Andre Rieu brings classical music to the populace in a beautiful and exciting way. Why should it be only for snobs? He is giving the music a wide and appreciative audience. What could be wrong with that? And the singers are superb. Go suck eggs.
@mluvbmw Actually they aren't... George the First had arthritis and stood during it, so everyone stood because the king stood, because that's tradition.
@rosscalverley Actually they are, at least if they are sensitive to cultural tradition. The tradition was started by King George, but it wasn't because of arthritis and it wasn't George I, who was long dead when this piece was composed. It was George II and he rose in tribute to the music. This began the tradition. Unfortunately, more and more people today are culturally illiterate.
I love classical music, but I think this nearer parody of that. No kidding, Rieu´s style is to perform classic pieces in "light versions" under the premise to get more close, easy to understand to the massive public , than the originals which of course are more complex, longer and therefore hard to assimilate how much more wide is it meaning and message. Of course, Rieu´s peeled versions could result glamorous and briliant for newbies but also snobs guys, tasters of the easy´n fast
Andre has liberated the audience of classical and opera music. People in Andre's concerts can sing, dance, cheer and shout as like any other pop concerts. Why is it that audience in traditional concerts must sit tight, remain silent and clear their throats before the music begins ?
@tonydaigor I do agree, Andre' and his talented musicians make you feel part of the music by allowing you to participate in the joyous, serious and tragic presentations they perform. You may sing , cry or be spellbound by his orchestra and/or his soloists. I love all types of music but enjoy his performances most because I feel that I am a Participant. What does it matter how it is performed, so long as it rouses the audience and makes you feel a part of the performance.
When are these boring music snobs going to understand that music is nothing but feeling and emotion and that everyone feels it differently because we are different?Gosh,Andre Rieu is the one in the world with the best classical music of today.I can't think of another person who is doing such a great job with classical music but him. He feels,he senses,he listens to it and gives it a new face.This is feeling differently.Why is that so wrong, critics?I think none of you could do what he does.
I had the enormous pleasure of seeing this piece last week in Detroit. Somewhat smaller in scale, but thoroughly enjoyable nonetheless. Andre is an amazing showman, and has brought "Rock Star" glam to an otherwise fading genre. The audience is cross generational, but universally enthralled. How is that anything but wonderful???
Unfortunately I put disagree to akiheavenly6 when I'd like to put for people's called bad music the Rieu'style. I love music and when I want to listen un opera in your totality I use to look for an apropriated place.Who does not like this style, please leave from here.
Ugh.. you just can't be on Youtube and not meet pretentious music snobs. You don't look at an abstract painting and call it ugly because it's not true to life do you? Just enjoy the free interpretation of music. The target audience of his concerts are ignoramuses like me who knows dick about classical music but wants to listen without being bored out of their mind by serious people in dull suits and ugly dresses. It's a New Year show!! Disregard the glits & glam and you still have good music
@akiheavenly6 Go on your free MacBurger contest or redneck festival. That will please your desire for culture - idiot. Or maybe Beyonce classical music? Stick yo New Year carol.
I want to show you I am no snob and do know about real Handel performance.It might change your mind.See these Handel performances with current singers-this is the real 'raw' thing on original instruments with phrasing as it would have been played. Rieu makes it into syrup-ironically HE sounds wet and old fashioned compared to them and theres far more to Handel than Hallelujah chorus!!
@blueyedboy84 Here's what no one has ever told you. Most peole hate classcial music. And it does not matter if it's film score, or original stuff by a composer. Take a guy like Karl Jenkins I enjoy his music but most people can't stand it becasue of the classcial sound in his music.
@Epica124 Your comment that 'most people hate classical music' is so ridiculous that I had to answer. It is like saying 'most people hate painting'. It is a totally ignorant statement.Geniuses like Bach,Beethoven,Mozart,Mahler,Ravel,Stravinsky are a tiny few. Start counting the 100's of millions of Beethoven 5's or Carmens or Vivaldi 4 seasons records sold by countless performers.Von Karajan the conductor sold 900 MILLION records alone-he must have really played music everyone hated.!!
@blueyedboy84 <pst [ep[;e om tjos dau amd age jate classcial music. Most people are to busy listening to that next aotu toned singer to even know who the hell Beethoven is. And if they do know it's because they heard it from Andre Rieu or some rock or metal bands that understand the roots of music. Why don't you go see what is played in the top of the charts these days buddy. And seeing as how more people go for Contemporary art yeah most people hate art to.
