England ,Ralph Vaughan Williams , Fantasia on Greensleeves.
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- Опубліковано 18 лис 2010
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Music by Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on Greensleeves .
This record is for purposes of dissemination and non commercial use .
This is Non-profit work "fair use" and I do not own any of the music.
When I was little, my dad would always hum this to me, when I'd be sick with Asthma. He's gone now, but I'm just glad the music remained in my head. :)
What a nice story.
I love this music
Cette musique touche mon ame
Sounds like you had a wonderful Dad😍you are so lucky. Sorry he's gone but the sweet memories.🕊🙏
What a lovely dad 💙 xxx
One of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written, I’ve loved it since I was a young boy. I’m 64 now & I still get emotional when I hear it because it reminds me of someone I loved very much who I lost to tragic circumstances
This is when England was England. ❤
It still is. Countries change all the time, they aren’t frozen in time.
@@chrisdiverd8015 He's referring to when nations and ethnicities still had distinct identities and weren't the bland sameness that global capital has turned it into. You're statement is correct in principle but it's missing the point he is making.
@@anonanon7497 when i went to england i didnt find it bland, or the same as my home country
go and listen to Songs of a Mad King, i think that is especially English
Yeah, but since 1706 it has been taken over by the British and they have destroyed it
England is more than just London, the white cliffs, the countryside, small villages that really make it England
The country in which I was Happy and it remains always in my mind and heart. From Spain!
Das ist für mich das schönste musikalische Stück.danke ich höre es ab und zu um zu entspannen oder mich auf den Tag vorzubereiten. Schöne Grüße aus Deutschland und möge immer Frieden zwischen unseren beiden Ländern, trotz unterschiedlicher Meinung herrschen. 22.05.24, 4.23h
As an Irishman born and breed, I fell in love with England in 1995 and been head over heels since, I love this piece. I worked in Christ Church Cathedral ( Anglican) in Dublin, and heard Vaughan Williams, and Holst sung and played regularly , It is music for my weary soul
Please pray for me, I don't know how to do it.
I am so glad to hear an Irishman who loves England. There are too many of your fellow countrymen who would rather die than relinquish their hatred for something that ended a century ago.
Irish eyes are smiling........started not so long ago.
@Brian P So if I ask the people of Armagh and Manchester, they must hate the Irish because of the bombings conducted there and etcetera. Germans should hate Italians, Israelis should hate Germans, the Chinese must hate Mongolians, the Koreans must hate the Japanese, the Ukrainians must hate the Georgians and the Serbs must hate the Austrians. A classic example of an over-zealous git with a chip on each shoulder. Many would and do to tell the people of Ballymurphy and Derry about not murdering, but both areas are full of sectarians who'd gladly don a mask to kill the "wrong type of Irishman".
@@CosmicClaire99 my Irish grandfather loved England. He was an Anglophile. He's buried in London
This was played at my sisters funeral in March this year, it was her favourite. Every time I hear this I cry as I miss my sister so much, it’s as beautiful as she was. Sweet dreams Deta xx
is using those "xx" at the end a british thing?
@@lordspongebobofhousesquare1616 yeh. x represents a kiss
@@lordspongebobofhousesquare1616 Well I've ALWAYS used them , for the right person and situation. A demonstration of affection and best wishes.
Sorry for your loss. May your sister rest in peace 😹
@@MrDaiseymay is there a "rank" system? Like putting more x for closer friends/family compared to acquaintances
I've just been down to the hellhole that is London and driven back through the Derbyshire Dales, early evening in late summer. Sun low in the sky, bathing the green countryside in golden light. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. This music is for those who are English and are proud to call this green and pleasant land their home.
For me this is the essence of the English countryside very early on a summer's morning when everything is still and the birds sing and the green reeds stand high by the river moving slowly underneath the leaf heavy willow branches.........
Beautiful description of this music
Indeed very elegantly put.
It so is, you are so right. Beautiful
You have the heart and soul of a poet. Bless you. D
SylentEcho, my Dad and I always listened to this. He's also dead nearly twenty years ago now. I can remember it as it were yesterday. My mother and sister couldn't stand it, but Dad and I loved it. Here's to all Dads ❤️
Beautiful Amy me and mi Daughters this was our tune when they were small may ur Dad RIP ,,i kno loss my Mum died at Xmas keep strong xMartin
Surely there is no better version of Greensleeves than this one.
There indeed isn't.
I agree
Beautiful pictures and music. Makes you proud to be English.
