Purcell -〈Dido and Aeneas〉"When I am laid in earth" / Emma Kirkby

[SaveMeKaizer]

Fun fact: The cello notes from 0:48 to 0:57 were used in Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" at the very end of the song.

[rosariocuma]

Bonitas imágenes. La interpretación me parece no serena si no almibarada. Compárese con mi favorita, la de Tatiana Troyanos.

[BALAGU3RVI]

I was waiting for her to say "Boats 'n' Hoes" the whole time...

[danielodb17]

aah I have seen this opera, it was stunning!

[Tobbe999999999999999]

trully beautiful, really touching and sad aria. Simply amazing.

[rosariocuma]

Preciosas imágenes pero interpretación,desde mi punto de vista, falta de garra y dramatismo. 

[MidnightIsolde]

In the film Downfall, this is used in an instrumental form.

[NeonNinjaSquirrel]

He wrote all these amazing, beautiful pieces.

Then he died because his wife was mad at him and wouldn't let him in the house.

[CatNaptz]

@NeonNinjaSquirrel

wow that's pretty sad

[sasakovac]

divine!

[Wavewolfaroha]

Lovely performance and video montage!

[koosloop]

when I am laid in earth

am laid in earth

may my wrongs create

no trouble no trouble in thy breast

remember me!

remember me!

but ah!

Forget my fate!

[HarmonicNature]

This is SO beautiful! Thank you very much for posting it!

[lamusicamagnifica14]

I've noticed that Purcell makes great music to play at funerals.  This is beautiful and so melancholy at the same time.

[blahdorkweirdo]

What I love about Purcell is how simple, yet beautiful his works are. They're just gorgeous. I only discovered him a short time ago, but he's already becoming one of my favorite composers- right up there with Handel and Vivaldi.

[Ryan199403]

iM LOOKing for the clockwork orange intro theme song anyone know what it's called?

[laqerhill]

@Ryan199403 "Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary" by Purcell

[ANGLOSAXONGOD]

Eargasm!

[8BlueSkies]

Purcell was the man.

[PizzatheHutt78]

just stfu and listen to the music,

[matternicuss]

I have always felt that the most emotionally compelling music straddles the boundary between melancholy and elation. 

[isao56]

Emma Kirkby's performance of this is definitely the best of heard. Definitely closer to the style Purcell would have envisioned considering the times.

[paul55939]

A truly  lovely piece.

[Polluxgeminae]

Increiblemente hermoso

[salbete]

Does anyone knows how to buy the original album please?

[gugenheim84]

Voice of an Angel.

[grettybelle]

Emma Kirkby has a lovely clear , warm voice and touches each note with delicacy and feeling.

[grettybelle]

Emma Kirkby has a lovely clear , warm voice

[FRAGIORGIO1]

Thanks for this marvelously beautiful music and accompanying photos.

[b0ttomzone]

Ah, descending chromaticism.... siiiigh

[LilDrummerBoy74]

@b0ttomzone And Ground Bass :D

[Lauschgiftsucht]

wonderful...

Wirklich sehr schön...

[whatsgoingonthen]

didos lament such sorrow scatter roses on her tomb the queen of carthage is dead

[RaleighDawlishRaynar]

Subject: Opera aria - tiny cell "Remember Me"

Anagram: Certainly a memorable premiere



[VIDE0DR0ME]

@RaleighDawlishRaynar Aria: "Remember Me, tiny Opera cell"

[lisar915]

Beautiful!

[SuperDadaist]

Does anyone have the notes or chords of this piece?

[chickflickaddict91]

@SuperDadaist oh yes i do! i was studying it 2day in my music class in college...... altho i hav no idea how id tell u the notes tho!! lol

[hambino28]

this is a beautifully sad song that transends the language barrier, and is nice to hear even if you don't like music from the baroque period.

[llubelque]

When I am laid, am laid in earth, may my wrongs create No trouble, no trouble in, in thy breast. When I am laid, am laid in earth, may my wrongs create No trouble, no trouble in, in thy breast. Remember me, remember me, but ah! Forget my fate. Remember me, but ah! Forget my fate. Remember me, remember me, but ah! Forget my fate. Remember me, but ah! Forget my fate.

