I had never heard of Eula Beal before , but was just trying to find great Contraltos . I love the sound of mezzo sopranos and Contralto voices , more than soprano . Some really great arias have been written for them too . This is a truly beatiful voice and great singer .
None but the lonely heart Can know my sadness Alone and parted far from joy and gladness Heaven's boundless arch I see Spread about above me O what a distance dear to one Who loves me None but the lonely heart Can know my sadness Alone and parted far from joy and gladness Alone and parted far from joy and gladness My senses fail A burning fire Devours me None but the lonely heart Can know my sadness
Look at her, a perfect instrument! She is so true to the text and music. And I didn't know she existed until now. I wish I knew about her before she left this world. Amazing...no diva here, just a singer, but a perfect singer!
This is my very first time listening to Eula Heal, & I absolutely love it! It's moments like this that make me want to sing contralto, but alas! I'm a 1st soprano. Eula's voice is amazing, so warm and at the same time so golden, especially in the middle register.
What a voice! My goodness! Choice between a contralto and a soprano? I’ll take the contralto any day if the week. She’s lovely...in every sense of the word.
Che bellissima voce! I was not at all familiar with her previously. What a marvelous contralto voice. And what a great pity for us opera lovers that Ms. Beal essentially retired to get married and raise a family at a young age. This young lady would have had a great career given her truly superb voice.Grazie mille Signora Beal. Bravissima !
What a VOICE! A real shame we don't have much of this woman's inimitable voice! However, I did read somewhere that Miss Beal chose to marry and have a family. Too bad for those of us who love her charming , most wonderful voice. But that would be selfish, I know. It would be interesting to know just how happy her life turned out to be. Could this song tell us anything? I play this many, many times, and cannot believe how moved I feel every single time.BRAVA, Miss Beal! And, THANK YOU!
12 years later, hope you get this. It seems she did have a fulfilling life. She married a young man just out of the Army WWII, who liked photography & had learned to fly. He ended up as William A. Garnett, the world's first great aerial artistic photographer. They raised 3 sons in the California wine country, just north of where we live. She occasionally sang in churches for several decades. There is some question about whether it was purely mommy-family that took her out of professional singing. Her debut at the SF Opera drew critic comments that her voice was not large enough for the Wagner opera (Lohengrin, I think) in which she was cast. The Opera house lost interest in her after that & it looks like she never sang there again. She had, however, repeatedly sung successfully with the SF Symphony (in those days the same crew), probably some of those performances in the same hall (the War Memorial Opera House). The real question--Was she simply tragically miscast (Wagner often needs really big voices), or was her voice wonderful but not big enough to fill an opera house in general? Until we can find a non-studio recording, we may never know. However, there is a good chance that a couple of archival house recordings of her other performances will eventually turn up & that may help answer the question. I discovered her in the course of a major resesarch project on the lyric soprano Dorothy Warenskjold, who debuted within a week of Beal.
These female voices are a pure wonder...so sweet, so warm...what a pity i didn't find no cd from her by amazon... to have such a gift and not do anything about it...fortunately we have some recording in youtube !
There`s something extra touching about contralto voices,I think, maybe because of the dark timbre,it`s better suited for conveying sad emotions. I don`t know. I`m biased though,cause I`m a contralto too hehe.
Definitely biased, but you also have a very intimate knowledge of a contralto voice. I agree, lower women's and higher men's voices seem to lend themselves so well to bittersweet music :) makes me wish I were a singer
CraigFrancisSoto : thank you for the data. I imagined her voice was that of a contralto. Many people do not like that range of voice, but I like it, though it is very uncommon to hear a really good contralto. I like to hear that song when I am sad. The first time I heard it I had 16 yrs old, in a recording by Ezio Pinza. I haven't found never since then of that Bass. He was good too.
it's not that people don't like voices like that (Cher, Aretha Franklin and Karen Carpenter are/were all big names for a reason), it's that there's so few of them.
Beautiful! Lovely voice. I wasn't convinced she was actually a contralto after listening to some of her other work, but you can hear some contralto colours in this one. Perhaps more current mezzos than we think are actually contraltos.
Yeah, the contralto colors are very evident. I'm just confused by the people saying what a deep singer she is. She's barely singing below women's middle C! These people should listen to Zarah Leander, who sings an octave lower.
