I saw Nightwish with Tarja perform this song live in Germany (Oceanborn Tour) back in the days and it was just... enchanting. I was in the front row and when the song got to it's faster segment she looked at the audience, encouraged us to clap along and i swear she looked for a brief moment right into my eyes. I will never Forget this concert, her majestic Stage presents, her incredibel voice and those stunning beautiful eyes.
Tarja received several types of education. In high school, she studied at the art school in Savonlinna in her homeland in Finland, then at the Sibelius Academy, the largest and one of the best music universities in all of Europe. Then after graduating from the Sibelius Academy she entered the Karlsruhe Higher School of Music in Germany. P.S. Tarja is a lyric soprano with a voice range of over three octaves.
She Is amazing! More Tarja please!!! Ghost love Score, slaying the dreamer, phantom of the opera (end of an era show) or anteroom of death, supremacy, victim of ritual (her solo career)
Tarja also sings this song at her Christmas shows . I like the one in 2017 with her is the white dress. It doesn't look like its at Christmas. I like her voice like this. Floor is a vocal technique nerd. Tarja had to learn how to sing metal with her voice after she started with Nightwish
Tarja ... she was my inspiration to begin taking singing lessons... many years ago 😁... I love and admire her so much . Northern Kings.... 🤘🏻 4 kings 😁 2 albums full of amazing covers...
Tarja's first foundation lie in church singing and her first singing performance was at the age of three. She would continue in the church choir and then in school. After primary school she went on to Secondary School of Art and Music in Savonlinna. There "The Phantom of the Opera" would become one of her favourite songs to sing and that's why she decided to continue her singing education in Opera. She then continued to Sibelius Academy which is ranked 13th best in the world in performing arts education. In 2000 she entered Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, which is a much lower ranked university, but still enjoyes a really good reputation much to the fact that they have a very low student count, which leads to more personal education. Tarja went there to gain a formal education, which she had not been able to gain at Sibelius because of Nightwish.
There's one bit that's wrong here and you can hear Tarja correcting this in every interview out there. She never studied opera singing. She has been explicitly saying this for years: she did classical singing, but never opera, she was never trained to project her voice in the way you need for opera.
"Walking in the Air" is a song I just barely missed in its original iteration before I got interested in any music. I did not see the "Snowman" cartoon until my grown years! However, I must admit the song was truly moving as sung by a boy soprano, and NIGHTWISH (Tuomas) were clever enough to just tinker with it a little bit to give it that NIGHTWISH spin. I can almost imagine a very young Tuomas at his window gazing into a winter's night, having been exposed to this song. Those are the moments the fantasy is lit. Regarding the appreciation of Tarja's vocals now and then, I have my two cents to add, and I am pretty sure she is possibly at a higher level of technique currently. But she just has not found a comparable songwriter to replace Tuomas... irony of life. This is an arguable opinion, but not one of Tarja's solo albums had on me an impact of a "Wishmaster", or "Once". While we are at it: there has to be the space for "Swanheart" and for "Wishmaster" the song somewhere in your plans... Two extremely different specimens of beauty in NIGHTWISH catalogue, and no experience of the band is complete without those... ...to think that we are hardly one-third through the MIGHTWISH catalogue! [Mmm, I just saw my typo there, uh I guess I'm leaving it as is. :))) \m/] So much yet to discover. And hardly a lesser song among them.
@@KristiinaBerg Speaking as someone with an oddball given name, even for my own country, I like to see people making an effort to get everyone's names correct. Perhaps the correction was a bit on the blunt side, but I know if I misspell or mispronounce someone's name, I want to be corrected, because I feel it shows respect to get people's names right.
damn this song and performance is always hypnotic and mesmerizing at least me. big hand nightwish to this awesome cover song. thanx and have great day there.
This live concert is the best one I know. It took place in Tampere Finland in 2000 (after realease of Wishmaster - the 3. album) and was one of the breaking concerts to make them in fame cause they also did a DVD. They still have here the early era innocence and mood plus chemistry and not too much effects. Check the whole concert. By the way...this is one of the most significant songs for Tuomas to influence him.
Best Tarja concert for sure and my favorite Nightwish concert after the Wacken one. The energy here is incredible. They were so young. The small venue feels like a gathering of friends. Emppu was great as always, we get to see Tuomas during Fantasmic doing(I'm not spoiling this one haha). The whole concert is incredible and portrays the magic of Nightwish I grew up with. You should definitely check it out when you have the time man. Love the content, cheers:)
I could easily have falling in love with Tarja's voice here and then - We see another side of Tarja, where she is happy and truly seem to enjoy performing for the audience - just like Floor. Also, one of my favorite Tarja performances.
Corrected, wow, I got myself tripped up there. This was 2000, and I'm thinking of the Lista Chart tv clip. Which, come to think of it, was in 1999 anyway, wasn't it? Gah, watching too many older Nightwish clips, to where I'm no longer sure which one came from which year, other than by seeing if it's Sami or Marko on bass.
Thanks, nice reaction again, keep saying you are THE man for specifiek reactions with a great way to explain the voice,the music, thanks, and as always stay safe
@@CharlieCalottaReacts Tarja Turunen education opera basic from Sibelius academy in Finland and then Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe in Germany to finish her education That school current voice professor singing , Hanno Müller-Brachmann , th-cam.com/video/qd90Yv4W7u0/w-d-xo.html 3 min 18 sec , Le Nozze di Figaro .
Listening to a (found by chance in my Office DeskTop) Demo of 'Walking in the Air' was the very first time I was confronted with Nightwish and it has always stayed with me as it was yesterday.
