✥ PURCELL - Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary [Notre-Dame de Paris] ✥

[@mr-wx3lv]

Purcell is an underrated genius. The greatest English composer ever. But because he was alive in the 17th century, his music is largely forgotten, and swamped by the later composer, Handel. Shame this is truly amazing music and still sounds fresh today....

[@andrewpalframan4666]

Not forgotten at all,it's played all the time..

[@willvanderwalt1160]

I learnt this music from a strange source - Kubric's "Clockwork Orange". I go cold not only for the Queen's funeral, but for the funeral of all who left this life by a violent death. Profound music, sensitively rendered.

[@aliceisinchains1]

This is what sadness sounds like, not some sappy ballad.

[@efratgerlich8382]

He was a genius! So sad that he died in such an early age! I am thankful for what he wrote! Masterpieces!~

[@IvanGreindl]

What a perfect tempo for the inital march! Here only, in this sublime performance, we feel the wished solemnity. Indeed, this poor Queen died from smallpox at 32; this was a drama and Henry Purcell's music makes you feel a genuine sorrow...

[@wiwocb]

and Purcell died one year later...

[@moggsy71]

I knew the Orange Theme had to be British.... 1695 and who'd believe 300 yrs later I'd have been caught raving on a cliff in North Wales to this tune?

[@totallynotjase4198]

Alex never blinks at all in the intro to A Clockwork Orange

[@rob16248]

Amazing. And he wasn't wearing his lid locks, either.

[@thomasstone1363]

@@rob16248 I've never thought of that before. I think you have hit the nail on the head

[@Kegeljan]

Une pure merveille. Royale, solennelle, grave, un Purcell habité, épuré et mesuré !

[@thaisdegascogne9250]

La plus belle œuvre de Purcell ! Sublime!!!

[@patriciocristobalgallardoz341]

This score is absolutely marvellous, profound and wonderful. The harmonies are atonishing and incredibles. Mr. Henry Purcell is the greatest composer ever made in England, creator of the English Opera. The version is beautiful, John Eliot Gardiner, fantastic

[@AGMundy]

Whilst I don't question Purcell's deserved prominence, what about Britten, Elgar, Williams, Taverner - the UK has had some wonderful composers since the 19th century onwards.

[@patriciocristobalgallardoz341]

@@AGMundy Yes, absolutly

[@literaine6550]

Very moving and just sublime, I can feel the love her subjects must have had for her. She was a modest ruler but very capable when needed.

[@claudebodin8816]

Je crois que Henry Purcell était très amoureux de la reine et que sa mort a été une peine immense, d'où cette musique sublime qui montre bien sa détresse ??

[@abundance6692]

Purcell is the greatest composer England has ever produced.

[@ferrario4980]

not produced but received and sheltered

[@andrewpalframan4666]

@@ferrario4980 What does that mean?

[@ferrario4980]

@@andrewpalframan4666 sorry. i misplaced may comm.

[@cranachan]

Agreed. Perhaps we might include Peter Maxwell Davies, too. And maybe Harrison Birtwistle. And of course Edward Elgar. Bloody hell, they're all fantastic!

[@paullewis2413]

@@cranachan Birtwistle? You have to be joking. Guess there`s no accounting for taste :-)

[@blissx]

This is the best piece of music I've heard in a long time.

[@woodlands769]

If Purcell had lived another 20 years what would we now have as a catalogue. Cut down in his prime.

[@thethikboy]

Heartbreaking beauty exactly what one wants for a queen's funeral

[@jeffreyspringborg136]

When I hear this, I can just see the musicians walking up the long nave in time with the music, with the death drum ahead of them. Purcell has captured the essence of death and funerals; which, I might add still occurs to this day in certain places. This is truly a monumental piece. To my knowledge he also composed a birthday ode for Mary as well. Purcell ROCKS!

[@shlomoalmog7387]

Little orphan annie

[@levierdragon]

There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar trying to make up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening. The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old *ultra-violence.*

[@darkraven4187]

Who really was quite dim.

[@Sam-xd9xt]

Mary II also was the only English monarch to be titled: Princess of Orange, coincidence?

[@williamnorton7697]

Not really. Nothing to do with this piece of music... King. William the Third was the only Monarch to be titled Prince of Orange at one stage in his life. Once King and Queen they are not Prince or Princess of anything, they are King and Queen. Title passes ....

[@williamnorton7697]

I get your point. Orange was only a tityin the Lowlands. Not recognised in these shores.

