You possibly have heard versions of songs as old or older. Barbara Allen by the Everly Brothers and many, many others - approx 1650, Scarborough Fair (early version) by Simon & Garfunkel and many, many others - 1670, probably older.
@@bruceringrose7539 Maybe older, maybe younger, but older and younger are not 400 years old, so older and younger are not an exception to what I said. Not even 399 or 401 years old songs.
You’ve probably heard some other songs that are as old or even older than this, you just didn’t know they were that old or you’ve heard them so many times that you don’t even think about its origin
17th Century Mom: YOU AND THAT MELANCHOLIC MUSIC AGAIN! WOULD YOU CEASE THIS NONSENSE AND ATTEND TO YOUR STUDIES!?! 17th Century Teen: THIS IS NOT A PHASE, MOTHER!
@@currentofthesnake8486 Fun fact: Croats wore proto-ties during that war to hold their shirt's long necks and parisian aristocrats turned it into a fashion
I agree. I always have to stand up to sing. I perform traditional folk ballads acapello and standing is the only way I can actually project. I am very impressed by her performance.
@@melissapinol7279lass es dir gefallen und singe im Sitzen…. hier siehst du es und dies kannst du auch. ( meine Vermutung bei dir: du gibst viel laute Stimme ?! Im Sitzen kannst du lernen verhaltener und akzentuierter zu singen… klar, im Stehen gelernt, aber lehne dich mehr zurück und höre Dir zu…..es wird besser !)
Leave me here alone. Return, birds, to your nest. While my soul, and my pain I give up on these shores. I want no one else with me Other than a cold rock and my fatal pain. Leave me to die. Sweetest sirens Who, with such merciful song Sweeten my suffering And soften my weeping. Go elsewhere to swim Dampen the waves' cruel scorn. Leave me here to die. Calmest winds Return to your cave. I asked that only my harsh laments Remain with me. I do not call upon your sighs. I wish to end my sufferings alone. Leave me here to die. Joyful lovers! Revel in your delightful pursuits. Wild creatures, swimming Flee from my sad gaze. Let only the sweetness of death Open its doors for this final longing. Leave me here to die. Eyes filled with greed That upon dying Spill the bitterest tears. Your compassion comes too late. I already sense my strength fading. Oh greedy eyes! Your compassion comes too late. I am already bloodless and lifeless...
@@susanaaragorn8606 My exact question, I want to know ehat happened to the person who wrote this, it sounds like they had such a deep self hatred, maybe someone who commit a great mistake but the words are clearly coming from a kind person
I would send this video to an opera singer I know, but if he sang it, our hearts would break. Amazing, after 400 years, the pain is the same, and it's raw, and beautiful, and I want to thank you both for letting us hear it.
It’s been said that when Brandon performed this piece at its debut, he proclaimed that the vocal performance on that night could not be surpassed. I believe that on THIS night perhaps it was. Bravo!!!
I thought it was going to be Monteverdi's 'Lasciatemi Morire'. Wasn't too far off, I guess. I hadn't heard this before. Wonderful performance, as I'd expect :) That low note has such a satisfying booming twang.
Wow, there are a lot of... not great... versions of the song on youtube. The one I'm familiar with was performed with voice, as indicated. I think the publisher is Arcana; Michel Bernstein Editeur (conductor?)
this song here is a very beautiful one, and sad too. But it's correct that "remember me" from purcell's dido would claim the title of specifically saddest song even more.
I really like your tone when plucking closer to the bridge. It almost has piano-like qualities of dense, melancholic higher harmonics clashing together, with those low strings too.
Сколько драматизма, чувств и грусти в этом великолепном исполнении!!!!!!!! Какое счастье иметь возможность наслаждаться этой прекрасной музыкой! Благодарю!
Note that the introduction on solo theorbo is a prelude in A minor from Robert de Visée... a french lutenist born probably after Death of Francesca Caccini !
You have a very beautiful voice lady, and this was an amazing performance. Have you ever heard of La Mia Tristezza? It's a soundtrack from my favourite 90s video game, called Genso Suikoden.
honestly i'd be surprised if they weren't MORE depressed long ago when the world was small and death and hardship were the status quo. ppl didnt live long if they made it to adulthood at all, old age was riddled with agony, forced marriages, bad hunting, crop failures, war, raids, disease. If i could travel back in time I'd find this person and tell them somehow, that it's all worth it in the end. Even though our compassion comes 400 years too late, and their tears have long returned to the water we now drink, and their last sigh has become the air we breathe, their pain is remembered and shared. Maybe they can rest unburdened now that we all share in the weight of their loneliness
Stille Amare in a feminine version . Very dark indeed but beautifully sung and played ! Could also be somewhere in a Shakespeare play. Congratulations to you both!! ❤❤❤❤
@@stubbsmusic543 I think you may be misunderstanding something here. Are you aware of the inside joke, with love and admiration, about Brandon being a vampire?