There are special microphones for opera singers. Rare and expensive like hell (had one on an event with a Japanese opera singer, insurance was 50k€) but the construction mitigates the problems normal mikrophones have with opera. (We rented that one for 2 days for that event and the sound was brilliant)
@@CharlieCalottaReacts I had a look at some old pictures and i'm pretty sure it was a Schoeps hypercardioid or supercardioid small diaphragm condenser microphone. I'm not able to find the exact one, as it has been 15+ Years (Opera singers are pretty rare at conventions) but they are making new modular ones. With Schoeps, you can now basically build your microphone the way you need it. Neumann offers the same functionality with their KM Series and then there is always the Sennheiser MKH Series. But I've been only on German concerts and conventions, so that might bias my knowledge as that are three German companies. I mean, i love working with Shure, but i'm not sure, if they have something for opera singers.
@@CharlieCalottaReacts I completely forgot to mention Earthworks. I've seen a few cases of those for a choir in an opera house. Excessive frequency range for super high sample rates (3Hz-50kHz for 192kHz sampling).
@@caligo7918 when setting these up did the engineers do full ray tracing of the whole space? I've seen that done by a Polish sound engineer with a full five year degree in it. Impressive .. and his mic placement shifted a lot.
@@crhu319 yeah, loud white noise on the speakers and a mic moving in the room (3000 seats in this case). That helps finding all potential feedback loops and giving you an idea, which frequencies are resonating and which are soaked by the room, to even out the equalizer. We had two delayed lines, to fill the room in the back and the balcony, so that made it even more difficult.
Tonny kakko also sings in this concert with Tarja the beauty and the beast very cool song. Yeah Northern kings is that project, you should absolutely check it out, it's great 👌
As someone already mentioned before, this is a cover of the original song from the animated Christmas movie, The Snowman. While this was huge in the UK and the most of Europe, it received minimal play here in the US. This aired on Nickelodeon back in the early 1980s (I saw this as a 9 year old in 1983), but more importantly, Walking in the Air was used a lot for Holiday commercials by Toys 'R Us. That's how many people discovered the song, back in 1985-1987. From there, it fell into obscurity until Nightwish released it on their second album, Oceanborn, in 1998, and performed it here. What sucks is that until Dark Passion Play in 2007, no Nightwish song or album charted in the US, despite those albums (5 of them) being certified platinum multiple times. Back to the song. As you can see, barring a couple of vocal embellishments, they stayed true to the original. This was probably the most popular version of the song (and the one that resonates with people) after the original. It's that good.
Finland is full of inspiring rock singers. If you want a small surprise try Battle Beast's Black Ninja and their cheesy 80's style power rock. Their singer Noora rocks! Or how about cinematic metal, Dark Sarah and their Sarah Brightman-worthy singer Heidi singing Memories Fall with another heavy metal soprano or her singing with JP Leppäluoto Dancing with Dragon, which is a treat. And there is another great voice singing in Amorphis, Tomi Joutsen whose cleans are truly velvety and growls the best in industry, a true nature force. Try their Brother and Sister which is a bonus track from their latest album. There you will hear what a nature force growl means.
Great reaction, Big Brain Singer. Thank you! Tarja Turunen herself always said that she only uses a pure classical technique for classical concerts, for rock concerts Tarja uses a classicaly infused technique but not purely classical. As the years passed by, Tarja started to experiment more with her voice in heavy rock/metal concerts and sound less classical on those, BUT she also started to get better and better on her classical concerts which are foccused in Lied repertoire and chamber music (that was the specialization Tarja studied at Karlsruhe Music University). As a sugestion I'll leave here a link for a Live rendition of Caccini's Ave Maria by Tarja in recent years: th-cam.com/video/H_SZ7S2MtJA/w-d-xo.html As you said you like Tony Kakko, as I also do, you could listen to the Nightwish song he sang with Tarja Live too: th-cam.com/video/v8vA260-AOU/w-d-xo.html I hope you enjoy these ones as much as I do! Cheers \m/ \m/
And yes, for your own benefit, plz get acquainted with NORTHERN KINGS! There were famously the three tenors; before, there were the three kings. Screw all that number magic, said the Finns, we are going to go an extra king. :)))
This concert was December 2000. 1996 - 2000 Tarja studied church music in Sibelius Academy, which is a university level music academy in Finland. Her operatic era albums were recorded between 1997 and 2000. In the 2002 album her singing style had been changed to more contemporary style. 2000 - 2003 she studied lied music in Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, Germany.
I love this version of Walking in the Air! This is from concert in Finland in late December 2000. It is also before Marko joined the band so the bassist they had at the time was Sami Vänskä. Marko joined in 2001. Also Question, Have you reacted to Devil & The Deep Dark Ocean? it's an old song from the 90s but there is great version with Floor from Buenos Aires. I don't watch streams since they don't really suit me (I like to watch when I want to and have the ability to pause and rewind), so I don't know if you reacted to it or not.
Tullikamari (club name) Tampere (tam pear ray), Finland. December 29, 2000. Boys just out of military national service. Tarja out of college/academy. The break between Wishmaster (2000) and Century Child is when she finished her master's degree. Age range is Tuomas 24, Tarja 23 and down to 'Emppu' at 21. Hence #babywish. Scary thinking back exactly how long ago it was and how 20 years before being a young child with no idea what the distant year 2000 would be like. Equally distant now in the other direction. Now my point is Tarja never stopped learning just because school is over. Even now when she thinks she needs it, she meets her vocal coach. Taking on new styles and influences. Blending poetry from a famous Finnish poet with the Tango from Marcello's ( husband) native Argentina on her song Eye of the Storm from her Best of:Living the dream. Celebrates 15 years as a soloist. That is a model for everyone. Seek perfection but know its not a destination its a journey. Do your best and ask for help when needed. A dispassonate trained outsider who can give you real advice is a treasure .
