G.F.Haendel - Watermusic (Minuett I-II-etc)

The Banqueting House
Whitehall London
TRILION PICTURES (1987)
present
George Frederick Handel's
"THE WATER MUSIC"
English Bach Festival Dancers: Sarah Cremer, Ursula Hageli, Alison Pooley, Angela Robinson, Chris Evan, Ray Holland, Rai Harell, Richard Slaughter
Choreography: Belinda Quirey
Dancers Costumes from original designs
Realised By Derek West
The English Bach Festival Orchestra
Directed By and Solo Violinist: Christopher Hirons

[@nebraful8312]

Life is short! Art is eternal! 2021 this music is still a hit 300 years after it was composed!

[@adabridgettei9509]

2022 aswell

[@nebraful8312]

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[@fancy91317]

2023 as well!

[@Piotr-ug8xn]

2024 as well!

[@cleliamaria5551]

This music was composed 300 years ago and stil is Hit. So Beautiful ! I love it. ❤

[@burkewhb]

This is the most elegant dancing I've ever seen. It's a shame it's not done more often in the modern world.

[@alexindiano5712]

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[@alexindiano5712]

William H. Burke, Jr. ¿pero que hablas del nombre de su madre?

[@lizardboy2566]

It would be wonderful if we can convince many people to revive this style cause it is so beautiful and important in western classical music. I especially want to revive classical music to a baroque style cause I'll be a composers in college

[@burkewhb]

Tyler Rodriguez I'm glad there are people like you around, Tyler, who like classical/baroque music and wish to be a composer. Without people like yourself I'm afraid classical music may disappear in 100 years or so. What a tragedy that would be!

[@lizardboy2566]

Well, I'll do my best. Perhaps college can help me begin a new movement of new classical music, in which I can help teach it to everyone, including people who haven't embraced this genre.

[@neosannyasin8022]

Oh God, that G minor flute melody is killing me... 😭😭😭💔💔💔 too beautiful for this world. Feels like my heart is cut in two.

[@user-hd3gm3sc2e]

Как красиво, чёрт возьми!... И музыка и танец...

[@o20nivel]

Majestic, proud, graceful, elegant, educated, slim, musical, and above all, beautiful.

[@user-uo3dq4qv1u]

Old dresses and costumes.... And it's music... Great.

[@bruschmidt9943]

Plus authentic 18th Century period instruments

[@nancygoo3405]

I feel like I've been transported back into the 18th century...love it!

[@JLeeGraham]

This, I believe, is the best example of a Minuet and Gigue I've seen danced in an authentic setting. I've seen instructional videos on the specific dance figures, but never anything so beautifully and faithfully executed. The costumes are wonderful...heck, even the orchestra is in costume, playing period instruments and using period technique. Rapture!

[@FrederikVanHolland]

It's all beautiful: the dresses, the music and the dance.

[@morevaseret]

Beautiful! There are still plenty of us around who do this kind of dancing.

[@itsmadisonb]

😍😍 so elegant, the lady looks like she is floating

[@CoraleeJSmith]

Brings back the good old days 40s; 50s and 60s!! Thanks for posting!!

[@johnlavery6116]

I agree

[@bruschmidt9943]

You do mean 1740's, 50's & 60's yes?

[@catherinem7155]

Beautiful, just beautiful

[@wenyingzhu3633]

Such beautiful costumes. I kind of wish this fashion would come back into style.

[@christinaredshaw5257]

So do I! All I can do is draw and paint people wearing them, which makes me long all the more that these old fashions would be revived.

[@infledermaus]

That's wonderful! So graceful. An insight into my favorite period of music, art, architecture, and customs. Thank you so much for posting!

[@user-lg5ny6sr6l]

Восхитительно! Сказочно прелестно🧚‍♂️

[@sergelachantee767]

давай потанцуем!!!💃🕺

[@FrederikVanHolland]

I love this elegance and beauty.

