Dido's Lament (When I am Laid) film inspired by Coldplay | Helen Charlston - Remember me - Purcell
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- With credit to Jamie Thraves, the Director behind the Coldplay video for 'The Scientist'.
In our latest digital adventure, we play with expectations of genre in this remake of Coldplay's hit music video 'The Scientist', with Purcell’s tragic ‘When I am Laid’ from Dido and Aeneas. The result is a modern-day drama, recorded around London.
Watch the original Coldplay video here:
• Coldplay - The Scienti...
Featuring OAE’s Rising Stars alumnus, mezzo-soprano Helen Charlston, our film is the second in a series of visually captivating remakes of iconic pop videos with baroque arias, to celebrate the enduring power of music, whatever the age.
Watch the first of our music video remake series featuring Baritone James Newby singing Handel's Cara Pianta, inspired by Radiohead here:
• Handel ‘Cara pianta’ f...
If music is good, it’s good regardless of its genre. Love Coldplay. Love Purcell. Love Music.
This film is sponsored by Mark Allen Group, Gramophone.
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To find out more about this project please join us for a Zoom Webinar Thu 11 Mar 2021 | 6pm with Helen Charlston and James Newby. Helen and James will be joining us to talk about their experience as Rising Stars of the OAE, their careers so far, and taking us behind the scenes of this music video project. RSVP via the following link - we'd love to see you there!' with a link here:
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Violin I
Matthew Truscott
Violin II
Margaret Faultless
Viola
Annette Isserlis
Cello
Sarah McMahon
Double Bass
Liz Bradley
Oboe
Katharina Spreckelsen
Sarah Humphreys
Bassoon
Györgyi Farkas
Harpsichord
Steven Devine
Keyboard
Keith McGowan
Digital and Technical Director
Zen Grisdale
Engineer
Dave Hinitt
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Beautiful. Truly gets to the heart of this interpretation as a cry of despair from all the too many lonely lost souls in our populated cities in their final forgotten and hidden moments alone before, just like Queen Dido of Carthage here consigning herself to dying in flames as love has left her, and she has no reason to continue.
And again! That voice!
I keep coming back to this video...
agreed
I've heard a dozen singers perform this aria. This is very beautifully sung, with a fresh tone.
A lovely performance of Purcell's superb aria sung with real clarity, emotion &a beautiful tone by Helen! Such a wonderful young mezzo voice, Helen.
She's excellent, but Lorraine Hunt Lieberson is still holding first place!!
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Lovely, Helen!
A work of art.. beautifully done
Ive been away too long... & there are many I send this to. Sigh... my soul & heart rise...
I was literally listening to Dido’s “The day before the day” when I saw an article about this and thought it was the same Dido but also pleasantly surprised by this beautiful operatic composition.
A clever bit of production here. Quite shocking and journeying into the imaginal core of madness... brilliantly done. 💔
This is wonderous! A fantastic modern visual blend.
But that voice!!!!
So glad I found this. Thank you.
Strange this has so few views? It is such a beautiful rendition.
This is so beautiful and overwhelming at the same time!!!!!!!!
Gorgeous! I don't know how people can live without tears after this music. So sad...
The video like coldplay's (based on irreversible) but the music is much better!!! I need more of this!!!
Beautifully sung and played. Helen is a treasure -- one of the most beautiful lyric mezzos on the scene today. Don't neglect Dame Janet Baker's several recordings, though. She owned the role of Dido -- both that of Purcell and of Berlioz.
I've got the Dido and Aeneas CD by Decca with Dame Janet Baker singing. It's my favourite rendition so far.
Composed by Henry Purcell in 1688, telling the sad tale is Dido about to be abandoned by Aeneas who fleeing the Seige of Troy with his ship mates decides it's time to resume his voyage, and leave Carthage. Disbelieving his entreaties to stay, Dido knows that her fate is to die.
When I am laid, am laid in earth,
May my wrongs create
No trouble, no trouble in thy breast;
Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate.
Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.
Fabulous performance + fabulous video = fabulous squared entertainment. Thank you.
The music and filming are both impeccable. Full disclosure: when I saw "Dido" I was confused because I was thinking that electronic chanteuse who hit big in the late 90s.
All the feels! Brilliant.
bloody incredible
Stunning and sublime
Bravo, Helen & the Team!
Absolutely stunning!
Wow, that was incredible
What a fantastically brilliant conception and beautifully sung by Helen, what a voice.
Amazing
Beautiful!
Beautiful im crying so emotional
Fantastic!
Fabulous! ❤
I love it!!
That is, phenomenal.
Superb !
Oh shit, great job everyone! That backwards lip-syncing is no easy feat, and you really stayed true to the spirit of the Coldplay video
Well, Helen did amazingly on that. (We got some really funny looks from passers by filming with a reverse reference track being hooted out.)
@@crispinwoodhead3714 I was wondering how you did it! A behind-the scenes video would be amazing!!
Gorgeous, I'm in love with OAE ever since that one time during my studies in London when I saw you guys perform in a pub, brilliant video! Love from Chicago
So majestic
simply amazing! well done!
