Wow this is a great rarity, it's fantastic to be able to actually see artists like Farrell and Schippers making all the committed work that would always result in extraordinary performances.
Thank you so much for posting. Eileen Farrell is one of my favorite sopranos. I really appreciate all your dedication and kindness for all your postings.
When he conducted he phrased by breathing rather noisily. We could hear him in the chorus, sucking in air , letting it out . It must have been noticeable when it was a straight orchestral work. He did it all the time. Very volatile but a wonderful conductor.
Tommy breathed like that because he was of the opinion that the orchestra should seemingly "breathe" together by playing their instruments nearly as if they were singers, not only the woodwinds (who breathe, of course, into their instruments) etc. but also the string section. My personal opinion is that he probably understood and learned to do this while coaching singers when he was very young. He truly loved the voice!
@@baritonebynight Perhaps you're not a pianist? Tommy was a seriously excellent pianist and organist before he ever began conducting. Of course, there are many conductors who can play but unless they began their career as a pianist (Barenboim or Pappano for example) I think it would be a bit difficult to execute this accompaniment quite as well as he does.
@@Marcel_Audubon Perhaps it would be somewhat more ediifying for you not to expound on a situation or a friendship of which you, presumably, have no information whatsoever. Have we, perhaps, met?
Farrell was my favorite Wagnerian Soprano of all time! I wish she had also done more with Bel Canto, though. The one role she recorded (Elisabetta from Donizetti's Maria Stuarda) was AMAZING!! Such a gift!!
Farrell: beautiful voice, wonderful singer! And Schippers: a great artist, untimely lost.
Wow this is a great rarity, it's fantastic to be able to actually see artists like Farrell and Schippers making all the committed work that would always result in extraordinary performances.
For those who may be interested, a complete biography of Thomas Schippers "Beyond the Handsomeness" is now available.
Thank you so much for posting. Eileen Farrell is one of my favorite sopranos. I really appreciate all your dedication and kindness for all your postings.
Fabulous!!!
I love these type of videos, thanks for posting!
Thank you ever so much for posting that gem !!!
Great video. 2 of my faves here. Many thanks!
God her voice is enormous!!!! So powerful!!!! Makes Xena Warrior Princess look like a cheerleader.
When he conducted he phrased by breathing rather noisily. We could hear him in the chorus, sucking in air , letting it out . It must have been noticeable when it was a straight orchestral work. He did it all the time. Very volatile but a wonderful conductor.
Tommy breathed like that because he was of the opinion that the orchestra should seemingly "breathe" together by playing their instruments nearly as if they were singers, not only the woodwinds (who breathe, of course, into their instruments) etc. but also the string section. My personal opinion is that he probably understood and learned to do this while coaching singers when he was very young. He truly loved the voice!
Some of the noise of his breathing could be due to his chain smoking.
He was dead from lung cancer, just five years after the time of this clip.
And what a pianist Schippers was! Very few conductors can do that!
I don't think it's that rare.....many conductors I've sung with can play well.
@@baritonebynight Perhaps you're not a pianist? Tommy was a seriously excellent pianist and organist before he ever began conducting. Of course, there are many conductors who can play but unless they began their career as a pianist (Barenboim or Pappano for example) I think it would be a bit difficult to execute this accompaniment quite as well as he does.
@@gesualdodavenosa8550 "Tommy"? how chummy you've become with someone you never met. *cringe* Say hi to "Nonie" for me, won't you?
@@Marcel_Audubon Perhaps it would be somewhat more ediifying for you not to expound on a situation or a friendship of which you, presumably, have no information whatsoever. Have we, perhaps, met?
@@gesualdodavenosa8550 perhaps you use the word perhaps too much ("Tommy" wouldn't have liked that)
Look at this goody goody😃!!
The Wotan looks terrified.
No wonder Callas admired Farrell.
So apparently did Nilsson.
Farrell was my favorite Wagnerian Soprano of all time! I wish she had also done more with Bel Canto, though. The one role she recorded (Elisabetta from Donizetti's Maria Stuarda) was AMAZING!! Such a gift!!
And so did Louis Armstrong! Check out the two of them singing S’Wonderful on the Sullivan Show!
@@artdanks4846 She would have been a wonderful Norma and Lucretia Borgia.
@@roland-qg3dh That is SOOOO TRUE!!