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  • Niin kaunis on tää!!

  • i will give anything to that person who has this concert taped and send it to me. i remember one great duet about a pair in love who were living in different islands not able to be together. i will drown into my tears the day i see that again.

  • In order to appreciate and understand Tarja as an artist, someone should listen to her work for at least several years.

    She has a too wide range of expression to be understood after superficial audition.

    She chose classical and metal - thus, distancing herself from any commercial intent - and still has tremendous success.

    The masses crying, cheering and headbanging at her concerts are proof enough that she is beyond extraordinary.

  • @12321marianne And the enormous masses cheering at Hitler or Stalin were a proof that those men were "beyond extraordinary". Cults and overblown fanhood are both dangerous.

  • @itapirkanmaa

    So did Jesus, Dalai Lama, Che Guevara etc.

    Tarja did graduate both universities, it's written on their respective websides in the list of graduates and it's written in any public biography. It's written in many of her former teacher's websites, in public interviews etc.

    I understand that tastes are different but denying cold reality is just weird.

  • @12321marianne Then you will no doubt be able to tell me the date(s) when she has graduated with a degree, and from which musical institution(s)?

  • @itapirkanmaa

    You are an idiot, the dates are here among dozens of your flames. Or maybe the whole thing is a lie and everybody is consipiring against you. La vida es sueno, as the book says...

  • @MrNakhrul So you're saying you can't find the dates and places of Ms Turunen having graduated or having received any Diploma in singing? That's correct -- neither can I. The most logical conclusion here is she really never did graduate nor receive a Diploma. University education is free in this country, and most more basic musical tuition is strongly subsidised or free, so I wonder if she was just not cut for it.

  • @itapirkanmaa

    When did I said that, schyzo? I said it's buried HERE among dozens of your flames. here's one from this page :"After the graduation at the Music Academy in Karlsruhe, in January 2004, Tarja had further minitour Noche Escandinava ...".

    Are you sure you're not wearing a white shirt at the moment? One with longs sleeves, that is.

  • @itapirkanmaa

    And yes, if that makes you gay (as in "happy"), I'm off from this page.

    Belive it or not i feel remorse for being so aggressive, but you deserve it.

    Have a nice life or whatever!

  • i mis her in metal :(

  • @itapirkanmaa

    Can't you tell the sound is heavily post-processed? That's why all sound is flat.

    I suggest you look for live unprocessed performances of Tarja, she is easily one of the best singers alive at this hour.

  • @itapirkanmaa

    - Mr Turunen is an exceptional classical singer and you are following an agenda. You say you dont like the performance yet you keep visiting this page and posting inflammatory remarks.

    - I sang classical 11 years and at least i've gained a trained ear. My ear tells me Tarja one of the best voices in any musical area today.

    - Any freeware software today can post process and split any sound channel. I can make the cello sound like Bugs Bunny if I want to without touching the others.

  • @itapirkanmaa

    I see you are obsessed with whatever pronounciation issue you found. I don't know finnish but it may well be an artistic choice an nothing more.

    Regarding the processing, you state idiocies greater than yourself. You can replace and alter any sound even at a byte level since at least 20 years. There is software and there is hardware for that.

    Please don't post here anymore and don't reply to me because I won't return the favor. You make my mind bleed.

  • @MrNakhrul May I kindly ask why should there ever have been a need for any post-processing of Ms Turunen's voice at all, as you suggested? After all, I suppose she would sing just perfect the first time, this according to yourself as well?

  • @itapirkanmaa

    Tarja or her representatives never released a recording of this concert. This recording is from a TV station and the post processing is made by them.

    Not always post processing is made to correct a flaw in the voice, it may be normalization, modulation etc.

    Also the sound information is converted once when taken from analog to digital format, then again when tranformed to broadcast format. And again when recorded from the TV to the PC and finally compressed by Youtube for storage.

  • @itapirkanmaa

    I am sorry man, but you are wrong and get wronger. You are one of those people that even if they are totally out and parralel to a subject, keep pushing and insisting on their ways.

