Yessss!!! Marvellous!!!

I have always been a huge Jennifer Larmore fan. I find it amazing that she is able to move her beautifully dark and large voice so quickly. It's rare to hear such a technically accurate singer also sing with as much color as she does.

Saw her sing this live in Chicago. Also saw her as Giulio Cesare at the Met. She's one of the all-time great Handel singers.

Ah and I looove live recordings, they tell so much more about a singer ...

3:13 the cadenza at the B seccion of so agressive, i like it.

Love her!!

Hi pweny, after her live Quel Torrente on hillevivan's channel ... this is great, too. Great da capo. What I read from your (very nice!) allhailjenny blog: I guess we have an addiction in common (in my case named Vivica Genaux, though). Jennifer I've unfortunately never heard live, hope this will change soon. For me, both do an excellent interpretation here, both in their own unique way. Great Handel.

@piustwelfth

5 жыл бұрын

Have you heard this clip on youtube? It's Larmore live at the Met (same performance where she sings Quel Torrente): kzread.info/dash/bejne/eoSTudiLp9G9g8o.html

That little run meant for Bradamante sounds like Larmore again. There's a little bit at 0:30, and it sounds like Larmore took over. i think the original words are "io colla spada" to contrast Ruggiero's "Mi farò via col braccio." I think she changed "io" to just "e"

In this bravura stuff she gets me all worked up. This is how it would sound a man killing a whole regiment!!!

She's a super-fine Ruggiero. The vocal timbre she gets seems perfect for Handel's castrato parts. But cant help feeling she got some bad coaching for this aria--for the interpretation/drama/characterization side ...

preferisco nettamente Berganza, naturale, travolgente, con il suono così essenziale, ma tornito, spontaneo, senza gridolini e vuoti di suono

I don't know about you, but that pic of Ruggiero seems awfully simlar to the costume of Euridice in Orfeo ed Euridice. Look up the production with larmore on KZread, see what I mean.

@timothycarpenter4603

6 жыл бұрын

I think you mean Orfeo, not his wife, Euridice

who's bradamante? She sounds familiar.

Horrid

@timothycarpenter4603

6 жыл бұрын

Why?

@theoperatripleaxel5417

2 жыл бұрын

WHY?

@user-bc9mn7gq2c

Жыл бұрын

@@theoperatripleaxel5417 Well (cadenzas aside) for me it's a little strident and lacking in articulation: why sing simple 1/8 note arpeggio figures super legato? Then simile arias are tricky -- the intensity and "emotional investment" conveyed here seems out of place. I read this aria as R. coming of age, fully confident, and (finally) out of Alcina's thrall. Of course the text references hunters and tigers, but ... Is this really a comfortable range for J.L.? I feel the voice is better suited to the lower castrato parts like Bertarido in Rodelinda or Orfeo of Gluck.