Handel: Semele, HWV 58 "Where'er you walk" Andreas Scholl

George Frideric Handel(1685-1759)
Semele, HWV 58
"Where'er you walk"
Libretto: William Congreve
This score is only a simple piano-vocal arrangement. Vocal part is the same but the arrangement is different.Doesn't have the intro or the finale..
(Jupiter)
Where'er you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade;
Trees, where you sit, shall crowd into a shade.
Where'er you tread, the blushing flow'rs shall rise,
And all things flourish where'er you turn your eyes.

[@1stMrSceptical]

I woke this morning with this tune in my head. My elder sister use to sing and play this on our piano way back in the early 50's. The only words could I remember of the lyrics were 'cool glades, popped into google and found the song, how wonderful. this took me back to my childhood.. Thanx Mr Google.. One more notee of interest, this song and many other well known folksong were in this huge Brown leather bounded book from which Mother would play and sing to us all, sadly I only play only the guitar badly.

[@auburnsynge-perrin6075]

Thanks for this. I like to hear people's reminiscences of musical experience. I wanted the late James Bowman but this was the nearest. An excellent arrangement & rendition, but for me A. Scholl lacks warmth. I used to love singing this before my voice shattered at puberty. Sigh~

[@anneadave]

Thank you , i had this played at my husbands funereal- he loved Handel and loved counter tenors - so this was fabulous - love Andreas voice - brilliant

[@auburnsynge-perrin6075]

This is obviously a love song - but also very apt for a funeral for a loved one. Whatever happens - or doesn't happen - after death, we want the best for them. Personally, this song does evoke a version of Heaven. What could be better than a woodland glade with constant flowers, Handel - with excllt orch. accomp.? RIP your husband.

[@williamwoolhouse3702]

This is like balm to my wounds...simply exquisite.

[@yezdnil]

This was one of the first arias I learned at school. It was my mum's favourite, and I sang it at her funeral. It has a very special place in my heart.

[@cooper91]

andreas scholl has such a rare and elusive voice - simply heavenly.

[@sheldonbazinga3985]

Andréas Scholl : la douceur personnifiée, la bonhommie du géant, la paternelle assurance, la voix qui apaise et ouvre l'âme aux cieux. L'évidence... Haendel aurait eu sûrement les larmes aux yeux à entendre sa divine musique aussi bien servie...

[@patriciadelsey8793]

My father sang this song when my sister and I were growing up, he sang this at her wedding in September 1975. Many many memories

[@auburnsynge-perrin6075]

Thank you, The Victorians were mad about this song, it was almost always sung at musical 'At Homes'. - Miraculously, always fresh. It's a very simple song so whence it's power?

[@MollySimasiku]

❤❤❤ thank you very much for this lovely and emotional piece of art. Splendid 👌❤️

[@sergeciccone2657]

Merci beaucoup pour ce partage… Bravo Monsieur Scholl !!!

[@vikhamarina842]

incomparable voice, exceptionally beautiful interpretation!

[@myriamtoma6857]

Where you walk, cool gales shall fan the glade Trees where you sit shall crowed into a shade... Where you tread the blushing flow'rs shall rise And all things flourish where you turn your eyes... Dear Haendel ! Many thanks KZbin !

[@honingbijtje83]

What a lovely voice this man has.

[@nickevershedmusic8927]

Incredible that an adult man can have such a high gorgeous angelic voice like that

[@cooper91]

aaaaaa.... what a voice, what a piece!

[@havenbishop9937]

My choir and i loved this piece beautiful and elegant sounding as a woman but is a man giving you butterflies in your stomach

[@anophrinedesdeus6139]

No man can compose this good if it is not by the help of God.

[@ealenc4r]

Por onde você anda Ventos frios soprarão na clareira Árvores onde você se senta Deve se aglomerar em uma sombra Árvores onde você se senta Deve se aglomerar na sombra Onde você pisa As flores coradas devem subir E todas as coisas florescem Para onde viras os olhos Para onde viras os olhos Para onde viras os olhos Handel ❣️

[@ZaryGrabusey]

Seeing him perform in New Haven on Monday: so excited.

[@busybee720]

You'd think the piece was written for counter-tenor. This is fabulous! His voice is fabulous!

[@auburnsynge-perrin6075]

Find Bryn Tyrfel - or similar - singing this on KZbin - equally valid. In Handel's day casting was more gender fluid. It was all about quality & availability. And remember, people had much shorter lives & there wasn't the sheer number of singers we ha ve now, who luckily for us, can travel a lot.

