you got one thing wrong, 15ty century means it started in 1400 and ended in 1499. And if you were born in 1499 (still a 15th century kid !) that would make you 91 years old which is kind of impossible for this period of time !
I went to a Julian Bream concert in Edinburgh. I rode the bus, a poor student. A small man in conservative clothes sat down beside me with his instrument case. I said, I'm going to the Bream concert, and he said, so am I. As I went to the entrance, we parted, and he went to another entrance. Of course it was him. BUT HE RODE THE BUS!
I love that share! Once I was at a fair tapping on about an author as I was buying her books. She tapped me on the shoulder and said thank you for all that. Would you like me to sign them? Your story is even better.
Rick, When I was at school, way back in the Baroque Era of the Early to MId '70s (1973 to 1977), we did woodwork, my woodwork teacher was so good that he was building a Lute during our classes, while we were doing the assignments we had to complete. THe big thing about this is he was building two, from scratch, One was for Julian Bream the other was for John Williams, two very good friends, who both came to the school to meet our teacher and we got to listen to them both play guitar and lute!!
@@Esse-vp1bc It died with the ignorance of its listeners (refusing to listen to modern recordings because they think the older recordings are better) Voice of Music is a good channel for instance.
@@topsecret1837 Not my point at all. England was as cultured as the OP described, probably surviving up till the mid-1990's, in my small University dept several of my tutors were world leading experts in their fields & wrote the textbooks that other tutors followed . Now that era can be considered a foreign country, gone forever, replaced by an absurd, stupefying ideology.
I ended up looking him up and showing some family members, we all enjoyed his tunes For being dead for like 400/500 years hes got like 160k monthly listeners😂
I LOVED this video. Thank you. I'm an elderly English woman, who's first husband was an aspiring classical guitarist. He absolutely idolised Julian Bream, so much so that we named our first son, JULIAN. (He's now 66!) I love this renaissance music, especially played on period instruments. Julian Bream was such a 'regular guy' with a really wide appeal. Here in London, we were all very proud of him & his ability to bring us the music of a distant era into contemporary life, which we otherwise might not have known of. It's lovely that American musicians appreciate him, too.
I saw Bream at the Perth Concert Hall in Australia in 1983, I believe it was. I even remember the title and name of one of the compositions he played ("The Blue Guitar" by Michael Tippett).
I am 61 - born in the London slums, now living in a beautiful place in the country side in another country but for a little while, I played the recorders and violin in a group that played old English music - when I hear this, I feel it deep in my bones and my skin, even though classical music moves me so deeply the most, (and I love Kate bush, nick cave, sing along songs etc, aurora) this music almost takes me back to a past life - and I can feel the grime in my skin, the hunger in my belly. What a great channel!
I love the arts played on original period instruments. In the 1980s I was listening to a piece from the baroque period on the radio, and I said to my girlfriend, who happened to be mostly self centered, and below my IQ, I said to her, "Wow! This is being played on original instruments!" And she gave me such a dirty look. And she said, "How would you-uuu know?" I responded, "I can tell from the texture of the sound." She didn't approve of my answer. When the piece finished, the radio announcer mentioned it was played on original instruments, my girlfriend's face shown such anger. I'm always glad I broke up with her.
I am an old guy from Romania and I've just discovered your channel. It is the best musical channel on youtube for musical education. Absolutely amazing. Thank you so much Rick!
I speak to many classical guitarist when I travel the world and 2 names keep cropping up Segovia and Bream. Bream just had a way of making music sound magical. His Bach is out of this world.
Speaking from experience, the key thing to understand about the music of the Tudor period is that it is super-fun to play and sing. I was in a fine choir at a university college with beautiful Tudor buildings, and as Rick says, performing this music in those surroundings is a life-enhancing experience!
@@HandmadeDarcy Every now and again we would get together with one of the women's choirs for a performance. Afterwards we'd head off in a little fleet of punts and park ourselves under one of the beautiful bridges over the river Cam. The acoustic was great, and we'd run through our repertoire of madrigals. By the time we emerged, the bridge would be packed with bemused tourists trying to figure out the source of this mysterious and wonderful sound!
I recognized this song right away because I had that Sting album for 15 years and knew every song almost by heart. Back in Russia in St Petersburg long ago I went to concerts like that ( " Shakespeare's music"), they were wearing gorgeous bright colored clothes and girls were singing so beautifully.. They were dancing too! I still remember how much I loved these concerts! It was such a magic..
To this day I am so grateful that my choir director back in 1969 in a small Alabama college introduced me to the music of Palestrina. To this day I can still sing, play and recall the lyrics of “O Bone Jesu” and “O Magnum Mysterium”. And I’m glad two years of high school Latin paid off so I could know what the heck I was singing. LOL
Jethro Tull gets honorable mention here because they compose their own compositions which sound quite medieval, very much like Renaissance or medieval compositions, only they are contemporary, an amazing band
The 70’s Prog band “Renaissance” is a criminally underrated band who are aptly named. Their vocalist Annie Haslam is one of the best female vocalists of all time.
Thirty some years ago I was a bass player in heavy metal garage bands. I heard a recording of Bream doing Dowland songs with the tenor Peter Pears and began learning classical guitar. Before I finished my studies at the U. of Toledo (Ohio), I played one recital of that material with a countertenor. Still best musical experience of my life.
My father sang opera professionally, and I did so in my younger years, though never professionally. I would say that people that listen to it growing up, or they learned it early, have a different appreciation. I watched my father sing with pavirotti and it couldn’t have impressed me more. My wife however could never know why or what I hear that moves me so much.
Paulcarter6962 wow, your dad must have been terrific. As children we listened to all kinds of music, classical, big bands and modern and pop. Musicals were also popular. I listen to Classic fm, and recently Mario Lanza was played. I d forgotten how incredible his voice was. My mum, always rated Pavarotti as tops, however, i think Mario has my vote. Beautiful to me Id be interested to hear in your preference??
@@Jill-ps1rs my father was pretty terrific. It was tough for him coming up, but his voice carried him far. I don’t have many preferences as far as a voice is concerned. Pavarotti had a high note that never seemed to waver in power. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a bad note. I’m a bit closer to Pavarotti too, we have a few funny family stories whilst my father sang with him. However, my father was a Verdi Baritone, and I am a true bass, so I am swayed towards a darker voice that can be carried into higher tones. Samuel Ramey is one of my favorites too. Of course overall I love my fathers voice. It’s great to see others are still listening to this music.
Beautiful. I’m English. I think this music is in my dna! I hear very much the influence of this music in early Genesis with Peter Gabriel and in Jethro Tull too. I love that you’ve loved this sound for so long.
Yes, I loved Jethro Tull and early Genesis; and loved the medievally inspired pieces. They hit it hard in the 60-70's and have kinda gotten away from it. Love old English/Irish folk music as well.
I love Renaissance music! I have worn out every format of Waverly Consort’s “A Renaissance Christmas Celebration.” Imagine listening to this music in a candle and tree-lit room, fire blazing in the hearth and a glass of hearty red wine and a plate of cheese nearby. Heaven, I tell you!
OMG! I have this on record! I grew up with my dad listening to Bream and other classical guitarists and came to Love it myself as a little girl in east Germany. It is actually the root for my deep Love for all kinds of guitar music till this day. I inherited all my dads records and still listen to them.
Dowland's songs are fantastic. I discovered them via the science fiction writer Philip K Dick, who was a fan. He even used a Dowland song in the title of one of his novels, "Flow my tears, the policeman said". I love the fluid movement between keys and major and minor in Elizabethan music. I was in a church choir as a kid, and always particularly loved music from that period - Tallis and Taverner, and things like the Coventry Carol. Really beautiful music.
Mike Alexander Now that is fascinating! I love such ‘flo-thru’ cultural connections, as well as the work of Philip K Dick’, which l read from a young age.. ‘Flow my Tears, the Policeman Said’ are also the opening lines to an early song by Gary Numan. And ‘Bladerunner’, the title given to the film adaptation of Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Shape’, is taken from a story by William S Burroughs… and so on!