Tony Kakko is one of your favourite singers? Well, he is a close friend to Tuomas and in this very same concert he is invited for the song "Beauty and the Beast". To be honest I don't think he sounds as great here and he usually does with Sonata Arctica but still worth watching I guess.
my favourite performance of Tarja with Nightwish, that simple. I actually much prefer this version to the album version as well! Happier days and the song suits her voice perfectly. My Nightwish love/hate with Tarja as frontwoman was always that I loved it when her vocals had time to breathe but I didn't like the songs that had her rushing through copious lyrics as it always seemed like her timing was off and it didn't work for me.
Agreed she is best with longer vowels and floating over the sound. But Floor does this even better on Ghost Love Score. And has not exceeded Tarja at this or Nemo
@@crhu319 I don't expect her to exceed Tarja. I am just grateful that Nightwish have a lead singer who can sing the old songs again! That's all I need as I no longer have to live in the past I can enjoy new live renditions of some of the old songs. Some I may prefer the new version but usually that has more to do with a total rethink and maturing of the band then the singer. It's always nice however to listen to the original versions of songs you like as it is like coming home.
It's such a beautiful song, Tarja's voice fits perfectly... and people with their laiters in the dark (it's just not the same with cell phones). It is sung with so much emotion that it hits right in the heart. Good thing Thomas did not redo the song completely, just added something and changed the speed at the end, it fit really well without going too far away from the original. They look so young, as a high school band.
At the beginning the ones you see besides tarja are, Jukka (shirtless guy) and the one helping her with the coat is Marcelo (her husband now, but at that time he was some kind of manager or something like that for the band)
Add my voice for "From Wishes to Eternity" as well. In terms of quality, it holds up. In terms of the youthful fire and exuberance - it is probably second only to Wacken 2013, where NIGHTWISH was reborn before our eyes...
This is one of the coversongs of Nightwish that I dont really care for even though Tarjas young voice is beautiful. It is because of my long relationship with the original animation Snowman where the song comes from (since 1983). The Snowman animation is british. It aired first time in Finland in 1983 Christmas eve morning show where Santa Claus (Joulupukki) shows cartoons for children and you could phone to the show and talk to him, I did ones as a child. I watched the show back then too, loved the music on it straight away. Second time it was on tv 1989 and from 1992 it has been aired every christmas in Finland so it is a christmas tradition now as is the sequel Snowman and Snowdog too since 2012. You can watch both animations on youtube. Finnish people celebrate Christmas kind of melancholy way, with our loved ones and remembering those who are not amongs us anymore. Thats why this animation has made its way to our hearts. This is the one I saw for the first time, in love with it ever since. th-cam.com/video/OSvcUIT_5Kk/w-d-xo.html So my Walking in the Air song is more traditional one, last year I listened to this version performed by a very talented finnish singer. th-cam.com/video/oeyvvjIYhqg/w-d-xo.html
Tarja really has an amazing voice. One of her best work after Nightwish was the amazing Christmas album she did a few years ago, well worth checking out although Christmas just went by. Someone mentioned Jarkko Ahola in the chat My Way, with Northern Kings, check that out, anything with him is good.
This song is lovely and it's from the 1983 animated feature "The Snowman". It was in that feature sung by a young male voice which has a character not unlike Tarja's.
No one can touch Tarja on Phantom, Nemo and on this. Floor had to take that material in wholly different directions to make it her own, meaning, these versions remain Tarja's.
I'm not sure if that was "Germany's fault", but more like Tarja's or Tuomas' decision to have less operatic sound on their later albums. They got so much negative feedback from being too operatic, that maybe they tried to find a compromise, where all those who loved this tone are still satisfied, but they also get more of those who don't like too operatic sound. And I think they pretty much did found that "sweet spot". But I'm with you on this, that Tarja's voice sounded (even) better on these old albums and live's.
Northern Kings I Just Died In Your Arms Jarkko is just amazing. Northern Kings Take On Me Eurovision and the live version of We Don't Need Another Hero.
Love the kimono! This is definitely a great Tarja song. Are you familiar with the original song? It is part of the Christmas cartoon "The Snowman" from 1982. Originally it was sung by Robert Peter Auty, a choirboy who sang at St Paul's Cathedral. At the age of 13, he sang "Walking in the Air", the theme song of the 1982 animated film. He is now an operatic tenor who has worked with most of the major opera companies in Britain and a number of companies in continental Europe. Very interesting to hear your comments about opera training. You always have so much information to add to the commentary. Thank you so much. Have a wonderful day my friend. Mine is already starting on a great note spending some time having a coffee with you. Peace. 🎶🎶🎶😊👑🙏☝
This song always brings me to tears! Especially when sung by Tarja. I don’t really like other songs by her with Nightwish, but for me, this is THE only version ever!
She never studied Opera. She studied Lied singing. Singing accompanied by piano. Her voice is POWERFUL to fill the auditiorium, accompanied by piano. Not to sing over the orchestra.
With out operatic studies in Germany she couldn't do classical concerts in churchs and auditoriums as she has been doing since she left the band. So it was and investment for her. I don't know how much influenced or affected her rock singing.
Floor is really a tech nerd but her voice color is boring. But she can do a lot with it. Tarja has an incredibly beautiful, special voice but is technically not always very good. Sometimes the goat stands on her vocal cords and you can hear her scream. The shakira effect. Fortunately this is not always the case and if I had to choose between the two (fortunately I don't have to) I would always choose Tarja because her voice is incredibly beautiful. Dark and velvety.
Maybe you are willing to watch Floor’s performances with her first band ‘After Forever’ especially ‘Follow the Cry’ live at Pinkpop (2004) Because of the subject there are some dark parts with it. So I hope it will not scares you out. th-cam.com/video/BNZvf0aur8o/w-d-xo.html I presume you to read the lyrics before watching. This concert was after Mark Jansen left After Forever and founded his own band Epica.
