Mozart - Gundula Janowitz - Ach Ich Fuhl's

[michelebzz]

Impossibile cantare meglio questa aria..

[OlenaGlynka]

Art of rendition masterpiece... Brava!

[joaopedro12]

i can tell you my girlfriend hates when i sing, hates opera. We were at youtube laughing i thought now i make like opera, know what i showed. Yes janowitz and anyone listening that lament would fee her sadness and agony. She just feelt it and it wasnt hard, and no german needed

[Schwanengesang415]

so far the best of all i've heard.

[lucamaxco]

IMHO the best Ach, ich fühl's is performed by Krista Adams Santilli

[HungryEars]

Just one person's opinion, of course, but dear Gundula's interpretation of this aria is the best I've ever heard. I think her 1964 performance of it with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus, Otto Klemperer conducting, (EMI, CDM 7 69056 2), is even more heart wrenching. Kathleen Battle's performances are darned close, but Gundula takes it to a noticeably more profound depth of sadness.

Thank you so much for posting this video!

[tmmmviii]

Very nice.  Thank you.

[thomastmwc]

who's that guy he's so handsome lol

[DerOperaFun]

Text an der KASSE!!!!

[Feantur1]

Thats one of the most hauntingly beautiful versions of this aria I´ve ever heard...But I prefer just to listen to it...her acting is...well...kind of not existent. I know that this was quite common at her time...But I´m still glad that modern opera singers are trying to act too :-)

[HAThorsten]

ewig hin mein ganzes Glück statt ewig hin der Liebe Glück. Können die sich denn nicht mal den Text merken.

Die singt mir das im Übrigen zu unterkühlt und unbeteiligt

[softboy24]

boring...

[Jtogati]

Yes I also think that she doesn't have much variation in her shading. There can be much more interpretation in the voice here. Very smooth of course, but in this aria, Pamina is singing to a man with frustration that he does not respond to her, as well as sadness.

[AmericanEvita]

I have mixed feelings about Janowitz' singing. She really has a heavenly, divine singing voice. To criticize such a voice is petty, but I find that the beauty of her voice didn't make for much acting, realism and various different shades she could have used for her voice for dramatic effect or to make a more moving operatic experience. It's still find for Pamina, who is just a fairy tale princess type, but not for more complex characters like the Countess in Figaro or Donna Anna in Don Giovanni

[robertcouturier]

The most perfect version with the most sensitive and moving voice and of such incredible purity... Thank you!

[MissFireMagic]

Captivatingly beautiful ... inspirational.

[brunosilvershadow]

Gundula or Maria Stader in this; that's always my question which can't be solved at all?Gundula thought me, how the consonants are just like commas in a phrase, concise but never interrupting a vocal phrase. She told me, having learnt this with Maëstro von Karajan. That's why her legato is just so wonderful! She is the only of my three teaching Divas which was just so natural, patient and a wonderful Person. We called her Mother Abbess, when in the Masterclass at Abbaye de Royaumont near Paris.

[swanningaround]

@brunosilvershadow Yes Sir. My thoughts exactly. I first heard some music from the old Soviet Union. I thought I was in heaven. I though it was a Soviet composition. It was in fact Christ on the Mount of Olives with Maria Stader as the soprano. I just thought Maria Stader was in a class of her own. Of course Gundula was more mainstream, appearing on the DGG records at the time.

[OCHRI45]

Magique, si pur... si simple... un moment d'extase, un bonheur qui n'est pas de ce monde.. une tension extrême, une chanteuse qui chante avec son âme...

[serenaluce]

Really very beautiful and sounds very natural! Brava!

[Terrorlolly]

oh my god......thats fucking shit -.-

[poopypoopyhead1]

so natural! most women over sing this and it loses all the feeling,with all the vibrato and stuff. Gundula makes us feel this. Simple, direct, perfect. Bravo.....bravo.

[poopypoopyhead1]

superbly heart wrenching.

[mariadelamor21]

Without words!!!!

[TheWisemonkey8]

Spot on!

[Fuliginosus]

This is so cool. I've always admired her singing but have never seen her before.

[iluvopera1]

Absolute perfection!!!!

[SpiramusPresents]

Yes......Yes.......Yes!!!!!

[UABOOTMM1]

Thanks for the clip, i have heard so many fantastic sopranos ,Flagstad ,Nilsson ,Tebaldi,Price, Crispin,Sudherland,Callas,Schw­arzkopf and a few more but but the one i lowe most i think, is Gundula Janowitz, she has the tone of an angel ( together with T. Stich Randall) ewen if the others is incredible too.

