O Waly, Waly - Trad. C17 British Folk Tune (arr. John Rutter)

[@judd442009]

Resonates through time and space.

[@cougar2002law]

The most beautiful rendition of this song, without words. Scotland’s beauty if wildflowers, rolling hills and the country as a whole is close to heaven.

[@shodanart]

Thank you! Again the video so beautiful with stunning photos, with the lovely adapted Scottish folk song, so warm the melody. A composer of our time that has the sensitivity of RVW, or Finzi. 💔❤️

[@kennethj.howell3841]

Thank you for the beautiful images added to gorgeous music. I grew up in Florida which many think of as a tropical paradise but I really prefer the beautiful landscape of the British Isles. When I did my doctorate at the University of Lancaster, my advisor drove me around the hills of northern England. The heather on the hills was unforgettable.

[@maristella287]

So Beautiful. Gives me chills. I love old folk tunes from the British Isles as well.

[@maries2387]

It's beautiful, both the scenery and the music. Thank you for sharing your pictures.

[@AntPDC]

Thank you Marie, I am glad you enjoyed it.

[@davidwilliams8405]

They are real gems these traditional folk songs and especially the old hymns, especially those by Wesley and Isaac Watts.

[@MsLouise1960]

I watched the film Bounty the other evening too maybe Scotland I may find my home & see where my brothers and sisters father was born.

[@kyrvhy]

Thank you. My singing teachers, Robert and Vera Irwin, knew both Britten and Pears and I enjoy their version too. This is wonderfully lyrical. Beauty.

[@MollyBlueDawn]

I wish I could cross over the wide water and see these places in person! Someday I will!

[@AntPDC]

+Molly McEnerney The water is wide Molly, but you'll make it one day :). I always enjoy your gentle comments.

[@TheMinisigi]

Thanks for this. A beautiful setting, and John Rutter always has a sense of what a melody is about and how to bring out the best in it. The photos too, of course. I think that whatever kind of holiday you like you can get it in Derbyshire: Adventure, walking, historic, stately homes, countryside etc. etc. It's all there

[@AntPDC]

+TheMinisigi He does, doesn't he? And I care not what the "cognoscenti" may say about him.

[@helenrees6676]

How lovely! I feel just the same as you about old English folk songs. Thank you for posting it. HelenViolin

[@parsmanjim7366]

It's Scottish !

[@ChrisBreemer]

This is so wonderful and soothing. Only in Britain could music like this be conceived ! I'm a bit confused about this melody though. In Ronald Stevenson's collection of Scottish Folk Music Settings, one piece is also called Waly, Waly, and that melody is totally different.

[@AntPDC]

Thank you Chris. I hope you are happy and well. Regarding your confusion, I pasted a link in my Description to an extensive article about this issue on Wikipedia. It is undoubtedly of labyrinthine provenance. Best, as ever.

[@ChrisBreemer]

@@AntPDC Thanks Anthony ! Yes, we're happy and well, I hope you are too. Music like this should make anybody happy anyway ! This article makes no mention of different melodies for this song. Meanwhile I have published my recording of Stevenson's collection I mentioned, which you might like. Except perhaps for the first 4 notes, which are pretty generic by themselves, I hear absolutely no resemblance between this version of Waly, Waly and the lovely melody Rutter used. I start to wonder if Stevenson got the title right and this is perhaps some other song. Or perhaps there really are two different tunes. Intriguing....

[@PaulBarnes_Genius]

This is lovely, but I can't help thinking of Terry Pratchett's Wee Free Men when I see the title. Crivens!

[@terrymarshall6664]

Oh waily waily! The wee big hag dinnae like the mouse pipes! I have exactly the same reaction!

[@hotelflamingo]

exquisite - thanks again ...

[@AntPDC]

+hotelflamingo Always a pleasure hotel :)

[@cougar2002law]

It truly is! I wish I could get this piece on iTunes! It’s magnificent!! The strings are so rich... and the big brass sounds as well. It’s they that add a more levels of bass and make is so rich!!

[@TheManWithaHarmonica]

I'll definitely get the Naxos CD this is from, it sounds very interesting... Thanks!

[@AntPDC]

+Dumbfire It's a treasure trove Dumbfire. The entire series of Naxos' "English String Miniatures" is :)

[@TheManWithaHarmonica]

+AntPDC Good to hear!

[@noriemeha]

Like most folk, I'm susceptible to music. Some tunes just wring my heart. But the waley-waley keeps turning up everywhere you go and with slight alterations as to pass as other tunes yet these are essentially the waley-waley. I have found if I'm responding emotionally to some new tune, I play it on keyboard and overlay it on the waley waley, and there it is, a new off-spring. Like the fables of old, it informs new stories.

[@SEranger7]

God bless

[@SEranger7]

Thank you for this wonderful music, this is what I need.

[@Offshoreorganbuilder]

Perfect! Thanks.

[@leongreen8088]

Nice! An inveterate Anglophile since reading Churchill's "A History of the English Speaking Peoples" 55 years ago in junior high.

[@AntPDC]

You were a smart young man then! Thank you very much for your comment.

[@kristenkim]

JOHN RUTTER

[@RodCulbertson8]

This tune goes with the great hymn, "When I Survey the Wondrous Cross," and certainly applies if the thought is "wail, wail, woe is me." May I truly understand the depth of "Christ died for me, woeful sinner" and bewail his suffering and death on my behalf.

[@frederickimbimbo6246]

Photographs are absolutely gorgeous. Resolution is lovely. What equipment did you use for this? Beautiful presentation. Thank you.

[@AntPDC]

+Frederick Imbimbo Thanks so much Frederick. For these photos I used a Nikon D7100 body with the Nikkor 18-200 mm f/3.5 - 5.6 DX zoom, and the Nikkor 135mm prime f/3.5 AI. Since I live in the middle of nowhere, so to speak, my internet speed isn't great, so I have to upload at 720p. Not a bad compromise, but combined with KZbin's video encoding, this does not do justice to the original photographs - nowhere near in fact. Best wishes, Anthony.

[@frederickimbimbo6246]

+AntPDC Nevertheless, the music and the images carry the beauty of creation in all its glory to world that is suffering. I could also hear the setting of "For the Beauty of the Earth" by Philip Stopford with these same photographs. I have recently purchased a Sony camera, for beginners, and will be making live video of places in New England for his piece. Thanks very much for your inspiration.

[@AntPDC]

+Frederick Imbimbo Please DO upload your work Frederick.

[@paulinemcgonagle9917]

Thought it was from Somerset

[@kennethj.howell3841]

Used in a hymn in Protestant churches here in the U.S.

[@WelahHomo87]

In the UK too sometimes

[@RoseAnnSpalt]

Also in Catholic Churches

[@jackknight9502]

Beautiful but not Scottish. Listed as being a Somerset folk song in my song book??

[@AntPDC]

Please see my Description Jack.

[@jackfletcher1000]

And Irish in mine.

[@Frungi]

Thumbs down for lack of singing.

[@fionawallace8752]

While of course there are many excellent sung versions, there are also several equally lovely instrumental versions that are, IMVHO, enhanced by being instrumental. I love this version and also the version used in the title sequence to the film The River Wild. There's room in the world for all versions.