Oh Yes give me Tarja before Germany, she sounded like a pure Mezzo or even Dramatic soprano. Had she the fortune of finding a good ol' bel canto vocal pedagogue that knew the raw jewel he had in his hands, she would have been next Callas. Working with that voice would be a dream. She has a raw, powerful, dark, sombre and round timbre by itsel that Savonlinna and Sibelius helped and very well bring to the surface, it is absolutely exquisite and unique. Unfortunately, modern opera schools transform all voices into woofy lyric sopranos that sing like if falsetto is the only thing that matters.
Marko, JP, Jarkko, Tony for Raskasta Joulua th-cam.com/video/CJz1UEyw0MM/w-d-xo.html Band: Mirka: Drums Villi: Piano Acoustic Guitars: Erki, Erkka and Tuomas
Is this the version where Tarja was not happy with her vocal performance so they recorded it again for the DVD? Read it in the book once upon a Nightwish, think it was Empuu mention it. Someone to enlight me? I dont have the book anymore got lost in a move
No. It was the Sleeping Sun song. They re-recorded it in 2005 at her request. Emppu was not in favour, but the others agreed. In that version she sang with a softer and a more contemporary voice.
Too bad that most reactions are just on Floor these days. Tarja has a warmer voice and she is much more unique in how she sings. I love both of them, but I love Tarja a bit more - just a little bit.
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Oh if only I had heard **this** as my first song from Nightwish. Unfortunately, my first experience with them was when they became big in Europe during the early 2000s with their albums Wishmaster and Once, where Tarja's voice sounded completely flattened and "overproduced". This had the effect of making the whole thing sound cheap and cheesy to me. Not "metal" enough for my metal ear (coming from years of listening to Thrash metal), not "classical" enough for my classical ear (coming from 15 years of playing the violin at that point and knowing basically every major opera out there by heart). Needless to say, my opinion of Nightwish wasn't the highest. The "misheard lyrics" videos and Tarja's rather thick accent didn't really help either. But that all changed when I discovered to awesomeness personified that is Floor Jansen about 2 years ago. Also, the whole band sounds a lot different now than I remember them from back then. They sound and behave a lot more mature now, and less "emo" than they used to.
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I saw Nightwish with Tarja perform this song live in Germany (Oceanborn Tour) back in the days and it was just... enchanting. I was in the front row and when the song got to it's faster segment she looked at the audience, encouraged us to clap along and i swear she looked for a brief moment right into my eyes. I will never Forget this concert, her majestic Stage presents, her incredibel voice and those stunning beautiful eyes.
Wow❤️
Tarja received several types of education. In high school, she studied at the art school in Savonlinna in her homeland in Finland, then at the Sibelius Academy, the largest and one of the best music universities in all of Europe. Then after graduating from the Sibelius Academy she entered the Karlsruhe Higher School of Music in Germany.
P.S. Tarja is a lyric soprano with a voice range of over three octaves.
Tarja's voice on that concert is pristine. Probably the best I've heard her sing.
Its because its re recorded ;) :-p
@@Honken55 do you have a source? First time I read this.
@@martine7456 Its in the book Once upon a Nightwish
It says she only rerecorded this song though, so the rest of the concert still counts ;)
@@GloomTart well if I remember correctly it doesent realy state if its the only song but it might be its kinda left out in the blue :)
React to The Siren, Nightwish song, with Tarja.
Best Tarja concert by far From Wishes to Eternity, you need to check Swanheart and Dead Boy's Poem from this same concert!
I strongly second Dead Boy's Poem, everything is just perfect with it
Tarja is a hidden gem to people only discovering Nightwish.
She Is amazing! More Tarja please!!! Ghost love Score, slaying the dreamer, phantom of the opera (end of an era show) or anteroom of death, supremacy, victim of ritual (her solo career)
Her Nemo is also still the best though find the Elize Ryd demo
Wishmastewr & Nemo & Over the hills, please
For me this one is just the best song sung by Tarja, after this one it's Wishmaster.
I have always marvelled at the luscious dark tones Tarja's voice has. I have heard none to match that aspect.
Agreed. It has a dark grandeur that no one can touch in those aspects. IT's so powerful, rich, thick, godly.
Tarja also sings this song at her Christmas shows . I like the one in 2017 with her is the white dress. It doesn't look like its at Christmas. I like her voice like this. Floor is a vocal technique nerd. Tarja had to learn how to sing metal with her voice after she started with Nightwish
Tarja ... she was my inspiration to begin taking singing lessons... many years ago 😁... I love and admire her so much .
Northern Kings.... 🤘🏻
4 kings 😁 2 albums full of amazing covers...
Tarja's first foundation lie in church singing and her first singing performance was at the age of three. She would continue in the church choir and then in school. After primary school she went on to Secondary School of Art and Music in Savonlinna. There "The Phantom of the Opera" would become one of her favourite songs to sing and that's why she decided to continue her singing education in Opera. She then continued to Sibelius Academy which is ranked 13th best in the world in performing arts education. In 2000 she entered Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, which is a much lower ranked university, but still enjoyes a really good reputation much to the fact that they have a very low student count, which leads to more personal education. Tarja went there to gain a formal education, which she had not been able to gain at Sibelius because of Nightwish.
Thanks for sharing this information....awesome singers do come (have always come) from Europe and not just from US.
There's one bit that's wrong here and you can hear Tarja correcting this in every interview out there. She never studied opera singing. She has been explicitly saying this for years: she did classical singing, but never opera, she was never trained to project her voice in the way you need for opera.
@@bunnydoriya She studied chamber/lied which is a branch of classical singing.
@@LigeiaNoire Exactly, which is not opera. 😁
@@bunnydoriya I thought it was widely known that that is not opera.
"Walking in the Air" is a song I just barely missed in its original iteration before I got interested in any music. I did not see the "Snowman" cartoon until my grown years! However, I must admit the song was truly moving as sung by a boy soprano, and NIGHTWISH (Tuomas) were clever enough to just tinker with it a little bit to give it that NIGHTWISH spin. I can almost imagine a very young Tuomas at his window gazing into a winter's night, having been exposed to this song. Those are the moments the fantasy is lit.
