Dalbavie Sonnets pt 6

[beethoven75]

Thank you so much for posting those amazing pages... i heard it live in Paris in feb 2010, and it was a breathtaking shock... Of course, Jaroussky is amazingly involved in it...

[LydianAirs]

@beethoven75

Thanks so much for your comment! You're very lucky to have heard this live. I wonder how the rest of the audience received it?

"Amazingly involved" is the right description! You can feel the text come alive in his performance - he's really living the emotions of this woman...

[CaraPhilos]

Beautiful. Thank you for posting this! Good to know that there is contemporary music for countertenor voice, and that composers are inspired by PJ´s voirce.

[LydianAirs]

Thank you for your comments! He will be performing this piece again in Paris in February 2010, with Christoph Eschenbach conducting.

[npgcampos]

Dalbavie is a fantastic composer! Thank you very much!

[LydianAirs]

You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it!

[grenouilleGG]

Thanks for posting these. Any chance for the "missing" Dalbavie Sonnets (parts 3, 4 and 5)? It's interesting to hear how Jaroussky handles a contemporary piece.

[LydianAirs]

I'll put the missing parts up tomorrow if I have time, or very soon. You're the first person who has asked for them! Thanks for the comment. I really love this work and I hope it's released on CD someday.

[grenouilleGG]

Thanks for posting them so quickly! The voice that is Ariodante or Giustino, applied here to such different music (quite effectively, I think) -- it seems to show that the countertenor voice is a very appropriate instrument for modern work as well.

[LydianAirs]

I agree, and PJ shows new dimensions in this impressive performance. It's an inspired marriage of singer and material. Dalbavie said in a radio interview that first he was frustrated in his attempt to compose this because he couldn't find the right voice; then he heard PJ in a Vivaldi concert and suddenly realised "I have found my girl!" :) (He was laughing rather charmingly as he said it!)

I hope some more composers write for PJ. I read that Suzanne Giraud was writing an opera for him.

[grenouilleGG]

This is the one in which he's to play Caravaggio? That will ruin his reputation as an "angel"! (finally!)

[LydianAirs]

Yes, that's the one. He's been quite enthusiastic about it in his interviews! ;)

[tuffy942]

Thanks so much to LydianAirs.Although I am strictly baroque,Philippe's voice makes this beautiful for all.Bravo!

[lisou40]

I love this atmosphere, this old language...and his voice! thanks

[mahajaroussky]

thanks alot