T. Allen and M. Martineau perform Ravel's "Cinq melodies populaires grecques"

[disruptore4]

I'm pretty sure he's in good voice.

[chrizosthemis]

great cycle ! and my favourite voice!

[3tristan]

Beautiful warm voice! I love these songs and I am studying them now. Good for me to hear these songs by the voice of a bariton, like me.

[interpreterr]

@3tristan Glad you like them!

[117mathieu]

j'ai beaucoup aimé !!

[interpreterr]

@117mathieu I'm glad to hear that (sorry about replying in English. My French is totally passive).

[117mathieu]

@interpreterr Really?...you have got a very good prononciation in french !!

[drtmuir]

Hm, he sounds a bit cold-y.

[interpreterr]

Cold-y?

[drtmuir]

@interpreterr Like he has a cold.

[interpreterr]

Hmm, it doesn't seem to me he had a cold that evening. Maybe it's the quality of the recording that makes you think that?

[drtmuir]

@interpreterr Don't think so; the voice just doesn't sound quite right to me. Of course, we all have up and down days. And there might be something in my ears. ;)

[drtmuir]

Oh bless you!!!!!!!!!

[interpreterr]

:-)))

[drtmuir]

@interpreterr This has been a favorite of mine since I was in college, and an older friend performed it on his senior recital. James was a bright, curious singer, and he wanted to try the songs in the original Greek. Turns out the Greek is a little less, um, demure than the French!

I performed them myself a few years later, but in French.

Wonderful to hear them done by TA.

There was a Greek diner nearby

[drtmuir]

@interpreterr Continuing my thought-- there was a Greek diner near the campus, and the Greek-to-English translations were provided by the waiters!

[schweitzer006325]

Fantastic (as usual...it is Thomas Allen and Malcolm Martineau we're hearing here!)...and lovely pictures too. Never seen them before! I think the venue's Wigmore Hall, right? Could I trouble you just a little bit to send them to me? =)

[interpreterr]

Yes, it is Wigmore Hall - I think it was a rehearsal for their recital there which was then issued on the Wigmore Hall Live label a few years ago.

The venue of the recital in the recording was Prinzregententheater but I don't have any pictures from there (and I wanted to have both Allen and Martineau)

And yes, I'll send them to you when I'm back home (I'm away at the moment)