Elina Garanca - Folk Songs 🎬 

She is marvelous. Bravissima! The first two of the Folk Songs are not actual folk songs. "Black Is the Colour (Of My True Love's Hair)" and "I Wonder as I Wander" were both written by the Kentucky folk singer and composer John Jacob Niles. There is a traditional tune for "Black is the Color ..." but, because his father thought it was "downright terrible", Niles recalled, "I wrote myself a new tune, ending it in a nice modal manner." Berio's suite opens with the viola instructed to play "like a wistful country dance fiddler", free of bar lines and rhythmically independent of the voice. "I Wonder as I Wander" was developed by Niles out of the mere three lines he was able to extract from a revivalist preacher's daughter, "a tousled, unwashed blond, and very lovely". Harmonics from the viola, cello and harp contribute toward the "hurdy-gurdy sound" Berio wanted to accompany this second song. The extended bird-song postlude for flute and clarinet in Berio's version seems to have been suggested by the passing reference to the "bird on the wing". Armenia, the country of Berberian's ancestors, provided the third song, "Loosin yelav", which describes the rising of the moon. In the French song "Rossignolet du bois", accompanied only by the clarinet at first but later by the harp and crotales,[2] a nightingale advises an inquiring lover to sing his serenades two hours after midnight, and identifies the "apples" in his garden as the moon and the sun. A sustained chord colored by the striking of automobile spring coils bridges this song to the next one, the old Sicilian song "A la femminisca", sung by fishermen's wives as they wait at the docks. Like the first two songs, the sixth, "La Donna Ideale", and the seventh, "Ballo", come not from anonymous folk bards but from Berio himself (see background section above). The old Genoese dialect folk poem "The Ideal Woman" says that if you find a woman at once well-born, well-mannered, well-formed and with a good dowry, for God's sake don't let her get away. "The Ball", another old Italian poem, says that the wisest of men lose their heads over love, but love resists the sun and ice and all else. "Motettu de tristura" comes from Sardinia[3] and apostrophizes the nightingale: "How you resemble me as I weep for my lover... When they bury me, sing me this song." The next two songs are also found in Joseph Canteloube's Chants d'Auvergne and are in the Occitan language. "Malurous qu'o uno fenno" poses the eternal marital paradox: he with no spouse seeks one, and he with one wishes he had none. A cello echoing the improvisation at the opening of the suite introduces "Lo Fïolairé", in which a girl at her spinning wheel sings of exchanging kisses with a shepherd. Berberian discovered the last song, known in the suite as "Azerbaijan Love Song", on a 78 RPM record from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, sung in the Azerbaijani language except for one verse in Russian, which a Russian-speaking friend told her compared love to a stove. Berberian sang, purely by rote, the sounds she transcribed as best she could from that scratchy old record. She knew not one word of Azerbaijani. The music was transcribed for her by Louis Andriessen.

Hervorragende Darstellerin, in jeder Hinsicht!

Bravo Elīna! Mēs lepojamies ar Tevi!🙏❤🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

De par vos chants et vocalises Folklos de ces cultures des pays Nordiques et Baltes vous apportez du bonheur à toutes ces Ames dont certaines sont dans la peine........ Vous etes chère Madame Elina non seulement la plus merveilleuse des Mezzo -sopranos actuelles mais aussi une grande Dame au grand coeur................Soyez en remerciée. Bravissimo.

Элина в каждый момент времени красавица

She is gorgeous in and out. Such a pleasure to both hear her sing and watch her interviews.

Azarbaijani Love Song 18:50 A beautiful love song even more beautiful by Elina Garanca, such a great artist Many thanks for sharing.

Absolutely the best mezzo today.

Vivat Elena! Greetings from Estonia

It is gratifying to hear my father's music in the Berio Folk Songs Arrangement. John Edward Niles.

