Jonas Kaufmann - Ach so fromm - by Flotow

[ruweb88]

em 1.41 -  que mulher linda.!!!!

[yu078855]

His voice look like Domingo!

[Tenorliebe]

Hier singen "zwei Kaufmaenner"! Er startet wie ueblich mit seiner typischen Knoedelei, die Toene tief in den Rachen versetzt, besinnt sich jedoch seiner alten Qualitaeten und faengt auf einmal an zu singen. Vielleicht kommt er nun endlich zur Vernunft und rettet dadurch seine Stimme!

[Jelzebelze]

man crush, activate.

[eurydike]

i love it when i hear him singing german music.

[Dramadeus1967]

Gran voz. Casi un barítono.



[billyguns2]

Beautiful, musical conducting! Who is it?

[karifrid]

Bravo , a tenor with musical talent. I am going to a consert in Iceland the 21. of may, in the new Opera/ consert house in Reykjavík. That will be great! (The only STAR tenor I have listened to LIVE was Carreras. Domingo came to Iceland few years ago,but I did not want to listen to him "old" and ruin my love for his voice.)Also,LISTEN to his (Kaufmans) Pourquoi me revillier and Ingemisco....great tenor that sings also pp crecsendo dim. and so on......

Some singers only sing F and FF .

[KiNgOfKaRaBiNeR]

i wished he had used a portato at 3.00 :P

[mahsef]

@KiNgOfKaRaBiNeR You mean portamento...

[stuorme]

a darker sound but an awesome sound none the less. its like every note he sings is his last.

[Pathetikos]

throaty self-swallowing voice. apparently this is the new trend in opera (since domingo, by the way).

[bluffjumper]

@Pathetikos If you had ever heard him live, you would know that his voice has beautiful clarity, has amazing fullness, and rings like crazy. If he was swallowing his voice, he would not be able to sing over orchestras like he does. You should hear him live before you judge him. His voice is a marvelously trained instrument.

[Pathetikos]

@bluffjumper I have heard him live and I can assure you that most time his singing is "pushed", i.e. he is obtaining a rather big sound by pushing his vocal cords. that's why he has begun to have vocal problems. he is doing as if he were singing naturally, but in reality all of his so-called mezze-voci and phrasings are a product of different ways of contraction of the vocal cord and not of a really professional singing based completely on respiration.

[mahsef]

@Pathetikos He's so not having vocal troubles...He's getting better by the year...His singing is based on a perfectly balanced head and chest sound. And it seems like he is finding the balance better and better. Also a tenor who can sing Mozart, Puccini and Wagner at this level must have a good technique. You're just not used to hearing this kind of singing anymore.

[liricobarroco]

Wonderful Kaufman Rules!!!!

[luigisolera]

Kaufmann, likewise most contemporary he-singers, has an obvious insecurity of tune, uneven emission and lacks legato. I wonder why males cannot sing in correct tune, while lots of females are capable of it.

[Agorante]

Wow! The best version of this I've heard since Jon Vickers included it on his Italian Arias recital disk about forty years ago.

I like real voices in light music.

[jhb134]

SO fine. ... Wunderlich has a better tone, but almost sounds four-square, in his tempos. Roswange forces certain notes, and can sound artificial. ... Mr. Kaufmann is good enough, but listen to Bjorling for the epitome. ... opinions only, of course.

[Raggedy9]

Everyone told Domingo he would ruin his voice by essaying Otello in his 30s, and he's still singing. Kaufmann has developed a baritonal timbre which is not typical for a tenor--but that is not bad, just different. The important thing is he uses the colors of his voice to make music and poetry. Bravo!

[dziady1]

Kiepura is the one for this -

[PastaAndPavarotti]

he is swallowing his voice- not the best tone except for some of the big singing moments

[irregularverb37]

@PastaAndPavarotti

He isn't swallowing his voice. He's a spinto who happens to not have a ton of edge to his sound. Not all tenors have to sound like Kermit the frog.

[elendiari22]

This is beautiful. Clearly Kaufmann has talent and isn't just another pretty face. I'm getting kind of sick of all the bashing I see on his videos here. The man is a professional, has been doing this for years, and I think he knows how to use his own instrument.

[Pywacket2]

Bravo!

[1967gatto]

MERAVIGLIOSO!

