Victoria Joyce, singing the Irish song "Salley Gardens" (orchestra arrangement by Benjamin Britten) in an open air Proms concert in Bremen in August 2009.
c the song is played at 66 crotchet beats which is quite slow and that is the original speed and yess well umm she is over pronouning and stuff but it sounds nice!
why are you all being so negative...i think shes beautiful ...it may not be perfect but not many live performances are ...shame on you all for picking fault..............i think she has a beautiful voice and why would she sing with operatic technique when its not opera ...its a simple song!
First of all, she is very flat at her entrance. Secondly, throughout the video she doesn't use proper operatic technique. She slides often and employs a very gutteral pronounciation of her "I"s. Both of these are very improper. Also, she pronounces words awkwardly, sometimes so that they cannot be understood. Most noticeable though, I think, is her inability to keep a steady tempo to the song. Although I like this song slower, this slow and unmeasured is utterly distracting.
For all other comments, although the text is originally Irish by W.B. Yeats, and there are many traditional Celtic settings of it, this is a composition of Benjamin Britten, a very famous English composer of the mid-twentieth century. His version is the most prominent setting, and hence why the song is often attributed to be British.
c the song is played at 66 crotchet beats which is quite slow and that is the original speed and yess well umm she is over pronouning and stuff but it sounds nice!
bjarax 7 months ago
why are you all being so negative...i think shes beautiful ...it may not be perfect but not many live performances are ...shame on you all for picking fault..............i think she has a beautiful voice and why would she sing with operatic technique when its not opera ...its a simple song!
jenson7720 11 months ago 2
First of all, she is very flat at her entrance. Secondly, throughout the video she doesn't use proper operatic technique. She slides often and employs a very gutteral pronounciation of her "I"s. Both of these are very improper. Also, she pronounces words awkwardly, sometimes so that they cannot be understood. Most noticeable though, I think, is her inability to keep a steady tempo to the song. Although I like this song slower, this slow and unmeasured is utterly distracting.
StyleGeek13 1 year ago
For all other comments, although the text is originally Irish by W.B. Yeats, and there are many traditional Celtic settings of it, this is a composition of Benjamin Britten, a very famous English composer of the mid-twentieth century. His version is the most prominent setting, and hence why the song is often attributed to be British.
StyleGeek13 1 year ago
This is a very well known Irish Song, not English/British in anyway
8675309em 1 year ago
the intonation of the orchestra, especial of the violine, isn't always correct
meropa91 1 year ago
this song is Irish not English
Justin1990Holgersen 2 years ago
Yup, was gonna say.
I guess with people still referring to Ireland as one of the "British Isles," this bothers only a few of us, though...
emncaity 2 years ago
English folk song...?
This is an arrangement of a poem by William Butler Yeats published in The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems in 1889
sneakyam 2 years ago