Beautiful music comes from the soul, whether in joy or sorrow or excitement or whatever strong emotion. Here are a few examples from my collection-- you don't have to agree with me, I's jest babbling: : Space for Rent (Two Steps From Hell) isn't too sad, it's more contemplative. And it has a gorgeous triumphant part toward the end. : Perhaps most people wouldn't call Memphis (The Ventures) beautiful, but I think it is, in a rockin' sort of way. : Bumblebee in a Jug (April Verch) is fast and exciting and has some serious musical maneuvers (I can hear that bee in there) : Barbara Lamb's version of Say Old Man, Can You Play the Fiddle? is fast and really stunning. : Surfer Girl (the Beach Boys) is slow and pretty, but not sad. They grew up singing in church choir and just translated their harmonizing skills into the surf music genre. -- Like somebody said "the Blues, c. 1600", I expect Lasciatemi qui solo was the equivalent of the above kind of popular pieces back then
@@pappyfiddle "Hello in There" is also one of the saddest songs, as is "Lost for Sure," a Dion B side. The particular genre from which "Lasciatemi qui solo" comes from is filled with these kinds of songs, but this is certainly the most graphic and emotional one I've heard.
I love this song, hearign it the first time in an interpretation of Arpeggiata (in my opinion one of the greatest ensembles of our times). Alsho this is a terriffic interpretation. Writing from europe it is moving that also in the US Early Music has friends and excellent musicians performing those treasures of mankind. I really am thankful to Brandon Acker in the highest way for being a charming and serene embassador for this beautiful kind of music.
gorgeous...also recommend purcel's when I am laid in earth sung by jessye norman - a video and performance for the ages, but not as intimate a instrumental setting as you create here with period string instrument.
You do so well with many "Pluck" instruments. It's where I hope to be some day. I'd like to see you try, for fun, a different instrument to see how you do. I am a violinist who recently picked up the guitar. It's a different ball of wax but there are a few skills helping me learn the guitar faster than I expected like ear tuning, music theory, and left hand working strings although I'm finding I have a love hate relationship with frets. I wonder how you'd do with a hammered dulcimer or a bowed instrument or even just experimenting with a guitar bow.
I was listening to this radio program and the person being interviewed, a young African-American jazz singer who said she had taken lute lessons, sang this terrific English rennaissance tune that went something like "my love, do not lead me on with such cruelty". The song was structurally innovative and I'd like to know what it was or the singer or composer's name, so if anybody knows....
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Exquisite! Thank you.
would love for you to post songs from your band back in your rock 'n' roll days!
I'd love to learn lute
"I want no one with me other than a cold rock and my fatal pain." Damn
For a second I thought that you wrote “a cold duck” 😂
Have you attempted painting?
This is both the saddest and the happiest 400 year old song that I have ever heard. Also the only 400 year old song I have ever heard.
Traurig ?
Wieso ?
@@ilseilse3824 Only.
You possibly have heard versions of songs as old or older. Barbara Allen by the Everly Brothers and many, many others - approx 1650, Scarborough Fair (early version) by Simon & Garfunkel and many, many others - 1670, probably older.
@@bruceringrose7539 Maybe older, maybe younger, but older and younger are not 400 years old, so older and younger are not an exception to what I said. Not even 399 or 401 years old songs.
You’ve probably heard some other songs that are as old or even older than this, you just didn’t know they were that old or you’ve heard them so many times that you don’t even think about its origin
17th Century Mom: YOU AND THAT MELANCHOLIC MUSIC AGAIN! WOULD YOU CEASE THIS NONSENSE AND ATTEND TO YOUR STUDIES!?!
17th Century Teen: THIS IS NOT A PHASE, MOTHER!
Tha same teen = Brandon.
Studies? Back then you would either tend to the homestead or if lucky enough prostration in church.