[kraechr]

He does not master the lower and lyric parts. Just the screaming portion is somehow impressing. However, singing is not first of a all impressing people by pure loudness but by sonorous sounds in all registers and sound levels.

[1967gatto]

Bravo Jona! Voce sicura, stentorea. E pure un bel personaggio anche senza costumi di scena: interpreta con gusto e con una certa virile spregiudicatezza.

[blauauge2]

the voice is n o t  free !!!!

[rosaponselle2009]

Pure throat,it's a pity...

[alexgomez2]

@rosaponselle2009 - WHAT???????? Nonsense!

[RoyKa2010]

@rosaponselle2009

so it's not just me ;-)

[hgburgin]

Es una aria para un tenor lirico sin dudas. Jonas es excelente pero para otro tipo de arias. Aqui se esfuerza al final y debe cortar el sonido para no descolocarlo en las notas bajas. Un si bemol es claramente demasiado para su voz. Por lo demas un gran músico.

[thermaticman07]

Has an excellent voice:)

[newhotmailit]

you feel the throat in the sound of the voice, its a kind of not complitely free. listen to placido domingo at the same aria and you 'feel' the difference!!!

[laampdegroot]

Cuando no se conoce mucho de voces, se cree que todas las voces son más oscuras o dramáticas son engoladas. Es difícil encontrar un tenor en la actualidad que sea mejor que Kauffmann.

[dimakauffman]

es imposible

[561423]

Singers like flotow's "ach so fromm". Caruso died for and (on stage) with it, similar Tucker. Kaufmann likes it obviously. But it is not easy to sustain the concurrence of so many, because compared with Tauber or incomparable Schmidt we hear Kaufmann's different art of singing. Where is the melodic line behind the notes? Even the trumpet-end lacks naturality. According to Isaac Stern a musician has to make music, than to play notes.

[Lovelytenor1]

Yes, he has a wonderful pipe but his "bull in a china shop" style cannot be applied to lyric pieces. Listen to his old "Student Prince" recordings- they show a different voice/technique. I guess the now more dramatic style sells more records.

By the way, Caruso died in bed w/Doro by his side. Did I understand you correctly on that?

[jackylen57]

Bravo ! Great voice !

[jcbcn751]

KAUFMANN = VOCE INGOLATA... BRUTTO... problemi in fiato e maschera...

[mithrandir81230]

non e vero. credo che sia bellisimo.

[bodiloto]

totalmente d`accordo con Lei !

[eur8ftm]

@jcbcn751 Right! His voice is awful and has nothing to do with a natural singing!

[thermaticman07]

ur awful lol. u dont know anything bout opera, and prolly most likely cant sing like him. cause i sing opera .

[bodiloto]

nadinekoutcher : In quale lingua scrive per favore ,questa di Tolstoi,non credo , di Pouchkin ,ancora meno , leggete la classica russa per favore ,e immensa , e sublime ! Ciao !

[joanabanyeres]

Der grösste Tenor des Augenblicks.

[pjdonagh]

Aegisth... you rightly point up the French/German origin of the work and IMHO Kaufmann, in this interpretation combines just exactly the appropriate blend of both national idioms.

Thank you for the upload.

[TheAlbertM]

Das ist wirklich sehr schön. Super Stimme.

[bodiloto]

- 10 !!!! VERGOGNA !!!!

[jcbcn751]

Totalmente de acuerdo: no tiene técnica ninguna y eso le pasará factura. Simplemente es uno de tantos. Es tan engolado que...aburre... buff... me duermo...buenas noches... zzzzzz....zzzzzzz

[LiricumLord]

La voz suena en la garganta, y sin brillo! Demasiado dramatica siempre y me cansa!

[kanssasi]

Es dreht sich in diesem Video aber um Musik und nicht um Fahrräder. Bach, Schubert, Brahms etc. sind also primitiv?

Außerdem ist Uneleganz sehr vielen anderen Völkern zu eigen, und ich empfinde es einfach als unsinnig, durch die Blume zu sagen, deutsche Komponisten seien unsensible Rüpel.

[kanssasi]

Die Behauptung in der Beschreibung, dass diese Musik für Deutschland untypisch "elegant" sei, ist ja wohl eine Frechheit.

[romalisan]

M. Kaufmann, je vais t'aimer pour toujours comme je n'ai jamais aimé personne. Rodrigo

[joanabanyeres]

Moi aussi. querido Rodrigo.

