Madonna mia pieta

Madonna mia pieta, by Orlando di Lasso. Performed by Early Music students from the Peabody Conservatory: Peter Lee, voice; Lark Powers, virginal; John Armato, lute; Kevin Shannon, Baroque guitar; A. Arceci, viola da gamba.

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• virginal
• lute
• guitar
• gamba

[isomolle]

Very interesting. Thank you for uploading.

[molealto]

@DancingMonkey12 Indeed. There are two ways this can happen.

[1] having a very high natural broken voice, effectively a freakishly high tenor (called by the French "haute-contre"), that can sing in the low alto range - cf. Rodrigo del Pozo, Dan Auchincloss, Rogers Covey-Crump, Charles Daniels, Paul Agnew, Jean-Paul Fouchécourt.

[2] having a voice that never broke, and so singing soprano "naturally" - cf. Michael Maniaci, Radu Marian.

[cromorne]

@dolofonos "O Thou That Tellest God Tidings to Zion" from the "Messiah" features the counter-tenor as soloist. I personally prefer counter tenor to the alto, as you said due to the richness of the timbre.

[lildadecounty305]

fags

[santibarna]

in general nice, but you do too many accents. The music don't flow.

Pity the virginal dont makes imitations: like the tenor "aqua madonna al foco": she only made scales. (finguering??)

This music is more beautiful whit the correct accentuation of the text, for ex: "Aqua" the accent in the firs A not in the second. The singer dont make any doble consonants. Wrong accents.

But really is a nice work, congratulation. Only a litle superficial.  But, a very nice voice!

sorry for my English

[thesacrament77]

wonderful! :P

[dolofonos]

It's not so easy to appreciate in solo, but if you would listen to, in example, the Messiah, when performed by an all male choir in comparison to without then I think you should see the advantage. The male voice's timbre has a vigor befitting of that same character found in and worthy of the Baroque instruments.

[musicantica]

Ottima esecuzione eccellente!

[DancingMonkey12]

there are some rare cases where countertenors can sing in that register without falsetto.

[grantco1313]

Yes, it actually was fairly common back then. Its called being a counter-tenor. Much better tradition to follow compared to castrati, which from its name should give you a clue how THEY sang high notes...