George Butterworth : Two English Idylls. William Sidney Cooper : Paintings.
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Both of the "Two English Idylls" are folk song based rhapsodies, drawing on tunes collected by Butterworth himself in the county of Sussex. They are played here by the Halle Orchestra, conducted by Sir Mark Elder.
The paintings are by the English artist William Sidney Cooper.
While George Butterworth died too young and so terribly, his music will live on forever. There is such ethereal beauty and lightness about his works that capture one's heart and its secret wishes.
Even without the pictures, just by closing your eyes you instinctively know that you are in England. Beautiful and relaxing music to relax with a medium sherry at the end of a trying day. Praise Jesus for the beautiful gifts talent he gives to millions of people.
I am a 66 year old professional musician but I never heard of George Butterworth. I am glad this is my first meeting with his music.
Try Butterworth’s SHROPSHIRE LAD. TH E BANKS OF GREEN WILLOW. I’m sure you’ll enjoy these too.
The atmospheric music with its traditional folk themes and the tranquil rural images combine to evoke memories of a local girl that I had a genuine fondness for many, many years ago, though who married someone else. I used to walk the woodlands and country lanes near where she resided , bringing to mind many English folk tunes which she also liked, when she and I attended a village pub folk session, plus romantic images of her. For me, an unobtainable woman...
This evocative piece reminds me of an idyllic summer afternoon I spent a with two of my students walking the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside a few years ago. We were looking for the ruins of an ancient Roman villa in North Leigh, far off the beaten tourist track BTW. But we did find it!
I found so many unknown (to me) wonderful artists on CZcams while accessing music.This combination is so appropriate. Thanks
Pleasure, glad you enjoyed it. Putting these videos together has been something of a learning experience for me too, I didn't know a thing about art and artists before I started doing it.
Lovely landscaping, detailed farming animal paintings, clever compositions
When would they have been painted?
This music is so fitting for William Sidney Cooper's beautiful work
This is delightful and pure artistry. Of its time and beyond. It’s an aural record just like photographs of that time.
🌻🌴What happy music, I like it because it brightens my day, it calms me down and it looks like the countryside of a place that is familiar to me!...Thank you Mr. Harris for letting us know all your Glorious works!!!...You are very good at sharing, very good.❗️✔️
I greet you from my field controlling and observing with my beloved Dark...🌻🐎👱♀️⚒️‼️
Thanks for your kind comment Malena. Glad you enjoyed this one, it is quintessentially English, based on folk songs.
@@davidharris2844Hello and good afternoon Mr.Harris,...it is so pretty but so pretty!!...it makes me happy to hear it!...you are very kind and I am very grateful for these beautiful important songs...it makes me happy!... Now I am with Dark looking at the river, which brings many camalotes with their flowers... simple flowers and the sun makes them shine... pretty pretty...🐎👱♀️🌴🌻🌳👍👌🤞👋‼️‼️
English Idyll No. 2 was used to great effect as theme music for that wonderful British television series Six Centuries of Verse, written by Anthony Thwaite and presented by John Gielgud. Marvelous series! Sublime music! Thank you so much for sharing it.
Glad you enjoyed it Richard and that it brought back memories of a pleasurable television series - not so many of those about these days.
@@davidharris2844 I continue to be addicted to this marvelous performance of a sublime piece of music, especially the Second Idyll. It is awful to think of all the musicians, poets, husbands, wives, sons and daughters who were killed in that awful war.
@@richardbernard1839 And yet the stupidity of war persists, usually fuelled by the insane greed and egotism of just a handful of people - think Putin.
The Halle and Sir Mark Elder have made some excellent recordings of British music, this is just one of them.
Sublime music which takes be back to my childhood. As for William Sidney Cooper's painting they are exquisite - such amazing detail. Perfection personified. Thank you so very much for uploading this beautiful piece of work.
It's a pleasure, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
This is fabulous music and along with William Coopers paintings its becomes so evocative of the English countryside, perfect
Merci David Magnifique ! Merci .George Sainton Kaye Butterworth, né le 12 juillet 1885 à Londres, disparu le 5 août 1916 à Pozières (Somme), est un compositeur de musique anglais.
