@@ursuladietze2094 It's not only about being a bass though, you can easily deepen your voice to bass range by blasting testosterone But he also has a beautiful warm timbre, and you can't buy that!
To be honest, any truly good singer should be able to do this. At the level at which he sang, it's unlikely there were many who *couldn't.* Lots of smaller-time singers can do the same just fine. It's good musicianship. There's a reason there's a meme among instrumentalists at the collegiate level that singers "can't read music."
Wenn man sich die ausländischen Kommentare hier und bei anderen Links so anschaut, wird einem klar, dass Leute wie Kurt Moll nicht nur unbezahlbar als Sänger und Künstler sind, sondern auch als Goodwill-Botschafter für Deutschland. Allein dafür müssten wir ihm schon sehr dankbar sein.
Herr Moll, vous nous manquez terriblement ! Votre legs artistique est sans équivalent. Vous avez apporté à l'opéra une contribution exceptionnelle. Que votre souvenir demeure à jamais !
Et dire qu'en France aucune chaîne dite musicale n'a réalisé une seule émission digne de ce nom à ce géant. Il faut dire que l'époque est davantage au contre ténor. Il émane de cet homme une grande rigueur alliée à une humble simplicité. Le temps lui rendra justice. Laissons passer les effets de mode.
Nekros97 Well I'd say not his strongest note, it definitely sounded like it's at the top of his voice, it's completely different from the rest of his singing. It was nice, clear, bright and ringing at a moderate level
@@arxsyn Tho it's still nice for a very low voiced basso. It's a good proof that basses can sing high for those that act like "I'm bass so I can't sing high".
That’s an F natural, or maybe somewhere in between. It’s possible they aren’t using A440 or the recording got pitch-shifted at some point. And some basses can’t sing that high without cheating. I’ve sung in choirs and rock bands for years and haven’t been able to sing above D4 reliably without mixing in falsetto or screaming since I was 16 (I’m 23 now). As for the low end, I’m in poor vocal health (out of shape physically, bad asthma, a lot of my tension is stored in my neck, etc.) but can maintain mezzo-forte with color down to B1 or so when things are going right, or at least I could before I stopped singing regularly. Of course, I can bullshit my way down to G0, maybe even lower, with vocal fry. I’m just one guy, though. One guy with super-thick vocal cords but not the lungs to match. 🤪
Greg Homan it seems to me this singer not only had thick cords but was rather statuesque??? ah, genetics. Anyway, I'm guessing that even oktavists specialize in singing in vocal fry, the strohbass register. The exact opposite of the Flagolet register. So you don't have to feel so bad about it
@@greghmn Basses are able to sing higher than D4 without head voice or falsetto. Josef Greindl could sing G4 for example. It's all about being well taught. If one does not know good technique then there are no chances he will sing high with ease. Tho opera basses are taught how to sing low and high at the same time so they can be resonant and clear on both ends.
Please forgive the nerdy comment, but his speaking voice resonates a bottom A flat at 03:38 - a truly remarkable artist with a cavernously beautiful voice!
@@lwreltteratgmail you’re right! If I caught it correctly 04:47 is also another low low Eb on the word “auf”, albeit just glanced! I don’t usually geek out on such things, but the effortless and natural timbre he has is in a class of its own. There are basses who deliberately talk ‘on their resonance’ (I knew a few!) and who force their voices into their lowest register, but one honestly gets the impression with Moll that he is speaking within his natural range and that he is utilising unforced registers... there is plenty pitch and trough in his spoken inflections/cadences.
Moll and his amazing trills....what other basso profundo ever had them? A great vocal technician with the most amazing instrument, and the funniest OSMIN ever....sigh....we miss him!
I can't imagine a more beautiful speaking voice than this. I think he speaks better than he sings. What I wouldn't give to speak like that for five minutes.
Use the CC button by the gear, and go into the gear and select English as the language. It isn't too accurate, but close enough to understand what they are saying.
Great singer, and such a treasure as a video! Curiously, the English auto-translate has Moll come through in perfect English while the interviewer is the total opposite: complete confusion! I don’t speak the language hence I have no idea if if Moll is speaking perfect German so it’s easier to translate or if it’s just an oddity, but why it should be one and not the other is lost on me 🤷🏽♂️
It probably is that Herr Moll's voice picks up more clearly ... he is very distinct, as ever ... my German is not great, but I can understand a lot of quite what he said because every word is so clear.
ver este vídeo me hizo querer retomar mi aprendizaje de Alemán, a la vez que me hizo sentir con mi voz de Barítono (C2-G#4) que tengo voz de niño. si tan solo midiera 1,88 o 190 como él en vez de mi 1,77 (estatura promedio)
This is me and my best friend speaking😅. When we are at dinner with family on holidays, everybody says I shake the Room with my low depressed artist mind while he brightens up the room.
