Victoria de Los Angeles - Bailero / Baïlèro
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- Опубликовано: 30 апр 2010
- Victoria de Los Angeles (1923-2005) - Spanish Catalan operatic soprano
Canteloube - Chants d'Auvergne - Baïlèro
Lyrics:
Shepherd across the river
You're hardly having a good time
Sing baïlèro lèrô
Shepherd, the meadows are in bloom
You should watch your
flock on this side
Sing baïlèro lèrô
Shepherd, the water divides us
And I can't cross it
Sing baïlèro lèrô 
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My absolute favourite version.... no one comes close.
I've listened to several versions here on RUclips. They are all wonderful, but Te Kanawa is probably my favorite. This is mesmerizing music.
Victoria's voice wends its way through this music like a cool, pristine, clear mountain breeze.
Has never lost its freshness.crystal beauty as if pouring from a fountain. Over decades the goosebumps have multiplied
Music I've known, subliminally, since I was 4 years old. I'd listen to Madeleine Gray's voice rising up the stairwell as I lay in bed, not sleeping.
25 years later, living in a different country, and having no money or space for a record player or LPs, one night, around 1am, a happily sozzled neighbour began playing it at full volume. I could hear it all through the walls of the building, though I was half asleep. I realised my eyes were running with tears.
The Madeleine Gray recording - at least the very old LP my father played, had been speeded up for some reason. I know I'd heard the story of why this had happened at some point in my teenage years, but that was so long ago I can no longer remember it. But the speeding up had had very bad effects on the quality of her singing. Still I loved it.
Victoria de los Angeles' version is exquisite. The unforced nature is beautiful. Her voice floats. It isn't overly mannered by her opera techniques and abilities. I very much like Frederika von Stade, but her version I find too "opera-ish". Though that is just my taste. I would never want to say that my feelings have more significance than another's about this. Sharing a love for the music is the important thing.
Definitive... the most natural and unforced soprano ever. I love her.
Love this ladies voices 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸 💙🎻🎵🎶🙏. 💙Arnold Bourbon Amaral
Exquisite!
Surely one of the most beautiful voices in the 20th century. It is inconceivable to imagine that she could uttter a note that was less than exquisite. Test and tone were equally important to her' would that others shared her snsibilities as well as her musicality and muscianship. She is irreplaceable and in these songs she can withstand comparison to Madeline Gray who first recorded them in the thirites. Gray didn't posses a naturlally beautiful voice but she was a captivating singer.
fantastic voice.....
What a gorgeous song this is. It's like being transported to heaven for five minutes. Soothing, tear-jerking, and sublime.
have you listened to Netania Davrath's rendition?...in my opinion it is the definitive version of this wonderful song.
Tony Hill Needless to say, the "definitive version" of anything will always be subjective. For me, the definitive version of this song is right here. Victoria de los Angeles simply owns this music. Her performance, for me, is utterly ravishing. I have listened to Davrath, and she does a lot of nice things, but I don't think she penetrates to the soul of the music the way Victoria does. She also has a habit of rolling or trilling certain r's so strongly that it's really distracting. But again, tastes will vary.
Fantastic images. I don't think I've ever heard anyone sing this better. Some come close but none better.
Beautiful !!💙💙💙👍👍👍
There are no words that could do this justice. So just listen.
Almost heartbreakingly beautiful. And the landscape…
If the hairs on the back of your neck don't stand up when you listen to this then you must be bald. What a great performance and video to match.
One of the most beautiful, fresh and utterly exquisite pieces of music I have ever heard for the female voice!
Full of Spring, hope and young love. Gorgeously performed/ sung by Victoria with intense colour and passion!
I could listen to it again, again and again! Thank you!
What a beautiful review.
Heartrendingly beautiful.
Merveilleux !!
When I listen to this I am set adrift on a soft cloud of all the dreams I ever had !
And nothing in the entire world matters but this exquisite music and the woman by your side!
I cannot stop listening every chance I get.Sublime music.
The pairing of this dreamy song with the dreamy, pastoral landscape in the video is wonderful.
Thank you!
Out of this world, she captures the Auvergne so, so well.
Thank you for this
beautiful
It's a very special piece to every one of us. Perhaps that's why it's so subjective when it comes to the 'definitive' version/singer- if there is such a thing.
