William Byrd - The Battell

[@lightgom1256]

00:00 - The Marche before the Battell 03:04 - The souldiers sommons 03:58 - The marche of footemen 04:39 - The marche of horsmen 05:20 - The trumpetts 06:23 - The irishe marche 07:20 - The bagpipe and the drone 08:41 - The floote and the droome 10:57 - The marche to the fighte 12:50 - The retreat 14:59 - The buriing of the dead 16:43 - The morris 17:29 - Ye souldiers dance 18:46 - The Galliarde for the Victorie 20:10 - The Marche before the Battell (Da Capo)

[@alonzogarbanzo]

In early 1986, radio KUOW in Seattle played this in its entirety one afternoon. I was lucky to have my cassette recorder ready, so I captured that broadcast, and it has remained one of my favorite pieces of music to play over the decades. Until I discovered this gem posted here, I'd never found a digital-quality reissue, nor even any reference online to the original recording. Thank you so much for posting it.

[@Sshooter444]

I had this record in the 80s growing up. I played it over and over. I forget what was on the other side of the LP. Brings back memories, thanks for posting.

[@AnnaBohemianBaroque]

One of the best ever, bar none, examples of re-orchestration. Originally a keyboard work and brilliantly wrought here in brass.

[@unavailable2204]

I've never heard this before or anything like it. I can't believe what I'm hearing. I gravitate more towards choral works as a rule and grew tired of brass after playing in brass bands for 25 years but this is amazing.

[@robertbeck4506]

Spectacular!!! Truly inspiring. Do they ever make a mistake? I'm a double bassist and I have to tell you that this is absolute perfection!!!!!!!

[@Sshooter444]

@Rasmus Tanstad you're lame

[@vincenzolucchesi9928]

Che emozione questa musica così antica e cosi attuale. Da brivido!!!!

[@delross7746]

Actually, the first part IS The Earl of Oxford's March. Josh Lane is spot on with his comment about this music sounding more modern than the era in which it was written. That is a characteristic of much of Byrd's work. The music starting around 5:10 and 19:50 is based on a common battle theme used by many composers at the time, compare with Andrea Gabrieli's Aria Battaglia....

[@deadlyfreckle]

I listen to this on repeat. its just so good

[@Musicienne-DAB1995]

Marvellous music from the Renaissance!

[@真柴一生]

黄金時代PJBEによる英国金管音楽の歴史に輝く名演奏だと思います。リチャード獅子心王率いる第三次十字軍、あるいはバノックバーンにおけるロバート・ブルース率いる聖堂騎士団とハイランド兵の勇姿が目に浮かびます。

[@ianpaton2835]

PJBE are much missed. I saw them perform this in the 1980s at a badly promoted concert at West Norwood's Nettlefold Hall, when there were more on stage than in the audience. The hall is now gone but the site lives on as West Norwood Library & Cinema.

[@joshlane9379]

For being a Renaissance work it has a very Baroque sound to it

[@he1ar1]

william byrd lived during the baroque period. however, english music resembled the music of italy rather than france baroque music is not baroque which out a harpsichord leading the orchestra. this is baroque. kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHalaaSMnbd9isk

[@Tramseskumbanan]

Late renaissance music and very early baroque music have lots of similarities.

[@edwardweaver1467]

That's because it's composed in 1600, the Year the Baroque Period Began. This genre Is called Programmatic Music.

[@stormyweather6728]

I dont know but maybe byrd was a step forward ..it was si talented!

[@papagenoharto]

Yes, no doubts.Music is incredible¡¡

[@Polomokipo23]

William Bird ( Londres 1539/1540-1623 Londres ) THE BATELL Sublime magnifique la musique de William Bird Merci KZbin pour cette video.

[@pierrecornu975]

Une découverte surprenante et bien agréable dans ses sonorités .

[@ronaldhunsucker7331]

When I first heard this piece of music on my dad's phonograph, I was in awe. Right after, it stopped dancing on the turntable, I asked my dad if I could put on Mozart's French Horn Concertos? He was very ok with that. I let him know why. I heard in Byrd's french horn, here at the 11-12 minute mark Mozart's music, its genesis, in the beginning moment. Since then, I have always thought Mozart's birthplace and seeding musically, is not with Leopold, but with William Byrd's horns. Mozart in his symphonies, horn concertos, even keyboard work in his piano concertos, when you hear it, is like Byrd's liturgy or a liturgy for Byrd. Here is where my favorite composers interlace, Byrd and Mozart.

[@edwardweaver1467]

That Is a Brilliant concept.

