Philippe Jaroussky - "À Chloris" (Reynaldo Hahn)

[MrArdelco1970]

beautiful voice!!!!!

[webloguita]

Qué belleza de música y de voz, no tengo palabras para expresar lo que siento cuando escucho esta canción.

[webloguita]

Sencillamente me transporta a otra dimensión, eso es lo que siento, que abandono el mundo y entro en otro espacio. Qué suerte tenemos de poder disfrutar de esta música y de cantantes tan fantásticos como Jaroussky ( a quien voy a ver cantar en Febrero!!). Webloguita

[baritonebynight]

Whats the scooping about?

[Litawyn]

I'm betting this guy has a bit of sugar in his tank.

[ralutan]

Quelle tristesse! Une auusi mauvaise qualité de son, distordu, qui dessert l'artiste! 

[Wermison]

Gosto demais de Philippe. Tenho muito desejo de ouví-lo executar OMBRA MAI FU...deve ficar simplesmente formidável em sua voz...

[ibk1980]

his voice is a blessing! what a fine artist!!! I am your fan!!!!!

[KREUZ2009]

philippe you sing in my soul¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

[ALEXISVASSILIEV]

SUPERBE Mélodie!

[GIRE59]

Te amo Philippe, gracias por tu voz¡¡¡

[tamerlano236]

Nice. Wonderful music. The best version on YT is Nicholas Spanos's interpretation. It's absolutely otherwordly.

[gajillero]

Una excelente intrerpretación de una obra de otro excelente compositor, cuya nacionalidad me llena de orgulo pues Reynaldo Hahn era Venezolano, como lo soy yo.

[arpeggio1358]

I don't wish to be rude, but Nicholas Spanos's version is much better. PJ is too commercial. Also, the voice is uneven here.

[mentalLisa]

I adore him

[GuilhermeMoraesSanto]

A voz mais bela e sonora que ja ouvi em toda minha vida!!

ESte cara e fantastico !!!

[leujiat]

Nicholás Spannos es maravilloso, pero porqué tiene que haber un grande y solo uno?. Esta interpretación es bellísima, tiene una profundidad mucho mayor a mi parecer que cualquier otra que haya escuchado, incluyendo a Spanos.

[serenaluce]

@leujiat I wonder if you checked your ears long ago? I'm just curious what so beautiful you can here in this version? I'm not even talking about his shallow, empty INTERPRETATION with all this fake emotion and intelligence, with no soul whatsoever. The quality of this recording is just awful! Can you hear?! It's just a hoarse, husky voice in the best case due to a severe cold. In this case an artist should cancel his concerts and have his throat treated! Even the placement of the mike is wrong!

[LaciSusman]

Gyönyörűen dalol ,Philippe Jaroussky az egyke a legnagyobb elő művészeknek(Hun)  Sings beautifully, Philippe Jaroussky, greatest living artist

[serenaluce]

@LaciSusman Have you heard ALL the artists in the world then and can compare them if you are so sure that this empty promoted image of a sexless creature, boy-for-ever with a teenage voice who can only produce sweet empty sounds is the "greatest living artist"?! Don't you feel yourself that such declarations who is the greatest living artist are just stupid as how many people, so many opinions! Have you ever heard true countertenors like Cencic, Kowalski, Lesne, Scholl, Chance, Bowman, Daniels?

[LaciSusman]

@serenaluce Cenci, Kowalski,Lesne, Scholl, Chance, Bowman and Daniels are great artists, but my favorite remains Philippe Jaroussky.

[serenaluce]

@LaciSusman Can I ask you why? What do you find in him? Well, nowadays, an artist already shouldn't be great anymore to be promoted. It's all left in the past. Quite on the contrary! The worse he is the better for the promotion! Philippe Jaroussky is just the "brightest" representative of the grey mass! When you listen to him you feel that he is no better than you? It's so attractive? Sorry, but I'm not interested in it. I want to listen to true artists who make me a better person! He is a fake!

[morgenstimmung08]

@serenaluce - what's your problem, actually? if you don't like him, stop bothering other people who does. don't listen to him anymore, is that simply as that and stop posting your mischievous comments regarding Philippe Jaroussky everywhere on youtube. promote the artists you like but please leave people enjoy what they feel like.

