Henry Purcell - The Fairy Queen - If love's a sweet passion

[GAIASDREAMER]

So beautiful.  thank you.

Gaia.

[ReynaCrisostomoPanto]

que hermoso me fascino y me encanto la pintura que aparece

[JustCausePpl]

Absolutely great music.

[zahavandre]

Very cuteness work! Purcell c'est rules :-)!

addendum: Where did you get these pics? Thanks and thanks for share the art with us!

[HereSantaComes]

yep, great piece of music. but I think, totally misunderstood here and in general. Doesn't sound like "sweet" passion at all. Just passion. Or a funeral. Come on guys, hurry up a little bit. Make it light. Make it ambigious. Look at the lyrics. Gosh.

[wafsearcher]

psn Nizar007 u cant beat me in MW3

[KhagarBalugrak]

This is so wonderful.

[BobDaSquid]

utter shit!



[KhagarBalugrak]

@BobDaSquid, I completely disagree with you here! This is a great piece. Perhaps your real problem with this song is that it wasn't written by a Germanic composer?

[darksecretsify]

This is such beautiful song! And im sure that the picture is from a midnight summers dream?

[LunaSeleneArtemis]

I'm maybe the happiest person alive right now... Not only am I listening to this beautiful version of this enchanting song, but I also heard today I'm going to sing the solo on the concert of my choir this year! I might die of happiness... :D

[MIMIFORSAGE]

This version by Veronique Gens is my favorite, and I like the painting which is perfect for The Fairy Queen! I've seen it before & wondered who the artist was???????

[TheCow0904]

@MIMIFORSAGE

The artist is Henry Fuseli .(Titania Embracing Bottom 1792-93)

[pabbxbeowfall]

@wichmannsburg The painting is NOT awful, ok?

[quizmo1000]

5 people have no soul!

[masterhitsi84]

como puede poner alguien que esto no le gusta,la verdad no lo entiendo

[meuviva]

I cried. Very deep

[Berlinerkatze]

Hey :) I'm looking for THIS version on cd ... does anyone know it? The name of cd, the artist or something that helps me?

[witchcraftlord]

i would give my soul to own or hear Purcell's collected works,

[lichtbroeder]

@witchcraftlord Why not just go out and buy them? Plenty of sources for used CD's. Seems a might simpler than erecting a ritual circle at a crossroads, evoking the dark powers, and waiting for that damn chicken to die.

[witchcraftlord]

@lichtbroeder excuse me?, i am a harpsichord player, i am a tenor, i play organ at church, i play can play more difficult music than just Purcell,  I would buy his music if only i could find it, what the fuck are you talking about dark powers? and chicken, I dont eat meat, and i dont believe in destruction

[lichtbroeder]

@witchcraftlord Oh good grief, my entire comment was tongue in cheek, prompted by the screen name that you chose, "witchcraftlord", which I delineated in the context of Purcell's time, with typical 17th century "dark arts" connotations. Sorry I didn't add a smiley face to my comment. My apologies. And what do your musical abilities have to do with all of this? Musicians don't practice the dark arts? :) (Note smile face)

[lichtbroeder]

@witchcraftlord Just checked your profile. You apparently record music under the "Darkside Records" label, and you quote from Aleister Crowley's Thelemic Book of the Law. That you'd be offended by a "dark arts" reference in my comment and an allusion to ritual magick is a bit strange....:) I'm a harpsichordist also, have played organ for churches, and have in past years been involved with Wicca, Traditional Witchcraft, Ritual Magick, and the occult in general. A sense of humor helps. :)

[HitlodeuPT]

Very beautiful, so relaxing and at the same time so passionate...

[Lauschgiftsucht]

großartig und wunderschön...

Versetzt in eine andere Zeit, wo das Leben durch Kutschen und Briefverkehr langsamer und dadurch etwas stressfreier war... ach ;-)

[handelsme]

I'm sure the feeling that I get from listening to this is a feeling that you all probably connect to as well. I speak of the feeling of the time period. When I listen to this, I feel like I am back at that time. I think he did an amazing job at capturing that time period in his music.

[pspgod9999]

is this from henry purcell?

[llawrencemajors]

Jack shall have Jill;

Nought shall go ill;

The man shall have his mare again, and all shall be well.

Grin....

[classicalgal14]

The Great Baroque composer, Henry Purcell died today on the 21st of November in 1695! We celebrate his contributions to the world of music... he wrote the first English language opera to high acclaim 'Dido and Aeneas' ♫♪

[Mepramo1]

Precioso tema, tan etéreo, delicado, magnánimo, y la voz, esa no es voz es más que eso, puro talento.

[Mepramo1]

Precioso tema, tan etéreo, delicado, magnánimo, y la voz, esa no es voz es más que eso, puro talento.

[Aknigtitey]

i love this song so much .

i wish i could see the opera.. maybe one day :)

[Volumep]

This is one of the best compositions i've heard. Great composer !

[sunsdomain]

As usual, Purcell composes immensely moving music for the fairly banal lyric supplied to him.

"So pleasing the Pain, so soft is the Dart." An ancient theme but there is indeed a note of anguish in this exquisite music (and performance).

The words of the verse beginning "I press her hand gently" approach a little nearer than usual to the level of tenderness and longing expressed by the music.

A lengthy way of saying, Purcell is hot ;-)

[alisech]

Es una hermosa melodia , hermosa letra... me enamora todos los sentidos

[wichmannsburg]

Dear Ablacsia, thank you for posting this beautiful version ( the most beautiful available on youtube, perhaps the best ever produced ). But please, couldn't you replace that absolutely awful painting by a photo of Véronique Gens ? such a gorgeous voice, such a beautiful woman... What a pleasure it would be to see her while listening to her marvellous singing.... Please, try to do so... Thanks !