Regarding the appreciation of Tarja's vocals now and then, I have my two cents to add, and I am pretty sure she is possibly at a higher level of technique currently. But she just has not found a comparable songwriter to replace Tuomas... irony of life. This is an arguable opinion, but not one of Tarja's solo albums had on me an impact of a "Wishmaster", or "Once".
While we are at it: there has to be the space for "Swanheart" and for "Wishmaster" the song somewhere in your plans... Two extremely different specimens of beauty in NIGHTWISH catalogue, and no experience of the band is complete without those...
...to think that we are hardly one-third through the MIGHTWISH catalogue! [Mmm, I just saw my typo there, uh I guess I'm leaving it as is. :))) \m/] So much yet to discover. And hardly a lesser song among them.
Leonard Cohen, Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel are comparable in songwriting imho. But think what a hell of a great league that is.
Tarja and Marko masterpiece: Phantom of the Opera! More operatic sounds... Thank you very much!
Tarja study at the Sibelius Academy, Kuopio , Finland.
This is the original Band with TOUMAS HOLOPAINEN Empu Vuirinen yukka Nervalainen and Samy Vanska this is from the From Wishes to eternity DVD
You managed to misspell all their names. Tuomas Holopainen, Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen, Jukka Nevalainen and Sami Vänskä.
@@Kvasaari Who cares?
@@KristiinaBerg U seem to care...
@@jatuli9426 People try their best with Finnish names, is it necessary to point out when it is not quite there?
@@KristiinaBerg Speaking as someone with an oddball given name, even for my own country, I like to see people making an effort to get everyone's names correct. Perhaps the correction was a bit on the blunt side, but I know if I misspell or mispronounce someone's name, I want to be corrected, because I feel it shows respect to get people's names right.
Tarja Turunen. Ave Maria. Northern King We Dont need Another Hero. Marko,Tony, JP Leppäluoto, Jarkko Ahola.
damn this song and performance is always hypnotic and mesmerizing at least me. big hand nightwish to this awesome cover song. thanx and have great day there.
This live concert is the best one I know. It took place in Tampere Finland in 2000 (after realease of Wishmaster - the 3. album) and was one of the breaking concerts to make them in fame cause they also did a DVD. They still have here the early era innocence and mood plus chemistry and not too much effects. Check the whole concert. By the way...this is one of the most significant songs for Tuomas to influence him.
December 29, 2000. To be exact.
Best Tarja concert for sure and my favorite Nightwish concert after the Wacken one. The energy here is incredible. They were so young. The small venue feels like a gathering of friends. Emppu was great as always, we get to see Tuomas during Fantasmic doing(I'm not spoiling this one haha). The whole concert is incredible and portrays the magic of Nightwish I grew up with. You should definitely check it out when you have the time man. Love the content, cheers:)
I could easily have falling in love with Tarja's voice here and then - We see another side of Tarja, where she is happy and truly seem to enjoy performing for the audience - just like Floor. Also, one of my favorite Tarja performances.
OMG, they were so young here, Tuomas without beard, Emppu looks like a teenage boy
They are absolutely cute lol
and Marko hadn't even joined yet
@@fennshysa1 Marko Hietala , when rest of Nightwish members were still playing in sand box , th-cam.com/video/VimogVM3i9Y/w-d-xo.html 3 min 43 sec
Corrected, wow, I got myself tripped up there. This was 2000, and I'm thinking of the Lista Chart tv clip. Which, come to think of it, was in 1999 anyway, wasn't it? Gah, watching too many older Nightwish clips, to where I'm no longer sure which one came from which year, other than by seeing if it's Sami or Marko on bass.
Ohhh Tarja 👑Try something from *End of an Era* is a Masterpiece ♡
Thanks, nice reaction again, keep saying you are THE man for specifiek reactions with a great way to explain the voice,the music, thanks, and as always stay safe
You're awesome, Marcel. Thank you! You too!
@@CharlieCalottaReacts Tarja Turunen education opera basic from Sibelius academy in Finland and then Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe in Germany to finish her education
That school current voice professor singing , Hanno Müller-Brachmann , th-cam.com/video/qd90Yv4W7u0/w-d-xo.html 3 min 18 sec , Le Nozze di Figaro .
Listening to a (found by chance in my Office DeskTop) Demo of 'Walking in the Air' was the very first time I was confronted with Nightwish and it has always stayed with me as it was yesterday.
There are special microphones for opera singers. Rare and expensive like hell (had one on an event with a Japanese opera singer, insurance was 50k€) but the construction mitigates the problems normal mikrophones have with opera. (We rented that one for 2 days for that event and the sound was brilliant)
Could you tell me the name?
@@CharlieCalottaReacts I had a look at some old pictures and i'm pretty sure it was a Schoeps hypercardioid or supercardioid small diaphragm condenser microphone. I'm not able to find the exact one, as it has been 15+ Years (Opera singers are pretty rare at conventions) but they are making new modular ones.
With Schoeps, you can now basically build your microphone the way you need it. Neumann offers the same functionality with their KM Series and then there is always the Sennheiser MKH Series. But I've been only on German concerts and conventions, so that might bias my knowledge as that are three German companies. I mean, i love working with Shure, but i'm not sure, if they have something for opera singers.
@@CharlieCalottaReacts I completely forgot to mention Earthworks. I've seen a few cases of those for a choir in an opera house. Excessive frequency range for super high sample rates (3Hz-50kHz for 192kHz sampling).
@@caligo7918 when setting these up did the engineers do full ray tracing of the whole space? I've seen that done by a Polish sound engineer with a full five year degree in it. Impressive .. and his mic placement shifted a lot.
@@crhu319 yeah, loud white noise on the speakers and a mic moving in the room (3000 seats in this case). That helps finding all potential feedback loops and giving you an idea, which frequencies are resonating and which are soaked by the room, to even out the equalizer.
