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In Reply to: RE: Charles Villiers Stanford's--RVW loved it! posted by John Marks on August 22, 2015 at 07:52:44
John,
While I love Stanford's music, that particular CD was one of the dullest recordings I've I ever heard. Maybe I should dig it out and give it another chance.
His "Song of Peace" is one of my top ten favorite pieces, the best version I have is on a DVD of the girl's choir of Salisbury Cathedral. The way the sixteen girls sing with perfect intonation (it is in unison throughout) is uncanny and very moving. Don't judge this work by the version sung by the wobbly Steven Varcoe on that disc. It is most often done now by choirs such as the Salisbury Cathedral version as a stand-alone piece.
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John
Are you talking about Varcoe's horrendous wobble, so I guess you are joking? It's put his career into eclipse the last ten or twelve years or so. He was once a mainstay for baritone parts on Hyperion and Chandos, but he's pretty much disappeared. Even the wobble-tolerant Brits couldn't take it any more. He was a favorite of mine twenty years ago, but most of his later recordings are unlistenable.
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Singers are singers and most of them are crazy, with good reason.
If they are good, I enjoy them.
If they are not, I ignore them in a way I cannot ignore a bad string player.
Bad string players can practice harder, go to rehab, or quit.
Bad singers are at the mercy of involuntary muscle responses, and some times it takes getting to the point there are more bad nights than good to bring the curtain down.
jm
Understand. It's difficult to ignore bad singing like that, however.
Randy
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