This Song From the 1500’s Blows Me Away

In this episode I discuss the Music of Renaissance Songwriter and Lute virtuoso John Dowland (1563-1624).
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[@ianrowe9331]

I went to a Julian Bream concert in Edinburgh. I rode the bus, a poor student. A small man in conservative clothes sat down beside me with his instrument case. I said, I'm going to the Bream concert, and he said, so am I. As I went to the entrance, we parted, and he went to another entrance. Of course it was him. BUT HE RODE THE BUS!

[@lBJamiel]

A lovely story.

[@SummerRain368]

How thrilling! Thank you for sharing. ❤

[@iggykarpov]

Fantastic!!!

[@AbolitionistPrivateer]

I caught one of his concerts in Germany in the very early 90s. Amazing.

[@perfectlovenofear8060]

I love that share! Once I was at a fair tapping on about an author as I was buying her books. She tapped me on the shoulder and said thank you for all that. Would you like me to sign them? Your story is even better.

[@nirmalsuki]

Us 1590s kids appreciate young artists like Breem for bringing songs from our childhood back.

[@binkwillans5138]

We don't have music anymore in the 21st century. Just some drum beats and heavy breathing. You kids were lucky.

[@fraaggl]

you got one thing wrong, 15ty century means it started in 1400 and ended in 1499. And if you were born in 1499 (still a 15th century kid !) that would make you 91 years old which is kind of impossible for this period of time !

[@noelle3551]

​@@fraagglmid to late 16th to early 17th centuries. Interesting era for music just on the cusp of Baroque period!!

[@katrinat.3032]

🤣

[@purpleplanet3138]

😁😁😁

[@N1originalgazza]

Who, after more than 4 centuries, is still listening to John Dowland's hit "The Earl of Essex's Galliard" here on KZbin? 🥰🥰😄

[@joycolclough2272]

Ppl who like renaissance music

[@captnd7902]

i was only 4 years old went it released but still love it to this day!

[@debussy3222]

Me, from chile.

[@troylabrie]

I listen in Hilo, Hawai'i. It's wonderful music. 🙂🤙🌴

[@shakesrear7850]

You, apparently and me... all of us. It's a Straight Bbanger. I bet they nodded their bench wigs high in the air bopping to this. Spun right out of their robes.

[@3DCGdesign]

watching Rick Beato head bang a little to some great music from the 1500's just makes my day.

[@upwardsoul]

😂

[@kelsycunningham8452]

Imagine the composer at the time, being told that people would be getting down to his music 500 years later.

[@siralexandersequeira3rdcou12]

Downland was a badass, he would be cool with it.

[@twhmmh]

Imagine explaining ŸouTube to him...

[@davidfleuchaus]

And “air lute.”

[@operavin]

And he’d be listening to Cardi B wondering what happened. “Well we got hit by a meteor.” Oh, well OK then.

[@joedwyer3297]

I ended up looking him up and showing some family members, we all enjoyed his tunes For being dead for like 400/500 years hes got like 160k monthly listeners😂

[@MusicLiberates]

It’s really terrific how Rick is introducing people to high quality music from many different genres and time periods.

[@joethebar1]

And some bad...

[@markadams2907]

That6what being an artist is all about. Rick is truly an artist. Yes, he is a performer, but the man IS an artist.

[@atruex4164]

Yep-telling 3mlln subs to listen to Dowland and Bach can reorganize the world for the better.

[@adam872]

It's a beautiful thing isn't it.

[@justathought88]

Legit

[@thebigpicture-elpanorama]

From an Irish man in Bangkok, this is the perfect ending to my day.

[@janineparker3041]

When I was pregnant in 1987, I listened to Julian Bream plays Bach all day every day. My Son is a brilliant scientist, inventor and artist.

[@Elcore]

I am sure his success came more from the fact that you are the sort of person who can appreciate that music than from the effects of the music itself.

[@Etelvinicius]

That is amazing! May I ask what he has invented? I've never met any inventors in my life.

[@robertarevalo5137]

I would listen to music like that on TV every once in awhile... When I was 6 through 9 years old.... I connected to that era.... I became an antique dealer

[@loco_tom]

I grew up listening to Guns n Roses. I became an emotional wreck.

[@janineparker3041]

@@Etelvinicius You can look him up by name Dr. Alex Harrison Parker.

[@barbaravandoren3425]

I LOVED this video. Thank you. I'm an elderly English woman, who's first husband was an aspiring classical guitarist. He absolutely idolised Julian Bream, so much so that we named our first son, JULIAN. (He's now 66!) I love this renaissance music, especially played on period instruments. Julian Bream was such a 'regular guy' with a really wide appeal. Here in London, we were all very proud of him & his ability to bring us the music of a distant era into contemporary life, which we otherwise might not have known of. It's lovely that American musicians appreciate him, too.

[@snehasishguhathakurta9338]

@Barbara Van Doren I hope you are doing great in this tough time.

[@badcornflakes6374]

What a beautiful thing it is

[@ReverendDr.Thomas]

I saw Bream at the Perth Concert Hall in Australia in 1983, I believe it was. I even remember the title and name of one of the compositions he played ("The Blue Guitar" by Michael Tippett).

[@rosieleat6868]

I am 61 - born in the London slums, now living in a beautiful place in the country side in another country but for a little while, I played the recorders and violin in a group that played old English music - when I hear this, I feel it deep in my bones and my skin, even though classical music moves me so deeply the most, (and I love Kate bush, nick cave, sing along songs etc, aurora) this music almost takes me back to a past life - and I can feel the grime in my skin, the hunger in my belly. What a great channel!

[@elizabethhenderson3747]

I love the arts played on original period instruments. In the 1980s I was listening to a piece from the baroque period on the radio, and I said to my girlfriend, who happened to be mostly self centered, and below my IQ, I said to her, "Wow! This is being played on original instruments!" And she gave me such a dirty look. And she said, "How would you-uuu know?" I responded, "I can tell from the texture of the sound." She didn't approve of my answer. When the piece finished, the radio announcer mentioned it was played on original instruments, my girlfriend's face shown such anger. I'm always glad I broke up with her.