[azivan]

he sings from throat...its abvious...listen to ach so fromm....he is famouse ..so what ? whats the miracle of gigli or schippa or alva ??????? natural tenore..honest ..free and without fake

[SchwarzBass]

clueless. he sings with space in the throat which is the healthy way and why his career has been going on for 15 years an will continue for at least another 15. Most singers today have no space, and THAT is from the throat. I find his voice much more appealing than Gili and schippa. But singing has changed these days. Singers have a much tougher performance schedule than the singers of old.  Gili and Schippa would probably never have held up like tenors must today.

[humpelberry]

he has too watch out that he doesnt want to sing greater then his voice is, I agree.

[joanabanyeres]

That's is greater than his voice? Ui, Ui Ui.

[KiNgOfKaRaBiNeR]

He musnt think that hes god coz his voice wont hold it.

[dimakauffman]

this is art

[verdiotello]

Bravo! Maestro Armiliato!!!

[yonomepase]

Bravooo!

[crimsontoxic]

Sounds like Carlo Cossutta at times when he wasn't in best shape.

Burn them all: Netrebko, Villazon, Kaufmann...

[voce29]

Jonas Kaufmann is already on top of all the charts. He sings in all the great houses in Europe and I myself have heard him at the Met and in concert in Austria. Let me tell you this man has arrived!

[Patriciateresita]

Viva Jonas Kaufmann!

[donerlich]

He has a tendancy to be "too artistic" at times, there are points where I can't really even hear him!

[senilangakali]

pay 150 euros at the Bastille par terre and you will hear him all right! don't be too dependant on recordings, pay to listen, and then draw the conclusions...his sound is just exhilirating 'live' and not retouched in a studio, believe me....

[cordu3]

@senilangakali Exhilirating is even an understatement. He moves and touches people deeply like, as far as I know, no other singer has ever done. And if for some people he seems too throaty, I adore this, and this also gives his voice its particular character and makes him and his voice different from any other singer. I agree you have to see him live on stage, either opera or Lied and he balls people over. I cannot wait till next month to experience him in TOSCA.. He is the whole package.

[senilangakali]

@cordu3 Very Right....

[senilangakali]

Amazing to read some of the most ignorant comments made here! He sounds 'old'? He is a dramatic tenor that has crisscrossed boundaries as far as his tessitura is concerned! His phrasing and legato is impeccable, his intensity blows you down! Thank GOD he doesn't souind like Villazon who has gone off to sing baroque and is struggling with Werther right now in PAris! VIVA Jonas!

[cenerentolinetta]

did you know he started off at conservatory with pedrillo and such? amazing, isn't it?

[voce29]

Ignorance is bliss!!! Nobody with any musical kowledge what make such "uninformed remarks"

[Greatpretender1]

Amazing how people can write rubbish against some of the best singers of today and stay alive :) Amazing... Maybe some of you should post your voice recordings along with the comment...

[JorPove]

Algunos de los comentarios que se hacen a este magnifico tenero parecen esos que hacen los asiduos visitantes de bares que cansados, disgustados ,frustrados con la vida se dedican a destrozar a cuanto parroquiano entra al sitio. No hay caridad human, tampoco conocimiento,pero si mucho resentimiento y desconocimiento ,malos ingredientes para hacer comentarios validos.

[birnenjoerg]

I wonder about the start " Ach so fromm"

it sounds like having his last meal in his throut. This sound is not professional.

My meaning: a voice which sonds very old , old as I have heard it from my oldest LP. But, but never the less he has a strong, intensiv sound, without the sound of the intensive lyric character; which does not mean it sounds complete unlovely, at all. I am sure if he takes one or two lessons with a vocal coach, he will get it without the constrained voice in his throut.

[steakopera]

b----e---er-.

Why don't you show us how it's supposed to have been done. LOL.

[birnenjoerg]

A given tenor voice which sounds in the lower tones more baritonal and further more heavy and dramatic is not in the position to sound like a bright and clear singing lyric tenor.

And it stands, that the words "Ach so fromm" sounds constrained and for my understandig it most sound more like a lyric tenor aria.

And so for those all , which mean I am against his voice: Jonas Kaufmann is the

best German tenor on the Tenor market.

