J.A. Hasse: Salve Regina "Ad te Clamamus" - Bernarda Fink

[Lasterious]

@69StEpHaNeRd69

Hell yeah!

[Baritondancer78]

Que voz tan perfecta, hermoso color sin mencionar la musicalidad y el buengusto qu tiene para hacer lel fraseo de las piezas...definitivamente mi contralto favorita junto a Nathelie Stutzmann por supuesto.

[shaneallen1982]

Thanks for letting me know

[shaneallen1982]

What singer are you soprano mezzosopran or alto.I am a baritone

[civileso]

If you are asking me, I am an alto.

[delauge]

beautiful alto :);)

[3konno]

I really love Hasse's work; great piece

[llum82]

Where I can get the scores?

[crazymezzo09]

I was looking for it too, but I couldn't find out anything except for concerts this Salve Regina (E flat Major) was performed at.

The only thing I can tell you is that german Carus-Verlag at least has the Hasse Salve Regina in A major. The No. is: 40.967/03.

[sk8nruff]

Hasse was the most expensive composer to hire for opera, or sacred music...so why is such fantastic music sung being sung by someone who sounds like they're tied to a paint can shaker? It's phrased decently, now if she'd only vary/ intelligently use that vibrato...

[crazymezzo09]

Sorry, but I don't hear the vibrato you're talking about.

And I think Bernarda Fink is one of the best mezzos (or like kikivolauvent says if not the best... Thanks for that!!!) we have at the moment!

[sk8nruff]

I'm advocating straight tone singing so that listeners can hear the difference between intentional vibrato and trills, battements, flattement, etc. Sadly most singers put vibrato on the ends of notes at the ends of phrases, among other places where there shouldn't be an intensifier. It is, afterall, an ornament. I'm always envious of singers because they can actually declaim something with their instrument, but most modern singers aren't taught that. I will say her coloratura is great, though.

[crazymezzo09]

I don't, because that's an unnatural way of singing. Even in Baroque times nobody sang without vibrato; because when you support well, the vibrato comes naturally. We have many sources in German who tell us that there was a so-called "angenehmes Zittern der Stimme" while people were singing, which could be translated with "pleasant trembling of the voice" (I'm not sure if this is the perfect transl.). With this people didn't mean anything else than what we nowadays call "vibrato".

[sk8nruff]

And we also have tremolo stops on organs, also german, among others. I highly doubt it would've been employed on EVERY note, also if you're supporting well straight tone isn't hard, or damaging, and it can be varied. Unfortunately post Garcian singing is all people go by these days. Intesifiers don't belong on unimportant notes (consonances, weak beats, weak sylables) and most singers today singing pre-Gracian composed music haven't the slightest clue about it.

[crazymezzo09]

Part 2 of the reply:

What we should change when we sing music from different eras is the style, not the singing technique. And vibrato is part of a healthy singing technique (not only in my opinion).

And yes, Bernarda Fink's coloratura is great plus she is a highly emotional singer!

[sk8nruff]

Now that, I do agree with, if only partially. Max von Egmond once told me that singing earlier music doesn't require different technique, it requires MORE technique. Vibrato however, is still just an ornament and too much of a good thing ruins it's meaning, impact, and special qualities. Sort of like a sugar over-dose...just before you clutch your heart in pain.

[musicalidea]

Oh, I'm quite the idiot it turns out. I accidentally thought you were Fink herself. What a numskull.

[crazymezzo09]

:-) Well, no, I'm not Bernarda Fink, but I do think she is great plus I know she's a wonderful person!

[musicalidea]

I concur with you...Fink in no way over-executes her vibrato.  This is not renaissance polyphony or plainchant or monody, so a very sparing use of vibrato is called for. This is written in the style of an aria in an Italian opera.

[crazymezzo09]

Thank you, musicalidea!

[musicalidea]

I'm flattered that the actual mezzo replied! As your talent would naturally merit, you have achieved considerable heights...performing with the likes of Neville Mariner, Trevor Pinnock and Colin Davis...and signing with Harmonia Mundi and Hyperion. I'm flattered indeed to have you respond!

[Botchlae]

The voice part is so badly written!

[kikivolauvent]

Bernarda Fink is one of the finest alto singers, if not the best... :) Wonderful rendition; I like the way you present the actual score as Bernarda sings.... great job!

Thank You for the pleasure and joy!

[artabanes]

Great posting

[tom123ek]

sang

[flysten]

i sung this before, thanks for posting