Luigi Merci, or Louis Mercy (London 1695? - London 1750?) was an English musician and composer of French origin now almost forgotten. Around 1720 he was at the service of James Brydges, Earl of of Carnarvon and Duke of Chandos as a musician. In 1730, he married Ann Hampshire and went to live in Covent Garden. He collaborated with the flute maker Thomas Stanesby (1692-1754), and developed a new type of flute-a-beck that was almost disappearing, to be substituted by the transverse flute. Thank you for uploading this!
Muchas gracias por la info! Estaba a punto de buscar quien es este excelente pero desconocido compositor! Verdaderamente hermosa música la que escribió!🤩😍
Thanks for sharing this information. This musician is so great . As I said below , addictive; since I discover him , can’t stop listening his wonderful recorder . Best regards from Chile 🇨🇱
Finally someone who understands music being played on the flute, a good flute player, the best or one of the best. Very good Luigi , you did it perfectly .
@footballcoreano In proclassic and classical era not quite but in 20th centuty yes and did it very good just think if you can but as being an asshole is hard to know...anglo-franco-italian is his ancestry his lineage moron put in in your shitbrain worthless piece of shit!!!
@footballcoreano , have you heard to William Byrd ; Thomas Tallis ; John Dowland ; Henry Purcell ; William Boyce , Jeremiah Clarke ; John Blow ; Matthew Locke; Charles Avison , and the great Händel nationalized english in 1726. They are only a few composers that come to my mind at this moment . Anglo did a lot in music !!! If you are not convinced , ask to The Beatles !!
@@KL-hq5yx did he deserve this much! There is a possibility that he is of Anglo Saxon ancestry, being born in any of the English speaking countries. Another possibility, as a result of this, is that you will be made to eat crow. For clarification, this is an American usage for swallowing one's own words. Otherwise, you will be using those ornamental words against Me! Happy listening pal.
The compositions in this recording are quite beautiful. It's nice to hear someone has recorded Louis's music, especially since there is not much information concerning him and his works that are easily accessible.
Thanks, best music ever! Sounds good n light, beautiful lovely flute sonatas music tune. So refreshing and relaxing, peace n calm the mind n heart. Feeling emotional and stress relief just with this soulful music! Infinite amazing!🎶🎧
flute music really soothes the heart with its 'feather-like' melodies. It seems to me to be often nostalgic and melancholic, hardly provocative. I play the violin and am not a flautist
Let me possibly spark dialogue. Truly, not even Baroque Music Geeks have heard of this musician. Then again, I confidently assert that, in a "blind test," they would not be able to differentiate music of this quality from either a Sammartini, or even, from that of Telemann. We should all be humbled.
Luigi Merci ou Louis Mercy, né vers 1695 en Angleterre et mort à Londres vers 1750, est un musicien et compositeur probablement issu d'une famille franco-anglaise. Luigi Merci est engagé vers 1720 à la chapelle musicale de James Brydges, comte de Carnarvon et duc de Chandos. En 1730, il se marie avec Ann Hampshire et s'installe à Covent Garden. En collaboration avec le facteur de flûtes, Thomas Stanesby (1692-1754), il essaye d'améliorer la flûte à bec, à cette époque en voie de disparition en faveur de la flûte traversière. Trois cahiers de chacun six sonates sont parus chez l'éditeur John Walsh à Londres. 6 Sonates pour flûte et basse continue op.1 (Tactus Records, édité en 2000) 6 Sonates pour flûte et basse continue op.2 6 Sonates pour basson ou violoncelle et basse continue op.3 (1735) (Tactus Records, édité en 1999) fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Merci
is there.. by any chance a way to have the scores to play these pieces. Mr Classical Tune? This is too powerful i need to try Flute Sonata in F Major, Op. 1, No. 6 V. Allegro , it starts at 1:06:14 and the one before it , Flute Sonata in F Major, Op. 1, No. 6 IV. Grave starts at 59:47, also very powerful song, both combined we have like variations of the same IDEA, the same power, the same purpose. - google says he lived from 1694-1750, but i can't even find sheet music to buy it .. nothing online.. nada.