We had two delayed lines, to fill the room in the back and the balcony, so that made it even more difficult.
Tonny kakko also sings in this concert with Tarja the beauty and the beast very cool song. Yeah Northern kings is that project, you should absolutely check it out, it's great 👌
As someone already mentioned before, this is a cover of the original song from the animated Christmas movie, The Snowman. While this was huge in the UK and the most of Europe, it received minimal play here in the US. This aired on Nickelodeon back in the early 1980s (I saw this as a 9 year old in 1983), but more importantly, Walking in the Air was used a lot for Holiday commercials by Toys 'R Us. That's how many people discovered the song, back in 1985-1987. From there, it fell into obscurity until Nightwish released it on their second album, Oceanborn, in 1998, and performed it here. What sucks is that until Dark Passion Play in 2007, no Nightwish song or album charted in the US, despite those albums (5 of them) being certified platinum multiple times.
Back to the song. As you can see, barring a couple of vocal embellishments, they stayed true to the original. This was probably the most popular version of the song (and the one that resonates with people) after the original. It's that good.
Finland is full of inspiring rock singers. If you want a small surprise try Battle Beast's Black Ninja and their cheesy 80's style power rock. Their singer Noora rocks! Or how about cinematic metal, Dark Sarah and their Sarah Brightman-worthy singer Heidi singing Memories Fall with another heavy metal soprano or her singing with JP Leppäluoto Dancing with Dragon, which is a treat. And there is another great voice singing in Amorphis, Tomi Joutsen whose cleans are truly velvety and growls the best in industry, a true nature force. Try their Brother and Sister which is a bonus track from their latest album. There you will hear what a nature force growl means.
Ah noticed just that you had already reacted to Amorphis. But do listen to Brother an Sister, though, it will be worthwhile.
Great reaction, Big Brain Singer. Thank you! Tarja Turunen herself always said that she only uses a pure classical technique for classical concerts, for rock concerts Tarja uses a classicaly infused technique but not purely classical. As the years passed by, Tarja started to experiment more with her voice in heavy rock/metal concerts and sound less classical on those, BUT she also started to get better and better on her classical concerts which are foccused in Lied repertoire and chamber music (that was the specialization Tarja studied at Karlsruhe Music University).
As a sugestion I'll leave here a link for a Live rendition of Caccini's Ave Maria by Tarja in recent years:
th-cam.com/video/H_SZ7S2MtJA/w-d-xo.html
As you said you like Tony Kakko, as I also do, you could listen to the Nightwish song he sang with Tarja Live too:
th-cam.com/video/v8vA260-AOU/w-d-xo.html
I hope you enjoy these ones as much as I do! Cheers \m/ \m/
And yes, for your own benefit, plz get acquainted with NORTHERN KINGS! There were famously the three tenors; before, there were the three kings. Screw all that number magic, said the Finns, we are going to go an extra king. :)))
This concert was December 2000.
1996 - 2000 Tarja studied church music in Sibelius Academy, which is a university level music academy in Finland. Her operatic era albums were recorded between 1997 and 2000. In the 2002 album her singing style had been changed to more contemporary style.
2000 - 2003 she studied lied music in Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe, Germany.
Kiitos from Finland.
Brilliant song from the greatest Christmass movie ever made.
I love this version of Walking in the Air! This is from concert in Finland in late December 2000. It is also before Marko joined the band so the bassist they had at the time was Sami Vänskä. Marko joined in 2001.
Also Question, Have you reacted to Devil & The Deep Dark Ocean? it's an old song from the 90s but there is great version with Floor from Buenos Aires. I don't watch streams since they don't really suit me (I like to watch when I want to and have the ability to pause and rewind), so I don't know if you reacted to it or not.
Hmm... Tarja.. Acoustic set... Act1 in Argentina... Pure singing..
Tullikamari (club name) Tampere (tam pear ray), Finland. December 29, 2000. Boys just out of military national service.
Tarja out of college/academy. The break between Wishmaster (2000) and Century Child is when she finished her master's degree.
Age range is Tuomas 24, Tarja 23 and down to 'Emppu' at 21. Hence #babywish.
Scary thinking back exactly how long ago it was and how 20 years before being a young child with no idea what the distant year 2000 would be like. Equally distant now in the other direction.
Now my point is Tarja never stopped learning just because school is over. Even now when she thinks she needs it, she meets her vocal coach. Taking on new styles and influences.
Blending poetry from a famous Finnish poet with the Tango from Marcello's ( husband) native Argentina on her song Eye of the Storm from her Best of:Living the dream. Celebrates 15 years as a soloist. That is a model for everyone. Seek perfection but know its not a destination its a journey. Do your best and ask for help when needed.
A dispassonate trained outsider who can give you real advice is a treasure .
Please react to more of Tarja's stuff , her solo projects are marvelous
👏👏👏👏l love Tarja !!! More please
Tony Kakko is one of your favourite singers? Well, he is a close friend to Tuomas and in this very same concert he is invited for the song "Beauty and the Beast". To be honest I don't think he sounds as great here and he usually does with Sonata Arctica but still worth watching I guess.
my favourite performance of Tarja with Nightwish, that simple. I actually much prefer this version to the album version as well!
Happier days and the song suits her voice perfectly. My Nightwish love/hate with Tarja as frontwoman was always that I loved it when her vocals had time to breathe but I didn't like the songs that had her rushing through copious lyrics as it always seemed like her timing was off and it didn't work for me.
Agreed she is best with longer vowels and floating over the sound. But Floor does this even better on Ghost Love Score. And has not exceeded Tarja at this or Nemo
@@crhu319 I don't expect her to exceed Tarja. I am just grateful that Nightwish have a lead singer who can sing the old songs again! That's all I need as I no longer have to live in the past I can enjoy new live renditions of some of the old songs. Some I may prefer the new version but usually that has more to do with a total rethink and maturing of the band then the singer. It's always nice however to listen to the original versions of songs you like as it is like coming home.