[@janesmith2770]

Lovely. Handel is my favourite composer and coming from a school without even a choir to sing this work as my first piece in a choir at university when I was 17 was absolutely wonderful. Even in her 50s my mother who also had absolute pitch sang well and it is so lucky that she was able to introduce us to music like this given her humble origins so that three of my children won music scholarships and the others all sing well too. Inspiring.

[@janesmith8251]

***** Apologies... and apt reposte...

[@athanor888]

As SOMEONE WHO KNOWS the END YET , SINCE or BEFORE the BEGINNING ... Like the BEING who knows The APOCALYPSE before The BEGINNING .... ..even while He was searchng for his own origins.... ;) SO ..! Then Please, forgive me , to have been so terribly long , even boaring ( a nightmmare ) , but as have said Blaise Pascal , in another similar circumstance ... " Sorry Madame .. I hadn't the time , to be more short ...! " ;) As well as for many faults , even in orthograf or in grammar and vocabulary I suppose .. Now , it is being clear that English is not my mother language , which is obviously French...... I don't know why I was so fool and excessive ... An impulse ...? Because first .. I just wanted to write a short comment , as you can see in my purpose , further down here , and later , progressively , I became my own prisonner , prisonner of my game ... A little rest , of some effects , possibly ..? Of that terribly luminous and shining FULL MOON of those two previous days ...? I can hope at least , that this nonsense or completely crazy text , will a bit enjoy your time , even for a very little while... ! So Conclusion , here and not there at the normal "END " , Let me kiss U ... and tell U ... BYE...BYE.... ;) END :D ---------------------------------------------- BEGINNING ... ;) Thanks to my dear Father too , for the same excellent reason ... if not among other reasons , probably less obvious ... Except in the same spirit , the introducing to poetry ... But it was Later , and also with a little less heart , not deeply concerning for him , not as well as with his own tripes , unconsciously , but totally sincerely , as in the Case of MUSIC ... I always remember that day ...when I saw him crying when he was hearing César Franck ... ( Belgian Composer - Romantic , in this case : The CONCERTO in D for Piano ... a very dramatic Master-work ) ... also and going on...or ... " while I pass ...' as people use to say in french ... ( Thanks to the Temptations, almost the same day in september ... ;) for who knows..... and ...remember that day .. ) It was in a sad period for my Dad ..... AT the same time , I was thirteen , and I had just discovered the Great J.S..BACH : Violines Concertos , executed by Yehudi Menuhin , and from whom I have kept , after all this time , a very personnal "autographe" ... And even l now , it remains at an half meter of my right hand ... With those two famous L.P. records of BACH by Menuhin , his autograf , typical for a violonist , was also a wonderful present for my thirteenth birthday , from my mother and his last husband ... Later , and considering that he was an american jew .. , and also a very kind , generous and good person , I have often thought it was for me , so badly and superficially educated as a catholic, a sort of Bar-Mitsva , and in fact, it was one ...and finally a real good one ... happening ... or simpe event , as you like, see or prefer .... depending of your view .. ?! All this had happened in 1971 ... And now , more than forty years later ... Still searching the truth ... and on my way , I hope... ( Hello Cat Stevens , my first radio pop singer discovered 2 years after those events , .. ) Well , still on my way , and more than ever ..On The Way ... of the mystery of origins , and of astrological History , this Mystical anthropology .. I can tell you ( hurry to conclude.. ) that I have left , since a long time yet , the field of exclusive rationnal world or explanations , and then I'm always walking on ... the edge of reality ...( Hi ELVIS ) ... I know science , understand it , for a big part , trust all this and all who are working in it ... But , finally , I don''t too much care about those exclusive points of view , and then , near Astrology , Numerology , Symbology , Mythology , as well as rationnal sciences , philosophy , athéistic or not , etc.. I have began , since a long time yet , to study , at least often think about , the Bible , and , logically , to illuminate both of them , The Two Alliances , both Covenants , and all around this very deep questions , to further more understand Bible in regard of the Archétypal ontology - symbolism, and especially language of Astrology , , I have slowly began to study hebrew , first to understand or read a little more " original texts ", even few words .... But also in regards of numerology , so full of meanings basic , and always and for ever and ever , under the Magnificent Light of Astrology , under his Big Eye , and why not in a Trine ..? I mean a Tri-Angle , which was probably THREE ANGELS , and then , through the REAL Tradition and the Authentic KABBALAH .. which means only TRADITION , ... or watching ... The Glorious Tree of SEPHIROTS.... ... MORE OVER , and ESSENTIALLY ... .. let me Tell YOU This ... GREAT and FIRST .SECRET ... IS ( uncredible - the first reason why so ! They don't TRUST , they don't believe ) So easy job , the Snake ... .. So I repeat often The Great and First SECRET IS ... The MOTHER of ALL RELIGIONS and ALL SCIENCES ..was The ASTROLOGY and that was remain Since and For A VERY LONG TIME ... until GOD HIMSELF will change The SKIES and even The ... EARTH .. as He Had Promises .. and looking , comparing , etc... with ALL KINDS of KNOWLEDGE and WISDOM ...... THEIR UNIQUE , THEIR PRIME ... MOTHER , GRAND-MOTHER ... and FIRST ANCESTOR ... The QUEEN of ALL INITIATIC WAYS ... after ADAMA .... Had Been , Is , and Will BE ... and for a long time ... '( But ... TODAY mostly UNKNOWN .... and Horribly treatened or injured .. as a Monstruous Crime against Trut, Beauty and GOD Hilself .. and all His ROYAL COURT of ALL The HEAVENS and ANGELS .. and Millions and Millions Of The Celestial Cavalery ... ) IS ..... ASTROLOGY as A SIDERALOGY ... Cosmology and other meaning for WHAT Has Created ... EVEN ... SPACE and TIME ..or... The SPACE-TIME .. and vice-versa ..From Nothing ... and as .. All Other Basis even those deep and first concepts , Who' have founded OUR FIRST LANGUAGE and civilisations etc... SO..... The QUEEN of ALL KNOWLEDGES and of ALL ANCIENT WISDOMS Will For Ever SHINING in Our SOULS as The BEAUTYFULL MILKY-WAY ... driving all of US As The GOOD SHEPPERD , to OUR FATHER - GOD , WHo Is ... in ETERNITY ... and TRINE .... Epilogon Consider this TEXT also as an exercise to write in english , and I'm surely not too academic .... But ... ...and so , For this , as a Mysterious SIGN , sealed and almost lost in a so far past ( but never completely forgotten or un-significant ... Hear what I have saud , trying to show you great things... As I DO NOW... as I WAS ... BLOWING in The SO.FAR . The ShOFAR ... of The ARIES ... As The great and splendid spiraled HORN OF The RAM When He was the Shepperd of His lambs ... !!!! And ..( CONCLUSION ... finally ..! ) for all that meaning , for the sign , the NICE PRESENT , the BIRTHDAY , that SOLAR REVOLUTON , even the NUMBER THIRTEEN .... and All good TRADITIONS , MYSTICAL , which ever were SEARCHING the TRUTH and PRAYING or ACTING for JUSTICE and for PEACE.... For ALL those HOLLY MATTERS.... ... THANKS to the Husband of My MOTHER , as to my MOTHER and of course to MY FATHER , and for all those who really love good MUSIC....! ;) ;) :p God Bless The World Earth and Humans ... AMEN