As far as I can listen to, and understand, it is a anthology of wonderful compositions, Merci being really worth to be rediscoverd. However, these pieces of music are performed by a record, not by a "transvers" which would give a more intense charme to the performance. Finally, who is the performer?
The first work on this recording is actually a Recorder sonata by Pepusch and played by that instrument. The title "Luigi Merci - Flute Sonatas" is very misleading! The music here is Recorder repertory and played expertly on that instrument.
you clearly do not understand the history of flutes and its music. a recorder = a flute by definition. if a partiture says "flute" it is ment for flute a bec / flauto dolce or as the english call it recorder. usually when the composer intended it for the transverse flute he would have written down "transverse flute/ flute traversiere etc. However it must be noted that in baroque era these type of sonatas were not actually intended for one specific instrument. it could very well be played on transverse flute, oboe or violin. People in baroque era were not that fussy .... at least not nearly as fussy as you are.
@@Mrs.Karen_WalkerYou miss my point, I have a passion and interest and play the Recorder, I'm referring to the picture and text being misleading. It shows a flute player and says "Flute sonatas" yet all the works we hear are Treble Recorder sonatas written for and played on that instrument. I know very well works of this time were interchangeable for other instruments if the range fits. The alto/treble Recorder was immensely popular and if the solo part doesn't go below F and there aren't' too many sharps or flats in the key signature there is a strong possibility the recorder was probably it's intended instrument. Coming back to my original comment, I suspect quite a few people have been listening to these lovely recordings not realising they're are actually hearing a Treble Recorder, I simply felt I had to point this out, being fussy or not!
Wonderful and interesting; I didn't know him. So he was a Bach, Marcello and Vivaldi contemporary? His music sounds a little more "archaic" to my ears, but with a high part of inventiveness! Thank you for having shared this! P.S. Is the cover image a detail from Van Dyck's or Rubens painting?
In baroque era when a score said "flute" or when someone speaks of a "flute" they ALWAYS ment (alto)recorder. What we call flute today was then refered to as "flute traversierre / traverso / german flute and never just as "flute"
in baroque era when a sonata was ment for a recorder the music score would say: flute sonata. Stop being so dumb. That might be quite some challange for you ........ considering you are a spaniard
I am certainly no musicologist nor a flautist, play piano. So please explain why a flautist playing an instrument of the late 17th or early 18th could not have played it on either side? Thanks
@@rsjmd the hole is cut to blow one way only. the fingers of the left and right hand have different stretches. it ain't done. period. sorry, but this is not a brilliant question.
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Luigi Merci, or Louis Mercy (London 1695? - London 1750?) was an English musician and composer of French origin now almost forgotten. Around 1720 he was at the service of James Brydges, Earl of of Carnarvon and Duke of Chandos as a musician. In 1730, he married Ann Hampshire and went to live in Covent Garden. He collaborated with the flute maker Thomas Stanesby (1692-1754), and developed a new type of flute-a-beck that was almost disappearing, to be substituted by the transverse flute.
Thank you for uploading this!
Muchas gracias por la info! Estaba a punto de buscar quien es este excelente pero desconocido compositor! Verdaderamente hermosa música la que escribió!🤩😍
I never heard of this composer till 12/11/19 at 9:25 a.m. Thank you so much for sharing some of his history. This is such beautiful music.
Thanks for sharing this information. This musician is so great . As I said below , addictive; since I discover him , can’t stop listening his wonderful recorder . Best regards from Chile 🇨🇱
what was the recorder that was disappearing? Was it the recorder in D? I never heard of this composer but really love this playlist.
Спасибо за интересную справку!
Ce matin ciel bleu Azur et Luigi 🎶🎶🎶🌈🌈🌈 je découvre et je vous dis infiniment merci !💓💓💓
Finally someone who understands music being played on the flute, a good flute player, the best or one of the best. Very good Luigi , you did it perfectly .
quite an average recorder player. unstable breath control and the vibrato is annoying.
@@Mrs.Karen_Walker and ofcourse you can lead me to a better performance? (if so, thanks in advance ;-) )👍
This is so beautiful and evocative of peace. I´ve never heard about this composer.
