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Dances from Terpsichore: V. Ballet
Fritz Neumeyer Lyrics

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sapper82

4y↑8

Excellent!
Made popular in the early '70s by the efforts of the late and VERY much missed David Munrow and his New London Consort.

countryandnorthern1

4y↑2

sapper82 First heard David on Agincourt Carol with Young Tradition. Favorite

Jan Kawiorski

5y↑7

Praetorius, genius and his Bourrée is one the most earthy and joyous pieces in the whole human music.

TERRYBIGGENDEN

Oh how true! :-)

Allan Hunnicutt

5y↑20

And although I am American, this is what many of my European ancestors listened to. One, I am told was head of the Royal College of Music in Elizabethan times. I would imagine that he would have known this music.

Birdy Bundle

@Red Pill Germany
It is not "we".
Some musicians do.
Most germans would not even know, that's german culture. And most of them don't give a shit.
And, it was full of commercial. The even interrupted one piece.
So I blocked that video.

elgqr

4y↑1

That music probably not as it dates from 1612 but such kind of music yes.

Red Pill Germany

5y↑5

We do still play this music until this day in Germany. It is our heritage.

Gordon Campbell

4y↑3

My all time favorite for the last 50 years.Wonderful line and conception throughout.I am so happy to have found this post. Thank you.

Philip HENRY

5y↑14

Mickael Pretorius (1571-1621), one of the most talented German musicians of his time, died on his 50th birthday...
His music is splendid, magnificent, aerial, a true beauty.

Allan Hunnicutt

5y↑17

I first heard it decades ago and it was a revelation.

TERRYBIGGENDEN

I agree. It's absolutely porous music and playing. See my comment above as well. :-)

Neil Walsh

3y↑1

This is my kinda party music!

Humphrey Reader

4y↑2

So did I - my mother introduced it to me on what was then 'the gramophone' (mid-1960's)!

Humphrey Reader

4y↑2

So did I! Much better than then 'pop'!

Bibiana Massey

5y↑4

So beautiful! I love early music. It has such purity, yet at the same time such drive and passion.

Arthur Liston

I never tire of listening to the music of Michael Praetorius. His music from Terpsichore is joyous and uplifting. By far my favorite Renaissance composer.

Graeme Brodie

3y↑2

This man did not have the innovations that JSB developed.It is however, sublimely beautiful.

Jorge Torres

7y↑12

This version brings me so many sweet memories of my first encounters with early music.

patukott

7y↑1

Same here !!!

Přemysl Ondra

7y↑12

Wonderful version...best i have heard so far...

TERRYBIGGENDEN

I have and measure this recording/ The best interpretations ever. The recorders really shimmer!! The first Bouree was used in a pop version of 'Ding Dong the Witch is Dead' in te 60s. :-)

sipke bergsma

6y↑16

Praetorius is not dead, listen ...its him and you...

captebbtide

5y↑3

This is true of all our favorite composers and other artists we love.

Carlos Oliveira

6y↑3

Passo grande parte de meus momentos ouvindo Praetorius.

José de Jesus

6y↑2

Idem! Ouço Praetorius de manhã, à tarde e à noite! É um verdadeiro encantamento! Como disse Garrett logo acima, não havia água encanada e as pessoas morriam pelas ruas, mas, oh que música! A melhor de todas!

Colin Taylor

5y↑1

Mr Vektriol, this is one of my all-time favorite recordings...thank you for posting this gem.

Colin Taylor

@scottmurison Loved that old vinyl recording!

scottmurison

5y↑1

My vinyl on the Archiv label was all Collegium Terpsichore with Fritz Neumeyer and this sounds the same, and as you say "all-time favourite recording". Neumeyer shows his skill in assembling just the right amount of everything - scintillating, sparkling, elegant and refined!

billinrio

5y↑3

I agree with the downloader that this is the best recording of these dance pieces. Back when it was easy to find an all classical local FM station (mine was in Portland, OR) there was always a "listeners pick" broadcast on New Years Eve in which they played the most requested recordings of the year. This one always won first prize.

Bodegabreath

So very nice to know that. Shows I'm not alone. I left a comment about my experience with this magnificent recording.

Shirley Rombough

billinrio - I can understand why it was picked first. This is just incredible. What a way to start the New Year. I grew up with KFAC, an all classical station in Southern Calif , loved by both my father and me. I don't think it exists anymore, sad to say.

miguel gonzalez

Esta es la versión (La parte final de la volte) que utilizó la Maestra Colombia Moya en su programa TIEMPO DE DANZA transmitido hace muchos años en Radio UNAM

George Berger

6y↑1

Extraordinary version. I have heard many. Much better than the other famous collection, Suzato's Danserey (So?).