[serenaluce]

@morgenstimmung08 What's YOUR problem, actually? I'm not promoting anyone. There's such an option on YT to discuss different rentions and share opinions. People do it all the time in any artist's videos if you haven't noticed it yet. If I say that e.g. Graham's version is much better than PJ's showing real emotions and soul am I'm promoting her? Oh, be just objective, PJ is so OVERpromoted and has so many videos on YT that it's IMPOSSIBLE to post even all positive comments EVERYWHERE ON YOUTUBE!

[TheNightListener]

@morgenstimmung08 ohh, I agree so much with you, it just bothers me so much to read this everywhere, considering, that it doesn't really influence somebody's opinion, but just annoys.

[serenaluce]

@TheNightListener Oh, I can't agree with you here. If it bothers you SO much to read my comments it's only YOUR problem and not MINE. You have such a good solution - just not to read them! It's so easy! Actually, you don't understand at all the conception of YT. It's been created to give people an opportunity to DISCUSS, ARGUE, REPLY to each other. If they didn't want it it would be only one option "comment". Besides, NEGATIVE ones are allowed too. I'm not INFLUENCING to buy. I'm not  PROMOTER!

[uranusse1]

merci pour tout le bonheur que tu nous donne à travers ton art je ne m' en lasse jamais ... c'est toujours un bonheur de t'écouter ... quelle délice bien a toi Jean-pascal (Belgique )

[musicy88]

the best version ever!

[mllepersonne96]

Un interpétation toute en délicatesse de mélodies françaises un peu surannées mais tellement délicates

[MAldoseri]

Sublime!

[serenaluce]

I fully agree with you here! Impossible to describe Spanos's unbelievable singing better than you!:-) All his pieces on YT are gems! We have so lucky that Plavos posted them and we have an opportunity to discover for ourselves Nicholas Spanos - his great and unique artistry!

[serenaluce]

It's so nice to meet a person who understands what true art is! Both Nicholas Spanos's versions are really other-worldy! Like his other Hahn's masterpieces - L'enamoure'e and L'infidelite'!

[agcolonialman]

Fabuloso!

[Darjaius]

Una de las mejores y mas romanticas canciones de todos los tiempos?

Creo sinceramente que si

[AlettaJanelle]

Gave me chills to watch this. This really was beautiful and I could listen to his beautiful voice over and over and over!!! I only hope that I can do ths well at my recitals!

[asketikai2]

Filipie ; jak zawsze rzucasz na kolana ; cóż za kantylena , modulacja i ta barwa  ; ech.... złoto w krtani .

[manaposh]

Urgh. Bitches STFU and just enjoy the music. There's plenty of music in this world for you to bitch about. Philippe is awesome.

[QuintusVIIV]

well, well...fabulous music...not so sure about that. the music has a nice "sound carpet", but really that's all! i don´t object to entertainment in music, as long as we don't call it something it isn´t: that is: great music. Schubert is, Schumann is and Brahms most definetly is, but this isn´t!

[hugheyhudson]

Well, I won't argue if you're pulling out names like Schubert and Schumann, since every art song created since them has certainly been influenced by them. They were the best! But I also think it's honestly still too soon to really downplay the Impressionists like Hahn. It hasn't even been a century yet...

So can we agree this is a "lovely melody?" LOL

[baritonebynight]

This is transposed down a full step....it just loses its brillance in this key....but the scooping is what really ruins this for me.

[rolfbini]

modern (???) music, ancient poem, everlasting Voice...AMAZING!!

[ardentepatience]

It is so tiring to read these kind of comments. These two great counter tenors have worked so hard, and luckily they probably don't read those stupid and mean comments here. They work for years to give beauty and some frustrated being comes along and distributes his appreciations in one click. There is plenty of room for beauty, and I don't see that one has to push over the other to exist.I hope they all keep making us feel better about this selfish and thoughtless world.

[ardentepatience]

Actually I did not mean to comment under your comment particularly, as you are not the only one on this thread who compares artists. It fell on you, I'm sorry. Move over though in my vocabulary does mean : make room, out the way. Frustration does have a sexual root but does not express just that either.

[QuintusVIIV]

u dont get the point. i really do not object to any1´s right to like whatever they want. my concern is more that we ´re loosing the grip on what was the fundament in grat art. too few people seem to care about what meke really great music. we do not educate an audience anymore that sees beyond just beauty. if just a nice tune is enough, then we can say good bye to the whole thing...jaroussky per se is of course great. no doubt about that!

[bradleyjenks]

What is it exactly that makes really great art, then?