I am a classical Cellist and I LOVE that era. That lute solo on the Sting version was nuts! I also play guitar and drums so I’m a little bit Rock and a little bit Classical. So glad you shared this music.
The Sting album is wonderful. I also enjoyed Classical Barbara, though I’m not a huge Streisand fan, I l over this album. And her talent unquestionable
You can't be a little ROCK and a little CLASSICAL. And, after all, renaissance is NOT yet entirely classical. If you're a bit of this and a bit of that you are, eventually, nothing of the both.
I fell in live with Medieval and Renaissance music in high school in the mid-1960s. I was a charter member of Musical heritage Society, who sold a lot of ancient music. On our first date, I took my wife to a music fraternity party. It was boring, so we went to my place and listened to medieval and renaissance MHS records. Great times!
Damien Kelly is one of my best friends since 2005. We are both huge Rick Beato fans and the fact that he features in this video has put both of us on a high! Hello from Ireland Rick! 🇮🇪
He sounds fantastic. I had a Julian Bream lo when I was a kid and it got me into classical guitar. He had his own tv programme back in the day on the BBC! Now it’s Married at First sight and all that crap….
It's hard to believe that such talented people are quite unknown even in their own countries.....Damien is incredible, I was very moved by his great performance....my eyes started sweating.
Such a great piece! I forget how blessed I am to have grown up a classically trained musician with musician parents. Classical and jazz was a staple in our home and car. My husband just got me a speaker for my birthday and I've been playing classical for my kids every day during school time and it just changes the whole mood, it gets inside of you. Music used to mean something, we need to get back to that.
Music has always meant something and still does. It’s just a matter of whether that particular piece of music speaks to you. Some modern stuff I hate, but I wouldn’t be so superior as to say it had no meaning.
Man, I love the way you get into this. Not just a musician yourself, but a musical historian, who obviously adores everything with a master’s ear and appreciation. You’re attitude knocked me out.
Exactly !!! Exactly ! You voiced my thoughts! Now I understand where Jero Tull's feet come from. Already in the 16th century this music sounds jazz-rock.
That's what I like about Jethro Tull ,the intermixture of various medieval and modern instruments along with Anderson's artistry of words gives me that feeling of sitting by a fire back in the 14th century.
The only thing I've figured out about Rick is someway, somehow, he's gonna blow my mind and expand my musical knowledge on styles/topics I never even considered.
Ric you really are giving people an amazing music history. It’s so valuable to give people - especially young people who can only reference now for all their music references - the breadth of your music knowledge.
I am a classical guitarist and a huge Julian Bream fan. I am particularly drawn to Renaissance and Baroque music. Thank you for sharing this with others that enjoy your channel. I hope you will include more topics like this in the future.
happy to stumble upon a channel like this featuring music like this. So many people shrug off genuinely good music before having even listened to it simply because it's a little foreign to them.
I LOVE THIS VID! Thank you so much for bringing such a human response to this wonderful music! I’m a trained classical musician/singer /teacher ….. we need you …. Your passion fills my heart with joy as you innately understand it! All music has in one way or another come from these glorious roots! I’m subscribing! You are a beacon of Light! Thank you 🙏🏼 🎉
This would have been timeless if your wife had walked into the background when you started playing it, and rolled her eyes. Thank you, sir, as always. You rule.
Hey Rick, this is (just one of the) reasons I am a big fan. I did learn Dowland tunes, and collected Julian Bream's recordings... and named my first son Julian. You are some guy! Love you!
I am from Mexico and though not being a native speaker this musician is so relatable, it almost feels that I am a musician or a music historian myself. 😅 So much so, it almost feels as well as if English was my mother tongue😅 Amazing communicator. I am glad the algorithm brought me here🎉 Muchas gracias Sr. Beato😊
Shredding on the lute! I think there is plenty of Django in Bream's playing. (His dog was named Django.) He played in a jazz band when he did National Service and there are videos of him jamming Django-style. The lute players were expected to be able to improvise fast on the changes and had a lot in common with today's jazzers. One of Al di Meola's favourite records was Bream's album of 20th century music. I was lucky to have met Bream several times after concerts and he would just hang out and chat to the audience backstage. No ego, just talent.
There’s a video somewhere of him playing with Stephane Grappelli the great jazz violinist. It’s not Julian’s music and Grappelli plays at a furious pace but JB mostly manages to keep in time…!
Early Music will really blow your mind if you let it, man. The great thing about this video is that we get to see different ways to perform this song, which is a treat. Too often, this kind of music gets tied up in the straitjacket of "SERIOUS PERFORMANCE." I mean, yeah, it IS serious music, but as other people noted, this was written originally as a DANCE. It was alive! The more we get this music out into the world, the more chances it gets to live, and that makes me happy.
OMG, Rick…you bring back the memories. As a student I studied briefly in London in the early 1970s. Early music was very popular then. We used to go to all the early music concerts we could…indoors and outdoors. We were so poor that we would walk miles to save tube money so we could pay for our tickets. And student ticket rates were so cheap! Anyhow, this is a lovely reminder of those long ago days.
It still is! Although, to be fair, I'm talking about period ensembles and orchestras rather than early music per se. Some of my favorites are Musica Antiqua Köln, Brandenburg Consort, London Baroque, Avison Ensemble, Raglan Baroque Players, AAM, La Chapelle Royale, Les Musiciens du Louvre, English Concert, English Baroque Soloists, Ensemble Vintage Koln, Les Arts Florissants, Bach Collegium Japan, AOE, La Petite Bande, and many more excellent period ensembles and orchestras.
I worked with Ritchie once and he really did seem that he was a Renaissance musician in a past life. To the clothes he wore, to the castle like setting we recorded in, to way he held and played his guitar. I agree!
Ritchie always loved Renaissance music, and once he quit Purple/Rainbow he seemed much happier playing that style of music - I know he has made a comeback with Rock in recent times, but his real interest (and better playing in my opinion) is with this genre.
@@Redplanetfilms1 yep he popularized those staccato runs in the context of rock and roll Rick was reacting to, and also lots of it with Blackmore Night’s
I came from a rice field in Southern Louisiana. I was sent miles and miles away to LSU in Baton Rouge. The bookstore held a huge record sale. I bought a Renaissance album. It took my breath away. The harmonies.
@@dorasmith7875Non gustibus est disputandum. Translated from the Latin means: In matters of taste there can be no dispute. Music is a spiritual experience and speaks to our individual souls which are as unique as our fingerprints 🤗
This episode was really surprising for me, I wasn't expecting you to cover Julian Bream! I still can't believe he has left us; not only he's one of the greatest guitarists ever, he even brought the lute back to life. John Dowland's works were really groundbreaking. Thank you!
As a singer and classical guitarist who played and sang Dowland a lot, I find it absolutely wonderful how he let's Dowland's music (especially the parts with the hemiolas) just sweep him away and he can't sit still, like it's beat music or Rock'nRoll, which of course it IS. Dowland was the Mick Jagger of his days. Brilliant music, timeless.
This is now my favourite video of yours Rick! When you can't stop conducting along with the music, playing your "air lute", and looking like a kid in a candy shop, it's infectious :)
Many musicians say music is their life but Rick is on a different level he’s well rounded in all aspects playing instruments, composing music, producing, engineering, college music professor, guitar teacher and the list goes on! Something I have noticed that is very true is when someones life is really all about music they really don’t have genre boundaries industrial metal music might be their favorite but they will also listen and appreciate almost any genre. I listen to a pretty wide variety I can listen to pop punk now and then listen to the orchestral radio station ur great grandmother listened to but I can’t say music is my life I don’t live and breath music anymore. I really have so much respect for guys like Rick and I hope the younger generations will have people like Rick so all the music from today to a thousand years ago will still be taught and cared about!