[@raydelrosario2366]

When Mr. Beato says "OH!!" on music from the 1500s...you know he's well rounded. Truly a legit sensei of music.

[@jsmith5278]

truly...

[@WutipongWongsakuldej]

When you call him sensei, I think it'd be interesting to see his comments on Japanese pop music.

[@larsonfamilyhouse]

Well he was a music professor for many years lol

[@crhu319]

He has to discover the Japanese female guitarists next...true senseis of the axe!

[@OuijTube]

Early Music will really blow your mind if you let it, man. The great thing about this video is that we get to see different ways to perform this song, which is a treat. Too often, this kind of music gets tied up in the straitjacket of "SERIOUS PERFORMANCE." I mean, yeah, it IS serious music, but as other people noted, this was written originally as a DANCE. It was alive! The more we get this music out into the world, the more chances it gets to live, and that makes me happy.

[@666headspin]

I used to like Watching Julian Bream and John Williams playing together on British TV back in the day

[@suedavis3525]

As a former pro classical musician trying to expand into other genres, I love that Rick is so eclectic. Good music is good music.

[@heavnnnsent]

Jethro Tull gets honorable mention here because they compose their own compositions which sound quite medieval, very much like Renaissance or medieval compositions, only they are contemporary, an amazing band

[@mrw1208]

Contemporary is a relative term. Jethro Tull is half a century old.

[@heavnnnsent]

@@mrw1208 🤪

[@ArjanKop]

@@mrw1208yes, rub it in… 😢

[@Realcernunnos]

hear hear, I'm a big Tull fan

[@Beachgirl1]

The 70’s Prog band “Renaissance” is a criminally underrated band who are aptly named. Their vocalist Annie Haslam is one of the best female vocalists of all time.

[@maryjane-ei4hl]

This piece of music made me weep . How can an old English composer reach out through four centuries and put his fi get on a mind today. So powerful .

[@jmcc2275]

It made me weep too…probably not for the same reason though.

[@justynjonn]

The power of music.

[@yogiine]

Because time is not linear and we are not our bodies ❤

[@abraxaseyes7]

Music touches our hearts through time because our hearts are the same as the past. We forget our endlessness

[@amazinggrace5692]

Because music is in the DNA of all creation.

[@aaronmarshall3755]

As someone who has grown up playing classical guitar all my life, hearing Julian Bream’s name in 2024 warms my heart. He was always my favorite guitarist growing up and his expression is truly top-tier. For those interested in hearing more Dowland I would highly recommend his famous Fantasia No. 7 (a fan favorite amongst us guitarists) as well as Benjamin Britten’s Nocturne after John Dowland, a modern work which was dedicated to Julian Bream.

[@louisegalipeau5171]

When I studied classical voice, I discovered renaissance music, Purcell, Dowland and love singing it. Food for the soul. Thank you for sharing your passion for good music, it's contagious!

[@marvinc9994]

"Food for the soul" You're not wrong: and it sure beats the hell out of Hip-Hop!

[@hildyva]

I was a voice major in college too and classical guitar minor. I immersed myself in those great composers too!

[@juliagoatly5857]

“If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.”

[@christophersuleske1905]

Fantastic! 500 year old music that stands the test of time.

[@johnsmith-cw3wo]

only kids from 1500's understand this music.

[@Norvaal3]

A classic indeed

[@ejb7969]

Imagine John Dowland coming back, 425 years later, to see people watching, on a screen, this beefy guy air-conducting one of his pieces being performed on another screen, and howling at the good parts. He'd probably be in the mood for a good ale.

[@MarceloLaraM]

🤣 great comment

[@heavnnnsent]

🥰🥰🥰

[@ferc778]

Brilliant 👏👏👏👏

[@feliciapate7926]

He'd probably wonder who'd put what drug in the last thing he drank.

[@ejb7969]

@@joeschmoe8320 Wait till he finds out the king's been dead for 400+ years.

[@ManicBard]

I love your enthusiasm, Rick. The music is fabulous. No electric - just pure notes and skilled musicians... Thank you.

[@carnatderomania]

Ohhh come on!!!! Rita Ora and Dua Lipa make so much better music..... Which will all be forgotten in 2 years LOL

[@rickjensen2717]

Julian lived not far from me here in Wiltshire. He was a true master of the guitar and did so much to popularise the instrument. Well worth listening to him and also his master classes.

[@aliceberethart]

This is why i love love loveee the Tolkien Ensemble. It’s Tolkien’s poems played and sung as if they’re renaissance pieces. It’s absolutely stunning.

[@raehenry3522]

You are so right.

[@elizabetenunes2509]

5

[@bonumfatum457]

Great ensemble, not at all similar to music of the renaissance period tho

[@erikhn9331]

My first record ever was Julian Bream playing English Renaissance music. It was in 1973, I was 10 years old. Loved this music ever since.

[@ClarenceCochran-ne7du]

My favorite Renaissance Era song/composition has long been Orlando Gibbon's "The Silver Swan." An absolutely gorgeous Madrigal Gibbons composed for 5 voices that can be a beautiful instrumental but when combined with his lyric is just as inciteful today as it was ~500 years ago. The last stanza reads "Farewell all joys. O death come close mine eyes. More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise."

[@iwattguitar]

What a wonderful video! Lovely tribute to Bream! I had the privilege of visiting him at his house in 2011. He personally picked me up at the station, we had a wonderful conversation, he tore me apart in the lesson before we went for a walk (where I had the honour of taking his beloved dog Django's lead!), then he tore me apart some more, gave me a cup of tea and drove me back to the station! He was very down to earth, witty and not at all stiff as he appears in the video (as everyone who knew him will tell you). A great man.

[@Scoots1994]

I love Rick doing his "Oh!" to lute playing from the 1500s.

