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  • Lol... This should be a joke... Pop singers should never try to sing opera... It becomes this...

    For the others who like this song from him, please try to listen from Lawrence Brownlee or Rolando Villazon...

  • Ecoutez la version de Salvatore Licitra !

  • what a beautiful song, he's so talented

  • I love it.

  • Que c'est magnifique je l'écoute en boucle toujours autant de frissons me parcours

    merci David c'est vraiment trop beau,magnifique pas de qualificatif pour tout se que tu peux mous faire vivre à travers toi .....Un grand MERCI ...

  • I love Roger almost as much as I love David but Mr. Gilmour here proves how pathetic Roger's attempts at singing was throughout the last decade.

  • So beautiful!!

  • David, tu as toujours su nous émerveiller mais la tu nous fais l'offre d'une partie de toi.. Merci pour TOUT ce que tu as fais.. toi et les grands du panthéon du rock.. merci pour cet héritage que vous nous laissez.. et que nous laisserons a nos enfants a notre tour..

  • We don't need no education...

  • Wonderful!!!!!!

  • J'aime pas ! ca n'a aucun rapport avec la vraie version !

  • @MrFrenchaccent Justement...

  • this is one of the most amazing operas, but i dont like what david did with it.... its ment to be for opera...better if he did it with his guitar

  • This is my singlemost favorite song in the entire world ... awesome of David to do it, in french, no less!

  • Quelle splendide musique, que c est beau !!!! Jolis arrangements... bravo maître !!!

  • SUBLIMISSIME.... MERCI ...kiki.......

  • Magnifique sa me fait plaisir de voir David Gilmour chanter en français ! :)

  • Entendre les percussions de la gloire! et de la vérité

  • Je suis sur le cul ! I'm on my ass !

  • É um equívoco dizer que o David Gilmour arrasa nessa música. Eu diria que ele é muito corajoso de regravá-la. Ficou bonita, ele canta macio, as cordas e o 'coral' que carregam a música. A pronuncia ficou devendo e quanto a voz necessária para cantar essa ária, acho que ele teria que nascer mais umas 3 vezes, daí, quem sabe? A maior verdade é que ele tem vontade de cantar a música. Isso é certo. Eu não sei fazer melhor que ele, mas conheço muitos q conseguem. Então parabéns a coragem do Gilmour!

  • Excellent musicien ( et jolie voix ) qui pratique ici un "cross-over" qui a sans doute permis à une partie du public de découvrir cette mélodie sublime ( n'est-ce pas l'essentiel ? ). Evidemment, pour les puristes, la pilule risque d'être plus dure à avaler: absence de soutien de la ligne de chant, texte approximatif ( et pas toujours à la bonne place), choeur hasardeux.

    Pas de quoi se fâcher.

  • Love it - what a great haunting jazz version. Has anyone heard Alison Moyet doing a similar version on her Album Voice? Brilliant. Not only does it introduce great operatic melodies to wider listeners, but it creatively invents the old standards for the opera audience also. Brill!

  • J'étais au Palais des Congrès de Paris le 23 janvier 2002 et quelle merveilleuse surprise quand David a entonné ce morceau. Quelle nuit enchanteresse et quel souvenir charmant !!!!

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  • Amazing music

  • de sacré souvenir en écoutant cette version .

  • Magnifique ce David !

  • Superbe interprétation, suis fan de David Gilmour et de Pink Floyd

  • i seem to hear again in english

  • To suggest that Gilmour's voice is "bloody awful" is, of course, subjective; however, the notion that "this aria should be left to the experts" is pure elitist snobbery. By performing this piece -- and quite beautifully, in my opinion -- Gilmour has exposed an entire new audience to a tune they might otherwise never have experienced. And that's what music is supposed to be: an experience. Not just for tiara and bow tie set, but everyone.

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  • Is this available on CD or for download as an audio file anywhere?

  • Thank you for posting this video, David"s performances never cease to remind me of how fortunate we all are !! May his music live forever !!

  • @MrGJHIII I completely agree with U. Long live Pink Floyd! THey are simply the best and we are very lucky to hear them whenever we want....They bring the best in me!

  • Thank you for posting this video, David"s performances never cease to remind me of how fortunate we all are !!

  • this aria should be left to the experts, bloody awful singing

  • Je crois entendre encore Cache sous les palmiers Sa voix tendre et sonore Comme un chant de ramiers. Oh nuit enchanteresse Divin ravissement Oh souvenir charmant, Folle ivresse, doux reve! Aux clartes des etoiles Je crois encor la voir Entr'ouvrir ses longs voiles Aux vents tiedes du soir. Oh nuit enchanteresse Divin ravissement Oh souvenir charmant Folle ivresse, doux reve! Charmant Souvenir! Charmant Souvenir!
  • Absurd.

