This is sublime. Can't get over it

[yorick]

Ombra Mai Fu aria from Handel's Xerxes.

It gets me every time

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[granger]

Immense

 

[yorick]

It's a tear-jerker, for me: the most beautiful. All the more so for being performed by a counter-tenor. I've heard a woman singing it but the counter-tenor male voice just works. He's the master, this guy. I'd never heard of him, only the music. Usually, with the most famous note, it is held for a very long time, Scholl cuts off the note sharply, which is unusual but really shows the feeling in the piece.

 

[Jayhawk]

Ombra Mai Fu aria from Handel's Xerxes.

It gets me every time

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Here are three in a similar vein. I first heard the Bach piece on Radio 3's Late Junction over twenty years ago. The Icelandic conductor scores maximum points for enthusiasm.

 

[yorick]

Here are three in a similar vein. I first heard the Bach piece on Radio 3's Late Junction over twenty years ago. The Icelandic conductor scores maximum points for enthusiasm.

The ethereal Icelandic does it for me. Precision.