@blueyedboy84 I'm sorry but we are living in a day and age in which you have a 14 year old who is more well know then Beethovens 5th Symphony. And those like me that do know it still know it becasue we have heard people who still have a passion for music play it. Like him or hate him at lest Andre Rieu and others like him are keeping it alive. Let me put it to you this way. Sit down and try to watch A Trip to the Moon. Unless you really like movies you will not like it.
@blueyedboy84 I do enjoy movies so for me A Trip to the Moon is a really well made movie for it's time and I like going back to the roots of early movies. Most people don't in this day and age. It's a sad turth but it is the turth.
Rieu has a talent for making Classical sound like total commercial Eurotrash! This is a total travesty. His formula is this: To only ever does the famous 'bits' everyone knows from washing powder adverts- and then hams it up into a cheesy bad taste confection played by satin ballgown clad women. Ugh!!!!!!!!!! It has NOTHING to do with real music. He actually is destroying classical music. The composers he plays are turned into candyfloss clappalong pap.
@blueyedboy84 Your comment is utter travesty Taste differs. André Rieu makes classical music more accessible to the general (ignorant - less ignorant than you are by the way) public. André turns it into a proper, current day version. If you don't like it, why don't you go somewhere else with your snobbery. Any form of any type of music is acceptable. The only one that's destroying classical music is the one making destructive comments about alternative forms of the genre. In other words, YOU!
@ClassicalRelated I am a professional composer and player-I studied at Royal College London and Goldsmiths. Funny you think that I am ignorant ! I do NOT think cheapening music like Rieu does is a serious alternative. He is an empty showman who just distorts real music into cut-up soundbites-that is no serious alternative!! There are plenty of current Handel (if we are talking about that composer) conductors eg.John Eliot Gardiner) and orchestras who do the original music justice today.
@blueyedboy84 You studied at the Royal College London and Goldsmiths? Do they teach you to write inane nonsense? Your RCL study isn't worth a dime unless you can come up with some serious arguments. A professional composer you are? You've got a lo-o-o-o-o-ng way to go before you get anywere, blue eyed boy. A serious student of the RCL wouldn't like to be represented by the type of superficial argument you present, or your pathetic nickname. Would the RCL likes your childish response? I doubt it.
I'm a fan of classical music, but i totaly agree. I know where you are coming from, but look at the big picture, at least he is trying to save classical music from the contemporary era. If you ask 100 12-14 years old today whats their favorite type of music, i bet less than 10 will say classical music.
You have to pick the lesser of two evils - keep the well known, famous peices work and edit it to fit a greater audience or do nothing watch classical music lose popularity.
@TheFailedAssassin How many 12-14 years are attending a Rieu concert then? Stop glorifying what he's doing. He's not trying to save classical music. He turns it into pensioner-pop and sells it to 70 year olds.
@blueyedboy84: The thing you call Classical is just that: classical. And it is - as classical - dead. As classical latin or classical greek. No one speaks them. And I mean no one, even in Vatican.
Classical was. And just that. No Rieu needs to destroy it because it is dead. What he does is to give life to classical partitures and music becomes alive.
And he is really great!
BTW: I also enjoy classical interpretations of classical music. But that's another point.
woo! go Andre Rieu! He looked as if he was trying to control their voices because he was waving his arms all over the place... absolutely marvelous! bravo :D
Möge der Tag des Herrn ein friedlicher und schöner Tag für unseren Herrn werden,und alle Welt in Eintracht zusammenstehen.
Polihymna 5 days ago
no es una buena versión, es muy apurada, solo en youtube existen mejores...dejemoslo como violinista pero no como director...
BOKETARRO 1 week ago
When was the last time this piece was presented like this? A tour de force. Maestro Rieu has done it again. BRAVO!!!!
dieseldog00 3 weeks ago
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THIS IS A FANTASTIC INTERPRETATION. ONE OF THE BEST. VIVA AND Bravo Maestro Rieu. !
Tenorbravo 1 month ago
es buenisimo el maestro rieu!!!!!!!!!!! si señor hermoso concierto!!!!!!!!!