  • just beautiful!!

  • How the fuck you dislike this you bastard!

  • Im not from France and its the only song in french that I like. lol.

  • Lyrics: Je crois entendre encore Cache sous les palmiers Sa voix tendre et sonore Comme un chant de ramiers. Oh nuit enchanteresse Divin ravissement Oh souvenir charmant, Folle ivresse, doux reve! Aux clartes des etoiles Je crois encor la voir Entr'ouvrir ses longs voiles Aux vents tiedes du soir. Oh nuit enchanteresse Divin ravissement Oh souvenir charmant Folle ivresse, doux reve! Charmant Souvenir! Charmant Souvenir!
  • Lovely! TY for posting.

  • merci david

  • étonamment j'aime bien (il n'y a que les cons qui ne changent pas d'avis)^^

  • I am a true opera fan as well as an rock 'n roll lover and The Floyd is one of my favorite band and IMHO, this is a perfect encounter of these two worlds and a proof that there are only two sorts of music, the good one and the bad one! Gilmour (what a genious by the way) has certainly not the voice of Lawrence Brownlee or Alfredo Kraus but he does not pretend to vie with them! He just want to transmit an emotion and he perfectely does!

  • In arguing whether voice or lyrical ballad is idiotic, do not you feel the sense used in music?

    Brazil's Fernando Cipó

  • David, mais comment tu fais pour nous donner des frissons comme ça???

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  • wow je savais pas que David Gilmour chante en francais

  • @rikwar qui :)

  • J'aime la France et la musique francais; merci pour partage

  • far from pink floyd......

  • @amyinthahouse no shit sherlock

  • David, marie-moi !! trop cute !! Charmant, tu es !!!

  • david gilmour et bizet would be firends

  • Il chante bien français... on peut pas en dire autant de Matthew Bellamy ( cf: I belong to you). cela dit j'adore Muse aussi. quel plaisir d'écouter David.

  • I still believe I hear Hidden under the palm trees His tender voice and sound Like a song of a dove. Oh night enchantress Divine rapture Oh delightful thought Mad intoxication, sweet dream! To starlight I still believe I see Long sails The warm wind in the evening. Oh night enchantress Divine rapture Oh delightful memory Mad intoxication, sweet dream! Charmant Souvenir! Charmant Souvenir!
  • I think this is a gem..why are ther eso many dislikes? is there some history about this song I am missing?

  • Cher Carnaval, ce n'est pas une question de voix, encore que celle de Gilmour soit une voix de petit garçon... C'est une question de style: comme tu le dis, un chanteur lyrique aurait sans doute du mal à chanter de la variété, bien que N.Dessay y arrive parfaitement. mais chanter du lyrique avec ce genre de voix de châtré, ça fait rire les oiseaux !...

  • @louvet66

    Vous n'avez pas dû entendre beaucoup de voix de petits garçons dans votre vie...

  • @AZERTYoscar Je trouve aussi que c'est pénible d'entendre un pauvre vieux comme lui s'efforcer de rester jeune en allégeant sa voix jusqu 'au ridicule. Pour clore le débat, allez écouter Villazon, Björling ou Domingo (tant d'autres d'ailleurs) et vous comprendrez ce que chanter une aria lyrique veut dire. Peut-être...

  • @louvet66

    Votre analyse est un non-sens musical. Vous jugez un chanteur pop avec des critères de chant lyrique.

  • @AZERTYoscar oui, c'est vrai mais il ne faut pas qu'il s'aventure dans le lyrique avec une si pauvre voix...

    Qu'il reste dans ses ballades, c'est ce qu'il fait de mieux et là au moins il n'abîme pas la musique! Pauvre Nadir.

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  • Cet homme représente les derniers vestiges de la musique contemporaine avant la chute vertigineuse des années 2000 au même titre que Neil young ou David Bowie pour ne citer que eux.

    Devant le néant artistique qui s'impose a nous, ce genre de performance mérite l'indulgence et le recul.

  • @So6renegade Il y a encore de belles choses mais il faut chercher loin. Comme par exemple : It's easier now (de magnolia electric co) ou encore fusions (d'Erik Mongrain)...

    La musique dite "commerciale" n'est pas jouée par ce que l'on peut appeller un artiste, mais ça a plus ou moins toujours été le cas. Ma devise est : "ce que l'on n'entend pas à la radio a de bonnes chances d'être écoutable". Le reste...

