I never tire of listening to the music of Michael Praetorius. His music from Terpsichore is joyous and uplifting. By far my favorite Renaissance composer.
Mickael Pretorius (1571-1621), one of the most talented German musicians of his time, died on his 50th birthday... His music is splendid, magnificent, aerial, a true beauty.
Yo también estoy muy triste 😭 porque HERR PRETORIUS se ha ido al cielo, y nos ha dejado su MÚSICA tan dulce y sencillo y preciosa, pero hay que reconocer que, con el tiempo, se muere todo el mundo entero 😢❤😊
And although I am American, this is what many of my European ancestors listened to. One, I am told was head of the Royal College of Music in Elizabethan times. I would imagine that he would have known this music.
The instrumentation here is magnificent! It demonstrates very illustratively what the composer describes in his Syntagma Musicum. During that time, the time of the Thirty Years War, only a great town or rich court could manage to have music played in this splendorous way. I know this milestone recording from 37 years ago when a friend and colleague presented it to me. Some famous musicians were involved in it, like the great flute player Hans Martin Linde - if I remember it right. Thanks a lot for sharing.
I agree with the downloader that this is the best recording of these dance pieces. Back when it was easy to find an all classical local FM station (mine was in Portland, OR) there was always a "listeners pick" broadcast on New Years Eve in which they played the most requested recordings of the year. This one always won first prize.
billinrio - I can understand why it was picked first. This is just incredible. What a way to start the New Year. I grew up with KFAC, an all classical station in Southern Calif , loved by both my father and me. I don't think it exists anymore, sad to say.
I have and measure this recording/ The best interpretations ever. The recorders really shimmer!! The first Bouree was used in a pop version of 'Ding Dong the Witch is Dead' in te 60s. :-)
I own a CD "Dances from Terpsichore" by the Praetorius Consort, Regis 1076, previously recorded by EMI/CfP. It's a prize possession; believe it to be a British production. Different take on arranging and recording; fascinating to hear this version. Many thanks for posting!
He estado buscándola, no les miento como por 20 años, la tuve en cassette se llaman "Archives Privilegue" lo perdí. Hasta ahora con la magia de TH-cam. Muchisimas gracias por compartir
@@geiryvindeskeland7208 Tack för informationen. Terpsichor is so Lovely I listen over and over to it. This version is distinctive. Spotify har flera. His hymns and motets are fine too. My favourite is Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen. Also Wie Schön....
This is the first and best recording of the dances (made about 1958 by the Collegium Terpsichore) and no other ensemble has surpassed it I had the original LP when I was in my teens, after hearing it for the first time on the Third Programme (now Radio Three) but it became unplayable. Thank you for uploading.
I am not a musician and I do enjoy classical music; I heard the word Terpsichore some time ago and recently listened to a piece something like Pretorius might have written, so I researched it a little. Great stuff! Terpsichore, the Greek muse is the mother of the Sirens!
Idem! Ouço Praetorius de manhã, à tarde e à noite! É um verdadeiro encantamento! Como disse Garrett logo acima, não havia água encanada e as pessoas morriam pelas ruas, mas, oh que música! A melhor de todas!
Delicious piece! Yum! Transported to another time and place. Sure, there was no running water and people were dropping dead in the streets from plague, but oh what music! Best ever!
@@MommaRed1862 Yes, that's correct - you're right.. The plague (a very infectious - and lethal - disease, caused by a bacterium called: "Yersinia Pestis") wiped out some 25 % of the population of London, England ("The Great Plague", 1665 to 1666).. Btw. (most of) the ones surviving it, had a rare mutation on some of their "T-cells" (part of the immune system), i.e. these cells lacked a special "protein receptor" - blocking the bacterium invading it. Today about 1 % of the population in the U.K.and the U.S. has this T-call mutation. Blessed Be. Raven Timish, (retired) science/biology teacher and amateur historian.
Garrett Lees - Your comment made me laugh. I'd be willing to trade some aspects of contemporary life to hear music like this regularly. Wouldn't like to see people dropping dead in the streets from the plague, however.
