Henry Purcell: Rondeau from Abdelazer (Z570), Voices of Music; performed on original instruments 4K

The Rondeau from the incidental music (Z570) that Henry Purcell composed for the play Abdelazer, or the Moor's Revenge.
HD Video from the Voices of Music Brandenburg Concerto project, 2013.
One of Purcell’s last works, the Abdelazer was staged in 1695, the year of Purcell's death, and the text of the play was written Aphra Behn. The Rondeau’s place in history was assured when the composer Benjamin Britten chose it for his Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra: Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Purcell (1946). After Purcell's death, his wife Frances gathered much of his unpublished works, and these were printed as “A collection of ayres, compos'd for the theatre and upon other occasions.”
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[VoicesofMusic]

-One million!- Thanks, everyone :) Update: *2 million!*

[TankNamedTom]

The depth and power of those bass notes are *chef’s kiss*

[classicalmusic]

It's about time Henry Purcell got his dues. Always overshadowed by his German counterparts, yet every bit their equal.

[JulianneTure]

When I was little, this was the theme for the afternoon drive-time program on our local classical-music station, so I called it “Daddy’s office music” because it played when he was coming home from work. Thanks for bringing up that memory – and for a glorious performance.

[youngwoo]

Henry Purcell is charimastic..
It cannot be better than this.
This famous masterpiece becomes
The young person's guide
to the orchestra of Benjamin Britten.
It is brilliant and emotional
performance.

[VoicesofMusic]

Henry Purcell's famous Rondeau from Abdelazer. #EarlyMusic

[djenii]

Снимаю шляпу перед коллективом вдохновенных музыкантов, доносящих до простых людей творения гения. Какое глубокое насыщенное звучание! Браво!

[veran.]

This is so incredibly beautiful, I can't stop listening. Thanks to all artists involved.

[mordecaiakinyi]

This piece and THIS performance makes me so happy 🥹🥹🥹

[TekMaramao]

It is a double joy for me, the original instruments and the high quality of the recording. I am definetely delighted.

[deathbyfootball]

A baroque masterpiece, the Contrapuntal textures and string quartette make a tremendously magnificent piece of music

[VoicesofMusic]

Two million views; thanks so much everyone!

[williamkurzenberger]

A wonderful rendition with great acoustics. Also, the tempo was comfortable, not hurried, as is often the case in many contemporary baroque performances.

[musiqueblere]

Un pur bonheur dans lequel la rigueur musicologique et la grâce de l'émotion sont réunies. Merci !

[grootkormelink]

Purcell would be proud with this performance!👌

[fpereira]

I've been completely obsessed with this piece (and Benjamin Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra) ever since I heard them for the first time in my music's classroom, about 12 years ago, when I was just 10 or 11 years old. I must have heard hundreds of pieces in those 2 years of musical education in school, but these 2 pieces really engraved themselves in my mind.

[chriswhitesidembe]

I liked this as a child when it was the theme tune to a BBC costume drama called "The First Churchills" about the Duke and Duchess of Marlborough. (That gives my age away!) This is a really good setting of it.

[theDoctoriswithTim]

One of the soundtracks from Pride and Prejudice 2005. Love it. <3

[ewennlesergent]

Splendide les violoncellistes ont des coups d'archets synchrones et aériens très beaux et sensuels et La violoniste en premier plan vit complètement son art ... dans la fusion du corps et de l'instrument.... un beau bravo pour cette belle musique

[gaylehusko]

Gives me chills! The Beauty of it all hits my essence.