[@annnliva]

Really beautiful! I wanted to dance with them! ♥

[@sosome57IHateGooglePlus]

Aside from seing this a few steps of this type of dance in the movies, this is the first time I've seen baroque dance in costume. It's almost ballet. Quite beautiful, like everything else in the baroque. Händel sure could write a song or two! Working on these pieces right now. Easy, wonderful. Thanks so much for sharing this video.

[@joelcastillon5869]

Esto es arte puro, musica exquisita, baile delicado y elegante, que vergüenza las porquerías que hoy en día están de moda, el asqueroso reggaeton y la porquería del perreo, hoy estamos artisticamemente en un penoso retroceso, el arte barroco en general es maravillosamente grandioso.

[@coriannem5208]

I love this music

[@helenzumaran4609]

Hermoso, cuanta elegancia, que deleite todo, me encanta : )

[@manuelgilbertorubiogonzale3255]

Simplemente, hermoso, maravilloso y sublime. Gracias por compartir tanta belleza musical!!!

[@Whatever_Happy_People]

Wonderful i found this dance while reading Victor Hugos' The man who laughs great novel.

[@elvikito23]

la primera pieza me pone la piel de gallina penetra en mi y me elevo hasta el cielo, esta melodía lo escuche en la serie Stradivarius con Anthony Quinn, Diosque grande Haendel, Gracias por este hermoso video Tobit

[@johnlavery6116]

Handel was a far ahead of his time, and when you see this ,it confirms that..Greetings from Ireland

[@kolyaa1485]

Que hermoso... gracias por esta oportunidad de revivir tiempos nunca antes vividos

[@thomasgriffin5340]

So many baroque masterpieces on this channel I would love to see the entire film from where those clips are extracted.

[@sybilinemissterre697]

Que de grâce, de charme, de prestige et d'allégresse ! De plus Haendel étant un génie ! Quand on voit les danse de sauvage qu'on a maintenant! Quelle triste décadence !

[@JaneDoe-bg3fl]

J'ai scrollé vers les commentaires me disant que j'allais irrémanquablement lire des nostalgiques frustés se lamentant sur la décadences des moeurs. Je n'ai pas été déçu et ce dès le premier. Merci youtube, je t'aime

[@kianasteadman3359]

C’est vrai!

[@RhNegA-]

Those where the days my friend...those where the days !!

[@nebraful8312]

Wonderful minuet, beautiful dance and video, unrepeatable!!!💖💫

[@TRIBALTECHNIK]

Beautiful, Fantastic and Outstanding!!! :-) Thank You :-)

[@51gemma59]

What a great breath to listen such a wonderful music and to see the calmness movements of the dancers!

[@deliagussefeld8462]

wonderfull, today I can judge that. But in my new school in Hamburg, in a girls gymnasium, we had to dance the menuett, and very unfortunately I as a 11 year old girl had to dance the male part, I was tall. But very unhappy. 1966.

[@charlesyoung9980]

The quality of the video is still superb after 300 years. 😆😆

[@IrenedeMarzolagatamayor]

¡Tanta belleza!¡Tanta elegancia!

[@jesusestevez4817]

The music have not prefferences of classes, is beautyfull!!!

[@tobit2008]

This video was ripped from a VHS: The Banqueting House - Whitehall London TRILION PICTURES (1987) present: George Frederick Handel's "THE WATER MUSIC" English Bach Festival Dancers: Sarah Cremer, Ursula Hageli, Alison Pooley, Angela Robinson, Chris Evan, Ray Holland, Rai Harell, Richard Slaughter Choreography: Belinda Quirey Dancers Costumes from original designs Realised By Derek West The English Bach Festival Orchestra Directed By and Solo Violinist: Christopher Hirons.

[@IbisSanchezSerrano]

Too beautiful!!! ;) Thanks for sharing!

[@LudovicusDux]

Endless grace...

[@roselaineribeiro5073]

Os bons costumes dever sempre ser mantidos afinal de contas coisas boas e bonitas são para pessoas de bom gosto e sofisticação. 💐☺🥰😊

[@szilvavirag]

So so beautiful!!!

