1hildegard

This is the sound of an adult woman, singing healthfully. Her part, alone in the texture, easily admits of this color. Could the composer not envision an adult woman weeping for dead sailors, he'd have specified a child soloist. (Why do you need it to be male?) Women's choirs in this country ...

@myspychannel

Beware measuring things' worth by what the public will/can pay for them. Mass-markets reduce demand 4 the finest things, which can't compete w/the relentless promulgation of cheap crap. Tastes are educable and do elevate, provided that artists w/expertise are supported in reachin...

Thanks for that info! Of *course* this is a traditional song by someone unknown, but it has been masterfully arranged for chorus, and the accepted convention is always to recognize the name of the arranger. I am not surprised to hear that you got this from yet another digital source that declin...

It's a "song" if the parts are sung by soloists. This is the closing number of an oratorio, generally performed by a plurality on each part and therefore a "chorus."

The piece is not sung from Jephteh's daughter's point of view; she is already dead. You can read the story in the Hebrew Bible,...

Vocal clarity, tuning: exquisite. The words communicate anger, despair, resignation. I am disappointed, therefore, to hear such a mechanical approach. Renaissance music is the stuff of human emotion, flesh & blood. It is *language,* the language of * people* who suffer, who rejoice. In this l...

Two comments for steinwaygrande1: 1) Who talks about ***male*** pianists like this?! 2) Ms. Argerich remains, at 69, GORGEOUS, in that far more exciting way that women acquire with age, if you have eyes to see them. Give me every new pound of her, and her witchy grey hair -- I can't get enough...