[aryelyne]

She is incredible! And the tempo helps to convey a sheer desperation that I think is lost in a lot of more recent interpretations.. although that's not what Mozart wanted anyway was it? lol

Thank you for posting this!

[aulaine]

SHE IS really Pamina : what a concentration in feeling and so perfect vocal technic ! I like it very much even if.... Luba Orgonasova is really nice too.

[wuzup36i3]

I know little about Operatic.

But she Amazing ! ! ! and such timbre.

Love her already.

Teri

[swanningaround]

Teri.

You know more than you let on. For me, this is the benchmark, the gold standard.

[katesinger]

BEST VERSION IVE EVER HEARD

[Brunildilla]

Worm and wonderful voice...!!

This is absolutely perfect, soooooo beautiful !!!!!!

She born for sing this aria ....

[vocalvideos]

This is simply amazing. I can feel her grief! Thanks for posting

[Gabriel13187]

simply Incredible... the best version Ive ever heard of this aria... and now you can compare how she sang The Marschallin over 20 years later... that was a unique technique... and that voice... Thanks!

[dynamicstuff73]

This is a perfect teacher tool for singers! her mouth position is so poised and relaxed! I love it! Thanks for posting this!

[Italia1987]

@dynamicstuff73 i agree!! i watch this and try to follow the way she moves her mouth.

[pond922]

Excellent!

[Arminiushoff]

Ohhh i can feel this version deeper on my heart!!!!, that´s incredible!!! tahnk you for upload!

[Umbracaseus]

Her acting is unbelievable! You can hear her sadness so well in her voice and you can read it perfectly on her face! Absolutely incredible!!! Her voice is so pure and it seems like singing this is second nature to her. Wonderful. Bravo!

[wolkowy1]

Thanks for uploading this wonderful interpretation of this aria, by this angelic voice.

[gasparyanthebest]

I love her since I first heard her Agathe in the Freischütz with Kleiber. She had a voice that is not from this world. A gift from Heaven, no doubt. Thank you for this marvel.

[skakdosmer]

I always felt that no soprano could sing this aria quite as well as I instinctively knew it could be sung, ideally ... that is: Not until I heard this performance!

B.t.w. I have the record of Carmina Burana, that thomasmoredamian spoke of - very good indeed! But I prefer the filmversion by Jean-Pierre Ponelle with Lucia Popp, John van Kesteren and Hermann Prey wich is fantastic! In one scene there is a very funny wrestling match between Popp and Prey! Only drawback is the poor lip-synch.

[thomasmoredamian]

Her recording of Orff's masterpiece "Carnina Burana" is one of the most sensational you'll ever hear: Eugen Joachim conducts, and Gerhard Stolze and the magnificent Dietrich Fischer-Deskau are also on hand to make this one of the finest recordings of the last fifty years. Do NOT miss hearing it! The label is Deutche Grammaphon.

[pinkstrawberrypuding]

THIS is the way its supposed to be sung.

[WiseMonki]

Janowitz!!! Never a better Mozart soprano... in my humble opinion. Great post... my warm and kind regards,

[artichaut38]

Une voix pure, cristalline, angélique qu'on ne peut oublie

[htshoward]

I have heard her in recordings and on vids a few times, but I am not overly familiar with her. Interesting voice.

[cakeevanx]

I once saw Janowitz perform. At the end , most of the audience was in tears. I will never forget that, it was simply sublime.

[Gabriel13187]

Which performance was that? Do you remember?

[cakeevanx]

I do remember. It was in Sao Paolo, 1986(or 1985 not sure, i was very young my first job, boss gave me the ticket as a treat). She gave this special performance of Schubert's Lieder. I was a bit embarrassed for not holding my tears then I noticed that almost everybody was deeply moved and in tears too...

[pianonine]

This is perfection...heavenly actually. Such magnificient control of her pianissimo.  God blessed her with a true gift!

[neronnenn]

All "vocette" sopranini lirico leggeri except Violetta, that must have a spinto voice with coloratura like Callas

[tenore23]

Damn, then you must be a god, because you just insulted the voices of Sutrherland, Moffo,Caballe and many others who excelled in those roles.

[neronnenn]

How can you compare Sutherland and Caballé with Moffo? very different voices !!!!

[swanningaround]

This is the definitive performance. Only Schwarzkopf can compete with this and with this aria.

[Wamofan]

Listen to Elisabeth Grümmer/Grummer (owner of the clip = iforgeti) and wonder ! IMO much better than Schwarzkopf and at least equal to Janowitz if not the best ever heard.