My vinyl on the Archiv label was all Collegium Terpsichore with Fritz Neumeyer and this sounds the same, and as you say "all-time favourite recording". Neumeyer shows his skill in assembling just the right amount of everything - scintillating, sparkling, elegant and refined!
Esta es la versión (La parte final de la volte) que utilizó la Maestra Colombia Moya en su programa TIEMPO DE DANZA transmitido hace muchos años en Radio UNAM
I bought the Archiv label album in Rizzoli's in New York City a good long while ago. IMHO it is the best Praetorius recording ever. Nothing comes close. Those are my two cents, and that's about all their worth, but they're MY two cents. Thank you.
I am practicing gavotte in my university classical guitar circle.. We are quartet. Oh it is the beautiful piece. I don't play the melody part. My part more belongs to rhythm yet itself is too interesting.
But where oh where is Fritz and the Collegium's other work? Did they do anything else other than this absolutely scintillating masterpiece? I haven't been able to find any.
I remember recordings of Guillaume de Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame (with Deller Consort), Monteverdi’s Madrigals (with Deller Consort), Bach’s Brandeburg Concertos, Telemann’s Recorder Suite in A Minor (with Hans Martin Linde), Händel’s Concertos for organ. In my channel you can find Machaut, Telemann, Händel.
Praetorius' ,music helped me get through some unhappy times in graduate school. Then I learned to dance to it. Result = happiness!
Brilliant. I know what you mean. Praetorius becomes part of life…
I never tire of listening to the music of Michael Praetorius. His music from Terpsichore is joyous and uplifting. By far my favorite Renaissance composer.
I definitely second that.
this version sounds so 1960s though
@@turnipsociety706 so what
Neumeyer was a pioneer. Without him, you and me wouldn't maybe even know who Praetorius was
Mickael Pretorius (1571-1621), one of the most talented German musicians of his time, died on his 50th birthday...
His music is splendid, magnificent, aerial, a true beauty.
Yo también estoy muy triste 😭 porque HERR PRETORIUS se ha ido al cielo, y nos ha dejado su MÚSICA tan dulce y sencillo y preciosa, pero hay que reconocer que, con el tiempo, se muere todo el mundo entero 😢❤😊
Praetorius, genius and his Bourrée is one the most earthy and joyous pieces in the whole human music.
Oh how true! :-)
Excellent!
Made popular in the early '70s by the efforts of the late and VERY much missed David Munrow and his New London Consort.
sapper82 First heard David on Agincourt Carol with Young Tradition. Favorite
And, bizarrely enough, it was used as background music for a Windex cleaner commercial!
I had this record when I was in college 48 years ago. Great memories and joyous music.
And although I am American, this is what many of my European ancestors listened to. One, I am told was head of the Royal College of Music in Elizabethan times. I would imagine that he would have known this music.
We do still play this music until this day in Germany. It is our heritage.
The RCM in Elizabethan times…??
Renaissance music was played publicly at the RCM on appropriate instruments (more or less authentic) for the first time in 1968 !
Hermosa música y la instrumentación !! Saluditos desde Patagonia Argentina Fernando Hidalgo 3ro
My all time favorite for the last 50 years.Wonderful line and conception throughout.I am so happy to have found this post. Thank you.
I first heard it decades ago and it was a revelation.
So did I! Much better than then 'pop'!
So did I - my mother introduced it to me on what was then 'the gramophone' (mid-1960's)!
This is my kinda party music!
I agree. It's absolutely porous music and playing. See my comment above as well. :-)
This version brings me so many sweet memories of my first encounters with early music.
Same here !!!
Always makes me happy.
The instrumentation here is magnificent! It demonstrates very illustratively what the composer describes in his Syntagma Musicum. During that time, the time of the Thirty Years War, only a great town or rich court could manage to have music played in this splendorous way. I know this milestone recording from 37 years ago when a friend and colleague presented it to me. Some famous musicians were involved in it, like the great flute player Hans Martin Linde - if I remember it right. Thanks a lot for sharing.
Wonderful version...best i have heard so far...
What fine music! Listening again, several years later. Supurb. Thanks.