@@KandiKlover not if you were rich
@@KandiKlover Tradwifes were very much the norm back then :)
@@KandiKlover Italian noble renaissance emo more likely - probably not for the peasantry if the composer was taylor swifting the european courts
Goth/Emos: our music is the saddest ever
Dowland and Caccini: hold my lute
That was during the Thirty Years' War, so if people knew what sadness was, it was then.
@@currentofthesnake8486 Fun fact: Croats wore proto-ties during that war to hold their shirt's long necks and parisian aristocrats turned it into a fashion
This control and projecting power whilst being seated is really impressive vocal craft.
I agree. I always have to stand up to sing. I perform traditional folk ballads acapello and standing is the only way I can actually project. I am very impressed by her performance.
@@melissapinol7279lass es dir gefallen und singe im Sitzen…. hier siehst du es und dies kannst du auch.
( meine Vermutung bei dir: du gibst viel laute Stimme ?! Im Sitzen kannst du lernen verhaltener und akzentuierter zu singen…
klar, im Stehen gelernt, aber lehne dich mehr zurück und höre Dir zu…..es wird besser !)
agree
@@melissapinol7279 agree
@@lukasgiese2331 but obviously leads to bad hearing and intonation…
Leave me here alone.
Return, birds, to your nest.
While my soul, and my pain
I give up on these shores.
I want no one else with me
Other than a cold rock and my fatal pain.
Leave me to die.
Sweetest sirens
Who, with such merciful song
Sweeten my suffering
And soften my weeping.
Go elsewhere to swim
Dampen the waves' cruel scorn.
Leave me here to die.
Calmest winds
Return to your cave.
I asked that only my harsh laments
Remain with me.
I do not call upon your sighs.
I wish to end my sufferings alone.
Leave me here to die.
Joyful lovers!
Revel in your delightful pursuits.
Wild creatures, swimming
Flee from my sad gaze.
Let only the sweetness of death
Open its doors for this final longing.
Leave me here to die.
Eyes filled with greed
That upon dying
Spill the bitterest tears.
Your compassion comes too late.
I already sense my strength fading.
Oh greedy eyes!
Your compassion comes too late.
I am already bloodless and lifeless...
Does anybody know in which context was composed this beatiful piece? Sound like a crusader after a battle by the sea
Thank you 🙏
@@susanaaragorn8606 My exact question, I want to know ehat happened to the person who wrote this, it sounds like they had such a deep self hatred, maybe someone who commit a great mistake but the words are clearly coming from a kind person
Friggin THANK YOU for giving the lyrics. Was scrolling and scrolling. Since they didn't put them in the description.
😢🙌🏻
I would send this video to an opera singer I know, but if he sang it, our hearts would break. Amazing, after 400 years, the pain is the same, and it's raw, and beautiful, and I want to thank you both for letting us hear it.
It’s been said that when Brandon performed this piece at its debut, he proclaimed that the vocal performance on that night could not be surpassed. I believe that on THIS night perhaps it was. Bravo!!!
Love that Brandon liked this comment and is playing along with the vampire reference in good fun.
Was not prepared for this at all! Absolutely breathtaking
Yoooo I loved playing this one in concert as a duet. Just extremely beautiful piece to be a part of performing. Y'all did great.
Impeccable performance (as expected) of a beautiful piece. Thanks for the subtitling.
Thank you for the subtitles ❤️
Everything about this is grand, subtle, virtousic, strange, wonderful, alien yet familiar - altogether... magnificent!
A perfect description.
So expressive, lovely , and beautiful. Wonderful performance. Thank you!
I thought it was going to be Monteverdi's 'Lasciatemi Morire'. Wasn't too far off, I guess. I hadn't heard this before. Wonderful performance, as I'd expect :) That low note has such a satisfying booming twang.
That's another great one! Thanks :)
Wow, there are a lot of... not great... versions of the song on youtube. The one I'm familiar with was performed with voice, as indicated. I think the publisher is Arcana; Michel Bernstein Editeur (conductor?)
Josefein does so great for these songs. Excellent performance as always, thank you for sharing this, Brandon!
I was also expecting montiverdi's lasciatemi morire from the title, but this is a FANTASTIC rendition of this piece! Great stuff!
i was expecting something written by John Dowland or the likes.
@@deadby15 I was also expecting something but then again the algorithm brought me here.
The saddest song from this period is "Remember me" from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (1689), and that's it, every sparrow knows that.
Lol
It’s never that serious 😂
Only it predates Purcell.