[Falstaff87]

c'è da commuoversi

[btyremanable]

I think this is tuned into 415hz not 440, in which case it would be accurate

[noctoadal]

Oh this is so refreshing. Thank goodness for Emma Kirkby. I heard this piece destroyed earlier; so it's a genuine delight to hear it sung properly. Gorgeous.

[donepearce]

I heard Emma sing this years ago at London's Wigmore Hall (on a Sunday morning) accompanied by Anthony Rooley on Lute. Stunning!

If you have this version and Jeff Buckley's you have all you will ever need. OK, perhaps I will allow you Alison Moyet's for a totally different vocal texture and colour.

[CalebAlucardtheHagan]

7 people can't forget her fate.

[amysredroses]

I am absolutely in love with this song. My voice teacher told me to look it up, since he was trying to force my to sing a higher range contralto part. I am so thankful this was just beautiful! The singer is amazing, I think she is a mezzo soprano instead of a contralto. Still very stunning.

[Jaydoggy531]

@amysredroses

Dido is actually a soprano part, though this was before the modern standards of what voice types meant; Aeneas is tenor but is also lower than standard tenors these days. Dido's often sung by a dramatic soprano or mezzo. Emma Kirkby though specifically performs in the early style.

[Erikrenate]

@Jaydoggy531 Well, Aeneas isn't a tenor. Not even a low one. Purcell thought that Aeneas was a cowerd. That is why he didn't make him into a tenor.

[Jaydoggy531]

@Erikrenate

The score lists his part as tenor. but again this was before standards of what voice types and ranges meant. Further, in this era the concept of the heroic tenor was not yet around.

[paradoxicus]

Sobrada de facultades.A mi modo de ver le falta el rigor dramático que sería muy deseable.

[droese7]

Where's Klaus Nomi when you need him?

[musodavid]

Kirkby is surely the Dido of our age. It's total genious the way she combines the heartfelt paths of Baker and Connolly whilst giving us a pure period performance. This version is mutch better than the 2007 York one and demonstrates just why she is probably the best in her field.

I couldn't be without Dame Janet and Sarah Connelly in this aria but for a complete Dido Kirkby reigns supreme.

[Mythmonsters]

Emma Kirkby's voice is so haunting, yet still angelic. Stunning; brings me to a complete stop, this piece.

[MrDexter116]

So hauntingly beautiful! I want this aria to be sung at my funeral

[edotoole]

Righto.

I want the £25 plus travel costs up front.

I can't sing for toffee but I'll have a go.

Just send the dosh and let me know the time and place.

[Mythmonsters]

@MrDexter116 So does my Mum! She's always saying that - think I'll put it in my will...

[radajan]

Wow...what amazing melancholic beauty

[mellusalex]

It´s a beautifull song

[mayhemrw]

Wasn't this originally written for catrati?

[dcrazby]

@mayhemrw very likely that castrati would've sung this...female sopranos were somewhat of a rarity for the period. Just watch Farinelli to get an idea what this may have sounded like sung by a castrato.

[damommachef]

@dcrazby No, this opera was not performed by a castrato. It was premiered in 1689 at a boarding school for young women. You can tell because the melody line is not overly elaborate as compared to other baroque arias. It was meant for a younger girl to sing. And anyway, the castrati never sang women's parts. They were the male leads. Women sang the women's parts.

[LaurensVRC]

Five votes against this video? Damn cats on keyboards!

[dennyvibes]

What year is this recording?

[MattiasXL]

Such a great composer, Purcell was.

[FlyingGold]

hahah these pics remind of when all those new-yorkers go out of town to check those brown leaves in rhode island.

[The4Horsemen7Angels]

@FlyingGold And then your wife learns martial arts to fend those New Yorkers off.

[carlo331]

vocetta insignificante, interprete inesistente

[Printpak]

@carlo331 This is English, written for an untrained voice in a girl's school. To treat it in the grand operatic style would be stupid. Emma Kirkby is very much admired in England for her simplicity of style and absence of vibrato, both of which add a great deal to this performance. I think you are missing the entire point. Have another listen.

[MisterPapageno]

@Printpak I agree with you. The only point I do not agree is about the vibrato, and Ms Kirkby has a wonderful natural vibrato (1:39 ; 2:29 : 2:33 etc), which is not very marked but she has got it! It would be a total lack of style and taste to perform this piece with a operatic vibrato

[PatateRoussoiste]

@Printpak Emma Kirkby is not astonishing because she has no vibrato. She is because she does not use it constantly and because it is very subtle. A pure marvel.

