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Have you heard the CD of duets that Cecelia and Bryn Terfel did? FANTASTIC stuff. Their voices were made to sing together.
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No, I haven't. I've heard that Byrn Terfel is really good...I'm sure I'll get something with him in it sooner or later, probably not an album first though. I tend to go for the whole enchilada before I buy the soloist album stuff. Bartoli is my one exception.
Might as well get the Bartoli/Terfel duo set then? http://www.geneve.ch/fao/2004/images...artoli_big.jpg
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You need to hop on iTunes and listen to some of his stuff--he's the sort of baritone that I envy hugely. While my voice is baritonal and very light/thin, his is big and has a bass' richness.
He's probably my favorite baritone, although I also love Samuel Ramey. |
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It can be very hard some times, and really in a few cases it boils down to the fact that some times the only -real- difference between a Baritone and a Bass is that some 'Baritones' are Basses who have learned the trick of singing into head voice properly, and some 'Basses' are Baritones who never got their head voice act together .
There's one Bass (who's name I can't think of right now) that's somewhat popular and he can sing well up into the Baritone/Tenor range with great ease. I also know my old voice teacher's husband was a Bass II who could sing (don't know about easily, but he could do it) up to a C7 at least. I met another Bass once who sang tenor arias for kicks, and of course my current male voice teacher has a mellow baritone voice, but sings Nessun Dorma up to the D#5. So go figure . |
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It's all over the place, isn't it...
I'm sure thats always how it's been. Maybe. Possibly. Robert Lylod must a Bass XVI, because his voice is pretty deep
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Ever heard of Tim Storms?
Oh my GOD, his voice is LOW. Like, beyond low-kind-of-low. There's this thing where he sings amazing grace with some other singers, does a solo, and then starts doing some bass harmonies that are incredibly, incredibly low. So low that they really don't sound like vocals any more... sort of the male version of whistle register, I suppose. Except that males can use whistle register. OH NOEZ! My analogy has failed me. |
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Well whistles aren't exactly synonomous with LOWness
Never heard of him, but I'll look him up on google in just a sec... EDIT: Holy cow...Guinness records setting. Two octaves lower than a piano?!!!
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Hey, that is neat. I'll have to look into it....
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Relistening to some of Bryn Terfel's stuff tonight. OMG, sooooo fantastic. He does this amazing little 'quazi-falsetto' riff on Non Piu Andrai from the Marriage of Figaro that I absolutely adore.
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I like falsetto, for the most part...but I have a hard time liking the countertenor sound.
What do you think of Rolando Villazon? Pretty big hype about him, even in my Gramophone Guide, and I've nearly bought an album of his two or three times...
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You guys sure leave a lot of the talking to me...
*looks around the Opera House* Hello? *cold wind blows through open window.
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Alright, lets talk Renee Fleming.
Ah, Renee, how you taunt me so. Do I like you? Do I hate you? Do I enjoy some of your work, but not all of it? Do you -really- think that you're an alto? 'cuz, guuuurl lemme tell you, dem low notes ain't in your range, despite the fact that you can grumble them out. I must confess that in listening to Renee Fleming the other day, I'm starting to enjoy some of her newer recordings. Not all of them... frankly I'm still a bit iffy on her Handel album, but I'm starting to kind of like it. Damn it all. Still love some of her old stuff, for sure. My only real complaint, I suppose, is that it just feels like she adds too much weight to her sound some times. She'll be singing along incredibly, just floating and sounding phenomenal, and then WHAM!!!!! She'll slam into some consonant, or 'ae' vowel like a 600lb sumo-wrestler. It's kind of her 'signature' way of singing, I guess. Maybe I just need more time to get used to it. She did do this gorgeous aria from an opera called... Susanna I think, and that was absolutely incredible. Top notch. I heard it on the radio a few months ago, and I still remember that it was amazing. Also I lied. I love her jazz voice, especially those out-of-her-range low notes . What a sexy lower register... most of the (trained) sopranos I know can sing that low, but just aren't as comfortable with it as she is. Know who's improved with age? Natalie Dessay. OMG. I could start such a bitch-fight with anyone who didn't like her. She's -awesome-! She used to have a bit of a thin voice, but has since built up a much richer, more resonant sound, and she has SUCH a gorgeous way of floating on those top notes! Also what an amazing recovery. She had surgery on both cords and, in possibly the come-back of the century, was able to continue singing -better- than ever. Not your every day occurrence. She just came out with a new CD, and if you listen to the tracks, her voice is richer and fuller now than it ever used to be. Proof that even a professional singer can often be using terrible technique. But my God, what an improvement! With better technique, her voice is even more glorious than it ever was. Unless, of course, it's all the magic of studio editing. Dare I accuse such a song-goddess of that? Nah. I'll keep the faith . |
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I really think (at least in the later recordings) singers like Fleming, Horne, Samuel Ramie, and such are best reserved for after you've had a taste of 'Opera Lite' as I like to call it . Of course I'm sure it will differ from person to person, but I remember I was -floored- the first time I heard my choir master's wife... Huge, rich voice, but a -completely- different sound from those 'wobbly' opera stars I had heard before. However, since exploring further, I've come to enjoy a few of those wobbly opera singers a bit more . Quote:
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She had surgery on one vocal cord, and then later followed it up with surgery on her other cord. Amazingly enough, it healed with either no scarring, or so little that it didn't effect her sound adversely. Typically when surgery must be performed, there is a loss of range, power, and often the person's voice never fully recovers. However, after she recovered, Natalie improved her technique, and now she quite literally sounds better than ever. Removing most of the straining from her voice has made her sound fuller, and richer. Mind you, I think she sings things a step or so lower now, but then she's getting about middle-aged, so if she is... I can forgive her . Quote:
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