Dido's Lament - Fiona Campbell
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- Fiona Campbell sings Dido's Lament with Richard Tognetti and the Australian Chamber Orchestra.
Angel Place - Sydney - April 2011
Thy hand Belinda
Darkness shades me,
On thy bosom let me rest.
More I would, but death invades me.
Death is now a welcome guest.
When I am laid in earth,
May my wrongs create no trouble
In thy breast.
Remember me, but ah,
Forget my fate.
![Henry Purcell "Dido & Aeneas" [extrait] - Les Arts Florissants, William Christie](/img/n.gif)
L'interprétation, pleine de douceur, de Madame Fiona Campbell, convient à ma sensibilité.
A masterpiece aria for ever and ever.
Thank you. I sing this at the piano in dark times starting when I was 17 years old and did today. It is one of my favourite pieces to sing. Let us hope the covid 19 pandemic darkness and financial destruction of so many lifts soon. Actually Henry Purcell was alive at the time of London's worst plague - the Great Plague in the 1600s when 15% of those in London died so he probably knew only too well what we are suffering in London in 2020.
So beautiful. I love Fiona Campbell, having seen her perform so many times. One of the most beautiful of all voices.
What a beautiful open throat sound, she is so released! I'm really impressed with her diction, and phrasing.
The tempo is perfect, it really is. Moved me to tears, thanks for this exquisite rendition.
So beautiful! Bravo!
UNBELIEVABLY BEAUTIFUL
Splendid!
Aww That is incredible and beautiful. Fiona is so great....
Absolutely beautiful! Great job!
Grande musica, grande interprete. Commovente...
What an emotional tone!!!
wunderschönes Stück...wunderschöne Stimme....
Masterfully done - what I noticed in this performance was her light aerie head voice that she used on the high notes instead of belting them. (this is a death scene she slowly getting weaker light fading voice is correct approach for that drama) and she uses baroque musical ornaments at appropriate places in the piece (trills - appoggiaturas - etc.) strings were great too.
Wonderful! Lovely timbre, no incorrect ‘mask’ singing, and great ornamentation.
A really wonderful rendition of this difficult aria(which sounds easy,but isn't)It lays in in exactly the right place for her voice,she is obviously completely comfortable with the range of this piece,and given that she seems to have a rock steady technique she can allow herself to be as emotional as she wants.She also knows how to control the emotion,and not let it get out of hand.This is a voice to watch,a genuinely intelligent singer,this voice could develop into something really wonderful.
*She* is already wonderful enough for me.
Recitative:
Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me,
On thy bosom let me rest,
More I would, but Death invades me;
Death is now a welcome guest.
Aria:
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.
Beutiful 🌹 music!
molto bello...
A voice like chimes. Lovely.
Janet Baker will own this aria forever.
Mmm mmm good !
Jewel
Lovely timbre. just perfect for this type of music. Also great interpretation, not too overly emotional. The music and artist interpretation is supposed to draw emotional empathy from the audience and even make them weep.
+geekbaritone Indeed.
Dang those are some big honkin' violas.
Fiona, such wonderful control on the higher notes at 3:30 in the video on 'remember me'. Such good support on those notes, which allowed you to 'back off' the power and treat it in a beautiful legato fashion! Loved the melisma and the one trill that I heard. Such good Baroque interpretation! I was in Dido and Aeneas several years ago as Aeneas, singing opposite Amanda Crider as Dido and she did a stellar versions of the Lament. Many segments of this show were uploaded to TH-cam and perhaps you'd enjoy seeing what our production in Juneau, Alaska looked like: th-cam.com/video/arff6YF1458/w-d-xo.html
Hey Elsa!
Say what you want, only one of us is singing.
Lovely rendition but I still prefer the version by Janet Baker
Yes, her performances are immortal still.
Keith Hulks That rendition may never be equalled!
Yes!
I was going to say seconded, but others also agreed.
JB keeps it simple and doesn't add a multitude of embellishments, which are quite unnecessary and inappropriate.
Струны вытаскивают душу...
Gorgeous voice.ijust wish she made it LOOK easier
I don't understand the criticism here.
It's well sung; but if you don't want to be compared, maybe singing such a well-loved aria is a bad idea.
Everyone is always comparing
I'm not a fan of this version. It tends to drag so there's little sense of direction and it gets stuck. There are weird shadow vowels which don't lend themselves to the interpretation. The tuning is also pretty ropey. I feel like she is very musically intuitive but doesn't have instrument to quite bring her vision to life.
Perfect example of a cameraman not knowing what to focus on and the director not telling them.
Superfluous and totally inappropriate and unnecessary trills. Dido is in the process of dying, so would not add these embellishments. Purcell knew best.
Wonderful voice but its just so fake and 'acted' if she would just let the music penetrate her this would be so beautiful.
Too bad about the weird lip synching. It ruins an otherwise lovely performance.