Keep the pride old boy, and pass it on to the next generation, before they are lost to 4x2 wokeness.
@@user-uw7ey6zt4u i'll bet a tenner that you have strong opinions regarding immigration
@@user-uw7ey6zt4uImagine using 'wokenness' unironically 😂 what a tit.
'Wokeness' is anything any random person feels offended by - usually other people being treated with dignity and respect. You're a clown. Can't wait till people like you have died out and the next generations look back at you losers with distain :) You can only be proud of YOUR own achievements. What is there to be proud of about anything that happened before you existed? It has nothing to do with you. You haven't done anything to be proud of, you're literally a nobody on UA-cam moaning about 'woke' 😂 It's sad that all you have to feel proud of happening being born in country where some other people once achieved something. Wow. Your life must be disappointing.
My darling sister passed away February this year and she had requested this to be played at her funeral, so please forgive me for listening to this beautiful music with eyes filled with tears.
Diane Crane it's okay, we can't see you.
@Joethe Lion what a strange and disrespectful comment
@@vanellaicecream9821What's the problem with you?
@@user-mo8xr9sf7b I didn't realise what I said was problematic, would you inform me as to the issue with what I said please.
Makes me proud to be an American of English descent!
Makes me proud to call myself an Englishman. Such music belongs in a world absent from our own. We almost don't deserve it.
I agree, this song needs to be known by every human on this planet, it should be Medieval England National Anthem
In spite of all the countries you destroyed with your warring and colonisation, eh?
Just Beautiful...listen..
Dave Crowder ...bulshit...now Europe is destroyed by islamic colonisation. We did not destroy anything...we found no country, only tribues fighting, slavery, polygamy, pest, and malaria
And, for sure, no Music...
My dad was from Scotland, he loved England. Heavenly music is say.
Warm thanks and greetings from Sweden!
Am crying, how long have i looked for you greensleeve
This is a timeless tune of England. It speaks to a country whose culture and customs have encompassed the world and have brought so much to the whole of mankind. We should never forget the generations who have built this wonderful country that once made it a beacon. Truly a Land of Hope and Glory...
Spot on Alexander. 💋
This stunning piece came on the radio while driving through the beautiful Devonshire spring countryside - so fitting
My mom had a jewelry box which played that song when it opened. I've always wondered what it was. I cannot explain how it feels to hear this again or how weird it is to discover that this song is actually ''real''. Shame on me and my poor classic music education, I am so glad I've found this
Beautiful music like this is so emotional
Yes, I unexpectedly welled up at its sheer beauty & tranquility
my heritage is Indian , but i was born in England, and no matter where i am in the world this piece always reminds me of the land i was born in ........... England
and the land that i love....England
Good man !!
Then you're Anglo indian, right?
@@banglaball54 what was the point of that question? None
Your heritage is England too.
Many people born in England died and were buried in far off lands. No less English for it.
India and Britain have lived through much together and learned much from each other. It rubs off you know.
"If I should die, think only this of me:
That there’s some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam;
A body of England’s, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home."
1914 The Soldier
Rupert Brooke
(God Save the Queen!).
@@AndyJarman how do you argue with that .... and to be honest even if could i wouldn't want to ... thank you andy
A beautiful, thoughtful listen and watch on my late husband's 81st Birthday. The start of a contemplative and memory filled day. Lovely.
People in other countries: This is such a great piece of classical music, so relaxing and kalming, brings me over to old Britain with its grassy countryside and plains
People in Hong Kong: **sweating intensifies**
Why? 😂
@@tombarac8253 This song has been used in the Hong Kong public exams for years
@@markchui8872 how? Curious
@@pilardavg It is used in the opening of English Listening Exams, that's why it is labeled as nightmare
@@markchui8872 They're so lucky..
My mum's favorite music. RIP mum. We love you.*
The second folk song (starts at 1.40) rarely gets a mention. It is called 'Lovely Joan' and was sung to Vaughan Williams in a Norfolk pub by a labourer named Christopher Jay in 1908.
Thanks for the important bit of information
I recognised the tune from a Blackmore's Night song but never knew what the original was called - thank you!
Just goes to show, pubs are an integral part of our culture
Song of Death, agreed by Hong Kong candidates
A piece of Old England . . . . Bliss . . . . ❤
There was nothing blissful about those days for almost all people living back then. People just like to look back with rose tinted glasses at something that never really existed because we like to think things were so much better then. They weren't. It's not reality. Everyone who knows anything about real history knows that. It's a fantasy you're feeling nostalgic for.