  • tres bonne perfomance , oui il fausse , mais l'émotion vaut ben plus qu'une note parfaite ... 5/5 David !

  • I don't understand what the hell he's saying but I had to shed a tear. Such emotion.

  • @juegas I still believe I hear Hidden under the palm trees His tender voice and sound Like a song of a dove. Oh night enchantress Divine rapture Oh delightful thought Mad intoxication, sweet dream! To starlight I still believe I see Long sails The warm wind in the evening. Oh night enchantress Divine rapture Oh delightful memory Mad intoxication, sweet dream! Charmant Souvenir! Charmant Souvenir!
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  • trees interessant.

  • I would think he loved this aria growing up and wanted to share it. Beautiful piece of music.

  • Et mais je rêve o_o Les gens sont fous. On s'en fou qu'il a pas une voix extrêmement puissante, c'est magnifique à entendre.

  • I think i creamed my pants.. :D

  • Qu'est-ce que c'est que cette vieille voix de chaudron fêlée? Je me demande ce que penserait les afficionados de la chansonnette si on leur chantait leurs idoles en voix lyrique? ça pourrait être drôle mais pas autant que là!

  • @louvet66 Mais arrete de dire n'importe quoi, Il fait a sa sauce et c'est pas mal du tout. Il a le droit de reprendre ce theme de musique classique, si c'est fait correctement pourquoi pas..!

  • @defda94 Justement ce n'est pas fait correctement. Tu ne peux pas juger, tu n'y connais apparemment rien en lyrique. Il faut pour cet aria un ténor léger, lyrique à la rigueur. Capito ?

  • @louvet66 pour moi son morceau est correct et j'aime bien meme si je prefere largement l'original. Evidement c'est pas un chanteur lyrique mais je m'en fou..! si tu te renseigne un peu plus sur la facon dont on compose nos cher compositeurs de musique classique, on voit que beaucoups s'inspire des airs et des chants populaires de leur pays, des ''chansonnettes'' comme tu dis. Tu as Granados, Bartok, villa-lobos et plein d'autres et leurs musiques plaient a enormement de gens donc bon...

  • @defda94 Tu as raison pour la composition mais pas pour l'interprétation. Que ça plaisent,tant mieux ça lui fait du bizness, mais artistiquement ça vaut pas un clou. Il a la voix dans les chaussettes, même pas, il n'a aucune voix.

  • @louvet66 Non, c'est pas qu'il n'a pas de voix, c'est qu'il n'a pas une voix qui correspond au style de musique que tu aime. Les chanteurs d'opéra ont une technique très développée, certe, mais la plupart seraient complètement incapables de chanter des morceaux comme The Nile Song ou Money.

    J'aimerais bien que les gens apprécient l'ouverture d'esprit plutôt que de détruire les musiciens qui reprennent leur morceaux préférés alors qu'ils viennent d'un autre genre. Ça ferait du bien.

  • je ne supporte pas ceux qui critiquent. Moi il me touche profondément avec cette chanson. Quelle surprise la première fois que je l'ai entendu !... charmants souvenirs

  • Perfectly. Gilmour is very good. If people think otherwise, I do not care. The man can sing and play guitar. I like it.

  • I believe I hear again

    Hiden under the trees

    her voice tender and deep

    like a "ramier"'s chant (guys on the waters at venezia)

    O night, [...I can't understand the next]

    1:42 At the light of the stars

    I believe I hear again the voice

  • Gilmour is genius but this is really pathetic. Listen to Tino Rossi.

  • C'est vrai que c'est surprenant,

    ça me fait presque penser à William Sheller

  • Dave Gilmour should be Nighted. He has given us some of the best sounds were ever gunna here.

  • @ThaiMike2010

    jezzuz... lighten up the guy's like, 60 fuckin years old!

  • that's so good!

  • Chucho Merchan Contrabass!!!!! Que viva Colombia, carajo

    C'est une excellente version

  • @maxhansendk If you can do it better , come on i'm waiting for your video performance in you tube, dont be shy ;)

  • nice try gilmour maybe stick to guitar next time! lol j/k j/k

  • Michael Kamen on Fagot. RIP Michael, Rip Richard..

  • that cello is just... hauntingly beautiful.. gets the whole mood going on

  • i know lot of people dont like his version, but i personally love it! it´s amazing, i love his voice, his feeling...maybe for some ppl i can be stupid, but i like it more then the opera version

  • замечательный !!!

  • Sublime !!!

  • I personally don't like this - besides the cello - but if it can lead people to listening to Villazon or Gigli then it is great. I guess that is rarely the case though.

