Renee Fleming - "Lascia ch'io pianga"

[holywells]

Nice, but I prefer Hayley Westenra's warm, rich, and soothing vocal tones for this piece. Merry Christmas to all.

[martinr078]

@holywells Thanks for the heads up on Hayley. She does have the best version of the dozens I've listened to. I already had Celtic Women as one of my favorites with "You Raise Me Up", and I singled out Hayley who is just magnificent and out of this world gorgeous!

[cugir321]

Wonderful phrasing and control! So sad....so lovely! So true to the lyric.

[mozartbg]

Wonderful performance. Excellent italian language pronounce. Not heavy, but enough light and very clean voice as it is needed in Baroque arias. Brava Renée Fleming !

An italian fan of Georg Friederich Händel, maybe the best composer of the Italiana Opera' history.

[ginnycratty]

what a beautiful version

[EdsonII]

J'adore!!!!!!!!!!!

[ClemvSt]

If a version makes me cry every time i listen to it, it gets thumbs up, and this version definitely does! Brava.

[TaccoladOra]

Brava! Voce divina!

[qjasmine]

This is truly the best version. The emotional potency is outstanding.

[cissou357]

je conseille à "aurore" d'écouter Matt Pokora cela semble être des bruits à sa portée !!!

[aurore18141]

bof je prefere la vraix chanteuse! enfin je dit pas quelle est nul! elle chante bien je trouve quand meme

[Milylily4Ever]

emotions flow!!!

[3Sunnyboy]

I love the musical arrangement on this rendition. Would be perfect with a little more rhythm. As for the singing of this particular Handel piece, I prefer Marilyn Horne's interpretation. Still, it is worth a listen 90/100

[bbdolphin11]

magnifique merci Renée

[mannail888]

Fleming is so phoney, so fake, so insincere, so plastic, so shallow, so feigned, so shamful that there are people who regard anything that come out of her mouth as art is nothing short of a collective wish to steep themselves in ugliness and self-debasement.

[tenor220]

@mannail888 You've made a very bold statement yet have done to nothing to back it up, as of right now you look like nothing more than a jealous little girl. I advise you have some sort of supporting argument when making such comments.

[mannail888]

@tenor220 Wow, if what I've written amounts to nothing more than the ranting of a jealous girl, than the way you came to the defense of Fleming and rebutted my deposition pretty much paint a picture of a person who's unable to distinguish pseudo arts from genuine one, a person who's so conditioned by the media, by the so called authorities of the society, by a set of rules and customs set down by people in power that that person has lost the ability to think, the dare to ask why.

[trms83br]

This is by far one of the most beautiful musics ever written!

[nicosupersex]

what orchestra is playing???

[Opera7Star]

PLEASE tell me in which key is this song originally written???

[KriBlackRoson]

my goddes

mi diosa y reina por siempre

Die beste Sängering IMMER

[doncarlo84]

golden voice perfectly suitable for Handel! excellent rendering and very elegant da capo.

[cklemperer]

By the way, this da capo is appropriate and very lovely in its simplicity. Just gorgeous!

[amenne76]

Lascia ch'io pianga la cruda sorte,

E che sospiri la libertà!

E che sospiri, e che sospiri la libertà!

Lascia ch'io pianga la cruda sorte,

E che sospiri la libertà!

Lascia ch'io pianga la cruda sorte,

E che sospiri la libertà!

E che sospiri, e che sospiri la libertà!

Lascia ch'io pianga la cruda sorte,

E che sospiri la libertà!

[lilsleygirly]

@joet193

It's Italian (:

x

[kiki8279]

Fantastico. Brava lei, Handel eccellente....

Peccato che questo grande musicista sia più conosciuto per altri brani altrettanto belli...

[tychaton08]

Merci!

[mapaford518]

Beautiful. Thank you.

[leoperarm]

I don't like the Da Capo...

[bcenizal01]

BRAVA!

[geulietta]

MOST BEAUTIFUL VERSION !!!

[AngelofMusic04]

@geulietta I dunno. It's a pretty damn beautiful version, but there's something about Tuva Semmingson's version that automatically breaks my heart.

[littlechildren01]

claro, con mucho gusto!

personalemente, el barroco es mi ópera favorita e indiscutiblemente, handel es mi compositor favorito, sin embargo, pese a ser una excelente cantante y poseer uno de los instrumentos más bellos de hoy en día, a fleming no le va rinaldo, este papel es para una mezzo o un contratenor, no para una soprano lírica.

[nicosupersex]

@littlechildren01 contratenor?????????? no creo, esto es un papel de una mujer.... por que habria de cantarlo un contratenor, esta señora canta hermoso, y no encuentro estilo dvorak por ninguna parte,...

[juggling88]

pure feelings! pure sound! Everything is pure!

BRAVA!!!

[DivaTCD]

No one sings this like her. I love the way she lightens the weight of this piece by placing the tone in a softer and higher place than most other singers. That soft palate must be on the top of her head. JK Gorgeous.

[littlechildren01]

DIOS MÍO!!!

vaya que le viene maravilloso strauss, se las arregla con algunos papeles de mozart y es estupenda con dvorak, pero que no toque handel, por favos, QUE NO LO VUELVA A TOCAR!!!!

[lady00010]

Podria explicarnos lo que usted quierre decir, porque me parece maravilloso su modo de cantar aqui

[littlechildren01]

claro, con mucho gusto!

personalemente, el barroco es mi ópera favorita e indiscutiblemente, handel es mi compositor favorito, sin embargo, pese a ser una excelente cantante y poseer uno de los instrumentos más bellos de hoy en día, a fleming no le va rinaldo, este papel es para una mezzo o un contratenor, no para una soprano lírica.

[littlechildren01]

y la manera de interpretar y ornamentar el da capo no es la más adecuada, creo yo, lo hace como si cantara dvorak, claro está que nada más es una mera opinión.

pero he de reconocer que su alcina es gloriosa!

[lady00010]

Muchisimas gracias para sus amables aclarecimientos, pero para mi su voz, que usted juzga desplazada en ese registro, en mi opinion le da algo muy original, una frescura quizas, que me agradezco muchisimo

[peachexplosion]

so so so beautiful

[lady00010]

I agree

[hthoma]

@peachexplosion

absolut richtig