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*
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.
@@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*
@@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. : )
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
Perfect - just listening to this again. I chose to walk down the aisle to this at our wedding to this in 1983, much to the organist's amusement. My lovely husband has just passed away but this music is honey to the soul.
I'm so sorry to hear about your husbands passing. My mum used to love classical music and took me to the Proms when I was 12 in 1987. I was so moved by this piece I was in tears and didn't want to leave the the Albert Hall. Music is so special isn't it and truely speaks to our souls. Sending you ❤🎶
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.💖
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!
I used to listen to this music as a historic restorationist repairing 100 year old windows and metal casements. It is the theme of late summer turning into autumn, with it's slowly cooling temperatures and rising colors, the buzzing of insects giving way to the sway and shay of the winds through cathedral colored forest glens.
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!
My favourite, uplifting, always played this for my Mum when she came to visit. My darling Mum has Dementia now. Doubt she would recognise this nor me now x
Handel's father resisted his son's desire for a career in music, but his mother supported it. Arguably his father's death when George was 11 helped, and the family was financially comfortable. GF emigrated to England as it was more financially advantageous for a talented young (27) man than was "Germany."
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!!]
Since l love Handel, some friends rec this for my wedding. I said no, because Dad would've had me at the altar in 2 seconds. I chose Water Music, and Dad was so nervous, that he still had me at the altar in 2 seconds! 🤣
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!
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.
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.
I’ve always loved this as it was pointed Out to me by miss green our music teacher this piece should mean something to you Michael Solomons ( I was 13 ) and it does and always will I hope you find the truth 🤔someday soon Mike Sol’s
What a stroke of genius to include a theorbo in a piece where it historically doesn't belong! This ensemble's commitment to authenticity is truly unparalleled-they're not just playing the music as it was, but as it never was. It's authenticity reimagined, and who could ask for more dedication to historical accuracy than that?
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 🇯🇵
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
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.
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
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 😍
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
A very well played performance. I’d like to know who the very cute blonde playing the violin is. She captured my eye when she quickly turned her head back to the music after being distracted. Reminds me of a first rehearsal I played as principal oboist with the Gloucester Symphony. I noticed a very pretty blonde violinist who caught my eye and dated shortly after. I was 17. A hundred years ago.
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*
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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.
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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*
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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. : )
I want this played at my funeral as my coffin arrives, just to lighten the mood and make people smile
About to do this for our mother?!🙏
That's more the departure of the queen of Sheba ;-)
This is so beautiful I can barely Handel my emotions 🥲
I Couldn’t Agree More! Such a Magnificent Musical Masterpiece🎶Evokes Pure Joy!!
You take that Bach!
@@mikeggg5671 Nah, I'm not Haydn anything!
@@cancelled_user you're going to get put on a Liszt if you keep this up
Ba-dum gish
I just love Handel's music, this performance is exceptional.
Handel - my favorite guy!!!💙💙💙💙💙
The Beauty and Gorgeousness of Sheba must quench and moisturize the parched soul of us earthlings
Fabulous! Heaven captured in a melodious reverberation. ❤🎉
I love this version of Handel's "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba". The tempo of the music is just right.
At that tempo, she would have arrived early! Wonderful oboe players.
I had that same thought! Could probably back off on the tempo a bit, but still brilliant!
It seems everyone is in a hurry these days :) : th-cam.com/video/C66XCqWkhmw/w-d-xo.html
@Patricia - Very astute observation.
Am I the only one who is used to hearing it at this tempo? Lol
Magical hands! Amazing!
I love the obvious enjoyment that can be seen on the faces of the musicians. They aren't just playing notes. Wonderful, AAM!
If I had managed to become a professional musician, this is the only genre of music I would have played. I love baroque music!
@@infledermaus Mozart and Haydn and Bach family aren't bad, either.
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
Particularly the oriental girl. She is lovely.
Perfect - just listening to this again. I chose to walk down the aisle to this at our wedding to this in 1983, much to the organist's amusement. My lovely husband has just passed away but this music is honey to the soul.
I'm so sorry to hear about your husbands passing. My mum used to love classical music and took me to the Proms when I was 12 in 1987. I was so moved by this piece I was in tears and didn't want to leave the the Albert Hall. Music is so special isn't it and truely speaks to our souls. Sending you ❤🎶
My wife also walked down the aisle to this in 1983 - thankfully we are still together 41 years later.
Spirited and driving performance. Orchestra hits the mark every time. No sloppiness. Love the lute.
Lite or theorbo? Impossible to hear it!
It's a theorbo, no doubt. Look at the size!
Handel was sent by god to give joy to the world.
Yep Handel is a miracle of the music 😊
Are they all playing period instruments?
"Handel" is a "Trademan", but HÄndel was the composer
Like you and I; similarly to Handel, our charge has been delivered!
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.💖
What a lovely thing to say. G
Oh this makes me smile. What a way to celebrate his life.
Let’s all of us give a huge HAND TO HANDEL ❤❤❤HALLELUJAH ❤❤❤
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!
She must have been running late
HaHaHaHaHaHa 🤣 🤣 🤣
better late than never
Bwahaha!
😂
😅😅😅
WheneverI listen to this masterpiece,
I feel like I am witnessing the arrival of that Queen of Sheba with Handel
Handel‘s music has an eternal life, and will transcend time and space and races of people and Various religion and wars
Sunday 7:05 in the morning of 17 september 2023 listening to handel i know that my sunday will be wonderful.