R.I.P. Kurt Moll (1938-2017)
Kurt Moll is a Legend
That speaking voice, though. Just beautiful and pleasant to listen to. :-)
Agreed. He reminds me somewhat of the late Sir Christopher Lee. I love both men dearly.
I also came to hear it, even if I don't understand a word!
@@francesmunzen5897, I speak German and his diction, pronunciation, and vocabulary is absolutely amazing... on top of his rich bass voice.
Heut wär er 79 geworden... Er war DER deutsche Bassist seiner Generation und er hinterlässt eine Lücke RIP Kurt.
lucia popp bei everding
Das mit DER sehe ich anders! Ich ziehe Franz Crass vor! :D
😥🎼🎹🙏🍀
this voice gives me goosebumps.....What a rich and also lyrical sound!!!!
I heard he was a teacher of Vladimir Miller. I would say that they both speak in the same range!
@@towerofresonance4877 Yea but to me Mill's voice sounds like something I could listen to all day
Moll's*
That voice, so deep and sonorous!
That is the big advantage of a great basso: Even at the age of 60-70 + they can have a damn sexy voice!😊😊😊
@@ursuladietze2094 it certainly helped that he was very handsome as well.
@@ursuladietze2094 It's not only about being a bass though, you can easily deepen your voice to bass range by blasting testosterone
But he also has a beautiful warm timbre, and you can't buy that!
@@francesmunzen5897 Very true... I think the timbre is what says it all between a true bass vs someone just hitting a bass note in a song
@@francesmunzen5897 "you can easily deepen your voice to bass range by blasting testosterone". Really? You can? You sure?
At 10:00, Moll says he possesses a photographic memory, and can picture the music from the partiture without relying on a piano - amazing!
You mean perfect pitch?
@@JAC0B_BASS no
To be honest, any truly good singer should be able to do this. At the level at which he sang, it's unlikely there were many who *couldn't.* Lots of smaller-time singers can do the same just fine. It's good musicianship. There's a reason there's a meme among instrumentalists at the collegiate level that singers "can't read music."
@@PythonDad A photographic memory is hardly a common ability of singers.
@@Beadle_Bamford I don't mean a photographic memory, I mean being able to sing an unaccompanied vocal line from memory.
Wenn man sich die ausländischen Kommentare hier und bei anderen Links so anschaut, wird einem klar, dass Leute wie Kurt Moll nicht nur unbezahlbar als Sänger und Künstler sind, sondern auch als Goodwill-Botschafter für Deutschland. Allein dafür müssten wir ihm schon sehr dankbar sein.
Herr Moll, vous nous manquez terriblement !
Votre legs artistique est sans équivalent.
Vous avez apporté à l'opéra une contribution exceptionnelle.
Que votre souvenir demeure à jamais !
Et dire qu'en France aucune chaîne dite musicale n'a réalisé une seule émission digne de ce nom à ce géant. Il faut dire que l'époque est davantage au contre ténor. Il émane de cet homme une grande rigueur alliée à une humble simplicité. Le temps lui rendra justice. Laissons passer les effets de mode.
Grande Kurt Moll!!!
He has a very pleasant voice, depth notwithstanding.
At 19:08 he sings a really powerful F#4. Really awesome for a basso profundo like him.
Nekros97 Well I'd say not his strongest note, it definitely sounded like it's at the top of his voice, it's completely different from the rest of his singing. It was nice, clear, bright and ringing at a moderate level
@@arxsyn Tho it's still nice for a very low voiced basso. It's a good proof that basses can sing high for those that act like "I'm bass so I can't sing high".
That’s an F natural, or maybe somewhere in between. It’s possible they aren’t using A440 or the recording got pitch-shifted at some point. And some basses can’t sing that high without cheating. I’ve sung in choirs and rock bands for years and haven’t been able to sing above D4 reliably without mixing in falsetto or screaming since I was 16 (I’m 23 now). As for the low end, I’m in poor vocal health (out of shape physically, bad asthma, a lot of my tension is stored in my neck, etc.) but can maintain mezzo-forte with color down to B1 or so when things are going right, or at least I could before I stopped singing regularly. Of course, I can bullshit my way down to G0, maybe even lower, with vocal fry. I’m just one guy, though. One guy with super-thick vocal cords but not the lungs to match. 🤪
Greg Homan it seems to me this singer not only had thick cords but was rather statuesque??? ah, genetics. Anyway, I'm guessing that even oktavists specialize in singing in vocal fry, the strohbass register. The exact opposite of the Flagolet register. So you don't have to feel so bad about it
@@greghmn Basses are able to sing higher than D4 without head voice or falsetto. Josef Greindl could sing G4 for example. It's all about being well taught. If one does not know good technique then there are no chances he will sing high with ease. Tho opera basses are taught how to sing low and high at the same time so they can be resonant and clear on both ends.
8:00 Didn't know Bill Hader does Opera, too
M. Moll, qui reposez à Cologne, votre art continue de nous accompagner, tel un joyau que vous avez taillé et nous avez légué. Vielen Dank !