Oh,Oh,Oh! From where does this Eula Beal come? I do love this unique voice...have never heard anything quite like it! Kathleen Ferrier and Dame Baker come about as close...but not to be compared. Somehow, I get the impression that this is a person from another age. Looking at her hair style, dress and general appearance of the room does that to me. Will look her up because I did enjoy this very sad, emotional piece. BRAVA Eula...whereever you may be. Thanks for the post!
bodiloto sono d'accordo, fantastica. Per curiosità, secondo lei questo è un contralto vero? a me sembra più un mezzo soprano VERO (oggi se ne sentono pochi). Anche se, in fondo, poco importa
@112932354334243838318 per me questa è la voce del contralto vero. la prova ? quando questa magnifica cantante va nel registro acuto non rimane tranquilla come è tranquilla quando canta nel registro grave della voce. poi il colore della voce di petto è quello del contralto vero. vedi come canta con un colore puro senza gonfiare i suoni ! è semplicemente meravigliosa ! apprezzo molto il tuo commento,grazie ! con stima e simpatia Nicola.
bodiloto è vero è vero! Nel registro medio/grave la sua voce è molto più a suo agio e "piena". Questa cantante sconosciuta è un magnifico esempio di voce e canto. grazie per la sua risposta
alontas- This piece was taken from a 1947 short film called 'Concert Magic'.Isn't her voice just marvelous, And a true contralto,not a mezzo. Che bellissima voce !
@@Idk-ub2yw I still think she is primarily a contralto. But whatever she is,she has a wonderful,resonant voice that no one today could even close to. Che bella voce!
No kidding her tone is one of the most beautiful I have EVA heart! Her tone is really cool! And the technique is perfect. For instance it is very difficult to sound round, open, and beatiful on an “E” bowel and she does!
A relatively obscure singer, Beal here delivers one of the finest versions of this incomparable Tchaikowsky song, despite the handicap of not singing it in Russian.
What a superbly beautiful voice and singer . This is indeed real contralto singing . I have not heard Eula Beal before . I love the contralto voice and some mezzo soprano too . They say that Mezzo Sopranos are very Highly sexed , maybe contraltos too . Could it be that men fall in love with the more mellow sound of a woman's voice . I know I do .
@vstasov Yes, indeed, look, a perfect singer, with a perfect technique, and a royal stage appearance, yet, she knows that family should be above career.What a statement for each one of today's women, from someone who could have had all the fame in the world, if she would have wanted it!
Thank you for this upload. Just wondering if this is from 'Concert Magic', a film from the 1940s. My organ teacher spoke of her, but I had never heard of her before. He lived in Riverside and I was at The Univ. of Redlands at the time. I've read some of the commemts and would agree It is a shame there are not more recordings of her. I once heard a video of her singing Malotte's Lord's Prayer on A & E. Thanks again.
Непревзайденная чистота тона, мелодический инструментализм, тембральная ровность, безупречная свобода гласных и божественное дыхание. Поет сам Ангел в красивейшей женщине.....
Tibbett has always been my favourite for this most moving song but this excellent version runs him close. Did she ever record "When all was young" ( Si la bonhour) from Faust?
@iamthebirdfearme Haha When i said little I meant like my voice isn't mature yet. Btw I check those mezzos out and they are amazing. Gives me something to look forward to in my music life. =)
@Poet2916 yea. i'm a classical singer and classical contraltos have a higher range. Actually the contraltos i know also sing alot of mezzo-soprano literature. So yea i think it's safe to say that classical contraltos have a higher range than contraltos in other genres, probably because of the head voice being the dominant register.
It's my grandma's 80th birthday today and she has always said how she would like the piano musi for this song.. this is the version she has been talking about. if anyone knows where i can find it i wold appretitiate it alot if you could help me out, thank you :)
CraigFrancisSoto-It is my understanding that she was already very happily married,and simply chose that life of a housewife and mother, over fame and fortune. She was as good as it got!!
I had never heard of Eula Beal before , but was just trying to find great Contraltos . I love the sound of mezzo sopranos and Contralto voices , more than soprano . Some really great arias have been written for them too . This is a truly beatiful voice and great singer .
One of the best singers this country has produced. Thanks for posting.
Absolutely perfect. awesome. She chose family over fame. I'm so thankful that her wonderful voice is preserved for us. Thank you, thank you.
Miriam Gould n
None but the lonely heart
Can know my sadness
Alone and parted far from joy and gladness
Heaven's boundless arch I see
Spread about above me
O what a distance dear to one
Who loves me
None but the lonely heart
Can know my sadness
Alone and parted far from joy and gladness
Alone and parted far from joy and gladness
My senses fail
A burning fire Devours me
None but the lonely heart
Can know my sadness
Thank you
Great it brakes my heat and it Will always be in my spirit
Look at her, a perfect instrument! She is so true to the text and music. And I didn't know she existed until now. I wish I knew about her before she left this world. Amazing...no diva here, just a singer, but a perfect singer!
