> I'm always glad to hear someone voice their
> appreciation of Elly Ameling.
I've never been able to appreciate Ameling's voice.
She stikes me as the perfect example of a "lieder"
voice, like Dawn Upshaw and Sylvia McNair.
This is obviously my personal taste. I dislike them
because of the lack of a full-bodied sound... or any
sense of vocal laser-beam excitement... no richness or
depth, and a high/arched kind of brightness rather
than a forward, pointed kind... or something. They
just sound like they're speaking on pitch, not singing
at all -- thin-blooded, like a mosquito.
I never liked lieder because I associated it with the
"high and light" type of voice... then I heard Jessye
Norman's lieder recordings, and the world opened up to
me. Her Gretchen (Schubert) and Liebst du um
Schonheit (Mahler) are divine.
More opinions! But that's what makes us interesting.
Isabelle B.
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Isabelle Bracamonte
San Francisco, CA
ibracamonte@y...
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