Handel: Judas Maccabeus Overture

[@GGHandelGG]

A Great piece by the greatest composer who ever lived , Handel to him we bow the knees.

[@bryiad]

Loving this song---- playing it for my first college orchestra.

[@TeleBachHand]

Handel had a great respect for the Jewish population in London for which this oratorio is dedicated,it's right up there with his other excellent works.TeleBachHand

[@777PlanBskater]

Baroque music is something anyone can like. I grew up listening to rap and aquired a likeing for rock. Then i heard this in my class and loved it.

[@vallwl]

handel's pieces are really complex n powerful, and MINOR, my type!!! thanks for uploading, from Malaysia with love =)

[@mikematthews5872]

This is so beautiful and enriched my day yesterday I have one or two dear friends that I know will love this, It gives me spiritual peace especially now as Rembrance day approaches which is always a difficult time for me. Too many memories

[@joboy1992jesto]

diz song is awesome....very baroque...handel rocks!!!

[@MrMiha1971]

I love Baroque music :)

[@HerrWarja]

Love the harpsichordsolo. I can picture me Handel playing it! (A)

[@diegoscaryo]

Handel. Sos un grande!!

[@Musica-xo3uv]

This is the heavy metal of barock 👏🏻

[@franr.3691]

The fugue sounds like metal hahaha amazing

[@beetweedledee]

Yep!

[@INDIGOBLUE555]

Thx for posting: never heard of it before.

[@HerrWarja]

Great music and great baroque are by Rubens!

[@carlorachel]

Regardless of your persuasion about any socio-political current driving this work of Handel, from the pure perspective of art, can you please allow these divine vibrations the freedom of mind-space they so warrant? Doing so will certainly lift you above all pedestrian constraints and gift you with an appreciation of the light, and sight, and flight waiting for you. As you listen with your heart, consider that Handel battled the same legions of demons that stalk us all.

[@achantus1]

@urbis92 I believe there is a strong connection between Baroque music and Heavy Metal. As a youngster I loved Kiss, The Ramones, Ac/Dc, and so on. But When I heard Handel's "Music for the Roysl Fireworks" and Bach's "Doric Toccata and Fugue" my life changed. I realised that accoustic music could be so powerful, and that the power lies in the expression itself, not in the volume. If that makes any sense to you? Greetings from a Norwegian Metal/Baroque-fan.

[@zupator]

Do you like meshuggah?

[@Schuiram]

@urbis92 Its the same with me ;) I love metal by nature, but classic just effects my heart in another way ;)

[@achantus1]

Well, I can't really explain it, but i think there is a rythm and energy in baroque music that attracts heavy metal fans. I started out that way myself. But Bach and Handel is immensely more complicated, sofisticated and rewarding than metal for those who are willing to spend the time to really delve into it. I did, and I haven't looked back.

[@qantasCapt]

@urbis92 - This deserves a reply. The reason you love this is because you have good taste in music (and probably a good ear). Perhaps you're too young to admit you like it to your buddies. I grew up with the Beatles & Stones etc, but I always gravitate to Classical. Forget what others think - listen to what you enjoy. I Have to say it's quite liberating getting a few grey hairs as the older one gets, the less other's opinions matter. Listen to whatever moves you. Cheers!

[@insatsuki_no_koshou]

This piece rocks.

[@codonauta]

Very good the sound: very 'full'. I have a lot of recording of Handel´s Overtures ( Operas or Oratorios )which the sound is thin.

[@wichmannsburg]

Formidable. Pour les émotions fortes ( le frisson dans le dos ), rien ne vaut Händel.....

[@JSC1401]

Beauty is transcendent. Our reaction to beauty is something we can't and should not control. (This is not a song...songs are sung by singers).

[@Glinko]

They both amazing

[@paradoxicus]

Ajustada al canón.Pero creo que es una de las mayores,por no decir la mejor Obertura de Haendel.¡Sublime e inspiradísima!.

[@farinellorg]

this is fucking good

[@wilhelmmeister8252]

To put it in one word : sumptuous

[@taurusyummz]

couldn't agree more.

[@JanetEsq]

@urbis92 Nothing wrong with liking many different types of music. I listen to baroque, the Sex Pistols, French and Italian operas, Talking Heads, Miles Davis, Jean Michel Jarre, Lady Gaga, Fats Waller, the Beatles (ok everyone listens to the Beatles), Bruce Springsteen (ok everyone listens to him too) and Bollywood musicals But death before folk, country, disco, rap and hiphop!

[@alessandrareitz4637]

Judas Macabeus is divine inspiration by George Händel... God is everywhere!

[@kal_bewe1837]

Who is god ?

[@JesyJaY935]

omigosh im still a sperm and i absolutely love this.. yay me. now everyone like this comment so i can feel important.