    Tarja did finish Sibellus a few years ago. She interrupted it because the toured Germany at that time with Nightwish.

    She also graduated the academy at Karlsruhe while she was in Germany.

    She does 15-20 classical concerts yearly and will release an album with her parrallel project, Harus.

  • @MrNakhrul Ms Turunen has never graduated and that is a fact, not an opinion. She began at the Kuopio Department of church music of Sibelius Academy, but did not complete her studies. She has also failed to complete her studies in Karlsruhe, Germany. She does not have any formal degree in Music, despite having tried two times in two different countries. Sorry.

  • @itapirkanmaa

    Generic tools like Audacity can do that. It's even easier when recording proffessionaly.

    When recording professionally, EACH sound channel is recorded separately on a track. This way each sound source can be edited separately.

  • @irenikus777 Yes, but in this live recording there's only one track that we see and that track will contain everything. Therefore we will be unable to separate Ms Turunen from her orchestra, once the recording has taken place.

  • @itapirkanmaa

    False. If the channels are recorded separately, they will be indexed and will have embeded about their channel.

    This way an output device like a Creative 5.2 or 7.1 (or a Delta for professionals) card can reproduce each in a separate channel.

    PS: even feeds made with amateur cameras are splittable, but it's harder and weaker because the separation must be done manually.

  • @itapirkanmaa

    I am sorry but I'll join the list of people not replying to you. We seem to live in parallel worlds.

    You are wrong in all you have said but nothing will change your mind about anything.

  • @MrNakhrul

    How can u even compare Turunen to Karita Mattila ?

    Turunen, surely, have had _some_ training in classical music.. but to say that Turunen is one of the best voices in any musical area today  is an absurd statement.

    U are comparing her to a best what Opera/Classical has to offer ?

  • @KuopioKallavesi

    Yes and as I have stated I am listening opera since many years.

    Also as I have stated, there are people like you that listen to her and have all kinds of expectations.

    The vibrato should be faster; no, slower ; voice should be softer; no, should be stronger; should sing legato; no, should sing staccato; and so on, so on..

    --

    She interprets perfectly the partiture and uses classical technique, but always in her own style. This is what a true artist should do

    ->

  • @KuopioKallavesi

    -> she did not have "some training", she is studying clasical since over 25 years and followed 2 conservatories.

    --

    Strictly as voice quality and timbre she surpasses everyone. Even my point of reference, Maria Callas.

    She does not use a technique identical to the one used in opera.. because she does not sing opera.

    A performer should adapt his style to the piece performed, not the other way around.

    Tarja uses techniques from classical music, blues, rock etc

  • @KuopioKallavesi

    Anyway, this recording is of a very poor quality and her voice is not captured well.

    Here are ones with a better quality, her first performance of Carmen and Rusalka

    /watch?v=nJ3h4LerUkE

    /watch?v=3chWYFE1YoE

    Again adds some subtle things of her own, but It's obvious that she has one of the best voices around.

  • @KuopioKallavesi

    Heya, here are 2 performances for comparison on Song to the Moon

    Here is Matilla /watch?v=MwuNqcKUxto

    and here is Netrebko /watch?v=MwuNqcKUxto

    Imho she is at least as good in technique and superior overall.

    The only plus they have is a little more flow and better pronunciation , having performed this aria hundreds of times.

    Tarja is not even knowing the piece by hard, if you watch the video I posted she keeps scanning and searching in the partiture :)

  • @itapirkanmaa

    All this is irrelevant because this performance is as good as it gets.

    The pronounciation is her own artistic choice as she made it numerous times even when in NW, and even with the processing the voice sounds perfect.

    If you consider this voice mediocre I honestly think you were born without eardrums and you are born for nothing.

    I broke my word and replied, but not anymore. Cheers

  • @itapirkanmaa

    I'll reply this also and am over with this thread.