Jesus!!!! love her voice!!! I found her because my daughter is contralto and the coach told me to her Eula cause my daughter can hit those notes.
She has a beautiful, perfect, deep, warm voice. Thank you for her voice and the happiness she brings with it.
Maybe the best performance of this genial romance by Tchaikovsky. Thank you so much for this treasure!
The Composer and this angelic creature have defined the ultimate in classical ecstatic sound.
The most beautiful voice I have ever heard (and I have heard hundreds, if not thousands.)
MarkLaCresta I agree!
I said it 10 months ago and after hearing all the others-I say again that this haunting version plays constantly in my mind! Unparalleled .
A stunning rendition of one of Tchaikovsky's most beautiful pieces.What a wonderful true contralto voice !
Her voice is so beautiful. I could listen to her for hours and never get bored.
세상에..이 아름다운 목소리의 주인공을 지금에나 알다니요!! 더 많은 녹음이 없어서 정말 아쉽습니다
감사합니다
Es una maravilla todo: la romanza, la ejecución al piano, la voz de Eula, los versos... Belleza conmovedora. Divino Tchaikovsky!!!
I'm a coluratura soprano, and this contralto sings like an angel!
Same!!! I could listen to her all day ❤️
This is my very first time listening to Eula Heal, & I absolutely love it! It's moments like this that make me want to sing contralto, but alas! I'm a 1st soprano. Eula's voice is amazing, so warm and at the same time so golden, especially in the middle register.
Heartbreakingly beautiful.
Wonderful! Wonderful! I know nothing about this lady but her voice is Golden! Wonderful control and placement, she knew how to sing!
Heartbreakingly beautiful. I'm left weak at the knees ! Sensational !
Schade das es von diese fantastische Sängerin nicht mehr Aufnahme gibt. Hätten wir heutzutage solche Stimmen! Addio bel Passato
What a voice! My goodness! Choice between a contralto and a soprano? I’ll take the contralto any day if the week. She’s lovely...in every sense of the word.
Such a wonderful voice and such deep feeling in this romance of Tchaikovsky as if it was written in English originally! thanks for posting!
Beautiful, wonderful contralto,,,,more feeling!
Che bellissima voce! I was not at all familiar with her previously. What a marvelous contralto voice. And what a great pity for us opera lovers that Ms. Beal essentially retired to get married and raise a family at a young age. This young lady would have had a great career given her truly superb voice.Grazie mille Signora Beal. Bravissima !
I heard her tonight for the first time on KCET and had to hear more. I'm grateful for this discovery at this late date (for her and for me).
She has an extraordinary voice. I so love listening to her sing.
What a remarkable voice! I just wish there were more recorded examples of her singing available. Beautiful.
What a VOICE! A real shame we don't have much of this woman's inimitable voice! However, I did read somewhere that Miss Beal chose to marry and have a family. Too bad for those of us who love her charming , most wonderful voice. But that would be selfish, I know. It would be interesting to know just how happy her life turned out to be. Could this song tell us anything? I play this many, many times, and cannot believe how moved I feel every single time.BRAVA, Miss Beal! And, THANK YOU!
12 years later, hope you get this. It seems she did have a fulfilling life. She married a young man just out of the Army WWII, who liked photography & had learned to fly. He ended up as William A. Garnett, the world's first great aerial artistic photographer. They raised 3 sons in the California wine country, just north of where we live. She occasionally sang in churches for several decades. There is some question about whether it was purely mommy-family that took her out of professional singing. Her debut at the SF Opera drew critic comments that her voice was not large enough for the Wagner opera (Lohengrin, I think) in which she was cast. The Opera house lost interest in her after that & it looks like she never sang there again. She had, however, repeatedly sung successfully with the SF Symphony (in those days the same crew), probably some of those performances in the same hall (the War Memorial Opera House). The real question--Was she simply tragically miscast (Wagner often needs really big voices), or was her voice wonderful but not big enough to fill an opera house in general? Until we can find a non-studio recording, we may never know. However, there is a good chance that a couple of archival house recordings of her other performances will eventually turn up & that may help answer the question. I discovered her in the course of a major resesarch project on the lyric soprano Dorothy Warenskjold, who debuted within a week of Beal.
operatribute·
Only praises for finding and posting this performance so full of vocal beauty
and emotional depth.
