This is absolutely beautiful and sums up for me the reason we should re-introduce folk music into our schools - we need to keep our traditions alive! We have a rich folk culture, but it has been lost and mocked at for too long! I, for one, and very proud to be English!
This is a great piece. It's a shame my generation won't listen to this kind of music. No one stops to at least read the lyrics of what the artist say. It's always about sex, drugs, whores, etc. Why can't we have good music like this anymore?!?!
The choral singing of this is beautiful, and when applied to the wind band setting, its just incredible.. More people should be listening to the greats like Holst, Vaughan Williams, Mussorgsky, Elgar, Respighi, Grainger... (need I go on?) (i know a couple aren't english composers but they're incredible nonetheless..)
I think my favorite part of this whole piece is the fact that Holst incorporated the version that uses flower language: translated, the descant verse reads "with my faith, love and passion, a wound to be healed." And heal her love does, by his return to her. This remains one of my favorite folk song arrangements.
Why do the record companies record all choirs in caves? The voices need more presence. They're too far back and everyone sounds filtered. So when the tempo speeds up, all you get is mush. And the performance is a little precious. I think this is Rutter's record company, so presumably this is what he wants.
It's funny because you dont really think about that fact that the song is about a girl being locked up for being insane and her love being sent away. The constant, "I love my love" by the sopranos is supposed to send the picture of a mentally insane lover rocking back and forth attempting to reassure herself of her love... Amazin
why dont people listen to this genre of music anymore, pop and rap has poisoned everyones mind they do not know what real music is what beautiful pure music is.
@BeccaCullen111 *coughs* Perhaps you should take a gander back through the halls of history. That is a question countless people have asked before you. "He does work of the devil! His 9s dont resolve to 8s! They go to sevens, and then something else entirely!"
Its natural evolution. Though...I dislike this current era of music, myself.
@dragonyoshi i understand what ur saying, its just like this beautiful music we hear right here is being forgotten because of tasteless talentless pop and rap artists who have NO originality they copy the same cords and just use them in all the same songs there is no creativity to it. todays musical culture is regressing. music revolves around fashiion, sex, violence and so on....what happened to beauty and nature and more simple things. classical should be respected by everyone.
@BeccaCullen111 yeah it does. i listen to classical music while asleep. im probably the only 15 year old who likes it in my town. its sad because if they had a open mind it would stop all the shit tht goes on such as crimes. RAP encourages crime in my opinion
@CheerboyHEAT i agree..Rap only fills the mid with sex, crime, greed, violence. there is certain old school rap that i like but its decent. mostly i love classical genre because its so beautiful and posative. cudos to you for listening to classical! makes you a better person than anyone in your town.
It's amazing how I can find more beauty in this song, then songs like "Tik Tok", or "lollipop" :3 *being sarcastic, but in a good way...Im serious...this is one of the most beautiful songs of all time...with such a ROMANTIC, but sad tone*
@HoroGirl thats the thing about this song, is that is sorrowful but it sends a beautiful message about how much he truly loves his love... without her he would be nothing... that is the sorrw tone, but with her he is everything, as said by the lyrics
@MusicOfJOS just type in the title, this recording came up as the second song on the list on iTunes. You could also put in, "John Rutter & The Cambridge Singers" It should be there :)
@MusicOfJOS just type in the title, this recording came up as the second song on the list on iTunes. You could also put in, "John Rutter & The Cambridge Singers" It should be there :)
With straw I'll weave a garland, I'll weave it very fine; With roses, lilies, daisies, I'll mix the eglantine; And I'll present it to my love When he returns from sea. For I love my love, because I know my love loves me." Just as she sat there weeping, Her love he came on land. Then hearing she was in Bedlam, He ran straight out of hand. He flew into her snow-white arms, And thus replied he:
"I love my love, because I know my love loves me." She said: "My love don't frighten me; Are you my love or no?" "O yes, my dearest Nancy, I am your love, also I am return'd to Make amends for all your injury; I love my love because I know my love loves me." So now these two are married, And happy may they be Like turtle doves together, in love and unity. All pretty maids with patience wait That have got loves at sea; I love my love because I know my love loves me.
@shylocksings What's even better is that this woman is stuck in an asylum because she went "crazy" without her love (Bedlam was the asylum town of Bethlehem). And then her love came back to rescue her from the asylum <3 Absolutely beautiful!!!! The ultimate love story in my eyes
This has been one of my all-time favorites. I had forgotten about it until rediscovering it here last week. Thank you for sharing. I love Holst and the way The Cambridge Singers/Rutter perform this. Absolutely beautiful!
