I've been listening to this recording for years and each and every time it's like a revelation from heaven. No words to describe the emotions it stirs up. The pinnacle of human artistic creativity.

@darrenburke9630

6 ай бұрын

Yeh I'm no expert but you're right

@gregorytaylor9104

23 күн бұрын

Ravishes me every time. The experience is somethingother than emotion.

This is another form of beauty not everyone appreciates it, but it is absolutely fantastic.

This beautiful piece of heaven we played as the recessional music for my sons funeral in May. It worked as a salve to our shattered hearts as he was cruelly murdered.

The timbre of his voice at the word "light", no crescendo, just wonderful, the tumpet doesn't overpower, a perfect blend, as close to perfection as I've ever heard.

Staggeringly brilliant trumpet-playing! And exquisite singing by Iestyn Davies. What a wonderful performance!

@ottavva

5 ай бұрын

what is Mt Everest among the mountains is this particular version among the songs

This is one of the best recordings of all time.

A natural trumpet and counter tenor singing to each other. Sublime.

I never thought that I'd ever hear this sung more beautifully than Kathleen Battle. Now I have...through tears.

@jareid

4 жыл бұрын

Jim Logan ALFRED DELLER!!

I return to this version every time. It moves me so much, both the voice and the brass hit a truly heavenly note. Queen Anne must have been chuffed.

Trumpet and countertenor singing the splendid breathtaking aria by the great Handel. It doesn't get any better

Her intonation is outrageous, especially on a natural trumpet! Bravo!!

There's just no other recording of this I want to listen to anymore. The finesse from both soloists is mind-blowing.

@sandyno1089

4 жыл бұрын

I do love Winton Marsalis and Cathleen Battle tho, but this is wonderful.

@Stoertebekerxyz

4 жыл бұрын

you are right. :-) But the Interpretation of the Boy sopran Aksel Rikkvyn is also beautifull.

@peterb9466

4 жыл бұрын

Totaly Agree to that!!

@ottavva

4 жыл бұрын

ONE BILLION LIKES

@nickbroad8569

3 жыл бұрын

Correct, the best.

Wow this caught me off guard. Tears started flowing out of nowhere. So beautiful! Awe inspiring and powerful how it resonates spiritually. Thank you for sharing your amazing gift!!

Handel's immense musical genius is evident in this work. The two young artists touching performance has infused my soul with joy. Several times a day, I hear the video and I am deeply touched by Iestyn's voice.

@marcellogenesi6390

2 жыл бұрын

Prince Charles chose this beautiful master piece for the wedding, those two have probably have chosen Rap. Nothing royal about the both of of them.

@veve3948

Жыл бұрын

Pareil pour moi .. yes it's an indescribable and huge joy .. Merci Handel , un des plus grands musiciens de la période baroque !

@thegabywe

Жыл бұрын

@@marcellogenesi6390 ???

@marcellogenesi6390

Жыл бұрын

@@thegabywe I cannot replay to an non existing response.

This is what perfection sounds like.

@jareid

4 жыл бұрын

Morpheus Listen to Alfred Deller’s performance!

@morpheus6749

3 жыл бұрын

@@jareid Indeed. Just listened to it. Absolutely masterful. Thanks for the recommendation.

Words can never do justice to this pure and beautiful masterpiece. I never tire of this particular performance by two masters of their craft.

I tremble at such beauty for it is truly the eternal source of light divine. Thank you Alison. ❤

😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩🥰😃😃😃😃 I've listened to this tune more than a thousand times, i'm totally addicted and each time the same immense dazzling émotion. The fusional encounter between this sublime voice of countertenor and your fabulous trumpet is magical. Merci infiniment pour ce merveilleux cadeau ! ( marvelous gift )

@brontaylor3481

Жыл бұрын

It's a gorgeous duet.

@Veesson

Жыл бұрын

Me too

@veve3948

Жыл бұрын

@@brontaylor3481 oui !!!!

@thegabywe

Жыл бұрын

I totally agree! Also I'm addicted to the sound of old instruments. In fact, my husband and I now to refuse to even listen to modern orchestras. Istead we rather listen to the academy of ancient music from Berlin, the Netherlands or elsewhere. And this we owe to the softer and more natural tone of the instruments!

@jan-pietervanwaasbergen9870

Жыл бұрын

It is such a beauty. I can hear it a hunderd times and I hear everytime new things. Greetings from the Netherlands

If I had to listen to just one song for the rest of my life, this is it. This recording. Exquisite! Beautiful! Thank you!💗💗💗💋

Humans creating angelic sounds. Thank you for this. Merci!

