Voi che sapete Max Emanuel Cencic and Tobias Forster

in the Mozart Show 2006 with Sandra Maischberger

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[m19c46]

For a countertenor his voice is naturally beautiful.  Wonderful.

[serenaluce]

@Emilmt Cencic is really a wonderful Cherubino! Splendid voice with a velvet timbre! But he transposed this piece a bit lower, though it suits him very well. I've found that the most perfect Cherubino ever is Nicholas Spanos! His version is the most beautiful and enchanting one! You can listen to it and compare. And it's the most accurate one, sung high in the original key.

[vali120]

@TheSaphire69 actually it was suppose to be sung be a men, reguarding the fact that is a man character, but is usuallly sung by a crossed dressd woman

[schnurrle64]

Il mondo è pieno di miracoli... incredibile, sono impressato..!!

[TheSaphire69]

I think he's fantastic singing Handel but his Mozart is not to my taste, I prefer a singer who can really keep a more fluid line going, say a good lyric mezzo soprano. For the people saying it's a man's role it was written to be sung by a woman you know.

(I'm not saying a counter tenor can't sing it if he wants.)

[maragato23]

Porque Los cantantes de origen sajon son tan poco expresivos musicalmente????

[serenaluce]

@weddinganejakopp And they should be!:-) Cencic's is the highest standard + no women can sing as beautifully as men+ it's a MAN's role!

[gagehughes1]

What an amazing voice, simply wonderful

[weddinganejakopp]

A lot of mezzo sopranistas become jealous when hearing that.

[UlfenDaddy]

I'm not sure why the Spanos performance seems higher: Cencic does not transpose and this is Nott; it's authentic B-flat. I seriously doubt Spanos is using B-natural, far more likely the discrepancies in electronic recording-uploading have slightly "compressed" the Spanos rendition. (It's not a full half-tone higher either; I'd also love to see the reaction of a professional accompanist when instructed to ignore the 2 flats in the signature and "pretend" there are 5 sharps instead...)

[arpeggio1358]

@serenaluce Nothing to forgive. Tastes differ. I guess I'll always feel that both mezzo interpretations and countertenor interpretations have value.

[serenaluce]

@arpeggio1358 I agree with you and would like to hear Cencic live in this role too. The only difference is that female mezzos were not convincing to me as a young man at all no matter how wonderfully they sang. First I heard this aria in a man's rendition exactly here in this video. It was like heaven and earth:-). Only then I realized what this character really is as before it was just a weird comedy for me when women pretended they were Cherubino. Sorry, tastes differ. Please, forgive me:-)