Still a musician unearth, brought out of the shadows. Keep doing your good work! Thank so much.
Che bella scoperta questo musicista che non conoscevo! Grazie per questo splendido canale!!
Adictivo , no puedo dejar de oírlo ; que belleza ese alto recorder ❤️🌺🎼🎧
Восхитительной красоты музыка!♥️👏🙏 Совершенно растворилась в ней.
A really rare bird, mysterious Luigi Merci, anglo-franco-italian composer, Bach's contemporary. Thank you very much for uploading
Un grand MERCI à MERCI ! C'est très- très beau!
@footballcoreano In proclassic and classical era not quite but in 20th centuty yes and did it very good just think if you can but as being an asshole is hard to know...anglo-franco-italian is his ancestry his lineage moron put in in your shitbrain worthless piece of shit!!!
@footballcoreano , have you heard to William Byrd ; Thomas Tallis ; John Dowland ; Henry Purcell ; William Boyce , Jeremiah Clarke ; John Blow ; Matthew Locke; Charles Avison , and the great Händel nationalized english in 1726. They are only a few composers that come to my mind at this moment . Anglo did a lot in music !!! If you are not convinced , ask to The Beatles !!
@@KL-hq5yx did he deserve this much! There is a possibility that he is of Anglo Saxon ancestry, being born in any of the English speaking countries. Another possibility, as a result of this, is that you will be made to eat crow. For clarification, this is an American usage for swallowing one's own words. Otherwise, you will be using those ornamental words against Me! Happy listening pal.
This is too good to be true
Me too ; it´s addictive, more than a week listening everyday . Superb music !!
Yo apenas ahora lo escucho. Me encanta! Pero lo q escucho es una flauta de pico o estoy mal?
RosHiKi Cáceres , estás bien , se trata de un recorder , es un alto recorder . Saludos desde Chile 🇨🇱
My ancestor 🌹🇬🇧🙏
You are not alone, my friend!
The compositions in this recording are quite beautiful. It's nice to hear someone has recorded Louis's music, especially since there is not much information concerning him and his works that are easily accessible.
Bravo monsieur Merci pour votre talent de compositeur, et merci pour ce moment de pur plaisir musical passé en votre compagnie...
Merci monsieur Merci!
Quanta bella musica esiste! Ottima esecuzione.
What a wonderful music! I feel that I am flying on the clouds❤❤❤
Prekrasna muzika , blagodaria !
Thank you so much for this relaxing, beautiful music. Resonates with my soul.
Beautiful music. I love it.
Very good music, congratulations. Regards
Thanks, best music ever! Sounds good n light, beautiful lovely flute sonatas music tune. So refreshing and relaxing, peace n calm the mind n heart. Feeling emotional and stress relief just with this soulful music! Infinite amazing!🎶🎧
It's all recorder music, the title is misleading, it not a Flute!
Es un hallazgo muy afortunado encontrarme esta serie musical tan hermosa. La repito y la repito y agradezco tanta belleza. Muchas gracias! ; )
Fresh, relaxing music... Love your content (and subscribed)!
Magistral! Amazing!
So cute! good weekend 😊🌻🍀🌹🌾🍂🍁🎶🎼🎵🐝🦋🐞🙌💕🤗
Très jolie découverte.... différents airs divins pour une musique céleste :)
Excellent rendering by the artist
Que lindo isso! Já está nos meus favoritos!
O Período Barroco é fantástico.
bella musica, muchas gracias,
Dolorosamente hermosa, despierta sentimientos y recuerdos dormidos
고맙습니다. It comforts me.
I am completely relaxed ,It is so beautiful.
flute music really soothes the heart with its 'feather-like' melodies. It seems to me to be often nostalgic and melancholic, hardly provocative. I play the violin and am not a flautist
Tanta música por descubrir!
makes the world beautiful
Simply mesmerizing!
PRACHTVOLL !!! Tepper Michael.
Maravillosamente excelente
Прекрасная музыка!Открыла мне дверь в новый день!
