This is fantastic - I'm a rabid MB fan and I thought nothing could beat the OLC recording of You and I, but this does. Why, why, WHY have they only recorded one song together (and an unremarkable Christmas song at that)! They seriously need to get back in the studio.
I have to laugh...when I read those comments about Elaine and Michael.This is so good and flawless ! I am a singer myself and this Chess at his best.......
Absolutely brilliant!! One of my favourite songs from Chess!! And beautifully sung by 2 of my favourite singers!! Would love to have seen them together in a musical in the West End!! Sighs!!
Nothing says lungs like Elaine Paige on this live performance. I do think Tommy K has a slight edge by the age over Ball. But I am amazed, agog all those things at the sheer power of the performance! WOW!
So the ring has ended; Susan's performance makes millions surf RU-vid and discover great music; Elaine Paige gets new attention! Did you know that Elaine performed in the first ABBA musical named "ABBACADABRA" in 1983 already? Yes, based on ABBA songs, looong before Mamma Mia! and even before "Chess", (which this song is from)! And who was behind [the script of] ABBACADABRA? The composers of "Les Miserables"! Now, let's hope the ABBA composers make a movie out of 'Chess' instead of a MMsequel
@chickenzrule tru dat! Michaels BIG BALLSY BOMBASTIC voice is fine for those BIG (boring) Webber notes but, he CAN'T HANDLE the nuance and depth that CHESS requires. I've seen CHESS on broadway & tons of college & community choirs doing Chess. and NOBODY BUT NOBODY not even the adorable/smooth&sweet Josh Grobin, comes close to TOMMY! HE DA MAN
wow! He is second best, on this one..not bad! When you heard Tommy nail this song - Its just kareoke from others! -sorry... Even Elain had to do her max, or crumble beside him. But she managed.. so well...
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I am not a fan of Ball but I have to say his voice blended particularly well with Page, in this number. Yes! he did sing endang but they both, annoyingly, sang our-wer at the end instead of our using the U vowel. They did, however, both sing ' hearts desire' without going onto the temptation of making it desire-er, often a fault with singers with such words as fire-yer.
LOVE THIS DUET SO MUCH BUT IT IS SPOILED BY MICHAEL'S "ENDANG" INSTEAD OF ENDING. WATCH THE BARITONE, LEONARD WARREN, HE SINGS THE "I" VOWEL WITH THE MOUTH IN A SMILE & THE MOUTH ALMOST CLOSED. LEARN FROM LEONARD!
Ok, Elaine isn't bad but she has a quite annoying nasal voice. I think she has a really good diction in the way she sings. But this orchestra arrangement was terrible, and Michael Ball's voice (as several people has already pointed out) isn't well suited for the music in Chess. Tommy Körberg is soo much better suited to perform Benny's music (after all he wrote it for him to perform as he has done with lots of his music.) and he does it way better than any other I've heard or seen doing Chess.