That's awesome! I guess it only gets better if you happen to live in an old cottage in the woods and there's chickens, swine, and cattle roaming around... 😁
I am a classical guitarist and very beginner lutenist and I focused on Early Music in my music degree. For Rick to turn his attention to likes of Dowland makes me feel joyous--and validated.
It's so refreshing, just for a little while, to listen to an intelligent chap sharing his enthusiasm for Renaissance music - and convincing me that it really is so beautiful. I have no talent for creating music, but I absolutely appreciate the quality of the music, and of course the skills of those musicians. Thank you so much. Cheers ! Sheffield South Yorkshire.
Dowland was early emo too: "He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep", "Come again", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe" and "In darkness let me dwell""
This could be my favorite Rick Beato YT clip. Keep up the great work, Rick. You're the pied piper showing a new generation of musicians how vast the music universe really is.
I’ve always wondered why our current society shows little appreciation for Renaissance music or the instruments of the era. I love seeing this fellow savouring it. Great video.
Agree. In the best case majority of the people find it fun, in the worst they find it weird. 15th to 17th century gave us so many incredible pieces. I love this period.
This song is sometimes known as the “Earl of Essex Galliard,” as it’s dedicated to Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex, who was executed for treason by Queen Elizabeth I.
@@bobbydellmusic After praying that God would preserve the Queen and asking the crowd to join him in prayer, he begged God to forgive his enemies. He then removed his gown and ruff and knelt at the block, looking up at the sky and saying the Lord's Prayer. After forgiving the executioner, who knelt in front of him, Essex repeated the Creed and then took off his doublet, as it was covering his neck, to display a waistcoat of scarlet, the colour of martyrs. He laid himself on the block, stretched out his arms and prayed, "Lord be merciful to Thy prostrate servant… Lord, into Thy hands I commend my spirit." After repeating two verses of Psalm 51, he could take no more and cried out, "Executioner, strike home!". The executioner swung his axe to behead Essex, but, unfortunately, it took three blows to sever his neck. When the deed was finally done, the executioner held the head aloft, shouting, "God save the Queen!" … Essex had asked to be executed privately and accordingly, was beheaded on Tower Green on Ash Wednesday, 25 February 1601. He was aged thirty-four at the time of his execution and gained the distinction of becoming the last person to be beheaded within the Tower of London, he was beheaded at the same spot as Lady Jane Grey and Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn had been. The first blow of the axe hit the Earl of Essex's shoulder and it was reported to have taken three strokes by the executioner Thomas Derrick to complete the execution. …
Just when you think the art of guitar solo shredding is a product of the 1960s thru today, we clearly see this level of sophisticaticated playing dates all the way back to the 1500s. Very cool to see and thank you for educating and exposing us to a music category we most likely would never ever seek out on our own.
Rick, the thing I enjoy most about you is you come across as less a sought-after professional music industry producer and more just a guy who genuinely enjoys music and just wants other people to enjoy it, too (and know why certain songs are great). You let the music do the talking while you're completely engrossed in it and it's infectious. Love your stuff, man.
I never tire of Rick's enthusiasm. I would literally listen to anything on Earth based on his recommendation...just because I know it's something I should learn.
Wow, I was today years old when I learned of Julian Bream!! Thank you, I love this era of music, but I am a casual when it come to knowing this part of music history! Wow, new rabbit hole.
This is why I love Jethro Tull! They brought this sound to the twentieth century and repopularized the whole sound! We’re gonna party like it’s 1599!!!! Great info, Rick! As usual!
There was a documentary and concert recorded for the release of that album as well. Sting discusses how difficult it was to learn the lute. During the concert where he's playing only Dowland songs someone shouts from the crowd "Play Roxanne!" 🙄
I love watching a great rock musician like yourself, being so passionate about early and classical music. Music is not only the universal language, but it's also timeless.
I'm a metal/rock guy at heart. Ages ago I did three years full time at music school, classical guitar performance. Watching this put a lump in my throat, a smile on my dial and a life reaffirming/recalling chill down my spine. This touched my soul. Thank you.
I love the intricacies of this music, it's so beautifully orchestrated. What I found very interesting here is is during this lute "shredding" moments I can very clearly hear the similarities to Greek Bouzouki music I grew up listening to. The Bouzouki is a type of lute, and the phrasing and style are so similar, even to this very day. Amazing.
Ok. I started my vocal career with Renaissance madrigals. I didn't think I could have more respect for you, Rick, but dammit, you just exploded my head. AWESOME video!!
If you’re into this kind of music, and you are of Mediterranean origins (Spanish, Italian, etc.) you should also check out Jordi Savall and all the baroque & renaissance projects he’s been a part.
Makes you think, maybe some lute player back in the 1500's could have written the intro to Stairway to Heaven ( or something very similar ), but forgot to write it down and we never heard it again for another 400 years.
that stuff happens all the time. If one thinks of something but does not act upon it, it is still out there in the Universe for someone else to grab onto. And they always do. 🙏
Hello, Mr. Beato. This video exemplifies the reason I continue to follow your work. You are as comfortable discussing Late Renaissance compositions as you are covering Adele's latest song. Wide and deep is your musicological education, and we, your viewers, are the beneficiaries thereof. Your delivery is not arid but enthusiastic and appreciative. It engenders a renewed awe of ingenious music and its composers. Thank you for sharing your musicological expertise and the passion that it has stoked.
Amazing video. I am a drummer who has a background in jazz but ended up playing a lot of this kind of music at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, mostly with wind players. And this is what I found. The music swings! It has a groove! And the players get to improvise! I felt right at home. Well done Rick for reminding us of the joy to be found in music of all kinds.
Rick, I love your channel and, as a performer of Renaissance music, I am so delighted that you featured this! Another interesting thing to note is that, the passagework that Bream was playing at the beginning and a lot of the cool moments you pointed out with the singer, were improvised! That's one of the great things about Renaissance music: the tradition of improvisational ornamentation, which is often thought of as being alien to "classical" music. Dowland was really one of the great "pop" songwriters of history.
Fun fact: the sci fi grandmaster Philip K Dick was a huge Dowland fan. The title of his novel "Flow my tears, the policeman said" references Dowland's most famous song.
@@codswallop321 That's interesting. I was a huge Philip K dick fan back in the 90's when I was in my late teens. I read just about all his short stories and novels. Which song are you refering to please? OH and I still have a chuckle when telling friends about The Broken Bubble.
I'm in my middle 60s, l was brought up on this style of music in the uk because my dad is a huge fan. 'Stone age' music is what most classical musicians/singers tend to call it 😁. If you like this,try Googleing Michael Deller/ Counter Tenors
Wow...I enjoyed this so much. I also loved watching your face and movements as the music was played. What joy! I became involved in Renaissance music when I switched from classic piano study to 16th century HARPSICHORD in my senior year in college, to accommodate a new job as musician and historic interpreter for the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site (whew....that sentence fits those 16th and 32nd notes to the lute solo in "Can She Excuse My Wrongs"...lol). 46 years later, I am reviving my 'old' programs and presenting them in full costume, with period instruments, and the same love for this music that drew me in so many years ago. Thank you for giving me the boost I need to meet this challenge face-on, as you have simply...and profoundly...inspired me. Here's to Dowland, Julian B, and Sting! Nancy
I actually don't like Stings versions. No reason, but perhaps he's spent his career trying to sing American and now struggles with "plain" English which is a pure tone. If you listen to it in stone rooms you might understand that indefinable quality. My house is stone, and the acoustic qualities are so different to other building materials.
If you imagine it with a drummer in the background,very like certain rock to me!I think some of the stones studying folk music helped their later ballad compositions too!
Currently playing a 15th level Half-Elven Bard who has a Doss Lute. I managed to cast Charm Monster on two Bone Devils using it a while ago. He fights with a special pair of magical, crystal-bladed swords he crafted himself, that sound like paired glass armonicas as they cut through the air.
@@lev7509 Elizabethan authorship attribution is a very thorny subject. I agree that there is doubt about this particular sonnet, as well as others in the passionate pilgrim, but then again, there’s a lot of doubt about Shakespeare himself.