[@grunt74]

Oh man - I've been looking for this everywhere... had the whole suite on video as a kid... great post

[@chuanfengli1149]

Woa it’s so elegant and it makes me calm🤗

[@veratereschenko3600]

Волшебной, неземной красоты произведение!!! Спасибо!

[@annecohen8927]

Wow....so graceful are these dancers.

[@bruschmidt9943]

They were all Professional Ballerinas before they took on this assignment! Unmatched skill & grace, possibly even better than it was performed back in its heyday.

[@RickAintStoned]

Such beautiful costumes. I kind of wish this fashion would come back into style.

[@tanukimikan5162]

We'd have to widen the doorways in most buildings, so no thanks XD.

[@MrRQBQ]

Retro unleashed. Wouldn't fancy taking my driving test dressed in that clobber.

[@rockytoronto]

Me too!!!

[@domdom3938]

@@MrRQBQ What do you mean? 'Driving' a horse wouldn't be too hard in that

[@mformiscellaneous1697]

No thank you I rather keep my ability to breathe and eat.

[@elevatorproductionsbymaxpassa]

They played this song 2 weeks ago during the daytime classical music program on 88.5 WFCR which is my local NPR station.

[@Arlianor]

Den inledande menuetten är sagolikt vacker och ett stycke jag alltid tyckt väldigt mycket om. Kul även att se det dansas till musiken i tidstypisk klädsel. Suveränt.

[@jonathan3504]

¡Qué maravilla de minueto! Definitivamente un entendimiento coordinado entre la pareja. Un baile que estaba en las altas esferas por su belleza y estilo.

[@CuteCatFaith]

Lovely music, dance and costumes. I had to learn the minuet in public school in Ohio. It actually is not difficult and artistic nuances are fine if you wish to add them. Greetings from Paris. Uprated, shared.

[@Beach_comber]

A lovely venue too: a striking Inigo Jones building in central London, with a fantastic ceiling painting by Rubens. Unique!

[@dengziyan953]

WOW , that was lovely and I liked when the separated their hands.

[@galapagosecuador]

I like this clip. I think the dancers had done a excellent work ****Moreover,the costumes are beautiful****Congratulations!!!!

[@danceclubpirouette]

Красота!!! beautifully!!!

[@Buba8773]

Splendida musica e meravigliosi interpreti. Uomini e donne bellissimi, che ricordano un tempo in cui ogni azione era onore ed amore per la vita. Onorare se stessi e prendersene cura sono un onore ed un "dovere". I primi ospiti di noi stessi siamo noi stessi. Lo sapevano, lo professavano. Onore a loro. Spero di poter imparare da loro. Quanto all'élite... Sì, c'era... Ma.. Quanti di loro offrivano tanto di ciò che avevano, per gli altri? Le testimonianze esistono. Ben nascoste, ma ci sono!

[@stagecraft3169]

Bravissimi tutti ! Every 'period' performance company should see this, the product of the wonderful Belinda Quirey's years of work. It's not done over-night.

[@globaljg]

Listening to and playing Handel's Water Music remains one of the profound experiences of my life.. Thanks for the post... I hope this makes a comeback someday!

[@giovannadegobbi9731]

Bravi e bellissimi!

[@josenavas5859]

I was taken by their performance and lost myself in the music and time....

[@rossmegon]

Marvellous. Thank you!

[@CoraleeJSmith]

THANK YOU SIR!! PUT ON SOME MORE PLEASE!! THANKS!!

[@marshmallowman60]

Who else is doing their music hmk the night before?

[@danielahaller4264]

Pring L meeee

[@dazzersfootballstand2002]

Pring L yes I am lol

[@wriggleby]

Me lmao

[@jonasnobes8122]

Me hahaha

[@marshmallowman60]

We're all in a gang now nice job fellas

[@oxihozem6349]

beautiful

[@user-yy5qc7eu7v]

Прекрасно!!!

[@riccardobiffoli628]

Bravissimi/e ballerini/e, suonatori e ottime le riprese, che permettono di apprezzare questa splendida esecuzione. Quando il balletto barocco assurge a questi livelli, torna ad essere vicino al nostro senso di leggerezza, armonia. I danzatori paiono farfalle, piume, condotte da una mano invisibile che fa loro formare continue figure immaginarie, come un trinato danzante.