    Even the freedom of speech you misunderstood.

    Yes, everybody is entitled to have an oppinnion - as long as it's not ill intentioned, pertinent and not offensive.

    Your oppinion is blatantly wrong, it's impertinent and offensive to the artist and people that respect the artist. And i tent to think (like the other guy) that your oppinnion also is ill intentioned, because you keep insisting on it even though nobody agrees with you.

  • @itapirkanmaa

    In your country Tarja has been elected time and time again singer of the year, artist of the century, voice of Finland and so on. She does not even live in Finland and has Argentinian nationality, yet she continues to receive those awards.

    Of course there are retarded and envious people like you that will always say "black" when the majority says "white" or "no" when the majority says "yes".

    Does not make you special, just especially frustrated.

  • @itapirkanmaa

    The difference between people who know music and people like you is that they can make a difference.

    You went inflammatory too early and I had not the chance to explain your problem, musically.

    It's simple: you listen classical not by pleasure but to fuel a frustrated part of your subconscius.

    Because you can't understand it properly, anything that does not sound identically whith what you are used to, sounds bad.

    Its common and happens also for metalheads, rockers, opera people..

  • @MrNakhrul You're of course entitled to your opinion. I on the other hand hold that Ms Turunen is just another mediocre classical singer, who has a some serious trouble with her pronounciation and mannerism as well as her voice purity. Had she not gotten famous by happening to having been a former classmate of Mr Holopainen of Nightwish, she would not be worth any mention internationally.

  • @itapirkanmaa

    Well well...

    For someone who does not even listen to Nightwish (as you stated), you seem to know a lot of particularities. The band's leaders, relationships, even it's ancient history.

    If it was not already obvious, you finally shown your true face and agenda to everybody.

    It usually takes more.. either people like you are getting stupidder, or I am getting really good at this :)

  • @MrNakhrul I use public sources and references. As I said I don't listen to Nigthwish. I do occationally listen to some Finnish heavy rock however (I'm in the ripe old age of 49 btw). The guys of Stam1na are excellent in their musicianship, but I guess there are others as well.

    True Mr Nahkrul, I have this "agenda" on mediocre singing by lazy artists. I prefer people who can their work, instead of poor skills & merely showing off.

    .

  • @itapirkanmaa

    If what you say is true - I tell you from respect to your age - drop it.

    Your oppinions are your own but you cannot convince anyone at least not here.

    The most you can do is to offend, produce irritation and flames The most I can do is to just do damage in response.

    If this is the result you want, go ahead and continue.

  • @MrNakhrul There are some actual people around whose musical world does not revolve around defending a mediocre singer/entertainer. (And I thought you said you was gone some 15 messages ago. Surely a dumbass like me just can't be THAT interesting??)

    

  • @itapirkanmaa

    The same way that you like repeating the word "mediocre" beating off at the idea that I respond because it stirs me, exactly the same pleasure I get screwing with people like you.

    You are so lame and predictable that i bet that I can anticipate your replies in at least 70% proportion, literally.

    It's my little dirty fetish, what can I do...

  • @itapirkanmaa

    She also did teach (don't know if she still does) : "After the graduation at the Music Academy in Karlsruhe, in January 2004, Tarja had further minitour Noche Escandinava in South America and Romania. She also started to fulfill her pedagogic ambitions and she organized a course for some enthusiastic students of singing in Buenos Aires."

  • @12321marianne "Teaching" usually means having a position in an institute of learning, and/or having a fixed set of one's own students over a longer period of time.

  • @itapirkanmaa

    Here, let me help you with the definition of teaching: "the act or profession of a person who teaches; to impart knowledge or skill; give instruction".

    You are not getting anything right today, take your medicine and get some sleep.

  • Does anyone have the lyrics to this song? I only seem to find instrumentals and vocalised singing on this one!

  • I can't seem to post a link here so google "Myrskyluodon Maija" by Lasse Mårtenson and remember to put in "sanat" for lyrics in Finnish. The song is about a fisher couple in the Åland archipelago, and it's from a TV series based on a series of books by Anni Blomqvist.