Greetings from finland. Nice to see you again. Tarja is so amazing this video.
It's such a beautiful song, Tarja's voice fits perfectly... and people with their laiters in the dark (it's just not the same with cell phones).
It is sung with so much emotion that it hits right in the heart.
Good thing Thomas did not redo the song completely, just added something and changed the speed at the end, it fit really well without going too far away from the original.
They look so young, as a high school band.
At the beginning the ones you see besides tarja are, Jukka (shirtless guy) and the one helping her with the coat is Marcelo (her husband now, but at that time he was some kind of manager or something like that for the band)
She sounds so pure back then, absolutely love it. This recording is soooo much better than End of an Era
Add my voice for "From Wishes to Eternity" as well. In terms of quality, it holds up. In terms of the youthful fire and exuberance - it is probably second only to Wacken 2013, where NIGHTWISH was reborn before our eyes...
Nightwish-Slaying the dreamer with Tarja just epic
This is one of the coversongs of Nightwish that I dont really care for even though Tarjas young voice is beautiful. It is because of my long relationship with the original animation Snowman where the song comes from (since 1983). The Snowman animation is british. It aired first time in Finland in 1983 Christmas eve morning show where Santa Claus (Joulupukki) shows cartoons for children and you could phone to the show and talk to him, I did ones as a child. I watched the show back then too, loved the music on it straight away. Second time it was on tv 1989 and from 1992 it has been aired every christmas in Finland so it is a christmas tradition now as is the sequel Snowman and Snowdog too since 2012.
You can watch both animations on youtube. Finnish people celebrate Christmas kind of melancholy way, with our loved ones and remembering those who are not amongs us anymore. Thats why this animation has made its way to our hearts. This is the one I saw for the first time, in love with it ever since.
th-cam.com/video/OSvcUIT_5Kk/w-d-xo.html
So my Walking in the Air song is more traditional one, last year I listened to this version performed by a very talented finnish singer.
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I would love your reaction and comment on 'The Siren' from end of an era concert we get to enjoy both Tarja and Marko in this magical song.
Tarja really has an amazing voice. One of her best work after Nightwish was the amazing Christmas album she did a few years ago, well worth checking out although Christmas just went by. Someone mentioned Jarkko Ahola in the chat My Way, with Northern Kings, check that out, anything with him is good.
Simply brilliant. Nightwish is great. Tarja is great.
This song is lovely and it's from the 1983 animated feature "The Snowman". It was in that feature sung by a young male voice which has a character not unlike Tarja's.
Although I'm more of a fan of the Floor era. I must admit this sounds really good. Shivering all over.
No one can touch Tarja on Phantom, Nemo and on this.
Floor had to take that material in wholly different directions to make it her own, meaning, these versions remain Tarja's.
Beautiful and amazing!!! Goosebumps!!!
Tarja at her best, i like her voice in this era the most, before Germany
I'm not sure if that was "Germany's fault", but more like Tarja's or Tuomas' decision to have less operatic sound on their later albums. They got so much negative feedback from being too operatic, that maybe they tried to find a compromise, where all those who loved this tone are still satisfied, but they also get more of those who don't like too operatic sound. And I think they pretty much did found that "sweet spot". But I'm with you on this, that Tarja's voice sounded (even) better on these old albums and live's.
This song is perfectly suited to her voice.
I loved the original. It was part of my childhood. Think is was about 6/7 when it came out.
Northern Kings- My Way is my fav version.
northern kings - my way. red chat. its a must
Northern Kings I Just Died In Your Arms Jarkko is just amazing. Northern Kings Take On Me Eurovision and the live version of We Don't Need Another Hero.
Love the kimono! This is definitely a great Tarja song. Are you familiar with the original song? It is part of the Christmas cartoon "The Snowman" from 1982. Originally it was sung by Robert Peter Auty, a choirboy who sang at St Paul's Cathedral. At the age of 13, he sang "Walking in the Air", the theme song of the 1982 animated film. He is now an operatic tenor who has worked with most of the major opera companies in Britain and a number of companies in continental Europe. Very interesting to hear your comments about opera training. You always have so much information to add to the commentary. Thank you so much. Have a wonderful day my friend. Mine is already starting on a great note spending some time having a coffee with you. Peace. 🎶🎶🎶😊👑🙏☝
Thanks Thor! I'll definitely have to check out Peter's voice!
dude, did you inherit Hugh Hefner's wardrobe?
that top looks like right out of playboy mansion xD
You mean Uncle Hef?
@@CharlieCalottaReacts lol
Tarja studied first singing in Finland at Sibelius Academy and
continued that later at Hochschule fur Music Karlsruhe in
Germany.
Swanheart, please! The band version live. Read the lyrics first and you understand the emotion.
Turunen studied singing at Sibelius Academy and Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. She is a professional classical lied singer.
Northern Kings is a band worth exploring!
This song always brings me to tears! Especially when sung by Tarja. I don’t really like other songs by her with Nightwish, but for me, this is THE only version ever!
She never studied Opera. She studied Lied singing. Singing accompanied by piano. Her voice is POWERFUL to fill the auditiorium, accompanied by piano. Not to sing over the orchestra.
It's the same technique for Lied and Orchestra
@@CharlieCalottaReacts not according to most Lied singers. They are soloists and must focus far more on emotional expression over harmonizing
With out operatic studies in Germany she couldn't do classical concerts in churchs and auditoriums as she has been doing since she left the band. So it was and investment for her. I don't know how much influenced or affected her rock singing.
I love Tarja turunen ❤ my Queen Metal Sinfônico!
