I can’t believe she survived that! That seemed torturous at points. Haha. Chelsea Guo has an amazing voice and was a wonderful sport to do this. Mozart was such a beautiful melody writer, for any instrument.
I loved every minute of this. What a beautiful, beautiful voice! Informative content, sassy dynamic between Chelsea and Ben, and so well put together - and, again that VOICE!
This video was so much more than just singing Mozart piano melodies. So informative, fun, and educational! And Ms. Chelsea Guo is such an inspiration, I always wanted to double major in piano and voice !
obviously great skill all around, but tbh the thing that blew me away the most was the EDITING. SO MANY MOVING PARTs woven together so beautifully. stunning work.
Wow! Chelsea is so much fun! This video really melted these two art forms and these two instruments (piano and voice) together. And, such great editing to highlight all her little funny gazes at the camera. This really was "The Chelsea Show".
Yes, Chelsea, YES! I'm a classical singer and a clarinetist (and a woodwind doubler), and everyone says "you can't do that!" Ma perche? Both my voice teacher and clarinet teacher advised me to give up the other so I could focus on what they considered to be my best. I ignored them both....LOL! Anyway, so great to see a video like this....not very common, and wonderfully done! btw, I used Chopin piano music for vocal exercises (I'm a coloratura soprano).
I heard that the young (and brilliant) pianist,Yunchan Lim, when he was practicing his Mozart composition for the Cliburn competition, would practice playing the piano and singing. Apparently, he was well aware that (as you say) "Mozart was a master of composing for the voice and the piano alike," so many of his piano pieces indeed were very operatic in sound. Oh...and Yunchan LIm won the Cliburn competition at the tender age of 18.
Its so important and beautiful to sing but how disconeted are the pianistst about voice!!! And they forget to sing...this lady si great!!! So inspiring!!!!
Thank you so much for this precious video! Chelsea's Singing Mozart and the earlier Chopin's video are academically valuable, and the combination of knowledge and enjoyment is delightful to watch. I will definitely watch it repeatedly and share the content with my students🌹🌹🌹. However, with my picky ears, I noticed that the singing segment recorded in the studio this time sounds quite dry. Is it possible that the studio's walls absorb sound too well? For piano players, a bit more pedal with the right foot can alleviate this, but for singers, is it a bit challenging? If there could be a bit of reverb in the audio, would it BETTER REFLECT THE BEAUTIFUL QUALITY of Chelsea’s voice and singing, aligning better with SOUND TRACKS from OTHER performances PROFESSIONALLY RECORDED, and reducing the contrast between stage and off-stage effects? Some listeners, who may not understand acoustics and recording technology, might attribute the differences in sound quality to DIFFERENCES in the vocalist's voice and skills. I recognize the GREAT effort put into this video EDIT, and I hope you continue to improve, allowing more people to fall in love with classical music!
this video was absolutely lovely, i loved it! Being a very amateur musicien but a high music enthusiast those kind of videos just passionate me so much, thanks for those high qualities video everytime !
Ben, this was so instructive and just pure fun! I know you from your time as a student worker in the Juilliard Library (I'm Glenn Loflin). I'm so proud to have known you and to see how successful you are as a musician and educator. I look forward to seeing all your videos. Many best wishes! G.L.
Watched their Chopin video multiple times, this one is just as good! Keep Chelsea coming, so interesting to hear both of you discuss each piece from different angles.
What a delight. Wit, a pianist who also just happens to be a soprano (ok, mostly a marvelous singer) , her partner in crime, a good sport at singing along, and good honest horse sense about phrasing. thanks so much to the both of you!
Mozart è stato un GRANDE MAESTRO di canto. Aveva un controllo del profilo melodico e della tessitura, modellando sulla retorica di un gusto raffinato. Le sue opere descrivono la sua maestria, che coniuga una parola sottointesa ad una melodia soave, morbida e sensuale.
Ah this is so great! The most helpful thing my teacher advised last lesson is to imagine the piano sonata melodies as song, now I get this treat! Amazing content as always ✨
There is a reason for Mozart ornamenting his piano music: pianos in his days had a short, feeble sound. So if you had a slowly rising melodic phrase, it would sound hollow if you didn't fill it with ornaments. This is even more pronounced in Hummel's piano concertos (Hummel was a Mozart student). His piano music is made entirely of ornaments, runs, and arpeggios. There's not a moment without some movement. This, of course, does not apply to voice which can sustain and modulate sound. This is why the phrase, when sung, sounds better without those ornaments.
