How to Sing Classical - Vibrato!
Good vibrations or horrible wobbling? Why do singers use vibrato? The stereotypical classical singer has a big vibrato-laden voice. But how true is that stereotype?
Good vibrations or horrible wobbling? Why do singers use vibrato?
Tom Service goes to the wobbling heart of the matter of vibrato in singing. Why does it induce such visceral reactions - love and hate? Is it a matter of classical-singing artifice or is it a welcome and naturally occurring phenomenon in the healthy workings of our vocal cords, in the way our bodies make the sounds we call singing?
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Giuseppe Verdi
Pace, pace, mio Dio (La Forza del Destino)
Performer: Gwynneth Jones. Performer: Vienna State Opera. Performer: Argeo Quadri.- Belart.
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Giusppe Verdi
Questa O Quella (Rigoletto)
Performer: Luciano Pavarotti. Performer: LSO. Performer: Richard Bonynge.- Decca.
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Vincenzo Bellini
Casta Diva (Norma)
Performer: Maria Callas. Performer: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Performer: Tullio Serafin.- EMI.
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Benjamin Britten
Dirge (Serenade for tenor, horn and strings)
Performer: Peter Pears. Performer: LSO. Performer: Benjamin Britten.- Decca.
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John Williams
Presenting Bianca Castafiore (The Adventures of Tintin)
Performer: Ren茅e Fleming. Performer: Studio Orchestra. Performer: John Williams.- Sony.
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Ambroise Thomas
Oui, pour ce soir (Mignon)
Performer: Sumi Jo. Performer: English Chamber Orchestra. Performer: Giuliano Carella.- Erato.
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Steve Harris
Aces High
Performer: Iron Maiden.- EMI.
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Dolly Parton
I Will Always Love You
Performer: Whitney Houston.- Arista.
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Krasimir Kyurkdjiyski
Stani Mi, Maytcho
Performer: Nadejda Chwoineva. Performer: The Bulgarian State Radio and Television Female聽Choir.- Elektra Nonesuch.
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Nadeem-Shravan
Kitna Haseen Chehra (Dilwale)
Performer: Kumar Sanu.- Venus Records.
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Traditional
Teaching the Daughter (Qin Xumei)
Performer: Yan Lipin.- Marco Polo.
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Irving Berlin
There's No Business Like Show Business
Performer: Ethel Merman.- Universal.
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Charles Villiers Stanford
Magnificat (Morning, communion and evening services in G major Op.81)
Performer: Alastair Hussain. Performer: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Performer: James Vivian. Performer: Stephen Cleobury.- EMI.
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Orlando Gibbons
Come kiss me with those lips of thine (Song 9) "The First canticle"...
Performer: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Performer: Philip Ledger.- ASV.
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Thomas Tallis
Spem in Alium
Performer: The Sixteen. Performer: Harry Christophers.- CORO.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Kommt, ihr Tochter (Matthew Passion)
Performer: Soloists. Performer: Gabrieli Players. Performer: Paul McCreesh.- Archiv.
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Sammy Fain
I'll Be Seeing You
Performer: Billie Holiday.- Commodore Classics.
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John Dowland
In darkness let me dwell
Singer: Iestyn Davies. Performer: Thomas Dunford.- Hyperion.
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闯辞别测听罢别尘辫别蝉迟
The Final Countdown
Performer: Europe.- Epic.
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Christophe Claude MacDaniel
Si Tu
Performer: Studio Choir and Orchestra.- Olivi Music.
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Carpenters
Top Of The World
- A&M.
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Traditional
The Lincolnshire Poacher
Performer: Peter Pears. Performer: Benjamin Britten.- London.
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Richard Wagner
In festen Schlaf聟 (Die Walkure)
Performer: Birgit Nilsson. Performer: Vienna Philharmonic. Performer: Georg Solti.- Decca.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Nulla in mundo pax, R.630
Performer: Emma Kirkby. Performer: Academy of Ancient Music. Performer: Christopher Hogwood.- L聮Oiseau Lyre.
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Paul Michael Barry
Believe
Performer: Cher.- Warner Bros..
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- Sun 13 Jan 2019 17:0091热爆 Radio 3
- Sun 25 Oct 2020 17:0091热爆 Radio 3
- Fri 30 Oct 2020 16:3091热爆 Radio 3
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