Handel: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba | Academy of Ancient Music
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Academy of Ancient Music performs the 'Arrival of the Queen of Sheba'; the Sinfonia to Act III from Handel's oratorio Solomon HWV67 [1748]. AAM are led by Bojan Čičić and directed by Christopher Bucknall at the harpsichord.
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ACADEMY OF ANCIENT MUSIC
director & harpsichord: Christopher Bucknall
leader: Bojan Čičić
Recorded at St. Jude on the Hill,
Hampstead Garden Suburb, London
January 2019
Music Producer: Adrian Peacock
Video director: Guy Wigmore
Recording Engineer: David Hinitt
Project: Academy of Ancient Music Season Sessions 18-19.
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I love this version of Handel's "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba". The tempo of the music is just right.
I just love Handel's music, this performance is exceptional.
Handel - my favorite guy!!!💙💙💙💙💙
She must have been running late
HaHaHaHaHaHa 🤣 🤣 🤣
better late than never
Bwahaha!
😂
This is so beautiful I can barely Handel my emotions 🥲
I Couldn’t Agree More! Such a Magnificent Musical Masterpiece🎶Evokes Pure Joy!!
You take that Bach!
@@mikeggg5671 Nah, I'm not Haydn anything!
@@cancelled_user you're going to get put on a Liszt if you keep this up
Ba-dum gish
At that tempo, she would have arrived early! Wonderful oboe players.
I had that same thought! Could probably back off on the tempo a bit, but still brilliant!
It seems everyone is in a hurry these days :) : czcams.com/video/C66XCqWkhmw/video.html
@Patricia - Very astute observation.
Am I the only one who is used to hearing it at this tempo? Lol
Magical hands! Amazing!
I love the obvious enjoyment that can be seen on the faces of the musicians. They aren't just playing notes. Wonderful, AAM!
If I had managed to become a professional musician, this is the only genre of music I would have played. I love baroque music!
@@infledermaus Mozart and Haydn and Bach family aren't bad, either.
I can't play a musical instrument in any way, but when I listen to music like this I wish I could make sounds like it. It must be the same joy as fixing things
Particularly the oriental girl. She is lovely.
Wonderful memories of this being played at a friend's funeral. He planned it himself, and this is what accompanied the coffin as it left the Canongate Kirk. We were all trying not to giggle. Joyful, beautiful and in my memory as camp as Christmas. I love music.💖
What a lovely thing to say. G
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, sinfonia for two oboes and strings by George Frideric Handel was created in 1749 at London’s Covent Garden Theatre as part of his new Biblical oratorio into the first scene of Act III in the oratorio Solomon. This one is rarely performed in its entirety, but Handel’s bright and lively interlude The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (in A major) is a widely appreciated processional set piece. In the Book of Kings, the Queen of Sheba travels from afar to visit the splendid court of King Solomon, arriving, as the bible mentions with a very great retinue, then camels bearing spices, and very much gold, and precious stones. Handel’s music admirably captures the excitement of a lavish state visit of an exotic foreign Queen, and first-night London audiences would have had no problem reading of Handel’s depiction and the coming of a compliment by their reigning monarch, King George II. Be like a good Prince in love with glory, and make a story of you. This king must have been a lover of art. *Lucien*
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I was already familiar with the biblical account of this event, but appreciated your background information regarding the composition and initial performance of this great work! I have always loved this piece of music, and Handel is amongst my favorite composers.
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O thank you Janet! It’s nice to meet a music lover. Handel is probably the one I admire unlike Bach who neither wrote an opera nor published a dialectical and musical book for to mention that this. I appreciate many this execution because it is played by a baroque ensemble. Sincerely *Lucien*
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Bach and Handel are my favorite composers, so- no surprise!- the Baroque period of musical composition is also my favorite. Yes, it’s great when the instrumentation matches with how it would originally have been performed…just sounds right. : )
Amazing! All of the beautiful Art Deco sets! And that TERIFFIC score!
Fabulous! Heaven captured in a melodious reverberation. ❤🎉
WheneverI listen to this masterpiece,
I feel like I am witnessing the arrival of that Queen of Sheba with Handel
Just love that this is played on baroque instruments, so it sounds like it would have when Handel wrote the piece.👍
The Beauty and Gorgeousness of Sheba must quench and moisturize the parched soul of us earthlings
Spirited and driving performance. Orchestra hits the mark every time. No sloppiness. Love the lute.
Lite or theorbo? Impossible to hear it!
The joy this brings to the listener. And I can see the joy on the faces of many of the players. Well done. I liked the tempo, made my blood race.
I love it this fast! There are a lot of very slow versions around but this tempo really makes it glorious and worthy of the Queen of Sheba.
I would like this to accompany ME wherever I go!
Oboes are especially fab!
Handel was sent by god to give joy to the world.
Yep Handel is a miracle of the music 😊
Are they all playing period instruments?
Concerning the sinfonia's tempo, it is more than fitting, for as the title suggests, the queen's visit to Solomon's Israel was a joyous occasion. Very nice performance!
This should be played at weddings after the recessional; to hustle the guests out so the next wedding can take place.
Simply breathtaking. I’ve only just started properly drawing from the well we call “classical” music. The font is deep and full of wonders.
This was played as I walked down the aisle at my son's wedding. I was thrilled that the organist suggested this!!!
I keep coming back to this recording. Thank heavens for young musicians like Christopher Bucknall who want to play this music and keep it alive!
Emotions are already handled for you. You can go soaring
Perfecto tempo! Joyful allegro... Thank you.!
I love this song and this performance. I used to use this song to sell high end audio all the time and then used it later to help teach storytelling with music and sound for the video game industry. It has always been one of my very favorites and you folks do a wonderful version!