This is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard.

@thethikboy

5 жыл бұрын

It's easily the most beautiful piece of music anybody has ever heard - at least in this world.

@archiebunker4108

5 жыл бұрын

Oh, me too. Sumptuous and sublime.

@serenaluce

4 жыл бұрын

I can't choose THE most beautiful piece of music. At least there are several. How about Bach's "Agnus Dei" in Iestyn Davies's rendition? Also Handel's "O lord whose mercies numberless"? But definitely one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever written!

@archiebunker4108

4 жыл бұрын

I agree. Absolutely gorgeous!

@Royqboy

3 жыл бұрын

a telephone line to Heaven

The timing and phrasing is utterly extraordinary. The notes and harmonies just melt into each other.

Perfect. Sometimes Handel is so beautiful his music is almost painful.

@archiebunker4108

5 жыл бұрын

Agreed. His largo is an example of that.

@jenniferjeffrey3933

4 жыл бұрын

@@archiebunker4108 working in that myself...cello and also as a contralto

@archiebunker4108

4 жыл бұрын

@@jenniferjeffrey3933 Oh, well done and good luck with that!

@sandyno1089

4 жыл бұрын

I know what you mean.

@diav7494

3 жыл бұрын

Well said- I totally agree! It actually is painful- on a deep emotional level. It stirs something up that can't even be put into words and transports you into a whole other world!

Words abandon me... there is hope for human kind as long as beauty like this still exists

I've listened to this recording dozens of times and I get the feels each time. It is just sublime. My favorite recording of this piece by far.

An exquisitely sublime performance by all concerned - the empathy between Alison & Iestyn shines through in a performance surpassing anything that I have had the privilege of hearing in a long, long time. As a professional musician I am not easily reduced to tears, but am not apologetic to say that this performance stirs my soul in a way that I had thought I was way too old and cynical to react to. To say thank you is totally inadequate. I'm now going to listen again and, perhaps, realise that there is a gift of perfection in an all too imperfect world.

@defone51

6 жыл бұрын

Roger Ashby humbled by this...at a complete loss as to how to respond. The eternal touched this performance.

@thegabywe

Жыл бұрын

Many times I compare the various interpretations of music I adore. This is the utmost performance of Händel's "Source" I have listened to.

I found this video in 2014 during a very bad year in Syria with all the war that was going on and the depression I had. But this took me to another place, and always reminded me that this world is not all horrible and ugly and full of war and hate. This video was a glimpse of hope for mankind to me during the worst times of Syrian war. Bless you Alison. And thank you.

@claudialu

5 жыл бұрын

Bless you.

When I hear music from this time period I sometimes think about how different the world was when it was written: no electricity, no Internet, no smart phones. But no matter what advances may be made in technology, beautiful music such as this will endure, long after the latest gadget has become obsolete. 02/05/2013

@Paul.Morgan

4 жыл бұрын

In some ways they were more advanced than us. Arguably we haven't made any genuine progress in the arts since 1900. That's my opinion anyway.

@dissilymordentroge5818

4 жыл бұрын

The presumption our species will survive it’s ‘advances’ is not yet proven.

@sandyno1089

4 жыл бұрын

Apparently the ancient Greeks, 300 BC were massively superior to us, mentally , physically and morally. They just didn’t have our technology yet.

@sandyno1089

4 жыл бұрын

@@horse69outside would you like to have lived then?

@DanielRoyce

Жыл бұрын

@@Paul.Morgan Today's so-called "art" is absolutely pathetic. Nothing beats classical music. That is why I have only been listening to classical music for my whole life (I'm 18 at the time of writing). While I do like Baroque tremendously, my favourite composers of all time are Scriabin, Szymanowski, Brahms, and Corelli.

I can't count how many times I've listened to this recording. Stunningly beautiful 👏👏

@johngunning2123

2 жыл бұрын

Me too! Magnificent.

@eulero75

2 жыл бұрын

me too! 🥰

@rogersnook5415

2 жыл бұрын

Me too

Oh, my! Iestyn. What a gift you have. Your voice is celestial and with Alison's trumpet it is heaven on earth. I agree with Martin, this performance is a masterpiece. I hug you both and know you have filled our hearts with awe and praise.