  • @heidielisabet Thanks a lot heidielisabet :)

  • maravillosa interprete

  • The volume was small, I thought that she sings some other language, but no, it was a FINNISH! :D Good to me, hah hah hah, what a difficult Finnish language. 8)

  • her hair is purple!!!

    

  • her hair is purple!!!

  • She is so beautiful and talented. A goddess.

  • Tarja, are you pregnant?

    I love her so much :)

  • @MrsLesleyOlivia why do you think she's pregnant?

  • @MrsLesleyOlivia Because I see a little belly, but maybe I'm not looking good.

  • @MrsLesleyOlivia No, :P It's just that she works her diaphragm when she sings, so she can deliver her voice correctly, and singing that way requires her to use her stomach to breath properly, that's why her belly looks like that, but it's only air ;)

  • tämä kappale ei oikeastaan sanoitusta kaipaa, mutta tarja tulkitsee hyvin kauniisti. harvoin tällaista ääntä kuulee mainstream musiikissa

  • Amazing

  • Magnificent. Really magnificent.

  • beautiful smile :D

  • i love this woman!!!!

  • Hmmmm.... I wish Sissel Kyrkjebø could sing this once. :) In Swedish of course.

  • Ganz einfach; Ein tolles Lied; Frau Turunen kommt 4te November nach Stuttgart..

    Muss sehen..diesen tolles Artist.

    mfg-harry

  • As a bourne finnish-swedish I just love this song, this performance, the atmosphere.

    Just simply a masterpiece.

    Living in Germany(Berlin) I miss so much the Scandinavian Archipelago.

  • I guess classical music and dynamic microphones just don't mix well. She could have sung without one.

    Her voice is so weak here, I'm not completely satisfied with this particular performance.

  • @HarriMehtala Classical song doesn't want microphone, if performance is in opera house. The acoustics are horrible there on the palace where she sung that song.

  • @potterclubtv , you know about Philharmonic society or opera in concert??? Look at the orchestra! It behind Tarja. In philarmony or opera in concert all opera singers sing in a microphone!!!

  • @Obuhova2 I absolutely agree with you, but some people doesn't think so :D

  • @potterclubtv, sorry, i has't seen, that you addressed to HarriMehtala :)

  • @Obuhova2 It's Okay :) I love Tarja <3 do you? <3

  • @potterclubtv I love Tarja very much!

  • Tää ei nyt vaan oikein toimi..

  • @EkaVekaranro1

    Bullshit.

  • I'm a sworn metalhead, but when it comes to Tarja, I don't care if she sing metal, opera or classical music. She's the goddess, she puts her her heart in every song, no matter what type of music she sings.

  • Why does she pronounce Finnish, her native language, with an English accent? :/

  • @youkahainen Where exactly do you hear an English accent??

  • @kikigi78 Mostly in the way she pronounces her tees and kays.

  • Liian makea!!! Yök!

  • The original song was composed by Lasse Mårtenson in 1975. The song is called " Myrskyluodon Maija "

    Tarja's performance is unparalleled.

    Sorry.. Google translator...

  • The original song was composed by Lasse Mårtenson in 1975. The song is called "Myrskyluodon  Maija"

    Tarja's performance is unparalleled.

    Sorry.. Google translator...

  • Does anyone know what is this song about?

    Alguém sabe sobre o que é essa música?

  • @Guilherme7530 The music was composed for a TV series in year '75. It was about the life of a fisherman and his wife living on an islet, "Myrskyluoto" (literally the Storm Islet) in the Finnish archipelago. I don't think anybody has translated the lyrics.

  • @youkahainen Oh, thankyou very much for the info!

  • beautiful woman , beautiful voice she is my queen always my queen :)

    LONG LIVE TARJA TURUNEN!!!!!!!!!

  • Perfect!

