What do you hear? And I don’t want to know whether you liked them or not. It doesn’t matter. Get to the nuts and bolts.
Hear – feel.
Goerne
Matthias Goerne is quite interesting, even from the first note I was entranced— He never lets up with his breath support, this is the main thing I notice throughout, so that each note grows into the next. Even without turning up the volume he really makes the most out of these repeated phrases crescendoing in the b section He makes a three minute song feel 30 seconds.
Pears
Having never heard Mr. Pears before this video, and only having herad of his quote “weirdness” I found his voice, from the very beginning, to be quite captivating, without anything more strange than one might find in a recording with Ian Bostridge. Here is another singer who is very much in touch with the text and the breath. He truly believes in every word, and that is very evident in the sound. The evenness of his tone presented with the intimacy of dynamics is quite staggering and incredibly touching for the listener.
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