This is beautiful!!! Those of us who can't travel to other countries, these videos are like a window to the world!!!
Beautiful!!
This gotta be one of the most dreamful, nostalgic and beautiful pieces of music exist🧚🧝♀️🌲🍄✨
"This is a song of a fine iland that stood the test of time.
In Hong Kong public examination, this music is played during the preparation time of listening exams ...
Fight for DSE
加油
Exams kill art.
Better than Ying Tong Tiddle I Po.
GOOD PROPAGANDA--but not for the Chinese examiner's.
The gift of Ralph Vaughn Williams is truly a blessing.
It is not natural to say that
we are living on a daily basis .
Life and death may reverse in
tomorrow .
We are such an unstable situation .
This great music will alleviate
such anxiety .
it doesn't matter where you are in this world/time/state of mind.....there is always an England!!
A quien no se le salten las lagrimas escuchando esta preciosa balada es que tiene el corazon mas duro y que el acero juntos.
This reminds me of beautiful Hong Kong before 1997. Fond memory of a time so gentle, so refined, so free, so civil and so English. And I was so young. Oh I miss that Hong Kong.
The beginning of this always makes me cry, it was played at my grandma's funeral. Beautiful music.
I raymond chan at the age of 66 still in love of this beautiful song deep in mind for ever
I've been listening to this exact performance since I was 12 that is now 55 years. I never get tired of it. I used this to 'work-out' to this as a gymnast. (many years ago). Along with the Grand Canyon Suite.
Thanks to all for your visit.
I have just found this channel, this was very well done and in very good taste. i have subscribed. thumbs up.
Tony M
Tony M beb
Tony M Why did you put the word England over the flag of the United kingdom?
We had this played on a large record-player for assembly at Kindergarten, as we slowly and solemnly entered the hall, in England in the 1980s. It imbedded us in our cultural roots.
Eh? Kindergarten isn't a thing in the UK, never heard that term used in England.
That's wonderful. We must celebrate Western culture again!
@@abbyalphonse499 Maybe because you never went to a private fee-paying school ? We use that term derived from the German . However , in state schools , infant school was and perhaps still is used today .
What a beautiful memory from childhood, thanks for sharing it. There is something very sublime and enthralling in this ageless melody.
@@abbyalphonse499doesn't matter what its called , you know what he meant.
This is my favorite piece of orchestral music. I'm 15 and I enjoy this music. It puts me to tears sometimes because it is so beautiful. It sparks my imagination. Ralph Vaughn Williams is a pure genius
Kyra Barney why does your age have to mentioned? Do you think you earn points mentioning your age and that you have an interest in certain genre of music! Or is that you want to let everyone know how "different" and "unique"you are from all your friends?
im 14 and i like it too
I love it. It reminds me of my student years in England.
@Shrek Dank Don't be such a pillock.
Kyra Barney -
" my favorite piece of orchestral music"
Good for you, Honey - you have EXQUISITE taste !!!
If you're really into RVW - and haven't seen it yet - then I humbly suggest you beg, borrow, or steal a copy of Tony Palmer's excellent film about him: _O Thou Transcendent_ :
www.amazon.com/Thou-Transcendent-Ralph-Vaughan-Williams/dp/B00118DQX8/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1508074571&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=o+thou+transecendent
Vaya con Dios !
England remains a fantastic place to live. Just don't sell it to the highest bidder. We have a heritage worthy of recall and many a story of Old England.
Cadbury's, Heinz, Terry's, KitKat, Thorntons, HP, Jaguar, Rolls Royce, Aston Martin, Mini and many more have all been sold to the highest bidder.
"Alas my love, you do me wrong, to cast me off, discourteously.." touching, and beautiful. Thank you.
Absolutely correct. You know that version too?
Our sojourn on this earth is so short but just look at some of magnificent things we behold, please never forget just how blessed we are to be here now because this moment will never pass our way again.
Brilliant and Beautiful!!!!
To me this sums up the perfect early summer's morning in the leafy deserted lanes - perfect peace and stillness while the world slumbers and the promise of a new day. I could never tire of listening to this.
The UK’s tradition of rail gricing lives on in her last colony!
#屯馬開通真的很興奮
(Anyone from HK?)
Now it’s never gonna give you up, I love hk!
Me
Greensleeves reminds me of the English countryside nature with wheat fields, villages, forests, green hills, horses, sheep, and cows
Good old Britain. The music and visuals are quite stirring, it makes me proud to be a Brit.