The title is "When I am laid in earth", or simply "Dido's Lament".
this song here is a very beautiful one, and sad too.
But it's correct that "remember me" from purcell's dido would claim the title of specifically saddest song even more.
Absolutely, yes.
I really like your tone when plucking closer to the bridge. It almost has piano-like qualities of dense, melancholic higher harmonics clashing together, with those low strings too.
Thank you very much for this performance. I needed that. ❤
I love the oldies. This takes me back...
Vampyre!
Dear Hearts, exquisite. Purely exquisite. All Love
I love sad songs!
Flow my tears...
the Policeman said?
"When I am laid in earth", Dido's lament from Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
My goosebumps have goosebumps. This is beautiful
😂👍🏻
What a beautiful video! Such a wonderful performance! I'm even happier with the translation of the lyrics. ❤ Thank you for posting.
Our sweetest songs are those which tell of our saddest thoughts
Beautiful piece, tremendous performance by both of you
Saddest and maybe the most gorgeous❤ May the cruel waves quell!
Сколько драматизма, чувств и грусти в этом великолепном исполнении!!!!!!!! Какое счастье иметь возможность наслаждаться этой прекрасной музыкой! Благодарю!
The feel good hit of the summer. Really good in seriousness
But, but, but….. I don’t wanna cry at 10:40 am on a Tuesday!!!
I’m at work, dagnabit!!
Si rare les femmes compositrices de cette période qui eurent une reconnaissance. Et pourtant elles existaient. Merci pour ce merveilleux partage 🙏
Really catching a moment I've seldom heard in song: very moving and thought-provoking. Lovely performance.
Love how you snuck a bit of a De Vies prelude in there!
that was some deep OG blues.
Bravi! Magnificent. Thank you for sharing your performances. Looking forward to many more!
Marvelous performance from two wonderful artists!
Beautiful.
Damn!! This was ruthless!
Note that the introduction on solo theorbo is a prelude in A minor from Robert de Visée... a french lutenist born probably after Death of Francesca Caccini !
That was amazing! Thank you so much for sharing!
Masterful………such a great and moving performance!
Such a great performance from the both of you! Brandon, is this pretty much how it would have been performed in he 17th century?
Thank you 😊
We are playing in as historical a way as we are capable, yes.
I want hear the piercing echo of cold castle walls glimmering in the candlelight!
😅🎸🎵🎵🎵
Brava e Bravo.
Fantastic. Josefien- oh my! 😊
Gosh this is heavy and beautiful. The hopelessness and defeat.
So HAUNTING.. Absolutely beautiful song!
Stunning performance, and the tone of your instrument is intoxicating, I would love to mess with one for a month or two.
A month or two would barely have you scratching the surface.
anyone know the name of the instrument??
@@johndough6225
Theorbo.
Incredibly beautiful
Hey voice is... incredible. I wish this was 8 hours long.
Wow! Haunting and beautiful!!!
Beautiful
Thanks, passionate and beautiful
You have a very beautiful voice lady, and this was an amazing performance. Have you ever heard of La Mia Tristezza? It's a soundtrack from my favourite 90s video game, called Genso Suikoden.
That was fantastic, wow.
The Blues, circa 1600. This lady has terrific chops!
Chops???
@@juliasmaistrla4407It’s slang for “the ability to sing.”
@@juliasmaistrla4407 "Chops" = excellent technical ability & playing capacity. Originated with horn players, I suspect.
@@spartacusjonesmusic haha thank you!!!
I think I prefer Portuguese fardo.. the instrument is clearly designed for a half man half 🦑..
The fact that even 400 years ago people suffered depression the same we did it's insane
honestly i'd be surprised if they weren't MORE depressed long ago when the world was small and death and hardship were the status quo. ppl didnt live long if they made it to adulthood at all, old age was riddled with agony, forced marriages, bad hunting, crop failures, war, raids, disease. If i could travel back in time I'd find this person and tell them somehow, that it's all worth it in the end. Even though our compassion comes 400 years too late, and their tears have long returned to the water we now drink, and their last sigh has become the air we breathe, their pain is remembered and shared. Maybe they can rest unburdened now that we all share in the weight of their loneliness
This is so beautiful. 😢😢😢
Holy holy holy
This is something beautiful 😢
Lovely performance.
Beautiful collaboration. Few audio glitches - perhaps mic related - don’t really detract from a live performance. Bravo!
Incredible performance.