Biographie
Son père, Sir Alexander Butterworth, était avocat, directeur général de la North Eastern Railway à York où George a grandi avant aller à l'Eton College.
Au collège, son talent musical se révéla. En 1904, il alla au Trinity College à Oxford. Il y rencontra Cecil Sharp et Ralph Vaughan Williams. Après ses études, il enseigna pendant un an à Radley puis étudia pendant une courte période au Royal College of Music. Il se consacra ensuite à la recherche de chansons folkloriques avec Vaughan Williams.
Engagé volontaire dans l'armée anglaise (British Army) dès la déclaration de guerre en 1914, il est affecté au 13e Bataillon d'infanterie légère de Durham avec le grade de lieutenant. Il fut décoré de la MC et cité à l'ordre du bataillon, pour sa défense d'une tranchée.
Envoyé en France lors de la Bataille de la Somme. Il y fut tué le 5 août 1916, abattu par un tireur d'élite et son corps n'a jamais été retrouvé. Son nom fut gravé sur un des piliers du Mémorial de Thiepval, à quelques pas de Pozières.
Œuvre
Sa musique est « simple et économe ». Aucun compositeur n'a mis avec autant de talent les poèmes de Housman (1859-1936) en musique.
En plus de ses compositions, il est également connu pour sa contribution à la renaissance de l'intérêt pour la musique et la danse folk anglaise au début du xxe siècle.
Il reste aujourd'hui une quinzaine d’œuvres de ce musicien, mort à l'âge de 31 ans.
Heureux que vous ayez apprécié la vidéo Pascal et merci pour votre commentaire informatif.
Beautiful calm has dropped over me
These are Butterworth's earliest surviving orchestral pieces. No. 1 is dated 1910-1911, No 2 is dated 1911. There is a third (more below). These two were first performed in February 1912 in Oxford.
The songs he used (as Butterworth titled them) were:
Idyll 1
Dabbling in the dew, noted by Francis Jekyll at Ticehurst, Kent, '06
Just as the tide was flowing, sung by Mr Weeks, Ticehurst, IV, '07
Henry Martin, sung by Mr G. Hillman, Shoreham Workhouse, I, '09
Idyll 2
The dark-eyed sailor. Two versions, the first sung by Mr Knight (c. 60), Horsham, IV '07.
The second version sung by Mr. Lockec. 70) Rollerby, Norfolk, IV '04
As I said, there is a full score in the Bodleian of "English Idyll III". It has never been performed, and was not really known about until Howard Ferguson deposited it there in the 1960s. Ferguson had got it from R. O. Morris, Butterworth's lifelong friend (they had met at a dancing class in York at the age of 6).
English Idtll III dates from 1912 and is, in effect, The Banks of Green Willow. But everything except the harmonies and structure is different - particularly rhythms and orchestration. Butterworth revised it in 1913, retitling it The Banks, etc.
Música de fundo linda e imagens admiráveis...... é uma verdadeira viagem 😍😍😍. Parabéns pelo ótimo vídeo. Grande abraço.
Prazer, ainda bem que você gostou Carlos.
I live in an urban setting yet this can take me away to a place in my mind far away from the big city.
Love the view of Canterbury Cathedral from the water-meadows of the Stour. In my opinion Canterbury's central tower (by John Wastell) is the loveliest in Christendom.
This is wonderful.....
When will David Harris post more of these beautiful combinations of music and paintings? They are so good. Thank you David.
Hi Lee and thanks for your kind affirmation of my efforts. I haven't definitely stopped doing the videos, but I just seem to have run out of ideas at the moment. Having said that I have been thinking recently of having another go.
Thank you for art accompanying this wonderful music
It's a pleasure, I'm glad you enjoyed the video.
Well happy to ear from you .. Always as much .. (of charm) .. "take away the wind" .. with what you present. Thank you for this, and nice day, David :)
Pleasure Lejay, glad you enjoyed the video. Best wishes.
Lovely. Thank you. I only have 'The Banks of Green Willow' here on cd(Richard Hickox). Shall look these up.