There are no words to describe how beautiful this is.
frenchiepatootie 1 month ago
This is absolutely beautiful and sums up for me the reason we should re-introduce folk music into our schools - we need to keep our traditions alive! We have a rich folk culture, but it has been lost and mocked at for too long! I, for one, and very proud to be English!
practicecrazypianist 1 month ago
Beautiful!
giuel95 3 months ago
This is a great piece. It's a shame my generation won't listen to this kind of music. No one stops to at least read the lyrics of what the artist say. It's always about sex, drugs, whores, etc. Why can't we have good music like this anymore?!?!
leopardstar202 4 months ago
This is a freakin great piece; If anyone reads this make sure to check out the kings singers arrangement! Its a bit better!
angryred101 5 months ago
The choral singing of this is beautiful, and when applied to the wind band setting, its just incredible.. More people should be listening to the greats like Holst, Vaughan Williams, Mussorgsky, Elgar, Respighi, Grainger... (need I go on?) (i know a couple aren't english composers but they're incredible nonetheless..)
macosx406 7 months ago
How could one not love the music of Holst? :)
montywestmeyer 7 months ago
Either he was a really great composer, or he was really in love when he composed it!
WonderIsGood 7 months ago 3
@WonderIsGood maybe both..... ;)
pop41094 7 months ago
@WonderIsGood or both ;)
macosx406 7 months ago
@WonderIsGood He arranged it; this was a Cornish folk song. But yes, I agree, Holst is a GREAT composer! :3
rksouza1 6 months ago
I think my favorite part of this whole piece is the fact that Holst incorporated the version that uses flower language: translated, the descant verse reads "with my faith, love and passion, a wound to be healed." And heal her love does, by his return to her. This remains one of my favorite folk song arrangements.
ladyhrist 8 months ago
I could have sworn it was "I'll" love my love...
Excellent performance.
peteytheaardvark 8 months ago
There is one dislike. I'm surprised there are any.
MrCG35 8 months ago 7
@MrCG35 Believe me there is always one. Just for fun.
bartje11 8 months ago 4
Wohltuend schoen!!! Vielen Dank!!!!!!
mmbmbmbmb 8 months ago
I am listening right now, thanks! )I've already listened to some Planets, impressive.
luminita51 8 months ago
Why do the record companies record all choirs in caves? The voices need more presence. They're too far back and everyone sounds filtered. So when the tempo speeds up, all you get is mush. And the performance is a little precious. I think this is Rutter's record company, so presumably this is what he wants.
presbyterosBassI 9 months ago
I'm not a fan of choir music at all, but THIS is very beautiful :)
Yamislittleangel 10 months ago
Holst really loved this melody I guess...the second movement of his Second Suite in F is the same folk song arranged for band. Both are amazing :-) .
jpgerick 11 months ago
It's funny because you dont really think about that fact that the song is about a girl being locked up for being insane and her love being sent away. The constant, "I love my love" by the sopranos is supposed to send the picture of a mentally insane lover rocking back and forth attempting to reassure herself of her love... Amazin
Musicmetallife94 11 months ago
my armonia class is singin this and im 2nd soprano im sososososo excited!!!!
kc9lives 1 year ago
my school is singing this for our spring concert. im kinda nervous about it because im the only soprano. =( SCARY!
shannonlovesmusic94 1 year ago
@shannonlovesmusic94 I'm not gonna lie: that REALLY sucks.
whisperFM 11 months ago
This is indeed the gold standard of English folk song arrangements. The women are positively angelic on the 3rd verse descant (1:22).
Vagabond1951 1 year ago 2
My choir is singing this. It is SUCH a beautiful song, thank you for posting :)
yoflippy 1 year ago 3
This is beautiful
jtizz711 1 year ago 3
heaven's open! thanks for posting!!
hamilton797 1 year ago
Best English folk song setting EVER. And that's from a devout Vaughan Williams partisan. Holst was divinely inspired when he wrote this.
Vagabond1951 1 year ago 2
Thank you so much for posting... This piece makes me cry every time I listen to it.
LSysyn15 1 year ago
@LSysyn15 Try singing it. :-) <3
hithererandom 1 year ago
why dont people listen to this genre of music anymore, pop and rap has poisoned everyones mind they do not know what real music is what beautiful pure music is.
BeccaCullen111 1 year ago 24
@BeccaCullen111 Lots of people listen to this music. You listened to it! Thanks for visiting and commenting.
bartje11 1 year ago 14
@BeccaCullen111 *coughs* Perhaps you should take a gander back through the halls of history. That is a question countless people have asked before you. "He does work of the devil! His 9s dont resolve to 8s! They go to sevens, and then something else entirely!"