[lichtbroeder]

@wichmannsburg I agree, Veronique is beautiful, but I actually like the present photo. It was used on the jewel case for this CD. The image shows a painting by Forseli, done in 1790, and it depicts Bottom from A Midsummer's Night Dream". You probably know that "The Fairy Queen" is an adaptation of that play by Shakespeare. When I look at the photo, I see delight, sadness, tenderness, consolation, amusement, derision, etc. All things that go with being in love.

[Ablacsia]

@wichmannsburg I'm sorry, I think changing an image isn't possible without deleting the video, furthermore I just use paintings or drawings in my videos. But I have added a link to the homepage of Véronique Gens, where you can find a couple of images to look while listening. :-) Kind regards, Ablacsia.

[ipop12100]

@Ablacsia  I love this painting. Who did paint it? Can you tell me where you found it? Thank you

ipop12100

[AlsatianCousin]

@Ablacsia - I never have this problem as I simply always close my eyes.

[JACKSON2012music]

lovely image,gracious to me

[BernardProfitendieu]

@wichmannsburg what an haughty, self-absorbed comment - why would anyone change their post just because one of tens of thousands who have seen it wants them to? This painting is entirely appropriate for the Fairy Queen story.

post your own vids if you have such specific requirements.

and by the way the form "Dear XXX" is entirely too formal for a youtube post and just makes you seem like even more of a tool.

[lichtbroeder]

I posted the lyrics, saw mistakes, removed them and tried to repost. Nothing happened. If youTube worked as beautifully as Purcell composed, we'd all be a lot happier.

[lichtbroeder]

Veronique Gens (and Mr. Purcell), you are incredible! Merci!

[TRodenburg]

Beautiful performance.

[ShanPurcell]

Hehe, my last name is Purcell. I wonder if I'm related to him. What country did he come from? Henry Purcell is an amazing composer by the way.;D

[scorpiodu789]

cette chanson est vraiment magnifique, je chante du classique moi aussi(je n'ai que 12 ans) mais je vais chanter cette chanson sur youtube laisser des com's merci

[Jasmie27]

this is so useful because i have to do a project on a composer and i picked henry purcell and i need 2 pieces of music

[XkissthestarswithmeX]

baroque rules

[wichmannsburg]

Quelle voix sublime, sensuelle et pleine de vigueur ! Vive Véronique Gens !

[ShanTalarico]

just wonderful...

[stefikw15]

I saw the Opera and I love it ! <3

[ShanTalarico]

@stefikw15 i wish i could once!!!! i found it amazing, the poem most of all!

[MistressRianna]

this is so beautifull!!

[blavatsky2009]

Queen Titania was really a tender reproach of Shakespeare directed at Queen Elizabeth I. Elizabeth's true love was deemed an "ass" by her advisers. Just as Titania loses her adopted boy to Oberon because of her infatuation with Bottom (who becomes an asshead by Puck's magic...bottom,ass...the exquisite play on words), so Shakespeare seems to gently scold that Elizabeth would have lost her chance to have a male heir because of an ass.

[blacked3mirror]

...can you explain more..?

[FoolOfGods]

Thus Spencer would lend his pen 'The Fairie Queen' and win much royal favour, both within court and otherwise: Her Britannic Majesty's preference, as in all things, being toward the more flattering mirror, the stronger image, notwithstanding that Spencer's portrayal of the feminine warrior queen were less than flattering ... Truth is a madrigal best played upon thy sweetest lute ... sung like the meadow lark in a foreign tongue and offered as if tender sweetmeat upon a platter of sensibilities

[fcrosas]

Sublime...

[peymaania]

If love's a sweet passion why does it torment?

If a bitter, oh tell me, whence comes my content?

Since I suffer with pleasure, why should I complain,

or grieve at my fate, when I know it's in vain?

Yet so pleasing the pain is so soft as the dart,

That at once it both wounds me and tickles my heart.

[peymaania]

I press her hand gently, look languishing down, and by passionate silence I make my love known. But oh! How I'm blest when so kind she does prove, by some willing mistake to discover her love. When in striving to hide, she reveals her flame, and in our eyes tell each other what neither dares name.

[saladin1234]

so softly the dart...

[peymaania]

You just can't trust the Internet can you?

[genpet2]

Это одна из прекраснейших мелодий Генри!!!Так проста и так трогательна!Какая невероятная нежность,отголосок райских планет.

[ramobu]

Wonderful..

[Aknigtitey]

gorgeous

[LunaSeleneArtemis]

Purcell is touched by God.

I just love singing it AND listening to it!!

it's sooooooooooooooo beautiful!!

[Rivaleka]

If I wrote you my email, could you send this version of this song to me? Please?

[Rivaleka]

One of my very favorite pieces indeed....... =)

[fcrosas]

Extraordinario...

[Whowhenwhy]

I feel like I'm crying.

That's so beautiful.

Thank you, Purcell.

[yamiyugikun]

Ah, so beautiful, God Bless You, Divine Purcell. Thank you for posting this. I LOVE Purcell. He touches my soul like no other classical composter.

[Woelfin001]

@yamiyugikun Baroque! Definitely not classical. :-)

[Woelfin001]

@yamiyugikun 

[elias12186]

I've been looking for this for awhile! Do you also have her in Dido and Aeneas?

Thanks :)