Alberad08

6y↑7

The instrumentation here is magnificent! It demonstrates very illustratively what the composer describes in his Syntagma Musicum. During that time, the time of the Thirty Years War, only a great town or rich court could manage to have music played in this splendorous way. I know this milestone recording from 37 years ago when a friend and colleague presented it to me. Some famous musicians were involved in it, like the great flute player Hans Martin Linde - if I remember it right. Thanks a lot for sharing.

kingdavidapple

5y↑1

I own a CD "Dances from Terpsichore" by the Praetorius Consort, Regis 1076, previously recorded by EMI/CfP. It's a prize possession; believe it to be a British production. Different take on arranging and recording; fascinating to hear this version. Many thanks for posting!

George Berger

6y↑3

This is superb. I love Praetorius' music. All of it.

George Berger

@geir øyvind eskeland Tack för informationen. Terpsichor is so Lovely I listen over and over to it. This version is distinctive. Spotify har flera. His hymns and motets are fine too. My favourite is Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen. Also Wie Schön....

geir øyvind eskeland

6y↑1

I am not sure that Praetorius is the composer of all the movements, but he collected them.

Allan Hunnicutt

5y↑1

And we can thank the intense romanticism and beauty of the music, in part, for our being here today.

Bobinou C

4y↑7

Always makes me happy.

Bodegabreath

I bought the Archiv label album in Rizzoli's in New York City a good long while ago. IMHO it is the best Praetorius recording ever. Nothing comes close. Those are my two cents, and that's about all their worth, but they're MY two cents. Thank you.

MrVektriol

I entirely agree with you.

Sergio Tapia

He estado buscándola, no les miento como por 20 años, la tuve en cassette se llaman "Archives Privilegue" lo perdí. Hasta ahora con la magia de Youtube. Muchisimas gracias por compartir

andré rasemont

4y↑7

Une merveille, que de beauté!

marie walter

on a envie d'apprendre à danser ces magnifiques danses en costume d'époque... dans un cadre adéquat... quel rêve !

jose antonio Vazquez

6y↑1

HERMOSO

juan Carlos Rojo

I Heard this versión and recorded in cassete about 30 years ago, now I know the autor and my spirit enjoyed a lot, Thank You

MrVektriol

Thank you for your kind words.

Ricardo S. Cabral

4y↑1

Muito bonito

crystella poupard

7y↑20

This is the first and best recording of the dances (made about 1958 by the Collegium Terpsichore) and no other ensemble has surpassed it I had the original LP when I was in my teens, after hearing it for the first time on the Third Programme (now Radio Three) but it became unplayable. Thank you for uploading.

silbenklempner

5y↑1

So funny - I share your teenager experiences. I guess my love for this LP made me a paria among my friends back then.

FDigitalisBremensis

6y↑3

I totally agree, this is the best recording. It was made from January 6th until January 9th 1960 at the Oetkerhalle in Bielefeld, Germany and released in the same year. The first re-release came out in 1966. And in May 1967 the Bourrée made its way into the US charts, as an interlude in the cover version of Ding Dong! the Witch Is Dead by The Fifth Estate. It reached #11 on July 1st. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1VYf4wZq9w

scottmurison

6y↑1

Same for me but in my early 20s on AM radio, and it improved my worldview, just so scintillating.

Adriana Caselotti

6y↑3

Yes, LOVELY MEMORIES .

Denis O'Dwyer

6y↑2

My love affair with this recording goes back 40 years at least. I had no idea it was put on vinyl so many years ago. It's a treasure.

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ronald messina

música inspirada por Dios mismo!

Shannon Scott David

simply fantastic

Allan Hunnicutt

5y↑2

And thank you, MrVektriol, for posting this.

Margaret Hodgkin

5y↑3

Beautiful beyond words or mortal understanding.

Colin Hazell

Yes!!!

captebbtide

5y↑1

Judging by the comments I read from time to time, I find that I must agree with you!

Colin Hazell

Marvellous!

Humphrey Reader

4y↑1

And I can't help feeling that popular music was a far, far better deal 400 years ago than it is now.

Peter Herd

What is the opposite of evolution?

Michael Bruce

Absolutely! If we still danced to this I'd never be out of the disco.

Carmine Cardaropoli

Che meraviglia!!!!!

Jan Cína

4y↑2

krasne moc

George Berger

3y↑1

What fine music! Listening again, several years later. Supurb. Thanks.

josey875

7y↑2

Amazing!!!

Liviu Olteanu

Probably best medley from Early Music and not only!

MrVektriol

Oldies but goldies!

BEHRANG BADRZADEH

Wonderful.

Garrett Lees

7y↑13

Delicious piece! Yum! Transported to another time and place. Sure, there was no running water and people were dropping dead in the streets from plague, but oh what music! Best ever!

Shirley Rombough

4y↑1

Garrett Lees - Your comment made me laugh. I'd be willing to trade some aspects of contemporary life to hear music like this regularly. Wouldn't like to see people dropping dead in the streets from the plague, however.

