Nicholas Spanos - Abendempfindung an Laura by W. A. Mozart

[MsDoggydo]

Wonderful .

[marian444]

Υπέροχο video!! Καταπληκτική φωνή και ερμηνεία!!.

[Lamprospoeta]

Αριστούργημα!

[fourmy1060]

Listening again, I find that the freshness and simplicity that I am sure Mozart intended in this piece is perfectly represented by the two Nicholases. A true dialogue offered by two masters. I love it and am touched to the core.

[serenaluce]

@fourmy1060 I couldn't agree more with you here. The two Nikoses show wonderful mutial understanding! Wonderful play by Nikos Zafranas! It's so rare to hear a true dialogue, not a competition of a singer with a pianist. In many videos I can hear that a singer is singing his part, and a pianist is just playing something else, and they don't correlate, harmony isn't achieved. Scholl's version is good though it's not exactly my voice, but I don't like the accompaniment... Long live two Nikoses!:-)

[Durgakalim]

GREAT!

[paolitas7]

what a beautiful voice, you are amazing!******

[lolita7961]

Как всегда,безупречно .красиво!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! А какие модуляции изысканные!У Николаса Спаноса " свой" Моцарт-нежный.романтичный!

[serenaluce]

@lolita7961 Lolita, I'll just translate your beautiful comment for those who don't understand Russian:-) "As always flawless, beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!! And what exquisite modulations! Nicholas Spanos has his "own" Mozart - tender and romantic!"

[mirator]

Charming voice and great performance! Thank you for sharing!

[bellacanta1]

Wonderful video and music!!

[sweetnessglyc]

one can see here how the human voice is indeed the most perfect instrument....

[PauseStation]

Awsome! thanks for sharing it with me. I enjoyed his lovely voice!



[Vivaldifriend]

Very interesting Plavos, thanks very much for sharing this beautiful performance.

Nicholas is amazing.

[jewelmarkess]

very beautiful interpretation, incredible!

[obiman1000]

Splendida interpretazione di un incredibile Mozart. Grazie Nicholas!

[MissFarinella]

Very very beautiful!For dreaming...



[angelialvares]

beautiful!

[MrLuiscastellanos]

Bellissima Interpretacion , Bravo Maestro !!!!!

[wowmom1976]

Wow!

[experimentalis]

Αξέχαστη ερμηνεία. Πολλά πολλά ευχαριστώ, σε όλους σας.

[serenaluce]

@experimentalis Simfwnw. Nikos Zafranas paizei poli orea kai to traghoudhi tou Nikos Spanos einai pantote ena Thauma, ena panighiri! To akousa kai aghalliase i psihi mou ki petaksa apo hara!:-)... Efraristw poli ya tekni sas!

[Chrisy299]

Without pressure and loudness. Better than a woman sopran.

[EdmundStAustell]

This is vocalism of a very high order. Thank you for presenting it, and congratulations to Nicholas for his great attainment.

[tritonusgesang]

Wunderschön! - Fein! - Subtil! - Bravo!

[treblechoir99]

just wonderful. Thank you for this moment very special.

[unpodimusica1]

Absoluely stunning interpretation!!

[tomfroekjaer]

Absolutely divine! The immortal music of Mozart performed with the greatest spiritual empathy.

[PhillipLWilcher]

Beautiful. Fragile. Pure.

[lolotex1]

@fourmi1060 wonderful!!!! 

[MiCanaldeArte]

Absolutely wonderful, beautiful voice and music of Mozart, congratulations!!!

Thanks so much!

[arpeggio1358]

Thank you so much for posting this. Spanos is the perfect Mozart singer.

[serenaluce]

@arpeggio1358 Couldn't agree more with you here. Mozart and Spanos is a perfect match!:-) Such BEAUTY! I wish you could have come to this recital with me too and enjoyed it live:-). I hope that some day we will:-)

[arpeggio1358]

@serenaluce I also hope that we will attend a Spanos concert together too. He is singing so very beautifully here...I think perhaps you were his muse that day.

[serenaluce]

@arpeggio1358 Wow, thank you so much!:-) It's pleasant to me to think that perhaps I could be his muse that day:-). Anyway, it doesn't matter what muse Nicholas Spanos had (perhaps it was a wonderful Greek mezzosoprano Theodora Baka who attended his recital that day too:-)) or somebody else I can assure you that his singing  was just FANTASTIC!:-)

[joanabanyeres]

merci , j'aime bien un beau phrasé.

[sylsof]

wonderfull duo with very nice music

[socrates640]

Hi, This is absolutely beautiful, a truly wonderful & magnificent performance. Thank you so much for sharing.

[hugobearpiano]

Beautiful!!

