Andreas Scholl "Va tacito e nascosto" Giulio Cesare Handel

[andmat5]

meraviglioso idillio.

[tamerlano236]

Great performance, though personally I prefer Spanos's and Esswood's versions too. Thanks for uploading.

[Sandraud]

@tamerlano236 you could go live with serenaluce

[serenaluce]

It's not bad, but not stunning as Scholl's voice can sound in some pieces of Sacred music. It's also too low and not the best embellishment. The best version I've ever heard is Nicholas Spanos's! THAT is high, very beauful and very expressive!

[BlackBurnHUN]

@serenaluce

I think you aren't right . It's better so much ,

have a nice day !

[serenaluce]

I think that it's all subjective. Everybody hears the same piece in their own way. You can't be righter than me. You know a singer, especially a countertenor in a baroque aria can spoil it for me with his wrong coloratura. Here it's just a bit, but that "a bit" makes all the difference when we prefer one interpretation to another. So I always find Nicholas Spanos's coloratura the most beautiful, exquisite and in style! What I can't always say about Scholl. After Spanos Esswood's version is best!

[Sandraud]

@serenaluce sure

[serenaluce]

@Sandraud Friend, let's take it easy. I like Nicholas Spanos's voice. You prefer somebody else. It's normal. It's not the end of the world. Other people like somebody else. I replied here to somebody's comment to me. If you prefer Scholl's version it's fine. I like his version too. But please don't try to be a matchmaker: I'm already married. I have a good husband. I don't want to live with tamerlano or anybody else! LOL You could ask me first:-). Let's make peace and be friends from now on:-).

[BlackBurnHUN]

best recording of va tacito from scholl !! 5****

[stickom]

Phenomenal horn solo, Andreas voice is full body here, and horn never been so beautiful!!!!!

...you may see my try as a video responce, but I think it's not "ready" yet..

[endrrahene]

I read in a French interview that he wasn't in good form here. He had an allergic reaction to the dust on stage and lost his voice. And the director of Lausanne Opera made him audition for the part he was already supposed to perform after hearing this, which was very rude and unnecessary in my opinion. But he did the audition, and then the opera which was a great success in Lausanne.

[pianoman1812]

He sounds as good as he always does, he's a phenomal singer. If you listen are first line you can kind of hear a little ocugh or something, so it's backs up your story.

[guiradobrasil]

@endrrahene I was there, in Paris, and unfortunately Andreas Scholl was a great disappointment to me, precisely because I was a fan of his and a lover of Handel's operas. His voice could barely be heard, unlike the voice of the Argentinean countertenor who played Ptolomeo. People around us at the theater were also complaining about the volume of his voice, in this particular aria, va tacito, he did not sing the da capo, which I found rather strange. So his being sick at the time makes sense

[asiairish]

I can't believe that was Christophe Rousset conducting! The tempo sounded rushed and the horn, my goodness, kind of out of tune.... The orchestra was all in all a mess!

[Braybaroque]

Who said that the horn is out of tune? It is a natural horn, with its naturally-mistuned notes fixed as much as it is possible, without resorting to anachronisms like hand-stopping, i.e. precisely like a top player of Handel's would have done, including excellent Baroque style playing! Probably the best natural-horn playing I have heard among the many existing ones of this area. Well done!

[sopherl219]

goodness, what's this...

[jonathantosio]

That horn...??

[andreinadasart]

That's Andreas Scholl? ...

[Thrax1982]

Video of the same thing

/watch?v=y9VnhYpeyAI

[wienerfr]

Oh, thanks for the link. It is the same production yes.