Der Erlkonig-Jonathan Smallwood

Recorded at Mirror Studios-Anchorage, AK in September '08

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[dzarux]

all is amateur ...horrible...!!!!!!!!!!!!

[skiffman5889]

@dzarux glad you loved it :P

[fclefcords]

Dude!  Stop it! You are killing your voice -- a potentially fine voice. Get a voice teacher. Please!?!

[skiffman5889]

@fclefcords got one!

[ChristopherSPedersen]

Get another pianist, or do another song...

[skiffman5889]

you have your opinion.

[MisterPapageno]

Very hansome man, but the voice is not ok at all! It's ingolata (it dies in the throat).

I'd rather pay more my singing teacher instead of the gym sessions, if I were you :)

[TempeSunDevils14]

Honestly this songs needs both a great singer but piano player. If they cannot play the triplets in octaves then it shouldn't be played. It gives it a different character... it isn't as much of a galloping sound.

[JohnBellTV]

@skiffman5889 get another one.

[MisterPapageno]

@Petronyc eheh I'm really looking forward to be 27 to open up the voice ;)

[Petronyc]

@MisterPapageno I totally agree with the inglota comment. It's consistently flat. If this was done in 2009, there is still time. Thank god male voices don't begin to mature until their 30's.

[PooyaRadbon]

@MisterPapageno , you are not, ok! what is the problem? what I said was to him, I hope he reads and calms down his awful self confidence!

What is going on in America?! this is the 5th musical catastrophe I have faced since last month!!! there are some good musicians there! why dont these people go to them! they are afraid of learning!

[PooyaRadbon]

And if I stay here and write you what I hear it takes at least two hours to criticize him! he even has not ONE nice thing in his singing! he considers this great music too much on surface! that is his biggest fault. I tell him here again, just sit down and learn your place and do not make the musicians' society more crowded!

Being a student is very difficult. Those who insult you are not damn people! they have right. And those who say ''wonderful'' are not informed about music and singing.

[khykhy]

@PooyaRadbon You are missing the entire point so I will no longer engage in speaking about it. However I would love to see a video of you performing the piece. Maybe you can show everyone how it is done since you seem to be such an expert on the subject.

[PooyaRadbon]

It is not about my taste or your taste! this man has not the basis and sings Der Zwerg!! and even Erlkönig!

He pronounces for instance Bergen BERGIN! or wagen WAGIN!! and no consonanten are recognizable!

The pianist plays the Beethoven 5th symphony motif which repeats in the piece too often by Schubert like she is playing a Haydn early Divertimento for Fortepiano!! these are not very small faults but these show the lack of basis! the piano part should be so strong to paint the words of the poem

[PooyaRadbon]

@khykhy , polite or not polite this is the question!!! : shall we stop criticizing and rather encouraging these people or not?

By no means encouraging! it is not human! you should encourage some one who has talents! he is not talented! unfortunately! rather fraud! the pianist looks like my old teachers...both do not seem like fraud people but those who have encouraged them has done a false thing!