Fantasia on Greensleeves - Vaughn Williams

[funkid0911]

My orchestra is playing this, a beutiful song

[jayjaypen2]

Don't put beautiful music on bad camera.

[VaijayantiUSA]

I absolutely adore that built-in piece with bugles 1:04 -2:10. It relates so much of the Renaissance time!

[iiiiixxxx]

like this version

[EpicIgnor]

It's not too fast, just sort of...off...

[Blabloo72]

Nice but way too fast!!! The conductor had drunk too much coffee!!!!!!!!!

[DrKincade]

@Blabloo72

I wholeheartedly agree with you, far too fast.

DrK

[cellopwns]

@DrKincade this is the correct tempo....

[krish1224]

This piece by Vaughan Williams is highly emotional. I find it also very Indian- lots of old Bollywood films have a similar sounding background music.

[cellopwns]

@krish1224 its and english folk song movies usually use it in a setting with knights and castles

[peterkl]

All Hong Kong Students are fear this song.....Hong Kong Examinations & Assessment Authority use song in almost all Public Exams (Language - Listening Paper) for time counting & signal notification when the listening clips are broadcasted via Public Radio Channels (FM 94.8-96.9, RTHK 2)

[HenryM8205]

@peterkl

All listening exams in this year for CE and AL had due?

[puppysallaround]

I would so rather have our band play this instead of fantasia on the dargason....

[afgpiece]

I haven't heared other versions other than the ones posted up here. king's singer's have sung it well but lighter ofcourse and Paula Bär-Giese has sung it well as well and ofcourse The Phil Harmonic.

Thanks for posting

[afgpiece]

in contrast, I found this version to be a more serious one. It's just my openion. Thanks for sharing

[duvexy]

The tempo is a little to fast to set the mood of this song. Other then that, it is beautiful.

[mikeanbamgay]

jesus take it easy there

[thejoshuashieh]

I'd say poor quality. No offence

[ChewyNet1]

Well it's obviously ripped from a VHS tape. Of course it's not the best quality.

[88rr3]

whats up with the video

[MsSongluver]

my school is playing this piece. ours is totally better than this. you can expect to see a video of our school playing this plus other great songs by next year!

[Cheerleading4Live]

wir spielen es gerade im Klassenorchester..

es ist soo klasse..

wow und es hört sich soo toll an xD

[ramsesthethird2]

The beauty of this music is something I didn't dare to dream about before in my whole life... how come such a piece is real on earth... it's true to call it Fantasia... awesome and angelic soothing but makes your heart beats wildly... makes you feel like a poet and wakes some indescripable feeling in your heart... something pure and beautiful that your mind can't understand.

thank you so much for this video

[TheCrazychick07]

This is so amazing, I want to play this so bad. I love Fantasia On Greensleeves. When I heard I was very very pleased

[Insanelycoolprincess]

I am actually playing this right now. I was very excited when I found out that I was going to play this. My favorite part is at 1:05 when the violas and the cellos play together. Both insturments sounds so pretty when they play together :)

[NeverMindBird]

I play viola. My youth symphony played this as a chamber piece.

[NeverMindBird]

I play viola. My youth symphony played this as a chamber piece. I think this version was played the whole piece, especially the viola/cello part, too fast.

[cutencrazy07]

I play the viola as well, and I have played this piece before. At 1:06 in the piece when the cellos and the violas play together I have played at that similar tempo.

[SuperCathi07]

I totally agree with you. I have also played this piece before, and the piece is so freakin amazing. My favorite part is at 1:05 too :)

[boomac62]

beautiful, but i would slow it down just a bit....

[MisterSoundminister]

no other live orchestra version of greensleeves on youtube is as good as this, so i can live with the bad audio quality

[Cohedros]

WOAH audio quality is crap. XD

[uppolica]

wow

[jiggadywig]

Greensleeves is the most hauntingly beautiful melody, and this version is amazing. It is my favourite song to play on viola. This performance is great, I wish I could've heard it in real life.

[rtiffanytaylor]

This is one of the all time classical songs!!

It stirs the soul

[Beaxinha]

I love this song played like this!!! I'm getting goosebumps!

[chiongster7]

wad is a christmas hymn?

sry for my ignorance =X

[demre17]

Truly beautiful!

The acoustics are vibrant on audio; they must have been absolutely soaring

during the performance.

[philipstephenbird]

its also a christmas hymn called this child christ the king

[tubers2255]

As a child, we danced to this in ballet. Now as an adult, it is just now that I have been able to trace the origin and maker of this song. I am truly appreciative of the wonder of this music..

[ImeldaDavies]

I think this tune is the epitome of beauty feeling and compassion. I dont know but it is definitley one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. The middle is just superb my god.

