends as I drive through the area My daughters have played The Frog Galliard within an ensemble with which they play. Having heard this sublime rendition of a familiar piece against a familiar setting, I shall view all so differently henceforth. So beautiful.
Absolutely exquisite, starting with the song itself, a Dowland masterpiece, the lyrics of which are haunting and moving and so true. Les Canards Chantants have beautiful voices and the harmony is just perfect. Congratulations to the Laudist, beautifully interpreted. The montage by train through North Yorkshire is perfect as a drop back to this song. Altogether a marvellous production and thank you so much for sharing this.
Agreed! Their voices are in perfect harmony. The Lutenist is wonderful too!
It was very nice and calming until they started singing. I turned it off then
Quite so! This is a perfect-rendition that ranks with the highest Dowland lute-songs... the voices and the Lute are incredibly sweet and memorable!
Sabía k tenía esta pieza y k era de Dowland, cuando la oí en un concierto reciente, y no pude contener las lágrimas cuando empecé a oírla... Pero no la localizaba entre mis discos... Hasta k hoy la localicé y mi alegría no tuvo límites. Es una pieza k te llega muy, muy hondo...y te reconcilia con TODO
@@WarthDader74
So you mean DUCKS 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆 🦆 aren't able to SING ! What a pity !.....
No tengo palabras ante tanta hermosura…tanta belleza…y el llanto sereno fluye desde mi Corazón…🙏🏼♥️
Je peux ecouter pendant des heures.Une beaute inexprimable 🙏🙏🙏
Oh, my heart melts. Dowland, the king of musical kings!
John Dowland, my heart's delight! How you suffered for your beautiful art! You have enriched all of humanity to this age. My soul melts with the beauty of your art! My soul cries out in recognition.
I just discovered this, it prompted real tears--of joy, of sadness (Dowland, remember!)--as former lute-player (I'm now too old, 78!) & I recognize the book of music that is being used. It is GREAT, & very satisfying. Blessings on you all!
One of the most beautiful pieces I have ever heard. Mr Dowland was an exceptional composer, and he was at the height of his powers when he wrote this; and the performance is exquisite.
I am so glad this music continues to live on. Your voices are pitch perfect and just beautiful together - Bravo!
The very best interpretation I ever heard...a direct access to the heart balm for the soul, wonderful pictures, sympathic singers....absolutely perfect!!!
Thanks a lot!!
+Hannes Heinz Thank you so much! We love this music and it is a joy to share it with you.
You just made me cry. Too beautiful.
I wish this wasn't 9 years ago. I love this so much. I wish it were now and always.
Playing music on a train is an old dream I realised only once. A short rehearsal before a concert with a new singer ...
This is wonderful because it takes me right back (imaginatively) to all the long ages before recorded sound, all the countless happy moments when a group of talented friends or family would get together and bring sweet music into the home.
Dowland is such a joy to sing - always thought that he's underestimated. When he's performed as well as this, it just brings a smile to your face. He also published the tune on its own as the Frog Galliard.
Awesome! I love lutes and railways (especially NYMR!) and Yorkshire and angelic voices! This has it all. I can die happy now!
Very, very nice! Great video!
+molealto Thanks!
So wonderful to see young Graham Bier performing! What a beautiful film. And the music is heavenly. Thank you!
C'est ça le bonheur les canards! Merci beaucoup pour ces instants de légèreté!
+Mathieu Lamaure Merci beaucoup!
One of the best performances of Now o Now, I’ve ever heard
Can't stop listening to this! ☺️😍
Oh, I've seen this several times before, yet it still brings me to tears! It is exquisite, it goes directly to my soul, what magnificence!
I had never heard of John Dowland until I met my good freind MN from Durham University. He is dead now but this music reminds me of him. I imagine it was the music of John Dowland which is playing in the opening scene of Twelfth Night-.
Splendeur inestimable. John Dowland est eternel avec votre interpretation d'une profondeur rare. Merci et bravo à vous.
I found this a short while back. As another commenter pointed out - the four part harmony in the book is the original format for singing round a table from an early edition. The diction and harmony are beautiful and I then chased down more from the lutenist. Very glad indeed to have found this - please record some more for TH-cam if able to.
Brilliant, everthing I like, the singing, lute playing , steam trains. carriages with corridors, and the North York moors.
+Stephen Baguley Thanks, so do we and it was such fun bringing them together.