    I hope he paid the cellist well.

  • @Erikenate I really dislike your hearing , you should really go to a doctor

    @maxhansendk It makes me sad that you are such a douche bag

    Gilmour is a fucking genious, so shut the fcuk up and listen

  • @JuanpaLibo haha, true

  • @JuanpaLibo He certainly is no genious singing this song! In fact I can do a better version myself. And I am a very, very poor tenor....

  • @maxhansendk in fact this version is not at all about the singing, but people like you seem to put performance before heart, and it's a shame :(

  • @tazief It is "troublesome when as you put it:

    "This version is not at all about singing..."

    Because Bizets beautiful aria: "Je crois entendre encore" is famous for its outstanding beauty! - When sung by an educated skilled tenor....

    Why not scream the the entire melody? It would make a "heartacheing" performance. Or, better still, make a version with vuvuzelas?

    Na, Bizet is "rolling in his grave" because people who can´t sing - Do this beautiful song great injustice!!

  • @maxhansendk that's the difference between writing "this version" or "this piece".

    Gilmour can touch people's heart ( do you really need proofs for that?).

    It's not because you can't hear him that he can't sing (that would be a bit pretentious...).I agree that vocally speeking alfredo kraus fits more and I prefer his version but I prefer gilmour's one to a lot of "proper tenor's" that are supposed to be outstanding... my opinion and only mine, your opinion and only your's... be subjective ;)

  • @maxhansendk lets see your video faggot and do it better.

  • @JuanpaLibo Fucking genious...hmmmm maybe youa are right if I go by the words meaning. He could very possibly be a great lover (or "fucking" genious as you put it ;-)

  • I'm from France and it's the only song in french that I like .

  • @turkniktout You are a very limited human being then.

  • @saintsaens21 cool

  • @turkniktout Toi aussi tu fait parti du club des allergiques de la musique francophone ! =)

  • @AlexBadsmile Oui ^^.

  • @AlexBadsmile Moi aussi. Pourtant, j'aime bien les films en français.

  • @666mathew De nombreux films francophone sont très bien, c'est un art qu'on maîtrise plus il faut croire.

  • @AlexBadsmile En meme temps y a des supers trucs francais comme noir desir ou brel(meme si il est belge mais bon...) ou leo ferre

  • pour lui.....

  • Очень уважаю Гилмора,но не стоило ему эту арию петь.

  • voir ki chante en francais c chill

  • me encanta

  • C'est l'intention qui compte.... lol

  • Never mind..

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  • David Gilmore is allowed to sing this!

  • magnifique chanson

  • magnifique cet homme

  • Je crois avoir décélé une certaine quantité de personne avec un esprit étroit içi ;-)

    Ç'est malheureux !

  • The worst verison of this song you will ever hear - is this one!

    David Gilmore is practically commiting "rape" on this song!

    It was never meant to be sung by a weak voice riddled with mistakes.

    All in all, this is as bad a version (hopefully) you will ever come across.

    I am sure Bizet is rolling around in his grave absolutely disgusted...

  • @maxhansendk

    What is your problem ?

    You are very narrow minded !

  • @Aramis512 Why destroy a beautiful song?

    "Fanboys" will of course defend David Gilmours "raping" of Bizets beautiful song.

    This is an operatic masterpiece-Meant to be sung by well educated tenors.

    It makes my so sad people think this is how this song is normally sung...

    Please don´t ever do this again mister Gilmour. Stick to meaningless popsongs that simple people enjoy when they drink lots of alcohol...

  • @maxhansendk I disagree totally with you ! Are you a bit narrow minded ? I am not a psecific fan of David Gilmour but I am a fan of this version . This brought me to listen to the other ones ;-)

  • @maxhansendk It is sad that you will never know the brilliance of David. you are missing out if you think that just cause he is not an opera singer that this is a horrible perfomance. Great music surpasses silly genre titles and is just great music. He is not trying to be an opera singer, or a pop singer. if you only like opera and classical, don't watch a david gulmour performance, unless your trying to open up and enjoy other things... which you are clearly not.

  • @maxhansendk I totaly agree with you. Listen to the version of N. Gedda. You hear a real trained tenor who knows what he is doing instead of singing a song is a lower version because else he can't make it. I really dislike this version.

  • @maxhansendk Wow your life must be very boring if you say that Pink Floyd creates meaningless pop songs. Do you do stand ups as well?

  • @Rozq87 Where did I mention Pink Floyd?

  • @maxhansendk "Please don´t ever do this again mister Gilmour. Stick to meaningless popsongs that simple people enjoy when they drink lots of alcohol..." this is your quite. David Gilmour is the voice and the guitarist of Pink Floyd.