Regards-John
These female voices are a pure wonder...so sweet, so warm...what a pity i didn't find no cd from her by amazon... to have such a gift and not do anything about it...fortunately we have some recording in youtube !
There`s something extra touching about contralto voices,I think, maybe because of the dark timbre,it`s better suited for conveying sad emotions. I don`t know. I`m biased though,cause I`m a contralto too hehe.
Definitely biased, but you also have a very intimate knowledge of a contralto voice. I agree, lower women's and higher men's voices seem to lend themselves so well to bittersweet music :) makes me wish I were a singer
As a church musician, contralto is my favorite vocal range. Bach loved it as well.
Absolutely fabulous! Fabulous! Thank you for loading it!
Beautiful singing !
Such a wonderful voice !
HOW have I not known of her all these years!
So controlled!!!!!!!!! Just gorgeous OMG
a beautful voice and a beautiful woman .
Such a nice voice and interpretation. ❤️❤️
Magnificent!TY
CraigFrancisSoto : thank you for the data. I imagined her voice was that of a contralto. Many people do not like that range of voice, but I like it, though it is very uncommon to hear a really good contralto. I like to hear that song when I am sad. The first time I heard it I had 16 yrs old, in a recording by Ezio Pinza. I haven't found never since then of that Bass. He was good too.
it's not that people don't like voices like that (Cher, Aretha Franklin and Karen Carpenter are/were all big names for a reason), it's that there's so few of them.
She's mezzo
Very lovely! Brava! TY James!
Beautiful! Lovely voice. I wasn't convinced she was actually a contralto after listening to some of her other work, but you can hear some contralto colours in this one. Perhaps more current mezzos than we think are actually contraltos.
Yeah, the contralto colors are very evident. I'm just confused by the people saying what a deep singer she is. She's barely singing below women's middle C! These people should listen to Zarah Leander, who sings an octave lower.
Most current operatic mezzos are sopranos. A true mezzo voice is quite rare, and a contralto voice much rarer still
Divine, Superhuman! What a Contralto!
Самое прекрасное исполнение этого романса. Невероятный голос, драматизм. Ничего о ней не знаю, впервые испытала настоящее волнение и восхищение
Magnificent! She must have been a wonderful person. I treasure the limited recordings she made.
Oh,Oh,Oh! From where does this Eula Beal come? I do love this unique voice...have never heard anything quite like it! Kathleen Ferrier and Dame Baker come about as close...but not to be compared. Somehow, I get the impression that this is a person from another age. Looking at her hair style, dress and general appearance of the room does that to me. Will look her up because I did enjoy this very sad, emotional piece. BRAVA Eula...whereever you may be. Thanks for the post!
This performance is from a film in 1947.
Incredible, and enduring,
Wow what a stunning voice!
I have just fallen deeply in love with Eula Beal!
❤❤
coming from the long past, very moving.
so unusual and beautiful... i remembered stumbling across it months ago, she had a profound effect on me and had to hunt to find her again...
beautiful 💗
Wonderful...........
Sublime !
bodiloto sono d'accordo, fantastica.
Per curiosità, secondo lei questo è un contralto vero?
a me sembra più un mezzo soprano VERO (oggi se ne sentono pochi).
Anche se, in fondo, poco importa
@112932354334243838318
per me questa è la voce del contralto vero.
la prova ?
quando questa magnifica cantante va nel registro acuto non rimane tranquilla come è tranquilla quando canta nel registro grave della voce.
poi il colore della voce di petto è quello del contralto vero.
vedi come canta con un colore puro senza gonfiare i suoni !
è semplicemente meravigliosa !
apprezzo molto il tuo commento,grazie !
con stima e simpatia Nicola.
bodiloto è vero è vero!
Nel registro medio/grave la sua voce è molto più a suo agio e "piena".
Questa cantante sconosciuta è un magnifico esempio di voce e canto.
grazie per la sua risposta
@Dedacomero
sono io che deve ringraziarti per i tuoi commenti.
con cordialità e stima !
il vecchio
Peccato che ci sono così poche registrazioni di questa fantastica cantante! Ne avessimo oggi di voci così.
Davvero, un peccato
alontas- This piece was taken from a 1947 short film called 'Concert Magic'.Isn't her voice just marvelous, And a true contralto,not a mezzo. Che bellissima voce !
This piece preceded 1947 by many years, it's composition by Tchaikovsky
She's mezzo.
@@Idk-ub2yw I still think she is primarily a contralto. But whatever she is,she has a wonderful,resonant voice that no one today could even close to. Che bella voce!
This is what I call REAL ART!!!!