Stunning pairing of this interpretation with video beauty -- watching again 8 years later, and enchanted still. May all these young musicians and videographers be thriving in spring 2022!
A very important characteristic of a masterpiece of every art is its integrity. It means, no part should "clash". This short film is a masterpiece for all its parts to the least detail (the train, the bench, the check-in counter) are in harmony with the music and with each other.
В любом произведении искусства очень важна цельность, ни одна его составная не должна выбиваться из общей картины. Этот короткий фильм - шедевр, потому что все его части вплоть до мелких деталей (билетная касса, скамейка, поезд) гармонируют и с музыкой, и друг с другом.
Die wichtige Eigenschaft eines richtigen Kunstwerks ist seine "Ganzheit". Das bedeutet, dass kein Teil aus dem Ganzen ausfallen darf. Dieser Kurzfilm ist ein Meisterwererk, weil alle seine Bestandteile bis hin zu den kleinen Details (Kasse, Bank, Zug) miteinander und mit der Musik harmonieren.
Une qualité extremement importante d'un œuvre d'art est son "Intégrité", c'est à dire que chacune partie intégrale ne doive pas sortir de l'ensemble. Ce film est un chef d'œuvre parce que toutes ces parties jusqu'aux plus petits détails (guichet, train, banquette) sont en harmonie l'une avec l'autre et avec la musique.
Absoutamente de acuerdo con su comentario.
Este vídeo es, por todos sus elementos, visual, musical, de enorme belleza.
Un saludo @alexbaskakov4669
What an exquisite tenor voice. 🤩
This music is so comforting and beautiful. It puts me into a bery meditative place.
Absolutely beautiful and evocative of wonderful and lonely places that are found only in England. Congratulations to all singers, musicians and photographer.
Gracias!!! Fue una estupenda ejecución de una obra más difícil de cantar de lo que pareciera.
What a delightful find! I can't wait to use this with my elementary music students!
Listening again and again, love Dowland
Thanks, so do we!
Que preciosidad: laúd, voces e imágenes. Para ver una y otra vez, en especial cuando te sientes con nostalgia y agradecido a la vida.
So well done on all fronts! One for the ages!
I was in a small madrigal choir when I was younger. This was one of the pieces we did, and I loved it. Dowland was a genius, and this performance does the work justice. Wonderful.
heavenly music...
We die into a little immortality for hearing these marvellous young singers.
What an interesting contemporary setting for this poignant Renaissance classic! And very sweetly sung with excellent harmony.
+captebbtide Thank you so much! We really enjoyed playing with the idea, anachronistic as it might be.
Beautiful song!
I love Dowland.
Lovely looking back on this - miss you guys xx
A breath of fresh air for the spirit... There is nothing like a lute and a Dowland madrigal to awaken us from the doldrums of modern living! ...Ahhh, sublime!
Beautifully performed in a highly imaginative setting.
Keep coming back to this video when I need something beautiful. Thanks for creating it.
Amazing beautiful music. Beautiful voices. I am happy yet. Thanks so much. From Russia with love ❤❤❤
Precious, thank you, dear Sarah, Robin, Edd & Graham - you are treasures.
I'm providing the complete text as sung by our lovely Carnards Charmant(e)s.
(There was one missing stanza {#4 herein} from the text that Jogroe so kindly provided earlier - these four verses are missing from all the versions one finds on the Web.
Also there were a couple of minor lapses in stanzas 5 & 6 of that version.)
Here is the full text as sung by Les Canards:
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Now, O now, I needs must part
Parting though I absent mourn
Absence can no joy impart:
Joy once fled cannot return.
While I live I needs must love
Love lives not when Hope is gone
Now at last Despair doth prove
Love divided loveth none.
Sad despair doth drive me hence
This despair unkindness sends
If that parting be offence
It is she which then offends.
Once the world moved not so fast,
Yet the journey sweeter seemed.
Now I see you rushing past,
No more time to stay and dream.
Dear, when I am from thee am gone
Gone are all my joys at once
I loved thee and thee alone
In whose love I joyèd once...
And although your sight I leave
Sight wherein my joys do lie
Till that death doth sense bereave
Never shall affection die.
Dear, if I do not return
Love and I shall die together
For my absence never mourn
Whom you might have joyèd ever:
Part we must though now I die
Die I do to part with you
Him Despair doth cause to lie
Who both liv'd and dieth true.