I feel like this performance is so precise and perfectly modulated, for example the beautiful part around 2:38 with the descending bass and the building ostinati holding back just enough to make the payoff starting around 2:44 all the more satisfying
This specutacular performance they play with exquisite skill and breathtaking technique and beautiful attire is beyond description , inspirational and comfortable to the ear and the mind
There is something extraordinary in their specutacular performance
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Tokyo of the Land of the Rising Sun 🇯🇵
I’ve not seen this piece performed better. So very well done! Everyone in it is so great!
Ich Liebe den 🎻 Violinen, verein ! ( ...und die Damen...!! Sehr glorreich und gewandt____
Beautiful music i adore
Absolutely fantastic! Very well played.
Heavenly light and beautiful. Amazing grace...
Exciting, stimulating and beautiful, thanks Handel, and yes, the musicians do look happy, thanks Academy of Ancient Music.
Wow. Hearing this always brings me joy no matter what is going on.
This song makes me genuinely happy!
This makes my heart sing! Truly authentic and joyful.
What a performance such beauty ! Can't help but smile listening to this.
Brilliant my favourite piece of music
Vibrational frequency, sending shivers down my spine
Just scrolled through 8 of these and so far this is the best....
A delivery so perfect, a tempo so exquisite, a performance so enthralling and a Magisterial composition Handel could only have written for Majesty.
Exciting rendition of this wonderful music.
I love it at this tempo!
Love the music and love the musician's great enjoyment of their craft. Superb.
¡Hermoso! Sonido atemporal e idílico...
Merveilleux !
The AAM seem to "get" Handel's music better than any other orchestra....this performance is sublime❤
Adore this piece!
Beautiful musicians perfect I close my eyes I can feel the mood of crowd as she and her court sweep by the anticipation the wonder
Simply perfect! Beautiful music and brilliant good performance.
Amazing playing the orcestra were great. I really like it
The beautifully invigorating yet satisfyingly calming piece of classic classical music. The piece of divine music that first got me interested in the beauty of Classical music.
All those superlatives and I still haven't done it justice! But AAM certainly do, and I love it played at this tempo and with so much joy! Thank you
Classic example that music is the extraordinary and excellent art of combining sounds, Thaks for posting and share!
Amazing performance, bravo!!!! 😲😲🤔👍👍👍👍
This peace of melody makes me feel so real! That music take my energies up to to joyful! Sorry for my english but I feel so excited after listening to this magnificent melody 😍
"piece" ...
Emmanuel Delahaye grcias 😊
I actually prefer it at this tempo, even though it sounds like she'd be running for her life!
Why, I imagine there'd be a bustle around her instead while she herself will remain regal and graceful. :)
Start your day dancing to this and you're off to a good start!
You can dance and exercise too with The Hallelujah Chorus!
Amo essa composição de Handel. Ela me traz muita alegria e boas energias.
I feel the Queen is so excited and beaming in her face to meeting Solomon!😊
Just beautiful.
Another splendid performance of Handel by the AAM !
Just brilliant 🌟👏👏👏👏🌟
Fantastic and joyful! 🎶
so beautiful.
So beautiful ❤
Amazing. Thanks. 🤗🙌👏
Sunday 7:05 in the morning of 17 september 2023 listening to handel i know that my sunday will be wonderful.
Excellent!
heel mooi gespeeld leuk om naar te luisteren
Beautiful music of great virtuosity and remarkable skill. The joy of music through the ages, lives here right now!! Most majestic and divine performance! [`Salutes!!]
Very beautiful 🍃love it🍃
I can just picture all of Solomon’s servants bustling around to this music tidying everything up before the queen arrives.
An african beauty
one of the most memorable DJ's on Boston's PBS station in the 60's and 70's was Robert J. Lurtsema who had a radio program in the morning and played only Classical Music, this was his introduction music
As well as William Pierce from WGBH Boston, who was the announcer for many many years of the Boston, Symphony Orchestra in Symphony Hall. Knew him well as I worked in Symphony Hall throughout college at New England Conservatory of music.
Beautiful!
Such ACCOMPLISHMENT ~~
Perfection!
I love classical music. This work is one reason I love classical music!
U make pop / hip hop music in matter of time (small time) like even weeks (for a music (rest - words and more) normaly about 6 months. But Classical music is way harder to create/compose (For geniuses like Mozart it wouldn't take that much (Maybe 1 week or more) Less than a month normaly. But for others it may take months ba... Years (even 3 if they had alot to do) working on others every day, so yh.
A great piece of classical music
Amazing! Bravissimi! You made my day!
Thank you so much !
I love the piece, and I love the fact thatit found its way into the Score for "The Singing Detective"
Well done and uplifting.
Gracias por compartir.
Handel and Bach both German geniuses!
wonderful!
Wonderful performance!
Beautiful ambience, my friend. I love that miserere mei.
Wonderful.
Superb. Love that smile at the end. Happy Christmas. Rob. X
Happy birthday to gerog frederic handel! This is a lovely performance
Hail the queen!
Esta música é maravilhosa
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💕 Belíssimo!
Straordinaria esecuzione
Una meravigliosa leggerezza..
Sooo emotional❤
Beautiful rendition!
One's views on how a piece "should" be performed usually depend on whose version you were first familiar with. I first heard this piece in the 1950s when it was the fashion to play it more slowly. At this speed you have visions of the Queen and her entourage donning their running shoes and sprinting in.
Unless they are walking at half-tempo.
Or unless this is not meant as entry music, but just to herald the imminent arrival.
Or, as another commenter said, it is meant to evoke the scurryfunging of the staff before the arrival.
Excellent.
Love from Eritrea, well done!
You beautful people