[@Sshooter444]

Sorry to disappoint but this was written for keyboard by Byrd. French horns did not exist during Byrds lifetime.

[@tashaschneider1419]

More brilliance from one of my very favourite composers of all time! I love horns in music so much. The best part, to me, is 18:47 to 20:09. That is sublime!

[@eduarmartinez462]

muy lamenteblamente han retirado a gravicembalo y gravi cembalo entre otras. Es una dolorosa perdida. lo siento mucho. muchisimo. y mis profundas gracias y deuda y agradecimiento a dichas paginas. Me dieron vida luz musica etc. GRACIAS

[@julioalveart.2216]

Magnífico!!!

[@butti9249]

Beautiful! Merveilleux!

[@Hocin61]

I really appreciate this orchestra interpretation and the keyboard version is so famous in the My Ladye Nevells Booke

[@robertwhitehouse5557]

Magnificent

[@AdenosinePush]

Oh damn, there's nothing quite like this group's picc playing is there? The runs are so freaking precise.....

[@douglasdickerson5184]

Wonderful music.

[@krystiansieminski8060]

With a music like this I want to march my self.TH

[@GilthFrubble]

For anyone looking for a modern piece like this, look for Renaissance Suite by Tielman Susato

[@mattbod]

This is an extended keyboard work and is a favourite of my name (it is printed in My Lady Nevell's Book: published by Dover if anyone is interested). This is the first time I have heard an orchestral version and it works well.

[@metteholm4833]

Magnificent!

[@Polomokipo23]

Eternel grandiose la renaissance Dufay Guerrero Bird Lobo Obrecht Ockeghem Victoria Palestrina Gabrieli Gesualdo Lassus Des-Pres Rore Tallis Tinctoris Marenzio Morales et tant d'autres merci.

[@butti9249]

Magnifique!

[@MrGer2295]

Beautiful :)

[@joshuamichonski801]

Nice music.

[@spymaster9589]

It can easily be said Byrd is the greatest English composer of all time.

[@UnbaisedGamer]

To be fair, Vaughan Williams and Elgar have also written some pretty great pieces.

[@spymaster9589]

True

[@bajo2continuo]

It's quite hard to choose one of them: different periods, different styles. Let's enjoy the three of them

[@josesonramirez1187]

Agree with Vaughan and W., Byrd, but also Henry Purcell, Thomas Morley, Anthony Holborne and ¡Ray Davies¡

[@jonathanhill4892]

apart from Gerald Finzi, who nobody seems to have mentioned:)

[@Hipterion]

Esta obra está a la altura de las mejores de Haendel. Hasta parece el soundtrack de una película de aventura. Claramente es música programática.

[@sergiorudari4880]

piccola precisazione: the battle (battell) fu composta da William Byrd per keyboard (tastiera), non per fiati - comunque questi sono brass (ottoni) e drums (percussioni). Ho una stupenda versione su vinile Turnabout, fine anni '70, di Silvia Kind

[@petrusllorenz1505]

otra stupendisima versione: di Davitt Moroney su CD Hyperion Complete tastiera or keyboard works with generous booklet and 7CD. Arrivederchi

[@demarezmichel]

BYRD William - Wolsey's Wilde (vers 1600)

[@camillefrancois4569]

do not miss Suzana Ruzikova's masterwork on the harpsichord, a masterwork above all

[@joppertvallim2267]

Super!

[@Teona.aka.Maria.Tureschi]

Wonderful work ! I like the battles, but....only in the music :)

[@DRBiblicalMD]

I thought the beginning was the Earle of Oxford's March?

[@Sshooter444]

It is. Its part of the suite

[@maximmyriam2178]

St. Augustine was the first English port and fort in North America in the midieval age of under Elizabeth I today's Florida settlement after Yorktown settlement of today's Virginia about George William Friedrick of Honover House III

[@klop4228]

Looking it up, this was originally a keyboard piece. Who arranged it?

[@redbrian3655]

Elgar Howarth arranged this version, and there are other arrangements as well, the most well-known by Gordon Jacob. Howarth's arrangement is stellar for sure.

[@maximmyriam2178]

To damn with thee

[@sn8323]

Magnificent! But is this really Byrd? It sounds about a hundred years later.

[@Sshooter444]

Its a modern arrangement, yes it's Byrd

[@maksimawashingtov4197]

I have 3 knights and a squire in my household with fully operational midieval body armor and 7 sharp swords one lancing armour

[@GURHTTZ]

Lofty!

[@Jarl_Thidrandi]

TO GLORY!!!