[Mahlercougar]

What Do you all think of BRIAN ASAWA?

After I posted something about how impressed I was with B.A. one UTUBE post-er Told me that If I like Brian I should listen to Spanos.

I was mesmerized by his beauty and execution. Not to say who is better or anything but I was first introduced to Brian before anyone else and I love his tone.

Friendly analysis for Brian and Nicholas?

*God bless* :)

[EmersonGene]

Beautiful,charming and delightful!

Thanks so much for sharing.

[fairlytaleofnewyork]

This is one of my favorite lieders. Beautifully interpreted. Thank you.

[decimaquinta69]

Ottimo

[543693The]

merci Nicholas Spanos et Nikos Zafranas ! c'est un moment d'élégance, de délicatesse, fragilité Mozartienne ! Moment de charme en contre-ténor, loin de toute facilité pour ce chant !! merci Plavos de nous présenter ce beau moment !

Marie K

[OlDoinyo]

@fourmi1060 It's not about the voice type or gender at all--this piece is routinely sung by all different voice ranges: sopranos, altos, tenors, baritones, you name it--there is even a soprano/baritone duet version on YT. Perhaps it was misleading that I happened to pick two sopranos as examples; I wish there were a recording by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau or Fritz Wunderlich I could have referred to, but I found none. It's the how of the singing I was talking about, the subtleties ofexpression.

[serenaluce]

@OlDoinyo I'm sorry, I don't want to seem rude or pushy. Thanks for your opinon. Of course, beauty of singing is in the ear of the listener and it's normal that different people prefer different singers. But I tried to understand your problem. "Choppy" means jerky, not fluid. How on earth in Spanos's perfect FLUIDITY you could hear any JERK?! If you don't like the placement of the dynamic in this amateur recording you still criticize the performer who has nothing to do with it and was PERFECT!

[serenaluce]

@OlDoinyo...though e.g. Grummer's version's quality of recording isn't perfect either but you don't notice it and so fastidious only to Spanos. He can't be in a league with women as he is a MAN and only in a league with MEN! So, what he is not quite getting in comparison with their versions is FEMININITY but what they can NEVER quite get is Spanos's MASCULINITY! Of course, it's only a song and can be sung by anybody even a child of both sexes but comparison should be appropriate and fair...

[serenaluce]

@OlDoinyo So, I think that a COUNTERTENOR VOICE is just not your cup of tea, that's why you find imperfections in Spanos's singing even where he is absolutely perfect. He could be not in his best voice in some other videos, could make some minor mistakes which still for me are conpensated by his ALWAYS enchanting singing and SHARING HIS SOUL. Nobody can be absolutely perfect all the time. But on this recital he was in his BEST VOICE and no MIKE can ever catch ALL THE MAGIC of his voice!

[serenaluce]

@OlDoinyo So, OK, you can compare him with MEN great Fischer-Dieskau and Wunderlich. But if I like COUNTERTENOR VOICE but still try to listen to all versions objectively I'm not brainwashed by this nonsense that men should only sing not higher than tenor and can HEAR all the beauty, this special magic which only real CTs have. After Spanos even great Wunderlich doesn't sound that impressive anymore in his e.g. Morgen, die Forelle, Plasir d'amor. Diskau's Mondnacht after Spanos has no SUBTLETIES!

[serenaluce]

@OlDoinyo Actually, if this piece is routinely sung by everybody and it's not for you the matter of the voice type or gender what can you say about Scholl's version? Do you find it choppy too? I find his part just wonderful but the accompaniment is really CHOPPY, no legato, performed on a somewhat strange staccato not in the spirit of this song. Please listen to the great Zafranas's work in this piece and recital at all. Besides, Scholl's voice is a bit too cold for me.That's why I prefer SPANOS

[OlDoinyo]

Not his best performance, IMO--the singing seems choppy, the dynamic judgment a bit uncertain, and the phrases are not quite finished off as they need to be. The whole thing needs to flow together a little better. When I listen to the performances by Elisabeth Grümmer or Arleen Auger I hear what he's not quite getting. This performance is not bad, but it isn't in a league with those two, either.

[serenaluce]

@OlDoinyo Very interesting opinion. As it's only exchange opinions on YT I also have a right to disagree with you on some points and express my considerations. Tastes differ. Spanos's singing is CHOPPY? I was at this recital. It sounded just perfect. You confuse amateur recording with the singer's misjudgement. If you talk about "prases not quite finished off" in countertenor singing it's not about Spanos but Daniel Taylor who is great nevertheless and such peculiarities make him unique.

[arpeggio1358]

@serenaluce How can anyone find this choppy? It's beautifully sung and with great fluidity.

