Jon Vickers - Comfort Ye, My People

Jon Vickers singing this recitative for tenor from Handel's Messiah.

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[billyguns2]

Is this from the MacMillan or Beecham recording? in any event, it is stunning and properly reverential and exalted. Vickers rules!

[mxl2003]

It's from the Beecham set (and I completely agree! )

[Abdlonimo]

voice is very beatiful, technique awesome! This is art of singing with expression, I hope modern tenors hear Vickers adopting his magnificent technique

[msidnz]

amazing, amazing - thank you so much, this is "Comfort Ye" as it should be!! Moved to tears and so unbelievably happy I have tracked this down!!!

[tonebari]

@tonebari I shouldn't have said that. I can find the top: just cant' seem to build it :-)

[tonebari]

@dherrington Your right: just miffed cause I can't find the top and have no bottom :-)

[CanadaPisces]

Absolutely beautful singing ! His technique,breathing, and expression are breathtaking!

[crytekengine]

one of the best tenor voices i have ever heard! true Heldentenor

[bigus]

amazing

[arniesbaby]

wonderful I saw Jon Vickers sing this at the capitol theater in Ottawa in the 1950"s loved his voice then and still do.

[wattever333]

He sounds like a herald angel. The little echo helps. Comforting yet authoritative.

I don't like his upward slurs in the first part, and he's a bit blustery, but otherwise, interesting interpretation.

[tonebari]

@dherrington It is just vowel modification, IMO, I prefer the total open bright Italian vowels. Because his voice is just plain largish, I feel it is ever so much more important. His development is superb. This is not a voice defect, it is just darkening of vowels. I prefer a singer that eill mispronounce dipthongs to keep a perfect bright dark balance.

[dherrington]

How is it closed up? I respect your opinion but he sings with a balanced head resonance and very pure vowels. I don't hear anything close to being closed up.

[Nazardrecit]

Beecham was amused by the pronunciation of "Comfort ye" as "Come for tea". "Certainly," he once replied. "When?"