This Song From the 1500’s Blows Me Away

Comments · 15K

• IA

  @ianrowe9331 · 3 years ago

  I went to a Julian Bream concert in Edinburgh.  I rode the bus, a poor student. A small man in conservative  clothes sat down beside me with his instrument case. I said, I'm going to the Bream concert, and he said, so am I.  As I went to the entrance, we parted, and he went to another entrance. Of course it was him. BUT HE RODE THE BUS!

  6.3K

• KE

  @kelsycunningham8452 · 3 years ago

  Imagine the composer at the time, being told that people would be getting down to his music 500 years later.

  1.4K

• NI

  @nirmalsuki · 3 years ago

  Us 1590s kids appreciate young artists like Breem for bringing songs from our childhood back.

  4.5K

• JL

  @jlippoff · 7 months ago

  lute shredding needs to make a comeback

  36

• N1

  @N1originalgazza · 2 years ago

  Who, after more than 4 centuries, is still listening to John Dowland's hit "The Earl of Essex's Galliard" here on YouTube? 🥰🥰😄

  917

• BA

  @barbaravandoren3425 · 4 years ago

  I LOVED this video. Thank you. I&apos;m an elderly English woman, &nbsp;who&apos;s first husband was an aspiring classical guitarist. He absolutely idolised Julian Bream, so much so that we named our first son, JULIAN. (He&apos;s now 66!)<br>I love this renaissance music, especially played on period instruments. &nbsp;Julian Bream was such a &apos;regular guy&apos; with a really wide appeal. &nbsp;Here in London, we were all very proud of him &amp; his ability to bring us the music of a distant era into contemporary life, which we otherwise might &nbsp;not have known of. &nbsp;It&apos;s lovely that American musicians appreciate him, too.

  1.7K

• ER

  @erikhn9331 · 3 years ago

  My first record ever was Julian Bream playing English Renaissance music. It was in 1973, I was 10 years old. Loved this music ever since.

  239

• ST

  @steveogden5774 · 1 year ago

  In his later years I once saw Julian Bream warming up for a solo concert at The Maltings, Snape. His hands were swollen with arthritis and as he moved them across the fingerboard I could hear them crack and see him wince. Two hours later he took to the stage and, from his playing and demeanour, no-one who hadn&apos;t seen it would ever guess the agony he went through to perform that night.

  142

• MU

  @MusicLiberates · 4 years ago

  It’s really terrific how Rick is introducing people to high quality music from many different genres and time periods.

  6K

• TO

  @tomdchi12 · 4 years ago

  Dowland was early emo too: &quot;He is best known today for his melancholy songs such as &quot;Come, heavy sleep&quot;, &quot;Come again&quot;, &quot;Flow my tears&quot;, &quot;I saw my Lady weepe&quot; and &quot;In darkness let me dwell&quot;&quot;

  150

• MA

  @mattmexor2882 · 4 years ago

  Galileo&apos;s father, Vincenzo Galilei, was a professional lutenist, music theorist, and composer.

  414

• OS

  @OswaldoJoseGuerreiroSilva · 1 year ago

  Hat´s off to Mr. Rick Beato´s amazing capacity for bringing us such different and interesting music genres.

  208