Besame mucho – the historically informed performance
Daily Comfort ZoneGo for it, Philippe Jarousky.
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I l-o-v-e l’Arpeggiata !
Thank you to slipped disc for lighting up my weekend in unimagined ways
I truly enjoyed this! Thanks, Norman! My favourite rendition, however, remains this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xHQJtIENwA
Only you would come up with that!
But yes, it’s beautiful. It’s odd how a pleasing face is often home to a pleasing voice.
No, besame is not a counter tenor song, but if you’re gonna do it, do it seriously as though you were inhabiting a baroque female role, a woman longing for a kiss, otherwise it’s just a middle aged man begging for a kiss….in falsetto
A castrato/countertenor role is a male role. You don’t understand the aesthetic
a “role” has a gender, a voice range does not, a counter tenor can and does sing any and all gendered role in his voice range, and they all do, you understand nothing about music, have you been living under a rock in the last 30 years?
Lighten up! It’s obviously a fun encore …
I am a big fan of Jaroussky and of L’Arpeggiata. This was the first encore of their very baroque “Follies” program they presented last October. This encore was even more fun in the live concert that I was lucky to attend. BTW, the second encore was even more funny.
SO. Much. Fun. Oh, to have been there!
There is a fine line between “fun”/”funny” and cringey.
Sometimes you don’t see it until later.
Remember when Bryn Terfel and Thomas Hampson thought it was fun/funny to do the Rossini cat duet at Verbier in 2023 and posted the video online?
They finally understood the difference, and the video has since been wiped from youtube and basically off the internet, except a clip here
https://www.facebook.com/medicitv/videos/thomas-hampson-and-sir-bryn-terfel-sing-the-cat-duet/198780552896579/
When middle-aged men go falsetto for cheap laughs, it is usually a good signal it is cringey.