Just beautiful to feel alive no matter how its been over commercialised jesus thank you for this beautiful music. Im not even religious. Vaughn Williams you are a legend and this is regarded as the definitive version.

[MissyHolland]

ImeldaDavies, the middle part is a different song altogether called 'Lovely Joan'. Rafe Vaughan Williams melded them perfectly to create this.

[trustbaby7]

This is one of my favorite songs. I just love it especially when done by an orchestra.

[Talokaaa]

One of the best classical song ever !

Also one of my most favourite song.

[Ephyos2]

I loooovvvvveeee this song :]

[midwestdabest]

were playing this in our highschool band concert (i play tuba) this song is sweet

[capricewood]

the cranbrook kingswood high school is playing this

[krussell123]

the icecream truck plays this! All the kids would run outside to get icecream.. i would run outside to listen to fantasia on greensleeves :)

[Daroga1]

e-gab! a gost in the background at :53, left side!!

[beccaxrose22]

I'm playing this w/ my orchestra this year and I love it this recording is amazing, great job!

[davidlonglegs]

im not too sure what stringed instrument section it is. but the playing is amazing, hitting every note perfect. truely an amazing music piece

[myth123kid]

what was the guy thinking about when he wrote this

[ImeldaDavies]

Some attribute the song to King Henry the 8th. In fact through my research its in fact an old english folk song. However, the modern day lyrics are not what they were. Only the tune remains. As testement Mandolin and Guitar Players have found it far easier to play than conventional pianists. Wood wind instruments would have been heavily utilised I would imagine. However, Guitar and Mandolin were very late Middle age inventions. Lyre possibly.

[maam12]

i'm playing this in my jr high band concert on clarinet...well i play the clarinet...i wish i played flute thoughh

[cutencrazy07]

Outstanding

[pards007]

i don't usually listen to classical music but.. wow

[k234ify]

@pards007 good that a non-listener appreciates this

[k234ify]

Respond to this video... this came to Vaughn's mind through "Stairway to Heaven"

[Insanelycoolprincess]

This is amazing

[MandiandSophie]

I played this song last semester

Beautiful piece, it was so fun to play

[Ketturah]

Have loved this melody since I was a very young child. Still love it and I have always liked this version.

[spasticwalrus]

This is absolutely sensational, although the recording is bad you can still hear the real mystery and english folk melodies come through, an amazing orchestra.

[kleanchap]

So romantic and moving!!  Love it!

[ollymcguirk]

This is simply outstanding. I don't understand how people cannot adore this kind of music.

[darkxxking]

Very very true!

[Karltherbt]

Orchestra version of Fantasia on Greensleeves calls me memory of taking public exams, in HK, it's commonly use in public exams as an opening theme

[rm0525]

I heard this on the radio this afternoon - couldn't stop thinking about it. I love all the musical ornamentations that Vaughn Williams fills this melody with. I have never heard a better Greesleeves. And even though the video is not that great - thank you so much for posting this!

[mikillero]

its raw because its badly recorded

[cogidubnus1953]

I'm sorry but this seems to me a very raw and rough production...to say the least the tempo is far too fast, and it is overall lacking in subtlety...I love this piece but this production does nothing for me at all...sorry!

[yashil17]

i used to think that this peice was by Mozart but know i realized that it's not

[mebodot]

It is said to be composed by Henry VIII in his attempts to seduce Anne Boleyn (though many reject this theory). Though it has been around way before Williams or Mozart. But its a song that's had many many offshoots. This is a great interpretation though!

[yashil777]

oh thanks for the info

[DDRist]

The only improvement I could think of making would be to slow it down a bit

[UndercoverCracker]

I like this song jsut on the piano, its simple and beautiful like it should be.

[malakaijub]

brings a tear to this ol dogd eye!

[foreigncareater]

A little raw...but not bad. String section needs to lower it a bit

[lartedeldisegno]

paradiso!

[sesshoumaru4me]

beautifull

[ybber1]

Hej, jag har skrivit det här som jag skriver nu!

[Molle94]

så....?

[biqgi]

awesome!!!

5*

[jayakrsna108]

just great

[keir9999]

it doesnt have the beginning it starts of like a

minute through the song.

[champagnedsupernova]

eternal!

[yakutsk1989]

the sound is good

[marcoman2]

simply delightful......

[Gerardeus]

Les falló la armonía al final del primer compás de cada frase, pues hacían un intervalo de 2aum en lugar de una 2M que es lo convencional en Greensleeves. De igual manera, en general me gustó mucho.

[wakita1945]

que???

[darthmualsf]

Most excelent

[mansonssecretluvr]

turn it up you dunce!

lol

[vellson]

sound is low

[herbiehusker13]

beautifully played, good audio, amazing picture quality- well, maybe not that last one, but still...

