Max Emanuel Cencic, sopranist, Handel: Rejoice Greatly

[ligth95]

wowwwwwwwwww nice

[DavidEberhardt]

Thank you! How unique! This is the first thing that I listen on a newly installed computer . I like to listen to it every day! I know nothing about music, but I even like to try to sing it. When I sing it it's MY tenor rendition!! Bless Handel's heart!

[benoitmaur]

beatiful...

[serenaluce]

For me it's the best version of this aria! I also think that he sounds better now but this is great too! That is his singing is even greater now!

[lalagonegaga]

It's nice, but he difinitely sounds much better now.

[sfkcbf]

I was intrigued with Max's sopranist sound because it is unlike anything that I have heard before, a sound somewhere between boy soprano and adult sopranist / countertenor. If one listens carefully, one can hear certain distinctive features of Max's voice in someways similar to his earlier years and, at the same time, his later years. His tone, power, and vocal agility certainly were a noticeable contrast to the countertenor who proceded him in "He Shall Feed His Flock" (which I omitted.)

[lalagonegaga]

If you are fascinated by this, I have something to recommend to you, The Better Land, a 6 CD collection of recordings of pre-WWII British boy sopranos. What is interesing is that some of these boys continued to sing soprano even to the age of 17 or 18, probably using the same special technique Cencic's mother supposedly "invented" for him. The results are amazing. The booklets included provide ample information on this as well as an explanation of why most of today's boys don't sound like this.

[ichmalealsobinich]

Wonderfully sung! How old was he then? And had he been entrained in a boys choir?

[cabbalistic]

He was a vienna choir boy!

[velvetcaress]

Very beautiful, Stephen. :-)

[loupblanc26]

beautiful! Thank you

[mradaChris]

Wonderful!

chris