  • Meu vocabulário é muito pobre para descrever o que sinto quanto ouço a Tarja cantar. Quisera eu ter o dom da palavra, somente um poeta poderia descrever o quão maravilhosa ela é.

    Paulo

  • "Puhe turhaa on, ja lause tarpeeton." Kaunista, mahtavaa.

  • Love her dress

  • Vc me inspira sempre minha querida!.............<3

  • i love her

  • Tarja ole merikalaa nähnytkään!

    (=välikevennys.)

  • To say that this sounds beautiful would be an absolute understatement. Simply flawless!

  • @GripMeetalTV you´re so right, it´s much more than beuatiful... I´m speechless

  • I love her facial expressions at the end! She is a beautiful artist with an extraordinary voice! We love you Tarja!!

  • When comparing this directly with The Reign (performed at the same festival), her own song loses out entirely. She seems much more connected to the content in this one, much less contrived even her vibrato sounds more real. I wish she'd perform her own songs like this.... but I guess fully classical songs ask for a different type of singing than her own metal/classical mix so maybe I'm being unfair.

    In any case: great performance!

  • @crimsonsmirk It may be easier for her too as it's in Finnish.

  • @crimsonsmirk i think this i a matter of taste...i, personally, like more the reign than this one..

  • It's true. A fully classical piece is so much more vocally demanding, and the amount of dynamic in the voice is so much greater. Rock music calls for more of a belt so the dynamic there is very weak in comparison.

  • when was this? :) it's great!

  • es la mujer mas hermosa del mundo

  • she's gorgeous and so is this song *.*

    LOVE this woman so much! My only angel of music Tarja Turunen <3

  • Niin jatkuu tuo yhteinen työ taas, kunnes saapuu tyynenä kesäyö. Yhdestä katseesta mies ymmärtää vaimoaan, kuinka hän pelkää myrskyävää pohjoista selkää, yksin kun jää. Siis tyynnytelkää huomiset veet, haltijat, mies pyyhkii kyyneleet. Oppii luodolla kielen, puhe turhaa on ja lause tarpeeton. Mies aavistaa liikkeet herkän mielen, kun nousee aamu, joka miehen matkaan saa. Katse saattamaan jää, vielä tyyni on sää, vielä tyyni on sää
  • Kun saapuu taas saaliineen hän,

    on kuin mies naistaan tuntisi enemmän.

    Rannalle suurimmat siioistansa tuo huutaen:

    Eivät ne karkaa, suomusta nuo!

    Katsetta arkaa vaimoon hän luo,

    karkeaa sarkaa kosketellen

    kertoo mies terveiset myrskyjen.

  • LYRICS: Meri jäljet lyö luotoon, vaot kallioon ne aalto tehnyt on. Myös myrskysää tarttuu Maijan muotoon, ja Jannen silmiin leudot tuulet kiinni jää. Meren ankara työ heihin merkkinsä lyö, heihin merkkinsä lyö. Oppii luodolla kielen, sanat liikaa ois, ja joutaa lauseet pois. Voi aavistaa vaimo toisen mielen, hän tuntee tuulen, joka miehen matkaan saa. Katsoo hän lähtijää, vielä tyyni on sää, vielä tyyni on sää.
  • Tarja Turunen te amo

    eres la #1

  • Tarja <3 I am in love of this woman. Beautiful =)

  • Does anyone have the words to this beautiful song? [In Finnnish]

    If so, please do share them.

    Muchas gracias. :)

  • Beautiful voice ... :') Tarja I love you ... You're awsome !

  • It's OPERA, get over it.

  • I think a sybelius lied

  • Romingwitherness doesn't his or her ass from the ground when it comes to music.

  • He or she doesn't know his or her ass from a whole in the ground about music.

  • what the Hell are yu on with???????

  • It's a bit different between singing opera and being a soprano (which Tarja is)...look it up ;P

  • TARJA!!!! more opera & less metal !!!

    ya know !! more PURE OPERATIC METAL !!

