I heard Dame Sarah Walker performing this at Wigmore Hall quite a few years ago. Since then, this is the best version I've heard!!! It takes a real musician to succeed to be perfectly off pitch, while continuing to sing marvellously.
The lady has a lovely voice, but she is missing the whole point of the song. The soloist regularly holds a badly off-key note and holds it until the accompanist finally finds what key she's in and matches it. Singing a song called "I'm Tone Deaf" beautifully except for two or three notes and skipping the desperate efforts of the accompanist to keep up drains away the humor. Both the singer and the pianist must be actors as well as musicians.
Having sung this song, the sheet music is actually written for there to only be a few moments where the singer actually sound off key. However I do agree she should have played into it a bit more
I heard Dame Sarah Walker performing this at Wigmore Hall quite a few years ago. Since then, this is the best version I've heard!!! It takes a real musician to succeed to be perfectly off pitch, while continuing to sing marvellously.
The lady has a lovely voice, but she is missing the whole point of the song. The soloist regularly holds a badly off-key note and holds it until the accompanist finally finds what key she's in and matches it. Singing a song called "I'm Tone Deaf" beautifully except for two or three notes and skipping the desperate efforts of the accompanist to keep up drains away the humor. Both the singer and the pianist must be actors as well as musicians.
Having sung this song, the sheet music is actually written for there to only be a few moments where the singer actually sound off key. However I do agree she should have played into it a bit more