Glass Shatterers! 8 Sopranos Scale the Glière Coloratura Concerto final High F (w/Gianna Rolandi)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ส.ค. 2024
- ~The "Glass Shatterers!" series focuses on sopranos who sustain High F, or sing higher.
THE MUSIC: Reinhold Glière's "Concerto for Soprano and Orchestra" (Op. 82) was published in 1943, dedicated to the beloved Russian coloratura soprano Deborah Pantofel-Nechetskaya. (Did she record it? I've never seen one from her). Gliere was born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1875.
It's a grand, slightly schmaltzy concert vocalise for coloratura soprano in two movements: a lush, lyric adagio section followed by an ornate, warbling allegro. It is in the key of F-minor and although a High F is not written into the final measures of score, after 12+ minutes of elaborate vocal gymnastics, it feels like it really should culminate on the high tonic peak. Of the 24 recordings I have, half are able to satisfy the listeners' yearnings by jumping to the F6; the other half decide to pass.
Here are 8 sopranos who dared the F -- and all but Miroshnichenko did so in live or radio broadcast performances (none of these were found on YT at the time of this posting). Other divas who sing the F are already on YT (Gruberova, Hulse, Dessay, and Munger) so seek out those full performances on your own as I do not typically post material that is already available.
I include about the last two minutes for each of these songbirds. Who's your favorite?
1. Ilse Hollweg (1922 - 1990)
2. Eugenia Miroshnichenko (1931 - 2009)
3. Marianne Blok (1941 - 2021)
4. Gianna Rolandi (1952 - 2021)
5. Beverly Hoch
6. Aline Kutan
7. Barbara Kilduff
8. Diana Damrau
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Introduction
0:20 Ilse Hollweg
2:10 Eugenia Miroshnichenko
4:02 Marianne Blok
5:44 Gianna Rolandi
7:40 Beverly Hoch
9:33 Aline Kutan
11:20 Barbara Kilduff
13:18 Diana Damrau - เพลง
BRAVA GIANNA ROLANDI....gone too soon. RIP lovely lady and singer!!
The final High F makes everything very climactic. I love it.
Ilse Hollweg, Beverly Hoch and Alíne Kutan are phenomenal and unforgettable.
Itself Hollweg is always wonderful. Dessay sings this with a musicality and perfection which is unmatched! Thank you for your wonderful videos! Beautiful! I wish Lily Pons would have recorded it..
Too much of a good thing! Thanks
I really don't like how Damrau is sounding these days but here in the Glière concerto her voice is young and fresh. I would love for someone to upload the entire recording with her in this piece.
You should listen to Nadine Kutcher as well. Very good version here on youtube.
Eugenia Miroshnichenko (1931-2009)
Thank you, I've updated the description box.
wow, early Damrau was really a gem
I've heard this before in film...but which?
amazing, your channel is a real gem;-) I have read somewhere, that Damrau sung Ma che vi fece, o stelle by Mozart, do you happen to have this one as well?;-)
I don't have her doing K.368 and just to double check searched the internet and nothing came up. Not sure if you saw that I did post on this channel a couple years ago a compilation of 15 sopranos in that aria with the held high F (the only sustained F6 Mozart wrote) -- but alas, no Damrau.
To my knowledge, Edda Moser never sang or recorded this, however I think she'd have been amazing! If she did, can it be uploaded?
Aline Kutan is by far the best. Incredible feminine timbre and depth of inner fire.
where did you get diana's recording??
Hi -- I just saw this comment. It was shared with me by another collector along with some other live goodies from Diana's early years in Germany.
@@songbirdwatcher do you still have a lot of her 90's recordings? If you have more can you share it with me and how can I communicate with you?
Where did you find damrau's piece?Thats Great
Years and years ago someone traded with me some early live Damrau stuff from in-house or broadcasts.
@@songbirdwatcher Sounds interedting.Do you have the whole song by Damrau?I really like it.🤣
no Gruberova :/ ??
I don’t have Gruberova doing this piece live, with or without an F.
@@songbirdwatcher thanks 😍😘😍😘
no Natalie Dessay ???
As I say in the description box, these are sopranos who were not already on YT at the time, and I mention there that Dessay (along with a few other sopranos) does the F and that hers can be found elsewhere on YT. One of the goals of my channel is to post only content that is new to YT, I am not interested in duplicating material that has already been shared -- in addition to the fact that Dessay's is a high-profile widely known commercial recording. I do post some commercial recordings, but when I do they are obscure and/or long out-of-print.