Sumi Jo - Mendelssohn - Auf Flugeln des Gesanges

Felix Mendelssohn
- Auf Flugeln des Gesanges

Vocal - Sumi Jo (Coloratura Soprano)
Conductor - Alfredo Silipigni
1993, Soul, South Korea.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Sumi
• Jo
• Mendelssohn
• Flugeln
• Gesanges
• coloratura
• soprano
• opera

[liebspeck]

I find her accent to be quite charming :-)

A very nice interpretation!

[hpeterh]

Im german too and I can say she sounds well and is well understandable. Her pronounciation doesnt sound strange in any way and accent is charming ;-)

Lot of (german) opera singers do the mistake and pronounce the "S" and "T" sounds much too strong because they where educated this way. That sounds strange and un-natural and I am glad that she does better.

Maybe that is a reason that I often dont like opera singing, but I like Sumi, she is exceptional.

[alpacino319]

nicht so gut! ihr trautes schwesterlein! trautes!

[Kelongde]

If you don't know the text you don't understand too much.

[rabino71]

deben escuchar la version cantada con Kiri Te Kanawa, es excelente!!

[JCrossfire101]

O wie schön... Sehr gut...

[Singensingen]

i agree with you, her german is really good. and she's singing it-let's say ok...but listen to Natalie Dessay, i have never heard a rendition that beautiful!!

[cirej25]

I love her vibrato!

[hpeterh]

There is a video here on youtube where she sings Gluck's "Ich liebe Dich". This is a very recent recording made by KBS. I have retranslated her words into english. Here pronounciation is even better there.

Note that opera singing is sometimes difficult to understand for native speakers because there are many ancient word and expressions.

Peter

[MyMemories19]

Thanks for posting your opinion. I'm not a native German speaker, but I was wondering if her German was understandable to native speakers. I think she sounds nice also.

[britandveg]

She is beautiful...And Mendelssohn's music is so universal...his passion and sincerity can reach any singer and any other musician for that matter.

[loredinusa]

Please, Schwarzkopf was singing in her native language! If you would know how much work it takes for a foreigner to sing well in German. I would have loved to see how well a german singer would be able to go when singing something in....let's say Turkish. But you are right, it is the only thing that is missing here :)