B.Britten & P.Pears - O Waly, Waly

What a delightful collection of chords harmonising the melody. Just great - I love to hear each note in so many different "lights". thanks for putting this up.

HE HAS a tremolo.. the vibrato is too slow and it wavers from the true pitch. Some listeners dont notice it. They say its caused by too much breath pressure through the cords, instead of singing on the breath support.

HOW FUCKING WONDERFUL IS THIS!!!!

That is a ridiculous statement! Your post should be laughed off youtube!!!

Nonsense Murmac. Womad Festival would love it. It is not called a Folk festival, but as we know, all the music is indigenous. They have proper respect for all kinds musicians. As long as it's quality music and from the heart and , why shouldn' t anyone express themselves in a music festival. So it's not your cuppa. You're being very closed-minded which is not the ethos of any folk festival, is it..

you're an idiot... this music wasn't arranged for "folk" festivals. Rachmaninoff, Bartok, Stravinsky, and even, Mahler were beautifully incorporating folk melodies before what you see as folk even existed, and obviously had a much better concept of it than you. Maybe if you weren't such an americanized piece of shit you wouldn't be so ignorant to the ways of European folk.

that was directed at murrmac btw

Thank you so much; I adore Britten as a pianist (and also Pears as a singer) and this is actually the first video where I see him playing. He was an astonishing good pianist and his range of colours immensly rich; even in this simple folk song every moment has its own shade and meaning. Woow I adore him!