Let me possibly spark dialogue. Truly, not even Baroque Music Geeks have heard of this musician. Then again, I confidently assert that, in a "blind test," they would not be able to differentiate music of this quality from either a Sammartini, or even, from that of Telemann. We should all be humbled.
Luigi Merci ou Louis Mercy, né vers 1695 en Angleterre et mort à Londres vers 1750, est un musicien et compositeur probablement issu d'une famille franco-anglaise.
Luigi Merci est engagé vers 1720 à la chapelle musicale de James Brydges, comte de Carnarvon et duc de Chandos. En 1730, il se marie avec Ann Hampshire et s'installe à Covent Garden. En collaboration avec le facteur de flûtes, Thomas Stanesby (1692-1754), il essaye d'améliorer la flûte à bec, à cette époque en voie de disparition en faveur de la flûte traversière.
Trois cahiers de chacun six sonates sont parus chez l'éditeur John Walsh à Londres.
6 Sonates pour flûte et basse continue op.1 (Tactus Records, édité en 2000)
6 Sonates pour flûte et basse continue op.2
6 Sonates pour basson ou violoncelle et basse continue op.3 (1735) (Tactus Records, édité en 1999)
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Merci
maravilhoso , queria tocar assim!!
Lovely Music !!!
Tout à fait exquis!
Quanta delicadeza 😍
Exellent work. I like it.
Beautiful music
My 5x great grandfather!
Again, thank you! 🌷
Wunderschön, daaanke!☀️
Wunderschöner klang, spielt hier eine Traversflöte aus Holz?
Beautiful!!!
Just beautiful
wundervolle Musik
is there.. by any chance a way to have the scores to play these pieces. Mr Classical Tune? This is too powerful i need to try Flute Sonata in F Major, Op. 1, No. 6 V. Allegro , it starts at 1:06:14
and the one before it , Flute Sonata in F Major, Op. 1, No. 6 IV. Grave starts at 59:47, also very powerful song, both combined we have like variations of the same IDEA, the same power, the same purpose.
- google says he lived from 1694-1750, but i can't even find sheet music to buy it .. nothing online.. nada.
As far as I can listen to, and understand, it is a anthology of wonderful compositions, Merci being really worth to be rediscoverd. However, these pieces of music are performed by a record, not by a "transvers" which would give a more intense charme to the performance. Finally, who is the performer?
Look under SHOW MORE above, for the performers, but not the soloist who is obviously amongst them. Cheers. All new to me.
Sergio Balestracci , brillante en la flauta recta ó alto recorder ; Roberto Loreggian , clavicémbalo ; Paolo Tognon , fagot . Saludos desde Chile ! 🌺
Beautiful💞
美丽无比的音乐，谢谢你！
The first work on this recording is actually a Recorder sonata by Pepusch and played by that instrument. The title "Luigi Merci - Flute Sonatas" is very misleading! The music here is Recorder repertory and played expertly on that instrument.
you clearly do not understand the history of flutes and its music. a recorder = a flute by definition. if a partiture says "flute" it is ment for flute a bec / flauto dolce or as the english call it recorder. usually when the composer intended it for the transverse flute he would have written down "transverse flute/ flute traversiere etc. However it must be noted that in baroque era these type of sonatas were not actually intended for one specific instrument. it could very well be played on transverse flute, oboe or violin. People in baroque era were not that fussy .... at least not nearly as fussy as you are.
@@Mrs.Karen_WalkerYou miss my point, I have a passion and interest and play the Recorder, I'm referring to the picture and text being misleading. It shows a flute player and says "Flute sonatas" yet all the works we hear are Treble Recorder sonatas written for and played on that instrument. I know very well works of this time were interchangeable for other instruments if the range fits. The alto/treble Recorder was immensely popular and if the solo part doesn't go below F and there aren't' too many sharps or flats in the key signature there is a strong possibility the recorder was probably it's intended instrument. Coming back to my original comment, I suspect quite a few people have been listening to these lovely recordings not realising they're are actually hearing a Treble Recorder, I simply felt I had to point this out, being fussy or not!
