Lyric Sutherland: Baroque

[PIPZZZ02]

There's a melancholy edge to Sutherland's tone which imbues these pieces with

real feeling.

A beautiful selection. Many thanks.

[bellini7verdi]

la voz de las voces.....................

[ganjasolly]

dis da best shit rite hurrr

[LohengrinT]

It is of extreme interest why Sutherland's middle sounded so well supported and not hooded in Handel while in Bel Canto sometimes it sounded as if being suppressed.

One possible explanation I have been given for this phenomenon by a musician friend is the possibility that the transition to her top register was placed higher than most singers, thus making the slightly higher middle tessitura of Handel roles sounding more comfortable

[Homoclassicus]

That's an interesting explanation. I also notice Sutherland's middle sounds freer and lusher in Baroque music (that doesn't mean the middle sounds uncomfortable in Bel Canto, but only not as perfectly placed as in Baroque arias). In fact, some of the very best examples of how amazing Sutherland's middle was are in her recordings, and that applies even to her recordings from the 80's, where even with the wobble it sounded just ideal (as in Athalia or later Alcinas).

[LohengrinT]

I have avoided up to now her Athalia because of the middle voice voice wobble and the little sample you posted here is the first one I ever heard and if the rest of the recording is of the same quality I think I will buy the entire opera.

I sincerely believe that Sutherland's entire musical existence was Ideal for Handel (timbre, voice and her love for excessive ornaments)

[asdfopera]

Lohengrin, compared to Sills, Sutherland's ornaments were modest. I mean, VERY modest and conservative.

[asdfopera]

Well, I enjoy some of Sills work and I think she was an intelligent musician and business woman. But some of the ornaments were excessive and they make Sutherland's sound tame, but I still marvel at them.

[grandadpoppyable]

HER Bel Canto Ideal partner was undoubtedly Pavarotti. And her Ideal handel partner should have been Kenneth Makellar. The best male tenor interpreter of Handel I have ever heard, mainly on ecordings. I dunno wether or not he could act out an opera though.

[andreasscholl]

The Acis recording for me is just as remarkable as the Athaia...were La Stupenda was in her later years.

But here you can hear the colour of voice she kept untill the end!

Her Rodelina, also a late recording, splendid.

Can put it next to Athalia!

A doomed Queen.

[Hako2004]

Joan made quite a splash in the Handel repertory in the early days, although she admitted getting lost in the "filagree" of Alcina from time to time. I have always loved her "Mi restano le lagrime". No one sings it like Sutherland. Many thanks Homoclassicus. The portrait photo in black and white at 3:04 is stunning.

[bbbartolo]

This is one of the reasons I love YouTube. Thank you, Homoclassicus, for selections I would never have heard otherwise! I have the Acis with Peter Pears but nothing else of these. Mille grazie.

[halavey]

Very fine indeed.

[SENAFOREVER]

This lyric serie is a very fine idea, thank you.