[@athanor888]

I have few points to correct and rearticulate with more efficiency .. ;)

[@guscox9651]

@@athanor888 what did i just read

[@auburnsynge-perrin6075]

All the associations people have with this piece. It should be on UK BBC radio's ''Soul Music''. Alas, preoccupied with substandard pop.

[@ThinkCosmic615]

Beautiful song, and beautifully done!

[@richardportman8912]

Thank you.

[@aseretkavon]

Unbelievable how amazing his voice fits into this register. I am currently looking at my own music book, written for women's voicing, MEDIUM range (for range), written in the same key as it's showing on your video (GM) and this man is easing through the higher notes with EASE! This is absolutely amazing.

[@noverachiever]

@TheSauce Group how sad of you to decide to call someone on the internet that you don’t know an idiot. From a comment made literally 10 years ago. I’m a music teacher now, and I absolutely know what a countertenor is. I’m pretty sure that when I came across this KZbin video, it was one of the first times in my naivety to hear a countertenor. Call me ignorant at the time, but not an idiot. My students probably haven’t heard much work from countertenors - the maturity level of many of my students wouldn’t be able to handle hearing a countertenor, no matter how lovely his voice is. That doesn’t make them idiots. All of the other comments on this video are positive and about the video, not about the ignorance of the young. Read the room, pal. Oh, and have a nice day. :)

[@youssefahmed9025]

what a beautiful sung

[@Normanson2]

I have one who I loved who has just died and I wonder where he walks. And I weep.

[@rwsmith29456]

I was digging through old tapes of my singing lessons from around 1980 and found a version of me doing this. Have mercy I sound young!

