Singers have to look for timber now, nervous energy must obtain lots of profits over breath, rythm, melody... Who suffers? Word, soul... and me! The same for orchestral & chamber music... conductors cancel silence, and even in rock bands the click of the puter jeopardize the humanity of the musicians. No community creation of mood, pulse and meaning springing from a blossoming silence. Let´s look for recordings with silence in the "world between the sound", where Spirit resonates and call us.
Voices are seasonal fruits. They sound different because they were different! In those "primitive" recordings we can still listen the astral silence blended in their voices. For pulse, sweetness, anger or joy, the etheric vibration came free and pure from the vocal chords, after having transformed the will impulse balanced by imaginative ear pure perception of the notes in the surrounding silence. All was "bio" music: no HI-FI or Cd's, no muscle!. Today singers can't last long.
This performance is the most sensitive from a male singer that I have heard. He really paid attention to the words and their meaning. Seeing younger pictures of Leo makes more clear the resemblence of his grandson Leo, whom I met.
I can' t seem to explain why I always think the old singers are better than the new ones, is it the way they interpreted it, is it faschinating because it's so old? Can somebody explain? thanks
@Melot50 The myth or stereotype that in the past, all these singers sang better than today is an interesting topic to discuss: I would say that the crème de la crème that got recorded in the time between the wars undoubtly had a truly artistic command of their truly well-trained, beautiful instruments. Some old recordings are awful, some singers of today are amazing too. I wonder how much recording technique influences the smoothness/warmth/compression of sound we hear from those times...
Singers have to look for timber now, nervous energy must obtain lots of profits over breath, rythm, melody... Who suffers? Word, soul... and me! The same for orchestral & chamber music... conductors cancel silence, and even in rock bands the click of the puter jeopardize the humanity of the musicians. No community creation of mood, pulse and meaning springing from a blossoming silence. Let´s look for recordings with silence in the "world between the sound", where Spirit resonates and call us.
waldorftrekkie 1 month ago
Voices are seasonal fruits. They sound different because they were different! In those "primitive" recordings we can still listen the astral silence blended in their voices. For pulse, sweetness, anger or joy, the etheric vibration came free and pure from the vocal chords, after having transformed the will impulse balanced by imaginative ear pure perception of the notes in the surrounding silence. All was "bio" music: no HI-FI or Cd's, no muscle!. Today singers can't last long.
waldorftrekkie 1 month ago
This performance is the most sensitive from a male singer that I have heard. He really paid attention to the words and their meaning. Seeing younger pictures of Leo makes more clear the resemblence of his grandson Leo, whom I met.
sfkcbf 6 months ago
I can' t seem to explain why I always think the old singers are better than the new ones, is it the way they interpreted it, is it faschinating because it's so old? Can somebody explain? thanks
Melot50 9 months ago
@Melot50 The myth or stereotype that in the past, all these singers sang better than today is an interesting topic to discuss: I would say that the crème de la crème that got recorded in the time between the wars undoubtly had a truly artistic command of their truly well-trained, beautiful instruments. Some old recordings are awful, some singers of today are amazing too. I wonder how much recording technique influences the smoothness/warmth/compression of sound we hear from those times...
ONeirda 6 months ago
Kein anderer hat dieses Lied je wieder so anbetungswürdig schön gesungen.
irmgardfuerst 10 months ago
Very beautiful: second only to Tauber's acoustic version.
Did you know they often sang together in Les Huguenots?
Slezak as Raoul and Tauber as Boise Rose.
saltburner2 1 year ago
I love Slezak's delicacy of feeling he displays in this rendition.
Thanks for sharing this with us.
preruminator 1 year ago 2