Re: Das Lied von der Erde with Tenor and Baritone
Brian, I invariably get into trouble with his legion, die-hard fans when I start pontificating about DFD, but I steadfastly maintain that his baritone was never properly produced and his faulty technique was always going to lead to premature deterioration. I can enjoy some of his earliest recordings - despite not having a "proper" Wagner voice he even made a good job of the Dutchman for Konwitschny and Telramund for Kempe, for example - and the earliest Schubert Lieder are OK, but I never responded to what I hear as an essentially dry, windy, improperly resonated sound and the seeds of decline were always in evidence. All that forcing, barking and percussive, pernickety, over-emphatic enunciation were to compensate for a lack of vocal resources; I can only smile when a critic such as Dave Hurwitz endorses one of his ill-fated forays into Verdi, like his Rigoletto for Kubelik. The embarrassing late Schubert recording was an ego-project, yet many singers with good technique have continued to sing well into their sixties, only reinforcing my thesis that his basic vocal production was faulty. I am, of course, kicking a sacred cow here, but I cannot now change what my ears have been telling me ever since I first heard his voice nearly fifty years ago and didn't much like it. No great baritone ever sounded like DFD - and I do not mean that as a compliment.
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Das Lied von der Erde with Tenor and Baritone - Paul Breslin June 15, 2021, 11:41 pm
- Re: Das Lied von der Erde with Tenor and Baritone - John Quinn June 16, 2021, 8:41 am
- Re: Das Lied von der Erde with Tenor and Baritone - Ralph Moore June 16, 2021, 10:15 am
- Re: Das Lied von der Erde with Tenor and Baritone - Ralph Moore June 16, 2021, 10:21 am
- Re: Das Lied von der Erde with Tenor and Baritone - Brian Wilson June 16, 2021, 9:25 pm
- Re: Das Lied von der Erde with Tenor and Baritone - Ralph Moore June 17, 2021, 9:10 am
- Re: Das Lied von der Erde with Tenor and Baritone - Marc Bridle June 24, 2021, 1:32 am
- Re: Das Lied von der Erde with Tenor and Baritone - Mike Parr June 28, 2021, 11:49 pm
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