While the Requiem is powerful and moving as I heard LaScala sing it from memory at the Kennedy Center. Music has a counter refrain as Mussolini coddled Respighi with his inflated Pines of Rome, or the torch by Hitler with Wagner with the Nazi and WWII. Music can be abused as well for nefarious purposes.
Here is a complete Requiem, Abbaddo conducting, with Scotto, Horne, a young Pavarotti, and I think Ghiaurov - https://youtu.be/fYwmcVvB6xQ Pavarotti is glorious. Never it is more apparent that for the great composers Everything truly is in the music that they write, no histrionics required. The sound that comes out of him is astounding. I try sometimes to imagine an audience at the Met in a frenzy because of a singer, and this man comes to mind--imagine being there the night of that famous Fille du Regiment! He sang too long, didn't let it go before he became a characiture of himself, but there is no denying what this is, IMO the greatest tenor of my prime. Few can raise goosebumps on my arms like he can. A visceral response to a human voice is a truly magical & mysterious thing.
What a wonderful singer Pavarotti was - whatever he sings, I get swept away with it. Even the conductor in this piece seems to be hypnotised with Pavorotti's delivery - beautiful
While the Requiem is powerful and moving as I heard LaScala sing it from memory at the Kennedy Center. Music has a counter refrain as Mussolini coddled Respighi with his inflated Pines of Rome, or the torch by Hitler with Wagner with the Nazi and WWII. Music can be abused as well for nefarious purposes.
Here is a complete Requiem, Abbaddo conducting, with Scotto, Horne, a young Pavarotti, and I think Ghiaurov - https://youtu.be/fYwmcVvB6xQ Pavarotti is glorious. Never it is more apparent that for the great composers Everything truly is in the music that they write, no histrionics required. The sound that comes out of him is astounding. I try sometimes to imagine an audience at the Met in a frenzy because of a singer, and this man comes to mind--imagine being there the night of that famous Fille du Regiment! He sang too long, didn't let it go before he became a characiture of himself, but there is no denying what this is, IMO the greatest tenor of my prime. Few can raise goosebumps on my arms like he can. A visceral response to a human voice is a truly magical & mysterious thing.
What a wonderful singer Pavarotti was - whatever he sings, I get swept away with it. Even the conductor in this piece seems to be hypnotised with Pavorotti's delivery - beautiful