777SuperPeligro 1 month ago
I want this video on my J300 unit.
leighstephens74 1 month ago
Bravo Maestro Rieu ! დიდებულად ჟღერს ორკესტრი და სოლისტები ! საოცარი მუსიკაა და ეს არის მუსიკის უკვდავება ...
maestronodari 1 month ago
Sorry to say this but, I like the Mormon Tabernacle choir version better. They sound like they were forcing their voices:
Gerabril2476 2 months ago
Sopranos Go Up To A6 ( Natural ) 2nd Letter Above Treble Clef.
dztillman 2 months ago
nice arrangement.
BlogBust3rs 2 months ago
Altos are missing! Sounds incomplete :(
xxdimenzionxx 2 months ago
Andre Rieu brings classical music to the populace in a beautiful and exciting way. Why should it be only for snobs? He is giving the music a wide and appreciative audience. What could be wrong with that? And the singers are superb. Go suck eggs.
wanderer686 2 months ago
The message of Handel delivered to perfection
gootzite47 2 months ago
This video went viral on Sucre
eweykidd13d 2 months ago
it's fast!
czarssalad 2 months ago
Hermoso!!!
blancimelda1 2 months ago
Is there any such thing as a soprano who's not supremely sexy?
stuqua 3 months ago 2
@stuqua No
Santor6 2 months ago
Andre Rieu es lo mejor
menehele 3 months ago
Gisteravond gehoord tijdens één van zijn concerten in Vorst-Nationaal. Tranen welden op bij mij ! Prachtige uitvoering ! Thanx André !
Biloutebelge1969 3 months ago
Beautiful, but I still feel like it's a race to the end.
dennisholly73 3 months ago
don't the people in the crowd know they are supposed to stand up during the whole performance?
mluvbmw 4 months ago
@mluvbmw Actually they aren't... George the First had arthritis and stood during it, so everyone stood because the king stood, because that's tradition.
rosscalverley 2 months ago
@rosscalverley Actually they are, at least if they are sensitive to cultural tradition. The tradition was started by King George, but it wasn't because of arthritis and it wasn't George I, who was long dead when this piece was composed. It was George II and he rose in tribute to the music. This began the tradition. Unfortunately, more and more people today are culturally illiterate.
Rick8106 2 months ago
I love classical music, but I think this nearer parody of that. No kidding, Rieu´s style is to perform classic pieces in "light versions" under the premise to get more close, easy to understand to the massive public , than the originals which of course are more complex, longer and therefore hard to assimilate how much more wide is it meaning and message. Of course, Rieu´s peeled versions could result glamorous and briliant for newbies but also snobs guys, tasters of the easy´n fast
magellancolumbus 4 months ago
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I saw Rieu and these ladies in San Antonio last night. This was one of their presentations. Magnificent.
777Dutch 4 months ago
Andre has liberated the audience of classical and opera music. People in Andre's concerts can sing, dance, cheer and shout as like any other pop concerts. Why is it that audience in traditional concerts must sit tight, remain silent and clear their throats before the music begins ?
tonydaigor 4 months ago
@tonydaigor I do agree, Andre' and his talented musicians make you feel part of the music by allowing you to participate in the joyous, serious and tragic presentations they perform. You may sing , cry or be spellbound by his orchestra and/or his soloists. I love all types of music but enjoy his performances most because I feel that I am a Participant. What does it matter how it is performed, so long as it rouses the audience and makes you feel a part of the performance.
MrZwilling44 2 months ago
When are these boring music snobs going to understand that music is nothing but feeling and emotion and that everyone feels it differently because we are different?Gosh,Andre Rieu is the one in the world with the best classical music of today.I can't think of another person who is doing such a great job with classical music but him. He feels,he senses,he listens to it and gives it a new face.This is feeling differently.Why is that so wrong, critics?I think none of you could do what he does.
MrJaderTorres 4 months ago 7
@MrJaderTorres I'm sure somebody who cared enough could do what he does. My criticism is that these singers are just not up to it...
rosscalverley 2 months ago
@rosscalverley Thank God my life isn't as dull and dreary as yours appears to be.
Buckaroo543 1 month ago
I had the enormous pleasure of seeing this piece last week in Detroit. Somewhat smaller in scale, but thoroughly enjoyable nonetheless. Andre is an amazing showman, and has brought "Rock Star" glam to an otherwise fading genre. The audience is cross generational, but universally enthralled. How is that anything but wonderful???
rrz518 5 months ago in playlist Liked 3
@rrz518 Yeah... Detroit is cradle of culture. All audience understand this music. C'mon...
Santor6 2 months ago
Kimshua... that trumpet run is in the original score.
billburton57 7 months ago
prachtige zang en spel in het prachtige Maastricht.
