G.F.Haendel - Watermusic (PART II: Air-Menuet-Bourreé-etc.)

This video was ripped from a VHS:
The Banqueting House - Whitehall London
TRILION PICTURES (1987) present:
George Frederick Handel's "THE WATER MUSIC"
English Bach Festival Dancers: Sarah Cremer, Ursula Hageli, Alison Pooley, Angela Robinson, Chris Evan, Ray Holland, Rai Harell, Richard Slaughter
Choreography: Belinda Quirey
Dancers Costumes from original designs
Realised By Derek West
The English Bach Festival Orchestra
Directed By and Solo Violinist: Christopher Hirons.

[@LinniAngel]

Once upon a time men could dance and were not afraid of it. How I love these dances! Makes me smile every time I see them.

[@SonicPhonic]

...and wear pantyhose

[@JMarieCAlove]

Men still aren’t afraid to dance to this day.

[@Vaskon21]

As a professional dancer I am very fortunate for having learned how to dance barroque with one of the best teachers in the world ( who happens to be dancing in this event). I am also very grateful to those who struggle to keep alive such an art form, musiciens, choreographers and dancers, extending and preserving its beauty.

[@beignet1682]

Helena Vascon I’m learning ballet, and looking at these videos help me understand certain rules better, and make sense of them. like the famous “always heel presented forward”, the arms placement, etc

[@sandyanarayanswami5708]

This is simply exquisite!!

[@bruschmidt9943]

Just lovely. As if those Paintings we've seen in Museums came to life 😍

[@burkewhb]

Delightful, truly delightful! I've never seen such elegant dancing. I'm a big classical ballet fan, but this really pushes it for total, complete beauty of movement. And a big plus here is Handel's music, which is always glorious and majestic.

[@Buba8773]

We have lost a lot... But I believe we, as "individuals" can try to look for that way of living... That ethic. Maybe in private. Beauty never chnges, nor dies. Thanks for your words :)

[@MrTAT275]

37 dislikes? “And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

[@rayzaalves395]

Subiu agora pra 68. Infelizmente.

[@markterry4317]

Splendid costumes, graceful dancing and beautiful music! What more could one want?

[@472871]

Saying not a word and moving one's head from side to side expressing admiration is the best compliment. Merci Yitzhak Rosenbloom

[@solistesancienne8978]

really fabulous playing! ...and of course dancing

[@shrewsburysummer]

Wonderful to see Belinda's work on You Tube. Researching this dancing with her in the 1980's was absolutely joyous. Please note the tempo of the music is such that you can dance to it.

[@annecohen8927]

Elegance!

[@johnlavery6116]

Elegant, and graceful.

[@oldefritz657]

This was the height of our civilization. All destroyed today- but maybe our best times are still to come. Recognize how the pairs are interchanging permanently, but in a orderly manner. If I just see the tattoos and shoes today I get mad. Haendel is awesome and is a grace for my country: Germany. Look where we are today- this may not be the end!

[@VallaMusic]

quite agree with you...I am reminded of the message of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg regarding the preeminent importance and role of great art and culture for all humanity...in addition, I have an intense interest in history in general and now suspect that what certain renegade amateur historians have recently proposed may in fact be correct: that a glorious golden age was something not so far back as we have been led to believe...and that such a time may again return to us all not so far off in the future as one might think

[@WilliamFord972]

There is some very lovely contemporary "classical" music out there.

[@graup1309]

I honestly do not agree. As much as I would like to and as much as I love to dive into past eras, I wouldn't want to live in them. Fancy dresses and nice music is simply not all civilisation has to offer. (Despite the fact that fashion and music in this video are about 50 years apart, so yeah, music nostalgia ... aka 'the good old days when Haendel composed the Watermusic') Civilisation is also social circumstances, politics, philosophy and so on. Especially the 19th century has huge developments in the fields of music, literature and art. Basic education became available for everyone and voting (sometimes even with UNIVERSAL MANHOOD SUFFRAGE * gasp *) more and more became a thing. The time saw improvements in many aspects of living. But usually rather for the upper and middle class, which didn't really make up that big a chunk of the population. Still, the reality for the majority of the population was work in factories or domestic areas, all under horrible working conditions (and that's just inside Europe. I'm not going to talk about the colonies which were what made the upper class lifestyle possible). Nowadays we have voting with universal suffrage, mandatory free education until the age of 16, strict (though sometimes not strict enough) laws protecting children, workers and all humans in general, equal rights for men and women, the possibility of taking up a different profession than your parents and pursuing your own goals and dreams, though sometimes at great expense. This might very well be the first time in human history where we can pride ourselves with this amount of equality and freedom. If the price for that is putting up with the questionable lifestyle of others, I'm quite ok with it. Honestly, I like to believe this time to be the height of our civilisation. Because beauty can actually still be found after breaking through the fassade. Shit, this got longer than I expected. Sorry.