[QuintusVIIV]

thats not an easy one. a few aspects: a great piece of music looks great when you look at the score. really, it is almosta always true. the music has many layers, where all the material is linked to everything. you cant take anything out or add anything. the form is often thought through and assumes the listener is able to follow up when the composer plays a trick against what an educated lister would expect. just a few signs of a great composition, in my opinion.

[bradleyjenks]

Well, you might find one of your points undermined by looking at a piece by Arvo Part. Magnificent, but didn't LOOK beautiful as a score? Thats a bizarre qualification in the first place. But how about this?- Just like between people, the beauty is in the relationship of the elements. Some relationships are great, some small, some complex and interesting, some simple and straightforward. But then there are bad relationships too. Cheap relationships. Superficial relationships.

[QuintusVIIV]

sure you can find exceptions, but in general in my opinion it is striking how often great music also look good.

in general the point is, that there is more than enough of great music out there, life is 2 short to spend time on 2. grade things, don´t u agree?

[bradleyjenks]

Unless the music is genuinely appallingly bad and deserves a little admonition, yes, I am in favor of trying to enjoy music you enjoy, and avoid music you don't.

[chlorismarie]

on sent l'émotion dans votre interprétation ,votre disque est parfait mais je préfère cet version de chloris car elle touche nos coeurs .

[rwan100]

quelle voix!!du grand art...j'adore...merci de ce partage..

[martyrrt]

His voice is like no other that I have heard in the last 10 years..The color and timbre is extraordinary. This is sheer brilliance and genius.

[Hyperionalis]

Countertenors are incredibly rare, but when one pops up, they are inevitably good. What always amazes me is that when you speak to one, their speaking voices are inevitably baritone.

[kissmyhole2]

That's amazing. I thought the last castrato was Alessandro Moreschi

[kissmyhole2]

No shit sherlock.

[Masamuneblader]

He isn't a castrato, he is a countertenor. To compare the sound of a castrato look at Radu Marian whose voice never changed due to congenital hormonal disorders.

[kissmyhole2]

I Know that. It was meant to be a joke pal

[wieck81]

He is not castrated. if you hear him speak you realise this is a question of technique not physique

[whomakemefeel]

What a charm piece,,what a such delightful performance indeed I hear sing of angel in his chamber

[brentanoleader]

Thank you for keeping this beautiful music alive- compliments also to the wonderful accompanist- you understand this piece-Bravo

[voodoo6687]

PHILIPPE, your voice is like a cool, gentle breeze in the spring time, that makes the flowers blossom. YOU ARE THE MIRICAL OF THE MUSIC HISTORY.

[perlimpli]

Creo que la tesitura para cantar esto no es la de un contratenor. Este se cree que puede cantar el repertorio de una mujer. Ya comienza a cargarme

[Lurmiko]

Je trouve moi aussi que cette chanson est absolument splendide, et remarquablement bien interprétée qui plus est (quelle voix !), est-ce que quelqu'un aurait la partition pour piano et chant ? Je ne la trouve pas, au secours...

[bernie5178]

Qualité audio déplorable. Philippe tu n'y est pour rien.

[furballvie]

monsieur philippe's singig is excellent of course, but I also need to say how much I love the piano's melody - it is absolutely haunting (in a very good way) - a truly beautiful and inspired piece of music

[ohitsjustlovely]

Oh my gosh, absolutely beautiful. I haven't heard it sung so easily until this... fabulous, wonderful interpretation.

[rlee1976]

This is so touching! Just relax and stop comparing to Graham for God's sake! There's an innocence in Jaroussky's voice that isn't there with mezzos. Jaroussky is also French, unlike Graham. Graham is a great artist, but her sound gets too swallowed toward the secondo passaggio and into her head. She tries too hard to be a mezzo by darkening her sound. Anyway - enough about Graham...Philippe is gorgeous!

[baritenor81]

thank you rlee! finally someone who knows about singing! :-)

[RVP57]

Well, she's a good artist, but hardly a great one. This man, however, is a great one.

[Tigermuc]

Bravissimo, Philippe, with so much passion!

[CarolJWright]

Hope you can reupload this video and some of the others. YouTube now allows up to one gig per video so you can upload higher specs on the audio and video too. Love to discover his work! Thanks for posting.

[carolnyc1]

Absolutely beautiful! Thank you so much.

[langkafel]

Fantastic!! Da capo!!!!!!!