[@neilross9867]

I read your comment at the very moment he shouted "Oh!!!". A little surreal if I'm honest

[@scottbaines4747]

The "Oh!" is truly timeless. 🤣

[@MerkinMuffly]

My wife never liked this type of music either, but for a kid growing up in the 80s into fantasy novels, movies and D&D this was right up my alley

[@wfemp_4730]

@Miles Doyle "But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."

[@MartijnVos]

Speaking of psalms, I'm a big fan of the 1555 Genevan psalm melodies. There's just something to those scales and harmonies of that time.

[@AaronLitz]

Currently playing a 15th level Half-Elven Bard who has a Doss Lute. I managed to cast Charm Monster on two Bone Devils using it a while ago. He fights with a special pair of magical, crystal-bladed swords he crafted himself, that sound like paired glass armonicas as they cut through the air.

[@kennyplay5982]

@ 7:55 really funny faces

[@stefankrautz9048]

i wonder what the older generation in the 1500's thought of this music. "dont you dare to go to the next castle-concert ! "

[@leonardogoncalves7]

i actually played this piece as a teenager in the ensemble i played in (i used to play viola da gamba). funny thing… when my son was born in 2021 i used to play tons of renaissance and baroque music… jordi savall on the viola da gamba playing celtic stuff, but also marin marais and monsieur de st colombe…

[@elmoromalpaso3858]

savall, marais, st colombe... the blessed trinity :)

[@dorasmith7875]

At my church, I kid you not. The main midmorning Sunday service, the one the families and teenagers attend, the music has NO rhythm AND no melody. I don't mean that it sounds like this piece that one might not like; this piece has melody and rhythm, just misplayed and sung by a bad tenor. How in the world?!!!!! The second piece is closer. I recognize the tune, but it's so badly messed up I can't place it. I like guitar playing, but in this case he does far too much messing around among the actual tune. It comes close to effectively having no melody and no rhythm. But what they sing at that service in church is actually close to monotonal.

[@dorasmith7875]

You never said how your son reacted to it - and from your terminology, maybe it wasn't music either. "Celtic stuff" is NOT played on viola da gamba whatever the bleep that is, and it wouldn't include "marin marais and monsieur de st colombe". Genuine celtic music is folk music, and not high fallutin or using the Italian language.

[@sebastianp.6066]

Some actors have a silver look in their eyes. Sting has a silver tune in his voice, that makes his singing intreaguing. I never had expected the Police's singer to become this great artist. Congratulations !

[@stevegrant7762]

Julian Bream, a hero of mine. I just love how wide ranging Rick’s tastes are. I’m with you on this man!

[@numanuma20]

There is no music Rick hates.

[@pauldallaway5794]

Bream, Martha Agerich, Swervedriver and Holdsworth. Rick loves it all!

[@TheSeeking2know]

Yea I agree. It’s delightful and instructive.

[@David-iv6je]

We just gonna ignore Beato's Jerry Garcia look in that short clip?

[@jules153]

I speak to many classical guitarist when I travel the world and 2 names keep cropping up Segovia and Bream. Bream just had a way of making music sound magical. His Bach is out of this world.

[@richardhoneycutt9437]

I fell in live with Medieval and Renaissance music in high school in the mid-1960s. I was a charter member of Musical heritage Society, who sold a lot of ancient music. On our first date, I took my wife to a music fraternity party. It was boring, so we went to my place and listened to medieval and renaissance MHS records. Great times!

[@larrymiller4]

60's was my musical awakening. Late teens, very early 20's.

[@Guus115]

​@larrymiller4 the 1560's

[@shellieeyre8758]

I took out an LP from the local library when I was about 11. It was David Munrow's New London Consort, "A Renaissance Dance Band" and I was hooked.

[@jacekzajac8356]

“Come again sweet love” by Dowland is one of the most beautiful love songs

[@LuciusDriftwood]

Sir, I love your passion for beautiful music in all its manifestations. Blessings to from England.

[@AnAdorableWombat]

I remember this song when it first came out! I was there in concert when John Dowland first played this song. The 1590s were the best times of my life.

[@pegfutrell4543]

Did you attend Shakespeare's plays also?

[@chefren77]

Party like it's 1599!

[@yasminedey8612]

LOL! Hello 👋 to a vampire

[@WaterNai]

Then it was everywhere. I couldn’t walk into a tavern or go to a garden party without hearing it.

[@markuhler2664]

All my friends were still listening to guys like William Byrd, and I was like, c'mon this new dude Dowland is awesome. Come to the concert with me. They were are like, naah Byrd's opening for the Queen. We're going there. A few years later they were like oh dude, we found this new guy John Dowland. He absolutely shreds the lute, man, and I'm like dudes! I tried to get you to listen to him like last century. His early stuff is bitchin' but he's sold out now & it's just puff pop pieces now. You all are just pop princesses, chasing after that upperclass sweets that will rot your brain. I'm listening to real music down at a pub with men who work with their hands and smell of sweat & horse dung. Real music for real people. Get out of my face wit' ye'! Begone I say!

[@jasontaylor3898]

I listen to Renaissance music every morning as I sip my coffee and watch the sunrise.

[@janel342]

Sounds too perfect to be true. The sun rises when it’s raining?

[@joedwyer3297]

​@@janel342be that as it may, the sun rises no matter what😅

[@edwardx4979]

That's awesome! I guess it only gets better if you happen to live in an old cottage in the woods and there's chickens, swine, and cattle roaming around... 😁

[@user-sm1fk1xm4d]

@@janel342NO WAY U JUST ASKED THAT 💀

[@tamaralandreneau8005]

My Daughter & I love this style of music. The BBC plays this music in every Movie they make, depicting the music of the period. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@anthonytaylor9232]

I had the pleasuree of attending a Julian Bream solo concert in Harrogate (UK) in the early 2000's. Well worth the trip!

[@samforsyth]

“Shall I call her good, when she proves unkind” Such a heavy lyric. Love it!!!

