Wainwright, Rufus - Sonnet 29 Lyrics

Que leitura e voz. Fazia tempo que não ouvia algo profundo. De arrepiar.

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Seems a bit cheerful for a sonnet about hating yourself and being bitter with envy.

high key boppin😤

Recently on KPBS.So beautifully presented.So much feeling and expression.A tearful but enjoyable and heartfelt entertainment!! You must keep bringing these works forth.Loved the video,over,and over!

The best yet.Shakespeare well performed.

Perfection

I'm just totally in love with this

Very nicely recited. Liked it very much.

very nice song

Since hearing, this has accompanied me everywhere. It's never far now. Thanks so very much.

So, so beautiful!

- Wonderful!

I wish that my heart could write this!

I had hoped they would have Lorena McKennit's version of "Cimbaline", but this more than fills the bill.

Just heard this on Shakespeare Live and oh my goodness

hey me too

Lo que se escribe ....lo que se dice y como se dice .....una fiesta para los sentidos. Salud Rufus !!!!

My favourite of all Shakespeare's sonnets, sung by one of my favourite artists. Makes me cry every time. Thank you, both.

a f****** genius

Brilliant, simply brilliant.

Gorgeous <3

A perfect musical arrangement to foreground this stunning lyric!

Love the use of a banjo in place of a lute, theobro or guitar. A brighter, louder sound.

Saw him sing this on "Shakespeare Live" - the highlight of the show for me

agreed susan. great performance. can't believe it's not on youtube somewhere.

Susan Gowan I saw this on there too!

Songs pretty aids if you ask me

The entire show is available on the PBS "Great Perfomances" web page.

good aids or bad aids though Chris....?

So did I - a complete revelation, in music as well as in text! Brilliant - yes!

what a wonderful rendition and part of a great celebration of The Bard

Beautiful

Stunning. I must learn it

stunning performance for the 400th anniversary

Fabulous

Just heard him on BBC2's homage to Shakespeare 23 April 2016! Brilliant, quite simply!

utterly beautiful....I am overwhelmed and cannot express my pleasure...

I am speechless !

Thanks, Ged for writing a quick translation. William was amazing. I would love to write as lovely as he did. :)

For Stephanie my true love, I would not trade my state with kings. Your love elevates me to the height of heaven's gates.

Love the 'reveal' of the lyric.

This is nice! Thank you for sharing.

Truly one of the most brilliant pieces he's ever done, and he's done some incredible work. This destroys me each time I hear it.

I live to experience art like this, that opens a window into a world of truth. Love, it is elusive it seems but oh how precious.

This is a gloriously accomplished collaboration of two brilliant artists, literary and musical. This is why We toil day to day and suffer the indignities of being human in a world so commonly in want of this transcendant beauty.

TheCatThatWasMan Wow, so that's what it's all about. At last it makes a little sense (enough? There is no choice) x

Truely lovely

Nothing spastic about my elbow. I'm sure this version would get three thumbs up on American Idol. This doesn't have anything to do with snobbery or ego. It's just that even as a song(?), it's poorly done. I'm going to keep looking and listening for a good version. Why must everything be turned into twinkies? If this comment angers some of you, don't take offense. There are others out there who know what this should sound like. Listen to a good version.
Good things aren't gained easily

You are sooooo out of touch with the human heart!

Can I ask what program you used to make the visual? I want to do something very similar and aren't sure where to start.

Someone spastic person must have hit the Dislike button by accident with an elbow! This is divine...

MiaSqueaky sublime

This is a beautiful sonnet with a beautiful message :) I love how Rufus Wainwright composed it, it's simply gorgeous. And I also love the words in time with the music in this video and the emphasis on love at the end. Just perfect!

Heard this in class a few months back. Love coming back every once and a while and listening to it!

this is the original " all you need is love"

great video!!!

Thank you for the "translation" to contemporary English for us, non-native speakers. Now I understand more though the Shakespeare old English version after about 10th reading and deep thinking was quite ok for me too. Anyway, how wonderful William's verses and how heartfelt Rufus' voice! Two pure geniuses!

When in disgrace and luck has deserted me. I sit alone I’m an outcast, and bother God with cries, that fall on deaf ears, i curse my fate,wishing I had this man’s good looks and that man’s friends,dissatisfied with the things I usually enjoy . as I’m thinking these thoughts hating myself, I think about you, and like a lark at daybreak rising up and leaving the earth to sing hymns to God. when I remember your sweet love, I feel so wealthy that I refuse to change places with kings.

I love how you did the graphics for this. Well done!

this is timeless , Shakespeare was a man so much ahead of his time :) genius, just pure genius.