Thank you both for that amazing vídeo!! It’s so incredible how her voice can survive after singing such a difficult “songs”! I hope this work can continue ❤❤❤
Oh, what fun!!! So interesting and informative, as well as having me laugh out loud at your jibing one another. Thank you so much. Thoroughly entertaining. Thoroughly musical. Oh, and Chelsea, that trill was sublime. Pianistically and vocally!
That fioritura around 15:25 is rare for voice in opera. I can only think of one example -- Lady Macbeth's cabaletta from the first act of Macbeth. But in that case Verdi was trying to depict something demonic, as Lady M is summoning the forces of hell in that aria, etc. Clearly taking advantage of how torturous that writing is for voice. This post was very enjoyable, I love Mozart and I consider him a bel canto composer at heart, so thank you!
Ah, I just remembered another instance -- in Anna Bolena's (Donizetti) first act cabaletta, that figuration appears too. Guess it's not that unusual. But compared to gruppetti and scales, it's much rarer.
Great. I just came to know you, Mr. Laude, a couple of weeks ago. I come from Germany and studied with Conrad Hansen, the most famous pupil of Edwin Fischer, who could produce miraculous Sounds at the piano. I would not have believed, that an US American pianist could have such insight in piano technique and such a culture of piano sound, I believed was only to find with some european pianists. But that was obviously a prejudice. I will keep watching your Videos.
Great video! Although I remembered that any competent castrato of that era would've been able to easily sing some of the more "instrumental" sounding passages that you played, probably adding more ornaments in the process.
I can’t believe she survived that! That seemed torturous at points. Haha. Chelsea Guo has an amazing voice and was a wonderful sport to do this. Mozart was such a beautiful melody writer, for any instrument.
She's a great sport!
😢🎉
And she is a great soprano too. Real fun girl.
Torturous or tortuous?
@@TheophilosPorter Thanks for bringing this up. Tortuous means "winding" or "crooked," whereas torturous means "painfully unpleasant."
You're spoiling us with 30 minutes of this! This and the chopin video are my favourites on the whole channel
Dude, nothing like the Yuncham Lim video. That one actually made me cry 😭
When she demonstrated the verdi part on piano, I just realized she is an experienced pianist as well!
Agreed. That was really cool.
Yup，she should have been more famous❤
@@user-jn4mh1rh9l Wow！She is MUSICALLY TALENTED💯！
She’s so talented what the heck
Chelsea is incredible! Both at piano and vocals!
So fun! I'm baffled at how gorgeous these familiar melodies sound with her voice poured over them.
Yes! So gorgeous! 💛
I loved every minute of this. What a beautiful, beautiful voice! Informative content, sassy dynamic between Chelsea and Ben, and so well put together - and, again that VOICE!
"Gounod?"... "I don't know" 😂😂😂😂 8:12
This video was so much more than just singing Mozart piano melodies. So informative, fun, and educational! And Ms. Chelsea Guo is such an inspiration, I always wanted to double major in piano and voice !
obviously great skill all around, but tbh the thing that blew me away the most was the EDITING. SO MANY MOVING PARTs woven together so beautifully. stunning work.
12:45 the laughter trill is perfect😂
man, these are so fun.
I thought 30 min would be too long, but it flew by...
Wow! Chelsea is so much fun! This video really melted these two art forms and these two instruments (piano and voice) together. And, such great editing to highlight all her little funny gazes at the camera. This really was "The Chelsea Show".
What a privilege to be able to hear, not just the music, but discussion about the music, by two such talented performers!
Yes, Chelsea, YES! I'm a classical singer and a clarinetist (and a woodwind doubler), and everyone says "you can't do that!" Ma perche? Both my voice teacher and clarinet teacher advised me to give up the other so I could focus on what they considered to be my best. I ignored them both....LOL! Anyway, so great to see a video like this....not very common, and wonderfully done! btw, I used Chopin piano music for vocal exercises (I'm a coloratura soprano).
I heard that the young (and brilliant) pianist,Yunchan Lim, when he was practicing his Mozart composition for the Cliburn competition, would practice playing the piano and singing. Apparently, he was well aware that (as you say) "Mozart was a master of composing for the voice and the piano alike," so many of his piano pieces indeed were very operatic in sound. Oh...and Yunchan LIm won the Cliburn competition at the tender age of 18.
At my uni, all piano majors are required to take up voice as their minor instrument.
@12:43 excellent trill!
Thanks for the fun video. What an awesome guest!
Watching this video has convinced me that a bit of rubato has its place in Mozart.
Its so important and beautiful to sing but how disconeted are the pianistst about voice!!! And they forget to sing...this lady si great!!! So inspiring!!!!