ChiaraArnts 7 months ago
I love the trumpet interjection at 1:50. hahah Being primarily a trumpet player, it made me happy. haha
kinshua 8 months ago
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kinshua 8 months ago
Unfortunately I put disagree to akiheavenly6 when I'd like to put for people's called bad music the Rieu'style. I love music and when I want to listen un opera in your totality I use to look for an apropriated place.Who does not like this style, please leave from here.
mspepita 9 months ago
I played classical music always but when I took my 8 + 10 year old children
to a live classical concert it had such impact! And, yes, we were dressed
up, the atmossphere was wonderful. They were two very happy children
and asked to be exposed to more. I think if one has nothing nice to
say one should shutup and vent your personal unhappiness out of
a public forum. I consider public abuse very crass.
kwyzi 9 months ago
I love Carmen her dress so much :D
Iranaa 11 months ago
listen to the applause the audience gives ,he must be doing something right
well done.
MrPerthlad
MrPerthlad 11 months ago
Alabemos a Dios de cielos por los dones que ha dado a los seres humanos y puedan producir semejantes obras musicales que nos deleitan.
Redshera 1 year ago
Ugh.. you just can't be on Youtube and not meet pretentious music snobs. You don't look at an abstract painting and call it ugly because it's not true to life do you? Just enjoy the free interpretation of music. The target audience of his concerts are ignoramuses like me who knows dick about classical music but wants to listen without being bored out of their mind by serious people in dull suits and ugly dresses. It's a New Year show!! Disregard the glits & glam and you still have good music
akiheavenly6 1 year ago 44
@akiheavenly6 well spoken!
questcequevousvoulez 1 year ago
Well spoken!
questcequevousvoulez 1 year ago
@akiheavenly6 Go on your free MacBurger contest or redneck festival. That will please your desire for culture - idiot. Or maybe Beyonce classical music? Stick yo New Year carol.
Santor6 2 months ago
I want to show you I am no snob and do know about real Handel performance.It might change your mind.See these Handel performances with current singers-this is the real 'raw' thing on original instruments with phrasing as it would have been played. Rieu makes it into syrup-ironically HE sounds wet and old fashioned compared to them and theres far more to Handel than Hallelujah chorus!!
watch?v=z8PBKf2m5ps
watch?v=46qlqSLkNhg
Real conductor and real chorus doing Mozart:
watch?v=YZGZibyT2mI
blueyedboy84 1 year ago
@blueyedboy84 Great recommendation! Thank you very much!
Lightstrikers 11 months ago
@blueyedboy84 Here's what no one has ever told you. Most peole hate classcial music. And it does not matter if it's film score, or original stuff by a composer. Take a guy like Karl Jenkins I enjoy his music but most people can't stand it becasue of the classcial sound in his music.
Epica124 11 months ago
@Epica124 Your comment that 'most people hate classical music' is so ridiculous that I had to answer. It is like saying 'most people hate painting'. It is a totally ignorant statement.Geniuses like Bach,Beethoven,Mozart,Mahler,Ravel,Stravinsky are a tiny few. Start counting the 100's of millions of Beethoven 5's or Carmens or Vivaldi 4 seasons records sold by countless performers.Von Karajan the conductor sold 900 MILLION records alone-he must have really played music everyone hated.!!
blueyedboy84 11 months ago
@blueyedboy84 <pst [ep[;e om tjos dau amd age jate classcial music. Most people are to busy listening to that next aotu toned singer to even know who the hell Beethoven is. And if they do know it's because they heard it from Andre Rieu or some rock or metal bands that understand the roots of music. Why don't you go see what is played in the top of the charts these days buddy. And seeing as how more people go for Contemporary art yeah most people hate art to.
Epica124 11 months ago
@blueyedboy84 I'm sorry but we are living in a day and age in which you have a 14 year old who is more well know then Beethovens 5th Symphony. And those like me that do know it still know it becasue we have heard people who still have a passion for music play it. Like him or hate him at lest Andre Rieu and others like him are keeping it alive. Let me put it to you this way. Sit down and try to watch A Trip to the Moon. Unless you really like movies you will not like it.
Epica124 11 months ago
@blueyedboy84 I do enjoy movies so for me A Trip to the Moon is a really well made movie for it's time and I like going back to the roots of early movies. Most people don't in this day and age. It's a sad turth but it is the turth.