[@ha-ni-ru-ga-3792]

素晴らしい動画をありがとう

[@weix423]

What a jewel! Thank you for the video!

[@Rumundjin]

Oh my, this is beautiful. thank you so much for uploading

[@jont.andreassen9492]

Wonderfull - both music and dance! :) :)

[@evewiemer]

Very beautiful!

[@valtergilenardi2639]

Stupenda la Musica di Handel; stupendi i balli del 700...🎼🎶💖

[@Valentinianii]

i love this type of danceing absolutly fabulous thanks for uploading it :)

[@MrGunterguerrero]

Magnifique sens de la beauté, images et musique !

[@vwaxyz]

Wonderful!!!

[@Roberto23939]

Splendido,musica e interpreti

[@LAchickee]

Thank you for posting. Beautiful and elegant.

[@elsvrolijk5305]

This is so great! Thanks

[@dom.johannesbenedicto.s.b.3832]

Such a stirring music video. Truly an age of Class and Refined Style that now lost on this Generation

[@bruschmidt9943]

Amazingly performed. Reality check: Somehow I doubt most of us "peasants" would ever be at or viewing such festivities, even back in the Day. This was reserved for the Elite Class.

[@lunadicorallo3416]

that is beautiful

[@debattol]

Simplement magnifique

[@izabellamardo1074]

Belo vídeo, muito obrigada.

[@ella717]

Thanks !

[@Eleni_E]

Why don't people dance like this today? So much nicer than other stuff I see. XD

[@bruschmidt9943]

The dance wouldn't go with today's outfits or styles. People would tend to change it up & create modern variations 👎. If U also mean, why don't they dance like this & in clothes like that, is another story.

[@Eduardo640]

Realmente bello, gracias por compartirlo

[@Suelfin]

Adorei tudo que esse pessoal apresentou. São bons!!! Demais!!!

[@CoraleeJSmith]

Thank you Sir!

[@edimarpbabarreto2978]

Esplêndido, Bravo,linda música muito nobre.

[@user-tu4ho6gk5v]

Good !!!

[@AlexeyRUS_]

Europe will always amaze me with the beauty of its culture! Show me something similar from asia or africa? :) thank you mom and dad for being born European!

[@reallifehack4790]

Tell Putin to stop destroying Europe

[@MrGUILLERMOPLAZA]

Me gusta mucho este video, pues representa un ejemplo grandioso de como se bailaban estas piezas musicales.Agradezco mucho a quienes lo han hecho realidad. Felicitaciones!!!.:)

[@tpg4898]

とてもきれいです😺

[@ricardosaavedradiaz1030]

Totalmente sublime y exquisita la armonía del baile y la música.

[@marinaassanti3415]

Bellissime l'esecuzione e la coreografia!

[@dominicma8685]

I’m listen to this in my music class

[@Leonardo.Britto]

South brazilian people, as well as Uruguayans and Argentines also have folkloric dances originating in the minuet

[@IbisSanchezSerrano]

Panamanian music too! The "Pasillos" and our national folkloric dances, such as "El Punto" are danced very similarly!

[@nekocafe8420]

Todo latinoamérica, de muchas danzas barrocas.

[@josegabrieldelgadoalonso487]

Cuando veo el arte en su esplendor aún me hace tener fe en la humanidad❤🤩. Ya que oir y ver moverse con la mal llamada música moderna de discotecas y el regueton se me revuelve el estómago.🤮 Viva el verdadero arte.❤

[@vaughangarrick]

One of the 10 pieces of music I want to hear before I die. This and Lully's Passacaille from Armide

[@burkewhb]

More likely this was what dancing the menuet in the 18th century (1700's) was like. So elegant! I love Handel's music.

[@bruschmidt9943]

I would agree, this is the closest we'll ever get to witnessing how it was back then, including the 18 piece Baroque Chamber Orchestra playing on Period Instruments.

[@gelin796]

awsome