Beautiful
No words to describe how overwhelming beatiful this is 😌❤️
Gorgeous..
This is awesome
Helen Chalston,
I can't help falling in love with you ... ❤️
This and Janet Baker's versions of this are my favorite!
Astounding combination although I've never followed Colgplay nor watched any of their videos. My kids have.
Dido's Lament has long been favourite of mine and my tastes run from early music, through English folk, folk-rock, Celtic folk to ambient metal of English band Toska and many things between. Purcell reigns supreme. Who needs Mozart?
Loved this
Beautifully done.
Love this, H xx
Very beautiful
I’ve just been watching Helen in a live streamed concert, and couldn’t resist this as a reprise. I love the video!
Just doing the same June 😀
Dido and Tenet... bravo Helen Charlston!
A very beautiful voice, and a creative performance. Thank you for adding pleasure to my day
great video love that voice
와~~~❤❤❤
Excelent!
This is f*@king awesome
Splendid video art 👍
someone's been watching TENET I see!
Think I will return to her wonderful voice singing with the Trinity College choir. So much ore enriching to life than this.
When I am laid, am laid in earth,
May my wrongs create
No trouble, no trouble in thy breast(x2)
Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate.(x2)
Remember me, but ah! forget my fate,(x2)
Is that a Christine Rice cameo at 1:51? Top work.
Powaliło mnie po pierwszym przesłuchaniu. Dogłębne.
Coldplay? What about Weird AL Yankovic? Haha. That's who I think of for a backwards video like this. It is amazing!! And wow, what a beautiful effect for this beautiful aria.
Ok, not to take away anything from Dido, but I went down a rabbit hole and found that Weird AL actually copied the style from the song rap song Drop by The Pharcyde.
From Purcell to 1990s rap. What a day! Haha
Have you seen the music video to The Scientist?
The video certainly didn’t hurt for me
Так странно .. и красиво ..
this is fuckin sick
Superb 🖤
3:05 reminescence of Irréversible by Gaspar Noé?
"Songs of Suicide." will be the name of my new band.
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Dec. 20, Christmas. She died on
27 of Feb. She missed my birthday on the 5 of Feb. COVID-19 ain't no hoax. Even masks aren't perfect.
The six feet apart rule is a joke, too. But to NOT take precautions is
out right murder.
Is there any way to find this recording somewhere ? in a lossless audio format :)
I can’t find the film credits...who made it/filmed it/production company etc. Many thanks!
Hello, yes, we will add that. It was filmed and produced by the OAE in house team - a really great bunch of people: stand out credits to Zen Grisdale as digital and technical director, audio engineered by Dave Hinitt at St Jude’s Hampstead Garden Suburbs.
@@crispinwoodhead3714 the production values are truly first class! Many greetings to Dave.
@@jonnysells1982 Thank you. Yes, we love working with Dave. Lovely man, so talented and huge fun.
Inspired by Coldplay's Scientist.
Two out of three ain't bad :)
I guess Helen opened something new. For sure.
I read "lamest"
Yeah, what happened to Dido was pretty lame...
oae.co.uk/the-formidable-queen-dido-of-carthage/
@@oae Strange coincidence I was just last night reading the part of "My Brilliant Friend" by Elena Ferrante where the Lila character starts viewing love, life, even the nature of evil through the lens of what befell Dido. Good book, I def recommend.
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The audio is playing in reverse.
I love Helen's singing but have no idea what Coldplay is.
One can imagine the cold, often unheated, concert halls that were available in the 17th century...
They are obviously trying to be as authentic as possible, playing in the cold.
It is when you play without warming up first.
It's a band. You could look it up for more information.
@@mh605 Thanks, I thought it was a band but I'm not interested enough to look it up!
@@AnjaHuebel1 Well, but you might want to look them up on CZcams. Their music is interesting. And you might want to look up the video, "The Scientist," that this video above is based on. Also interesting. I really like what OAE is doing here. For people who only know or like so-called pop music--and maybe for people who only like classical--they're making the point that all types of music can be good and worthy of attention. So to make an avant-garde video of a 300-year-old song, and do it so well, is truly stunning and can draw people in who haven't heard of or listened to Purcell before.
Where's Aeneas when you need him?
The backward motion interferes with the beauty of this piece, in my opinion anyway.
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the visuals . . . .
I don't know . . . .
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no
um wow. Drips with postmodern angst
Beautifully expressive vocals, but the backwards synchronising of the facial alignments is clumsy and detracts from the impact. Some of the 'background shots' seem frankly random; the editing is often unnecessarily fast, and is fragmented in such a way that the potential poignancy of the underlaying message is lost. The same contemporary themes could surely have been infinitely more effective simply filmed in forward motion, and with a little more subtlety. What a shame to distort such a powerful and sensitive rendering in this way.
I confess: I hate it, I only reached 1:37 when her idiot companion got to me.
the downfall
I hate Coldplay. Singing and music in this video 👍
Very beautifully sung and played. But the videos were total rubbish.
Beautiful!!!