[@graup1309]

Let's not make this political, shall we?

[@mariananda5733]

Graup It is impossible not to do so when Europe is falling into the hands of immigrants.

[@poetryai]

Just sublime

[@chilanya]

those long skirts don't do justice to the ladies' leg work. i was staring at the men's feet the whole time to figure out the steps (i am a ballet dancer btw)

[@Coupydog]

I must agree in that it would've been nice to see the ladies fancy footwork, which must've been remarkable under those heavy gowns. Needless to say, they tried to recreate the original era as closely as possible, from costumes & steps to the wonderful orchestration played on correct Period Instruments.

[@levicopp3224]

​@@Coupydogone does see at least pas de bourees beneath the voluminous costume of the female soloist. Appropriate for the bouree form

[@jennagracz20]

wow, I wish I could dance like that and wear dresses such as these. this is truly elegant

[@Emmy9411]

Preciosa música de uno de mis compositores preferidos, está ejecutada . con un virtuisismo perfecto.Gracias por todo lo que hay Emm

[@thomasgriffin5340]

Québécois quadrilles and American square dancing brought the courtly baroque dances full circle back to their proletarian roots.

[@donkmeister]

What have Rockefellers got to do with Handel's Water Music?! Let's get back on track here. This is beautiful music with beautiful dancing. Every step, jump and spin there is joy in the music. I accept that in Handel's time few were in a position to attend balls, but that doesn't mean those who couldn't did not aspire to this. It is only the last 1 or 2 generations where many people have had a fear of the gentile fashion. Before that we all aspired to live the upperclass lifestyle.

[@davidtinker2143]

Quite the beautiful 8 minutes on KZbin. I return to this whenever I'm in need of physical, spiritual or emotional relaxation. The fact that I'm able so to do is a privilege. I hope one day to find out if it is available commercially - hopefully, as part of a longer concert. Now that would be something!

[@louisxiv631]

Oh, indeed. I shall keep a look out for you.

[@СергейПрол-ч7ф]

@@louisxiv631 🌋A BAS LA MONARCHIE!!!

[@carrietide]

Very elegant

[@jsa-z1722]

Wonderful!!

[@TRIBALTECHNIK]

Beautiful, Delightful, Fantastic and Outstanding!!! :-) Thank You :-)

[@paulkusmierz9475]

How exquisite to see the delicate perfection performed to elegant music created for this very purpose! Having listened to the music for years,visited the palaces, and viewed the portraits of the very people who enjoyed such beauty, not ever did I think I would have the pleasure to treasure it! Thank you! Thank you ! Do give us more.

[@tuttalamusica4293]

La grâce, plus belle encore que la beauté.

[@cellestialX]

I feel so EBULLIENT!

[@veratereschenko3600]

Спасибо, это великолепно!!!

[@TefnutUaRaet]

I love this!

[@juanfranciscogutierrezpatr5270]

Es espectacular ese tipo de bailes de salón de esa época, con esos trajes tanto de hombres como mujeres, los peinados y accesorios. Los músicos hasta de pelucas . Pero me imagino en ese tiempo cuanta difwrencia habia en esa sociedad . Actualmente en julio del 2023 tambien la hay no tan marcada, pero aún si la hay. Me imagino a la reina maria antonieta en los salones de versalles con esos trajes .🙋🏻‍♂️

[@andersolofsson7901]

Marvelous :)

[@pascal-francoisrey9800]

Vraiment magnifique, cela est exquis.

[@johnrock6241]

Fun to Watch and Listen. Handel is tops!

[@VallaMusic]

for me dancing doesn't get any more beautiful than this - so playful, so sweet, so graceful

[@carlosbecerril8730]

Excelso es una palabra, pero dice tanto.....lujo, estilo, elegancia...en una época que esas palabras tenían sentido....Amo la música de Handel desde joven....la música por la música.

[@OlgaNovakauskiene]

Wonderful !!!! Bravo,Bravo!!!!

[@MegaPaul305]

Perfect

[@Soulvoicesinger]

Well said, bravo!