Its natural evolution. Though...I dislike this current era of music, myself.
dragonyoshi 1 year ago
@dragonyoshi i understand what ur saying, its just like this beautiful music we hear right here is being forgotten because of tasteless talentless pop and rap artists who have NO originality they copy the same cords and just use them in all the same songs there is no creativity to it. todays musical culture is regressing. music revolves around fashiion, sex, violence and so on....what happened to beauty and nature and more simple things. classical should be respected by everyone.
BeccaCullen111 1 year ago
@BeccaCullen111 People dont apreciate this sort of music because its a old genre. it surly is a pitty because this is truely pure and beatiful.
CheerboyHEAT 8 months ago
@CheerboyHEAT I agree 100% it relaxes the mind and soul. it is as you said..pure.
BeccaCullen111 7 months ago
@BeccaCullen111 yeah it does. i listen to classical music while asleep. im probably the only 15 year old who likes it in my town. its sad because if they had a open mind it would stop all the shit tht goes on such as crimes. RAP encourages crime in my opinion
CheerboyHEAT 7 months ago
@CheerboyHEAT i agree..Rap only fills the mid with sex, crime, greed, violence. there is certain old school rap that i like but its decent. mostly i love classical genre because its so beautiful and posative. cudos to you for listening to classical! makes you a better person than anyone in your town.
BeccaCullen111 7 months ago
@BeccaCullen111 my choir from school sang this. go youtube HUHS Concert Choir June 2, 2011 (HD) #1
thats a performance of it. except the first 2:30 is comical after that its the actual song tho. enjoy
CheerboyHEAT 7 months ago
This piece is sublime.
thesublimesupine 1 year ago
How i love that one! One of the finest pieces of Holst and one of my favourites ever. Thx.
hamilton797 1 year ago
The funny thing is that it wasn't until singing this song that I learned that Bedlam was an insane asylum.
MusicOfJOS 1 year ago
It's amazing how I can find more beauty in this song, then songs like "Tik Tok", or "lollipop" :3 *being sarcastic, but in a good way...Im serious...this is one of the most beautiful songs of all time...with such a ROMANTIC, but sad tone*
HoroGirl 2 years ago
@HoroGirl thats the thing about this song, is that is sorrowful but it sends a beautiful message about how much he truly loves his love... without her he would be nothing... that is the sorrw tone, but with her he is everything, as said by the lyrics
Ballinorest 1 year ago
One of the all-time great folk-song settings, and this is the best performance of it you're ever going to hear. Holst was a genius.
Vagabond1951 2 years ago 2
Does anyone have an mp3 of this song? I can't find it on iTunes.
MusicOfJOS 2 years ago
@MusicOfJOS just type in the title, this recording came up as the second song on the list on iTunes. You could also put in, "John Rutter & The Cambridge Singers" It should be there :)
Ms2BeOrNotToB 1 year ago
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@MusicOfJOS just type in the title, this recording came up as the second song on the list on iTunes. You could also put in, "John Rutter & The Cambridge Singers" It should be there :)
Ms2BeOrNotToB 1 year ago
chorale singing this in spring and when my director played it for the first time, i cried. so beautiful!
JazzHalesBabyGurl 2 years ago
Abroad as I was walking, one evening in the spring,
I heard a maid in Bedlam so sweetly for to sing;
Her chains she rattled with her hands,
And thus replied she:
"I love my love because I know my love loves me!
O cruel were his parents who sent my love to sea,
And cruel was the ship that bore my love from me;
Yet I love his parents since they're his although
They've ruined me:
I love my love because I know my love loves me!
shylocksings 2 years ago 10
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shylocksings 2 years ago 23
@shylocksings What's even better is that this woman is stuck in an asylum because she went "crazy" without her love (Bedlam was the asylum town of Bethlehem). And then her love came back to rescue her from the asylum <3 Absolutely beautiful!!!! The ultimate love story in my eyes
rksouza1 6 months ago
Thanks!, shylocksings
ikmarchini 2 years ago
This is a beautiful piece that moves me everytime i hear it. I love Holst.
MusicFi 2 years ago
we sang this is choir, still gets me every time. beautiful
Moldovanca 2 years ago
This has been one of my all-time favorites. I had forgotten about it until rediscovering it here last week. Thank you for sharing. I love Holst and the way The Cambridge Singers/Rutter perform this. Absolutely beautiful!
Wistaria08 2 years ago
I love Holst. I have yet to hear a song of his that I'm not head over heels in love with.
fourgenerations 2 years ago
Thank you for this beautiful video.
65attila 2 years ago