@@seanmatthewmills Yeah there is zero evidence William Shakespeare of Stratford could even sign his own name. Or ever attended any school or wrote anything whatsoever, himself. Not one letter exists evidencing he was literate, nevermind an author, nevermind playwright. All we have is works attributed to "William Shakespeare" most of which were published for the first time after the man living in Stratford was dead. As Mark Twain put it, he's a brontosaurus (ie a construct) put together out of "plaster of Paris" and assumptions.
Wonderful blog. I've tried to find the period performances on LPs for years in college used record stores. I'd scoop them up and take them home to listen to like treasures from the past. Thank you for highlighting this period of music. The beginnings of our present day harmonies and arrangements are all there. Well done.
Us 1590s kids appreciate young artists like Breem for bringing songs from our childhood back.
We don't have music anymore in the 21st century. Just some drum beats and heavy breathing. You kids were lucky.
you got one thing wrong, 15ty century means it started in 1400 and ended in 1499. And if you were born in 1499 (still a 15th century kid !) that would make you 91 years old which is kind of impossible for this period of time !
@@fraagglmid to late 16th to early 17th centuries. Interesting era for music just on the cusp of Baroque period!!
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I went to a Julian Bream concert in Edinburgh. I rode the bus, a poor student. A small man in conservative clothes sat down beside me with his instrument case. I said, I'm going to the Bream concert, and he said, so am I. As I went to the entrance, we parted, and he went to another entrance. Of course it was him. BUT HE RODE THE BUS!
A lovely story.
How thrilling! Thank you for sharing. ❤
Fantastic!!!
I caught one of his concerts in Germany in the very early 90s. Amazing.
I love that share!
Once I was at a fair tapping on about an author as I was buying her books. She tapped me on the shoulder and said thank you for all that. Would you like me to sign them?
Your story is even better.
It’s really terrific how Rick is introducing people to high quality music from many different genres and time periods.
And some bad...
That6what being an artist is all about. Rick is truly an artist. Yes, he is a performer, but the man IS an artist.
Yep-telling 3mlln subs to listen to Dowland and Bach can reorganize the world for the better.
It's a beautiful thing isn't it.
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This is what I love about Rick Beato: his openness to all kinds of great music. Priceless.
Rick, When I was at school, way back in the Baroque Era of the Early to MId '70s (1973 to 1977), we did woodwork, my woodwork teacher was so good that he was building a Lute during our classes, while we were doing the assignments we had to complete. THe big thing about this is he was building two, from scratch, One was for Julian Bream the other was for John Williams, two very good friends, who both came to the school to meet our teacher and we got to listen to them both play guitar and lute!!
Wow
So during the last Period of England then. All that culture since destroyed.
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It died with the ignorance of its listeners (refusing to listen to modern recordings because they think the older recordings are better)
Voice of Music is a good channel for instance.
@@topsecret1837 Not my point at all. England was as cultured as the OP described, probably surviving up till the mid-1990's, in my small University dept several of my tutors were world leading experts in their fields & wrote the textbooks that other tutors followed . Now that era can be considered a foreign country, gone forever, replaced by an absurd, stupefying ideology.
I'm with your wife. Not my choice of dinner music.
Imagine the composer at the time, being told that people would be getting down to his music 500 years later.
Downland was a badass, he would be cool with it.
Imagine explaining ŸouTube to him...
And “air lute.”
And he’d be listening to Cardi B wondering what happened.
“Well we got hit by a meteor.”
Oh, well OK then.
I ended up looking him up and showing some family members, we all enjoyed his tunes
For being dead for like 400/500 years hes got like 160k monthly listeners😂
I LOVED this video. Thank you. I'm an elderly English woman, who's first husband was an aspiring classical guitarist. He absolutely idolised Julian Bream, so much so that we named our first son, JULIAN. (He's now 66!)
I love this renaissance music, especially played on period instruments. Julian Bream was such a 'regular guy' with a really wide appeal. Here in London, we were all very proud of him & his ability to bring us the music of a distant era into contemporary life, which we otherwise might not have known of. It's lovely that American musicians appreciate him, too.
@Barbara Van Doren I hope you are doing great in this tough time.
What a beautiful thing it is
I saw Bream at the Perth Concert Hall in Australia in 1983, I believe it was.
I even remember the title and name of one of the compositions he played ("The Blue Guitar" by Michael Tippett).
I am 61 - born in the London slums, now living in a beautiful place in the country side in another country but for a little while, I played the recorders and violin in a group that played old English music - when I hear this, I feel it deep in my bones and my skin, even though classical music moves me so deeply the most, (and I love Kate bush, nick cave, sing along songs etc, aurora) this music almost takes me back to a past life - and I can feel the grime in my skin, the hunger in my belly. What a great channel!
I love the arts played on original period instruments. In the 1980s I was listening to a piece from the baroque period on the radio, and I said to my girlfriend, who happened to be mostly self centered, and below my IQ, I said to her, "Wow! This is being played on original instruments!" And she gave me such a dirty look. And she said, "How would you-uuu know?" I responded, "I can tell from the texture of the sound." She didn't approve of my answer. When the piece finished, the radio announcer mentioned it was played on original instruments, my girlfriend's face shown such anger. I'm always glad I broke up with her.
I am an old guy from Romania and I've just discovered your channel. It is the best musical channel on youtube for musical education. Absolutely amazing. Thank you so much Rick!
Fantastic! 500 year old music that stands the test of time.
only kids from 1500's understand this music.
A classic indeed
This piece of music made me weep .
How can an old English composer reach out through four centuries and put his fi get on a mind today. So powerful .
It made me weep too…probably not for the same reason though.
The power of music.
Because time is not linear and we are not our bodies ❤
Music touches our hearts through time because our hearts are the same as the past. We forget our endlessness
Because music is in the DNA of all creation.
Julian Bream, a hero of mine. I just love how wide ranging Rick’s tastes are. I’m with you on this man!
There is no music Rick hates.
Bream, Martha Agerich, Swervedriver and Holdsworth. Rick loves it all!
Yea I agree. It’s delightful and instructive.
We just gonna ignore Beato's Jerry Garcia look in that short clip?
I speak to many classical guitarist when I travel the world and 2 names keep cropping up Segovia and Bream.
Bream just had a way of making music sound magical. His Bach is out of this world.
I am just turned 19 last month, and I would never have heard of this beautiful music if it wasn't for Rick! Thank you for this.
My first record ever was Julian Bream playing English Renaissance music. It was in 1973, I was 10 years old. Loved this music ever since.
Speaking from experience, the key thing to understand about the music of the Tudor period is that it is super-fun to play and sing. I was in a fine choir at a university college with beautiful Tudor buildings, and as Rick says, performing this music in those surroundings is a life-enhancing experience!
They make damn good post-rehearsal pub madrigals, too. Does a singer with a tankard of beer qualify as a period-appropriate instrument? 😁😁
@@HandmadeDarcy Every now and again we would get together with one of the women's choirs for a performance. Afterwards we'd head off in a little fleet of punts and park ourselves under one of the beautiful bridges over the river Cam. The acoustic was great, and we'd run through our repertoire of madrigals. By the time we emerged, the bridge would be packed with bemused tourists trying to figure out the source of this mysterious and wonderful sound!
Ah... There is little more satisfying than hyperventilating in harmony with fellow humans 😊😊
@@HandmadeDarcy That qualifies perfectly. The most portable instrument of all.
Exactly, they weren’t concert pieces, they were a pastime and entertainment.
I recognized this song right away because I had that Sting album for 15 years and knew every song almost by heart. Back in Russia in St Petersburg long ago I went to concerts like that ( " Shakespeare's music"), they were wearing gorgeous bright colored clothes and girls were singing so beautifully.. They were dancing too! I still remember how much I loved these concerts! It was such a magic..
Awesome
Same
Edin Karamazov on lute!