You might enjoy my French version as well:
th-cam.com/video/z5nsWu3lR08/w-d-xo.html
The French lyrics are not intended to be simply a direct translation, as the modifications of the original English lyrics purposefully alter the meaning of the song. It is no longer a simple love song having the original meaning imparted to it by John Dowland; it now has 3 levels of meaning:
1) There is an interpersonal level, where the singer is addressing not a single person, as in Dowland’s original song, but rather all of her loved ones.
2) There is also an “intrapersonal” level: the singer and those addressed by her may alternate from among her “past selves” as described in part of Diotima’s speech to Socrates in Plato’s Symposium.
3) Another meaning in the song is an extrapolation from an individual to a culture. The singer may represent not a person but the voice of an “expiring” culture, addressing its adherents as they transition away from it in favor of a new social order and belief system (for example, a “voice” of Paganism or of Tengriism as its respective period of predominance fades away and is replaced by a new paradigm).
are 'the missing' verses Dowland's own? Srange that all (or at least all that i've seen and heard) other versions on internet don't include these!
i think i saw this video at least 20 times. One of the best interpretations of this great tune by one of my favourite composers... what not to love?
beautiful. Dowland is timeless, and this version is pure and good.
Bellissima e struggente interpretazione...
Arriva dritta al cuore...
Bravissimi!!!
The video and the music together are absolutely magical. I can't find another video on TH-cam that gives me such tender feelings and bittersweet memories. Feeling very homesick for England but in a way I can't get enough of.
Dear @threetails, thank you so much for your kind words! We're so glad you got some joy from this project. We miss England too...
Never heard any of John Dowland's works until I heard this. Now I shall never forget.
He's got some great stuff, glad you like it!
Thank you for the beautiful journey❤
This is one of my favorite videos on the internet
+Tiffany Schaefer Thank you! Ours too, but we're biased...
Yes, isn't it lovely? ...mais pourquoi...... les canards? ....;)
Me too... Hypnotic.
Pour moi aussi
my next holidays.. a charming old train, your voices, this sweet English country in spring, yes in spring.Thanks a lot, I just had a dream, when autumn begins, I'll keep my dream during winter time
Lovely sounds and scenes
Excellent music from Renaissance England!! Well performed by all!
I really like this, I always thought this was one of Dowland's great songs - this performance reinforces that view. Very refreshing.
+T S Martin Thank you!
A great Dowland piece and a great video adaptation. Thanks very much!
What a perfect mixing of a lovely aire of Dowland with the scenery of North Yorkshire and the train !
Dowland's song is so blissfully wistful and your performance is the best I've heard before. It did bring tears
May you be eminently successful!
Thank you, Brian!
Enchanting and utterly beautiful.
Such a beautiful version of my favorite Dowland madrigal.
+elainelouve We certainly have a soft spot for this one...
Superb in every way, singers are so lovely in voice and appearance. The lutenist is an inspiration. How wonderful that Dowland lives on!
Just lovely.
Thank you!
Some people think I'm strange... I like early music and steam engines?...does not compute. Next time I see a psychiatrist I can say that I'm not alone! Thanks for this video, it's really lovely. When I moved to Brittany I was astonished to see young people playing traditional breton dance numbers on electric guitar , accordeon and biniou, and 84 year olds dancing, along with teenagers. I thought that this spirit had died in britain. You give me heart. Keep up the good work! It's very important! Beautiful music is both young and old.
Ray Kent Thank you, Ray! We couldn't agree more.
Et moi aussi. Gimme some romance!!! Brittany here I come!
Renaissance music and steam trains - what's not to like?!
You're just a steampunk :)
One thing I love about this wonderful video is that I know someplace that looks like all this -the landscape, the buildings, even the sheep. A stone's throw from Philadelphia in the US.
Where are you thinking of? We're based in Philadelphia now!
Andrew Wyeth country - towns and countryside in the Chadds Ford area. The Brandywine River museum in Chadds Ford has lots of Wyeth art, of course. That's the real Brandywine - no hobbits.
How soothing!
Love everything about your video, beautiful music and perfectly blended voices, the mysterious lutenist, the train, the landscape, many, many thanks for your heartfelt art!
Gorgeous presentation ! 🌷
Great harmonies, clear diction, lovely lute, rustic scenes. Everyone involved did a great job on the video. Turned TH-cam into a time machine. A+++ production
Wonderful and touching performance!! Plus very nice, very ENGLISH video! Luv’d it!
So lovely and uplifting. Please do more!