Nicholas Spanos:"L'heure exquise" by Reynaldo Hahn

Nicholas Spanos (countertenor) and Anastasios Strikos (pianist) in a recital entitled "L'heure exquise" with Melodies Francaises Belle Epoque, Haus Hofmannsthal, Wien, March 2009.

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[spqrmor]

Orphean voice from ancient Greece

Which caressing like a summer breeze

So clear an' mild like morning dew

He's greatest artist that is true!

[senesino83]

this is what I call not only a beautiful person, but a beautiful artist. In an epoque where people forget about art.

[serenaluce]

@fourmy1060 I couldn't agree more with you here. I've created a playlist long ago "Nicholas Spanos - the best interpretor of Hahn's songs"!:-) Actually, because of him I discovered for myself such wonderful music. I'm just back from Russia, and even professional musicians have never heard such a name as Reynaldo Hahn! He certainly deserves to be more known all over the world! Vraiment un moment exquis! D'accord. Merci beaucoup!:-)

[serenaluce]

@carolineleiden Dear, true gentlemen are not supposed to BEAT women, even Susan Graham. Why do you want Spanos to do it? LOL You are entitled to your own opinion, of course, and I'm entitled to MINE. No women can sing as beautiful as the best countertenors in the world, and Spanos is in the class of his own! Also, no need to compare this true, unique COUNTERTENOR again and again with that overpromoted POP FALSETTIST Philippe Jaroussky with POP COLORATURAS who has no idea what true BAROQUE is!

[fourmy1060]

Nicholas's Reynaldo Hahn interpretations are the best I have ever heard. I LOVE this : it is so effortlessly controlled, so touchingly direct. Who else but Spanos goes to the core of the music with so little fuss and such piercing clarity? Un moment exquis .... Merci beaucoup. C'est merveilleux :)

[carolineleiden]

In this reperoire I like his voice better than Jaroussky, who is lord and master when it comes to baroque and coloratures, but who sounds a bit too thin in these songs.

But I still dont think he beats Susan Graham.

[ellisdp]

Just beautiful!

[UncleNathan]

My favorite Reynaldo Hahn song...beautifully and magically sung!

[543693The]

COMPLIMENTS PARTICULIERS AU PIANISTE ANASTASIOS STRIKOS !!!

[543693The]

EXCELLENT ! SUBLIME !!! la langue française convient parfaitement à la diction de N.SPANOS !!!! je suis émerveillée !!!

Marie K

[lipera]

Perfect!!!!!

[serenaluce]

@wowmom1976 The same with me:-). It's just incredible how he manages to do it after my listening to Spanos in the same stuff for more than a year:-). And every time I listen to it , it sounds like the first time!