[@TheSinkingTitanic2]

@@williamnorton7697I believe it might be referencing A Clockwork Orange, which this piece plays in multiple times

[@Peacekeeper76]

This is absolutely beautiful

[@spencerandersen271]

I agree-- even if you aren't religious, you really can't deny its beauty.

[@IvanGreindl]

This work isn't essentially "religious": it illustrates the general sadness after the death of a nice person. Anyway, *beauty* is a subjective notion relied to your sensitivity and artistic tastes. Not with personal religious convictions. When listening to sacred master-works from Schutz, Bach, Händel, Mozart or Fauré, you can feel a deep joy issued from harmony and feelings expressed. You don't need to be religious at all. ;-))

[@Polomokipo23]

Henry Purcell ( Londres 1659-1695 Londres ) MUSIC FOR THE FUNERAL OF QUEEN MARY Quelle voix grandioses et une musique Eternel bravo merci.

[@SuperDQP]

It's true what they say: the grass is always greener, and you don't really know what it is you have until it's gone. Gone... gone...

[@Domhangairt]

Purcell composed this piece for the funeral of Queen Mary II of England who died of smallpox in 1694. She was the wife and co-monarch of William of Orange.

[@jorgepeterbarton]

orange! he sed orange!

[@gwedielwch]

“Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down, like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and ne'er continueth in one stay. In the midst of life we are in death: of whom may we seek for succour, but of thee, O Lord, who for our sins art justly displeased? Yet, O Lord God most holy, O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deliver us not into the bitter pains of eternal death. / Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts; shut not thy merciful ears to our prayer; but spare us, Lord most holy, O God most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy judge eternal, suffer us not, at our last hour, for any pains of death, to fall from thee.” - These Funeral Sentences are part of The Order for the Burial of the Dead in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England. Purcell’s setting was sung at Queen Mary II’s funeral in 1695 and at Purcell’s own funeral a few months later in the same year.

[@leonardpaulson]

Thanks for not quoting A Clockwork Orange!

[@ubbovanpiggelen7440]

gwedi elwch

[@houseofcards9449]

Also spoken during Masonic funeral rites

[@GOLDSMITHEXILE]

c of e/freemasons....same thing nowadays

[@stuartkelly3106]

Order of the dead, so not purcellss words then?

[@cupani10]

This is a really tremendously inspired music...….very emotional...... Purcell was one of the greatest..... Compliments for the performance ...just delicious perfection......

[@garcalej]

"Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live, and is full of misery. He cometh up, and is cut down like a flower; he fleeth as it were a shadow, and ne'er continueth in one stay."

[@gwynjones3754]

Such poetry and so true

[@dangervich]

Tremendous music. Profoundly felt. Not until Mozart would we have as complete an expression of feeling about death. Purcell is still an under-appreciated innovator. The use of timpani in this piece proves that. (The shivering and shouting scenes in King Arthur are others.) Thanks for posting. Without deep feeling, man's soul is dead. Better to feel deep sorrow than nothing at all. The deeper the feeling, the more alive we are. The kind of feeling is immaterial.

[@edouard2895]

anad it gets you ready for the old bit of ultra violence

[@johntestelin4051]

To add to you wrote, I do not heard so far such a deep of expression of the loss of a loved one.It's really heart breaking. As far as I remember, Purcell had a deep "friendly" relationship with Queen Mary. Expression of such as deep sorrow raise the question if they might had an intimate relationship. This question is a subject of study for historians but not musicologists. At least but not the last, this interpretation is the best that I know.

[@dangervich]

They were great friends and he followed her to the grave within a year. It was a time of plague. She was his patroness. I'd rather not discuss the nature of the relationship as there is far too much of that about. Just the other day, some journalist felt the need to make hay (advertising dollars) by retailing a letter from Herman Melville to his possible great white whale, Nathaniel Hawthorne!

[@dangervich]

Thanks.

[@dangervich]

BTW, it's lighter music but David Raskin came home one night to the proverbial letter on the mantelpiece. By morning, he'd written "Laura." I like the version on Clifford Brown With Strings, though the wonderful Johnny Mercer lyrics are lost there. But they were no doubt written later. Mercer would be obsessed and determined to write a lyric to songs decades later. Midnight Sun is an example. Ella Fitzgerald did a passable job on The Johnny Mercer Songbook.

[@Kanarie1973]

The best music I've ever heard.

[@richardmanning7655]

marvellous, I live near Hampton Court as well,William and Mary underrated,it's not all Henry V111,Lucy Worsley!

[@fernandosoares5812]

Que maravilha de música... Estou, já tarde, a descobrir Purcell - vamos sempre a tempo!

