Oh my God! What an amazing spectacle! Strauss would have been beaming at such care and attention to detail for his masterpiece. I'm only sorry that my Mam didn't have RU-vid!
At first you want to say "Oh, kill the old lady already and let the poor girl sing!", then you see the interaction, the passion in Ms. Ludwig, the challenging eyes in Ms. Vinke, the transformation in her performance, and you realize how demanding operatic singing is and how beautifully it is rendered by great professionals. Before anybody destroys me with nasty comments, I would like to add that I have worked in the distribution of opera recordings for several years :-)
Great that Carina Vinke was able to change so quickly her technical and more external approach into relatively simple singing, coming from the inner feeling. Technique, a performance concept and performance practice prevail too much the professional classical music today, I think, so that so often the result is something artificial that does not really touch. Like Christa Ludwig says so beautifully here: „Sing simply“, „do not sing, do only feel“, and - which also concerns the timing: „The moment you feel it, you have to sing it“... All that leads to a touching music experience. Fortunately also the pianist seems to play more and more from the feeling during the lesson.
Clearly, she is dutybound as a master of her degree to nitpick all the littlest things. This is a master class. The goal is flawless perfection. If she didn't address everything, she would do her job wrong and thus fail her students and profession.
she is soooo right, and the student got it at the end, but I KNOW how it is, when you meet your ideal, and you want to deliver everything right-and the risk is to loose the actual essence of pieces like these... <3
Respekt vor der Sängerin Carina Vinke! Bei soviel starker Kritik und Unterbrechungen war es ihr weitgehend möglich, sich auf das einfache Singen aus der Empfindung einzulassen. Das Technische, eine zurechtgelegte Interpretation und Aufführungspraxis stehen, finde ich, heut oft zu sehr im Vordergrund, so dass etwas Künstliches herauskommt, das kalt lässt. Wie Christa Ludwig so schön sagt: "einfach singen", "nicht singen, nur empfinden" und, auch zur zeitlichen Gestaltung: "Wenn Sie's empfinden, müssen Sie's singen" - das führt zu einem berührenden Musikerlebnis. Auch die Pianistin ist glücklicherweise immer mehr ins Erleben und damit beseeltes Spielen gekommen.