[@bobbydellmusic]

This song is sometimes known as the “Earl of Essex Galliard,” as it’s dedicated to Robert Devereux, the second Earl of Essex, who was executed for treason by Queen Elizabeth I.

[@teach-learn4078]

​@@bobbydellmusic After praying that God would preserve the Queen and asking the crowd to join him in prayer, he begged God to forgive his enemies. He then removed his gown and ruff and knelt at the block, looking up at the sky and saying the Lord's Prayer. After forgiving the executioner, who knelt in front of him, Essex repeated the Creed and then took off his doublet, as it was covering his neck, to display a waistcoat of scarlet, the colour of martyrs. He laid himself on the block, stretched out his arms and prayed, "Lord be merciful to Thy prostrate servant… Lord, into Thy hands I commend my spirit." After repeating two verses of Psalm 51, he could take no more and cried out, "Executioner, strike home!". The executioner swung his axe to behead Essex, but, unfortunately, it took three blows to sever his neck. When the deed was finally done, the executioner held the head aloft, shouting, "God save the Queen!" … Essex had asked to be executed privately and accordingly, was beheaded on Tower Green on Ash Wednesday, 25 February 1601. He was aged thirty-four at the time of his execution and gained the distinction of becoming the last person to be beheaded within the Tower of London, he was beheaded at the same spot as Lady Jane Grey and Elizabeth's mother, Anne Boleyn had been. The first blow of the axe hit the Earl of Essex's shoulder and it was reported to have taken three strokes by the executioner Thomas Derrick to complete the execution. …

[@christinesilberman8273]

​@@teach-learn4078😊 no I'm not

[@teach-learn4078]

@@christinesilberman8273 You’re not “what,” milady?

[@CorePathway]

Same heartache, different century

[@BoomerBends]

Rick Beato singlehandedly doing more for the preservation of music than countless scores of his peers. Amazing guy!

[@lm5730]

In the US. The rest of us already love it

[@codswallop321]

Fun fact: the sci fi grandmaster Philip K Dick was a huge Dowland fan. The title of his novel "Flow my tears, the policeman said" references Dowland's most famous song.

[@wondrinminstrel]

@@codswallop321 That's interesting. I was a huge Philip K dick fan back in the 90's when I was in my late teens. I read just about all his short stories and novels. Which song are you refering to please? OH and I still have a chuckle when telling friends about The Broken Bubble.

[@helentee9863]

I'm in my middle 60s, l was brought up on this style of music in the uk because my dad is a huge fan. 'Stone age' music is what most classical musicians/singers tend to call it 😁. If you like this,try Googleing Michael Deller/ Counter Tenors

[@katharinerawdon7398]

@@wondrinminstrel The song is simply titled "Flow My Tears", or possibly "Flow, My Tears" - look for it, it's gorgeous!

[@timhuffmaster3588]

Thank you for such a warm welcome and an unexpected treat. I love this music and the instruments. It’s something I’d forgotten. Your joy and enthusiasm is infectious. Where have I been?

[@riveraluciano]

"Can she excuse my wrongs with virtues cloak?" One of the first renaissance pieces I ever sang, and I still remember every note as if I sang it for the first concert yesterday. Amazing.

[@mattmexor2882]

Galileo's father, Vincenzo Galilei, was a professional lutenist, music theorist, and composer.

[@twenty3electronics]

Galileo, Galileo Galileo, Figaro - magnificoo

[@MrBoker69]

@@twenty3electronics Oh mama mia!!!!

[@suzannehartmann946]

I would not be surprised if it affected hi attitude towards the movement of stars and planets.

[@brandonrobinson1785]

I had no idea! That's awesome.

[@Litesnusidojan]

My dad has diabetes

[@tullochgorum6323]

Speaking from experience, the key thing to understand about the music of the Tudor period is that it is super-fun to play and sing. I was in a fine choir at a university college with beautiful Tudor buildings, and as Rick says, performing this music in those surroundings is a life-enhancing experience!

[@HandmadeDarcy]

They make damn good post-rehearsal pub madrigals, too. Does a singer with a tankard of beer qualify as a period-appropriate instrument? 😁😁

[@tullochgorum6323]

@@HandmadeDarcy Every now and again we would get together with one of the women's choirs for a performance. Afterwards we'd head off in a little fleet of punts and park ourselves under one of the beautiful bridges over the river Cam. The acoustic was great, and we'd run through our repertoire of madrigals. By the time we emerged, the bridge would be packed with bemused tourists trying to figure out the source of this mysterious and wonderful sound!

[@HandmadeDarcy]

Ah... There is little more satisfying than hyperventilating in harmony with fellow humans 😊😊

[@abracadaverous]

@@HandmadeDarcy That qualifies perfectly. The most portable instrument of all.

[@chelseal654]

Exactly, they weren’t concert pieces, they were a pastime and entertainment.

[@trueloveingod2691]

I’ve always loved Renaissance music, it’s full of life and inspiration

[@kmsongbird]

I often felt sad that I let time go by and didn't go after a graduate degree in music, because I just didn't know whether to emphasize further performance, or theory, or musicology. But watching your channel calms my soul and I am glad I saved my money. You ARE a graduate program in all of it and I am so thankful! LOVE LOVE LOVE what you do, professor Beato!

[@davemiller6055]

I like how Rick talks about different genre's and not just modern pop and rock. And he doesn't just talk, he educates.

[@leswright4108]

I am a classical guitarist and very beginner lutenist and I focused on Early Music in my music degree. For Rick to turn his attention to likes of Dowland makes me feel joyous--and validated.

[@GTX1123]

This brings back great memories from 40 yrs ago when I majored in classical guitar. My favorite era's were Renaissance and Baroque. Dowland was a prolific composer and performer in his own right. I actually did learn one of the Lute pieces of music he wrote. I still have the sheet music buried somewhere. Gotta go dig that up...