Please, adjust your Mic-EQ... Suggestion: Low-Ramp, 120Hz -11dB, High-Ramp, 4kHz -4dB and add some Mids ^^
This is an old recording. Have since adjusted
Sticking with the California smile though, not a big fan of heavy mids in a broadcast setting
I didn't requestet "heavy mids" - but if your speach creating more lows and highs as the complete band your are listening to... ^^
Could you react to Noora Louhimo ( Battle Beast )
Finally Tarja! More please!!
Northern Kings coming soon: )
Tarja...together with Nightwish... Album End of an Era... The Phantom of the Opera the best
Does anyone know when exactly this was filmed? I'm just wondering if Emppu and Jukka are on a leave from "Goverment Hotel".
December 29, 2000 in Tampere, Finland. They finished their 2 years in national service.
@@Boa_Omega I thought it was mentioned some where this was 1998. No wonder Emppu's hair has grown.
@@tommiturmiola3682 98 was oceanborn there was a TV performance in Kites. This was the club in Tampere Finland, 2000. Marko joined in the new year
wait, wasn't she studying singing chamber music? isn't there a difference in technique?
Not really
She was studying Lieder (German art song) but it's still the same technique and style
my favourite Tarja-song
Как же я люблю эту песню, лет 15 назад до дыр ее заслушал))
Pre Marko Nightwish. Sami on bass.
I wish you'd react to Tarja's solo work. I walk alone is really nice
Floor is really a tech nerd but her voice color is boring. But she can do a lot with it. Tarja has an incredibly beautiful, special voice but is technically not always very good. Sometimes the goat stands on her vocal cords and you can hear her scream. The shakira effect. Fortunately this is not always the case and if I had to choose between the two (fortunately I don't have to) I would always choose Tarja because her voice is incredibly beautiful. Dark and velvety.
Maybe you are willing to watch Floor’s performances with her first band ‘After Forever’ especially ‘Follow the Cry’ live at Pinkpop (2004) Because of the subject there are some dark parts with it. So I hope it will not scares you out. th-cam.com/video/BNZvf0aur8o/w-d-xo.html
I presume you to read the lyrics before watching. This concert was after Mark Jansen left After Forever and founded his own band Epica.
We've done a few after forever on this channel :)
You have to react to swan heart from tarja's beauty and the beat dvd. Im very sure is going to blow your mind
Raw Tarja is best Tarja. She was spectacular before 2002-2004.
I hope that dressing gown was worn because you lost a dare Charlie 😂😂🙈
Nah it's a dope Chinese robe my gf bought me for Christmas 🎄☺
Oh Yes give me Tarja before Germany, she sounded like a pure Mezzo or even Dramatic soprano. Had she the fortune of finding a good ol' bel canto vocal pedagogue that knew the raw jewel he had in his hands, she would have been next Callas. Working with that voice would be a dream. She has a raw, powerful, dark, sombre and round timbre by itsel that Savonlinna and Sibelius helped and very well bring to the surface, it is absolutely exquisite and unique. Unfortunately, modern opera schools transform all voices into woofy lyric sopranos that sing like if falsetto is the only thing that matters.
Northern Kings Broken Wings, View to A Kill, Killer, Ashes to Ashes. Tony sings all of them.
listen to Kuolema Tekee Taiteijlijan, Swanheart, Sleeping sun
Marko, JP, Jarkko, Tony for Raskasta Joulua th-cam.com/video/CJz1UEyw0MM/w-d-xo.html
Band:
Mirka: Drums
Villi: Piano
Acoustic Guitars: Erki, Erkka and Tuomas
Tarja4Evr ❤❤❤
YES! More TARJA!!
Is this the version where Tarja was not happy with her vocal performance so they recorded it again for the DVD? Read it in the book once upon a Nightwish, think it was Empuu mention it. Someone to enlight me? I dont have the book anymore got lost in a move
No. It was the Sleeping Sun song. They re-recorded it in 2005 at her request. Emppu was not in favour, but the others agreed. In that version she sang with a softer and a more contemporary voice.
@@astralromance allright :)
You are right about that. This song is re-recorded in the studio(vocals). It is written in that book..
@@Oryxxx ohh so I am remembering right afterall? :)
-I wouldn't take anything in that book too seriously.
You know that she is only 21 yard old?
She is only 20 years old
Too bad that most reactions are just on Floor these days. Tarja has a warmer voice and she is much more unique in how she sings. I love both of them, but I love Tarja a bit more - just a little bit.
Did you ask where and when? I tell you before do your back check before ananananlyst.
Lol I love how people say stuff like this without understanding how this content works
You know that she is only 21 year old?
Please don't slurp into a mike. You keep losing my upvotes because of your slurping -- and the sound is amplified, what's more. A significant minority of the population have sound sensitivities (misophonia), and much as I like your content, I will not upvote anyone who eats or drinks into a mike. It is a huge turn-off for many people with misophonia, including me.
I am making this comment because the alternative is to stop watching your videos entirely, but then you would never know why some people were avoiding yours.
Oh if only I had heard **this** as my first song from Nightwish. Unfortunately, my first experience with them was when they became big in Europe during the early 2000s with their albums Wishmaster and Once, where Tarja's voice sounded completely flattened and "overproduced". This had the effect of making the whole thing sound cheap and cheesy to me. Not "metal" enough for my metal ear (coming from years of listening to Thrash metal), not "classical" enough for my classical ear (coming from 15 years of playing the violin at that point and knowing basically every major opera out there by heart). Needless to say, my opinion of Nightwish wasn't the highest. The "misheard lyrics" videos and Tarja's rather thick accent didn't really help either.
But that all changed when I discovered to awesomeness personified that is Floor Jansen about 2 years ago. Also, the whole band sounds a lot different now than I remember them from back then. They sound and behave a lot more mature now, and less "emo" than they used to.
Floor is great but the Sound like a great nightwish Cover Band. A bit meh. Soundtrack music