With credit to Jamie Thraves, the Director behind the Coldplay video for 'The Scientist'.

In our latest digital adventure, we play with expectations of genre in this remake of Coldplay's hit music video 'The Scientist', with Purcell’s tragic ‘When I am Laid’ from Dido and Aeneas. The result is a modernday drama, recorded around London.

Watch the original Coldplay video here:
   • Coldplay  The Scientist (Official 4K...  

Featuring OAE’s Rising Stars alumnus, mezzosoprano Helen Charlston, our film is the second in a series of visually captivating remakes of iconic pop videos with baroque arias, to celebrate the enduring power of music, whatever the age.
Watch the first of our music video remake series featuring Baritone James Newby singing Handel's Cara Pianta, inspired by Radiohead here:
   • Handel ‘Cara pianta’ from Apollo e Da...  

If music is good, it’s good regardless of its genre. Love Coldplay. Love Purcell. Love Music.

This film is sponsored by Mark Allen Group, Gramophone.
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To find out more about this project please join us for a Zoom Webinar Thu 11 Mar 2021 | 6pm with Helen Charlston and James Newby. Helen and James will be joining us to talk about their experience as Rising Stars of the OAE, their careers so far, and taking us behind the scenes of this music video project. RSVP via the following link we'd love to see you there!' with a link here:
https://oae.co.uk/event/meettheband...

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With thanks to the OAE musicians

Violin I
Matthew Truscott

Violin II
Margaret Faultless

Viola
Annette Isserlis

Cello
Sarah McMahon

Double Bass
Liz Bradley

Oboe
Katharina Spreckelsen
Sarah Humphreys

Bassoon
Györgyi Farkas

Harpsichord
Steven Devine

Keyboard
Keith McGowan

Digital and Technical Director
Zen Grisdale

Engineer
Dave Hinitt


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