[serenaluce]

@OlDoinyo Thanks for your advice to listen to Auger and Grummer. I've always liked Auger. She has a beautiful soprano. I listened to her version. It sounds beautiful, smooth but after Spanos nothing special, boring actually. But Grummer? I find choppy exactly her singing. Tastes really differ. I find her timbre very umpleasant to my ear. There's no beautiful flow in her singing at all, though it's not bad. Actually, Spanos can't be "in a league with those two" as he is a MAN and they're WOMEN!

[serenaluce]

@OlDoinyo Spanos is a COUNTERTENOR and can't sound like female singers. It would be more appropriate to compare his version with Scholl's which is wonderful too and has different QUALITY from all the women's in the world no matter how great or promoted they are! You noticed what Spanos can't get in female versions being a man (he can't sound like WOMEN!) but you forget what all female versions can never get - this special MAGIC which only high MALE voices have, different sound production.

[serenaluce]

@OlDoinyo Actually, all tastes are legitimate but I'm against this constant discrimination of CTs and comparing them with women who only SUPERFICIALLY sound in the same range. At baroque time they cheated too and substituted castrati by women because they were much CHEAPER than CASTRATI who didn't sound like women but like MEN with SPECIAL SOUND. We don't have castrati now but CTs with different vocal caracteristics still have this SPECIAL MAGIC which no women can have! Women have something else

[serenaluce]

@OlDoinyo As I express MY opinion I can tell you that I find countertenor singing the most beautiful singing which can be heard nowadays in the world and can judge about castrati singing only theoretically like anybody else. For me after a good CT's version to hear the same stuff sung by even the greatest WOMEN is like watching black and white TV again after colour TV as in female versions some nuances are always missing for me. Also, no women and NOBODY at all can sound as ENCHANTING as SPANOS!

[arpeggio1358]

@fourmi1060 I agree with everything you say. This is a most beautifully and elegantly sung performance.

[serenaluce]

@fourmi1060 Also, I agree with you that two Nikolases is a wonderful team! They present every piece as a dialogue showing great mutial understanding! Usually I pay the most attention only to the SINGER, his voice, interpretation, colorature, etc., but Nikos Zafranas contribution to this wonderful performance deserves detailed analysis:-). It is great cooperation. And great gift for any holiday:-). Good luck to both of them and more pieces for us, fans! Bravo! Thanks Plavos for sharing THE BEST!

[arpeggio1358]

@serenaluce This is absolutely marvelous! I believe that plavos sent it to me already, but it's nice to hear it again. Nicholas Spanos is in wonderful voice on this recording. The whole world should know who he is! It has to happen...and we have to keep thinking positive thoughts about this sensational performer.

[serenaluce]

@arpeggio1358 We sure will! I wonder why his potential promoters don't want to think positive that they can make much money on a UNIQUE TALENT for a change instead of only promoting cheap pop singers whose only talent is to please the crowd, entertain and to find the right people to get recorded?! Dear promoters, how about OTHER people who can tell TRUE ART from cheap POP? There's still demand for this kind art, where's the OFFER? There are other ways to just make money not sacrificying ALL art

[serenaluce]

@arpeggio1358 ..We in the Soviet Union had a long history of deception.We could attract really big crowds from all walks of life without profanating classical art.They sold e.g. cheap alcohol in the theatre, black and read caviar and showed the whole world that our Soviet people are the finest lovers of OPERA as the "House is full"!LOL Dear promoters, think of it instead of profanating all art for money. There can be a lottery to attract more people by ruse.If you want more ideas pl contact me:)

[serenaluce]

@fourmi1060 Absolutely! Just listened to it again after being at this recital. It's just too good to be true! Never before, never after I've heard such beautiful, enchanting and intelligent Mozart! I'm sure if he could hear from heaven Nicholas Spanos's singing the genius would be happy how another genius interpreted his wonderful music!:-) Of course, I can't speak for Mozart. Just presume about what I feel myself! Bravissimo! The best match for Mozart! More please. This video is on my channel:)

[jewelmarkess]

@serenaluce Thank you so much for sending this to me, it's a beautiful performance. Totally agree with everything you say here. Enchanting is absolutely the right word here.

[miguale]

Quelle superbe interprétation... tendre et charmante... les notes coulent délicieusement et simplement.. je suis toujours sous le charme...

Merci à vous deux pour ce magnifique cadeau... Michèle

[okeanos70]

υπέροχη ερμηνεία, μπράβο!

[mradaChris]

Such beautiful singing.

[HM0880]

@fourmi1060

Your analysis is as sensitive and nuanced as Spanos's singing. I agree completely. :)

[Teonareine]

Beautiful voice !

[dnadsy52]

Meraviglia!!!!  d.

[mutewoman]

Wow!