Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen - Mahler

[Palvez]

I have watched ten interpretations for this piece and none I like best than this one. Mimi has it all: a very beautiful voice and a plain, sensitive, delicate interpretation without being too dramatic or melifluous, as, in my view, this piece should be performed. Congratulation Mimi Hermosa and twice for the good choice of Mr White to play with you.

[foljamb]

dbrel, you are right to point out that many different artists will bring something new to this song again and again, but to me this voice teacher in this faculty recital is simply too heavy and un-nuanced, and i think it's a matter here of a very accomplished technician unwilling or unaware of the modernist in mahler (which, by the way, it seems EVERY singer since bernstein and neilsen suddenly grasped about ferrier)--i was a little flip in my initial review; i hope i make my point better now

[dbrel]

Beautiful open sound.. This piece is so deceptively difficult -- making it sound simple is hard... very hard.... then, making it personal even harder.. I like what you do with it -- it's not like everyone's interpretation, but definitely yours, and obviously personal to you. I wish more musicians and listeners would remember the "personal" part before they criticize..

[colind911]

a very touching edition!

[jerrysings]

Wow!! What a lovely voice. Do you sing any Wagner? It is not very often I find a voice on here that I stop to comment on!! Your voice is otherworldly beautiful!!

[sagalat]

Whatever...the point is it's EXQUISITE. Especially on a hot summer's night in Yonkers, N.Y....BRAVA

[familiahermosa]

Many thanks for appreciating the deep emotion which I felt while performing this piece. I had only first learned it in my "mid- fifties", at a point in my life when I was "ready":) I was also privileged to study it in "Poetry and Performance of the German Lied" in Baden bei Wien in 1997 at a summer workshop at the Schubert Institut. Personally, this is one of my very favorite pieces in all the German repertoire that I have performed. Thanks again for your positive comments and appreciation.

[DaretobeDivine]

A thousand pardons! Yes, you are so right: there is no such thing as constructive criticism! Should have known to speak only when my words were more golden than my silence. As Someone once said: "First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you'll see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye."

[foljamb]

this is a big and very beautiful voice, heavy and accurate intonation--she can't give any of that up in the 2d phrase (mit der int sonst...) or anywhere else, not even at the end (tempo 1: ich bin gestorben...)--so what is this song about to her? big-beautiful, i guess--i see that she is a teacher ...students: listen and learn: jan degaetani...or don't

[DaretobeDivine]

Perhaps it's difficult for a lumbering voice to yield to the delicate timbre of introspection. The larger sound sort of demands the right of way, so to speak. But the soaring musical phrases of this profoundly contemplative song must be winged with the quivering emotion of the heart strings, before being flung into the atmosphere like birds without feathers.

[foljamb]

i wouldn't call her lumbering, dare, but "right of way" is apt, a pitfall for all big voices--i see you recommend ferrier, and of course she was a standard--do you know janet baker's--i recommended degaetani because she was literally dying during the recording and it's almost unbearable, her technique, her music, her humanity

[DaretobeDivine]

"Lumbering" was a clumsy word choice. Her voice is beautiful and strong! But this song is a deeply personal soliloquy. As such, it is as delicate as a gossamer veil--and just as easily disheveled. It is a VIBRATION, whispered in the hallowed halls of heart, which then is allowed to reverberate through the vocal chambers, in order to express itself. But the attention must return again and again to the quivering intensity of the heart strings for thematic amplification, not the lung section.

[dbrel]

@DaretobeDivine And just what are you on when you are coming up with these "words" ? I would like to hear you sing this. It's quite difficult, and not easy to pull off. I think she does so nicely, and has a large voice to deal with in the process..

[dbrel]

@DaretobeDivine  You can gimme a break, too.. The wonderful thing about music is its individuality -- and freedom of expression. There are more interpretations of this piece than I can count, and each has its own merits. Try just listening instead of listening to criticize.

[dbrel]

@foljamb Gimme a break.