So beautiful! I love early music. It has such purity, yet at the same time such drive and passion.
This rendition fills up my senses. Love it so much!
it feels psychedelic
Une merveille, que de beauté!
Praetorius is not dead, listen ...its him and you...
This is true of all our favorite composers and other artists we love.
I agree with the downloader that this is the best recording of these dance pieces. Back when it was easy to find an all classical local FM station (mine was in Portland, OR) there was always a "listeners pick" broadcast on New Years Eve in which they played the most requested recordings of the year. This one always won first prize.
billinrio - I can understand why it was picked first. This is just incredible. What a way to start the New Year. I grew up with KFAC, an all classical station in Southern Calif , loved by both my father and me. I don't think it exists anymore, sad to say.
So very nice to know that. Shows I'm not alone. I left a comment about my experience with this magnificent recording.
I highly approve of the instrumentation choices.
I have and measure this recording/ The best interpretations ever. The recorders really shimmer!! The first Bouree was used in a pop version of 'Ding Dong the Witch is Dead' in te 60s. :-)
The Fifth Estate, 1966.
Been in love with music lo these 57 or so years - wonder of wonders ...............
Adoro essa música.Acho que vivi nesta época em outra vida.
one of my favourite records and so wonderful to hear it without pops and scratches
Beautiful beyond words or mortal understanding.
Judging by the comments I read from time to time, I find that I must agree with you!
Yes!!!
Every casual days goes like the wind while listening to this music in Winter Tokyo
I own a CD "Dances from Terpsichore" by the Praetorius Consort, Regis 1076, previously recorded by EMI/CfP. It's a prize possession; believe it to be a British production. Different take on arranging and recording; fascinating to hear this version. Many thanks for posting!
He estado buscándola, no les miento como por 20 años, la tuve en cassette se llaman "Archives Privilegue" lo perdí. Hasta ahora con la magia de TH-cam. Muchisimas gracias por compartir
This is superb. I love Praetorius' music. All of it.
I am not sure that Praetorius is the composer of all the movements, but he collected them.
@@geiryvindeskeland7208 Tack för informationen. Terpsichor is so Lovely I listen over and over to it. This version is distinctive. Spotify har flera. His hymns and motets are fine too. My favourite is Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen. Also Wie Schön....
on a envie d'apprendre à danser ces magnifiques danses en costume d'époque... dans un cadre adéquat... quel rêve !
And we can thank the intense romanticism and beauty of the music, in part, for our being here today.
This is the first and best recording of the dances (made about 1958 by the Collegium Terpsichore) and no other ensemble has surpassed it I had the original LP when I was in my teens, after hearing it for the first time on the Third Programme (now Radio Three) but it became unplayable. Thank you for uploading.
Same here ! Practically listened the LP into pieces in my teenager years (back in the 70's). Many thanks to the uploader !
Exactly the same for me ! The most marvelous interpretation I have ever heard !
My love affair with this recording goes back 40 years at least. I had no idea it was put on vinyl so many years ago. It's a treasure.
Yes, LOVELY MEMORIES .
Same for me but in my early 20s on AM radio, and it improved my worldview, just so scintillating.
So much fun! Thank you, Mr. Praetorius, Collegium Terpsichore, and MrVektriol!
I am not a musician and I do enjoy classical music; I heard the word Terpsichore some time ago and recently listened to a piece something like Pretorius might have written, so I researched it a little. Great stuff! Terpsichore, the Greek muse is the mother of the Sirens!
Passo grande parte de meus momentos ouvindo Praetorius.
Idem! Ouço Praetorius de manhã, à tarde e à noite! É um verdadeiro encantamento! Como disse Garrett logo acima, não havia água encanada e as pessoas morriam pelas ruas, mas, oh que música! A melhor de todas!
I Heard this versión and recorded in cassete about 30 years ago, now I know the autor and my spirit enjoyed a lot, Thank You
Thank you for your kind words.
And I can't help feeling that popular music was a far, far better deal 400 years ago than it is now.
Absolutely! If we still danced to this I'd never be out of the disco.