Raven Timish

5y↑2

@Stonewall's Stonewall
Yes, that's correct - you're right.. The plague (a very infectious - and lethal - disease, caused by a bacterium called: "Yersinia Pestis") wiped out some 25 % of the population of London, England ("The Great Plague", 1665 to 1666).. Btw. (most of) the ones surviving it, had a rare mutation on some of their "T-cells" (part of the immune system), i.e. these cells lacked a special "protein receptor" - blocking the bacterium invading it. Today about 1 % of the population in the U.K.and the U.S. has this T-call mutation.
Blessed Be.
Raven Timish, (retired) science/biology teacher and amateur historian.

Stonewall's Stonewall

6y↑3

Carlos El Quinto nope the Black Death came back a few times in the 1500 and 1600’s, a whole city in Spain was wiped out I believe, google it!

S

5y↑2

I am practicing gavotte in my university classical guitar circle.. We are quartet. Oh it is the beautiful piece. I don't play the melody part. My part more belongs to rhythm yet itself is too interesting.

Quinn Riutta

4y↑1

Hmm, Having heard the Voices of Music version I must say no other version sounds quite as nice.

Joseph Coale

A true anti-depressant.

Peter Herd

Èin wahres Antidepressiva

Matthew Gilmore

Volte is the best!!

pwoody1958

Yeah, it's crazy! Weirdo metrical shifts. Part of it is in 5/2! Love it!

Steffen Klann

6y↑2

Da fällt mir gleich Heinrich der Achte ein, zu dieser Zeit waren solche Tänze weit verbreitet !

Karin Junker

Thank you !

Daniel Bellanger460

4y↑2

Vive.la.musique.de.la.renaisance.magnifique.et.joiyeuse

T R

4y↑3

It makes me want to don tights and prance merrily.

Sascha Jöckel

Wunderschön

Bert Boxtart

Schitterende muziek!!

jose luis Rodriguez

6y↑1

A jewel

Lavinia Stoian

♡♡♡♡♡♡♡

Steven McCann

5y↑3

The recording which sparked the interest of David Munrow

Shannon Scott David

3y↑1

Love the info-

Shannon Scott David

@MrVektriol So grateful to you for this gift to my soul

MrVektriol

5y↑2

David Munrow!... I miss him so much. Thank you for this information.

Sofiya M.

5y↑1

6:45. 8:15.10:13.

FDigitalisBremensis

This is a good new live recording inspired by the old one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JWYIY3icUg

MrVektriol

In my opinion, more philological, perhaps, but much colder.

scottmurison

But where oh where is Fritz and the Collegium's other work? Did they do anything else other than this absolutely scintillating masterpiece? I haven't been able to find any.

George Berger

Please let me know if you find it. This is remarkable. I love Praetorius ' music.

MrVektriol

6y↑1

I remember recordings of Guillaume de Machaut’s Messe de Nostre Dame (with Deller Consort), Monteverdi’s Madrigals (with Deller Consort), Bach’s Brandeburg Concertos, Telemann’s Recorder Suite in A Minor (with Hans Martin Linde), Händel’s
Concertos for organ. In my channel you can find Machaut, Telemann, Händel.

火車

やっぱり久石譲

mariano alves de moraes Moraes

Magnus Soberbiuns.

Javi Guil

I,m absolutltly of same opinión

Jan Cína

4y↑1

mjusik shaaakspier

Ted Torreiter

Matthew Paul Bond

I have heard better.

Frans Delt

Terrible performance with way too much vibrato

pwoody1958

@Frans DeltThere are many rather bizarre things about this performance that one could disagree with. Yes, the vibrato in the strings and recorders is not the way it would be done now. The over-orchestration is probably not authentic. And there are certain ensemble aspects which aren't very good. Also, the ornamentation is not terribly informed. All that said, it has a spirit, enthusiasm, grace and style that is infectious and gratifying. If you read the comments about this recording, so many people say that it has been an important musical event in their lives. It probably won more people over to Renaissance dance music than any other recording in history. Lots of other groups since, Pickett's for instance, have covered similar ground with much more informed style, but this recording remains a significant document of a time, style and approach which can still be appreciated on it's own merits.

Frans Delt

MrVektriol this is not Brahms but the lack of authentic performance may at times make you think that it is. Truly terrible performance. So glad that we have better performances nowadays, especially in terms of tempo (this is way too slow) and lack of vibrato (this is vibrato galore) and it’s so bad it almost loses its soul

MrVektriol

It's a historical edition.
The technique of musical performance has certainly changed, but this recording remains valid and, in my opinion, very enjoyable.
I don't understand your hostile criticism of this ensemble that more than 60 years ago disclosed the authentic interpretation on period instruments.

Euh Dink

6y↑2

Sorry, this is horrible!

Red Schonewille

No it's a musicbox

please tell me that you love me

5y↑1

@Gilberto martin del campo This is the first time I see someone answer respectfully to someone who does not like the music. Especially in jazz and classical music pieces people get crucified for expressing the slight criticism of what they're listening to. Thanks Gilberto. I'm also interested in knowing why @Euh Dink finds this horrible. Is it Praetorius' compositions in general, or these arrangements?

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