YOUNG Bryn Terfel - 1983
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Gasp! Baby Bryn!
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ah 1983, before the advent of glorious technicolor
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Delightful!
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Incredible! I really hope it's real. And I wonder if he thought he might have become a tenor back then (before the voice had settled)...
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@arpeggio1358 I agree. It's a wonderful recording and a very interesting comparison.
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This is a wonderful recording to have to compare with the way Bryn sounds now.
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Wow I thought I had an early Bryn recording (he appears in a bit part in a 1988 studio recording of Adriana Lecouvreur with Dame Joan Sutherland in the title role)...but this one is a baby Bryn.
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Wow he sounds so different!! I'd love to hear the whole thing!! Where did you find this?
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Honestly, I can't remember. I'm pretty sure I downloaded it from somewhere on the internet years ago when I was working on a paper in Grad school. That would have been about 1999 or so. I saved it and then years later thought it should be on Youtube.
UptownRed 11 months ago
Depending on when in 1983, he's 17 probably or 18. Interesting that he's not trying for some "grown up" operatic sound.
UptownRed 2 years ago
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The funny thing is that, since he sang this way and likely did for some more years, his voice was better off later for that big sound. If he had tried that big operatic sound earlier, his voice wouldn't have been ready for it and could have been pretty badly damaged.
clarksc1988 2 years ago 9
You're dead on, Clarksc1988. Well said. No reason, at that age to be trying to sound like a grown up opera singer. It's no wonder so few singers out there have the nuanced control that he has at his disposal.
UptownRed 2 years ago 7