Well, let me add fuel to the coutertenor fire. Over the last couple of
evenings I've been listening to David Daniels' Handel arias disc. It's
truly astonishing, in both the beauty and refinement of the singing and the
taste and skill of the ornamentation. I might also add that I've never
before heard such sensitive orchestral work from Roger Norrington. For
those of you still not convinced: this is a countertenor without a hooty
tone, with perfect tuning even on the little fiddly notes, with no
unconfortable breaks or cracks. And the music!
I remember la Bartoli singing Vivaldi's "sposa son disprezzata" as
creating something that had not existed in my experience till then. That
floating world has become sustantiated by her recent Vivaldi disc, and this
one.
And, Tako, Isabelle or whoever: It would be nice to know occasionally what
is happening on the sister list. Can it be that the spirit of what I
imagine to be Vocalist has really moved there?
john
who is thinking of Salads on the Hams - must be lunchtime.
At 09:46 AM 3/8/01 -0800, you wrote:
...
>Also, I've gotten involved in TheCountertenors@yahoogroups.com, so now they
>get subjected to the majority of my loud-mouth thoughts on the countertenor
>voice. More than a few times it was implied to me that countertenors were
>not an acceptable topic of conversation at vocalist.
...>Tako
John Blyth
Baritono robusto e lirico
Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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