[lampardm]

I never thought much about this singer until I saw this clip. This is one of the most beautiful performances I have heard. I would love to hear more of him in the repertoire which really gives him a chance to sing and show the beauty of his voice as opposed to the tricks and gimmicks he generally only shows. This is stunning... can listen to it over and over.

[latercerapalabra]

Hermoso, realmente hermoso. Lástima que en Venezuela no conozcan la obra Reinaldo Hanh, ese excelente compositor nacido en esta tierra

[pianoandpipes]

I LOVE countertenors singing this repertoire...

Faure, Hahn, Debussy, Poulenc, all of it.. I think it fits so well, but it so rarely present...

Such a treasure to the world of vocal music Philippe Jaroussky is...and to the world at large.

Btw...if you haven't heard Vinson Cole sing this...you really should...

[fabiolajose]

Je trouve cet interpretation simplement sublime...

Il est si sensible, et sa voix est si belle et flexible au service du liaison parole-musique, on ne trouve toujours cette musicalité...

Je n'aime pas souvent les contre-haut, mais je dois dire dans ce cas là

BRAVO!!!

[MrQuebec]

Je préfère l'interprétation de Susan Graham.

[lavozquevuela]

I really would like some ones of you on the stage, singing or performing, searching...some of you are very critics and destructive. homofobic and no tolerant. I apreciate le nice intention and specially the cuallity and the serious work ..every body try to work serious just the critict are frustrates and never in calm with they own.

[gerbearsf]

I'll agree that Susan Graham is incredible with the Hahn songs, but Jaroussky's voice is unique and beautiful. I wasnt even aware of Hahn's songs until earlier this year at a live recital by David Daniels in Berkeley. Now that was "the bomb". David's gorgeous, full voice is awesome and discovering Hahn's music for the first time in an intimate setting (I was in the 2nd row) inspired me to get the sheet music for A Chloris and learn in on my harpsichord. Bravo Reynaldo Hahn!

[CanonxD]

it;s def in d major, sound familiar to canon

[lpmar176]

Wow a little too high pitched for my taste for a guy but nice none the less.

[Bashkii]

I prefer Cecilia Bartoli. She articulates the music better.

This guy is undoubtedly exceptional but to my taste it tires me after a while.

[g4thz]

I say the same to you I said to "cashelnd".

[MusicismyheartXO]

Hey guys, I have a question.

I know that the poet who wrote this poem is bisexual, but I think the text is meant to be sung by a man (unless chloris is a guy name in french?) ? And when I look in youtube, no men in the tenor/baritone/bass range had sung this song. But my question is, is the singable by both men and women in their own range?

[cashelnd]

Check out the recording of "Chloris" by tenor Eric Cutler on his EMI debut cd. It's beautiful (and better than Jaroussky's).

[g4thz]

You know, it's great you like someone else better. So compliment him on his video. Maybe I like this, maybe I like that, but on each video, accept what each person has to offer. Critique them, compliment them, but leave other people out of it.

[cashelnd]

I have no idea why you found my comparison of Jaroussky's and Cutler's performances inappropriate. The several mentions of other performers of "Chloris" on this site must seem downright perverse to you. Surely it's possible for you to enjoy the Jaroussky version without being condescending to those who are drawn to other versions and simply point out their preference.

[gehaktmolen]

I don't understand what everyone likes about his voice.. But the song is nice:)

[ste3990]

pover uomo...

[ogotakorin]

typical - the pianist is never mentioned...

[ceph77]

Jérôme Ducros, he is usually the pianist of Jaroussky in French melodies. You can see him also in Jaroussky's performance of "Mi lusinga" in French TV.

[jolusago]

Simplesmente magnífico!!!

[BachLoveNat]

bravo ! magnifique .....

merci

[rullstensas]

exquisite

[ElvinD15]

So...I was going to put my A Chloris here...and now I am not...lol.

[artforlove1945]

This is good but the best recording I've ever heard of these songs is by Susan Graham

[dbrel]

You got it ! Susan Graham is the bomb with these songs. One of best Cds in my collection. Makes everyone else sound like a garbage disposal. You need to get her CD of Songs of Ned Rorem as well, if you don't already have it. WELL worth any amount.

[heldentenor2b]

I'm in full agreement. I believe they came out relatively close to one another. I listened to them constantly for years.