To this day I am so grateful that my choir director back in 1969 in a small Alabama college introduced me to the music of Palestrina. To this day I can still sing, play and recall the lyrics of “O Bone Jesu” and “O Magnum Mysterium”. And I’m glad two years of high school Latin paid off so I could know what the heck I was singing. LOL
My late wife loved Renaissance and Baroque music throughout our 48 years together. Early Music was a passion we shared!
If its Baroque don't fix it..
Jethro Tull gets honorable mention here because they compose their own compositions which sound quite medieval, very much like Renaissance or medieval compositions, only they are contemporary, an amazing band
Contemporary is a relative term. Jethro Tull is half a century old.
@@mrw1208 🤪
@@mrw1208yes, rub it in… 😢
hear hear, I'm a big Tull fan
The 70’s Prog band “Renaissance” is a criminally underrated band who are aptly named. Their vocalist Annie Haslam is one of the best female vocalists of all time.
Thirty some years ago I was a bass player in heavy metal garage bands. I heard a recording of Bream doing Dowland songs with the tenor Peter Pears and began learning classical guitar. Before I finished my studies at the U. of Toledo (Ohio), I played one recital of that material with a countertenor. Still best musical experience of my life.
Dec 2024 just watched this… what an exquisite piece of music. Absolutely brilliant! Goosebumps!
As a former pro classical musician trying to expand into other genres, I love that Rick is so eclectic. Good music is good music.
this
Bravo!
Good music is good music! Rick knows this and so do you, thank heavens!!
Yes ! Good music is good music ! 😊😊😊
Kinda like Deep Purple.
My father sang opera professionally, and I did so in my younger years, though never professionally. I would say that people that listen to it growing up, or they learned it early, have a different appreciation. I watched my father sing with pavirotti and it couldn’t have impressed me more. My wife however could never know why or what I hear that moves me so much.
Paulcarter6962 wow, your dad must have been terrific. As children we listened to all kinds of music, classical, big bands and modern and pop. Musicals were also popular. I listen to Classic fm, and recently Mario Lanza was played. I d forgotten how incredible his voice was. My mum, always rated Pavarotti as tops, however, i think Mario has my vote. Beautiful to me
Id be interested to hear in your preference??
@@Jill-ps1rs my father was pretty terrific. It was tough for him coming up, but his voice carried him far. I don’t have many preferences as far as a voice is concerned. Pavarotti had a high note that never seemed to waver in power. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a bad note. I’m a bit closer to Pavarotti too, we have a few funny family stories whilst my father sang with him. However, my father was a Verdi Baritone, and I am a true bass, so I am swayed towards a darker voice that can be carried into higher tones. Samuel Ramey is one of my favorites too. Of course overall I love my fathers voice. It’s great to see others are still listening to this music.
Beautiful. I’m English. I think this music is in my dna! I hear very much the influence of this music in early Genesis with Peter Gabriel and in Jethro Tull too. I love that you’ve loved this sound for so long.
Love prog. Rock ..KC ,yes, old folkies, medieval ,barroque, greats from argentina 👈👌
Well said!!! Greetings from Italy (land of the best knonw and appreciated Prog Rock scene after the English one...)!!! 😉
I never made that connection, but now I hear it!
Yes, I loved Jethro Tull and early Genesis; and loved the medievally inspired pieces. They hit it hard in the 60-70's and have kinda gotten away from it. Love old English/Irish folk music as well.
Indeed!
I love Renaissance music! I have worn out every format of Waverly Consort’s “A Renaissance Christmas Celebration.” Imagine listening to this music in a candle and tree-lit room, fire blazing in the hearth and a glass of hearty red wine and a plate of cheese nearby. Heaven, I tell you!
OMG! I have this on record! I grew up with my dad listening to Bream and other classical guitarists and came to Love it myself as a little girl in east Germany. It is actually the root for my deep Love for all kinds of guitar music till this day. I inherited all my dads records and still listen to them.
Cherish them - they will be priceless!
I like how Rick talks about different genre's and not just modern pop and rock. And he doesn't just talk, he educates.
Dowland's songs are fantastic. I discovered them via the science fiction writer Philip K Dick, who was a fan. He even used a Dowland song in the title of one of his novels, "Flow my tears, the policeman said". I love the fluid movement between keys and major and minor in Elizabethan music. I was in a church choir as a kid, and always particularly loved music from that period - Tallis and Taverner, and things like the Coventry Carol. Really beautiful music.
Coincidence, I was reading Philip K Dick earlier today, for the first time in years.
Mike Alexander
Now that is fascinating! I love such ‘flo-thru’ cultural connections, as well as the work of Philip K Dick’, which l read from a young age.. ‘Flow my Tears, the Policeman Said’ are also the opening lines to an early song by Gary Numan. And ‘Bladerunner’, the title given to the film adaptation of Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Shape’, is taken from a story by William S Burroughs… and so on!
I had to give you a like for mentioning the Coventry Carol. ❤
Bro, he's always bringing out the best music of all time
I am a classical Cellist and I LOVE that era. That lute solo on the Sting version was nuts! I also play guitar and drums so I’m a little bit Rock and a little bit Classical. So glad you shared this music.
The Sting album is wonderful. I also enjoyed Classical Barbara, though I’m not a huge Streisand fan, I l over this album. And her talent unquestionable
That beautiful. That smart. And that talented. You are a triple threat to anyone standing in your way. I bow out and give you my leave.
You can't be a little ROCK and a little CLASSICAL. And, after all, renaissance is NOT yet entirely classical. If you're a bit of this and a bit of that you are, eventually, nothing of the both.
@@DombarableRepectfully, disagree. One can most certainly be a bit of this and that. I know I am.
well, renessaince and baroque are rack and roll! :D
I fell in live with Medieval and Renaissance music in high school in the mid-1960s. I was a charter member of Musical heritage Society, who sold a lot of ancient music. On our first date, I took my wife to a music fraternity party. It was boring, so we went to my place and listened to medieval and renaissance MHS records. Great times!
60's was my musical awakening. Late teens, very early 20's.
@larrymiller4 the 1560's
I took out an LP from the local library when I was about 11. It was David Munrow's New London Consort, "A Renaissance Dance Band" and I was hooked.
Watching Rick enjoy a song is life affirming.
The man is passionate about music - not just his music but all thoughtful, well-played music. It's infectious!
@@cedricgist7614 Some of the expressions he makes really crack me up. I could easily see him doing stand up /acting.
Air lute
Aire lute
Heir lute
Herr Lute
Err lute
Hair lute
Era lute
Theme and variations
SHREDDING on the LUTE...Dude! Thank you so much for being a Music Geek and PROUD OF IT. This video made me a subscriber ❤
Damien Kelly is one of my best friends since 2005. We are both huge Rick Beato fans and the fact that he features in this video has put both of us on a high! Hello from Ireland Rick! 🇮🇪
He sounds fantastic. I had a Julian Bream lo when I was a kid and it got me into classical guitar. He had his own tv programme back in the day on the BBC! Now it’s Married at First sight and all that crap….
It's hard to believe that such talented people are quite unknown even in their own countries.....Damien is incredible, I was very moved by his great performance....my eyes started sweating.
@@michaelholmes9874 yes. How did the BBC go so far down from such wonderful music and shows? Guess there was more money down there.
@@MrLeadb1 Had to say it.. Love your Leonidas' sign!! A positive affirmative to that !!
@@michaelholmes9874 except Married at first sight is not on the BBC.
Such a great piece! I forget how blessed I am to have grown up a classically trained musician with musician parents. Classical and jazz was a staple in our home and car. My husband just got me a speaker for my birthday and I've been playing classical for my kids every day during school time and it just changes the whole mood, it gets inside of you. Music used to mean something, we need to get back to that.
I wonder if Bach had any access to the music of Dowland, or other composer from this period...
You had parents? like...plural? 😦
Music has always meant something and still does. It’s just a matter of whether that particular piece of music speaks to you. Some modern stuff I hate, but I wouldn’t be so superior as to say it had no meaning.
Truth!
Yes, we do
Man, I love the way you get into this. Not just a musician yourself, but a musical historian, who obviously adores everything with a master’s ear and appreciation. You’re attitude knocked me out.