[@hildyva]

I minored in classical guitar 40 years as well. I never played dowland but some of the other students did. I was a voice major and every Xmas season we did madrigal dinners with a late renaissance vibe. Dowland would have been right at home

[@WickedWaiata]

I am an Electronic Music and Hip Hop/R&B man but always have time for Renaissance and Classical tunes! The creators were truly Gangsta

[@seanmatthewmills]

“Whose heavenly touch, upon the lute, doth ravish all human sense” -Shakespeare.

[@jcee6886]

🥰

[@karens2111]

Watching Rick enjoy a song is life affirming.

[@cedricgist7614]

The man is passionate about music - not just his music but all thoughtful, well-played music. It's infectious!

[@Blissed-Out]

@@cedricgist7614 Some of the expressions he makes really crack me up. I could easily see him doing stand up /acting.

[@davidfleuchaus]

Air lute Aire lute Heir lute Herr Lute Err lute Hair lute Era lute Theme and variations

[@KabobHope]

This is the soundtrack for a videogame with a young squire equipping himself and drinking ale in the village before he heads out to slay monsters and win the fair maiden's heart.

[@myracahill7409]

I really get it. I love music of all kinds - most of it touches me and makes me feel like I am rediscovering a part of my soul that was missing.

[@keifmullismusic2764]

Damien Kelly is one of my best friends since 2005. We are both huge Rick Beato fans and the fact that he features in this video has put both of us on a high! Hello from Ireland Rick! 🇮🇪

[@michaelholmes9874]

He sounds fantastic. I had a Julian Bream lo when I was a kid and it got me into classical guitar. He had his own tv programme back in the day on the BBC! Now it’s Married at First sight and all that crap….

[@MrLeadb1]

It's hard to believe that such talented people are quite unknown even in their own countries.....Damien is incredible, I was very moved by his great performance....my eyes started sweating.

[@marypatten9655]

@@michaelholmes9874 yes. How did the BBC go so far down from such wonderful music and shows? Guess there was more money down there.

[@lorenheard2561]

@@MrLeadb1 Had to say it.. Love your Leonidas' sign!! A positive affirmative to that !!

[@sharongraham4256]

@@michaelholmes9874 except Married at first sight is not on the BBC.

[@markcolwell1120]

Sting did an entire album of Dowland songs on lute with readings from his diaries. It is titled "Songs from the Labyrinth."

[@stevescuba1978]

Going to the search engine in 3...2...

[@GardensAndGames]

There was a documentary and concert recorded for the release of that album as well. Sting discusses how difficult it was to learn the lute. During the concert where he's playing only Dowland songs someone shouts from the crowd "Play Roxanne!" 🙄

[@Adyman182]

Featuring Bosnian lutenist Edin Karamazov.

[@KCCheez]

Bowie did an entire Labyrinth album…

[@natewhite455]

Rick Beato's, is a Hypocrite,still a good Guitarist but he criticize legendary Black Guitarist too much and does not have facts...

[@rebeccalewis3023]

Hello Rick, I too throughly enjoyed renaissance music in high school. I was blown away by madrigals we ssng in the choir. We went on to the Messiah and felt so lucky to have been introduced to music from this period in history. At my wedding I later had a small quintet celebrating with renaissance music. 🎻

[@larryschmid3834]

I was a staff writer in Nashville for a short time and while in Nashville I felt like I had come home. Everyone was on the same wave length, writing all the time, dreaming of getting a song cut and released and dieing when they passed on a hold. Watching your show gives me that same feeling. Your whole life is music and I "get" everything you come up with about music. I feel like I've come home watching you week after week. Please keep it up. Love your show. I like that middle ages stuff too, the middle ages song writers struggling to find a patron so they could eat. Nothings really changed. 9:34

[@fernandogirard9702]

On my 70 bitthday, my daughter, who is a soprano, sang this beauty accompanied by bandoneon(!) played by her husband. So, so great.

[@sameoldtunes7110]

I’m from 2007 and so grateful to have been shown this song.

[@paulcarter6962]

My father sang opera professionally, and I did so in my younger years, though never professionally. I would say that people that listen to it growing up, or they learned it early, have a different appreciation. I watched my father sing with pavirotti and it couldn’t have impressed me more. My wife however could never know why or what I hear that moves me so much.

[@Jill-ps1rs]

Paulcarter6962 wow, your dad must have been terrific. As children we listened to all kinds of music, classical, big bands and modern and pop. Musicals were also popular. I listen to Classic fm, and recently Mario Lanza was played. I d forgotten how incredible his voice was. My mum, always rated Pavarotti as tops, however, i think Mario has my vote. Beautiful to me Id be interested to hear in your preference??

[@paulcarter6962]

@@Jill-ps1rs my father was pretty terrific. It was tough for him coming up, but his voice carried him far. I don’t have many preferences as far as a voice is concerned. Pavarotti had a high note that never seemed to waver in power. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a bad note. I’m a bit closer to Pavarotti too, we have a few funny family stories whilst my father sang with him. However, my father was a Verdi Baritone, and I am a true bass, so I am swayed towards a darker voice that can be carried into higher tones. Samuel Ramey is one of my favorites too. Of course overall I love my fathers voice. It’s great to see others are still listening to this music.

[@johnodonnell191]

This man's love of music is so contagious, so passionate. He is a gift and a national treasure.

[@claudegagnon999]

Bravo pour ce détour par la Renaissance! De Grands Interprètes oui Monsieur!

[@uli5000]

OMG! I have this on record! I grew up with my dad listening to Bream and other classical guitarists and came to Love it myself as a little girl in east Germany. It is actually the root for my deep Love for all kinds of guitar music till this day. I inherited all my dads records and still listen to them.

[@catkin3]

Cherish them - they will be priceless!

[@GuyFrets]

My late wife loved Renaissance and Baroque music throughout our 48 years together. Early Music was a passion we shared!