[@brucehutchison3946]

My God, how beautiful!

[@chaosvssonic9304]

Well, there I am, Conker the King, King of all the land , who'd have thought that? But how did I come to this? I hear you say, and who are those strange fellows that surround my throne? That you also say, well it's a long story, Come closer and I'll tell you, it all started yesterday and what a day that was, it's what I call a Bad Fur Day

[@papireyceo]

Chaos Vs Sonic best game ever.

[@antoningilbert1615]

Ah, I'm not the only one who noticed IT'S THE SAME GODAMN THING

[@teampaunch9032]

Clocked it last year at last...best game ever

[@jackoroni5054]

Is it me, or are the pieces about death the most beautiful?

[@lindacowles756]

G'day, Jack'O Roni! Ever listen to "Come, Sweet Death" ("Komm, Süsser Tod") by J. S. Bach?

[@andreasgiasiranis5206]

Vidy well my brothers. Hopefully this monument will be rebuilted soon enough.

[@terrythompson7535]

It's beautiful.. and very real..

[@user-gh3it9fm4x]

Прекрасная,величественная ,скорбящая музыка! Слава Генри Перселлу!!!

[@paulziolo9241]

Прекрасные падали, О прекрасные, прекрасные пали, любимые Для меня, такого особенного духа, как вздымающийся в Генри Пёрселле, С тех пор век прошёл, так как расстались; с реверсом Из внешнего приговора низко лежит он, причисленный к ереси, здесь. Ни настроения в нем ни смысла, гордого огня или священного страха, Или любовь, или жалость, или все те сладкие ноты, которые не вскормлены его силой: Меня находит выкованная черта; это репетиция Своего собственного, резкого я там (того), что так давит, так переполняет ухо. Пусть он О! с его видом ангела тогда поднимите меня, положите меня! только я буду Взгляните на него, причудливые лунные метки, на его зашкуренное оперение под Крылья: значит, какой-нибудь большой буревестник, когда бы он ни гулял Громово-лиловый морской берег с перьями пурпурного цвета, Если шепот его пальмовых снежных крыльев рассыпает колоссальную улыбку От него, но это значит, что поклонники движения освежили наше воображение удивлением.

[@IvanGreindl]

Definitely an exceptional masterwork.

[@mybuttlookslikeurfac]

Viddy well my brothers! Viddy well!

[@paulsmith5752]

+Ser Stormcrow You'll never slooshy more horrorshow music in your life, O my brother.

[@themollusk7274]

+Paul Smith welly welly welly welly welly well

[@georgie1400]

+Paul Smith Evidence of the old glazzies. Nothing up their sleeves. No magic, little Alex. A job for two, who are now of job age. The police.

[@mohorovski]

This is the real weepy and like tragic part of the story beginning

[@jorgepeterbarton]

eggy weggs

[@AJDOLDCHANNELARCHIVE]

Very touching piece when the choral sections begin.

[@christophergodfrey1003]

Lovely picture of the high alter of Notre Dame,so beautiful , peaceful and heavenly.Definetly suits this music.Sadly Notre Dame will take time to be beautiful again because of renovations etc.Hopefully and I pray they will bring it to its original form,and not ruin it with anything modern

[@RRSYSinfo]

I really feel this kind of music, it reminds me much of my lost ones of family, thank you for upload and sharing.

[@plumjam]

Reminds me of how I feel when I hear the mother-in-law's coming to stay.

[@cyparris3]

+Adrian Grant :)

[@hughdaubry6135]

+Adrian Grant said to Purcell, Funeral fr. Queen Mary, "Reminds me of how I feel when I hear the mother-in-law's coming to stay." Ha, oh thank you! I've been laughing for for 10 minutes. Oh Christ, Exactly, mate!

[@plumjam]

You're welcome, mate. With any luck, 2016/7 will be a cold winter :)

[@montaviusdiamon3070]

lol!

[@theresafoley2550]

Thanks ! Still laughing my head off . . .

[@mikebrooke2204]

Very sacred; very stirring;

[@prototropo]

As many musicologists and theorists propose, Purcell was arguably the first fully tonal composer, with a vocabulary pivoting around a single tonic premise in a major/minor triadic circumstance, with homophonic melodic characters or polyphonic ensembles flourishing in a dodecaphonic landscape. It was, and is, a formal esthetic system championed by Handel, consolidated by Bach, confirmed by Haydn, consecrated by Mozart and crowned by Beethoven. (Don't tell Beyonce, but her tonality is purcellian from hip to pop.) But a moment after 03:57 the tenors reminisce a bit in 17th-century modality by tenderly, briefly embracing iv of III (itself a temporary modulation to the relative major). It wisps by, a zephyric kiss of mixolydian in this otherwise stolid cathedral of major, Minor grief. Anyone who loved the movie "Goodbye, Mr. Chips," might long for the kiss of myx as much as I.

