Sir Thomas Allen - Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer (Part 2)

[mattalexxyt]

I just love this.

[perpieta]

Sir Thomas does a wonderful rendition here--this is just gorgeous.

Thank you for uploading this, Gabba02. I remember hearing Mahler's First Symphony years ago and my father told me there was also a "song" version of it. When I finally heard this lied, I couldn't believe how beautiful it was.

[Pashley91684]

You penetrate orchestras with your consonants, not your full throttle voice. Mahler intended the voice to be interwoven with the texture of the orchestra.

[Schell77]

Impressive that even singing "piano" he has both the needed delicacy as well as the strength to penetrate against what's still relatively busy orchestration (even if the orchestra is playing softly). Many singers would still be full-throated there.

[MasterAzunai]

not only do I absolutely ADORE this work beyond all description (especially this particular lied because I love the first symphony so much) but I can imagine so clearly (don't judge me hahaha) walking through the world of Oblivion (the best video game ever) as this song and the one before it play through. Mahler's ability to create a whole universe of sound defies humanity, and this performance ALMOST defies Mahler himself! PERFECTION ACHIEVED WELL DONE!

[lecochonbleu]

Is this the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, I think I remember seeing a video on some site years ago, before YouTube, of a performance of that orchestra with Thomas Allen as soloist in this song cycle by Mahler.

[drtmuir]

The orchestra looks very young! I think I would drop dead if I had to play with Sir Tom!

[stevevandien]

Sir Thomas is (was?) one of our finest singers. A warm and beautiful voice, married to exceptional sensitivity and musicality --

[concertobub]

how beautiful - what a great artist!

[cmhiekses]

This is gorgeous and Thomas Allen does an amazing job with it. Mahler is incredible!

[redsaxophone]

Mahler did a lot of "crosscontamination" between his peices didn't he?

[ariastoteles]

Mahler is God. Therefore, God exists. Sorry my dear Dicky Dawkins!

[Kurtyoungblood]

Nice username!

[ariastoteles]

Thank you, Kurtyoungblood !

[MyndSurfer]

I agree with the sentiment of your comment. More so my singing teacher would agree (shee always suggests I examine several performances!!! But, as Picasso argued: "First learn the craft, then break the rules" (and thereby produce your own voice!). I'm rather a visual learner person, too, and have determined only to buy DVDs (or whatever!) this century of performances. My favourite being Ian Bostridge doing Die Winterreisse directed by Julius Drake.

Thanks again!

[bigknickman]

Check out Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. It has always been my belief that he was the greatest German Lied interpreter.

[MyndSurfer]

I just decided to learn to sing this piece of music. How wonderful, thank you, to find this piece of video to help me.

[captainbloodface]

Um, really, you shouldn't use other's interpretations to help you learn music! How will you ever find your own voice? Also, if you need to hear things aurally before learning them, NAXOS!

[violinista53]

Why not? Independent thought can develop equally well from using recordings to identify what you like and what you don't.

[brentdavidmaher]

I agree. And what better voice to listen to than Sir Thomas Allen!

[flaze3]

by listening to other people you learn from their technique--e.g. listening to Ramon Vargas, you can pick up a lot!!

[jeffro887]

Every singer professional singer I know uses recordings when learning music. I believe you should listen to as many recordings as possible in order to learn performance practices. I'm not saying that's how you should learn the notes, but you should be as familiar as possible and that is done so by listen to everything you can.