[OlDoinyo]

@Wamofan Agreed: Grümmer's voice was not quite as magnificent as Janowitz's, but she sang the aria with such pathos that for me her rendition is #1. This performance is a very impressive #2, nevertheless.

[tenore23]

Does the whole opera exists or just escepts? Can the Queen arias be posted? Silja's Der Holle Rache disappeared from YT a long time ago.

[rrgallo]

who was tamino?

[71946]

William Mc Alpine était le Tamino de cette production de la Flûte enchantée au Festival d'Aix en Provence...en 1963!!!

[wooshywoo]

Many thanks for posting this! It is a great treat to hear and see the young Janowitz - my favourite of all sopranos.

[Heraopera]

Excuse: Spinto means : a voice with Mezzostrukture and hugeness of sound and volume ! "Spingere la voce !" Listen Telbaldi L. Price Dimitrova Milo Milanov Cigna Marton Gwyneth Jones Crespin Arroyo Gorchakova Ghulegina etc. etc.

Janowitz a great big liric german (of tonequality!!!) Soprano like today Denoke or Schwanewilms! Spinto means the big Verismo Verdi and Puccinirepertoire .....Normans Voice is more to an Falcon!..........

[tenore23]

Spinto means "to push" in Italian, and while that does not describe a voice that is pushed, it does describe a voice that is of midweight/size/timber. Janowitz was never a spinto and did not consider herself one. She was a lyric soprano and most of the roles she sang were on that fach (Fidelio being an exception) Of the list offered, I would take out L Price (the timber was not of not a spinto, never was), Cigna, Dimitrova, Jones (they were the true thing: Dramatic sopranos)...

[tenore23]

Marton became a spinto beacuse she pushed her voice, her early sound was that of a juicy lyric.

One more correction, Verdi never wrote a verismo opera. He did write roles for spinto voices (Alice comes to mind) but a lot of what is considered/sung by spintos are lyric roles: Boccanegra, Elisabetta, Amelia. Good spintos serve these roles well because they have both the lyric timber and the size of the voice.

[neronnenn]

I disagree, Amelia being a dramatic role and Elisabetta a spinto role. Verdi rarely wrote for a lyric soprano because, like me, he hated small voices

[tenore23]

Well, I would love to see your sources. Mine are the scores and Trust me, those ARE lirico spinto roles.

And while we are at it. What would you consider these roles:? Gilda, Nannetta, Amalia (I Masnadieri), Gulnara, oscar, Violetta, Luisa miller, Lina?

[neronnenn]

One more thing, a spinto or a dramatic soprano can efford lirico leggero roles, never the contrary....like Pavarotti did:)

[tenore23]

Afford it like the disaster Fille at the Met back in the 90's?

You are confused. While a dramatic or a spinto can maned to sing roles that are Lirico, the stress is there just as much as it is on the reverse. The stress is in a different part of the voice but it is there. Ask Carol Vaness, who thought she could do Olimpia and regretted it.

Sutherland sang roles that were out of her comfort zone both in the early and latter part of her career and she managed, but she was a freak of nature

[neronnenn]

Am I confused? Perhaps. But I'm sure that Dame Sutherland had the possibility to sing Olympia, Antonia and Giulietta, other singer never because they have small voices..I was talking about the Pavarotti's repertoire, He was without any doubt very good in Fille and all this kind of roles, but he was NOT a Manrico nor a Radames or Calaf, and people think he was an excellent Calaf....

[CrystalFlames]

Lovely voice!

It seems the words were slightly different at one point? after "ewig hin" instead of "der Liebe Glück" she sings something else.

[frigginpoop]

The original score has "mein ganzes Gluck" instead of the revised rendition that have "der Liebe Gluck"...

[Heraopera]

She has been a very good liric soprano voice with a wonderful technique of legato ! Great!

[Liwah]

Spinto.

[TomRiddle79]

Great singing! Love her voice. She was especially awesome in Die Walküre as Sieglinde with Jon Vickers and Karajan.

[reallyharried]

Lionel, we can't thank you enough! A thousand thousand thanks!

[CandyHaleLinton]

Lovely superlative singing but dramatically disappointing though emotionally sincere but so so gloomy dear!

[reallyharried]

It's supposed to be gloomy! She's devastated that Tamino won't speak to her and is going to try to kill herself with the knife her crazy mother gave her to kill Zoraster with, but the Knaben will prevent her! This shows the dramatic range she's capable of... plus she was quite young at the time!

[swanningaround]

To my mind, this is the best version of this aria. It is incredible singing. Just perfect!

[reallyharried]

I'm with you! What you said!

[Himmelsfunken]

Have you heard Ruth Ziesak or Genia Kühmeyer???

