The second in a series of programs that illustrate some of the terminology used to describe the singers’ art including articulation, chest voice, and voix mixte.
Watch a short demonstration of a world class chest voice.
A Glossary for Listening to Singers, Volume 2
Speech Production Organs (Image by Theresa Knott, CC BY-SA 2.5 , via Wikimedia Commons)
Playlist
Gioachino Rossini: “Non più mesta” from La cenerentola
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano
Chorus & Orchestra of Teatro Comunale di Bologna
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Claudio Monteverdi: “Possente spirto” from L’Orfeo
Nigel Rogers, tenor
Camerata Accademica Hamburg
Jürgen Jürgens, conductor
Anthony Rolfe Johnson, tenor
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Les Épopées
Stéphane Fuget, conductor
Jules Massenet: “En fermant les yeux” from Manon
Leopold Simoneau, tenor
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Paul Strauss, conductor
Vittorio Grigolo, tenor
Orchestra Nazionale della RAI
Evelino Pidò, conductor
Jonas Kaufmann, tenor
Bavarian State Orchestra
Bertrand de Billy, conductor
Eric Ferring, tenor
Madeline Slettedahl, piano
Pietro Mascagni: “Voi lo sapete” from Cavalleria rusticana
Elena Obraztsova, mezzo-soprano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Giuseppe Patanè, conductor
Giuseppe Verdi: “Libera me” from Messa da Requiem
Christine Brewer, soprano
London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis, conductor
Luba Organasova, soprano
Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
Montserrat Caballé, soprano
Musica Sacra Chorus
New York Philharmonic
Zubin Mehta, conductor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “O zittre nicht” from Die Zauberflöte
Christina Deutekom, soprano
Vienna Philharmonic
Georg Solti, conductor
