Handel: Messiah | He shall feed his flock | Academy of Ancient Music & VOCES8

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  • @paulhall170
    @paulhall170 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

    This 'stitching together' of "And He shall feed his flock" with Matthew 11 is exquisite, and the centrepiece of the libretto; truly inspired, only someone who knew the experience of being fed and having their burden lifted, by Jesus could have written this...

    • @felixfourcolor
      @felixfourcolor 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I agree. It's as if the two verses were born together.

    • @felixfourcolor
      @felixfourcolor 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Btw for those who don't know, it's Isaiah 40:11 and Matthew 11:28-29.

    • @lorrainehooks9847
      @lorrainehooks9847 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Isaiah 40:11- He shall feed His flock like a shepherd: He shall gather the lambs with His arm, and carry them in His bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. Matt. 11:28-29- Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I AM meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

  • @drewmog123456
    @drewmog123456 2 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    I think the moment the soprano takes over is the most beautiful moment of Messiah.

  • @garymcmanus7288
    @garymcmanus7288 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Thank you ladies (and orchestra). Ladies, you use your faces to give a faithful expression to the words you are singing. I have rarely seen this in technically excellent performances. It is wonderful--too wonderful for words.

  • @melissaraven3164
    @melissaraven3164 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Two beautiful (and wonderfully different) voices, plus the AAM instrumentalists - a superb combination

  • @MichaelCWBell
    @MichaelCWBell ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Gosh these are lovely voices and a beautiful approach. Still one of those that brings tears.

  • @fredericolourenco1972
    @fredericolourenco1972 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Katie and Eleonore are absolutely perfect.

  • @petragris1947
    @petragris1947 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I am in tears. Such impossible beauty!
    My soul can rest in it.

  • @nakdag1617
    @nakdag1617 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    This is a miracle

  • @bettyachieng726
    @bettyachieng726 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    He shall feed his flock like
    A shepherd
    And He shall gather
    The lambs with his arm
    With his arm
    He shall feed his flock like
    A shepherd
    And He shall gather
    The lambs with his arm
    With his arm
    And carry them in his bosom
    And gently lead those
    That are with young
    And gently lead those
    And gently lead those
    That are with young
    Come unto Him
    All ye that labour
    Come unto Him, ye
    That are heavy laden
    And He will give you rest
    Come unto Him
    All ye that labour
    Come unto Him, ye
    That are heavy laden
    And He will give you rest
    Take his yoke upon you
    And learn of Him
    For He is meek
    And lowly of heart
    And ye shall find rest
    And ye shall find rest
    Unto your souls
    Take his yoke upon you
    And learn of Him
    For He is meek
    And lowly of heart
    And ye shall find rest
    And ye shall find rest
    Unto your souls

  • @MrAlex84006
    @MrAlex84006 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    2 GODDESSES OF VOICE AND BEAUTY!!!!

  • @lisachangty-seng1052
    @lisachangty-seng1052 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Le Jour Du Seigneur brought me here to listen to
    This merveille Amen 🙏 😊

  • @waynelawrence6972
    @waynelawrence6972 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Breathtaking, two amazing voices... two gorgeous ladies.

  • @raymondyee1687
    @raymondyee1687 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Beautiful performance with the right amount of vibrato.

  • @melissaraven3164
    @melissaraven3164 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Handel clearly loved female voices, and he wrote some very sensual music for them, particularly sopranos. This is a really good example.
    I love the whole performance; but it's great having this duet as an extra go-to video (plus various other excerpts)

  • @valtergilenardi2639
    @valtergilenardi2639 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Handel Music is Divine ❤😊

  • @micheldolagoamaro8306
    @micheldolagoamaro8306 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The voice of angel’s! Just amazing!

  • @pdunderhill
    @pdunderhill ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Wow, KJH has an astonishing voice very impressive.

  • @carlgeenen1654
    @carlgeenen1654 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Love me some Katie and Elle. What lovely voices!! And Barnaby is so multi-talented. AAM definitely has it together. Great performance of a great work. Bravo!!

  • @tonupkid8524
    @tonupkid8524 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Two absolutely exquisite singing voices.

    • @missasinenomine
      @missasinenomine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes. But with too much ornamentation for my liking. (I'm old & boring).

  • @peterwu8471
    @peterwu8471 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wonderful!

  • @cjosephs3099
    @cjosephs3099 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Well coordinated and balanced piece. Nothing was missing. Great conducting

  • @kodebruijn4753
    @kodebruijn4753 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Katie, wonderful! the soprano was also great of cause, but we old men feel protective and loving.

  • @helinajokinen5514
    @helinajokinen5514 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Lovely voices!

  • @makscho1
    @makscho1 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Oh my goodness…perfectly executed. I would love to see this live.

  • @Peachkou_477
    @Peachkou_477 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Handel and bach is amazing indeed my favourites

  • @stevenlester2606
    @stevenlester2606 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    This is an amazing construction by Handel. Notice how in the midst of all the peace and invitation there is maintained an undercurrent of tension from the tempo. All the while you want it to go faster, but it never does because it can't. That would destroy the peaceful message and tone of the piece. I wonder if Handel meant for this to happen, given that he wrote and adapted earlier compositions so quickly into this masterpiece.