[@monsieurm6975]

The use of the tymps is gorgeously haunting. I also feel that some works of Purcell certainly match and some, exceed his contemporary , G.F. Handel.

[@towmlvb3423]

Contemporary? Handel was but 10 years old when Purcell died...

[@lesleymorris5299]

Wonderful music - so stately - and the drums - divine

[@olivierroussel2002]

Un peu de commentaire enfin en Français, ça ne fait pas de mal !!!... cette interprétation est absolument sublime, car très bien équilibrée, tant en ce qui concerne la prise de son, le chœur, et l'orchestre. (encore faut-il tenir compte de la qualité médiocre du son via internet) D'autres s'y sont essayé, mais font pâle figure face au talent exceptionnel de Mr GARDINER et de son équipe. Merci pour ce grand moment, Mr GARDINER

[@tagtek20]

It's funny how the original version is truly profound, really emotional, a true beauty. One true masterpiece. And the version of Wendy Carlos is sooooooo different. It was the intention, of course, but it is truly weird and a dissonant. How an arrangement can bring different thing of the same music.

[@jeanmargueritte972]

Impressionné par cette musique empreinte de douleur. Une entrée en méditation, une forte émotion religieuse. La marche qui introduit l'office me fait penser aux roulements de timbales du Requiem de Gilles, tel qu'il était donné avant les "purges" baroques.

[@kaloarepo288]

My favourite funeral music is by Jean Gilles in his REQUIEM -used for the funeral of Louis XV and also for the great french baroque composer Rameau.

[@BiscoitoGrobo]

Just wonderful and amazing music.

[@gordonsmith8899]

Wedded to such moving words

[@philonico]

Magnifique oeuvre

[@lamusicquejaim7808]

AWESOME§ HAD SONG WITH A CHOIR !!!! emotion !!!

[@amandajaynesparrow3591]

From dreams are made the precious and imperishable things, whose loveliness lives on, and does not fade

[@jakubsledzik9530]

R.I.P. Notre Dame

[@pigsbishop99]

It's being hushed up, but we all know who did it!

[@CHRISDABAHIA]

Powerful

[@janegainsford3869]

Absolutely beautiful.

[@ericremander9110]

Absolutely Beautiful Music!

[@AGMundy]

Such nobility and what feels like personal grief expressed. The words from The Common Book of Prayer are so tender - man that is born of woman, hath but a short time to live... he cometh up.... like a flower, he fleeth as it were a shadow - you don't have to have religious faith to feel touched by this. Music expressed the ineffable. Composed over 300 years ago it speaks us to across time, connecting us with the past. I can only wonder how those who first heard this must have felt.

[@43nostromo]

Sitting here enjoying this lovely music. Still trying to make up my rassoodocks what to do with the evening.

[@josewallace6759]

Me ha fascinado. Excelente. Para disfrutar en silencio.

[@SuperPinknina]

Amazing harmony! Wonderful.....

[@nickblinko5677]

Oh bliss....

[@failedabortion1894]

...bliss and Heaven...

[@wynpencarreg7535]

I love the slow tempi. Solemn and magesterial

[@mcdeadcat]

Old Henry wrote a fine tune

[@tombradford7035]

I can't unsee Alex.

[@arhr2713]

That was me, that is Alex and my 3 pals, George, Pit and Dim.

[@peter81mus]

Musique dramatique de Henry Purcell qui nous rappelle le drame de l'incendie survenu à Notre-Dame de Paris...le lundi 15 avril 2019.

[@michaelweis4756]

Truly tremendous music, touches me deep skin and makes me cry hard...//depending on my mood//

[@aidenbutler8185]

Amazing music, so powerfull

[@falsarnaexposure]

with one sweeping breath all candles in the history of the universe blown out

[@cosmic_gate476]

Found this through the original "Orange theme" track by Cygnus X. I usually enjoy listening to Romantic era classical music but I must say this really moved me. The vocals are very powerful.

[@KaiTakApproach]

Mary Stuart, we remember. Your sacrifice changed the world forever. Thank you and may your memory serve to remind us that progress is a byproduct of seeking the highest aim possible, to perfect our communion with each other on earth through struggling to perfect our communion with the Spirit forever beyond our imperfect grasp.