6:37 That moment when you have Ben Laude as a friend and have to put up with his bullshit.
I'd love more more videos with Chelsea. Here voice is inspiring and I love you two together. Very educational as well❤
We NEED Chealsea's Vocal Piano concerto in D minor please
Please do this for Clara Schumann's pieces as well~ Also Chelsea laughing here was so funny lmao 12:36
Thank you so much for this precious video! Chelsea's Singing Mozart and the earlier Chopin's video are academically valuable, and the combination of knowledge and enjoyment is delightful to watch. I will definitely watch it repeatedly and share the content with my students🌹🌹🌹. However, with my picky ears, I noticed that the singing segment recorded in the studio this time sounds quite dry. Is it possible that the studio's walls absorb sound too well? For piano players, a bit more pedal with the right foot can alleviate this, but for singers, is it a bit challenging? If there could be a bit of reverb in the audio, would it BETTER REFLECT THE BEAUTIFUL QUALITY of Chelsea’s voice and singing, aligning better with SOUND TRACKS from OTHER performances PROFESSIONALLY RECORDED, and reducing the contrast between stage and off-stage effects? Some listeners, who may not understand acoustics and recording technology, might attribute the differences in sound quality to DIFFERENCES in the vocalist's voice and skills. I recognize the GREAT effort put into this video EDIT, and I hope you continue to improve, allowing more people to fall in love with classical music!
this video was absolutely lovely, i loved it! Being a very amateur musicien but a high music enthusiast those kind of videos just passionate me so much, thanks for those high qualities video everytime !
Ben, this was so instructive and just pure fun! I know you from your time as a student worker in the Juilliard Library (I'm Glenn Loflin). I'm so proud to have known you and to see how successful you are as a musician and educator. I look forward to seeing all your videos. Many best wishes! G.L.
Watched their Chopin video multiple times, this one is just as good! Keep Chelsea coming, so interesting to hear both of you discuss each piece from different angles.
When she started to speak after singing the first part I was like: "Does she SPEAK? Isn't she just an angel?!"
AND she plays the piano. Nice...!
What a delight. Wit, a pianist who also just happens to be a soprano (ok, mostly a marvelous singer) , her partner in crime, a good sport at singing along, and good honest horse sense about phrasing. thanks so much to the both of you!
I didn't know what to expect clicking on this but SO MUCH FUN! Thank you so much! I love Chelsea!
Wouldnt mind a Chelsea Show.
Oh yes, the Chelsea Shuo would be great!
This is tremulously wonderful she was amazing. 🎼💛
I remember her from Chopin Piano Competition In Warsaw. So multi- talented!
Delightful. Thank you :) I hope Chelsea didn't hurt her voice too much :))
The Fantasy in D minor segment just melted my heart. So lyrical. Priceless.
@13:10 omg. lived my whole life for this moment XD that was steeamy! lol
WTF! She didn't even sing the double stops!
Every time she begins singing she lowers the tempo to like 80%
The first try of K332 wasn't terrible at all. Singer obviously wants to sing a bit slower. Listen.
Ben: “Ah” like at the dentist.
there's a lot of cavities in my vocal technique...
The word is abyss.@@tonebasePiano
Totally reminds me of when my piano teacher asks me to sing. Thanks for the laughs and entertaining video Ben 😄
Ur voice just brought some of my imagination of this masterpiece alive!❤ Such a beautiful voice !!
Mozart è stato un GRANDE MAESTRO di canto.
Aveva un controllo del profilo melodico e della tessitura, modellando sulla retorica di un gusto raffinato.
Le sue opere descrivono la sua maestria, che coniuga una parola sottointesa ad una melodia soave, morbida e sensuale.
She's great. Great voice and fun to watch.
These videos are just so FUN FUN FUN ~ !!!!!!!!!!!!!! A very original concept to do this!! 🧡💛💚💙
"Listen to opera" doesn't mean to play like a singer. It means to play while imitating different characters in an opera cast.
Is she sight reading and singing? 😂 Gosh damn it I'm so jealous.
pleeassseee make more of these!! I love watching (and rewatching) them so so much
15:46 I wish it wasn’t for string instruments 😭😭
sadly we have to suffer through it too HAHAHAHAHA
Can´t really express the gift you gave here. Thank you both from the bortom of my heart.
So insightful! Thank you.
Do J.S.Bach next!!!!!!
beautiful vocals and funny video perfect combination
OMG I love them lol!
LOL man, that was super fun time between you two! Love it! 😂❤
Wow she's incredible
Thank you so much for letting us see her flex like this. Just beautiful.
this was such a joy to watch! w woman
This is very interesting video. Chelsea is wonderful (and you too, Ben).
