Amazing piece of music. I was actually searching for a 1920 movie of the same name when I came across it. It reminds me of the theme tune for the 1980s British tv series Hammer House Of Horror. Very similar.

If I'm dreaming I never want to wake up. If I'm awake I never want to fall asleep...simply beautiful!!!

It's such a lovely melody. My grandmother loved Ketelbey's music. She had great musical taste.

Albert Ketelbey is surely one of the most ignored of our composers. The quality of his music is truly beautiful

@petertaylor3600

5 жыл бұрын

He usen't to be, though. It's that he kind of became unfashionable and then, slowly forgotten. What's ;wonderful is thgat, through KZread and Marino van Wakeren, he can be brought back to life.

@IDontWantThisStupidHandle

3 жыл бұрын

At least he made it big during his lifetime (he was the first millionaire composer in history) -- very few composers can say that. I'd rather have success during my day than be ridiculed while alive and only appreciated decades or centuries after (like most composers)...

I'm in love with his scores. just absolutely studio ghibli-esque. Or Perhaps Ghibli was inspired by his works.

This man was so talented but should be better known...... please let all lovers of Albert Ketelby introduce his works to friends and family and strive to make his legacy live on longer. In a Persian Garden, Magic, Mystic land of Eqypt etc... ... I just knew his works from an old LP my parents had and that is how I discovered him. Glad I did.

OH MY GOD !! PERHAPS THE MOST HAUNTING PIECE I HAVE EVER HEARD ! SURELY THIS IS LIFE AND DEATH AND BEAUTY AND PAIN . PROVOCATIVE BEYOND WORDS ! THANK YOU KETELBEY. NOT EVEN MOZART CAN MATCH THIS !

@petertaylor3600

5 жыл бұрын

Mozart was playful rather than evocative, though. I suppse there's more than enough room for both of them.

Je ne connaissais pas cette belle composition de Ketelbey ! sa musique a été ( longtemps et à tord) considérée comme "musique de kiosque" ... Quelle musique qui touche l'âme !!!! Merci de l'avoir remise aux goûts du jour... (je m'abonne à votre chaîne :)...)

A great composer, whose music talks to soul !

DE LO MÁS BELLO QUE HE ESCUCHADO. LITERALMENTE, ME ESTREMECE, ME MATA, ME TRANSPORTA ESTA MELODÍA. AGRADEZCO A DIOS HABER DADO CAPACIDAD Y SENTIMIENTOS AL SER HUMANO PARA COMPONER, CREAR TANTA BELLEZA

There has been a tendency in music to consider music that is serious (i.e. grave, powerful, complex etc.) to be greater than light music (i.e. easily accesible, tuneful, even pretty). Ketelbey, I think is proof that we should give light music its due. As a composer, myself, wish to debunk the myth that light music composition is for light weights because it is supposedly easy to write. I find no differnce in effort between writing serious and light music.

@jimstokes6742

10 жыл бұрын

Daniel, thanks for posting this. I'm a huge fan of light music. There are a great many melodic gems of this genre. KZread has many.

@j.marshallbevil1220

9 жыл бұрын

Daniel Tarr You are absolutely right. Ketelbey is one of a number of figures whose truly formidable talent not only was overlooked in his lifetime but also has suffered the same fate at the hands of many ill-informed persons in the years since his passing in 1959. Had it not been for recordings, his works surely would have been forgotten altogether, since his style took a dreadful fall from favor after about 1940, following a decline that began arguably as early as ca. 1920-25 within the academic arena. For more detail, see my online program notes at home.earthlink.net/~llywarch/kby01.html

@jimstokes6742

9 жыл бұрын

Indeed. I enjoyed his Bank Holiday, which can be heard here on good old YT. J. Marshall Bevil

@petertaylor3600

5 жыл бұрын

That kind if thinking is simply musical snobbery. Light music of this kind is so evocative and so full of gentle feeling. It has its place and maybe eventually will be looked on in the same way as, say, Beethoven. Thank you very much foir your observation, Daniel Tarr. Ifind Ketelbey's work very moving.

Przepiekna melodia. Podkreslona dobrze zmontowanym filmem... fantastic !

Dommage que ces œuvres ne sont jamais jouées en concerts en France !

LINDAS IMAGENS! MELODIA LINDÍSSIMA!

amazing thanks for sharing

If Disney ever makes another Fantasia this ought to be put in it.

Just beautiful!

Hel erg mooi hoor en ook van die mooie foto's in het filmpje. Peter

Magico

Affascinante melodia che ho sentito per la prima volta qui

Thankss again.

@curlingnf It's The New Symphony Orchestra, led by Stanford Robinson. It's from The British Music Collection, on Decca. 473 720-2. 2003. cheers, it's beautiful.

Muziek en video is prachtig!