+Jez Creed Well you kept most of your beauty after the war. Me, as a german, am jealous some times :-)
+Metaworlds and I am sorry. What both Britain and Germany did to each other was horrendous. There isn't any justification in my eyes. But, from the ashes, Germany has become a great nation.
+Jez Creed Germany was a great nation, a land full of culture and all the Pomp most of the Northern European countries had, now it's a sess pit of all sorts because their government is ashamed to be German of all things.
+Somnu Bonel You are an idiot. Grow up!
+Jez Creed It was however necessary to prevent a socialistic, antisemetic madness from sweeping Europe.
This version brings back memories when I was a kid and listened to the classical station on NPR I believe or it was an AM radio station. That particular night it was around Christmas time and they played several versions of Greensleeves. I remember being so captivated and moved by it that I recorded on a cassette tape (that has long been lost) and would play it when I needed to relax before bed. For years I couldn't remember the version that specifically had moved me so much and it was this version. Thanks so much for posting it and bring back a part of my childhood that I cherished.
Hi you should check out " Elizabethan Serenade"
Kenneth Sayers I will do that right now
Believe it or not this piece of music was known before Columbus discovered America . First record we have of it is from 1490 . Some think it was written by Henry the VIII , but he did not, although he did write music .
@@welshpete12 very interesting, Just out of curiosity, what label was the 1490 version recorded on ?
You described England beautifully Tony M Thank you.
Played at my mum's funeral.Rest in peace mum.never ever forgotten
Its a beautiful music. greetings from Hungary
Je suis tombé sur cette liste par hasard. J'aurai pu créer la même. Au morceau près. Merci cette liste est très plaisante. Enjoy et bonne journée !!!!
one of the most beautiful things i have ever listened to
So beautiful. Reminds me medioeval times.
So beautiful and so invoking of England.
OMG, such breathtaking scenery! England is such a beautiful country. I hope to make it there one of these days. I love Ralph Vaughn Williams!
I hope you do get to visit and I hope you love it! :)
I LOVE ENGLAND
You'd better do it quickly before Boris Johnson sends us back to the age of mud-huts and catching food with spears
What a pity the photographs were not relevant to the music. All the beautiful countryside we have in our country and you have to show scenes of London and the River Thames. I half expected to see Wembley Stadium shown.
William Richardson lmao imagine believing this shit
I always could picture Edward Rochester and Jane Eyre, declaring their love once again, after Jane's return, on a hill overlooking Thornfield....
Merry Christmas, Everyone!!
💕💕🎄🎄✝️⚜️
As an American I can't help but to think of Robin Hood , Camelot, and there finest hour when I hear this , good on you
I am 2020 DSE candidate.This music will make me panic.
(P.S. I am SEN candidate)
This song is England!!!
WONDERFUL VIDEO!
WONDERFUL MUSIC!
WONDERFUL PEACE!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
懐かしい！ 小学校の下校の音楽がこれでした 誰もいない校庭、夕焼け、もういない母親を思い出します
We played this for our concert and it sounded magnificent
Beautiful piece. Makes me imagine the physical body leaving and just "Being" the flow of Energy moving across the Earth in Harmony with this melody. Sorry guys, I just have a wild imagination.
Wow
not that wild tbf
@@DaveDexterMusic yeah as I look back on it. It's nothing special haha
Nothing wrong with that, I have tears in my eyes listening to this, so beautiful , it takes you away from all the crud and rubbish being spouted at the moment, let your imagination take you where ever you please 🐾🥰🐾🥰🐾🥰🐾🥰🐾🥰
"I just have a wild imagination."
Actually, I'd describe it - in this particular context - as a rather vivid insightfulness !! Nothing 'wild' about it at all.
My job takes me all over the world and usually into very austere places. Whenever I need to remind myself of home, all I need is a picture of my wife and music by RVW. Fantastic photos accompanying this piece, thank you for sharing.
Paul Desborough It rally feels home.
Love listening to Elgar's Nimrod on the last bit of the flight home from USA or Africa, as we bank into the morning sun on finals into Heathrow or BHX. very parochial.
Opening music of Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination - English Listening Paper! I used to hate this music (like all students did) as it recalled my nightmare... after 2 decades I can finally enjoy it! ~_~
Sublime....my favourite all time classical tune & version; England's green & pleasant land
Johnny Nuttall
I like reading the comments and finding out who’s not from America by the way they spell “favorite“ or “color”
@@Cereal008 Eh, Vive La Difference!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇬🇧🇬🇧🇫🇷🇫🇷✝️⚜️
Thank you, Tony, for this hauntingly beautiful melody and the stunning photos which portray well the England this tune was birthed in.