THIS!! Yes! Agreed
Excellent thank you Rick Beato
I discovered Julian Bream 30 years ago. I have always found his music timeless and beautiful. Beats modern pop music out of the water.
I saw Julian Bream in concert twice, he was an amazing guitarist. Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull always reminded me of a renaissance bard.
Exactly !!! Exactly ! You voiced my thoughts! Now I understand where Jero Tull's feet come from. Already in the 16th century this music sounds jazz-rock.
Yes!!!! Exactly!
@@SadkoLitsky Yes’s intro on “Roustabout” is reminiscent of some of this music.
ian anderson the medieval jester par excellence
That's what I like about Jethro Tull ,the intermixture of various medieval and modern instruments along with Anderson's artistry of words gives me that feeling of sitting by a fire back in the 14th century.
My Daughter & I love this style of music. The BBC plays this music in every Movie they make, depicting the music of the period. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Just when you think you got Rick Beato all figured out, he goes waaaaay back to Renaissance music!!! Really great to hear and learn about this.
And he gave a mention to the Fairport, NY library - which I have been to a bunch of times. I have since left NY State and miss Guida's pizza.
The only thing I've figured out about Rick is someway, somehow, he's gonna blow my mind and expand my musical knowledge on styles/topics I never even considered.
Well ... if he went over to german medieval rock he could have it all combined.
Ric you really are giving people an amazing music history. It’s so valuable to give people - especially young people who can only reference now for all their music references - the breadth of your music knowledge.
One of my favorite things on this planet, is listening to someone who shares thier joy and tries with sincerity to open that door to you. Bravo
You put it very well.
No matter the subject, I always listen with pleasure to those who show genuine passion in explaining.
Like Rick does with music
I am a classical guitarist and a huge Julian Bream fan. I am particularly drawn to Renaissance and Baroque music. Thank you for sharing this with others that enjoy your channel. I hope you will include more topics like this in the future.
Julian is great. His duets with John Williams are epic.
You must like Blackmore Knight
if it aint baroque,, dont fix it
happy to stumble upon a channel like this featuring music like this. So many people shrug off genuinely good music before having even listened to it simply because it's a little foreign to them.
I LOVE THIS VID! Thank you so much for bringing such a human response to this wonderful music! I’m a trained classical musician/singer /teacher ….. we need you …. Your passion fills my heart with joy as you innately understand it! All music has in one way or another come from these glorious roots! I’m subscribing! You are a beacon of Light! Thank you 🙏🏼 🎉
I like to listen to John Dowland's music when it snows.... So peaceful!! ❤❤
I love Rick doing his "Oh!" to lute playing from the 1500s.
I read your comment at the very moment he shouted "Oh!!!". A little surreal if I'm honest
The "Oh!" is truly timeless. 🤣
On my 70 bitthday, my daughter, who is a soprano, sang this beauty accompanied by bandoneon(!) played by her husband. So, so great.
I’m from 2007 and so grateful to have been shown this song.
Lucky you !
This would have been timeless if your wife had walked into the background when you started playing it, and rolled her eyes. Thank you, sir, as always. You rule.
😆😆😆😅
Yes! Very solid!
😂 With Rick dressed as a Renaissance man.
you look like a discord mod
@@chad9261 and you look like a nobody, "chad".
Hey Rick, this is (just one of the) reasons I am a big fan. I did learn Dowland tunes, and collected Julian Bream's recordings... and named my first son Julian. You are some guy! Love you!
I am from Mexico and though not being a native speaker this musician is so relatable, it almost feels that I am a musician or a music historian myself. 😅 So much so, it almost feels as well as if English was my mother tongue😅
Amazing communicator.
I am glad the algorithm brought me here🎉
Muchas gracias Sr. Beato😊
Shredding on the lute! I think there is plenty of Django in Bream's playing. (His dog was named Django.) He played in a jazz band when he did National Service and there are videos of him jamming Django-style. The lute players were expected to be able to improvise fast on the changes and had a lot in common with today's jazzers.
One of Al di Meola's favourite records was Bream's album of 20th century music.
I was lucky to have met Bream several times after concerts and he would just hang out and chat to the audience backstage. No ego, just talent.
How interesting! Thank you.
Django ~ ❤!
There’s a video somewhere of him playing with Stephane Grappelli the great jazz violinist. It’s not Julian’s music and Grappelli plays at a furious pace but JB mostly manages to keep in time…!
When Mr. Beato says "OH!!" on music from the 1500s...you know he's well rounded. Truly a legit sensei of music.
truly...
When you call him sensei, I think it'd be interesting to see his comments on Japanese pop music.
Well he was a music professor for many years lol
He has to discover the Japanese female guitarists next...true senseis of the axe!
Early Music will really blow your mind if you let it, man. The great thing about this video is that we get to see different ways to perform this song, which is a treat. Too often, this kind of music gets tied up in the straitjacket of "SERIOUS PERFORMANCE." I mean, yeah, it IS serious music, but as other people noted, this was written originally as a DANCE. It was alive! The more we get this music out into the world, the more chances it gets to live, and that makes me happy.
I played recorder and krumhorn in my college’s Early Music Ensemble. Renaissance music is EPIC. Then again, so is the Baroque.
Krumhorn. Oh yeah.
OMG, Rick…you bring back the memories. As a student I studied briefly in London in the early 1970s. Early music was very popular then. We used to go to all the early music concerts we could…indoors and outdoors. We were so poor that we would walk miles to save tube money so we could pay for our tickets. And student ticket rates were so cheap! Anyhow, this is a lovely reminder of those long ago days.
Memories are so sweet, the older we get. Don't you think? 🖖
Julian Bream and John Williams, the guitarist, gateways to the past for me.
It still is! Although, to be fair, I'm talking about period ensembles and orchestras rather than early music per se. Some of my favorites are Musica Antiqua Köln, Brandenburg Consort, London Baroque, Avison Ensemble, Raglan Baroque Players, AAM, La Chapelle Royale, Les Musiciens du Louvre, English Concert, English Baroque Soloists, Ensemble Vintage Koln, Les Arts Florissants, Bach Collegium Japan, AOE, La Petite Bande, and many more excellent period ensembles and orchestras.
Sounds amazing!
I was gonna say the same thing. Lots of opportunities to hear really well performed early and Baroque stuff in the UK.
Galileo's father, Vincenzo Galilei, was a professional lutenist, music theorist, and composer.
Galileo, Galileo
Galileo, Figaro - magnificoo
@@twenty3electronics Oh mama mia!!!!
I would not be surprised if it affected hi attitude towards the movement of stars and planets.
I had no idea! That's awesome.
My dad has diabetes
Ritchie Blackmore introduced me to Renaissance music through his interpretations of it. Great stuff. Very under appreciated
I worked with Ritchie once and he really did seem that he was a Renaissance musician in a past life. To the clothes he wore, to the castle like setting we recorded in, to way he held and played his guitar. I agree!
Ritchie always loved Renaissance music, and once he quit Purple/Rainbow he seemed much happier playing that style of music - I know he has made a comeback with Rock in recent times, but his real interest (and better playing in my opinion) is with this genre.
Same here. Love the 3 first Blackmore's Night albums.
@@Redplanetfilms1 yep he popularized those staccato runs in the context of rock and roll Rick was reacting to, and also lots of it with Blackmore Night’s
@@Redplanetfilms1 I've heard that he lives like a renaissance troubadour. No phone, no email address...
It is really really wonderful that you are playing music from the 1500s. They rock then and we should hear it.
Kudos to you
Rick, you really are a true scholar of music. Thank you for opening another door in the house of music.
Some of my favorite music! I never get tired of it
I came from a rice field in Southern Louisiana. I was sent miles and miles away to LSU in Baton Rouge. The bookstore held a huge record sale. I bought a Renaissance album. It took my breath away. The harmonies.
Life must have been AWFULLY dull in that rice field, if this music is a step up.