Still the best countertenor I have heard, The rich sound of the trumpet gives enormous pleasure.

How could (68) people dislike this masterpiece??? This is so beautiful hearing a trumpet and a tenor collaborate

@DanielRoyce

Жыл бұрын

*countertenor

@rafarabe

Жыл бұрын

Maybe the didn't like this perfomance?

@johnrhodes3350

7 ай бұрын

​@@rafarabereally 😟

@jaybee7078

5 ай бұрын

And some people are blind and deaf to beauty .....

I have listened to this piece over and over again, and said to myself, I want this played at my funeral, as a final farewell into the next life- entering the light of Heaven. Beautiful piece.

This is nothing short of the most heavenly piece of music I have ever heard.

This was played as an anthem at our wedding - one of the best musical choices that I have made yet!!

An insanely good performance of this masterpiece, by possibly the greatest countertenor and trumpeter alive today. We are so lucky.

@jirikluzo9918

6 жыл бұрын

hold on hold on :-)

@jeanandorf847

5 жыл бұрын

Indeed, I agree. As a trumpeter myself who regularly plays this piece, I know you can't get any closer to perfection than this superb performance by two quite outstanding musicians, both technically and musically.

@asceticfeminine

5 жыл бұрын

Right? His falsetto is perfect.

@oliverrussell2331

5 жыл бұрын

The Countertenor is Iestyn Davies, a fantastic singer. Definitely recommend his rendition of Handel's 'Saul'

@jenniferjeffrey3933

4 жыл бұрын

Jaroussky and Scholl are pretty amazing too

Who'd have thought.... a Trumpet could carry our very souls to heaven, on the wings of such a beauty?....

The most divine music I have ever heard

Trumpeter Alison Balsom has just become the first British woman to win artist of the year at the prestigious Gramophone Classical Music Awards.

@melfaraj4633

3 ай бұрын

And she deserves it!!

Iestyn Davies you were divine! Great voice...

This is by far the best performance of this ode I've heard on KZread ! Both Alison & Lestyn Davies are exceptionally complementary to each other ..& this ode!👏👏👏

@jacoboVE_Cultura

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you, I think without a doubt that this ode by Handel is the best that You Tube has released so far, of the ones I have listened to and there are some very good ones. Regards.

How can some people give this a thumbs down? This is sublime💕

Two young world class artists with the wonderful Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert. Contrary to some comments I though the two principals were singing to each other. It doesn't get much better than this.

@johnrhodes3350

7 ай бұрын

Yes, it looked like they were both rather enjoying, being stretched a little by the other.

When Mrs Alison Balsom & Mr Iestyn Davies like earthly angels, under the rule of Sir Trevor Pinnock, as ascended master Enoch, show us the path to the Divinity, which lies dormant in each of us! It's just a divine moment, which even a Frenchman knows how to appreciate to its fullest extent!

I want to die and awake 'beyond' to the sound (and sight) of this

Some good from human beings. Can not describe what this does to me.

This piece by Handel has to be close to being the greatest piece of vocal music of all time -it's that unnerving sense of the infinite and the everlasting that the piece evokes -that sense of deep time, of endless galaxies.

@charlesreddish1051

5 жыл бұрын

I endorse all that

@cwhembrow5988

5 жыл бұрын

Sublime

@royaboagyedjan4632

5 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more

@bazouteast

5 жыл бұрын

Yep. Completely off the scale of total loveliness and beauty

Quite simply the best recording I have ever heard of this jewel by Handel. Alison's playing is pitch perfect and Lestyn Davies' voice is truly divine. Perfection itself and conducted by a master, Trevor Pinnock.

Without a doubt he best version if this beautiful Handel piece...Balsom is excellent on baroque trumpet. There's not many trumpet superstars that can handle baroque trumpet the way she does. Wonderful!!

@alexcook96

7 жыл бұрын

Jocelyn Lapointe that can Händel baroque trumpet the way she does..?

@kurtschlesinger8257

7 жыл бұрын

you think u in heaven

I don't make comments about who is the best on an instrument or in a vocal range. So often it is a matter of taste. Also when it is not live it is often the recording. BUT this is as good as it gets for these 2 pieces of music.

the 'cut through' of a countertenor is amazing.

the first time I heard this song I had some warm tears and I could't stop by hearing this beautiful sound again and again., Singing it along with Lestyn behind my laptop made me realise how difficult this beauty is, but after a long or bad day this is an eternal source of light divine

A.brief view into heaven. This music transports me there instantly. Thank you.