[@nyo267n]

Amazing music and staging! The "etc." in this title (and the only piece that has been left out, actually) is "Hornpipe"; the first piece of PART III is "Alla Hornpipe". For people looking for this music elsewhere, these two titles should not be mixed up :)

[@GintsABC]

Merci!

[@vonMohl]

@lichtbroeder You are of course right, the subtlety I would like to draw your attention to lies in the fact that when two loving souls meet, everything becomes impregnated with sensuality, even peeking over the top of a fan. The thing is when such dances are enacted out of the historical context, and far more important out of the personal relationships that tied the gentleman and woman of the court, you cannot tell what is rigid and stiff performance from what is sensual, living and true emotion

[@LaniRatulangi]

Like it !

[@davehshs651]

@lichtbroeder Your point is well taken. At the risk of changing the subject a bit, I'll point out that the "ancestors" of most of us did not share this beautiful music and dancing, anymore than most of us today move in the social circles of the Vanderbilts and other wealthy "elites." The music and dance (and clothing) enjoyed by most in Handel's day were much more earthy.

[@yugandali]

@davehshs I agree:precious, stylized, effete. But elegant! Modern life has very little elegance to it, and we satirize elegance to our own loss. although I would not be caught dead in a wig like that!

[@tryf2]

c'est adorable :)

[@leroidethunes3913]

those lovely times when guys were as delicate, sofisticated and graceful as girls, like It should be

[@burkewhb]

@lichtbroeder Sorry, Jay Rockefeller is now senior senator from West Virginia, he used to be governor of that state before he became a senator. He was born within a month of the death of his famous great grandfather in June, 1937.

[@charlesbarkema8021]

Some of the movements and interchanges are closely related to the Pavanne dance steps.

[@Arcenbuz21]

Hermosoooo yo también quisiera bailar así :D

[@lauraesquivelvargas7611]

Me gustaría bailar asi

[@NoiseGrinder]

I would like to see the 4 Orchestral Suites by J S Bach danced.

[@morbotwin]

Is The scat ready?

[@HortiAnnalenae]

Is that actually Handel at the harpsichord?

[@tangogen]

Hi! I would like to use part of this beautiful piece in a documentary. Can you give me the permission?

[@SKIL103]

Musica doi

[@sleepingspider]

Can any one tell me were to get a copy of the this video The Banqueting house, I have tried to but not having much luck.

[@bruschmidt9943]

This stellar Performance was recorded back in 1987, possibly that will help?

[@sleepingspider]

@@bruschmidt9943 Yes it will help thank you.

[@markusboyd3]

@lichtbroeder Yes, but remember, only very few members of society were given the privilage to be part of this culture. Most people lived in poverty back then.

[@1y167]

What ? I didn't know that... I guess it wasn't the one with musicians on board.

[@donhumber6500]

W

[@burkewhb]

I say, old chap, I was merely correcting another commentator who was under the mistaken impression that John D. Rockefeller met his wife, Abby, at a dance. Actually, it was his son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., who met his wife at a dance at Brown in 1894. Now go mind your own business.

[@miriaam1702]

Esto es medieval?

[@robertg.marcello7247]

+Miriam Juarez nop. Por volta de 1600 - 1700.

[@felipec.6296]

Barroco, siglo 18

[@davehshs651]

@lichtbroeder In many ways, I agree with you, although I'm not sure what you have against the human body -- sounds like the usual puritanical belief that it's somehow dirty.

[@morbotwin]

Scr

[@janmos4931]

ну и тоска тут

[@azulbeas843]

me parese ami digo nomas que bailan malicimo aquien le guste bueno que le vamos a hacer pero parami bailan malisimo el minuet

[@jangumny3204]

Ale piździelstwo wolne xdddddd

[@milanhorvat1620]

Hu de rooszz🤮🤮

[@azulbeas843]

sabes q no se entiende nada de lo que escribis papa aprende a escribir

[@mariosousajunior8477]

beautiful music, but the dance looks like horses with broken knees?

[@MaupoNaio]

Um. Wow. No, just no.

[@manuelherrera777]

Disappointing

[@bruschmidt9943]

Not only do the beautiful Dancers perform this with elegance, precision & grace, they also bring life back into these performances, as if we were seeing it back in mid 1700's.

[@a.abrine4992]

The strength of Western civilization was that its leaders could gracefully dance a minuet and command a war fleet, learn verse poetry and die on the battlefield. Culture without strength is decadence, strength without culture is barbarity. And that's why these two kind of things were taught in the officer schools.

[@drawwithme6634]

Hence, colonization, exploitation, slavery, etc, Enjoy your fantasy world!