[TimGRWelch]

Greetings from Guadalajara, México. I am a voice teacher and pianist here in Guadalajara and very much enjoyed your "Ah! Chloris". Congrats. Please come visit us in Guadalajara. Tim

[tuffy942]

THANK YOU so much,this is beautiful.Philippe uses voice,face,hands and body to transfer his emotions and he succeeds.What a singer!

[anmabra]

me refiero en especíal al sonido y del AFI, él pronuncia casi i

[anmabra]

Es extraño, pero me parece que su pronunciación es débil, sobre todo en las primeras frases. Lo raro es que es su lengua materna...

[ceph77]

Por qué te parece eso? Su pronunciación es correcta. No hay que exagerar los sonidos en francés, sobre todo desde el punto de vista musical. El entrenamiento de un cantante en varias lenguas también produce una especie de neutralidad en los acentos. Pero habla perfectamente, como buen francés (si no, fíjate en las palabras que abren el video... es él quien presenta el reportaje).

[artdanks]

Thank you for sharing this! He is phenomenal! My very favorite counter-tenor.

[JarousskyEgypt]

i like it

[ceph77]

"S'il est vrai, Chloris, que tu m'aimes,

Mais j'entends, que tu m'aimes bien,

Je ne crois point que les rois mêmes

Aient un bonheur pareil au mien.

Que la mort serait importune

De venir changer ma fortune

Pour la félicité des cieux!

Tout ce qu'on dit de l'ambroisie

Ne touche point ma fantaisie

Au prix des grâces de tes yeux."

[tuffy942]

Mil gracias por la letra. Philippe podria cantar en cualquier idioma, es tan expresivo que creo todos sabrian de lo que canta! Otra vez, gracias!

[ceph77]

Por nada. Y tienes razón en lo de su expresividad.

Lo has oído cantar en español? Lo habla bastante bien.

Lo curioso de esta mélodie es que está compuesta por Hahn, músico nacido en Venezuela y emigrado muy joven a Francia...

[tuffy942]

Nunca lo he escuchado en espanol, aunque si se de Hahn. Ojala grabe algo asi en CD.Desgraciadamente en US nunca se sabe nada de PJ asi es que agradezco TODO lo que me hacen saber. Me siento mas parte de los Jaroussky-fans.Gracias!

[ceph77]

Déjame un mensaje y te paso una grabación en español. Tiene previsto grabar estas melodías en julio de este año. Por cierto, habla muy buen español. (Ah, no soy un Jaroussky-fan. ;-))

[KYUBY73]

Hola, por favor yo también quiero las grabaciones en español. Por favor gracias, (Gracias a Jaroussky me empezó a gustar la música barroca)

[nicosupersex]

esto no es barroco, es de un compositor romantico que no era frances ni siquiera... es venezolano

[oneradical]

Lamentablemente Reynaldo Hann se nacionalizó Frances, así que Francia lo aclama como suyo. El solamente vivió aquí en Venezuela como hasta los 4 años. Sin embargo,es un orgullo decir que este compositor romántico nació en nuestro país.

[lesboreades]

Un conséil: Jaroussky, quitte ce répertoire!!!!

[tuffy942]

I disagree.Did you hear The CD A quiet Thing by David Daniels? I think Philippe could very well sing melodies accommpanied by piano like this, it is just another facet to his Vivaldian repertory.

[oneradical]

This is not Vivaldi, just for the record, This belongs to Reynaldo Hahn, born in Venezuela around 1875, moved to France when he was about 4 y/o and later became French.

[tuffy942]

I know! Actually it is one of his nicest pieces, but Philippe is as usual beautiful, expressive and so, so moving. He is the best!

Maria

[chillisauce73]

Thank you for posting. It is beautiful

[Anibaladrian]

Realmente una belleza. La canción, el sonido del piano y la voz, a pesar de la grabación, es como el de un rayo de luz traspasando una copa de cristal. Me gusta mucho la ópera alemana Wagner, Strauss pero con Jaroussky y su musicalidad o sus coloraturas me dejo atrapar por la vitalidad del barroco.

[andreasscholl]

If they sing this in heaven, then let me die.....

[Dackelfreundin]

Thank you for posting this lovely song. I´ve never heard it before.I´ll put it to my favorites(like all the other "Jaroussky-Videos).

[wintercherry31]

Total perfection! Thanks for posting!

[jaroudaisuki]

Ooh, just beautiful! I love him to death.

[sed69sim]

Thanks a lot for posting this video. He is incredible..