What is the opposite of evolution?
Absolutely amazing interpretation, especially La Bouré!
Delicious piece! Yum! Transported to another time and place. Sure, there was no running water and people were dropping dead in the streets from plague, but oh what music! Best ever!
Carlos El Quinto nope the Black Death came back a few times in the 1500 and 1600’s, a whole city in Spain was wiped out I believe, google it!
@@MommaRed1862
Yes, that's correct - you're right.. The plague (a very infectious - and lethal - disease, caused by a bacterium called: "Yersinia Pestis") wiped out some 25 % of the population of London, England ("The Great Plague", 1665 to 1666).. Btw. (most of) the ones surviving it, had a rare mutation on some of their "T-cells" (part of the immune system), i.e. these cells lacked a special "protein receptor" - blocking the bacterium invading it. Today about 1 % of the population in the U.K.and the U.S. has this T-call mutation.
Blessed Be.
Raven Timish, (retired) science/biology teacher and amateur historian.
Garrett Lees - Your comment made me laugh. I'd be willing to trade some aspects of contemporary life to hear music like this regularly. Wouldn't like to see people dropping dead in the streets from the plague, however.
Mr Vektriol, this is one of my all-time favorite recordings...thank you for posting this gem.
My vinyl on the Archiv label was all Collegium Terpsichore with Fritz Neumeyer and this sounds the same, and as you say "all-time favourite recording". Neumeyer shows his skill in assembling just the right amount of everything - scintillating, sparkling, elegant and refined!
@@scottmurison Loved that old vinyl recording!
Da fällt mir gleich Heinrich der Achte ein, zu dieser Zeit waren solche Tänze weit verbreitet !
Instrumentistas de lujo !!!
Vive.la.musique.de.la.renaisance.magnifique.et.joiyeuse
And thank you, MrVektriol, for posting this.
Esta es la versión (La parte final de la volte) que utilizó la Maestra Colombia Moya en su programa TIEMPO DE DANZA transmitido hace muchos años en Radio UNAM
simply fantastic
I bought the Archiv label album in Rizzoli's in New York City a good long while ago. IMHO it is the best Praetorius recording ever. Nothing comes close. Those are my two cents, and that's about all their worth, but they're MY two cents. Thank you.
I entirely agree with you.
Che meraviglia!!!!!
A jewel
HERMOSO
Amazing!!!
Michael Prätorius- der Superstar der Renaissance - Musik
Probably best medley from Early Music and not only!
Oldies but goldies!
I am practicing gavotte in my university classical guitar circle.. We are quartet. Oh it is the beautiful piece. I don't play the melody part. My part more belongs to rhythm yet itself is too interesting.
Marvellous!
Wonderful.
Wunderschön
Extraordinary version. I have heard many. Much better than the other famous collection, Suzato's Danserey (So?).
Muito bonito
Hmm, Having heard the Voices of Music version I must say no other version sounds quite as nice.
Thank you !
krasne moc
This is a much more accessible recording than mine. I might try and see if is on CD.....do they still make CD's?
But where oh where is Fritz and the Collegium's other work? Did they do anything else other than this absolutely scintillating masterpiece? I haven't been able to find any.
I remember recordings of Guillaume de Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame (with Deller Consort), Monteverdi’s Madrigals (with Deller Consort), Bach’s Brandeburg Concertos, Telemann’s Recorder Suite in A Minor (with Hans Martin Linde), Händel’s
Concertos for organ. In my channel you can find Machaut, Telemann, Händel.
Please let me know if you find it. This is remarkable. I love Praetorius ' music.
I,m absolutltly of same opinión
música inspirada por Dios mismo!
6:45. 8:15.10:13.
♡♡♡♡♡♡♡
Schitterende muziek!!
Volte is the best!!
Yeah, it's crazy! Weirdo metrical shifts. Part of it is in 5/2! Love it!
A true anti-depressant.
Èin wahres Antidepressiva
mjusik shaaakspier
Magnus Soberbiuns.
やっぱり久石譲
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I have heard better.
Sorry, this is horrible!
No it's a musicbox