[@louisxiv631]

@@drawwithme6634 LOL RIGHT

[@Jasper7182009]

A. Abrine .... I think you put it beautifully. And it’s not a fantasy world. We know the fashion, we know the clothing, we know the etiquette, and most of all we still listen to Handel’s music, we still listen to Bach’s music etc. The injustices of history are with us but beauty and the aesthetic can still inspire us and console us and entertain us.

[@conforzo]

@@drawwithme6634 Get over it.

[@drawwithme6634]

I take no sides in this matter. I just find it sad that someone would enjoy this kind of uplifting and mesmerising music while also have a proclivity for violence, war, exploitation, colonisation, slavery. Do you not find it morally reprehensible? So, let's stop romanticising the past. Find your conscience. It is somewhere still accessible, I pray.

[@Glasguensis]

What elegance, what refinement, what grace!

[@71superbee39]

Handel's Watermusic is among my ten most favorite classical works... one never tires of listening to it ..

[@BaroqueConsortium]

Well done the dancers and well done the orchestra. Your combination allows us to re-live in multi dimensional form what actually happened at the time. Commenters - forget the frivolities - simply feed your eyes and you ears and enjoy yourselves. Thank you Haendel !

[@TRIBALTECHNIK]

Marvellous, Wonderful and Out of Space :-) Thank You :-) p.s. Paradise :-)

[@richardboudville5188]

What lovely music. Such graceful dancing. This may be the precursor of or compliment to Ballet?

[@leslieyoung8733]

Before the baroque almost any healthy person could just dance and flirt, but as time went on court dancing became more and more a job for the pros, hence ballet. The nobles had lots of time to learn to dance.

[@Buba8773]

It's passionate... Incredibly seducing. It's like making love, and without anything of the "vulgarity" that is so often "connected" with the idea of passion, love and sex. This is pure joy, love, beauty and happiness, what love really is.

[@conforzo]

@@Callimo Jealous?

[@梅雨潭]

Wonderful music, graceful dance 👍👏😍!

[@竹内健二-c3e]

elegant…beautiful…！🌹🌷🌹🌷

[@RenOkumuraOfficial]

Programme: 0:00 Air 3:20 Menuet 5:17 Bourreé

[@verdierjean-pierre3906]

Please, correct that mistake in the title : it's " bourrée" , not " bourreé".

[@pascal-francoisrey9800]

Absolument exquis , un ravissement !

[@Lorabliss]

Very beautiful and elegant.

[@keramidasnicolas2079]

ENFIN un réalisateur de talent et qui connaît son métier !

[@Chii_378]

Is it just me, or they have moves like swan..?

[@bruschmidt9943]

If G.F. Häendel saw this, he'd be very pleased! 😁

[@donkmeister]

Fair enough, KZbin is an open-access website, you can post what you want, who am I to tell you otherwise. My gripe was that it all seemed very off-topic to be discussing famous American entrepeneurs on the comments page of this video. But, as said before, open-access, post what you like yada yada yada.

[@jackmorrison7379]

I think those are just shiny shoe buckles I see glinting in the camera, on the men's shoes, But at that time the real aristocrats and courtiers had jewels bonded to their shoe buckles to glitter and show some 1700's baroque bling. It was also to place them above the mere middle class merchants and lawyers who could afford regular plain silver buckles.

[@zohrebrown]

Brought back memories of Belinda Quirey's lessons at Elmhurst.

[@davehshs651]

A very delicate, graceful, and (yes) feminine dance.

[@isammolina4842]

Maravilloso.Y las manitas...👀🌹🍃🌹🍃🌹👏🌠💎🌠💎🎼💖

[@o20nivel]

Light, harmonious, elegant, sexy, bright, cultural ... how beautiful life was

[@simeonlino4198]

Me gusta, una obra realmente grandioso.

[@ninijo1234]

Is this also a soundtrack in sims 3? but it's in a lower key

[@vonMohl]

@lichtbroeder flirty ? sexy ? Have you ever watched a argentine Tango ? This is elegant for sure, but pompous, rigid and marionnette-like as well.

[@GabrielaLuquianhuk]

Эта песня заставила меня спать

[@nanoumeteye8467]

J aime toujours ❤

[@tadeodewiesent1482]

¡¡¡Bravo...!!! ¡¡¡Bravísimo...!!! ¡Qué belleza! ¡Que vuelva esta época...! ¡Y tan finitos los pasos de los hombres...!😊 👍👍👍👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@MatvisOfficial]

kravina

[@daveybernard1056]

fun to see. thanks