I’m from the rice fields and cotton fields in Central Arkansas, and I love this music, too.
@@dorasmith7875Non gustibus est disputandum. Translated from the Latin means: In matters of taste there can be no dispute. Music is a spiritual experience and speaks to our individual souls which are as unique as our fingerprints 🤗
@@lindanichols3415 I would agree if the new music nowadays wouldn't exist, I know people have different music tastes but there is good music and bad.
@@lukaszgalon3000there is no good or bad, just what you like or don't like.
This episode was really surprising for me, I wasn't expecting you to cover Julian Bream! I still can't believe he has left us; not only he's one of the greatest guitarists ever, he even brought the lute back to life. John Dowland's works were really groundbreaking. Thank you!
As a singer and classical guitarist who played and sang Dowland a lot, I find it absolutely wonderful how he let's Dowland's music (especially the parts with the hemiolas) just sweep him away and he can't sit still, like it's beat music or Rock'nRoll, which of course it IS. Dowland was the Mick Jagger of his days. Brilliant music, timeless.
This is now my favourite video of yours Rick! When you can't stop conducting along with the music, playing your "air lute", and looking like a kid in a candy shop, it's infectious :)
Seconded.
Coming third for the bronze, me.
I just got this image of Rick being at school playing the 'air lute'. Made me laugh.
Many musicians say music is their life but Rick is on a different level he’s well rounded in all aspects playing instruments, composing music, producing, engineering, college music professor, guitar teacher and the list goes on! Something I have noticed that is very true is when someones life is really all about music they really don’t have genre boundaries industrial metal music might be their favorite but they will also listen and appreciate almost any genre. I listen to a pretty wide variety I can listen to pop punk now and then listen to the orchestral radio station ur great grandmother listened to but I can’t say music is my life I don’t live and breath music anymore. I really have so much respect for guys like Rick and I hope the younger generations will have people like Rick so all the music from today to a thousand years ago will still be taught and cared about!
I listen to Renaissance music every morning as I sip my coffee and watch the sunrise.
Sounds too perfect to be true. The sun rises when it’s raining?
@@janel342be that as it may, the sun rises no matter what😅
That's awesome! I guess it only gets better if you happen to live in an old cottage in the woods and there's chickens, swine, and cattle roaming around... 😁
@@janel342NO WAY U JUST ASKED THAT 💀
I am a classical guitarist and very beginner lutenist and I focused on Early Music in my music degree. For Rick to turn his attention to likes of Dowland makes me feel joyous--and validated.
It's so refreshing, just for a little while, to listen to an intelligent chap sharing his enthusiasm for Renaissance music - and convincing me that it really is so beautiful. I have no talent for creating music, but I absolutely appreciate the quality of the music, and of course the skills of those musicians. Thank you so much. Cheers ! Sheffield South Yorkshire.
Dowland was early emo too: "He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep", "Come again", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe" and "In darkness let me dwell""
*Before anti-depressants*
@@thetruthchannel349 The only had wine, women and song as antidepressants... unfortunately, all three can also work as depressants...
Nobody did melancholy like the Tudors.
Most art was pretty emo then
I learned and memorized "flow my tears" in highschool. Always a favorite to sing for people because they never expect it!
I'm still underestimating Rick's huge amount of knowledge about music. Soo cool! I'm learning with every new video!
@Jonathan Crews Yeah, but can He play lft-hnd'd(joking of course)
Rick is the man and I love his knowledge and passion
This could be my favorite Rick Beato YT clip. Keep up the great work, Rick. You're the pied piper showing a new generation of musicians how vast the music universe really is.
I remember this little concert from years ago. Great.
I’ve always wondered why our current society shows little appreciation for Renaissance music or the instruments of the era. I love seeing this fellow savouring it. Great video.
Agree. In the best case majority of the people find it fun, in the worst they find it weird. 15th to 17th century gave us so many incredible pieces. I love this period.
It’s probably not exposed enough. It’s beautiful and charming with wonderful instruments.
Seeing him enjoy it is as satisfying as the music itself.
@@janeclarkson8471: Yeah! Charming!
I never understood why traditional music isn't popular... most "contemporary" music is Trash (me and my RenFair friends know where it's really "at").
“Shall I call her good, when she proves unkind”
Such a heavy lyric. Love it!!!
This song is sometimes known as the “Earl of Essex Galliard,” as it’s dedicated to Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex, who was executed for treason by Queen Elizabeth I.
@@bobbydellmusic After praying that God would preserve the Queen and asking the crowd to join him in prayer, he begged God to forgive his enemies. He then removed his gown and ruff and knelt at the block, looking up at the sky and saying the Lord's Prayer. After forgiving the executioner, who knelt in front of him, Essex repeated the Creed and then took off his doublet, as it was covering his neck, to display a waistcoat of scarlet, the colour of martyrs. He laid himself on the block, stretched out his arms and prayed, "Lord be merciful to Thy prostrate servant… Lord, into Thy hands I commend my spirit." After repeating two verses of Psalm 51, he could take no more and cried out, "Executioner, strike home!". The executioner swung his axe to behead Essex, but, unfortunately, it took three blows to sever his neck. When the deed was finally done, the executioner held the head aloft, shouting, "God save the Queen!"
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Essex had asked to be executed privately and accordingly, was beheaded on Tower Green on Ash Wednesday, 25 February 1601. He was aged thirty-four at the time of his execution and gained the distinction of becoming the last person to be beheaded within the Tower of London, he was beheaded at the same spot as Lady Jane Grey and Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn had been. The first blow of the axe hit the Earl of Essex's shoulder and it was reported to have taken three strokes by the executioner Thomas Derrick to complete the execution. …
@@teach-learn4078😊 no I'm not
@@christinesilberman8273 You’re not “what,” milady?
Same heartache, different century
Just when you think the art of guitar solo shredding is a product of the 1960s thru today, we clearly see this level of sophisticaticated playing dates all the way back to the 1500s. Very cool to see and thank you for educating and exposing us to a music category we most likely would never ever seek out on our own.
We LOVE that you are not afraid to post whatEver you like! Classical actually had a big effect on us, too.
Rick, the thing I enjoy most about you is you come across as less a sought-after professional music industry producer and more just a guy who genuinely enjoys music and just wants other people to enjoy it, too (and know why certain songs are great). You let the music do the talking while you're completely engrossed in it and it's infectious. Love your stuff, man.
Right?! He's like a Jay Leno of music! :D
Nailed it!
Finally a music producer with a lot of culture and rich in Information in America. Congratulations 🎉🍾
I never tire of Rick's enthusiasm. I would literally listen to anything on Earth based on his recommendation...just because I know it's something I should learn.
Wow, I was today years old when I learned of Julian Bream!! Thank you, I love this era of music, but I am a casual when it come to knowing this part of music history! Wow, new rabbit hole.
This is why I love Jethro Tull! They brought this sound to the twentieth century and repopularized the whole sound!
We’re gonna party like it’s 1599!!!! Great info, Rick! As usual!
@Michael Noland: exactly! the genius and talent of Ian Anderson\Jethro Tull. . .very best concerts of all performers of that era.
Cool stuff Mike! I love Tull so much! I bought Stand Up LP freshman yesr in high school. Hard to beat !
Yes, this definitely has a Songs From The Woods vibe to it.
@@neilvn Bouree also comes to mind. Love the sound!
listen to gravy train !
John Dowland was the man. I studied lute many years ago and have played all his music.
He was the Malmsteen of his day LOL
@Cayres9 😂
Sting did an entire album of Dowland songs on lute with readings from his diaries. It is titled "Songs from the Labyrinth."
Going to the search engine in 3...2...
There was a documentary and concert recorded for the release of that album as well. Sting discusses how difficult it was to learn the lute. During the concert where he's playing only Dowland songs someone shouts from the crowd "Play Roxanne!" 🙄
Featuring Bosnian lutenist Edin Karamazov.
Bowie did an entire Labyrinth album…
Rick Beato's, is a Hypocrite,still a good Guitarist but he criticize legendary Black Guitarist too much and does not have facts...
