Lovely. My shelves are packed with Williams's superb CDs of British song: Finzi, Butterworth, Britten & much more. To see him is immensely instructive, the pleasure he takes in the music palpable & his rock-solid vocal technique impressive. This is NOT a public recital, but a radio broadcast with no audience: his gestures are exactly the kind that singers make in a recording session to help them get their best vocal results, not what they use on the concert platform. Thanks so much for the post!
I don't know how he gets through it without howling. I can't , and I'm just listening. Thank you Mr Williams for a wonderful live performance .( Ad Mr Middleton) A great balm to the soul in this period of cynical grifting heartless blighters.
I, age 7, am doing my grade 3 exam. Thank you very much for posting the inspiring singing of Tom Bowling. The singing and the piano playing are very expressive, smooth.very helpful. Brilliant!
I, age 2 and a half, am currently doing my PhD. I, too, am deeply grateful for such profound beauty being shared on RU-vid. I am delighted to join your noble fellowship of pre-denarian classical music elitists!
Most will have come across this through the last night of the Proms, where the promenaders make great show of wiping eyes with handkerchiefs. That said, it is a genuinely moving, if , to our sometimes cynical tastes, too sentimental, song, and it is marvellous to hear it performed so sensitively here.
I, in utero, am yet to be born. I am very grateful to the person who uploaded this fine recording of such a moving melody. It had me in floods of tears, but they were rather hard to discern due to my current environment. Yours sincerely, (Yet to be named) Aged -1 month.
I heard RW at this years (2017) Buxton Festival singing Schubert's Die Schone Mullein. he gave a short and interesting introduction to preparing the 3 Schubert cycles (with more on his blog). It becomes clear, on reading and listening to him describe this process, that the refined performance which we heard in Buxton this year was the result of hard work, not least the memorising of the piece. In fact, in some ways, this commentary about memory is one of the most interesting aspects of his preparation. I'm sure the scientists who work in the area of memory would be equally interested. His singing of Schubert is very fine!
this is a low voice version (baritone) down a minor 3rd from the original..... oddly enough the same as the cello version!! - anyone know how to find the piano score in the lower key - thanks!!
Nice to hear this songs, and they are well sung. I do think these 'singers gestures' are usually more a sign of a lack of (momentary) inner 'movement' then a typical facet of a recording session. It is often of way of moving oneself by external means instead of inner means such as imagination, emotion, concentration etc... Although external means can trigger inner ones, continued use often detracts from the end result in my opinion because it ultimately siphons energy from the voice. There are many singers that don't make these gestures at all and sing great.
