I have an idea: Let's totally forget the beauty of this particular performance by focusing on rather trite ideas about current assumptions about how Purcell heard it performed in his time. Because, you know, it's much more important to show how much we think we know than to enjoy the performance.
This is the tempo I've always wanted to hear this aria in, and yet Jessye is the only soprano who's sung it slowly enough and lamenting enough. Lovely! Thank you so much!
Indeed. :-D I thought I could when I was younger - startled my neighbors when I used to blast the entire concert from which this aria was taken. I've long since lost the tape so my new neighbors have been spared. Ha. Miss that concert, though.
Oh Jessye Norman...you are marvelous, you are incredible...and the voice is just so powerful,so beautiful. My heart is breaking as it should. The artistry is beyond belief...I've adored you for decades and seen you do this in person. Thank heavens you are here to give us this moment of detachment from our ordinary lives and to experience, for a brief moment, what it is like in heaven.
I have an idea: Let's totally forget the beauty of this particular performance by focusing on rather trite ideas about current assumptions about how Purcell heard it performed in his time. Because, you know, it's much more important to show how much we think we know than to enjoy the performance.
pagerbear 10 hours ago
Amazing soprano ... BUT ... it was never intended to be sung vibrato. In Purcell's day it would have been sung "plain".
XmisterIS 1 week ago
@XmisterIS It's not Purcell's day anymore.
iusernaime 1 week ago
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moonlight217 1 week ago
@moonlight217 ASSHOLE
iusernaime 1 week ago
@moonlight217 IDIOT!
idreno2001 5 days ago
Divine!
michaimeskinsek 1 week ago
absolutly stunning! and she tears up as she sings it, making it all the more touching.
RavenousMedicine 2 weeks ago
OMG how transcendantly sad
thethikboy 3 weeks ago
such dignity, such bearing, such sorrow...
ramenbo 1 month ago
makes me want to cry, so sad.
sallyfromourally149 1 month ago
This is the tempo I've always wanted to hear this aria in, and yet Jessye is the only soprano who's sung it slowly enough and lamenting enough. Lovely! Thank you so much!
SickMouth 1 month ago
it's so beautiful. Her voice is so strong and yet you feel the pain.
littlemiss24077 1 month ago
moving.. the power in her voice,ot almost brings you to tears
littlemiss24077 1 month ago
A wonderfull gift !
maurippa 1 month ago
This is awe inspiring... Ah to sing like Jessye Norman!
damejb 1 month ago
@damejb
Indeed. :-D I thought I could when I was younger - startled my neighbors when I used to blast the entire concert from which this aria was taken. I've long since lost the tape so my new neighbors have been spared. Ha. Miss that concert, though.
Loumademe 1 month ago
other arias from this concert?!?!?!? Please upload! :)
yukio84 2 months ago
@yukio84
Hard to find - 'Live At Lincoln Center' archival material is nearly impossible to obtain - but I'll keep trying! ;-)
Loumademe 2 months ago
Klaus Noni ist besser!
Tupwap 2 months ago
Listen to her singing 'Sanctus' from Gounod's St. Cecelia Mass and fall to your knees with her in prayer!
dongorgonspec 3 months ago
Thank you God for giving me ears.
Pyrrha108 3 months ago
Oh Jessye Norman...you are marvelous, you are incredible...and the voice is just so powerful,so beautiful. My heart is breaking as it should. The artistry is beyond belief...I've adored you for decades and seen you do this in person. Thank heavens you are here to give us this moment of detachment from our ordinary lives and to experience, for a brief moment, what it is like in heaven.
Sotzume 3 months ago 2
@Sotzume : I humbly endorse your sentiments
dongorgonspec 3 months ago
She is a force. In fact, I think she is THE force, Luke
tobo86 3 months ago
Jessye Norman is incredible
MusicLuver093 3 months ago
Achingly fabulous
RudigerVT 4 months ago