Just love that this is played on baroque instruments, so it sounds like it would have when Handel wrote the piece.👍
I used to listen to this music as a historic restorationist repairing 100 year old windows and metal casements. It is the theme of late summer turning into autumn, with it's slowly cooling temperatures and rising colors, the buzzing of insects giving way to the sway and shay of the winds through cathedral colored forest glens.
I am so glad that this music only lasts for 3 mins otherwise I could have been stuck here forever!
Absolutely wonderful!!!
Vibrational frequency, sending shivers down my spine
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!
I had this at my wedding I hired a saxophone quartet to play it… it might sound a bit weird but they were amazing
Start your day dancing to this and you're off to a good start!
You can dance and exercise too with The Hallelujah Chorus!
Makes me get up & run gloriously
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.
My favourite, uplifting, always played this for my Mum when she came to visit. My darling Mum has Dementia now. Doubt she would recognise this nor me now x
I feel the Queen is so excited and beaming in her face to meeting Solomon!😊
Handel's father resisted his son's desire for a career in music, but his mother supported it. Arguably his father's death when George was 11 helped, and the family was financially comfortable. GF emigrated to England as it was more financially advantageous for a talented young (27) man than was "Germany."
Ich Liebe den 🎻 Violinen, verein ! ( ...und die Damen...!! Sehr glorreich und gewandt_________
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!!]
This song makes me genuinely happy!
Popularity and fascination and Gorgeousness and groly of the Queen of Sheba are immeasurable and off the charts and beyond description
Simply breathtaking. I’ve only just started properly drawing from the well we call “classical” music. The font is deep and full of wonders.
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!
Since l love Handel, some friends rec this for my wedding. I said no, because Dad would've had me at the altar in 2 seconds. I chose Water Music, and Dad was so nervous, that he still had me at the altar in 2 seconds! 🤣
Handel and Bach both German geniuses!
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!
Must be one of his masterpieces more known for the persons.
Que la joie demeure sur les peuples du monde !
En écoutant ce Chef d'œuvre d'handel, on ne peut qu'être optimiste !
I actually prefer it at this tempo, even though it sounds like she'd be running for her life!
Why, I imagine there'd be a bustle around her instead while she herself will remain regal and graceful. :)
Obvious 🦆ENJOYMENT AND PURE⭐MAGNIFICENCE
Comfort of this performance is immeasurable and can't be ovetstated
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.
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.
Magnificent.
01:53 This face with the music!!!! 🥲
La tua figura incerta che suscitava pena non riuscii, dentro la nebbia, a toccarla.Infine si involò il tuo nome divino
Perfecto tempo! Joyful allegro... Thank you.!
This was played as I walked down the aisle at my son's wedding. I was thrilled that the organist suggested this!!!
I’ve not seen this piece performed better. So very well done! Everyone in it is so great!
I’ve always loved this as it was pointed Out to me by miss green our music teacher this piece should mean something to you Michael Solomons ( I was 13 ) and it does and always will I hope you find the truth 🤔someday soon Mike Sol’s
Going today for the yesterday's work
But... Isn't she ALWAYS EARLY? I'm late, though... Haven't listened to this for several years... January 2024! 💙💙💙💙💙
I think Händel would love this performance. I like Baroque music played with periode instruments
Emotions are already handled for you. You can go soaring
so beautiful.
so beautiful...
Exciting, stimulating and beautiful, thanks Handel, and yes, the musicians do look happy, thanks Academy of Ancient Music.
Such ACCOMPLISHMENT ~~
Handel would of been proud of this performance.
Running so fast, she nearly tripped over her robes . . . !
What a stroke of genius to include a theorbo in a piece where it historically doesn't belong! This ensemble's commitment to authenticity is truly unparalleled-they're not just playing the music as it was, but as it never was. It's authenticity reimagined, and who could ask for more dedication to historical accuracy than that?
Just beautiful.
Beautiful music i adore
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Amazing. Thanks. 🤗🙌👏
Beautiful!
This should be played at weddings after the recessional; to hustle the guests out so the next wedding can take place.
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
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Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
The past echos perfectly clear through this wonderful performance
This is so good what great musicians
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
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.
Fantastic and joyful! 🎶
Absolutely fantastic! Very well played.
Exelente composición, me inspira alegría y mucha virtud
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
Perfection!
I like your interpretation very much. thank you ...
Aaaah! Mr Handel ❤️
I wish that Queen and Solomon could have heard this❤
After listening to this, I feel both inspired and ready to answer quiz questions posed by Ned Sherrin.
So beautiful ❤
My wife walked up the aisle to this at our wedding
It's HANDEL. That's all. ❤❤❤
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 😍
"piece" ...
Emmanuel Delahaye grcias 😊
Another splendid performance of Handel by the AAM !
Thanks ! Danken Dir ! Shokhran !👏👏👏🙏🙏🙏⭐⭐⭐
excellent
Perfect
Brilliant my favourite piece of music
Merveilleux !
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
Adore this piece!
The AAM seem to "get" Handel's music better than any other orchestra....this performance is sublime❤
A very well played performance. I’d like to know who the very cute blonde playing the violin is. She captured my eye when she quickly turned her head back to the music after being distracted.
Reminds me of a first rehearsal I played as principal oboist with the Gloucester Symphony. I noticed a very pretty blonde violinist who caught my eye and dated shortly after. I was 17. A hundred years ago.
maravilloso' !
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I love the piece, and I love the fact thatit found its way into the Score for "The Singing Detective"