    • @davidstetsonlangdon2419
      @davidstetsonlangdon2419 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi, Mr. Lester, I think? (feel) it's prima facie, he (Handel) wouldn't have "got it right" at all, if it weren't part of the "authorial intent". (That blows me away; most of my life, I've figured the baroque genius (geniuses) were so part of their "monarchized" cultures that - they didn't have - the (over) individualized (romantic) - degraded to selfish schmaltz - that we've devolved into; but, the other Handel piece that "knocked at my door" (when I was 20) is "Sampson & Delilah" (Draw the Tear from Hopeless love) - "ohhh yeah" - but, now that I'm old - and the internal "fire-works-display" that our emotions - manufacture - for all of us (for important reasons - beyond our capacity to grasp at the time) - when that goes away - with age and discretion - the purpose of the "ostinato" (which there's a whole lotta that in Baroque music - right? - well, it's just the "deeper Reason" - which emerges - when the shallow stuff (the "fireworks display" etc.) that drives our best efforts at the mean or the mid-range of the bell curve of our lives (demographically speaking) - we don't get the drum, we don't get the bass lines - until we can't really hear the jingle jangle (Mr. Tambourine Man) plays for us - in the largest (and emptiest parts of our existences) - which most of us never even get past. What do I know. Anyway, I'm saying, I'm pretty sure GF Handel knew exactly what he was pulling off? (But that never occurred to me until listening to it today many, many years later). Cheers. It's a good question...I like music, but I'm just a listener. How'd he do it? - It more "happened" - in him. dave

    • @missasinenomine
      @missasinenomine 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I don't want it to go faster. So I don't feel any tension from the tempo.

  • @keats27
    @keats27 ปีที่แล้ว

    Wish there was a playlist of just the soloists from this Messiah. I'd post them all Christmas season long.

  • @sdeal709
    @sdeal709 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Beautiful

  • @longzhiren4688
    @longzhiren4688 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    0:54 - 1:05. Musicians should study this and see what breathing is required to sing. It is an angle and view that you don't get to see often. Serious bellows action, besides the diaphragmatic. And the shoulders are still. Get thee to your swimming and develop the breathing capacity.

  • @CathyCampbell-r4r
    @CathyCampbell-r4r ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Sheer beauty.

  • @franciscoroca5505
    @franciscoroca5505 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hermoso ❤

  • @mwnyc3976
    @mwnyc3976 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    See? I always knew the VOCES8 singers could do a great job with baroque sacred arias!
    Now, Barney and co., let's hear you do more Bach!
    And I don't mean with an added choir -- just the eight of you will be very satisfactory!

  • @jamiesonspencer3841
    @jamiesonspencer3841 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Beethoven admired the "effects" Handel could achieve with "simple means." This melody is a fine example: six descending notes.

  • @AbasiobokNkanta-o7l
    @AbasiobokNkanta-o7l 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I need the lirics of this presentation

  • @jameerlawrencebondoc8162
    @jameerlawrencebondoc8162 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Everyone: "C'mon, it's just a piece of music"
    Detective Conan fans: *intense sweating*

  • @huubwijts9286
    @huubwijts9286 8 วันที่ผ่านมา

    what is the soprano singing?

  • @antoninopirrone2541
    @antoninopirrone2541 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    👏👏👏💐🌺❤️💕💕

  • @yurykondratyev1596
    @yurykondratyev1596 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

  • @user-br2qv2hs5n
    @user-br2qv2hs5n ปีที่แล้ว

    ❤❤❤

  • @khetsimokoena6592
    @khetsimokoena6592 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

  • @michaelmiller1215
    @michaelmiller1215 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    TERIFFIC mezzo

  • @mounteverest2778
    @mounteverest2778 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2:17

  • @GoshGus
    @GoshGus 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I miss the recitative!

  • @senicanastasia
    @senicanastasia ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I hope that sopranos voice is the last thing I hear when I die

  • @AndrewLumsden
    @AndrewLumsden 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Excessive and unnecessary appoggiaturas by Katie totally wrecks he simplicity of the duet. Who's damn fool idea was it to add these? Eleonore is flawless as ever. They should have stayed in position at the front until the end of the play-out of the aria.

    • @NadineFrench-i2g
      @NadineFrench-i2g ปีที่แล้ว +1

      If you don't like it it's better to not say anything at all. I think her singing is special. If you don't havae something nice to say don't say anything at all.

    • @ericemmons3040
      @ericemmons3040 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I noticed the slight embellishment, but it doesn't seem excessive or out of place to me. . .

  • @jenniferjoyner112
    @jenniferjoyner112 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Why are the lady Singers ( soloists mostly, seen as centre of attention and attraction too!) dressing like that singing such songs that espouse modesty...." and learn from me'.... does not go together...

    • @comtaar2245
      @comtaar2245 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There is a ‘Nopce champêtre’ performed in a church to be found on TH-cam too. Another one of these hugely confusing choices.

    • @matthewwhitehouse301
      @matthewwhitehouse301 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I don’t think I’ve read such a silly comment in all my life. What exactly is lacking in modesty about the way they’re dressed? Take you and your outdated views back a few centuries and I think you’ll fit in fairly well there

    • @matthewwhitehouse301
      @matthewwhitehouse301 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It’s also probably appropriate to remind you that Handel himself was known to have been quite fond of attending Bath houses in 18th century London. So if the way these women dress bothers you, you’ll have a hard time digesting the fact that this divine music was written by a supposedly bisexual man

    • @comtaar2245
      @comtaar2245 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I’m so glad you mentioned these confusing choices in music. It’s nice when people can keep their story straight. Music is about the audience.

    • @mavisemberson8737
      @mavisemberson8737 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Probably they have only one black dress for oratorios.