Just incredible, what a voice and what authentic expression, all done without affectations. I sincerely hope to be able to listen to this in a live performance.
Incredible, chilling performance. I don't remember being so moved by a voice in a long time- such purity, perfection and intensity. I wonder, though, why the dwarf is almost always portrayed in an evil light in performances. Something about the facial expressions as he strangles the queen, sinks her into the sea, and then when his heart burns with yearning for her, make him out to be evil. The eyes and the voice of the singer seem to tell the listener to be terrified of this deformed, terrfiying creature which is committing murder. And in the same way, they invite us to sympathize with the queen, with her suffering, her prayer, her unjust (?) death. Whereas, reading the poem, I feel like the poet asks us to identify with both, to feel the suffering of both. The dwarf truly loves the queen. She has betrayed him. If it had been the other way around, he would have surely been sentenced to death without pity. The poet turns all norms and power dynamics upside down. He takes a figure that normally arouses fear and discomfort and forces us to see him as a human being with a heart that is completely overcome by love, a love that necessitates the death of the beloved, that commits it, and that continues past it and will continue forever. He forces us to imagine, only imagine, that justice is deserved for those we have cast out of society, that conforming to expectations is more serious a crime than challenging them.
Incredible singer, yes.. I find your interpretation of the poem most sensitive. This is exactly how I feel about the story. I have sympathy for both...and even the queen herself seems to be more worried about the dwarfs fate than about her own
Wir Alle SIND doch der Zwerg, Zwerge: klein und verraten, zum Leiden, Selbsthass, Busse, Reue verurteilt, zum ewigen Nicht-Landen-Können, zerrissen und zermartert von Leid und sehnen uns nach Erbarmung, Seelenfrieden, Auflösung in den ewigen Meeren, aus Tränen. Oder nicht?
I don't think that romanticizing femicid in classical music and art is something we should do anymore. It's just too much. I find your "I feel like the poet asks us to identify with both" very disturbing.
Ausdrucksvolle, für mich etwas zu affektierte Interpretation. Die Stimme kontrolliert, wenig Wandlungsfähigkeit führt zum Abflachen der Spannungskurve, so dass gegen Ende keine Steigerung mehr möglich ist. Insgesamt aber sehr ansprechende Darbietung. Gratuliere.
Well done! It's nice to hear this song sung in fuller voice than Bostridge's! I think you could perhaps enrich the lower register by less shy chest voice. In any case, don't follow any lieder singer style! Release your voice and use it without reticence, that would make a difference! :-)
this is my favorite interpretation and performance of the piece
Magnifique! Bravo à la chanteuse et au pianiste!
Hervorragend!
Magnifique!!!!
Wunderbar !!! ❤ super Stimme !!!
amazing
Sie sind eine Bombe, Frau Rennert...👏👏👏
Großartig - unfassbar gut!
Just incredible, what a voice and what authentic expression, all done without affectations. I sincerely hope to be able to listen to this in a live performance.
WOW! AMAZING!
Brilliant! What an amazing Mezzo! Brava!
Incredible, chilling performance. I don't remember being so moved by a voice in a long time- such purity, perfection and intensity.
I wonder, though, why the dwarf is almost always portrayed in an evil light in performances. Something about the facial expressions as he strangles the queen, sinks her into the sea, and then when his heart burns with yearning for her, make him out to be evil. The eyes and the voice of the singer seem to tell the listener to be terrified of this deformed, terrfiying creature which is committing murder. And in the same way, they invite us to sympathize with the queen, with her suffering, her prayer, her unjust (?) death. Whereas, reading the poem, I feel like the poet asks us to identify with both, to feel the suffering of both. The dwarf truly loves the queen. She has betrayed him. If it had been the other way around, he would have surely been sentenced to death without pity. The poet turns all norms and power dynamics upside down. He takes a figure that normally arouses fear and discomfort and forces us to see him as a human being with a heart that is completely overcome by love, a love that necessitates the death of the beloved, that commits it, and that continues past it and will continue forever. He forces us to imagine, only imagine, that justice is deserved for those we have cast out of society, that conforming to expectations is more serious a crime than challenging them.
Incredible singer, yes..
I find your interpretation of the poem most sensitive. This is exactly how I feel about the story. I have sympathy for both...and even the queen herself seems to be more worried about the dwarfs fate than about her own
Wir Alle SIND doch der Zwerg, Zwerge: klein und verraten, zum Leiden, Selbsthass, Busse, Reue verurteilt, zum ewigen Nicht-Landen-Können, zerrissen und zermartert von Leid und sehnen uns nach Erbarmung, Seelenfrieden, Auflösung in den ewigen Meeren, aus Tränen. Oder nicht?
I don't think that romanticizing femicid in classical music and art is something we should do anymore. It's just too much. I find your "I feel like the poet asks us to identify with both" very disturbing.
Perfect, bravo
Sehr sehr schön! Bravo!!!
Bravi!!👏
❤
Großartig!
Atemberaubend... bravissima!!
Superb!
I love how she moves smoothly into high gear after the Queen drowns.
👏👏👏👏👏
BRAVA!!!
MEISTERSTÜCK!!
Ausdrucksvolle, für mich etwas zu affektierte Interpretation. Die Stimme kontrolliert, wenig Wandlungsfähigkeit führt zum Abflachen der Spannungskurve, so dass gegen Ende keine Steigerung mehr möglich ist. Insgesamt aber sehr ansprechende Darbietung. Gratuliere.
Well done! It's nice to hear this song sung in fuller voice than Bostridge's! I think you could perhaps enrich the lower register by less shy chest voice. In any case, don't follow any lieder singer style! Release your voice and use it without reticence, that would make a difference! :-)