Glad you enjoyed it Douglas. There is a cd by the Hallé, conducted by Sir Mark Elder, called "English Rhapsody", which features Butterworth's "A Shropshire Lad", "Two English Idylls" and "The Banks of Green Willow" beside works by Frederick Delius and Percy Grainger - well worth seeking out.
Butterworth died far too young in that bloody war. What a loss to music, particularly English music. For some reason I associate him with Shropshire but apart from his setting of 'A Shropshire Lad' he had little to do with that county. It just strikes me that the Shropshire hill country round about the Clun Valley, Stokesay, Hopesay, Bishop's Castle etc is rural England at its most profound and Butterworth is England's most profound pastoral composer. Brave, cultured, talented and apparently very modest: Butterworth was the best kind of Englishman. This is a tribute from a somewhat nationalist Scot by the way.
Indeed, what a loss. His music, (at least that which I know), is unassumingly passionate and, as you say, redolent of the countryside. "As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness, to the end, to the end, they remain."
Butterworth did collect songs in Shropshire at least once, accompanied by Leo Schuster. Mainly around Newport and Albrighton.
Thanks Scottie. Too many died in that garnage.
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A most beautiful tribute, I agree that he perished before his time. However, so did so many. One who made it through that madness was Ivor Gurney. He did not escape unscathed as his subsequent life bears witness to. Despite his injuries, and I think, his mental anguish he went on to write more music and poetry.
Absolutely stunning
Beautiful melody !.sad end for true musician.
Happy New Year to all who are listening. Good luck in 2023.
Hope you're happy..you've had me addicted all morning and have not gotten a thing done...lol I forgive you! I needed this today :)
Glad to have been of service, if only to keep you from your chores. Bide well.
These are magnificent paintings!
Extraordinary well psinted animals,almost alife,great skies,imcredible old trees,just love it,so thanks,fos sharing,and ocourse,this very gine music!
Pleasure, glad you enjoyed it.
Amazing. 👍 👍 👍 👏 👏 👏 🙋
Tragic that these fine young men gave up their lives for nothing!! They have been utterly betrayed!!!
A lot of the pictures in this video remind me of the meadows by the river Severn in Gloucestershire where I have worked for many years.
I know one of the folk songs Butterworth uses as The Parting Glass.
War is marly a series of disputes. A series of disputes that then involve the population as pawns. The disputes between rival factions is one of a cival matter and can be negotiated. The issue is when the population is pulled into the conflict between the tyrants. We then start to play to the pieces we have been forced upon us. Let's not let our brothers and sisters kill each other at our expense for a cival dispute between tyrants. Instead we can use our voice as a population to save our brothers and sisters and to hold to account the tyrants responsible for the attrossities asscioated with such conflict and disputes humanely, ethically and morally.
Utterly sublime and bucolic. I see one comment at least “praising jesus” for the skills of this wonderful composer and the musicians performing it, where was your invisible friend in the sky on the day this talented gentleman lost his life in an ugly war? Omnipotence and omnipresence means being responsible for everything or …. nothing! Mysterious ways ? The convenient eternal cop out.
There is a much more fruitful way of looking at the comment about "praising Jesus." It makes perfect sense, when one feels the gratitude that must arise when something touches one's heart deeply, to extend this gratitude to something or someone. If Jesus symbolizes all that is good and true, peaceful and loving. it is natural to give thanks to him for such an experience. To be grateful to goodness for the goodness one feels, doesn't make goodness also responsible for evil as well. Goodness is just goodness, and if Jesus represents the source of that goodness, that is reason to be grateful to him for all that is good. Nor does he have to represent that to everyone for it to be perfectly appropriate for those who see him in that light.
Exquisita gracias por compartirla
Muy contento de que lo hayas disfrutado Francisco.