[@chaatazayayahawadah5023]

1 Maccabees 3:1-3 [1]Then his son Judas, called Maccabeus, rose up in his stead. [2]And all his brethren helped him, and so did all they that held with his father, and they fought with cheerfulness the battle of Israel. [3]So he gat his people great honour, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girt his warlike harness about him, and he made battles, protecting the host with his sword.

[@evwk]

@urbis92 The great Louis Armstrong said it best: "There's only two kinds of music: good, and bad." Who says we can't enjoy many different styles? If Handel were alive today, there would undoubtedly be some rock & metal that he would enjoy.

[@flowforms]

@urbis92 hi there - why not enjoy them both? There are different parts to the human soul and each has things it likes...

[@adrianmocanuzadone]

@urbis92 rock and classical music is somehow relatives.

[@groll103]

@nomorenigsplease I absolutely agree!!

[@thebigJM92]

The Byzantine Empire survived for a thousand years after its western compatriot because it was united by faith through a system strong enough to outlast many assaults. That is thanks largely to one man- Constantine, who we all know to be the first Christian Emperor. Christianity, as Disraeli said, is the conclusion and superior level of Judaism, birthed indeed in the Holy Land but tended and bearing fruit in Europe.

[@LazlosPlane]

Further to gdbalck: "I'll be right Bach." - Handel "I can't Handel this." - Telemann "Please take me Bach." - Anna Magdalena.

[@kellenbigman]

@JanetEsq how about electro-swing? Bizet? Tom Lerher? the Doors?

[@thebigJM92]

..If not into 4 with the bizarre Caesar/Emperor military system established towards the end. The Roman Empire also fell because its vast military system needed expansion to survive, to pay and pension its military. When it reached its 'natural' limits it still found need for a huge army to hold the frontiers, yet no longer had a rich vein of revenue to tap into in plunder and virgin land...

[@RidgeJaggers]

@urbis92 cos heavy metal uses classical chords/harmony by definition. (: pretty sure :)

[@achantus1]

@guitarspectre Yes, I absolutely know what you mean.

[@thebigJM92]

The Greek and Roman gods can be judged on their record, who still worships them? Within a few hundred years of meeting Christianity they were almost completely gone, despite increasingly aggressive Roman attempts to suppress it

[@Xirus5]

Do anyone have the names of the paintings? i would be grateful if i could study them closer in greater detail.. in particular the painting at 1:42

[@thebigJM92]

...Efforts to cut military spending led to the acceptance into the Empire of huge barbarian tribes lock, stock and barrel who were granted residence and semi-independence on the basis that they would protect the borders from others. This plan, of using the barbarian to beat the barbarian, failed when the barbarians within the Roman Empire realised that Rome itself was now too weak to combat them. The final nail in the coffin was a particularly aggressive wave of tribal migrations (Hun driven)

[@gil1tshinanu]

Lacroix paintings in here

[@thebigJM92]

Your late 18th century thinking on the reason for the fall of the Roman Empire has long been defeated. I'm afraid Edward Gibbon, while still admirable, is no longer at the cutting-edge of historicism. The Roman Empire fell because like all systems it was imperfect. Infighting over the position of Emperor was inevitable when one considers the massive power the position held and the lack of any qualifying features for the position other than wealth. This ultimately fractured the Empire into two...

[@alessandrareitz4637]

Olá Alanje! Sou brasileira sim e estou no Brasil. Vc mora aqui?

[@gil1tshinanu]

urbic, if handel lived today, yu woul explode listenin to his music lol

[@htenayk]

someone can tell me the name of the paint that's seen on 1:40?

[@thebigJM92]

Judeo-Christianity IS the European spirit. Before it and without it there was nothing but barbarism and heathenry

[@thebigJM92]

Any person who uses the term "Judification" is not to be reasoned with. But I shall end on this. Your thought process, "the sources are the sources they don't change" doesn't take account of the fact of the huge number of extra sources found since then, and the effect this has on the overall picture. You can't see the wood for the trees.

[@BESTOFCLASSICALMUSIC]

There is almost nothing about Handel. I love Judas Maccabeus.

[@guspleite]

MOZART+BACH=HANDEL

[@achoacho46]

@Inzanex1 bach never dead. bach put in his music eternal ideals. mine of this was love of mankind. bach it is not only music, it is humens way with God. metal is only adrenalin music

[@thebigJM92]

Wow. What a 'free' and 'individual' character you are. Do feel free to contribute something useful whenever you feel like returning to normalcy

[@mynameisalan11250]

'Martial', paintings perhaps better, I don't see anyone being wed... Great stuff, though.

[@eliad883]

chanuka

[@LutzDerLurch]

@urbis92 Thats not classic, that is baroque...while classical music often is more "careful" trying to cause an emotin, baroque music is quite "in da face". ;)

[@TekoMuto]

He stole this from Kanye West

[@7uc4s]

Because Bach is too mainstream.. xD