Music for a While - Andreas Scholl

Wigmore Hall London, Centenary Concert 2001.

Music for a While by Henry Purcell. Andreas Scholl accompanied by Graham Johnson.

Sorry about the quality it was from an old video tape.

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[delauge]

My favorite aria :) Finally I got it in Andreas performance :) Thx a lot

[emiliomerone]

Amazing.

[Guichotpresident]

@Naxxer90 they truly are!

[Naxxer90]

@Guichotpresident You are right, my terminology is lacking. Scholl indeed has a 'normal' voice beneath his countertenor/falsetto voice. There's a british documentary called Countertenors, in six parts on YouTube, for anyone interested. And thank you for the exceptions you named (though not castrati, they don't exist anymore in professional singing): truly amazing voices and beautiful in their own unique way!

[Guichotpresident]

@FilibertoZambrano James Bowman is breathtaking, I agree, the feeling he puts into his voice is beyond this world. Did you hear him sing Vivaldi's Stabat Mater with Christopher Hogwood? Divine!!

[Guichotpresident]

@Naxxer90 yes, but Scholl is obviously not a "real countertenor", as you say (though the term is false: the actual term is endocrine castrato or "natural" castrato). Scholl uses his head voice, like 99% of the people singing countertenor (exceptions include Michael Maniaci and Radu Marian, for example). I repeat: it is NOT his natural voice!! It's one thing to have a predisposition to sing countertenor, like all countertenors and many many other people do, it's another entirely to be a castrato.

[Naxxer90]

@Guichotpresident 'Real' countertenors as high pitch male voices singing in their chest register used to be made by complete castration, which is not practiced anymore for the same reasons nowadays. Almost without exception, all current countertenors sing with their head voice. It is because of more modern research and development that the current falsettist countertenors have sufficient vocal power, dynamics and tone (not to mention sheer body size > lung volume).

[Guichotpresident]

@bupkes what does "real" countertenor mean? I thought the word "countertenor englobed basically all those who sang with their head voice (be it sopranists, falsettists, etc...)

[theanvilcracks]

Immaculate, a free flow of purest tears...

[bupkes]

@skingaz That's exactly what the Kapellemeister of the boy's church choir told Andreas' father when he was 16! Your words exactly (only in German.)! He was on a tv interview on ZDF.

[skingaz]

That was awesome! But is that his "natural" voice (i.e. Counter Tenor) or is it done with Head voice? I was told at college that born Counter Tenors are VERY rare!