[@marcusbellen2193]

De uitvoering even prachtig als de muziek zelf.

[@johnries5593]

Any reason to believe that this was part of the inspiration for Tsaikovsky's 1812 Overture?

[@Sshooter444]

This is a 20th century arrangement of a 16th century keyboard work...so no.

[@antonioclemente897]

questa grandezza!!!

[@maksimawashingtov4197]

Welcome to Brittain everyone

[@sultanabdullaev6058]

Who is the author of this painting?

[@clasdavid5450]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wahlbom

[@johnries5593]

I think the more I hear this, the more I want to try to find the arrangement and get a brass ensemble together to play it.

[@brotherkavanagh4610]

We played selections from this suite when I played with MUN Concert Band as an undergrad back in the early 1980s. It was scored for a full symphonic wind ensemble. (Well, they did let a few percussionists out of their cages to play too.😅)

[@bonehills]

Hi John, did you ever find an arrangement on paper or PDF?

[@timboinozify]

Is this performance on modern brass or Renaissance period brass? If it is on the old instruments, what is the recording?

[@Jarl_Thidrandi]

I doubt its onl period instruments, i can hear valves during some of the runs

[@timboinozify]

The drums sound like the period thing. Hard head on the sticks at least, and the performance is HIP. But the brass instruments are modern. PJBEnsemble at their best.

[@Sshooter444]

Modern arrangement on modern instruments

[@beckr11]

Holy Shit!!!!!!

[@maximilianburakhovich7715]

I love Lekshmi

[@gonzalovargas7383]

what happens 11:00 minutes into the figure of compass?

[@yo2hie416]

00:55

[@yo2hie416]

00:54

[@yo2hie416]

01:35

[@Jarl_Thidrandi]

wow

[@user-lg3yo1mn5c]

Certainly fab music, but dear me, the playing is incredible. The piccolo is as good as it gets.

[@fulviopolce7652]

Bellissima composizione per soli fiati.

[@maximmyriam2178]

I have black as well as silver suits of armour thence I am ying yang also and not just knight of night and knight of daytime

[@anthonyjohnfinch6870]

I wonder if Handel was familiar with this work……

[@garyraines7511]

Death of Gustavus Adolfus near the end of the 30 years war. He was reputed to be a forward thinking military strategist...wish we had one; when cautioned about not wearing his armor, he replied "Gott is my armor." He was Protestant, fighting German Catholics....the enemy depicted look like Turk cavalry, probably mercenaries. GL

[@tashaschneider1419]

gary raines Very interesting information!

[@flankerpraha]

Well, it was not near the end, but even before the half-time, in 1632 during the battle of Lützen against czech generallisimus Albrecht z Valdštejna (Albrecht von Wallenstein). 30 years war continued for next 16 years after that battle.

[@garyraines7511]

Sechzehn Jahre war nichts.....the important thing: great music, great arrangement, great painting; and, best of all, protestants trying to off the "holy" inquisition monkeys......R flankerpraha

[@flankerpraha]

+gary raines Well, in Bohemia Swedes weren't better than catholics, however former protestants welcomed them as liberators. Catholics, protestants, no difference between them.

[@TheMinisigi]

+gary raines Going back to the music - Byrd of course was a Catholic :)

[@maxburakho4155]

Long live Elisabeth II of United Kingdom and the commonwealth realms and territories

[@MariaJArce-bl3jm]

2:36

[@maxburakho4155]

Gomno

[@Angelo-yi7ro]

Estoy Escuchando esta música solo para una prueba, si fuera por mi sinceramente no la escucho "Las cosas como son"

[@Angelo-yi7ro]

PROFE SI VE ESTO NO ME REPRUEBE :'v

[@yoitstheboi4710]

x2

[@maxburakho4155]

Well, mne ne nosrat

[@Patricia-wf2via]

Este era el compositor super católico de la reina María Tudor,super católica también, pero ni con masacres de protestantes ni con musiquita lograron nada 😂.

[@maximmyriam2178]

Brittains Lambeth girls are hot on the bellows not through my eyes

[@WundertGarNichtsMehr]

Wow! Never heard renaissance music as pathetic and powerful

[@BuffloBuffloBufflo]

+WundertGarNichtsMehr pathetic in what sense

[@TheMinisigi]

+BuffloBuffloBufflo probably 'full of pathos' - of feeling or emotion :)

[@maxburakho4155]

It's a fake

[@KuhlauDilfeng2]

What is a fake?

[@teslaoliveira2195]

Super!

[@teslaoliveira2195]

Super!

[@joppertvallim2267]

Super!