[@ironicallysatirical]

With a da capo aria of that era, it was written for the first, or "A" section to be sung as written the first time through the verse. The "B" section of the aria, "Where ere you tread..." is sung, and then the singer returns to the "A" section. During the second time through the "A" section, the singer would add ornementation to the written notes (hence the "high G").

[@TheJosieposie]

This is sheer beauty...

[@cooper91]

I pulled this out to help me write my essay and now I just find myself sitting listening to it!

[@ChetLindsay]

I performed this piece in a statewide choir contest when I was 15 years old (1975). Btw scored high marks.

[@ThePastorale]

Andreas Scholl is sublime I love counter tenors but he outshines the others especially singing such a wonderful aria

[@auburnsynge-perrin6075]

The Late James Bowman is my 'counter tenor pin-up' so much warmth - & a great operatic actor.

[@teresajoh]

Brings back memories of junior school. We did this as part of our choir concert...tho maybe we didn't sound quite like this!

[@josparkes9381]

So beautiful !!

[@wenglishsal]

This is beautiful and I can't stop my self from singing it... I am nowhere near Andreas' magnificent voice, but I do love to sing... this makes me smile from ear to ear and is helping me to learn to read music too... I normally learn any piece by ear, so being able to actually read the notes is immensely helpful... Love it and love andreas' voice too...Rapturous stuff this 5*****'s :0)x

[@auburnsynge-perrin6075]

Keep singing! there is so much glorious Handel - If you don't know it go to L'Allegro ed il Penseroso (et il moderato) for great tunes. Then there is 'Ruddier than the cherry' for bass.

[@rhyfelwrDuw]

Fantastic - beautiful voice!

[@buildsbest]

Absolutely fabulous voice

[@Eluchil1]

such a beautiful voice

[@LovesMusicMelina]

I'm learning this in my lessons and it's absolutely beautiful. :)

[@vivienne199]

Me too, brings back so many memories. Barry

[@DJAngiePangie]

I am learning to sing this. So pretty!

[@wonderdog13]

Gorgeous!

[@kandinskij]

Absolute Masterpiece.

[@Tigermuc]

Beautiful aria and voice! Christian

[@josephdarrigan375]

Stunning..

[@LoverofLiszt]

@dylshizzle I´m quite sure that the reason you think that is because this is recorded in Baroque tuning, way lower than the more modern 440 concert-A tuning.

[@peteacher52]

William Congreve may have put the libretto together from various sources, but the evocative poetry for this well-known aria is by Alexander Pope, an extract from Summer, the Second Pastoral, the whole of which is a lilting piece of mythical whimsy.

[@toniperullesrull4916]

24-10-2016 Seguit per mi i la familía, i des de l'any 2012, per l'immens panteisme, sublim i magnànim que ens inspira o així nosaltres considerem.

[@i.tbloomfield3703]

Amazing!!!!

[@civileso]

Out of this world...

[@Aayushi614]

i am singing this song in my grade 5 ABRSM exam its hard... but amazing

[@olufemiolakitan1923]

A great music from the genius .

[@ThinkCosmic615]

@Ehmiy321 True...I'm a college freshman, and this is one of my jury pieces. The D sharp is definitely awkward to sing, but I like the way it fits.

[@PercivalBlakeney]

Angie, as with so many of Handel's arias, you will be SOOOO gald you did learn it. When you HAVE got it learned... upload it. Dare ya!! ;-)

[@annekelabots8784]

Ontroerend!

[@lauramcfadden8389]

I came across this gorgeous music watching a rerun of Tenko. Took me ages to find out what it was. Really like this version. Wish I could get a copy of the Tenko version which was very sweet and unaffected, sung by a young girl.

[@codonauta]

Interesting. We find part of this aria in Judas Macabeus ( Oratorio - 1747 ), an aria to countertenor too. Handel really liked to retake his earlier composition during the composition of new ones. As J S Bach.

[@HerrWarja]

I love it when singers interpretate piece that are outside there repetoir/voicetype. Bryn Terfel have also recorded this aria in his range.

[@civileso]

@flaze3 This aria IS a tenor aria. And Ainsley does sing it well.

[@youssefahmed9025]

whar a beautiful

[@izaak41]

mind=blown.

[@isabelledara8216]

The notes being sung are a half step down from what is written in case anyone else has perfect pitch and their brain is freaking out.

[@Lalaxiaa]

and yet, neither the baroque audience nor the baroque musician would care much about the phrasing rather than the display of virtuosity at the end of a da capo aria.