BEAUTIFUL!!..BEAUTIFUL!!😝..THANKS
Thank you!
My 7th great grandfather!
Veramente spectacolare
Magnifique!!
What a find.
Truly gorgeous; huge thanks. Would love to know something about the artist(s); I have never heard a recorder played with such deep and broad mastery.
I just stumbled into love!
Gosto muito
DUCTILIDAD EN SONIDOS Y SONATAS...
muito bom
Супер
Wonderful and interesting; I didn't know him. So he was a Bach, Marcello and Vivaldi contemporary? His music sounds a little more "archaic" to my ears, but with a high part of inventiveness! Thank you for having shared this! P.S. Is the cover image a detail from Van Dyck's or Rubens painting?
Sou um leigo quanto aos músicos ,Mais sou loucamente apaixonado por musicas clássicas e instrumentais .e adorei este álbum.😍😍
Amazing
Flute sonatas but.... it is a recorder! By the way, wonderful compilation
Flute a bec
In baroque era when a score said "flute" or when someone speaks of a "flute" they ALWAYS ment (alto)recorder.
What we call flute today was then refered to as "flute traversierre / traverso / german flute and never just as "flute"
@@Mrs.Karen_Walker I think the picture has confused people, should have been a recorder player illustrated!
@@mrbigarms no .thats not it. Most people are simply just as dumb as a rock.
Bravo
Exquisito!!!
Isso é pra quem entende e tem gosto refinado e Requintado. Vai dançar funk na tua favela. Estais no lugar errado...
Toll
Timestamps would have been nice....
❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥🤟🤟🤟💯💯💯👍👍👍👍
Piękne melodie
💜💙🧡💚💛
Que tipo de flauta es?
Es una flauta de pico alto. Esta mal rotulado, debería poner "Recorder Sonatas".
@@miguelangeltirado1982 gracias t
Ya me sonaba a mi a flauta de pico,muy bien tocada,por cierto.
Piccolo.... Dulce
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PORRA, TH-cam, PELO MENOS DEIXA ACABAR A CARALHA DA primeira música pra meter a porra de um aníncio, caralho!
What kind of flute are these?
Altrecorder,no matter the foto.
Is that Keanu Reeves on preview?
se parece muchisimo, pero la musica de los dioses mas que maravillosa celestial que transporta.
Действительно, похож :-)))))))))))))))))))))))
@@Hary197629
Hoots Mon and och aye the noo ye ken....
Yes, but it's not a flute. It's an alto recorder.
Didn't know Keanu Reeves is a flute player too!
唐诗宋词里笛声的美都属于文学，因为没有乐谱，也不识谱，根本吹不出这样好听的音乐，
Bienvenido al portapapeles de Gboard; todo texto que copies se guardará aquí.isac robles
Nice music but horrible echo recording.
Maybe it was recorded in a church or salon, in order to reproduce the epoch's sonority. This is quite frequent in historical interpretations.
Damn your ads!!
The many talents of Keanu Reeves
KEANU... GREAT person
Maith Thu
Im a Recorder player.... and thats not a flute sound jejejejeje RECORDERGANG FOREVER
a recorder = a flute by definition you dumb idiott
in baroque era when a sonata was ment for a recorder the music score would say: flute sonata.
Stop being so dumb. That might be quite some challange for you ........ considering you are a spaniard
Keano reevs
Zapatero emplaitador pespunte italiano.advisor insurance.ing.flute Quena,native americana y koku.
What was on that painter's mind? Was he dyslexic? Nice music though, and nicely played.
What do you mean by use of "dyslexia" in reference to a painting?
@@rsjmd he's blowing the flute out of the wrong side of his mouth.
I am certainly no musicologist nor a flautist, play piano. So please explain why a flautist playing an instrument of the late 17th or early 18th could not have played it on either side? Thanks
@@rsjmd the hole is cut to blow one way only. the fingers of the left and right hand have different stretches. it ain't done. period. sorry, but this is not a brilliant question.
It was a question, questions exist to get unknown information.
What is not brilliant at all is your use of the word "dyslexic".
neo ing.teol.quena y fluye native americana
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