David, this was fabulous! Music and artwork! I especially loved the cow paintings at 3:23, 3:34, 3:49 4:00 (can you see what looks like a cow face in the rotted tree? Maybe it's just me...or do you think he tried to paint it in, or maybe it was an accident just turning out that way. Also noticed he got better at painting the cows as the years progressed. Would love to frame 7:30 and 8:19 to hang. Cows are my fav on a farm, doesn't matter what kind really. They all have a special quality about them. In Texas where I was over 40 yrs, I absolutely loved the longhorns...incredible animals and when I saw the Belted Galloway ("Oreo" cow), I fell in love all over again with them. I had never seen them before, so in my 30's I was like a young child filled with excitement. Although I never got to touch one...still a disappointment. There are some farmers (Amish I think) who have the Scotland Highland cows (reddish brown in color) here in PA. One lives close and saw another farm about 30 miles away the other day who had a few.
Think I've got the cow in the tree; left eye visible, looking almost head on? Just chance and our vivid imaginations, methinks. Glad you enjoyed it.
old old England
David Harris. You are certainly right about the tie to the countryside of Butterworth's pastoralism. I think he does something else. I think he ties the English to their deeper history. In 'The Banks of Green Willow', for example, he quotes 'The Cutty Wren' which may well be dated back to the 14th century and a version of which was reputedly sung by the rebels marching to London during the Peasants' Revolt.
What are we but an amalgam of self, experience and the lives of those who have gone before? History is in us all. Your knowledge and love of Butterworth is clear; it can be a wonderful thing when we are affected by another's vision.
The older I've got the more music has grown in importance to me. Bach and Richard Strauss are my musical 'bookends' and English music has come to much more prominence in my musical habits. It is a real pleasure to have this exchange of views with you.
A pleasure for me too John. I think you appreciate music to a greater degree when you actually listen to it, something, perhaps, you don't always do when you're younger. Also, personally, there are voids in my existence now which listening to music and reading go a long way to filling and that is a real boon.
I doubt any of this was conscious, though. There are three tunes in Banks, the opening one a variant created by Butterworth himself, but largely based on the singing of the Cranstones of Billingshurst; the second is the Cutty Wren tune, though Butterworth noted 5 versions of it, all as Green Bushes. Again he concocted an amalgam, but largely based on the one he collected from Mr Puttock of Pulborough in July '07. The third tune is near the end (after Green Bushes) when a solo violin plays a version of Banks recorded (phonograph) from the singing of David Clements in Basingstoke Workhouse in August 1906 by Charles Gamblin and George Gardiner (though often wrongly attributed to Vaughan Williams or even Butterworth himself).
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The tunes Butterworth used in these are (in order):
Idyll No. 1:
1. Dabbling in the dew (collected at Ticehurst, Kent, by GSKB and Timmy Jekyll, 1906)
2. Just as the tide was flowing (sung by Mr Weekes at Ticehurst, Kent, in 1907)
3. Henry Martin (sung by Mr G. Hillman, Shoreham Workhouse, Sussex,Jan. 1909)
Idyll No. 2:
Fair Phoebe and her dark-eked sailor (two versions - version 1 from Mr Knight of Horsham, April 1907; version 2 from Mr Locke, Rollerby, Norfolk, April 1910).
Butterworth wrote an 'English Idyll No. 3' (the score is in the Bodleian) that has never been performed, let alone recorded. It is from 1912 and is in effect a first version of The Banks of Green Willow. All the same tunes are there, treated similarly, but with dozens of small changes to rhythms. And it's scored very differently, using the same orchestra as the Two Idylls. He revised it in 1913, completely changing the orchestration and writing for a slightly smaller orchestra (and of course changing the title).
The tunes used in Idyll 3/Banks of Green Willow are:
1. The Banks of Green Willow (altered version of that collected from Mr & Mrs Cranstone of Billingshurt, Sussex, June 1907)
2. Green Bushes (an amalgam of several versions he collected, but most like that sung by Mr Puttock, Sutton, Pulborough, July 1907)
3. The Banks of Green Willow, second version (the violin solo near the end is from a phonograph recording of David Clements in Basingstoke Workhouse, recorded by Charles Gamblin in August 1906).
George Butterworth: sacrificed for what? Paving the way for Hitler.....🥵
Shut up🙄
Lovely video again David, thanks for the post. I wonder what these great artists would of thought of Banksy's masterpieces,lol
Pleasure, glad you enjoyed the video.