  • It's funny to think the woman who has us all head banging to metal, can also perform classical brilliantly. She has so much talent, Amazing!!!

  • an angel

  • MMMMM!! She is an operatic hunni!!

  • The best!!!!!

  • All those douchebags that think Tarja isn't an opera singer need to see this.

  • omg.

    my sweet tarja.

    i love her so much. :D

  • So beautiful...

  • Тарья супер!!))))))

  • I love her!

  • when was this??????it´s beutifull

  • 29th August, Sweden. Baltic Sea Festival - Gala Concert :)

  • So beautiful!!!

  • Beautiful.

    Music doesnt usually need translation, but i want to understand the expressions and use of the music so if anyone has the translation could you inform me please?

  • it's so strange that Tarja is pronouncing T-letter with "Swedish accent" :D It's sounds strange.

    But this is so beautiful song and her voice is stunning <3

  • Does she? I don't hear the difference.. I think that's also my t.. :P

  • Yes, she does a quite soft T when in finnish we usually have very strong T-sound :) But maybe in singing she needs to soften than up OR they use softer T's in karelian dialect. :)

  • I think Finnish sounds nicer with a soft T.. Finnish is my 3rd language, and I also have a soft T.. And unfortunately a kind of french r that sounds a bit like the Finnish one, but I can't pronounce the real Finnish R :(

  • was 2:17-2:19 censored? :)

  • tarja you are the best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^.- foreverrrrrrrrrrr and everrrrrrrrrrr

  • 4:43 that smile is the cutest smile ive ever seen! =) i love her so much!!

  • OH MY GOD, Those expressions of Tarja from 4:17 till the end of the song!!! I almost cried! Well, I did cry! I am wondering what she thinks at that moment...

    She can look so sad and be gorgeous at the same time!

  • unbelieveable<3makes my cry

  • Wow.

    that was just beautiful.

  • It is increasingly beautiful, or is it my imagination?

    tarja up!!!!!!

    beautiful interpretation, as always the number one!!!!

  • Beautiful. She sings so wonderfully and I gotta love her facial expressions too. She definitely puts a lot of her heart and soul into this. :)

  • Finnish songs are really beautiful, specially when Tarja sings ^^

    Does anyone have the lyrics and/or translation?

  • Translation lyrics:

    Maija of the stormy islet

    The sea strikes its marks on the islet,

    the wave has made its cuts on the rock.

    The stormy weather catches Maija's form,

    and the gentle winds are caught in Janne's eyes.

    The harsh work of the sea strikes its mark on them

    its mark on them.

  • One learns the language on the islet,

    words would be too much and there's no need for sentences.

    The wife can guess the other one's mind,

    she knows the wind that makes her man depart

    She looks at the leaver, the weather's still serene

    the weather's still serene

  • When he returns with his prey

    it's like the man knows his woman better.

    Brings the biggest whitefish to shore with a shout:

    "They won't flee, scale these!"

    A shy look he gives his wife

    touching the rough cloth

    he tells the greetings of the surge

  • So continues the joined work

    again, until the serene summer night arrives

    From one look the man understands his wife,

    how she fears the churning

    northern open sea, when she's left alone

    "So calm the waters of tomorrow,

    fairies", he wipes her tears

  • Es increible esta mujer!!!! Tan hermosa como talentosa!!! Me emociono mucho!!! Me hizo llorar... Turunen te amoooo!!! Gracias por el video!!!!

  • I would have died if I have watched this on TV. I would have screamed and cried the whole performance.

  • awesome! xD

    Love it!! <33

  • Wonderful performances. I wish i had been there.

  • She looks gorgeous. I love the ending when the camera focuses her beautiful face.

  • Beautiful Song.....

    Amazing......

  • Beautiful song! And of course, great interpretation!

  • Brillant Amazing!!!! Peformance!!!! She looks beautiful! love tarja sooooo much!  <3 number one fan!!!!

  • Beautiful song....