Dmitri Hvorostovsky -Rachmaninov's I beg you to stay with me

[SebastienLoong]

So passionate! :D First rate!

[SebastienLoong]

@SebastienLoong The Russians really know how to bring you to the depths of expression and emotion! :D Makes you want to cry.

[otherjoe1234]

brilliant, as always

[raphaelhudson]

Guys this is one song from a whole recital of rachmaninoff. When you perform a whole recital you have to sing songs in a way that allows you to get through what is to come and what is before. If you have sung 2 soft slow songs you sing the next one loud and fast etc. And you cannot give perfect voice for each song.

[po1212Po]

He put all his soul into this song!

[AulicExclusiva]

Marvelous song, marvelous performance.

[bodiloto]

- 5!!!!!! RACHMANINOV  ???????

[nomsdufrere]

this guy is a tenor. By no means is he a barytone.

[OperaBaritoneJoe]

would he be a helden tenor?

[nomsdufrere]

Hardly. He is a lyrical baritone. Helden tenor has a HUGE voice, like Mario del Monaco for example.

[libetta]

@nomsdufrere

how about melchior?

[Polytes1]

@nomsdufrere He is a Verdi baritone.

[ElliePearl]

Loved it!

[vladimirgligoric]

I think that the pianist is suffocating in the triplets because the singer is singing extremely free in tempo. These triplets should be agitato, not this way. But , let us not blame the pianist, but the great singer.

[tenorismo]

My dear Czar , Reizen was 85 . Reizen sang it with the life experence of an old man. Lissitsian with  the restrant of a middle aged man , and Dimitre with the passion of a young man.

[Phaidra69]

I totally agree with you and would like also to add that he sings with great inspiration and with a passion , which is so close to our Meditteranean temperament ! I adore Dmitry !!! He will remain , for sure , in the history of music !!!

[CzarDodon]

I accept your point of view (one year late!) , it's very valid, and I look forward to hearing Dmitri sing this again at later stages of his career.

[CzarDodon]

Indeed your interpretatiion of the interpretations makes me think of Onegin, Yeletsky and Gremin no need to say who is who.

[aliosha14]

yes,all what you want,but only Hvorostovsky is fas-cin-at-ing!

[CzarDodon]

Sorry to be a spoilsport, this is nice, but when you've heard Mark Reizen's remarkable performance(aged 85!!!), with such simplicity, control, tenderness, longing and finally rock steady powerful top notes, this performance seems superficial. Or again compare it to Pavel Lisitsian's intensely supressed reading that bursts into a desparate cry at the end... Fond as I am of Dimitri he has a long way to capture the essence of this gem

[BrucknerEnthusiast]

Presumably because it's a large hall, Hvorostovsky doesn't follow Rachmaninov's quieter dynamic markings (the sudden pp on the word 'love' at 0:32 is not observed here, for example). But that's not a criticism; it's just an observation. Rachmaninov even asks for fff from the singer at the end. I would like to hear this fine singer in the Rachmaninov operas; Hardly anyone in the West knows Rachmaninov's 'Francesca da Rimini' yet it's a central work to truly understand Rachmaninov.

[RealRussiansOnly]

Powerfull. powerfull. Rachmaninov. powerfull!

[pianotalent]

This is Great!

[Anario22]

I agree with renethel.

and thanks so much for posting these.

[renethel]

Gabba02, you are so awesome for posting all of these Dmitri Hvorostovsky videos! i have to say that he tremendously improved over the years, after hearing videos of him in Eugene Onegin!