Ma che meraviglia.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Eccezionale! Che voce stupenda!
No kidding her tone is one of the most beautiful I have EVA heart! Her tone is really cool! And the technique is perfect. For instance it is very difficult to sound round, open, and beatiful on an “E” bowel and she does!
I love contralto. I wish I was one.....I'm just a little mezzo ='(
Brava, a true Contralto!
wonderful, never heard before
Eula Beal
A relatively obscure singer, Beal here delivers one of the finest versions of this incomparable Tchaikowsky song, despite the handicap of not singing it in Russian.
Exquisite
No human language can describe the voice of that lovely wonañ.
MARVELOUS!!
A beautiful song - beautifully sung. I wish Kathleen Ferrier had recorded a version.
RIP Eula Beal, beautiful Contralto singer ever.
What a superbly beautiful voice and singer . This is indeed real contralto singing . I have not heard Eula Beal before . I love the contralto voice and some mezzo soprano too . They say that Mezzo Sopranos are very Highly sexed , maybe contraltos too .
Could it be that men fall in love with the more mellow sound of a woman's voice .
I know I do .
superb: thank you
FANTASTİC VOİCE SUCH AS ANGEL VOİCE.....
I am Russian and this is terrific
Una contralto auténtica y maravillosa.
sublime
You must hear her sing, "The Lord's Prayer," she sing's a, tag at the end, it's stunning! She sing's, "Amen" twice, one must hear it.
Did she record that ? It isn't one TH-cam is it ?
@vstasov Yes, indeed, look, a perfect singer, with a perfect technique, and a royal stage appearance, yet, she knows that family should be above career.What a statement for each one of today's women, from someone who could have had all the fame in the world, if she would have wanted it!
-- Une plainte envoûtante qui soulève bien des émotions. --
Thank you for this upload. Just wondering if this is from 'Concert Magic', a film from the 1940s. My organ teacher spoke of her, but I had never heard of her before. He lived in Riverside and I was at The Univ. of Redlands at the time. I've read some of the commemts and would agree It is a shame there are not more recordings of her. I once heard a video of her singing Malotte's Lord's Prayer on A & E. Thanks again.
As good vocally as it gets.One of my most prized performances.Enjoy.
If perfection exists-this is surely it
Непревзайденная чистота тона, мелодический инструментализм, тембральная ровность, безупречная свобода гласных и божественное дыхание. Поет сам Ангел в красивейшей женщине.....
Ingrid Bergman could have played her in a movie.
Absolutely 🙂👍
Why? She could play herself.
Geniale intuizione!
SUPERB!
Esplêndido!
Yeah this is from 'Concert Magic'. Beautiful, isn't it?
oh, too much beauty...a glimpse far, far away of this ugly world
@jenson7720 I fully agree.She was in a class of her own. Her Bach and Schubert were even better.
Does anybody know when she sang this? It’s absolutely lovely.
Tibbett has always been my favourite for this most moving song but this excellent version runs him close. Did she ever record "When all was young" ( Si la bonhour) from Faust?
Wonderful voice, so powerful and moving. Anybody knows the approximate date of this recording?
1947 in a documental film called Concert Magic ... short afterwards she retired to family life.
@iamthebirdfearme Haha When i said little I meant like my voice isn't mature yet. Btw I check those mezzos out and they are amazing. Gives me something to look forward to in my music life. =)
@Poet2916 yea. i'm a classical singer and classical contraltos have a higher range. Actually the contraltos i know also sing alot of mezzo-soprano literature. So yea i think it's safe to say that classical contraltos have a higher range than contraltos in other genres, probably because of the head voice being the dominant register.
It's my grandma's 80th birthday today and she has always said how she would like the piano musi for this song.. this is the version she has been talking about. if anyone knows where i can find it i wold appretitiate it alot if you could help me out, thank you :)
Who else is listening to this on Valentine's day?
don't torture yourself ... go buy an ice cream cone
Heavenly, superhuman, there is no comparison, except with a category five hurricane of honey, sugar, and gold!
Buenísimo
THIS IS SINGING.
CraigFrancisSoto-It is my understanding that she was already very happily married,and simply chose that life of a housewife and mother, over fame and fortune. She was as good as it got!!
Basta andare un pò indietro nel tempo e subito troviamo cantanti che sapevano davvero cantare ed esprimevano con sentimento la loro arte.
Riccardo Barreca
parole sante !
Riccardo Barreca Esattamente, ben detto....si...parole sante....
Una voce fantastisca, stupenda, divina....ne avessimo oggi di voci così....addio bel passato