It is a wonderful performance... ✨✨✨ Jussi probably could have pulled it off even with only one vocal chord! (Physically not possible, I know, please don‘t think I‘m that stupid!) Thank you very much, Michael, for posting both the delightful recording and the great photos! 🙏🍀
@@michaelmcgrailengland Obviously! I‘ve heard rumours that there are singers who sound much, much worse with their throat (still) intact... Must be a matter not only of talent but also of a solid and healthy singing technique... 😉 Best regards! 🍀🍀🍀
Hello Rosa Angela. Thanks for listening/watching and for your kind words, I'm really pleased that you like the video. I didn't make a very good job of the audio when I first uploaded it and also, since then, I've started colourizing the photos, so I decided to do it again.
@@michaelmcgrailengland Dear friend. Please do not devalue your work. I would love to be able to do something similar with the photographs of my distant youth. Everything was black and white or colored sepia. Although simplicity also has its own charm. Your art-work is beautiful.
@@Rosangela161 Thanks for your messages Rosa Angela. Yes I devised a system to improve the sound of the old recordings about 4 years ago and started uploading to RU-vid in the hope that the more true- to- life sound might attract younger listeners and help to preserve the names of the great artists of the past. However, unfortunately most people listen on laptop speakers or small in ear headphones and don't notice any difference, but I'll keep trying!!! As to the colouring of the old photos, I only discovered last year that there is software available to enable you to do it yourself and, in addition to those that I put on RU-vid I've had a lot of pleasure adding colour to the old family photos. The software does a basic job automatically and then you spend time correcting. Occasionally on, for example, basic head and shoulders photos it will get it completely right. It's not too expensive (about 40 dollars in your country) and you can download a free trial before you decide to buy. It's called Pixbim and the website is at pixbim.com/ If I can do it, anybody can, so why not have a go at your old family photos.
@@michaelmcgrailengland Thank you! I'll give it a try, it'll be great entertainment and at the same time I'll protect my beloved memories in some file. I don't know much about current technology. I'm from the age of machines typing: Remington and Olivetti. those that don't they needed energy other than that of the fingers and yet they had a built-in printer. Please smile. This preamble is to check if I can use a Laptop and if I need a machine let me scan the photos. I have a Laptop and a printer with scan Hp. Thanks for the valuable information it will be of great help. Warm regards dear friend...
I couldn't help but take advantage of your kind hint, Michael, for wich I thank you again. Jussi really sounds here a little better. However, the interpretation remains the same, and he again "explodes" in the upper register, as if performing Verdi. Thus, there is a problem not of sound, but of style, which is what I wrote about last time. And with your permission, one personal question, Michael. You were born in Lancashire, but you live in Yorkshire. If this had happened in the second half of the 15th century, which of the Roses would you have been on?
Thanks for listening Alexandr and, as you say, it is the same performance as that on the other vieo. I was born in Yorkshire so I would have been on the side of the white rose but my home is only about 50 miles ( certainly close by Russian standards) to Kathleen's birthplace in Lancashire. My family roots on my father's side are in Ireland and, although I love Yorkshire, I feel very attached to Ireland I suppose that one of the reasons why I am so fond of the singing of John McCormack is that he sang many of the Irish songs that I love so much.
@@michaelmcgrailengland I have long met the statement that all Irishmen are very musical and almost all are red-haired. Do you, Michael, confirm the validity of this statement in both points? (I mean in the second point too)
@@purisermonisamator Well I'm certainly musical Alexandr but, as far as hair is concerned, what little I have left is grey and never was red but I think some Irish, particularly women, do have red hair. We used to go over to Ireland on holiday in an old VW camper van and certainly. in those days traditional Irish music was still a big part of people's lives but, actually, I don't remember seeing many people with red hair. We visited John McCormacks grave near Dublin in 1984, the centenary of his birth, and was very disappointed to see just one bunch of dead flowers on the grave.
