I have the privilege some 25 years ago of being in a chorus singing with Soloist like the Great Simon Estes and Great Teresa Berganza. What a charming personalities and voices. Never forget we gave them a big applause in the first rehersal and Teresa Sent us chocolates. I will never forget them.
Totally fine, voice and trumpet were in close dialog and well supported. Exquisite phrasing and sound production. Estes has a very nice placement that rings well in the space but he holds his own with the trumpet so brilliantly played by Andre'
I haven't heard Estes in person. Some have suggested his voice lacked sufficient power for the largest theaters. I do not know whether this is true. But regardless of power, Estes' voice was certainly beautiful --
I am just sick that I never got to see maurice Andre in person. I discovered him just after his death. The world is a poorer place without him. I have listened to this and many other of his works thousands of times. They never get old. RIP.
The trumpet is absolutely brilliant! I'm in heaven---and remember why I chose the trumpet way back in elementary school... such a magnificently majestic instrument.
....during my childhood my father took me to a concert with Monsieur André . I couldn’t understand, how he got such a sound out of a small trumpet. Ever since I kept admiring this icon of a musician. Mi piace moltissimo
...Simon Estes, the first „Fliegender Holländer“ of his color in Bayreuth, back in the eighties. To my knowledge he retired pretty early from stage. Wonderful ringing Baritone!
G F Handal! No one does it like the Mormon's! Check out the double keyboards @ 3:39sec. I've played a few orchestra's and seen more than a few performances of Messiah, but never seen double key boards! 😎 www.mormontabernaclechoir.org/videos/the-trumpet-shall-sound-from-messiah-joseph-barron.html
I first heard Estes during the late 1970s. A truly beautiful and wide-ranging bass-baritone. Subsequent reviews suggested that Estes' voice, ample at Bayreuth and in other European theaters, did not carry well at the Met.
Wow, is this "old school" or what? I realize that Andre was popular back in the 1950's and 1960's, mostly in France. But this performance of The Trumpet Shall Sound represents an approach that has been abandoned at least for the last generation. For a much more exciting and contemporary rendition, take a look at (for example) the Philippe Sly version on RU-vid (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-13DpmWPV9IU.html).
its not a question of old school...its a question of the instrument you play....in this case Maurice is using a piccolo trumpet and on the video you post, the trumpet player is using a baroque trumpet...so the approach is completely different...this TV show was broadcast in live in October 1988!!!...back then, baroque trumpet players was not in the business like they are now...but the most important is that both of them are looking for the beauty...and this is matter who can say he is wrong or right?!!!...its a question of tone color and taste
I'd like to have heard him as the two devils, in Gounod's "Faust" and Boito's "Mefistofele." Estes' voice overall was a good match for both roles. Although, again, he was perhaps not an ideal singer for the Met.
Estes is a fine singer. His voice is warm, wide-ranging and beautiful, and he is a sensitive artist as well. I have never heard him in person. But several accounts suggest his voice, although ample for smaller European houses, sounded a tad small at the Met. I hope that racism is not the reason behind the Met's failure to fully engage Kevin Maynor, who certainly has one of the great bass voices. Estes is good, major-league, but not great.
simon estes vous chantez trop fort c'est de la musique baroque pas de l'opéra on retrouve le même défaut dans toutes les versions en particulier au carnegie hall
Maurice is dragging behind. Simon is really good by the by. Constant colour, well pronounced and articulation, good tempo and adaption to Maurice's inconsistent tempi.
Estes' voice was beautiful and wide-ranging. But although he had considerable success in Europe, his instrument by most accounts was a tad undersized for the Met. And he should not have sung pure bass roles, in which he tended to pour on the weight and therefore get wobbly. Nor was his voice's timbre suited to such roles.
