Jeff Buckley Dido's Lament - Best Remastered 2016
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This video is remastered by a friend of ours, he is a sound engineer and musician. It's the most powerful remastered version in You Tube. You can hear all the instruments clearly, and you can hear Jeff's articulation when he sings, his vowels and technique, and of course, the feeling of the performance! He removed talks and claps for having a clearer option of the song . I think he has done great job!
Meltdown Festival, July 1st 1995.
Lyrics:
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.
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Here is a text by Philip Sheppard, the cellist who played with Jeff that night. He posted it to his blog and also made a radio program talking about this. Must listen and read. Find the links at the end of the page.
PLAYING WITH JEFF BUCKLEY
by Philip Sheppard
"I’ve just found something on youtube that I’ve been searching for for years - literally…
Jeff Buckley singing, with pianist Catherine Edwards, violinist Ian Bolton and me on cello, in Elvis Costello’s Meltdown Festival, July 1st 1995.
Listen to this. I mean, no-one can sing like that. No-one should be physically able to sing like that.
I remember, this singer arrived really late, just before the show, disheveled, all cheekbones, cool hair, black jeans and the biggest boots you’ve ever seen supporting a rake thin body.
He apologised - got out his music - a kid’s exercise book with the lyrics of the songs written out in a crazy biro scrawl. - If a word was written high up the page, well then it meant it was a high note.
At one point he asked me what country he was in… he was confused between Germany and the UK that day as I think he’d flown in with little sleep.
And then he sang".
(As Elvis Costello remembers: "When he started singing Dido’s Lament at the rehearsal, there were all these classical musicians who could not believe it. Here’s a guy shuffling up on-stage and singing a piece of music normally thought to be the property of certain types of specifically developed voice, and he’s just singing, not doing it like a party piece, but doing something with it").
That’s an understatement… I remember the lights being pretty bright and the silhouette of his frame as he bent almost double to wrench every ounce of meaning from a song written 300 hundred years ago. Better than any classical musician I’ve ever heard.
I can’t remember anything straight after that, but Elvis Costello wrote in Mojo: "My last memory of him was at the little party in the green room afterwards. There were all these people sitting round Jeff who’d never met before - Fretwork, the viol group, a classical pianist and some jazz player - all talking and laughing about music. He’d charmed everybody. I’d much rather remember that than anything".
I’ve been so lucky to have been able to play the cello with some of the most amazing musicians, but by far the greatest was Jeff Buckley. Of course he’s shot up the charts recently through his beautiful cover of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah - surely the antithesis of X-Factor..?
This is Henry Purcell’s Dido’s Lament from Dido and Aeneas. But listen to this - Just. listen. to. it…
Here’s an extract from a Radio 4 Documentary when I talked about it: • Jeff Buckley - Dido's ...
Blog: philipsheppard.com/2009/02/10...
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He is actually doing the thing AS IT IS INTENDED, a lamentation, a deep sorrow and sad call for being remembered. He did great here!
Jeff Buckley's voice makes my bones go cold. Every time.
Easily my favorite performance of all time. It’s absolutely criminal this wasn’t professionally recorded and filmed.
@manbearpig8012
Жыл бұрын
It was filmed think I saw elvis costello has the video just has never released it. I'm the same I have to see him sing it live
@mlebron20
Жыл бұрын
It’s been recorded. Elvis Costello has it. He refuses to release it, despite many requests that he do so.
@xBurningGiraffex
2 ай бұрын
Damn it Costello what the fuck
Jessie Norman’s easily found version on line illustrates how much of a different league an operatic performer plays in terms of vocal power. That said, Jeff’s performance actually feels like a true lament all the way down and why I return again and again to his performance. His emotional intelligence is unsurpassed.
@Pneuma3339
4 жыл бұрын
Theodore Russell and that’s where a lot of people get it wrong. Being in a different league in terms of performance has zero effect when the true intent of the piece was the emotional side which Jeff nailed and was on a different level than about all operatic performers.
@dennisjohnston7967
4 жыл бұрын
@@Pneuma3339 have to agree here and the only one I found that does to me what Jeff's performance did was Klaus Nomi.
@thallocub
4 жыл бұрын
@@Pneuma3339 I am a musicologist and an opea singer and I approve this message ehehe Purcell would be enthusiast about Jeff Buckley's rendition
@KingMinosxxvi
4 жыл бұрын
This is a remastering of an absolutely awful just happed to be recording recording....so I think jeff's technical capacity is not really being illustrated...especially because he was not an opera singer and he pretty much just walk in of the street and was like i can try this.
@hopelove6658
2 жыл бұрын
@@KingMinosxxvi agree
So brave to attempt to sing this and he did it beautifully, soulfully.
The passion in his voice crushes me. What could have been.
@dontfeedmethatbullshit.447
5 жыл бұрын
Did they find out if it was suicide or an accidental drowning?
@desdiy5195
5 жыл бұрын
@@dontfeedmethatbullshit.447 I still wonder
@desdiy5195
4 жыл бұрын
Any comment, anyone?
@cremetangerine82
4 жыл бұрын
ElNesto Jeff died due to accidental drowning.
@hopelove6658
2 жыл бұрын
@@desdiy5195 I feel it was accidental but he always knew it was fate... It is an absolutely gorgeous time of evening and view of river around the time he went into to the water. I can easily see why he would take a dip although I judged it before I actually saw it. I just visited death scene last week in Memphis and drove by his now abandoned and dilapidated home on Rembert. Stayed a mile from there. What a shame. It should be turned into a museum. Made me absolutely sick to my soul. Will probably be condemned soon. Its awful.