Solo el sonido de su voz hizo que me quedara aquí así no entendiera nada de lo que dicen; es espléndido, magnífico.
aprende alemán bro
Une humanité aussi profonde et sincère que sa voix.Bravissimo Maestro!
Awesome and effortless vocal demonstration, plucked from nowhere, at 04:09
And again at 04:55 !!!
I, a 60-something British woman, will forever be Kurt's Moll.
Ооочень интересно.🦉
Спасибо большое 💞
Прекрасный певец и интересная, приятная личность.🙋♀️
Please forgive the nerdy comment, but his speaking voice resonates a bottom A flat at 03:38 - a truly remarkable artist with a cavernously beautiful voice!
i believe he dives into F1 at 38:14 without any fry which is ridiculous
@@lwreltteratgmail you’re right! If I caught it correctly 04:47 is also another low low Eb on the word “auf”, albeit just glanced!
I don’t usually geek out on such things, but the effortless and natural timbre he has is in a class of its own. There are basses who deliberately talk ‘on their resonance’ (I knew a few!) and who force their voices into their lowest register, but one honestly gets the impression with Moll that he is speaking within his natural range and that he is utilising unforced registers... there is plenty pitch and trough in his spoken inflections/cadences.
@@MrAristaeus Eb1 while just speaking. That is a remarkable thing, to be able to go that low without even trying and with no vocal fry.
I appreciate you pointing it out ... I loved it!
Moll and his amazing trills....what other basso profundo ever had them? A great vocal technician with the most amazing instrument, and the funniest OSMIN ever....sigh....we miss him!
I just noticed he did a quite powerful and resonant Bb1 while saying "emm" at 26:18 :D
What should it be like to reach those notes just by speaking and without forcing? The feeling must be amazing, how I wish I could have this voice.
@@luscao8444 I wish too. I have a quite deep voice but next to Kurt I would sound like a little boy probably lmao
@@MultiKamil97 What is your comfortable range?
@@luscao8444 Depending on the day it's F#2 or G2 to A3 or Bb3 but with a lot of strain I can sing over C5 with mixed voice 😁
@@MultiKamil97 Good, man! I don't have good highs.
Liebe Karl!
Sie sind sehr vermisst-----
I can't imagine a more beautiful speaking voice than this. I think he speaks better than he sings. What I wouldn't give to speak like that for five minutes.
Politico Did you listen to Franz Crass as well? IMHO, even more impressive even his speaking voice!
RIP my best bass
Most importantly: He can scythe and milk a cow.
Oh my God, this is gold! Do you have English subtitles? I'd be very glad if you do! :D
Use the CC button by the gear, and go into the gear and select English as the language. It isn't too accurate, but close enough to understand what they are saying.
@@EyeShotFirst Yes, they translate "trills" as "Thriller"!
@@elisecurran9497 - At (4:07) Moll sings a "Triller" (Engl.: 'trill' not thriller). Same manner like singing birds often do. - Heinz
I wish there was English subtitles
Great singer, and such a treasure as a video! Curiously, the English auto-translate has Moll come through in perfect English while the interviewer is the total opposite: complete confusion! I don’t speak the language hence I have no idea if if Moll is speaking perfect German so it’s easier to translate or if it’s just an oddity, but why it should be one and not the other is lost on me 🤷🏽♂️
It probably is that Herr Moll's voice picks up more clearly ... he is very distinct, as ever ... my German is not great, but I can understand a lot of quite what he said because every word is so clear.
Che timbro bellissimo....
Züper!
Your superbe voice..:-(
Moll ist angenehm bescheiden, trotzdem läßt er sich die Butter nicht vom Brot nehmen.
er war ein liebenswürdiger Mensch , ich habe ihn sehr oft auf der Bühne gesehen und auch nach vielen Vorstellungen erlebt.
Tolle Sprechstimme.....
Siepi!! 10:28
Kurt Moll... Sarastro, Osmin, Ochs... mais Sarastro était vraiment son meilleur rôle, à mon goût...
ver este vídeo me hizo querer retomar mi aprendizaje de Alemán, a la vez que me hizo sentir con mi voz de Barítono (C2-G#4) que tengo voz de niño. si tan solo midiera 1,88 o 190 como él en vez de mi 1,77 (estatura promedio)
La estatura no tiene que ver tanto, lo que influye más es la genética, por ejemplo, yo mido 1.67 y tengo voz de bajo profundo(A0-C4)
This is me and my best friend speaking😅. When we are at dinner with family on holidays, everybody says I shake the Room with my low depressed artist mind while he brightens up the room.
Everding war manchmal einfach unmöglich
Grossartig! Aber verstehe ich überhaupt niht! ))
nur everding stört
Ich habe mich oft gefragt, wie großartig diese eh schon tolle Reihe mit einem weniger eitlen und egozentrischen Interviewer hätte werden können...
@@Beadle_Bamford o
4:09: uno dei motivi per i quali lo amo!