[mltube]

Superb singing. Listen also to Grummer for somewhat more expression, and comparably beautiful voice.

[nclysander]

Yes, Grummer is one of my favorites in this aria, along with Popp, Seefried, and Lemnitz. Of course, Janowitz also sings beautifully - I just find it doesn't move me as much.

[DoryViolet]

Agreed! Grummer, Moffo, Roschmann and Popp are my 4 favourite Paminas. Janowitz is splendid and natural, but I prefer other versions... maybe because I'm not accustomed to this one yet ^^.

[DoryViolet]

I listened to Grummer and I found her singing equally natural, but, yes, a bit more expressive. Not that Janowitz is worse, not at all, but I'm with you.

[kgus123]

There's personal taste - Janowitz's voice has never appealed to me (this clip included), and there's good taste - I've never heard a more beautiful and moving performance of this aria.

[mariasarda]

Voix très pure, mais assez tellurique quand même avec un beau médium.

[philippelouvet]

qu'entendez-vous par tellurique, ici ?

[mariasarda]

Une voie qui me remue les tripes par en-dessous, mais qui reste claire. Une voix "sismique" et "solaire" à la fois !

[philippelouvet]

OK! merci.D'accord avec vous:on peut dire comme ça.

[Lohengrin]

angelical timbre, probably the best pamina of the 20th century... if Janowitz didnt have that dreadful lisp -that curiously is not that obvious here, there are other perfomances that it is unbearable- then she would have been truly one of the greatest voices of the 20th century. But operatic singer with a lisp!!! talk about the misfortune of a thousand years

[rominten]

Absolut perfect.

[anthonela1]

She has a perfect legatto. She has Mozart spirit. And she sang with fenomenal Conductors like Karajan.

[softboy24]

horrible singing...

[swanningaround]

I just love this clip. Her voice is just incredible. I cannot understand all the current hype about Anna Netrebko. Gundula is way way superior to Anna in my book.

[punkred1]

Gundula Janowitz has one of the most beautifull voices. I only wish we had more stuff released on CD and DVD she is my favorite soprano along with Caballe

[pkt171]

you are right, and the little stuff that is out there never fails to enchant. silvery tone, angelic.

[Sochilinda]

I don't understand the german! She doesn't open her mout enough.

[efcvs]

whata plonker!

[ballycotton32]

This must have brought the house down.

[SVENSKSOPRAN]

Hm! She sounds like a more dramatic voice under those pianississimo lines! One of the most musical and deeply felt Paminas I have heard though!

[swanningaround]

Kiri and Gundula. I love them. These two sopranos are just so good. Different styles. You couldn't say one was better than the other. They are both perfection.

[hotvicaronamyl]

I've never understood the received wisdom that Janowitz's Pamina is emotionally uninvolved: to me her Ach ich fuhls is the most deeply felt/communicative of all.

[paulostroff99]

A REVELATION!Superb!

[JargarForte]

I hope it's here and there out of tune because of the old material ( video )

Her performance is chilling anyway.

[leontyne2]

Vocal perfection! Mozart must be smiling from the beyond!

[MiniDva]

Her first phrase is amazing.

[alanizkm]

this is great! Bravo Gundula!!

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[71946]

Un critique musical avouait avoir eu les larmes aux yeux en assistantaux débuts de la jeune Gundula Janowitz (26 ans!),au festival d'Aix en Provence en 1963....Cet extrait de la flute enchantée nous permet de partager son émotion.Voix unique,art maîtrisé ,pudeur,intériorité des sentiments,disent la parfaite adéquation entre un compositeur de génie et une interprête de prédilection. Bouleversant.

[ererofea]

Qué voz tan expresiva. ¡¡Me encantó!!!

[Pianda]

Dear Gundula Janowitz,

I am very happy to found you on video! I saw you in the 1990´s near Heilbronn at a Kloster, singing Schubert etc. Songs (I gave you a letter). But decades before and after I heard the records with great Singers as you, as Fritz Wunderlich and the other great singers of the 50-60-70 (80)´s.

Your public will never forget you. And now and for future, through this video-technique, you will be last forever!

[domi2020]

It is subjective as to what one thinks in terms of beauty of voice and although Janowitz certainly is sensational, I find Te Kanawa equally beautiful if not even more so.

[JPD060486]

I have several recordings of Janowitz. While criticisms of her diction and skills of expression are valid I have not heard a voice more beautiful than hers.

This aria is better on her recording with Klemperer. Also the Weber and Wagner arias with Ferdinand Leitner (reissued as part of Decca's The Singers series and The Golden Voice) are very exciting, not just because of her great tone.