I've been a Ketelbey fan my whole life long. My mother used to hum the tunes to us, growing up in Newfoundland. Especially "In a Monastery Garden" Can you tell me who the orchestra is, and when it was recorded?. This is the first time I have ever heard this, and I think it is magnificent.

@1baronaccio

4 жыл бұрын

new symphony orchestra cond. by robert sharples SHAZAM

@trevorfleisig9056

2 жыл бұрын

Look up the CDS and you should find one with Ketelby conducting. I have one myself.

Thanks

epic!

This was used as a theme for an old radio series such as a soap opera. I am pretty ding danged sure it is. Or my name isn't Herschel Horowitz, which it is not.

This is another of many examples of the influence of speech on so many of the British composers of the period ca. 1870-1920. In particular, the pronounced rise and fall of the melody mimic that same characteristic of spoken English, British English in particular, in which vocal rise and fall, marked changes in accentuation, stress, and quick changes in speed of speed of delivery often convey important emphasis and sometimes both connotation and denotation. /// For more detail on both Ketelbey and his music, see home.earthlink.net/~llywarch/kby01.html . Concerning linguistic influences on music of Ketelbey's time and place, see home.earthlink.net/~llywarch/ku2009.html .

@erickverran653

8 жыл бұрын

I'd say the influence is Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony.

@j.marshallbevil1220

8 жыл бұрын

Your observation is based, I suspect, on the opening intervallic (i.e., pitch movement) sequence that the two pieces share. Beyond that common point, there's considerable divergence. While the burden of proof outside a court of law (for instance, at a musicological convocation) is not as onerous as it is in a court case (as in, for example, a copyright infringement action), the fact remains that an argument for the derivation of one melody in its entirety from another melody depends on the existence of PERVASIVE and at least confusable, if not substantial, similarity - in other words, such similarity throughout both melodies apart from the openings and/or closings. (see below, at ***) /// The frequent error of declaring similarity or even postulating possible derivation is due to the way in which the mind most accurately notes and remembers openings and closings of perceived entities, in conformity to the Gestalt Law of Closure. That trick of the mind can magnify melodic openings and closings out of proportion to melodies as a whole. Also, we should remember that the total number of opening and closing formulae is small in comparison to the total number of different melodies, and that in consequence, a lot of otherwise different tunes open and/or close with the same motifs, many of which have become stock formulae, or commonplaces, due to frequent use - musical analogues of "Once upon a time, ..." and "And they lived happily ever-after," if you will. /// Digging below the attractive but superficial and often misleading level of opening and closing patterns often reveals major discrepancies. A classic case in point is that of "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and the old gospel song "Rock of Ages." They have identical opening intervallic sequences, but substantial rhythmic differences even within those opening patterns, as well as melodic contour discrepancies beyond those points, rule out any significant similarity between the melodies as a whole and would render ridiculous any claim that Johnny Marks cribbed from "Rock of Ages" when he composed "Rudolph." Far more plausible is the argument that he wrote the "Rudolph" melody as counterpoint to that of "Have a Holly, Jolly Christmas," which is the theme song of the same movie (by that same title) that included "Rudolph." /// See home.earthlink.net/~llywarch/disab.html.htm . *** An example of PERVASIVE SIMILARITY involves "Seventy-Six Trombones" and "Goodnight, My Someone," from _The Music Man_, by Meredith Wilson. Examination of both the opening and closing patterns (mainly the pitch sequences) and the complete contours of each melody at deep, middle, and surface structural-perceptual layers shows the melodies to be essentially the same, rhythmic differences notwithstanding. In fact, Wilson deliberately fashioned them to be that way in order for them to be symbolic of the ties between the male ("trombones") and female ("someone") characters. What exists is arguably a masculine and a feminine version of a single tune. /// Another example of PERVASIVE SIMILARITY is that between the hymn tunes "Bethany" and "Propior Deo," both being settings of "Nearer, My God, to Thee." See home.earthlink.net/~llywarch/tnc02.html.htm.

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Is this really the original orchestration by Ketelby himself?I have an LP record of Eric Rodgers conductiong the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, which shows quite different instrumentation.For example, the first theme is played by an oboe soloe here, while the strings tutti is heard in Rodgers' version.Does anynoe know, which is the original??

@ciroviola5321

5 жыл бұрын

A great musical soul deserving better attention and recognition

@benedictoroman1998

4 жыл бұрын

Poco apreciado ,me parece

I WANT TO HEAR,IN A PERSIAN MARKET"!!!!!!!PLEASE!!!!!!

it just dont do it,,,for that to be good,, you need haunting melodies....minors..seveths....

Ketèlbey is a totally kitsch composer; the musical equivalent to the pictures of Thomas Kincade. Hilariously bad stuff.