Sounds stunning with subwoofer
beautiful
So beautiful 😢
So incredibly nice on the Ear!!!
Am speechless
It was beautiful
Beautiful lute you play there Brandon..
Stille Amare in a feminine version .
Very dark indeed but beautifully sung and played !
Could also be somewhere in a Shakespeare play.
Congratulations to you both!! ❤❤❤❤
Absolutely fabulous ❤
Superb. And heartbreaking.
You put some Robert de Visee A minor prelude in the beggining? NIce blend
Yes good catch!
"Weep o mine eyes" by John Bennett, written 1599, is also beautiful and very sad.
Amazing!
she made me tear up😥
I got goosebumps 😮
Wow, that was primal !!!
Spectacular
hmmm...don't want to listen to this song right now but I'll hold onto it-may serve as a fount for inspiration in the future
I'm sure Brandon remembers this song like it was just yesterday.
Lol😂🧛
If you learn to not be such a prick - you might survive to be old. But I doubt it.
@@stubbsmusic543 I think you may be misunderstanding something here. Are you aware of the inside joke, with love and admiration, about Brandon being a vampire?
Yeah, like all of two years older than Trump 🙄
That’s a good one 😅!😂😂
Bellissimo ❤❤❤
Wow. That's deep ❤
Why is it that sad songs are always the most beautiful? 😢❤
Beautiful music comes from the soul, whether in joy or sorrow or excitement or whatever strong emotion. Here are a few examples from my collection-- you don't have to agree with me, I's jest babbling:
: Space for Rent (Two Steps From Hell) isn't too sad, it's more contemplative. And it has a gorgeous triumphant part toward the end.
: Perhaps most people wouldn't call Memphis (The Ventures) beautiful, but I think it is, in a rockin' sort of way.
: Bumblebee in a Jug (April Verch) is fast and exciting and has some serious musical maneuvers (I can hear that bee in there)
: Barbara Lamb's version of Say Old Man, Can You Play the Fiddle? is fast and really stunning.
: Surfer Girl (the Beach Boys) is slow and pretty, but not sad. They grew up singing in church choir and just translated their harmonizing skills into the surf music genre.
-- Like somebody said "the Blues, c. 1600", I expect Lasciatemi qui solo was the equivalent of the above kind of popular pieces back then
@@pappyfiddle "Hello in There" is also one of the saddest songs, as is "Lost for Sure," a Dion B side.
The particular genre from which "Lasciatemi qui solo" comes from is filled with these kinds of songs, but this is certainly the most graphic and emotional one I've heard.
"Sad songs say so much"
PURE positivity
I dig the beat!
Beautiful and a treasure! What is the instrument?
Theorbo
I have a title revision idea: "The Saddest Song I've Heared in 400 Years..."
I go to a whole other place when she sings, "Leave me here to die."
Sting did an album of court songs by Jonathan Dowland. "Songs from the labyrinth" is the album name. Lute and guitar.
This song would make a great soundtrack for a movie or videogame somewhere.
I love this song, hearign it the first time in an interpretation of Arpeggiata (in my opinion one of the greatest ensembles of our times).
Alsho this is a terriffic interpretation. Writing from europe it is moving that also in the US Early Music has friends and excellent musicians performing those treasures of mankind.
I really am thankful to Brandon Acker in the highest way for being a charming and serene embassador for this beautiful kind of music.
Only thing longer than the grief in her notes is the neck on that lute!
gorgeous...also recommend purcel's when I am laid in earth sung by jessye norman - a video and performance for the ages, but not as intimate a instrumental setting as you create here with period string instrument.
You do so well with many "Pluck" instruments. It's where I hope to be some day. I'd like to see you try, for fun, a different instrument to see how you do. I am a violinist who recently picked up the guitar. It's a different ball of wax but there are a few skills helping me learn the guitar faster than I expected like ear tuning, music theory, and left hand working strings although I'm finding I have a love hate relationship with frets. I wonder how you'd do with a hammered dulcimer or a bowed instrument or even just experimenting with a guitar bow.
Great music!
I was listening to this radio program and the person being interviewed, a young African-American jazz singer who said she had taken lute lessons, sang this terrific English rennaissance tune that went something like "my love, do not lead me on with such cruelty". The song was structurally innovative and I'd like to know what it was or the singer or composer's name, so if anybody knows....
Love the single premature clap. It’s not finished… ok, it’s finished.
That Viseé prelude was satisfying