Some arias were beyond her (eg Come scoglio) but at her best she had tone-production second to none

[fagotinna]

canta muy hermosoesa mujer mis respetos en vdd U__U espero k cuando la interprete pueda dar esa misma sensacion o al menos tratar de llegar a ella

capta lo k dice la pamina

[geckostube]

Janowitz is absolutly fantastic in this video, thank you for this video for desert island.

[giordanomr]

Es la mejor Pamina que he escuchado. Capta lo que esta sintiendo el personaje con una gran afinacion y musicalidad. A los que critican, simplemente muestren en sus voces como se canta a ver si pueden lograr algo tan maravilloso como lo que ella logró.

[gandalf117]

after the first 60 seconds I felt like 60 minutes have passed. Therefore listeneing to this and living will be like living 60 lifes, all of which lifes I don't want to live! LOL

[pagerbear]

And yet you found the strength to make this snarky comment. Bravo!

[CuzImACreep]

Umm....okay....:)

[fiordiligicymraeg]

flat, apathetic, too slow and poor diction. I'm sorry, but there are many who did this aria more justice.

[marvoid]

I feel very sorry for this deaf welshwoman.

[fiordiligicymraeg]

don't bother feeling sorry - I'm quite glad to have a sense of pitch.

[cek1111]

What are you talking about? Your's fucking bel canto?

[fiordiligicymraeg]

my what exactly? I'm sorry, but your posting does not make sense

[jrdaw]

Interesting opinion well expressed. No need to apologise. I make no excuse for saying I enjoyed it a lot. I found it restrained rather than apathetic and utterly sincere in the dejected characterisation. Tendency nowdays is to overdress and not to allow music to speak for itself. I certainly find more to commend Janowitz than to fault. Believe me many fine sopranos have done this aria less justice too. I certainly look forward to hearing your rendition fiordiigicymraeg.

[Pianda]

I love hering Gundula singing. THis piece is amazing. Did you ever her her aria of Brahms "Deutsches Requiem"? You should.

My male faverite out of hese golden-singer-times is Fritz Wunderlich.

What glorious times and tones. THank youtube for make this possible

[sfkcbf]

The "D. Requiem" with Janowitz now is available on DVD. Also recently released is the 5-CD set "Gundula Janowitz: The Golden Voice." Wunderlich also has been re-released on CD. Wunderlich ist wunderbar, nicht wunderlich.

[IgnacioVeillon]

el afro blanco desgraciado...pura mierda tui wea de opera conchadetumadre

[mazingerduke]

animal

[polifemo1970]

póbrecito zoquete analfabeto

[Segis84]

Wonderful voice, nothing "made up", everything is straight and spot-on and simply beautiful.

[Amiduffer]

Except for the "quality" of the video tape used, everything else was superb! What a near flawless aria performance! Thank you.

[sfkcbf]

The most painful thing about Janowitz is that she is no longer singing and that no other female sopranos ever have sounded so glorious to me: pure, golden tones, great technique going straight to the notes rather than scooping, no excessive warbling, astonishingly-long breath control. Should have used her and Scholl for the "Farinelli" soundtrack.

[Lessa1984]

Well, you can't find a voice and technique like her now, because the rechnique changed in the last 20 years... Now the singers do use more body and the singers before didn't use so much the body.. it's more a heavenly singing! *gg*

[MissLadyboy007]

Absolutely beautiful heartfelt singing and such immaculate phrasing!!

[riyjo]

absolutamente bellisima

[marvoid]

Amazing! Janowitz in one of her signature roles. Peerless - what a wonderful find. Please let us see more of this performance!

[lionelpower]

No I have not. Sorry

[Gabriel13187]

I wonder who the conductor of this soberb version is... Wish I could see more of this performance... have you got something else?

[lionelpower]

No I have not. Sorry...

[viverito]

Amazing

[DaveMuc]

Divina!

[BurghTunes]

Exquisite.

[Gabriel13187]

I didn`t know of the existence of this video... thanks for sharing it... and allowing us to enjoy her voice in one of her memorable roles... Today I couldnt think of any singer to compare her with... Thanks!

[cyfieithydd]

Saw her as a memorable Donna Ana in Covent Garden int he late seventies / early eighties. Marvellous to see her on video like this. I have her on CD, but she was such a wonderfully technically correct singer, it's good to see her again!

[Isariad]

What a sober and beautiful Pamina. We guess all that's happening inside.

[davy91101]

Exquisite! For many years she was the "last" German soprano to command the purity and beauty of tone that we associate with the best of central European voices. Thank God we now have Roschmann,

[davidSBG]

Beautiful!