NormanH

You might also appreciate her singing another rôle from the same Opera: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5wgVnzlnUQ

There is a particular mannerism that comes from the singers of popular music and which consists of starting just under pitch and then sliding up onto the note to give an impression of an increase of tension such as one might get from a crescendo, but which is very waring once one has spotted it. Never mind... There are some magic moments still to be found: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQlt1UxjvWU&html5=1 I can't help believing that when she sung this she had already had the diagnosis of cancer... So from virtuous toils well borne raise the hopes of endless light....

Obviously I agree; but I go a step further in that I rarely hear a reading of an older text (on the few occasions that they occur) where the readier shows any understanding of the meaning and especially the structure of the longer paragraphs. As an example the young woman who read the Ben Johnson 'I sing the birth was born tonight, The Author both of life and light: The angels so did sound it; And like the ravished shepherds said, Who saw the light and were afraid, Yet searched, and true they found it.' as if each line were end stopped, and so broke up the sense, rather then reading "And like the ravished shepherds said Who saw the light and were afraid Yet searched"  in one breath as is perfectly possible. The TV Carols from Kings bore the marks of being one too many things for them to do. The simple arrangement that used to be given by Woodward of 'Ding Dong Merrily on High' or of 'The Seven Joys of Mary' by Stainer are now replaced by over-worked over-elaborate arrangements with the organ

This is for Patf...but not only[:D] I came across this on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zeNxrfMrbI8&html5=1 I particularly enjoyed at 19'30 seconds

A nice biofilm of Julia Fischer whom I adore.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or91pSz0a10&html5=1

[quote user="Patf"]Post deleted, just trying another method, still  not working. [/quote] Is it making links clickable that you are trying to do?

In that vein I have a couple of singers I enjoy who are less well known than the famous jazz singers such as Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughn Madeleine Peyroux http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRR5YrpbBe4&list=RDh4stmQUlNhQ Then this unashamedly sentimental song about the experience of a child leaving home for adult life Isabelle Boulay (who has a magnifent voice also) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYB8ZDcPM9Q&html5=1 Then there is Ute Lemper...what a voice, what a performer, and in three languages! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYrNfjn3pgY&list=PLAC1718F66385FECAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxWpYd9CcIU&list=PLAC1718F66385FECA&html5=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxWpYd9CcIU&html5=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzvgV4lILSc

That was a great orchestra.under George Szell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXCD5Cuum6c&html5=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45Kx4KzfMn0&html5=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4JzA6q8CJs&html5=1 Makes those clickable The Mozart is played so sweetly it brings tears to the eyes..

I asked if anybody else here liked organ music, but got no response I played the organ for many years and had lessons with Peter Hurford who was organist at St Albans at the time. I find organ music a bit mechanical, but love the chorale preludes of Bach. I also learned the 'Cat' fugue, and the great Fantasia and Fugue in G minor and the Toccata Adagio and Fugue

In this sequence of pieces for tenor Horn and strings by Britten  the one at  13'45 is a dirge... Terrifying sound of everynight n all .. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ0ITqRBaE0&html5=1

This one? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTktcc4NqO4

And I was thinking of the fallacy that came in with Punk I think (the whole movement, not just the 'music') that you don't need technique or work to express feeling, just raw emotion will do. In fact those who have spent years acquiring skills, such as classically-trained   musicians or dancers are the object of derision for being uptight and incapable of expressing themselves.

Well I gave a link in the John Taverner thread to that occasion, but the music at that point was still suitably dignified. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezuIDtL6ydg leaving aside the absurd grunting of Reg Dwight which may be what you refer to ...

I liked a lot about the programme apart from the usual crass editing that has people talking over the music you want to listen to. Why on earth don't they put commentary in sub titles so it doesn't interfere aurally? Secondly it fall into the usual contemporary trap of confusing exuding emotion with profundity of feeling. Every thing now has to be 'dramatic' [:(] Thirdly it is a pity that the definition couldn't have been widened a bit to 'funeral music' to allow the splendid Purcell music to be included, or Bach (which  I find intensely moving in its understated simplicity and confidence) ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnGOQt3tn-Q&html5=1 My Favourite is Victoria as you might perhaps have imagined http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZoUi4OIYCE&html5=1 If we move to the big 'orchestral' works the one that stands out is the Brahms, but that hardly counts as a Requiem, more a 'Consolation' Here is a nice version without the usual fat sound and wobbly vibrato http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVBMhP0UcdU&html5=1

Not at all. What provoked that reaction?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03hhqck/Requiem/ To watch that in France Use Google Crome as your browser and install the Hola.org add on If you don't know how pm me [:D]

This is the movement that reminds us that he wrote incidental music to "A Midsummer Night's Dream" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emoyA7iGFKg I saw Kyung Wha Chung playing the Brahms in Exeter with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra... The first half was the Rite of Spring so it was a marvellous programme Here is  the Mendelssohn concero...I have linked to this version partly because I love the fire of Vengerov, but also because the Gewandhaus orchestra seems so appropriate... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJTiOPJ6g28

It's even better if you download from YouTube, and then listen, because then there is no problem with buffering. You can use this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/

Wonderful show as ever[:D] Speaking of sensational voices.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxWpYd9CcIU&list=PLA35947B78814B0DA&html5=1

Gyorgy Ligeti Concert Romanesc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBoNUEyASbQ&html5=1 You didn't mention that Mitsuko Uchida was playing the Beethoven 4... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XptkxSnshhE&html5=1 I adore her playing.

I will listen on iplayer so the time isn't too important. You aren't the first lady I have met who confuses the years. I know a couple who claim to be in their 30s [:-))]

Not sure if you can receive this Video of a Prom, but I hope so as I enjoyed it. One of my favourite Early Music Ensembles http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01d46zw

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I could have done without La Vie en Rose  ..[:(]