[@samjudge1240]

Fancy myself glass of milk for some reason.

[@stefanoruggeri100]

What a masterpiece.

[@JeanYvesCaro]

Merci !

[@gerdbeyaert8127]

Found this piece of amazing music through Cro-Mags, they used it as an intro for Hard times in the age of quarrel....got blown away.

[@hudsonbailey674]

Purcell fended the reaper with his "requiem" as he graced life with the glory the eternal.

[@steveegallo3384]

Recalls that Sphinx or Gamayun (Ganesha, Minotaur)….like a string of icons that resembles a printout of a Toltec burial inscription. “APODICTIC Certitude” (INCONTROVERTIBLE DEMONSTRATED ALREADY), really clearly established beyond dispute . For me, it's coming off you like heat waves from an Oklahoma blacktop...I'm jus sayin

[@kevinshukla9606]

So beautiful and gorgeous. Really sparks my creativity, who needs drugs when you have this???

[@michelangelolapolla9539]

Beautiful Purcell! Gardiner the Great!

[@beatagomzar2603]

Its' very beautiflul music, so sad and so majestic... In this moment where I was hearing it I understood the mistery of the death... And the pain of poore Mary of Scotland.

[@johnlittle9668]

+Simon Martin Mary Stuart then...

[@metteholm4833]

If this man had been given more years - he probably would have overshadowed Handel in some respects. He is DEEP!

[@towmlvb3423]

Handel and Purcell wrote very, very different music. Handel had musical followers, Purcell had one of any note, probably because he was the hardest act to follow of all classical music composers. With enough "ifs" one can turn a pig's ear into a silver purse, but IF Purcell had not died so young he would now be universally recognised as as great as any other composer, and greater than so many we venerate today.

[@riesenmeymichele615]

j'aime...je ne suis pas la reine Mary mais je désire cette musique pour mes funérailles...j'écoutais , j'écoute en peignant...

[@fritagogo1]

Thank You !

[@MKWiiKid]

Well. Here I am... Conker's the king. King of all the land... Who would've thought that?

[@BillyDBunny]

This is so divine! It is true that I know of this from Kubrick but that does not diminish the quality one bit, or me, methinks! Shame about Mr. Purcell getting locked out of his house that cold night. Why people marry is beyond me.

[@alisoncain769]

This isn't a piece I should have listened to while taking care of my dying husband. Big mistake; I didn't need to get more depressed.

[@C.K.Productions]

I hope all is well.

[@gordonsmith8899]

Queen Mary II died aged 32 in December 1694.

[@JeanYvesCaro]

Beauté !

[@johnnylalonde7542]

Pure beauty.

[@edricaldones9639]

My favourite English music. thank you.

[@ColdDaBlood]

Clockwork orange so good classic music in this movie

[@eusebioca]

Magistral ¡¡¡

[@hunterfabian7380]

Singing this for Palm Sunday.

[@theredpriest1]

Got to have this at my funeral, along with the Durufle Requiem and perhaps the PJBE (well it would have to be a recording of course) playing 'Blues March'.

[@ehought]

Magnificent

[@veloguy4]

Bliss and heaven! Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh. It was like a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now.

[@Kneenibble]

You have been staring at the moon too long, sir

[@alphus89]

Astonishing!... I want to die on this Music!...

[@simonwoods8809]

Interestingly that was the comment of more than one person who looked at/listened to the KZbin posting of Walter Carlos' interpretation for Stanley Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange"... Totally haunting piece - I don't know which version I prefer...total goosebumps...

[@alpspitz1]

A sweet nut Perse A peel of Orange bells by Wendy Carlos...

[@mrtibbs2959]

To have an ancestor like this makes it very difficult to live up to what he created. Maybe the blood is diluted and maybe the DNA memory too far gone. Regardless, I am proud of you Henry.

[@vwave3456]

Too soon and my comment is too late.

[@carolleenkelmann3829]

I want to die to the sounds of Bach's Goldberg Variations, Classical guitar playing and unlimited tango music among many others. Anything but this. Save it for the funeral! Then let those left behind suffer with it for all it's evoking beauty.

[@marianateixeira9023]

Omg! Amaizing!

[@hectorgiraldez6537]

Qué música, por Dios!

[@amacater]

They had lost much of the music for the royal funeral. It was not until recent years that someone realised they had found some of the missing pieces composed by Thomas Morley and the drummer's slow march. Pair these with the Purcell - as has been done on some recordings - and you get the full service.