Epica124 11 months ago
@Epica124 Maybe in US "most people hate classical... " Not in other part of the world. Other 6 billions, you know? Go to Disney world you USA trash.
Santor6 2 months ago
muy buen video
manuelnaval5 1 year ago
Rieu has a talent for making Classical sound like total commercial Eurotrash! This is a total travesty. His formula is this: To only ever does the famous 'bits' everyone knows from washing powder adverts- and then hams it up into a cheesy bad taste confection played by satin ballgown clad women. Ugh!!!!!!!!!! It has NOTHING to do with real music. He actually is destroying classical music. The composers he plays are turned into candyfloss clappalong pap.
blueyedboy84 1 year ago
@blueyedboy84 So what qualifies you to be such an "expert"?
XL2man 1 year ago
@blueyedboy84 faça melhor ou cale-se
julioenzo 1 year ago
@blueyedboy84 Your comment is utter travesty Taste differs. André Rieu makes classical music more accessible to the general (ignorant - less ignorant than you are by the way) public. André turns it into a proper, current day version. If you don't like it, why don't you go somewhere else with your snobbery. Any form of any type of music is acceptable. The only one that's destroying classical music is the one making destructive comments about alternative forms of the genre. In other words, YOU!
ClassicalRelated 1 year ago
@ClassicalRelated I am a professional composer and player-I studied at Royal College London and Goldsmiths. Funny you think that I am ignorant ! I do NOT think cheapening music like Rieu does is a serious alternative. He is an empty showman who just distorts real music into cut-up soundbites-that is no serious alternative!! There are plenty of current Handel (if we are talking about that composer) conductors eg.John Eliot Gardiner) and orchestras who do the original music justice today.
blueyedboy84 1 year ago
@blueyedboy84 You studied at the Royal College London and Goldsmiths? Do they teach you to write inane nonsense? Your RCL study isn't worth a dime unless you can come up with some serious arguments. A professional composer you are? You've got a lo-o-o-o-o-ng way to go before you get anywere, blue eyed boy. A serious student of the RCL wouldn't like to be represented by the type of superficial argument you present, or your pathetic nickname. Would the RCL likes your childish response? I doubt it.
ClassicalRelated 1 year ago
@blueyedboy84 altough millions of people are crazy about rieu, including my dad, you are so right!
The candyfloss clappalong pap you talk about, hits the nail right on the head!!!!
Good comment
volunteermaupi 1 year ago
@blueyedboy84
I'm a fan of classical music, but i totaly agree. I know where you are coming from, but look at the big picture, at least he is trying to save classical music from the contemporary era. If you ask 100 12-14 years old today whats their favorite type of music, i bet less than 10 will say classical music.
You have to pick the lesser of two evils - keep the well known, famous peices work and edit it to fit a greater audience or do nothing watch classical music lose popularity.
TheFailedAssassin 1 year ago 16
This is how i see it anyways
TheFailedAssassin 1 year ago
@TheFailedAssassin How many 12-14 years are attending a Rieu concert then? Stop glorifying what he's doing. He's not trying to save classical music. He turns it into pensioner-pop and sells it to 70 year olds.
KaiserBecks 11 months ago
@blueyedboy84: The thing you call Classical is just that: classical. And it is - as classical - dead. As classical latin or classical greek. No one speaks them. And I mean no one, even in Vatican.
Classical was. And just that. No Rieu needs to destroy it because it is dead. What he does is to give life to classical partitures and music becomes alive.
And he is really great!
BTW: I also enjoy classical interpretations of classical music. But that's another point.
lmayala 5 months ago
3:21 der sieht ein bisschen enttäuscht aus... :-\
schoenesmaedchen 1 year ago
@schoenesmaedchen ich finde eher das er stolz aussieht
TheLani89 1 year ago
You don't sit and listen to this song...you stand
Bygdohg 1 year ago
woo! go Andre Rieu! He looked as if he was trying to control their voices because he was waving his arms all over the place... absolutely marvelous! bravo :D
Twinkliestariez 1 year ago
ey echt der wahsinn diese version von hädels hallelujah ...
vorallem das letzte hallelujah mit der leichten hebung der stimmen am schluss machen echt was her ... da krieg ich echte gänsehaut beim letzten wort
einfach nur WOW
addymail 1 year ago
Stupendous!
XL2man 1 year ago 2
ein wirres durcheinander!
TheLani89 1 year ago
@TheLani89
und doch steckt ein system dahinter ;)
dhgizgi 1 year ago