Uploaded by napat14 on Apr 8, 2008
"Divinites du Styx" from Alceste
Composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Marilyn Horne - Mezzo soprano
Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana
conductor - Martin katz
At The Congress Palace , Switzerland
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I disagree. Although Horne excelled in the coloratura repertoire she definitely did not have a light lyric voice. I think she is amazing here!
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French orchestra? Great horn vibrato. NOt everyone should sound like the Chicago Symphony.
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As for transposition. I've seen full productions of Alceste performed at Baroque pitch. Needless to say, it's Marilyn Horne, she can do whatever the heck she wants :-)
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does anybody may whote down the lyric please?
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I like Marilyn Horne's bel canto repertoire but I've heard Divinites du Styx sung better. Listen to Shirley Verrett and Leontyne Price singing this - they are both phenomenal, giving the aria a more noble, serious, darker and deeper tone. When a mezzo sings this in a more contralto type of way it sounds really excellent.The orchestra here is playing too fast which also ruins the beauty of this aria. Horne is really more of a light-lyric mezzo di coloratura rather than a pure dark-hued mezzo.
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GREAT HORNE!!!
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Incredible performance. Jumping on the transposition bandwagon about a year too late, I hope that the detractors are at least aware that at Gluck's time, the diapason was nearly a full step lower than it ended up by about 1850 (as documented in Berlioz's letters). And, yes, Mme. Horne is just great, of course!!!
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Great
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Well, transposed or no....it's awesome! If they only way the great Horne could perform it at that time was to transpose it, then I say...TRANSPOSE!!!! I'd rather hear her sing it step down than to not hear her sing it at all!!!
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Another great performance by the one and only Horne, yet as a side note, at that stage of her career the top register is not as free and easy as it was once used to be.
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Does anyone know when this was recorded?
vocalvideos 3 years ago
1986.
napat14 3 years ago