This video and music should be used regularly in the VOTE OUT Referendum. Have we all forgotten how beautiful England is - our Green and Pleasant land.
Agreed
I'm genuinely curious to know in what way you think England will become more beautiful by leaving the EU. As far as I can see the only thing making the country less beautiful is urbanisation, which surprisingly is not related to Europe.
Sends shivers down your spine a most touching piece of music
Beautiful. Greensleeves at its best!
Beautiful music, very peaceful. I don't understand all the negative comments. Just enjoy the music!!
Beautiful music and lovely pictures as well. Thankyou for sharing xx
Beautiful in every way, thank you.
Leslie Seabaugh 👌🏻❤️
Who in the world doesn't like this!
Hong Kong student
Hong Kong DSE student
One of the most rhapsodic melodies.. not the traditional "What Child is This" but the following.
This has to be one of my favourite versions!
It definitely is my favorite version!
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Materpiece! Just the way it should sound. Thank you for this amazing production.
This tune eventually creeps into your ears and will stay there ...
You are far from alone; I have heard that the melody dates back to the 13th century(can someone verify this?) & is therefore the oldest song extant in the Western World...,
And engraves itself upon your heart...🙂✝️⚜️
Thank you so much for the upload. My words cannot begin to describe the emotion I feel about RVW's music, especially this piece. Genius, ethereal, Divine, heart-wrenching. Grace, blessings, and peace to all.
Thank you so much to all visitors
ОЧЕНЬ КРАСИВО!!!
These are the most beautiful visuals I've ever seen on UA-cam!
***** Thanks Tony. Wonderful!
u welcome man
спасибо!
This is amazing! I think this is the most beautiful song ever!
A perfect video to watch in this dreary covid period. Congratulations to all involved.
from colombia this song is very amazingn
A beautiful reminder of England and its people....what is left of them
Sadly yes!
Bo'oo o waha
We need to start shipping People out right away .
There is a new party out there just for the English people to get behind
This song fills me with so much longing! Ralph Vaughn Williams is my most favorite hymn writer. He was truly inspired by the Divine.
this reminds me just how great england is!!! im so glad i live here!!
I love classical music! I love this piece, and despite Mozart being my all time favourite (like so many people, no doubt!) I really growing into Vaughan-Williams, I love Greensleeves, just recently I have re-discovered Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis and The Lark Ascending, I don't know why but Ralph Vaughan-Williams makes me proud to be British ... :)
Could not agree more. With classic FM being a household favourite Mr Williams has dominated the hall of fame for the past couple of years. An unsung genius..
@@macco4526 I really don't get this. Unsung? He's revered and his music is both extremely well-known and regularly performed.
I believe RVW loved the English landscape.
If you've spent a summer's day walking down public footpaths across its green and soulfull verdure you know RVW has somehow managed to bottle that experience in his music.
That's why he's so loved, because he writes love songs to that beautiful place we love too.
Did you know he turned down a knighthood? Proper Englishman, interested in the common folk rather than the gentry. Brilliant!
Powerful, beautiful, magnificent.
I've only read a relatively small number of comments but preeminent to them all are those that extol the beauty, history and culture of our 'Sceptre Isles'. To those correspondents I offer my grateful appreciation and thanks. To our detractors I say - whatever your reasons dare I submit that you are in the minority. I recently visited Chester spending some time in the City and Cathedral where as a boy I was a chorister. There I met and talked to French, German, Americans, Belgian tourists, all of whom were in awe of the Cathedral and the City. One American couple said to me "you really are lucky to live in such a beautiful country". My reply was "I do assure that I tend to forget but thank you for reminding me".
I behold the embrace of the Creator, in fields of bloom, in flowing waters, in towering tress of grace, in the hand and heart of structures that honor belief and beauty, in the sounding instruments that sing the soul, in this moment witnessing what IS ~ Inspired Spirit.
THE MUSIC SO BEAUTIFUL
So fab thank you for sharing…
Very beautiful. As the name suggests, it sounds inspired by old English folk song. Be proud!
If I ever wanted or tried to explain what it means to be English to someone who is not I would play this part of the sublime. for all the beauty of words, either spoken or written, this wordless work speaks forevermore.