Samuel Ramey: Sibilar gli angui d'Aletto (Handel - Rinaldo)

[clown84700]

Bravo Samy !!!!!

[MlleAngiole]

he's the best!

[alexandrevlad37]

BOYS PLEASE: RAMEY= BASSO!!! NO BASSO BARITONO!

[clown84700]

@alexandrevlad37 basso-baritono !

[TheMrBlackFloyd]

that's quite impressive....

[toddly76]

I swear, I must listen to this once a day. It's absolute perfection.

[devotedtoopera]

The most brilliant rendition of this aria ever. My parents took me to see Ramey's performance as Argante in rinaldo at the Met when I was 19. I was stunned, and became a Ramey fan for life.

[MrSwifts31]

Samuel Ramey is not probably the first bass/baritone that comes to mind when you think of Handel.

Listen to this and you will never think of another,he sweeps all before him!

[jasonc992]

Bravo Ramey,the best since Ezio Pinza

[readerjoy]

He made this the first track on the CD included with his book. Sweet! And what a great slide show! Amazing pictures nicely edited.

[readerjoy]

He made this the first track on the CD included with his book. Sweet!

[mirokusanna]

Proof that Samuel Ramey is an inspiration to young bass and bass-baritone singers: I'm preparing this piece for my voice classes this semester. In my sheet music, it's set in C major, so the high notes are E4. However, I've practiced a lot with this version, and started thinking "I can sing an E just fine, it shouldn't give me this much trouble." So I worked to secure what I thought was E4. Now I find out I've actually been securing this version's Gb4! No wonder my high range improved so much...

[nshelton88]

Those Gb's sound effortless and are perfectly controlled. Ramey was, and still is, a true gift to every young aspiring bass.

[weavrmom]

The most thrilling voice of my lifetime--never fails to give me chills when I hear this aria!

[arpeggio1358]

@weavrmom Absolutely. The most thrilling voice of my lifetime, too.

[Gentario]

One of the greatest Argante in the history!

[david292051]

yes, I hear the humming in the background as well. I am not sure what it is. however, the recording, performance is the best of this piece I have EVER heard.

[AkhmedSync]

Does anybody else hear what sounds like someone constantly humming very quietly and out of tune in the background of this recording? Or is my ear playing tricks on me?

[david292051]

flawless voice control...better than any other I have heard to date, ever.

[runhardhooah]

Awesome awesome awesome. I.e Awesome^3

[arpeggio1358]

@Arashi110, Once again I return here to listen to this masterpiece of singing by Samuel Ramey. It's flawless!

[Arashi110]

@arpeggio1358 I have this aria in my iPod all the time. Can't be parted from it!

[arpeggio1358]

@Arashi110 It must have been so thrilling to be there at the Met when Ramey sang this. I understand it brought down the house.

[JNHaut]

Magnificent!

[acerb45666555]

Brilliant!

[AkhmedSync]

My goodness. :3

[redhead529]

There's a Rinaldo on vinyl with Ulrik Cold in the role of Argante. He isn't Sam Ramey, but he's quite good.

[draparks]

the breath control is extraordinary..i was in the Met for his debut. the ovation was thunderous

[bassfanne45]

@draparks , If I could go back in time and attend any opera performance, it would be this one, so I could hear Samuel Ramey in this role.

[arpeggio1358]

@draparks I wish I could have been there. I understand he was positively brilliant. His breath control has always amazed me, too.

[alexandrevlad37]

FANTASTIC!

[redhead529]

This is so brilliant it defies description. Bravo Sam, forever!!!

[77Opera]

Grandiose!

[figaro0606]

They just don't make singers like that anymore. Unbelievable.

[arpeggio1358]

@figaro0606 There will never be another like him. I have never heard another voice that equals Ramey's in beauty of vocaltone, technique, flexibility and agility, range, breath control, and versatility. He's one of a kind.

[rainbowland550]

@arpeggio1358 In a word, the Pavarotti of Basses. One of those voices sent from Heaven.

[arpeggio1358]

@rainbowland550 I might say the Frank Lopardo of basses as Lopardo has such a fine coloratura technique. :-)

[Arashi110]

@arpeggio1358 The Rockwell Blake of basses, then! :)

[arpeggio1358]

@Arashi110 Have you heard Lopardo...or Francisco Araiza? Lopardo is the tenor singing Idreno on the CD version of Semiramide with Ramey, Studer, and Larmore. I thought he was just another tenor until I heard his coloratura technique.

[Arashi110]

@arpeggio1358 Of course I did. They are both very good, but Chris Merritt and Rockwell Blake are even better. IMHO.

[arpeggio1358]

@Arashi110 I heard Merritt live a couple of years ago and he's lost a lot of his voice, but he was very good once. Blake had a really phenomenal voice and technique.