Thank you for sharing this, very beatiful, E. Garança is so elegant and beautiful singer, dirigent Petrenko and all musicians bravi tutti 👏👏👏👏🎶🥰

Stupenda esecuzione, voce e presenza scenica 😍😍😍

She never disappoints. Thank you very much.

THE BEST, I LOVE HER, GREAT VOICE, I LO LOVED,!!!!

Great voice and a great fashion choice as well! 🙂 Thank you Elina!

Solo la Garanca, bella e brava, cantando a voce piena è riuscita a rendere gradevoli le musiche monotematiche di Berio, le folcloristiche note popolari della canzone di Azerbaigian e a spegnere le escursioni stridule e dissonanti del flauto.

Maravilhosa voz, grande cantora. Belíssimas músicas. Um grande show para divulgar a música folclórica, a alma dos povos.

Très beau !

Bravaaa!!! Super cool!!!!Elina!!!!!

Tienes un timbre de voz divino.

Raduje się serce i raduje dusza. Rewelacja , szanuję i serdecznie pozdrawiam. Jak skończy się ten koszmar , wszyscy będziemy śpiewać odę do radości.

Elina vivat Estonia!

Lindo,lindo,lindo

Merci Seigneur pour ce moment. Grande cantatrice. Quelle Grâce. L'Ukraine y est délicatement intégrée. La Culture de chaque pays peut nous enrichir, edifier. BRAVO 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Time Stamp ⏳ 0:00 Black Is The Color 3:01 I Wonder as I Wander 4:52 Loosin yelav 7:32 Rossignolet du bois 9:06 A la femminisca 10:39 La donna ideale 11:51 Ballo 13:16 Motettu de tristura 15:25 Malurous qu'o uno fenno 16:22 Lo fiolairé 19:19 Azerbaijan Love Song

Певица, актриса и женщина от бога!

Such gorgeous orchestration.

Skaisti!

🇺🇦 Дякуємо ❤️

Peaceful

Great artist, great voice, charming woman. Great soul... Special thanks for the color of the dress! Thank you from all Ukrainians! Paldies, Elīna🥰🥰🥰😇😇😇

Ənfəns 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻

con lei tutto è perfetto tranne gli abiti.

wonderful opera singer, magical Carmen in the Met, but not the best for these particular songs. a far cry from Cathy Barbarian.

Oy! How we would have given a right arm to have this experience during 2020! Now we just criticize, compare, analyze, etc.!

Garanca give a show of how well she sings, that's not what this "FOLK songs" need. Listen the Cathy Barberian recording with Luciano Berio. For me, the best incarnation is Jard van Nes with Riccardo Chailly and the Concertgebow.

I appreciate your placing such a sensational voice on RU-vid so that we can enjoy it. Thank you for allowing us to appreciate it. If I can make a suggestion, I would love for you to place English subtitles so that people like me who do not speak Russian can appreciate better the beauty of her songs. Alvaro Mejia

The music called Azerbaijan love song Bu gün ayın üçüdür (Today is the third of the month) is an ancient folk song of Azerbaijan. Elina Garanca sings the lyrics of the song very badly, and if I didn't know the lyrics, I wouldn't understand Elina's performance. You can watch the original music in various versions at these links. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-sEYhTIOLdgs.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-P7KAgn78qhQ.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3KFOqgVea10.html

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Man sollte die Lieder dort lassen, wo sie hingehören. Folk ist Folk und nicht Oper. Schon der erste Song....einfach schrecklich. Man höre sich die Version von Joan Baez oder Esther Ofarim an. Da erkennt man die Schönheit des Songs. Keine gute Idee.

Sehr schlecht gesungen. Intelligenz fehlt. Nur Cathy Berberian kann diese "Folk Songs" singen!!!

Напрасно она нарядилась в эти цвета - слишком политизировано. Несколько спекулятивная , неуместная нота для такой певицы..

Элина Гаранча мне нравится, но содержание данного концерта нет. Вокальные произведения не аутентичны. где-то я это уже слышала!