Monday, March 23, 2015

On Olaf Bär


The first thing I notice about this particularly fantastic singer is the way each of the words fit together in a cohesive phrase. There’s no question about the umlauts when he uses them, the are very pure and seem almost dark. The way in which he puts on the [x] at the last moment really accents the word and doesn’t take too much time away from what he is singing. The [ҫ] are particularly soft in it pronunciation. You can tell from the inflection of the text that he really understands the push and pull of the texts. He does a fantastic job of changing dynamics and color. After listening a few times, it doesn’t seem like he rolls his r that much, and when he does it’s a very soft and slight roll. The second video in particular I had to listen to quite a few times, it is really hard to hear the video because of how quietly he sings. In particular, it sounds like his German is pretty standard, he sounds like a very sweet and soft singer, but one with a lot of power that can be made equally with his diction and his dynamic.

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