G.F.Haendel - Watermusic (Minuett I-II-etc)

The Banqueting House
Whitehall London

TRILION PICTURES (1987)
present

George Frederick Handel's
"THE WATER MUSIC"

English Bach Festival Dancers: Sarah Cremer, Ursula Hageli, Alison Pooley, Angela Robinson, Chris Evan, Ray Holland, Rai Harell, Richard Slaughter

Choreography: Belinda Quirey

Dancers Costumes from original designs

Realised By Derek West

The English Bach Festival Orchestra

Directed By and Solo Violinist: Christopher Hirons

Category:

Music

Tags:

• handel
• haendel
• ballet
• minuet
• balletto
• baroque
• music

[tobit2008]

This video was ripped from a VHS:

The Banqueting House - Whitehall London

TRILION PICTURES (1987) present:

George Frederick Handel's "THE WATER MUSIC"

English Bach Festival Dancers: Sarah Cremer, Ursula Hageli, Alison Pooley, Angela Robinson, Chris Evan, Ray Holland, Rai Harell, Richard Slaughter

Choreography: Belinda Quirey

Dancers Costumes from original designs

Realised By Derek West

The English Bach Festival Orchestra

Directed By and Solo Violinist: Christopher Hirons.

[JLeeGraham]

This, I believe, is the best example of a Minuet and Gigue I've seen danced in an authentic setting. I've seen instructional videos on the specific dance figures, but never anything so beautifully and faithfully executed. The costumes are wonderful...heck, even the orchestra is in costume, playing period instruments and using period technique. Rapture!

[debattol]

Simplement magnifique

[rgeo0708]

@BasicCypher : No. Not true. It might be for the chosen aristo in that time but it becomes available for the rest of the people very soon after it was created. So yes, it becomes culture of the most beautiful expresion.

[Freedom21stCenturi]

I find these lovely ladies more intoxicating, beautiful and elegant than the modern hyper-sexualized woman.

[doel002]

When i see-hear thigs like that i realise that there are reasons to be proud of human race...

[globaljg]

Listening to and playing Handel's Water Music remains one of the profound experiences of my life.. Thanks for the post... I hope this makes a comeback someday!

[vegclasma468]

the outfits are 20 years too late for when this was written...

[BasicCypher]

Problem with feudal music is not the beauty, not the artistic way. It's that it's feudal. It's for aristocracy for aristocracy, not from the people for the people. And so it's no real culture.

It's just "V.I.P." aristo stuff. It's clearly art and beautiful performed, but I ask myself if this kind of art is truly culture. I really miss culture in our world. True culture, most is just aristo-stuff, proprietary, copyrighted owned by few. Performed by few. With the flaw of feudalism, exclusive.

[rel375]

I was really surprised to see some people disliking this video. Wonderful costumes of old centuries, very good dancers with Handel’s magnificent water music. If we want to define what an absolute beauty is, we'll say it’s something like what’s in this video. Unfortunately, people disliking this are either blind or deaf or most probably both.

[italokid80]

18 century disco :-)

[iliepop30]

Minunata realizare muzica si dans!

[TheMagyarvagyok]

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