  • @Rozq87 OK, point taken. I thought Pink Floyd was buried and forgotten since long time... My mind only "recalls" some song about hatred towards school and teachers when I hear the name Pink Floyd. Song is childish with "naive lyrics" that lazy children love because they don´t like to work at school to accomplish succes.

    That kind of children usually end up with boring jobs and poor pay or unemployment. Because of that they turn to alcohol and drugs...

    Hmm...Maybe school is important after all.

  • @maxhansendk Well I can understand that original is a lot better than this but give him a break. He wanted to share his passion with the world. He usually performs his own stuff. As for the another brick in the wall you didn't get the message it would seem. The song is about mind control rather than about education per se.

    Cheers

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  • Absolutamente ridículo, sobre todo después de escuchar a Alfredo Kraus. ¿Este hombre no tiene sentido del ridículo ni nadie le ha dicho lo vergonzoso que resulta escucharle intentar llegar a los tonos de un tenor?

  • really, fuck you thumbs-down-people..

    what more do you want...?

    for fuck sake this is incredible music and unbelievable performance from a musician who has achieved everything and still expresses himself the original way

    there is absolutely no reason for thumbs down, only thumbs up!!

  • To all those who like authenticity, and spit on anything else; listen guys, most of people don't listen to Opera, and if it wasn't of david Gilmour, i would have never heard of this beautiful song. I listened after to Gigli, Rossi, Vanzo, Kraus, Domingo and others. And I could appreciate every version of this song.

    This version is certainly unique, soft and touching. Gilmour has an accessible voice for most of people, we are not talking about opera fans here! So thank you David for this.

  • @omarbakar

    Well said !

  • I am French and this is just purely great!

  • David Gilmour my Guitarman no1#, a real allrounder as we see :)

    Meltdown concert 2002, a great performance, and also available on DvD.

  • Je crois entendre encore, Caché sous les palmiers, Sa voix tendre et sonore Comme un chant de ramiiers! O nuit enchanteresse! Divin ravissenment! O souvenir charmant! Folle ivresse! doux rêve! Aux Clarté des étoiles; Je crois encore la voir, Entr'ouvir ses longs voiles Aux vents tièdes du soir! O nuit enchanteresse! Divin ravissement! O souvenir charmant! Folle ivresse! doux rêve! Charmant sduvenir!
  • dam whats bitten him to sing Bizet. Crazy diamond lol. But I wonder where does all this ppl come from who spend money to hear this

  • CURIOSO ESPERIMENTO, MA PER SENTIRE UNA BUONA INTERPRETAZIONE DI QUEST'ARIA BISOGNEREBBE ASCOLTARE UN CERTO ALFREDO KRAUS.

  • Beautifull. Softly and nice.

  • PERFECTION.

    Thank you very much for uploading.

  • I had to laugh at the comments. Here's Gilmour being flamed for attempting to sing in French by Frogs attempting to write in English.

    Their spelling and format is much worse than his singing.

  • @tomkanpa

    Well almost all the comments written in French were positive (two dozen at least) so I wouldn't take it too seriously. Not everyone likes everything. I think it's great.

  • @tomkanpa

    Narrow minded !

  • BRAVO DAVID TU EST LE MEILLEUR ET MERCI D'AVOIR CHANTE POUR LES FRANCOPHONES.

  • Always a disappointment when people get snobby about their music. In the context of the concert this is a wee gem. But you'd have to watch the lot to know that wouldn't you? Thank you Kamran10 for putting this up. Vive DG.

  • le génie de Gilmour est qu'il chante un petit peu faux et que le résultat en est que plus extraordinaire, une pure merveille, j' adore !!!!

  • Mais qu'est ce que tu racontes??? Ca veut rien dire ! en plus elle est nulle cette chanson c'est navrant de chez navrant !

  • O.o His french is perfect ! (I'm french so I know what i'n talking about...)

  • people must acept that the body has a limited time (at least, now). It's double sad becose to listed this old voice, like trying to scream but can't becose his Gerontologist didn't recomend it

  • It's like any bloke in a karaoke pub who would give a try at this song for the first time; if you want to keep intact your high opinion of Gilmour's art don't go listen to the same song by Tino Rossi and Beniamino Gigli.

  • How can people actually like this? It's like watching a train wreck in slow motion. Pitiful and insulting. There is not one single redeeming thing in this performance.

  • @sameoldscam get over yourself.

  • @sameoldscam

    Narrow minded

  • for the first time Gilmour sings in French WOW it's sensational ♥

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