The most sublime/touching/beautiful piece of singing you have ever heard?

[Papy Oli]

Le Roi Renaud
http://www.youtube.com/v/_kLKnwptvb8

Hi Mandryka
I nearly posted yesterday morning about how surprising it was to see the name of Cora Vaucaire here on GMG. Not that I am really familiar with her as such, just that I remember her name being mentioned by my late grand-mother a few years ago when we were talking now and then about French singers of the 50's-60's and earlier.

As a bizarre twist of fate, I read her name again later on yesterday on French news website as Cora Vaucaire passed away yesterday !

http://next.liberation.fr/musique/01012360477-deces-de-la-chanteuse-cora-vaucaire


Side point : great pick with Brassens' supplique. One of his greatest text/song indeed.
     

[Mandryka]

Hi Mandryka
I nearly posted yesterday morning about how surprising it was to see the name of Cora Vaucaire here on GMG. Not that I am really familiar with her as such, just that I remember her name being mentioned by my late grand-mother a few years ago when we were talking now and then about French singers of the 50's-60's and earlier.

As a bizarre twist of fate, I read her name again later on yesterday on French news website as Cora Vaucaire passed away yesterday !

http://next.liberation.fr/musique/01012360477-deces-de-la-chanteuse-cora-vaucaire



Side point : great pick with Brassens' supplique. One of his greatest text/song indeed.
   

Interesting and sad to hear she has passed away.

The Brassens seems part of a troubadour tradition which isn't so strong in English. I love the image of his cross touching the naked bather. Eternal estivant.

[Mirror Image]

I've been in love with Juliane Banse and Iris Vermillion ever since I heard them sing Koechlin. It's burned into my memory.

[bwv 1080]

Atilla Csihar Throat-singing with Sunn0)))

http://www.youtube.com/v/7Qbtu0O_8CA

[Mood4Classical]

Callas singing La Mamma Morta from Andrea Chenier.

that aria was the best that Callas sang, made for her

[val]

Elisabeth Schumann singing Schubert's "Auf dem Wasser zu singen"

Ferruccio Tagliavini singing the aria of Cilea's "E la solita storia" from "L'Arlesiana"

Janet Baker singing Brahms "O Tod wie bitter bist du"

Gundula Janowitz singing "Einsam in trüben Tagen" from "Lohengrin"

Gerard Souzay singing Duparc's "Phidylé"

[Mood4Classical]

especially French as I can follow the meaning without too much difficulty.

Alfredo Kraus had very good french ''diction'', as well as a sublime voice

Ah mes amis, from La Fille du Régiment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrD6JJuUJ0E&feature=related
a bit older here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqRABDFLPqg&feature=related

Pourquoi me réveiller http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZPsdAjt9Oo&feature=related

[Mandryka]

Gerard Souzay singing Duparc's "Phidylé"

How many recordings did he make of this? -- Is the one on Testament an early one.

The person who slays me in that Duparc song is Maggie Teyte:

http://www.youtube.com/v/9zXkyPS7bms

[Clever Hans]

http://www.youtube.com/v/FCU7YyTtX4A

[Mirror Image]

A couple of my favorite vocalists:

Juliane Banse:



Iris Vermillion:



Anne Sofie von Otter:



Christa Ludwig:



Véronique Gens:



Renee Fleming:

[Drasko]

http://www.youtube.com/v/AD97lDKKXvI

[mjwal]

I wasn't following this thread for a while, but tonight I found this and swooned into ecstasy: what a marvellous tribute to the departed Frau Della Casa. I suppose the actual singing could be faulted here or there, but it comes over as the most touching expression of her inner self, ihr heimlichstes Selbst - the little lilt at one point, the catch in the voice on "Tod"; and Böhm's conducting here far surpasses that Decca recording in intensity. I do hope I can find the whole performance somewhere. If the rest is as moving...Thank you, Drasko.
One of the most touching live performances of a Strauss song is that of Lotte Lehmann in the Hollywood Bowl singing "Allerseelen" - also not perfect (as she had been in her youth), but what heart! A whole lifetime of loss and interiorisation is embodied in this performance, I can't help hearing it symbolically as an elegy for a Germany that was - and is - no more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7TK_1Kr-c&playnext=1&list=PL3F58B4198D284ECC&feature=results_video

[Daverz]

Janet Baker: Sea Slumber-Song from Elgar's Sea Pictures and "When I am laid in earth"  from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.