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+ArtShouldBeBeautiful Don't forget Bernstein!

+Daniel Schlachta Or Klemperer, Furtwangler, Maazel, Boulez, Walter, Desormiere, Celibidache...

+Jacob Morris And Messiaen and Stravinksky and Janacek :-) RIP Pierre!

I agre...there'll never be another like Abbado, the most spiritually expressive conductor who showed it through a certain mystique. I still weep at his absence.

Controlled extasy! The only one who is not on a trip is Mr. Abbado himself ...

I love subtitles. Singing extends and sometimes dostorts vowels and deemphasizes consonants and I can suddenly lose comprehension no matter how good the acting is.

No English though?

This is not opera

Indeed

well said!

Joseph Giles Yes! There are other good ones too, but Kaufmann is superb in certain ways. All his technical embellishments are always so perfectly done, it shows immense mastery of his art, simply icing on the cake, but how pleasant to hear!

10 years ago he was good, just after his vocal breakdown and retraining with a baritone. But today his registers can't blend as easily and as a result he often swallows his tongue. This is the opposite of the tenors you mention who have always had impeccably healthy technique.

Have you seen him live? Because I beg to differ. And actually, if you read Corelli's interview with Hines in his book, he clearly states "the tongue goes down in the back." Now, a lot of singers say a lot of things, but they don't always do the things they say. So whether Franco was correct in his assessment of his own technique or not, to claim he, or any other singer, suffers from some imperfection within their instrument (specifically ailments having to do with specific muscle groups), is not productive. Without knowing the position of those muscles at rest (I'm assuming you have not been with Jonas when he's been sleeping, unless you're in fact the subject of an affair we the public do not know about), it is impossible to say whether he "swallows his tongue" when he sings without knowlege of it's resting position to compare. Analysis of his recent recordings are completely irrelevant unless you've heared (listened very closely to) him live over several occasions, you cannot draw valid conclusions regarding specifics and nuances of his vocal production, and even so, we cannot conclude that his tongue is too far down based on sound. What I think you mean rather is that his larynx is depressed beyond the natural response from inhalation, but it doesn't matter. What we can do is determine whether the fundamentals are the same as they were ten years ago, NOT whether his voice "sounds different." That is nature. He's ten years older, and his voice has no doubt adapted physically, as has his own subconscious and conscious efforts to control it. So if it sounds different, it most likely is not because of a technical change. There are many interviews of him speaking candidly about his technique, and his "approach to vocal production" has not changed since it was revamped in the late 90s, according to him at least. The other aspect of your argument, reflecting on his less than par sound as of late, again has to do with recorded versus live. Anecdotally, many speculate Giacomini sounded baritonal, but from those who heard him unamplified in the house said it was completely different. That there is no question of his voice belonging to the tenor canon. Even modern recording techniques have continued to struggle with larger, darker voices. Live, Kaufmann comes across much more lyrical than his recordings suggest. Apologies for ranting, but to say one singer swallows his tongue and therefore sounds worse than in the past is an inconclusive, unproductive, uninformed, sophomoric argument often made in the student halls of conservatories or from comprimario singers of far less ability who have no place diagnosing any technical ailment in public before their own.

Amen!!!!!

Kaufmann has proven himself as an intelligent and musically sensitive singer. However, while I have a lifelong iron-clad principle, Never to argue with success - and Kaufmann is extremely successful - I have reservations about his vocal production. For the immense volume that he generates, Kaufmann's voice does not have ample "ring". The voice does not project outward. The resulting effect is a feeling that he restrains and reigns in, instead of releasing and allowing the voice to flow freely. This becomes more pronounced in soft passages where he seems to pull the voice inward instead of pushing it gently forward.

+Ludmilla Herni You mean Wunderlich and Ludwig?

+Jacob Morris I stand corrected;-) Of course I mean Christa Ludwig....

Mr New cut streng

Magnifiques tous les deux

Der großartige Neumann

Ist der tod

Fluttertongue!

Mahler

Kollo just a better tenor altogether and he never had the score in front of him. Just listen to his Mahler 8, nobody's done it better.

Mir gefällt's aber

GERMANYFrankie, besser als Ihr Gegurgel in den Tiefen Ihres Backofens, Kaufmann muss wenigstens nicht in der Küche gurgeln wie Sie.

pura envidia

What is your definition of mediocracy? and explain what you think is mediocre about JK's singing, please!

maybe you can say to others, it is uninformed and not intelligent comment on him, he is continuing improving singing even over mid year career! Hard to find tenor,

La más bella versión de esta fantástica música, Jonas Kaufmann su magnífico e inigualable intérprete..👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻💖⚘⚘🕊