[comiteschicago]

WOW!!!!!

[angiepear3]

brillant...

[pitbikecrazy]

very nice, good sound too! check out my uploaded greensleeves video :)

[kdkd234]

I'm playing the exact piece at my school! This is so awesome! It's one of my favs! It's an easy song to play.

[iperomantik]

ciao!

i ve done a beautifull version of greensleeves with an electric mandolin.

to listen search: Gabriele Calcinari

ciao!

[Daikini0]

One of the best music ever composed! Too bad the video has not the best quality in voice :(

But 5 stars of course.

[Jasper909]

It's an English folk tune, I've never heard of Mozart doing a version of it although he DID write Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. It's guesstimated to be written in the late 1500s, but not by King Henry VIII which although possible is very unlikely. Using the facts, historians guess it's a song about a prostitute.

[EthanHoyt3]

That must have been an awesome prostitute.

[memoryreciever]

i heard it was some folk english tune that was turned into a composition by mozart?

[smoothiesplatter]

i loved playing this

[violinrocks4ur411]

I love this song

[Gealach74]

its supouse to be by Hery the 8th.. but some other sources are convinced that its anonymous song!?

any way is not from Mozart, either from the medieval times.. is something in between the Renaissance Period 1500.

any way this version has nothing to be with the real thing if i can say. either the instrumentation or th eexpression of the music, but is a nice mellow version.

thanks

[didoipod]

mmm... It's supose was by Enrique VIII of England, buth never Mozart or Shakespeare.

Buth is beatifull, really beatifull

[fctorino]

Ralph Vaughan Williams was an English composer. Vaughan Williams was a church organist, but also an agnostic. Vaughan Willians was also a contemporary of another English composer: Sir Edward Elgar. Vaughan Williams' Symphony 5 is a much loved work.

[THEDARKMINK]

you have to hear Yngwie Malmsteen play thin on electric guitar al "live in lenigrad" in the 3:43 minute in his song "you don´t remember i`ll never forget"

[melonhead28]

Henry VIII (the eigth) was the one who made the song for his 2nd wife i think Anne Bolyn

[Paragons7]

They don't know who wrote Greensleeves.

[raamsis]

And who is Ralph Vaughan Williams?

[pumpkinpie78]

King Henry IV or some medieval dude wrote this...regardless, it's a master piece.

[Colombiateen]

This is sooo relaxing

[matiasxzlg]

hermosoo!

grande mozart!

[eleni1621]

Mozart didn't compose this. It's been around since before 1600 (Shakespeare mentioned it in a play), Mozart was born in 1756. This particular arrangement was put together by Gustav Holst for one of his Suites.

[Omega320]

no es de mozart

[Vardainniel]

Um, the piece is a bit too wind dominated. I've performed this with full orchestra before, and the dynamics contrasts are much more obvious. Also, the melody should have a more flowing tone at the beginning and then increase to majestic near the end. The strings accompaniment shouldn't be performed at all, they should have the strings and winds alternating the melody.

[Snugglesup]

The strings completedly destroyed the piece.

[LaurelsAppaloosas]

I have to agree with you %1000.

[sh1znack]

I was thinking the same thing. It may be the quality of the video though?

[Snugglesup]

Quite...But really...i don't really like the sound of strings =x

[ThisisNina]

so beautifull...I love this song so much ♥

[jkohen]

My neighbor's garage rock rehearsals have better sound than this video...

[cxon]

Yes, well played but bad audio quality. Sad!

[guitar0707]

splendida!

[Dawamaha]

Beautiful! Only beatiful!

[f4ibb599]

i've performed this song before.. where are your dynamics? the whole piece is not forte.

[lingoren]

i sang it today at a concert!!

"alas, my love you do me wrong,

to cast me of discorchesly,

for i have loved you well and long

delighting in your company

greensleevs was all my joy

greensleevs was my delight

greensleevs was my heart of gold

and who but my lady greensleevs

[kittykat90372]

you've got the words wrong :-(

[lingoren]

no I dont

[musik102]

There are two tunes being played here. Greensleeves, and, in the middle section, the English folksong "Lovely Joan".

[AdamAus85]

To be there, I can imagine the goosebumps I'd get.

[dolofonos]

Too much wind. The second movement doesn't compliment the first very well at all. This would have sounded much nicer if it started out simple, increased in complexity, was more dominated by strings and didn't vary so much from the theme.

[elfling]

beautiful...Vielen Dank

[DemonicDingo]

I realy like this song where did you get this paticular version out im wondering out of curiosity

[ilpupina]

It's an arrangement by Vaughn Williams. Quite famous as a piece.