With all of you I share the same poetic attachments to this music. It will live on forever, I'm sure.
Lyrics translated into English:
Shepherd across the river
You're hardly having a good time
Sing baïlèro lèrô
Shepherd, the meadows are in bloom
You should watch your
flock on this side
Sing baïlèro lèrô
Shepherd, the water divides us
And I can't cross it
Sing baïlèro lèrô
Thank you.
Mi versión favorita...
Best version.
I've been listening to one soprano after another singing this, trying to find the "match" with the version I heard so many years ago. And this is it! The weird overtones are especially shiveringly delightful. I can hear a note an octave higher shimmering on the final note of each line. Remarkable - I don't hear it in any other performance. I have no idea how a singer does this - it almost defies the laws of physics.
Wonderful video for a stunning singing!!!
Pura belleza
Fabulous...
Stupendo video
YES! the voic6e and song I first heard sing this. Early 1960's. I played the vinyl until it utterly evaporated into the mists of Auvergne. I still have the cover, but the record vanished my spirit still chases after ...
Merci.
beutifull!!!!!
I come from there. :)
In case you want to sing along:
1
Pastré, dé dèlai l'aïo,
As gaïre dè boun tèn?
Dió lou baïlèro, lèro?
Lèro, lèro, lèro, lèro, baïlèro lô!
È n'aï pas gaïré,
è dió, tu, baïlèro, lèro?
Lèro, lèro, lèro, lèro, baïlèro lô!
2
Pastré, couci foraï,
èn obal io lou bèl rîou?
Dió, lou baïlèro, lèro?
Lèro, lèro, lèro, lèro, baïlèro lô!
Espèro mé,
Te báô circa, baïlèro, lèro?
Lèro, lèro, lèro, lèro, baïlèro lô!
Thank you so much for this. 🤗
(no I'm not pretending I'm an opera singer😁)
@@viscountbiscuit5343 We can all pretend! 😊
I also wish to add my thanks. This will be very helpful as I make it a point to pretend to be an opera singer at every opportunity.
@helenaZZZZirlandaise
thak you for listening it.:-)
g.
Een zingende engel
They are from Catalonia.
goldmundgoldmund1 ... y, por tanto, española.
@@josequerolsancho Si aquest és tot el teu comentari en lloc d'escriure sobre la sensació que produeix escoltar aquesta peça mestre de Canteloube interpretada magistrament per una de les veus de timbre més pur, exqusita musicalitat, tècnica depuradísima i emotivitat sense igual; realment ets una ànima ben pobre...
@@robertoramossempere7252 I agree with you whole-heartedly. Germont has missed the beauty of the moment to make the most stupid comment, and even those few words show that he has absolutely no idea what it is to be Catalan.
I've listened to a few versions of this particular song of sheer beauty.
So some people are not going to like what I say about this version..
She is wonderful of course, but too strong, too full on operatic to make the best of this enigmatic, dreamy song.
+Bruce Adams She is a soprano, an opera singer... This is her way...
This is a song sung by a shepherdess to call her sheep,it's not intended to be enigmatic or dreamy. It's intended to be quite strident,and in this respect I think de Los Angeles' performance is exactly as the composer intended. I've yet to hear a better version.
Richard, we totally agree. It is the first version we ever heard ...and we have never heard it sung better....and the orchestra is perfect too.
I agree too. It was the first version of several of these songs I have ever heard, and it remains for me the most truthful expression of these songs.
Bruce Adams I do understand what you say, but the role isn't a dreaming shepherdess with her sheep, it's a robust country girl calling across the river to the shepherd, tempting him cheekily, in the knowledge that he can't get across the river to her. It reminds me of Holman Hunt's painting - I feel sure this Pastrè, like The Hireling Shepherd, would willingly neglect his sheep for the temptations of a rosy young lass.
For me, there's no-one else for this song but Victoria de los Angeles. From the moment I heard all of the Chansons de l'Auvergne as a young teen (that was..... a few years ago.....) I wouldn't ever want to hear anyone else interpret them. With Canteloube's fantastical swirl of music, her fresh, young, strong voice, unspoiled by its training (rare for those times) is the only one for me.