Jussi Björling – O Holy Night
January 21, 2010Come on Jussi. You’re killing me. Even the first few notes are just ridiculous. In a good way, of course. You can know that voice anywhere. He lets it rip at 1:12 and I’m loving it. This orchestration is much more sophisticated as well. I like the violins at 2:13. Violins always get good music. I am enjoying this is accompaniment a lot; the other was just a bel canto sort of arpeggiation figure. This is a bit more mature. He holds back on that note at 3:56 just to save it up for 4:20 and that’s why we love him.
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Re Flower Song
A tenor is really only as good as his last performance and Alagna’s singing of that aria was not so wonderful in the Met movie Carmen.
What recordings does Garanca have out??? She is a lot more interesting.