[@valniersodredeamorim7591]

Linda voz de CONTRATENOR.

[@codonauta]

Civileso, I set here that aria from ' Judas Maccabaeus" , the similar aria to that one from Semele, as video response. I don't know if you've already known that.

[@myriamtoma6857]

P.S. Les brises fraîches devront souffler sur la clairière...Où que vous marchiez les fleurs éclateront de couleurs... et toute chose s épanouira où que vous tourniez votre regard..

[@user-vq1of5dp6o]

מדהים

[@ControlAltUhOh]

@jutescrim I don't honestly think it's possible to ruin music from composers on the level of Handel.... you could say it's not your cup of tea, or even that you "can't stand it" is fine, but to say a renowned performer ruined a piece just shows ignorance and intolerance toward other people's interpretations of art, and disrespect to the composer.

[@flaze3]

@pianoman654 Ainsley isn't a counter-tenor--he's a tenor-

[@jmc6787]

It sounds good i like it :)

[@vtyw93]

You have a nice collection.

[@wadefite]

like your humility

[@SuzyMcCheese]

ugh, they just don't write 'em like this anymore...

[@Aniretak205]

Beautiful. I much prefer a countertenor singing this than a regular tenor.

[@jojomothball]

i sang this for my standard grade voice exam

[@whatdoyousuppose]

The score is not in the same key as the audio, score is a half step higher. It doesn't bother me too much, but I just wanted to point it out in case anyone else was confused.

[@gavinfarkas545]

Its tuned to A415 not A445

[@gavinfarkas545]

Its tuned to A415 not A445

[@whatdoyousuppose]

Ah I see, thanks for clarifying! I'm just very used to A440, Baroque pitch always confuses me :P

[@cnjansen96]

i'm singing this in choir!

[@andge1001]

I love this song, and I love Scholl's voice. Thanks for uploading. About the cords and lyrics, did you scan them in from paper and edit in a dias-like show, or is it possible to buy clips like this somewhere?

[@irynasakharchuk7044]

❤

[@Zuukarimoto]

where can i get the sheet music for this version i want 2 play the accompaniment but the version i hv is really difficult

[@brandonwainscott7491]

Few people know the writer of the lyrics.. Alexander Pope.

[@brandonwainscott7491]

***** Good! He is to often forgotten here. I have not read Pope in ages, except looking the lyrics the other day for a class. I have an old book from his time. No sure if is first addition. It was only like $60. There was another volume, but I could not afford that. I think it is a nice keepsake.

[@andreauribe6454]

Con razon beethoven admiraba tanto a handel.

[@b3ti3]

wow...

[@paulwilsonmusician]

could i have a copy of this score please?

[@vivienne199]

Looking for largo in English. Come bounteous spring.

[@Ericaa989]

ahh heaven

[@HaraldLH]

anyone who can match this version of this aria, please let me know!

[@silverkitty2503]

all that head resonance ...

[@LoverofLiszt]

On a bench, in a park, at a mansion.

[@flaze3]

@civileso I KNOW. And I AGREE.

[@chocchipcookiegirl]

This is a guy? Wow, such talent! ^^

[@johnyprestige]

@lsplord Yes

[@toniperullesrull4916]

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[@rubyhaddad2039]

final bars have wrong sheet music

[@alejandrorincon5649]

is the song here taken down a halfstep from whats on the page?

[@thesaucegroup1877]

No its just in baroque tuning which us different from modern tuning. Real musicians would know that

[@thatgeordietenor]

Try listening to my performance of Where'er you walk

[@WilliamFord972]

Why is he singing an octave higher?

[@StarTrek0871]

Not the only difference with the score and singer. It's missing embellishments and fermata. You can probably assume he was using a different one.

[@seijiyokota7291]

William Ford Andreas Scholl is a countertenor.

[@57colliegirl]

He is actually singing it as it a half step lower/ key of F-# Major. (Tenors read treble clef too.)

[@SusannahMacDonald]

Lovely voice but I don't equate a counter tenor with Jupiter singing to his earth mistress - unless its a 'godly' voice!

[@lsplord]

Is this a bloke?!

[@ardfert1]

This is a beautiful version but I still prefer the 1936 version by John McCormack.

[@thesaucegroup1877]

Congrats?

[@Lalaxiaa]

in my opinion, if he were really a baroque singer, he would ornament much more on the repeat than he does in this recording.

[@samuelgreenrod1812]

Very beautiful but odd considering this is sung by Jupiter, and so the almost choral atmosphere surrounding this feels off. It's lovely, but doesn't make sense contextually.