No, I don't hear that, as others have mentioned. The voice is crystal clear, on the note (a couple of dodgy ones, but who's counting??!!) most of the time. I find the whole performance incredible, touching and terrifying. The final three/four minutes are hair-raising. How I wish Barbara Hannigan had recorded this commercially! Maybe some enterprising company will do it before it's too late.
Any singer taking on this challenging score that very few soprano's dare to sing deserves a compliment. Vocally she is certainly able to sing it, I just do not like her vibrato, it spoils it all for me. The echo she does sing without vibrato and also the end. The vibrato adds a sentimentality that to my opinion does do Sibelius justice.
everything so exaggerated and mannered, even egocentric..respect for her craftmanship and hard work, but this is not Sibelius, nor Kalevala. Rattle does it right.
Just crushed me
danke!
I wonder how this compares, in terms of difficulty, with the Icelandic lays composed by Jón Leifs (The Lay of Gudrun, The Lay of Helgi, Groa's Spell)?
Huge admirer of Hannigan but this piece is far too heavy for her. It's distressing to hear her voice under such pressure.
I don't hear that. She sang on pitch, did the high notes both loud and soft, and all in all, gave a very effective performance.
No, I don't hear that, as others have mentioned. The voice is crystal clear, on the note (a couple of dodgy ones, but who's counting??!!) most of the time. I find the whole performance incredible, touching and terrifying. The final three/four minutes are hair-raising. How I wish Barbara Hannigan had recorded this commercially! Maybe some enterprising company will do it before it's too late.
Any singer taking on this challenging score that very few soprano's dare to sing deserves a compliment. Vocally she is certainly able to sing it, I just do not like her vibrato, it spoils it all for me. The echo she does sing without vibrato and also the end. The vibrato adds a sentimentality that to my opinion does do Sibelius justice.
wrong voice for this
everything so exaggerated and mannered, even egocentric..respect for her craftmanship and hard work, but this is not Sibelius, nor Kalevala. Rattle does it right.