[@motorbikemuso]

I love your enthusiasm Rick - you must LOVE Flamenco guitar, right? The first gig I ever went to, at age 13, was when I was taken by my Mum, to see Paco Pena. For me, everything you can do on a guitar is right there in flamenco. God bless her, I never knew that I would become a multi million selling guitar - based singer songwriter. Such a joy and so important to expose children to great art.

[@blakester400]

Rick, I've known you know a lot of things music. The deeper component of your sharing is your associative skills. Case in point, this video on John Dowland and the threads of players and performances. I was given an album in 1969 as a high school grad present of Bream and his Consort including The Courtly Dances of Gloriana and Rodrigo's Concerto de Aranjuez. My musical affinities to early music were born. Mind you, I was an aspiring contemporary guitarist and songwriter. Decades pass and the synthesis of early music, particularly guitar and lute, contnmue to inform my current day playing and inspiration. As did Peter Schickele, you break down the perceived barriers of genres and periods of music. Thank you for that and your passion for all things music!

[@nightowl4206]

I recognized this song right away because I had that Sting album for 15 years and knew every song almost by heart. Back in Russia in St Petersburg long ago I went to concerts like that ( " Shakespeare's music"), they were wearing gorgeous bright colored clothes and girls were singing so beautifully.. They were dancing too! I still remember how much I loved these concerts! It was such a magic..

[@kathleenmcgill5781]

Awesome

[@mrsmollyj]

Same

[@GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy]

Makes you think, maybe some lute player back in the 1500's could have written the intro to Stairway to Heaven ( or something very similar ), but forgot to write it down and we never heard it again for another 400 years.

[@GoldieBarrett]

that stuff happens all the time. If one thinks of something but does not act upon it, it is still out there in the Universe for someone else to grab onto. And they always do. 🙏

[@jmcc2275]

He changed his mind and wrote “ Whole Lotta Love “ instead.

[@TheCelticSeer]

Rick, When I was at school, way back in the Baroque Era of the Early to MId '70s (1973 to 1977), we did woodwork, my woodwork teacher was so good that he was building a Lute during our classes, while we were doing the assignments we had to complete. THe big thing about this is he was building two, from scratch, One was for Julian Bream the other was for John Williams, two very good friends, who both came to the school to meet our teacher and we got to listen to them both play guitar and lute!!

[@sidalientv]

I recommend you all the duets of Julian Bream with John Williams (the Australian guitarist, not the composer). I am not sure if they have recorded in studio together, but thei live performances are superb!

[@user-lm2vs1sl3v]

I was privileged to hear them together in the late 70s in London.

[@tomdchi12]

Dowland was early emo too: "He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as "Come, heavy sleep", "Come again", "Flow my tears", "I saw my Lady weepe" and "In darkness let me dwell""

[@thetruthchannel349]

*Before anti-depressants*

[@bartolo498]

@@thetruthchannel349 The only had wine, women and song as antidepressants... unfortunately, all three can also work as depressants...

[@russellbaston974]

Nobody did melancholy like the Tudors.

[@feelthejoy]

Most art was pretty emo then

[@zizimycat]

I’ve always wondered why our current society shows little appreciation for Renaissance music or the instruments of the era. I love seeing this fellow savouring it. Great video.

[@tatache5971]

Agree. In the best case majority of the people find it fun, in the worst they find it weird. 15th to 17th century gave us so many incredible pieces. I love this period.

[@janeclarkson8471]

It’s probably not exposed enough. It’s beautiful and charming with wonderful instruments.

[@robertkrepek2561]

Seeing him enjoy it is as satisfying as the music itself.

[@majorronaldmandell7835]

@@janeclarkson8471: Yeah! Charming!

[@Visigoth_]

I never understood why traditional music isn't popular... most "contemporary" music is Trash (me and my RenFair friends know where it's really "at").

[@juniperwool]

I have always been drawn to this era of music ever since I was first exposed to it, which was about mid college as a vocal student. I remember sitting in the music library for hours listening to whatever I could get my hands on.

[@lindsayheyes925]

Rick Beato, I did not expect that! Respect, Sir! I drove my parents mad by playing Julian Bream's records incessantly while studying for my O Level exams at school. You are right that this music is in English DNA - but in Spanish too. I listen to a lot of classical guitar, and the similarities are very strong. My daughter took me to a Flamenco performance in Granada a couple of years ago, and a solo from the Concierto de Aranjuez had me unable to hold back tears at the memory of Bream's performance of that piece - and last week I heard a brilliant street musician play it right next to the Alcazaba in Seville, very late at night and in an otherwise deserted street. He wasn't playing to any audience, he was simply enjoying the acoustics of the cobbled street palace walls and orange trees. Exquisite!

[@chriswharton]

Man, I love the way you get into this. Not just a musician yourself, but a musical historian, who obviously adores everything with a master’s ear and appreciation. You’re attitude knocked me out.

[@mrsmollyj]

THIS!! Yes! Agreed

[@loumendes5723]

Excellent thank you Rick Beato

[@jreinhar1]

Thirty some years ago I was a bass player in heavy metal garage bands. I heard a recording of Bream doing Dowland songs with the tenor Peter Pears and began learning classical guitar. Before I finished my studies at the U. of Toledo (Ohio), I played one recital of that material with a countertenor. Still best musical experience of my life.

[@RichardDCook]

At 3:15 it's hard for people who haven't played early flute to appreciate how hard she's working to play in tune, you can see she's constantly turning in and out to flatten and sharpen. Those flutes are beasts, for example there's one fingerhole for both F natural and F sharp and you have to lip both into tune.

[@user-eo7hg4pf8i]

I was in a madrigal group at school - I love renaissance music. I played my son soul music in the womb - and he came out liking light opera and swing. You do your best .... lol.

[@yvonnedidit]

I am a classical Cellist and I LOVE that era. That lute solo on the Sting version was nuts! I also play guitar and drums so I’m a little bit Rock and a little bit Classical. So glad you shared this music.

[@victoriabarclay3556]

The Sting album is wonderful. I also enjoyed Classical Barbara, though I’m not a huge Streisand fan, I l over this album. And her talent unquestionable

[@davidfryer9359]

That beautiful. That smart. And that talented. You are a triple threat to anyone standing in your way. I bow out and give you my leave.

