Mezzoid@a... wrote: > Daniels sings like no other countertenor I've heard. > It's a big, masculine perfectly controlled voice that > happens to be very > high. There's not a whiff of falsetto about it." > > I'm sorry, I listened to my David Daniels CD and as much > as I enjoy his singing, I can't understand HOW he arrived > at this ....
Dear Christine,
It just requires a gender-ideology-reorientation, I think ;-)
If one associates chestiness with masculinity, Daniels is not very masculine. I think he sounds different from a woman, though, which is probably what this reviewer is saying. The same cannot be said for some of the more feminine-sounding countertenors out there, such as Mera or Asawa. As for the falsetto comment, I imagine he associates the word (as I do) with a chalky Anglo-choral sound associated with incomplete closure of the vocal folds.
Baroque sensibilities were different from Verismo opera - the castrati were given the most heroic roles, whereas tenors and basses were given character roles. As with all aesthetic values, one has to allow oneself to be lost in the illusion of context...
Tako
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