rkosgal21 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Beautiful.

disciple4goodmusic (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I simply love this woman. In my little book of "Greats" she is number one! I dont know/care about all the technical stuff - I just hear the beautiful sounds falling on my ears and I want to jump up and screem - stop analysing - just love the beauty! Its a blessed gift!

madurogostoso (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I guess that some people have never heard about the "teoria degli affetti". Or about Quantz's inegalité and the implications for the Performance of 18th-Century Music. Nor, the Good and Bad Notes... People should read more before posting erroneous opinions about style, performance, interpretation, tempo, dynamics, agogics...

cleopatra11 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I love her singing.. and her dress too :D

aldebussy (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

lovely comment! You can play a Mozart sonata-allegro at the pace of a snail and the lyricism still soars...That's a bit too extreme though! But I have Mozartophilia.

aldebussy (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I really agree that a precise meter really does drive a piece of Classical music, but I HIGHLY doubt it Baroque and Classical masters (mainly Bach, Couperin, Mozart and Haydn) didn't use rubato. I actually think they had a very stylized type of rubato that they used often because there are a lot of recurring motifs in all of the composers works. I have seen people do weird stuff by Bach (banging the bass note, then pausing (not notated) and then beginning running passages) and it sounds fine.

Dwrght007 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

I agree. One of the main things about the way Mozart is performed is consistency in tempi, and rubato is traditionally used pretty sparingly. She does this sort of thing A LOT. The voice is beautiful, of course. But an opera singer who wasn't at her level of success would never get away with some of the things she does. lol

yodavidnavarro (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

There are great singers in every race: Kiri Te Kanawa, Kathleen Battle, Maria Callas, Monserrat Caballé, Beverly Sills, Luisa Tetrazzini, Leontyne Price, Nellie Melba, Sumi Jo, Birgit Nilsson, Joan Sutherland, Edda Moser, Lucia Popp, Bidu Sayao, Diana Damrau, Natalie Dessay, Marian Anderson, Kirsten Flagstad...Many singers...From Brazil to USA...From Spain to Japan...Asian, Maori, Black, Latin, Nordic...All great!

gibraltarrr (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

i love this recording!

highnotepoet56 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The lip thing is called covering. It's a vocal technique.