I love watching a great rock musician like yourself, being so passionate about early and classical music. Music is not only the universal language, but it's also timeless.
I'm a metal/rock guy at heart. Ages ago I did three years full time at music school, classical guitar performance. Watching this put a lump in my throat, a smile on my dial and a life reaffirming/recalling chill down my spine. This touched my soul. Thank you.
Listening to that show I was like "that's metal"
I love the intricacies of this music, it's so beautifully orchestrated.
What I found very interesting here is is during this lute "shredding" moments I can very clearly hear the similarities to Greek Bouzouki music I grew up listening to. The Bouzouki is a type of lute, and the phrasing and style are so similar, even to this very day. Amazing.
Yes I love the bouzouki too. On one of my trips to Greece I bought one from a builder on Aegina (small island)... good memories.
Yes!! I heard that too and was reminded of the bouzouki!! I grew up listening to Greek music from my Dad's side of the family.
Ok. I started my vocal career with Renaissance madrigals. I didn't think I could have more respect for you, Rick, but dammit, you just exploded my head. AWESOME video!!
Wow the first rock concert I ever went to was Sting in LA. I got joy watching how much you love this music.
I've seen Bream. I met him. I was a classical guitar student. OMG, he's the greatest. Such a character too.
This music just touches my soul. I’m a 67 y.o English woman and visit Medieval/Tudor buildings brings me alive…as does plainchant. Thank you for this.
If you’re into this kind of music, and you are of Mediterranean origins (Spanish, Italian, etc.) you should also check out Jordi Savall and all the baroque & renaissance projects he’s been a part.
JORDI SAVALL....my favorite!!!!
Yes and also one of his eventual musical partners, Rolf Lislevand, this guy is a genius just as Savall.
Big Jordi Savall fan here!
@jack mac lol sounds like it’s all in your head.
Thank you for the rec.
@Rick Beato, 71 yo Englishman Londoner here. TOTALLY mesmerised by the content of this clip, made me proud we have THIS in our history.
Makes you think, maybe some lute player back in the 1500's could have written the intro to Stairway to Heaven ( or something very similar ), but forgot to write it down and we never heard it again for another 400 years.
that stuff happens all the time. If one thinks of something but does not act upon it, it is still out there in the Universe for someone else to grab onto. And they always do. 🙏
He changed his mind and wrote “ Whole Lotta Love “ instead.
This is why i love love loveee the Tolkien Ensemble.
It’s Tolkien’s poems played and sung as if they’re renaissance pieces. It’s absolutely stunning.
You are so right.
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Great ensemble, not at all similar to music of the renaissance period tho
Hello, Mr. Beato. This video exemplifies the reason I continue to follow your work. You are as comfortable discussing Late Renaissance compositions as you are covering Adele's latest song. Wide and deep is your musicological education, and we, your viewers, are the beneficiaries thereof. Your delivery is not arid but enthusiastic and appreciative. It engenders a renewed awe of ingenious music and its composers. Thank you for sharing your musicological expertise and the passion that it has stoked.
I used to live in Fairport in the 70s. Whitney Farms. Used to be nice and rural, except for the 8' snowbanks
Amazing video. I am a drummer who has a background in jazz but ended up playing a lot of this kind of music at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, mostly with wind players. And this is what I found. The music swings! It has a groove! And the players get to improvise! I felt right at home. Well done Rick for reminding us of the joy to be found in music of all kinds.
Do you find the cadences of this similar to an Irish bodhran beat emphasis
Rick, I love your channel and, as a performer of Renaissance music, I am so delighted that you featured this! Another interesting thing to note is that, the passagework that Bream was playing at the beginning and a lot of the cool moments you pointed out with the singer, were improvised! That's one of the great things about Renaissance music: the tradition of improvisational ornamentation, which is often thought of as being alien to "classical" music. Dowland was really one of the great "pop" songwriters of history.
That makes me like this even more. So it will be different every time they play it, like The Grateful Dead, one of my favorites.
Very exciting
Rick Beato singlehandedly doing more for the preservation of music than countless scores of his peers. Amazing guy!
In the US. The rest of us already love it
Fun fact: the sci fi grandmaster Philip K Dick was a huge Dowland fan. The title of his novel "Flow my tears, the policeman said" references Dowland's most famous song.
@@codswallop321 That's interesting. I was a huge Philip K dick fan back in the 90's when I was in my late teens. I read just about all his short stories and novels. Which song are you refering to please? OH and I still have a chuckle when telling friends about The Broken Bubble.
I'm in my middle 60s, l was brought up on this style of music in the uk because my dad is a huge fan.
'Stone age' music is what most classical musicians/singers tend to call it 😁.
If you like this,try Googleing Michael Deller/ Counter Tenors
@@wondrinminstrel The song is simply titled "Flow My Tears", or possibly "Flow, My Tears" - look for it, it's gorgeous!
Wow...I enjoyed this so much. I also loved watching your face and movements as the music was played. What joy! I became involved in Renaissance music when I switched from classic piano study to 16th century HARPSICHORD in my senior year in college, to accommodate a new job as musician and historic interpreter for the Fort Raleigh National Historic Site (whew....that sentence fits those 16th and 32nd notes to the lute solo in "Can She Excuse My Wrongs"...lol). 46 years later, I am reviving my 'old' programs and presenting them in full costume, with period instruments, and the same love for this music that drew me in so many years ago. Thank you for giving me the boost I need to meet this challenge face-on, as you have simply...and profoundly...inspired me. Here's to Dowland, Julian B, and Sting! Nancy
I love John Dowland's music and I totally agree that it influenced a lot of pop-rock british music. It was great hearing Sting sing it!
I love the Sting version too!
I actually don't like Stings versions. No reason, but perhaps he's spent his career trying to sing American and now struggles with "plain" English which is a pure tone. If you listen to it in stone rooms you might understand that indefinable quality. My house is stone, and the acoustic qualities are so different to other building materials.
If you imagine it with a drummer in the background,very like certain rock to me!I think some of the stones studying folk music helped their later ballad compositions too!
My wife never liked this type of music either, but for a kid growing up in the 80s into fantasy novels, movies and D&D this was right up my alley
@Miles Doyle "But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."
Speaking of psalms, I'm a big fan of the 1555 Genevan psalm melodies. There's just something to those scales and harmonies of that time.
Currently playing a 15th level Half-Elven Bard who has a Doss Lute. I managed to cast Charm Monster on two Bone Devils using it a while ago.
He fights with a special pair of magical, crystal-bladed swords he crafted himself, that sound like paired glass armonicas as they cut through the air.
@ 7:55 really funny faces
i wonder what the older generation in the 1500's thought of this music. "dont you dare to go to the next castle-concert ! "
“Whose heavenly touch, upon the lute, doth ravish all human sense”
-Shakespeare.
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(the author of that specific sonnet in The Passionate Pilgrim is actually suspected to be Richard Barnfield)
@@lev7509 Elizabethan authorship attribution is a very thorny subject. I agree that there is doubt about this particular sonnet, as well as others in the passionate pilgrim, but then again, there’s a lot of doubt about Shakespeare himself.
@@seanmatthewmills fair enough ^^ i apologize for my "um actually" moment.
Whoever wrote that had a point though 👍
@@seanmatthewmills Yeah there is zero evidence William Shakespeare of Stratford could even sign his own name. Or ever attended any school or wrote anything whatsoever, himself. Not one letter exists evidencing he was literate, nevermind an author, nevermind playwright. All we have is works attributed to "William Shakespeare" most of which were published for the first time after the man living in Stratford was dead.
As Mark Twain put it, he's a brontosaurus (ie a construct) put together out of "plaster of Paris" and assumptions.
Wonderful blog. I've tried to find the period performances on LPs for years in college used record stores. I'd scoop them up and take them home to listen to like treasures from the past. Thank you for highlighting this period of music. The beginnings of our present day harmonies and arrangements are all there. Well done.