This doesn't sound like any countertenor I have ever heard before. I think he is not using "falsetto" at any point, whatever we mean by that term. This is his full-voice natural range. I'd call it a male alto, the only one I have ever heard with such power. But that's just a physical description of what he's doing, and extraordinary as it sounds, that's not the point. It's... supernatural, unearthly. Haunting, yes, but more. This is an evocation of death itself, sounding as if it is already coming from beyond the doorway, and receding into infinity. Incredible. Something that goes beyond even artistry, into realms outside human experience. One can only listen in awe.
@ThinWhiteAxe
7 ай бұрын
No, I think he has a lot of mix. There is probably falsetto on the higher notes but it's very strong.
Hauntingly beautiful. His voice is other worldly. 👼
If there is an afterlife...Jeff is one of the artists I'm sitting down and speaking to. Even if there's a line the solar system long...I'm going to be that annoying person who asks him to sing Dido's lament again lol What a voice...out of this damned world. Woah.
@n.j.t262
Жыл бұрын
Well, there is an afterlife. So that's something to look forward to. Enjoy the ride!
@LucileCoccinelle
5 ай бұрын
I always wished there was a video recording of this performance; so your idea is the most realistic chance I'll get to see him perform it, so see you in that line 👋
@peterbuckley9731
2 ай бұрын
So nicely put
Raw, unrestrained beauty.
A beautiful Face to match a beautiful voice! 💞💞
He is absolutely incredible. Miss you Jeff.
Thank you! Just thank you! And thank you Jeff!!!
Magnifique, désespéré, déchirant, sa voix innocente et si pure porte toute la condition humaine.
Thank you so much this perfect voice and perfect emotions! Jeff my best singer.
Tears of utter joy for this rare jewel. Thank you for remastering.
This is so eerie, particularly considering his eventual end. Very fitting auto-epigraph.
Simply fantastic.
incredible..RIP
This lament, this sorrow, takes me back to 2013, times when i’ve played this amazing masterpiece. Such voice, such talent, a truly sorrow from the bottom of his heart…
Jessye Norman is an absolute QUEEN. And her vocals on this song are impossibly perfect. However... Jeff Buckley's version literally brings me to tears. It's not technically perfect, but he completely embodies the emotion behind it. Especially considering he passed at such a young age. My goodness.
So special interpretation! Unique!
Such an unique, unbelievable art of singing...Jeff - gone too soon - was this Gods mystic plan?!? I can't believe... 😪...listen to Klaus Nomi who sang this lament shortly before he died...totally different from Jeffs version, but Klaus was aware he had to die and his interpretation is also heartbreaking...!
What a devine voice & song gone way to fucking soon thanks for all u gave & left us with rip Jeff always in my heart & soul.............👍❤️☮️😻🙏🤟🔥😪😹
Christ help his soul ☦️ Beautiful
Perfect
Interesting to me that Philip himself was seeking a recording of this "for years" when I had been hoping a proper recording would come out one day through Elvis Costello who curated the whole event, or someone else behind the scenes. Maybe in keeping with Jeff's mysterious life and times, this is all we'll ever hear of his amazing performance then.
@ns2110theonly
5 жыл бұрын
True Funk Soldier It boggles my mind that his mother wouldn’t want this out there. I believe she has access to this recording. It’s just a waste if the world can’t hear it properly. And if Elvis Costello has any rights and isn’t releasing it then he is the prick I’ve heard him to be.
Whaaat amazing
I don't think there will ever be a more capable, diverse, and evocative singer. Not a generational talent, a historical talent. Just ethereal. Rip Jeff
His voice is angelic.
Bless you!
How is this real????
amazing!!
beautiful, thanks
Annie Lennox put out a version of this during COVID lockdown which was very apt and moving
@ritahorvath8207
6 ай бұрын
. and she is definitely the better singer . . . .
Amazing quality. Thanks for your work and for sharing.
wow! thank you for that! i just listened to Flagstad and loved it and now I hear Jeff and it's as beautiful and touching. it's incredible what he could do with his voice!!!!!❤
As with many of his songs and performances, this, too, is all the more eerie considering his fate.
Raw talent, beautiful and tragic.
this is beautiful! I'm surprised rufus wainwright hasn't done this? he would be fabulous also. cheers 🍾🍾🍾🏳️🌈
17 11 2018
Tender
seeing this performance would be so touching and overwhelming... anybody knows about a capture of it?
@hopelove6658
2 жыл бұрын
Agree. Anyone know?!!!
@kevtruth
Жыл бұрын
Costello's jaw must have been on the floor at the end
@manbearpig8012
Жыл бұрын
Think I remember seeing elvis costello has it recorded but has never released hope he does someday
Hello, I am a film student, does anyone know if this piece can be used in a student short film?
@jakelm4256
9 ай бұрын
Just use it
@ritahorvath8207
6 ай бұрын
Research some interpretations by well educated countertenors, it might support your film better ...
Aeneas really did Dido dirty
Imo this version kzread.info/dash/bejne/pXVpt6ObnJS1h7w.html sounds better and you can hear Buckleys voice.
Что так невесело?
@ritahorvath8207
6 ай бұрын
Because it is a lamentation ... .