I just hope my English is comprehensible.

[rustydog1236]

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments

Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme;

But you shall shine more bright in these contents

Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.

[paul1ne2007]

got my funeral song sorted!

[Luzepicsenderodeluz]

sublime melody!

[Luzepicsenderodeluz]

Fascinating, beautiful voice that touches my soul .. I leave infinite stars!

*******..

[tiamc06]

TMC-Baroque Period. I love at the nature scenery in this video, it is very beautiful.

[SlayerHippie]

incredibly moving

[AurolaGerero]

Yes, one of the most touching performances I've ever heard.

[isomolle]

This performance soothes my weary secular soul.

[englishrose47]

Heartrendringly beautiful

[elliechoir]

Shouldn't this be everyone's Desert Island Disc? Bit depressing I suppose but the best stuff usually is. Or is that just me?!

[KremeDeMentia]

No, it's not just you: the best stuff has a touch of Death thrown in it. Endless happiness is the lie of the modern world. It is good to be melancholy sometimes. Just do a jig once in a while.

[sunsdomain]

@KremeDeMentia you're very wise

[WolfgangusMozartus]

Absolutely

[worldtear]

nice voice.. when it was sang?

[katiefly4u]

Marvelous! I love it!

[galliumarsenide]

beautful. finally a version on youtube that satisfies me. :)

[pedagogueoflife]

Voice. Stunning.

[filmscore23]

This is the best thing.

[ladywithtime]

Stunning music!!

[MattiasXL]

Purcell...he left us too soon!

[mysticdanny]

Best one there is.

[originaltommy]

thank you, this is delicious!

[benz981]

This is the model interpretation of "When I am Laid" So many singers forget this piece is 17th Century English. It's Purcell... light, bright, thin, simple, with appropriate European English vowel production. Bravo!

[BernardProfitendieu]

lol!

[Raichu234]

I sing this all the time and the way she sung it was incredible xx :D xx

[pirx0]

jesień wspaniale pasuje do Purcell`a

[Aniretak205]

I have this recording! The whole thing is absolutely stunning... until you get to the "main" witch. For some reason, she sounds like Anna Russell. XD

Viva Kirkby!

[drummerlead]

Very difficult to sing this properly, I agree. Seems as if the music of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is more difficult to sing than today's vocal music.

[sunshineyjessie]

"Seems as if the music of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries is more difficult to sing than today's vocal music."

Well of course!

[gnrosie]

could you please tell me where you found this version, as i cant find it anywhere, thank you

[tfsahaodj]

I agree- little people sing this properly. I like the pure noise that little people make- there's a lot to be said for vibrato-free choirboy voices in this opera... but that's just my opinion.

[BernardProfitendieu]

little people? are we talking midgets and dwarfs here? or just standard shorties?

[tfsahaodj]

About 2 short planks worth- viz, how thick you are.

[BernardProfitendieu]

uninformed - viz., what your opinions are

[tfsahaodj]

I made a joke about someone's use of English, You didn't get it, so I took the piss out of you. My opinions, informed or not (like you would know), are irrelevent. :-D

[BernardProfitendieu]

we agree on one thing: all your opinions are irrelevant (note the correct English spelling)

[tfsahaodj]

I wish I could meet you so I could be rude to you in person; any idiot can give a good come-back with enough time to think about it!

[BernardProfitendieu]

apparently not ANY idiot ... it took you a whole week for THAT?

[tfsahaodj]

I've been busy- some of us get to go and do things that don't permit ready and immediate internet access for long periods of time, unlike some desk-jockeys with nothing better to do than play at flame wars on the internet. Now shut up; you're filling up my hotmail (junkmail) inbox with your purile gibbering.

[BernardProfitendieu]

lol !!

[MattiasXL]

You can turn off e-mail alerts.

[cesarsalgado1972]

Very little people can sing this properly. What about Emma Kirkby? Yes, she can... :-)

[elliotf282]

@cesarsalgado1972 what about very big people?

[cesarsalgado1972]

@elliotf282 I used "little" instead of "few", yes, there are a few false friends for foreigners forcibly fostering founding fathers' funny fables from Facebook. You are right and I was left... :-P

[elliotf282]

@cesarsalgado1972 lool:P i just got this funny image of small people singing it. have a lovely weekend.