Hopefully he will be one of the leading tenors worldwide.

[apmiller12]

since when is it bad to be a tenor with a warm sound?

[SchwarzBass]

People are just not use to this sound. But I personally think this is probably what the real old school teachers were moving towards. Conductors and lesser people making decisions have compartmentalized voice types too much. I personally love his voice. I never related to Villazon. And, since his German is impeccable, It's a bit ridiculous criticizing him on it--most real experts would disagree with you.

[senilangakali]

he already is....

[cordu3]

@birnenjoerg That he is already. Even in Italy where they rarely accept someone singing Italian opera who ist not Italian, they accept him now as the best. And I love the way he sings Martha. His Italian his flawless and I followed on radio and television his Italian interviews.

[HMW]

waaay to covered. it's like he's eating the sound.

[filius44]

Zweifellos eine schöne Stimme. Wer aber jemals Fritz Wunderlich mit dem gleichen Titel gehört hat (auch bei YouTube zu bewundern), weiß, was Gänsehaut bedeutet.

[gsant65]

he and jose cura ,the best 2 tenors of the world

[Ethratian]

Although I respect your tast I wonder if you've ever heard of some "insignificant" tenors like Wunderlich, Tauber, Domingo, Pavarotti, Windgassen, and many others

[Operaddict]

Beautiful, manly and expressive singing.

[591watkins]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Rolando Villazon's incredible rendition of Ach so fromm. Seems to me that Cd came out a couple of years ago at least

[ioSonoCallas]

It's so beautiful, so expressive, Jonas Kaufmann........I love it!!!:)

[forallyouknow]

Gahds... Breathtaking! Esp those fortissimo notes toward the end! And yay the smile...

[AustrianAdrian]

Finally someone who´s singing that aria in the original German. After being off the stage for decades it has been a tremendous success in Vienna again

[ninjaalexp]

wow

[corellilover]

Is that Armiliato conducting?

[1ni2na55]

yes

[frenchyfrench]

Wow...Please stop the Italian repertoire and just sing in German ! The best tenor in the world in German for sure .

[muschnik1961]

Er ist ohne Übertreibung einer der größten Tenöre der Gegenwart. Die Stimme ist ausgesprochen männlich und besitzt doch einen vergleichbaren Schmelz, wie ihn auch Wunderlich hatte. Ich hätte nicht gedacht, so eine Stimme noch einmal zu hören. Herr Villazon, so singt man eine Opernarie!

[eurydike]

@muschnik1961 es ist wahr:), und ein zufall: ich mag sehr Kaufmann and Wunderlich :).

[Glenmed]

Wonderful! Dare we say Fritz Wunderlich II ??

[adinamrnd]

He is Jonas Kaufmann number one and nobody else and he is fantastic. Just saw him in "Manon" Chicago, the best Des Grieux!

[kmillard]

Kaufmann Primo vice Wunderlich Secondo??

[adinamrnd]

I'm not sure what you mean, but what I mean is that it is absolutely useless to compare one singer with the other, each singer is unique.

[adinamrnd]

The previous message was an answer for kmillard not sure why it doesn't appear at the right place.

[kmillard]

Sorry. I was playing on an old obscure reference where Gigli had been called the Second Caruso (Caruso Secondo), but Gigli corrected them and said he was the first Gigli (Gigli Primo).

[Mikamouth]

No - his tone is much darker than Fritz's.

[eurydike]

@Glenmed if only he lived much longer than Fritz Wunderlich:(

[jo9yk]

A wonderful personality he's got. I wish he would have sung this in Italian...

[adinamrnd]

Jonas prefers the original German version.

[podkivanok]

For God's sake, not in italian! It is a german opera, and very good one.

[podkivanok]

it was reply to jo9yk

[miezzanine]

oh, that smile at the end;-)))

[sarahcyn]

You wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating crackers, right?

[HotPhilologist86]

Impeccable singing as always, but what the hell is he wearing?!? This man needs a stylist.

[sarahcyn]

I think he has one - Maria from the Sound of Music

[ShawDAMAN]

Great voice, would love to hear live.... I bet he'd be great for the tenor part in Beethoven's 9th!

[voce29]

Jonas kaufmann is fast becoming th gold standard for tenors. Impeccable musicianship, highest intelligence,most exciting voice,and ah, the looks!! Who can match him?