Ah this is so great! The most helpful thing my teacher advised last lesson is to imagine the piano sonata melodies as song, now I get this treat! Amazing content as always ✨
There is a reason for Mozart ornamenting his piano music: pianos in his days had a short, feeble sound. So if you had a slowly rising melodic phrase, it would sound hollow if you didn't fill it with ornaments. This is even more pronounced in Hummel's piano concertos (Hummel was a Mozart student). His piano music is made entirely of ornaments, runs, and arpeggios. There's not a moment without some movement. This, of course, does not apply to voice which can sustain and modulate sound. This is why the phrase, when sung, sounds better without those ornaments.
I just randomly saw this video. Is she sight reading while singing? 😳
Raridade ver uma cantora tão talentosa com uma excelente técnica e com uma voz tão clara e límpida com uma dicção incrível excelente ❤
Tá difícil hoje em dia ver uma cantora assim ❤
This was so incredibly funny and amazing to watch 👏👏👏
The laugh-tr was musical comedy 😂
It's such an amazing video! I always thought Mozart piano sonatas were small operas.
Thank you both for that amazing vídeo!! It’s so incredible how her voice can survive after singing such a difficult “songs”! I hope this work can continue ❤❤❤
more of Chelsea!!!!!
Oh, what fun!!! So interesting and informative, as well as having me laugh out loud at your jibing one another.
Thank you so much. Thoroughly entertaining. Thoroughly musical.
Oh, and Chelsea, that trill was sublime. Pianistically and vocally!
This was so awesome. Thanks for making it into existence!
When every one of a trillion molecules that make up your being is musical this is the result .Thank you Chelsea
Mozart joined the free masons to indicate to posterity how his music should sound: like hammers and chisels.
It’s a very educational film nice both musician
Such an amazing video! Thanks so much
So the conclusion is that Mozart’s sonatas are operatic mostly in spirit rather than in technicality?
That fioritura around 15:25 is rare for voice in opera. I can only think of one example -- Lady Macbeth's cabaletta from the first act of Macbeth. But in that case Verdi was trying to depict something demonic, as Lady M is summoning the forces of hell in that aria, etc. Clearly taking advantage of how torturous that writing is for voice.
This post was very enjoyable, I love Mozart and I consider him a bel canto composer at heart, so thank you!
Ah, I just remembered another instance -- in Anna Bolena's (Donizetti) first act cabaletta, that figuration appears too. Guess it's not that unusual. But compared to gruppetti and scales, it's much rarer.
You two have such good banter. What an absolutely delightful video. 👏
🙏🏼
only thing i can say here, THANK YOU!
i would like to hear some of Bachs ricercare instrumental fugues like the Eb major or E major from book 2 sung one singer per part.
@11:10 and 22:46 my favourite moment
I hate to admit it, but "Gounod I don't know" made me cackle a little bit
I thought I was watching a rom-com at some point 😂 But seriously, you guys have great chemistry
Yes, yes, yes! You are both so delightful and absolutely on point. Amazing musicians!! Thank you for this wonderful video
Bens piano teacher watching this
This is BBC Radio 4 singing one song to the tune of another!
wow she plays piano well too lol
Great. I just came to know you, Mr. Laude, a couple of weeks ago. I come from Germany and studied with Conrad Hansen, the most famous pupil of Edwin Fischer, who could produce miraculous Sounds at the piano. I would not have believed, that an US American pianist could have such insight in piano technique and such a culture of piano sound, I believed was only to find with some european pianists. But that was obviously a prejudice. I will keep watching your Videos.
I mean Conrad Hansen could produce miraculous piano sounds (even more miraculous than that of Edwin Fischer).
I like the Pamina song “Ach ich fühl’s..” in Italian, which is easier than the almost impossible German version.
What a delightful exploration of Mozart melodies.!
Great video as always, still waiting for lessons with Yunchan.. someday
Love this. Love everything.
"Gounod? I don no!" 😂😂😂 loved the video!
The most brilliant insight!
@2:15 I wanted to hear her sing the whole thing
Tonebase Rocks!. Its been years since i've watched such inspired and insightful discussions on musical topics. Kudos to you folks!!!
I think the take on Fantasy in D minor was the most interesting. Great stuff!
Great video! Although I remembered that any competent castrato of that era would've been able to easily sing some of the more "instrumental" sounding passages that you played, probably adding more ornaments in the process.
Please make more videos like this.
30:33-30:35
Haha best part is the vocal duet…
9:30. The vocalist is the better pianist.
This is fantastic!! I would love see Rachmaninoff!