Shakespeare channeled by Gilmour. Simply Beautiful . Thank you Feisal Kamil ! Sonnet 18 is arguably the best known and most beloved of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets. Here it is being recorded at Astoria, David Gilmour’s houseboat on the Thames.
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate;
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm’d;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
–William Shakespeare
madame scientist's not-so-mad musings 
Or in terms an engineer can understand: http://xkcd.com/1026/
Haha, trust xkcd to come up with this 🙂
Sonnet 18 the most loved? A friend called Joanna Spencer always used to say sonnet 116 was his best – a meeting of minds? Rsv
Sonnet 130 is pretty well known and oft quoted: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun.
A reference to his Dark Lady.
Who knew, right Kimberly Brosnan ?
Ok, put me in your music circle, #DavidGilmour is my FAV artist!
Done, Mike Phillips 🙂 Did you miss the fan fest yesterday on the event of Gilmour’s B-Day? This one was a find from the comment stream: https://plus.google.com/u/0/114601143134471609087/posts/aReQcA1hrRr
Rajini Rao I DID!!! Thanks!!!
Oh, that just made me very happy. Thank you so much.
That is a lovely version, too Feisal Kamil . YouTube took me to a few more. Just heard Alan Rickman Reciting Sonnet 130. Too bad that the glorious Benedict Cumberbatch appears not to have recited Shakespeare, described on YouTube, “His voice is like a jaguar hidden inside a chocolate-covered cello lined with soft, diamond-incrusted velvet.” Mixed metaphors, but I get it 🙂
So long as posts like this do make the stream,
So long I leave my lights and cares, and dream.
Was this post, by any chance, sparked off by yesterday’s xkcd?
Manish Goregaokar , Feisal actually posted this link along with the xkcd comic but I had not got around to listening until today.
Thank you, Feisal Kamil ! I have a tribute to First Women in Science and Tech coming up for International Women’s Day (it’s not tomorrow yet where I am..you know what I mean, haha).
Awesome find and post, boss! What a voice Gilmour still has, I had no idea. Always nice to find a musician successfully put flare into the bard’s work (being a member of Pink Floyd makes it particularly special). One of my favorites has to be Sonnet 29 (For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings That then I scorn to change my state with kings’), and I actually like the way Rufus Wainwright performs it. The end could use a little work, but overall it’s quite catchy.
Rufus Wainwright, Sonnet 29 (When, in disgrace), Spoleto Festival, June 26, 2010
Brilliant and beautifully done. Thanks to both of you!
great one to wake up to.
What an amazing recording studio. A very nice song – although I feel he could have improved the meter to make ‘temperate’ fit better 😉
Still a master at his craft, after all these years.