William Boyce: Overture for the King's Birthday "Ye Powers Who Rule"

William Boyce:
Overture for the King's Birthday
"Ye Powers Who Rule"
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[@tanneguy48]

Mitterrand avait choisi une musique anglaise pour les voeux du nouvel an du président de la République française !

[@starnafin]

Zut Alors.

[@flowerdna]

Thank you.

[@peterbock5372]

William Boyce zählt ja mit zu meinenLieblingskomponisten. Er wurde bislang viel zu selten beachtet. Wie ich aber von Berufsmusikern erfahren durfte, wird an den Universtäten fast religionsartig gelehrt, daß Komponisten, die vergessen wurden, wohl vergessen wurden, weil sie schlecht gewesen sein sollen! - Wat'n Quark!

[@lukefowler9740]

Njjn not. O m

[@lukefowler9740]

Njjn not. O m omo k

[@lukefowler9740]

Njjn not. O m omo k

[@lukefowler9740]

Njjn not. O m omo k

[@bruceritchings5336]

If George started going mad in 1765 at age 27, was this piece written for a birthday before or after that year? Anybody know?

[@cloviscameron7233]

Looking at this monarch in his royal regalia you wouldn't believe that he was actually going off his head.

[@matthewrenner3335]

That is King George III not Louis XVI.

[@GuntherDebymusique]

Biographie Choriste à douze ans, il devint apprenti organiste lorsque sa voix mua. Dans les années 1735 et 1736, Boyce fut organiste à la chapelle d'Oxford puis à Cornhill. Déjà son audition s'altérait lentement. En juin 1736 il devint compositeur à la Chapelle royale[1] et composa de grands anthems, de la musique d'église et l'oratorio David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan. En 1739 il composa son Ode pour le jour de Sainte Cécile interprétée avec succès durant cinq années. En 1740 il composa un court opéra : Peleus and Thetis. En 1747 il publia ses sonates en trio pour deux violons et basse continue qui rencontrèrent un grand succès et furent remarquées par Haendel. L'Université de Cambridge lui conféra son doctorat en musique le 3 juillet 1749 pour son anthem O be joyful. En 1750 les théâtres de Covent Garden et de Drury Lane rivalisent en présentant un Cortège funèbre pour Juliette (Roméo et Juliette). Grâce à la musique de Boyce la production de Drury Lane, dirigée par David Garrick, obtient plus de succès que celle de Covent Garden, sur une musique de Thomas Arne. En 1757 Boyce succède à son maître, Maurice Greene, à la direction du festival des Sons of the Clergy à la cathédrale Saint-Paul et devint Master of the King's Music. Avec le King's Band, il produit régulièrement une ode pour célébrer la nouvelle année et une ode pour l'anniversaire du roi. Les ouvertures de ces odes, mais aussi des masques et musiques de scène, ont été reprises dans ses huit symphonies à la beauté délicate (1760). En 1758, il est l'un des trois organistes de la Chapelle royale[1]. En 1759, Boyce écrit sa célèbre chanson Heart of Oak commémorant les victoires contre la France. En 1760 fut publié le premier volume de la Cathedral Music, recueil de musique religieuse des plus célèbres compositeurs britanniques depuis les temps les plus anciens jusqu'au milieu du xviiie siècle, projeté par Greene et que termina Boyce. En 1768 il abandonne peu à peu ses fonctions à cause de la dégradation de son ouïe. Ses douze ouvertures sont publiées en 1770.

[@StefanHabischKomponist]

play new baroque music from myself

[@cloviscameron7233]

It's hard to imagine that during this period of time when beautiful music like this being composed and played the English was going around the world enslaving the whole of the African people and and those of the continent of Australia. Very beautiful piece and shame on the English for those cruel deeds..

[@jonclassical5710]

....and now Harry reaps what he has sown....I would have stayed with The Firm!

[@jonclassical5710]

...and Africa is so much better now?!?!?!

[@cloviscameron7233]

And because its people having been ruthlessly trampled under foot for such a vast periods of time, most of these countries are still not able to free themselves from under the yoke of these colonel powers especially Anglo saxons nations like the United States and Britain as they were the worst of the lots.

[@voraciousreader3341]

@Clovis Cameron - I’m afraid I must tell you that you have committed the Cardinal Sin of history! You must _never_ judge people from the past with today’s societal standards. Why not? Because the way people feel now, about anything, has absolutely _NO BEARING_ on what was the standard of behavior in the period you are examining or complaining about. Another caveat which you need to understand is, if you are so ignorant about the societal milieu under consideration-such as when William Boyce lived (born 1711)-you should either educate yourself about the period, or _you should refrain from making a judgement._ The English nation from the 1450s onward were not making sailing expeditions and conquering territory as were the Portuguese, Spanish, and Italians, and we all should know how the Spanish explorers and soldiers treated the Aztecs and other native people….at that time through to the mid-to late 1800s, _people of color and the indigenous peoples on the North American continent were treated like animals, because that’s what white Europeans thought of them!_ The English explorers joined the fray because the world was full of rich “untamed” lands, rich for the picking, and, as had been the case in the British Isles and Eastern and Western Europe and all of Asia from before recorded history as we understand it, the men of nearly every culture had been all about fighting for new territory and taking survivors as slaves to sell in various “old” kingdoms all over the eastern hemisphere, and constantly inventing and refining various weapons to give them advantage in battle. So, the “explorers” felt it absolutely correct that they should conquer whoever they found and take their land for exploitation, bc their culture had become rich doing this very thing for millennia; slavery became more and more complex around 1800, but the men were doing what was in their DNA, and it’s so strong still that Americans cannot tolerate the thought that people of black African and indigenous ancestry ARE EQUAL, and should be treated that way! And Russia has been trying to conquer Ukraine, and the Middle East is still disputing land and fighting about it, as are other Middle Eastern countries, and we continue to see war racial and religion-based purges happening in Eastern Europe!! Which makes your blaming seem more than mighty short sighted, to the point of complete ignorance!

[@vituzui9070]

The English became the leader in the eradication of slavery, and one of the first nations to eradicate it completely from its soil. So a bit of gratitude from your part would be welcome.

[@starnafin]

I don't rate this but it is mainly because the playing is poor and out of tune. Looking below I see that poor Boyce is linked with all the colonialism and slavery associated with the British Empire. Most other powerful European countries were trying to do the same. Not a good story but nothing to do with Boyce. If you want to hear Boyce at his best listen to Trevor Pinnock performing his symphonies which have a English simplicity and sense of the dance.

[@levon3194]

Trevor Pinnock performance is very dreadful it is disgusting to listen this. The German is composers such as Beethoven Bach Wagner Links with German imperialism, holocaust, genocide, causing two world wars. Because extremely indecent to play music is Schumann Bethoveen Brahms and so on.