I just Love it! If it´s possible I would like to have this music on my funeral one day. I think I will wake upp and rise from my coffin just to enjoy this lovely music.

Alison looks absolutely out of this world. I don't know how to put it - it feels she is somewhere out there, listening to something and experiencing something we the mortals are never able to. Thank you for this opportunity to have a glimpse of Heaven.

Iestyn Davies sings so beautifull.

My eyes are full of tears, but my heart is full of joy ... thank you for this warm music ...

Marvellous. I've just been weeping all over my computer at this.

So beautiful, paradise. Where else could such beautiful music have come from.

Her wonderful and comfortable and beautiful trumpet playing is outclassing

It would be an honor if this music is played at my funeral. I hope everyone cries not for me, but for the beautiful music.

This is so exquisitely beautiful that it hurts.

One of the finest versions of this piece I have ever heard. Thank you

Just love this. Perfect match between trumpet and voice. And as always with these two artists, music is allowed to shine without any tricks!

The match between voice and trumpet is seamless. Excellent....!

SUBLIME! This is the music I would like as I lie on my deathbed!!! Thank you Trevor, Iestyn, and Alison, dear English Concert musicians, and all the team, for this. BRAVI.

This is truly one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. I have heard many versions, but this is truly remarkable. The blend of Iestyn's countertenor voice and Alison's baroque trumpet is sublime. The synergy between them is mesmerising and just so beautiful - a true joy to listen to, full of real feeling and emotion. I am surprised that I have not heard this version more often. My congratulations to both Alison and Iestyn, and to Trevor Pinnock. A remarkable production.

@marcellogenesi6390

2 жыл бұрын

Truly beautiful, but many other versions are equally as good, please listen to countertenor Robert Kuizenga with the trumpet of Bruno Fernandes, also very very good

This music feels me i'm in heaven paradise

Wow, what a delightful and sublime ear bath!

The melody in its purest form. Heart-meltingly gorgeous and mesmerising. Thank you.

So beautiful and heaven sent-makes me weep every time I hear this recording.

This is utterly beautiful music. I listen to it many, many times. However when it was written there, of course , was no recorded music. So very few people would have heard it. It would have been played in a church a couple of times - but what then...maybe played in Court ... the general population would not have heard it . We are very lucky !

It just takes you to Heaven. No words to say.

Wow! If I get down, I'll just listen to this music. What great artists.

I will have this song played on my wedding... God willing

A choir of angels needs you these Christmas Mrs Balsom!

This should get several million views....

The signing divine! Handel is great!

This is perfection. If there is a god and he/she created the world for one purpose, it is to achieve this moment in time. Pure bliss!

What a joy, I have just discovered you this morning, Ive now been listening to your music for almost 3 hours straight. Amazing

One of my personal favourites, and has been for awhile. A brilliant passage.

Just so beautiful - can't stop listening to it.

What a performance to stumble across on a Sunday morning. Amazing.

Eternal source of light divine, With double warmth Thy beams display, And with distinguished glory shine, To add a lustre to this day.

This is a very soul touching piece of music and performance, by which all other renditions, are compared by.

You have honored many composers with your job mrs Balsom!

Got to be one of the best pieces of music I've ever heard, brought tears to my eyes :')

So much better with a counter-tenor than a soprano - the timbre contrasts perfectly with the trumpet.

Congratulations. This is by far the best recording on KZread and on iTunes. Iesten Davies used to go to SJCC / St John's College Choir, Cambridge. That is how he got so good.

The best register for him, so sweetly keen her trumpet! Thanks a lot!!

This is one of the most beautiful pieces of music and recordings of it that I have ever heard. The player and singer are both superb and I always feel that Trevor Pinnock's directing is as perfect as could be. His work always touches my soul.

Music from Baroque times at its best, to beheared for special moods, superb

I Love you Alison Balsom !!!!

Dear Allison thank you❤ so uplifting... Bless you, and be safe and your loved ones, too!

Engeltrompet mit wunderbare Kontrtenor! Ich liebe das! Das ist ein gotliche Kunst! Danke, Alison!

Just love this. People enjoying making beautiful music. It shines through in the video.

Wonderful Trumpet+angel voice

Bold and beautiful combination of trumpet and countertenor

how can i have this amazing voice???!!!!! LOVE ITT

Set your video to 'loop'. I promise you, it will not pall, though you listen to it a hundred times!