[@Dombarable]

You can't be a little ROCK and a little CLASSICAL. And, after all, renaissance is NOT yet entirely classical. If you're a bit of this and a bit of that you are, eventually, nothing of the both.

[@realpropertymangement7640]

​@@DombarableRepectfully, disagree. One can most certainly be a bit of this and that. I know I am.

[@elmoromalpaso3858]

well, renessaince and baroque are rack and roll! :D

[@eordonnadandrea8216]

I came from a rice field in Southern Louisiana. I was sent miles and miles away to LSU in Baton Rouge. The bookstore held a huge record sale. I bought a Renaissance album. It took my breath away. The harmonies.

[@dorasmith7875]

Life must have been AWFULLY dull in that rice field, if this music is a step up.

[@sarae.mcneil462]

I’m from the rice fields and cotton fields in Central Arkansas, and I love this music, too.

[@lindanichols3415]

​​@@dorasmith7875Non gustibus est disputandum. Translated from the Latin means: In matters of taste there can be no dispute. Music is a spiritual experience and speaks to our individual souls which are as unique as our fingerprints 🤗

[@lukaszgalon3000]

@@lindanichols3415 I would agree if the new music nowadays wouldn't exist, I know people have different music tastes but there is good music and bad.

[@Loki_Dokie]

​@@lukaszgalon3000there is no good or bad, just what you like or don't like.

[@lesleynelson7708]

The more of your videos I watch the more I realise I love your expressive reactions as much as I love the music 💓

[@user-nr2yv5wo8p]

This sounds like the music from the Missouri Synod Hymnal we used in the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's and some still use this hymnal today. It warms my soul, touches my heart.

[@RexFlux]

I am from Mexico and though not being a native speaker this musician is so relatable, it almost feels that I am a musician or a music historian myself. 😅 So much so, it almost feels as well as if English was my mother tongue😅 Amazing communicator. I am glad the algorithm brought me here🎉 Muchas gracias Sr. Beato😊

[@pamelashannon6104]

Now you’re talking my language. I was a classical musician. Julian Bream, Peter Pears and the New York Pro Musica were the soundtrack of my youth. My late husband, a funk and jazz drummer, used to say, “when she listens to oldies, she listens to OLDIES.” 🤣

[@kathyadair8552]

The Really "Moldy" Oldies, eh? LOLOL 👍 I Soo LOVED my WWI Grandfather's ❤ 4 "Hi-Fidelity" SOUNDS! From Sousa 🇺🇸 MacNarmara+, 'Baroque' - and almost All Classical Music! And, ALL Music. - ANYTHING; 🌎/ But, ABC! I DON'T do "Twang". (But, a Good,* C/W *Classic,* or 2, is Fine. Just Not back to back, please!) +Just *Not too^ intense,* either, & I'll "PASS"! On Female Vocals, 9:1, most ANY time, too; and --> especially, when it comes to Opera! 🙉 FORGET the Higher Ranges of: • FLUTE • Soprano Sax • or, VIOLIN!!! As, well. I Love Music Hx. and have to really Push and Reach on the Theory. ... As, a half-azz, hardly Talented, strictly Recreational/ hobbyist* and dilettante. 😆 Covid has kept me OUT of the UKE/ Kazoo, Area groups. 😱 + I'd have even attempted Blue Grass, 4 the opportunity to try* "very" Quietly -> to attempt IMPROVISING on Harmonica. (Sadly, I Never Found a Teacher. ... For 10 years. Not even at the Music Store! ;) And, I still Need 2 Order my Deeper,* American Indian Flute! - My Lungs are Done w/ Clarinet, I'd started, at 50. It seems "The Music Died," 4 me, or, Started to as Metal got worse + Punk+ in the '80s - and 'Skating Music'/ '90s - when Rap went "Ghetto"! (I Loved it, when 1st HEARD, as Poetry, in 1980. I ❤ Shantys & 🇮🇪, too.) Music just, generally, seemed to decay even more, into Boring, Unpleasant NOISE and Cacophony, at some Point. It's disheartening for us Seniors! That that 💩is even Consumed, or is Allowed to be! 🤣 ... But, Too Busy to Filter 4 New "Talent," 20 yrs, later.

[@tdsims1963]

What instrument do you play? I play cello but I am thinking of switching to viola gamba so that I can play music from this period because, although I am a child of my age, this beautiful stuff is my FIRST LOVE (I mean, how much of a nerd can you be when you know the words to this piece but have no idea of what last week's top song was😊?)

[@73_de_CJHall]

🎸 Party on, Ms Shannon.

[@ricktownend9144]

Great video - and some great comments! This 'early music' is a good reminder that - for example - syncopation and highly decorated variations are not modern or baroque era inventions. Probably watching the dancers would bring out the rhythms more clearly - as I found when watching teenagers dancing to balkan music in 7/8 and 9/8! Another point is that, though Julian Bream and his wonderful group play from printed music (which had been around since the early 1500s), the musicians then probably didn't, and indeed would improvise their own decorations, much like talented jazz, folk, bluegrass, and popular musicians today - as well as musicians in other 'classical' traditions (Indian, Turkish, Flamenco etc.). I believe there is a story that Mozart (well into the baroque era), told by his patron that it was much more fashionable to play from written notes, put a piece of written music in front of him on the piano - upside down - and carried on playing by ear as normal! Finally, in the 1500s, the music of 'posh' musicians like Dowland was much less disconnected from the popular/folk/traditional music of the day. And - really finally - the accent of those times was probably more like that of Appalachia - certainly not that of a 'cultured' classical singer!

[@ClergetMusic]

The music from the Renaissance was simply amazing. I love Burgundian chansons (I have written a few motets in that style myself), and Machaut’s music is just sublime (Douce Dame Jolie gets in your mind and stays there).

[@azcodemonkey]

This would have been timeless if your wife had walked into the background when you started playing it, and rolled her eyes. Thank you, sir, as always. You rule.

[@ocljtc]

😆😆😆😅

[@rabbimeyer]

Yes! Very solid!

[@blackvx]

😂 With Rick dressed as a Renaissance man.

[@chad9261]

you look like a discord mod

[@tamber5977]

@@chad9261 and you look like a nobody, "chad".

[@mrbxv]

Just when you think you got Rick Beato all figured out, he goes waaaaay back to Renaissance music!!! Really great to hear and learn about this.

[@chriskennedy2846]

And he gave a mention to the Fairport, NY library - which I have been to a bunch of times. I have since left NY State and miss Guida's pizza.

[@thetasigma5835]

The only thing I've figured out about Rick is someway, somehow, he's gonna blow my mind and expand my musical knowledge on styles/topics I never even considered.

[@Muck006]

Well ... if he went over to german medieval rock he could have it all combined.

[@troylabrie]

I love Renaissance music and I love your channel. Mahlo nui loa from Hilo, Hawai'i 🙂🤙🌴

[@terryfinchguitarist]

I had never heard of John Dowland before Ricks video, its always great to be introduced to new (to me) music, much appreciated.

[@lynettegill14]

Beautiful. I’m English. I think this music is in my dna! I hear very much the influence of this music in early Genesis with Peter Gabriel and in Jethro Tull too. I love that you’ve loved this sound for so long.

[@maximilianogabriel9982]

Love prog. Rock ..KC ,yes, old folkies, medieval ,barroque, greats from argentina 👈👌

[@simonedangelosericola5742]

Well said!!! Greetings from Italy (land of the best knonw and appreciated Prog Rock scene after the English one...)!!! 😉

[@junemacauley6813]

I never made that connection, but now I hear it!

[@valkyrie1066]

Yes, I loved Jethro Tull and early Genesis; and loved the medievally inspired pieces. They hit it hard in the 60-70's and have kinda gotten away from it. Love old English/Irish folk music as well.

[@Life-Row-Toll]

Indeed!

[@MichaelNoland-TheBottomLine]

This is why I love Jethro Tull! They brought this sound to the twentieth century and repopularized the whole sound! We’re gonna party like it’s 1599!!!! Great info, Rick! As usual!

[@nobillclinton]

@Michael Noland: exactly! the genius and talent of Ian Anderson\Jethro Tull. . .very best concerts of all performers of that era.

[@jackwezesa1081]

Cool stuff Mike! I love Tull so much! I bought Stand Up LP freshman yesr in high school. Hard to beat !

[@neilvn]

Yes, this definitely has a Songs From The Woods vibe to it.

[@donpodlas5546]

@@neilvn Bouree also comes to mind. Love the sound!

[@wladosu]

listen to gravy train !

[@raymondward5106]

One of my favorite things on this planet, is listening to someone who shares thier joy and tries with sincerity to open that door to you. Bravo

[@rrrjjj5572]

Thank you, I love this. I brought this kind of music to my middle school class to sing a cappella. And, once when I had surgery, my doctor suggested I listen to Bach while I healed, as the body responds to the structure of the music. I imagine that would hold true for this music as well, and I can imagine this music would be lovely for a child to hear. Thank you for sharing this with us.

[@matthewwalsh7813]

happy to stumble upon a channel like this featuring music like this. So many people shrug off genuinely good music before having even listened to it simply because it's a little foreign to them.

[@flisscook8934]

I LOVE THIS VID! Thank you so much for bringing such a human response to this wonderful music! I’m a trained classical musician/singer /teacher ….. we need you …. Your passion fills my heart with joy as you innately understand it! All music has in one way or another come from these glorious roots! I’m subscribing! You are a beacon of Light! Thank you 🙏🏼 🎉

[@mikealexander7017]

Dowland's songs are fantastic. I discovered them via the science fiction writer Philip K Dick, who was a fan. He even used a Dowland song in the title of one of his novels, "Flow my tears, the policeman said". I love the fluid movement between keys and major and minor in Elizabethan music. I was in a church choir as a kid, and always particularly loved music from that period - Tallis and Taverner, and things like the Coventry Carol. Really beautiful music.

[@pineapplepenumbra]

Coincidence, I was reading Philip K Dick earlier today, for the first time in years.

[@JulesN580]

Mike Alexander Now that is fascinating! I love such ‘flo-thru’ cultural connections, as well as the work of Philip K Dick’, which l read from a young age.. ‘Flow my Tears, the Policeman Said’ are also the opening lines to an early song by Gary Numan. And ‘Bladerunner’, the title given to the film adaptation of Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream of Electric Shape’, is taken from a story by William S Burroughs… and so on!

[@Belltuck]

I had to give you a like for mentioning the Coventry Carol. ❤

[@jeanmorin3247]

Rick, you ARE a Renaissance man. Nothing does not make sense when you understand it. But it takes what you have to get there.

[@rebeccahattal401]

Just ran across you on KZbin. I am so glad I took the time to listen. I have always loved the music from the Renaissance, the beauty of the instruments so incredibly relaxing and pleasing to the ear. Thank you so much for bringing the joy of this music to us through this video.

[@alcyonemusica]

Finally a music producer with a lot of culture and rich in Information in America. Congratulations 🎉🍾

[@Warrendoe]

This music just touches my soul. I’m a 67 y.o English woman and visit Medieval/Tudor buildings brings me alive…as does plainchant. Thank you for this.

[@sherryab3964]

That blows me away! 😮🤯 I’m just getting into this genre now . Thank-you for sharing this !

[@jimcooper2423]

Mr. Beato, as Director of Circulation Services for the Fairport Public Libary, I was excited to see your video. We've been trying to locate our copy of Julian Bream's "Dances of Dowland" LP which you checked out of our library on May 5, 1974, and never returned. Please contact us regarding your late fines, which we are still calculating.

[@michaelrandall9034]

Go super cop!