I liked it very much!! warm voice and technically correct!! I also work on this Lied, but at different tone (I think this interpretation is a bit lower than the original Lied) I loved it, go on Benjamin!!! 👌👌👌
Haven’t sung this in 60 years. I might have been eight years old and singing in English but it was probably just about as good as this particular effort
Tempo of the introductory accompaniment (sorry, duo in Schubert…..) and sung part different, although l have not seen the score. I am a string player (but love singing) and for that reason l enjoy listening to him. I like his parlando style. He never ‘over sings’. However for some his style may be too purely suggestive. I agree he is a slight oddball, but l do not mean that negatively.
This really pretty awful. Inconsistent tone, shifting into falsetto for notes he can't get at. Really not much of a voice and lacking fullness of a true classical singer. Okay, he's musical and well prepared but let's face it folks; this is not a great voice! Compare Quastoff, Prey, Mattei, Kurt Moll, Walter Berry, and even Thomas Hampson is better than this. If he weren't so handsome would he even be considered? And, I'm only comparing him to Baritones and basses.... Let's not let the likes of Ludwig, Baker, Ameling, Schwartkopf etc get into the comparisons.
"Shifting into falsetto" is at about 1:30 at the end of the line "Lächelt Laura mir". I don't find it particularly disturbing, but I've heard it done rather better.
@@jonathanvalk726 I had not read you comment until today and I took time to listen to your videos. Harsh is one way to explain my comments and you are correct there were 1000s of people who sang "as a bariton as Benjamin Appl can" and they were and should still be called Amatures: People who love what they do but are not professional and lack a true technical foundation. Today the standards are lower and it seems the art of singing really well doesn't always apply. I'm not sure what your reference to the days when there was no internet and cds is about. Before internet and CDs there were 78rpms, LPs, Cassettes, CDs and best of all there were many more live concerts of the great classical singers who specialized in song as well as opera. I know because I went often to hear the likes of the artists I mention in my comment. I notice you sing much the way Benjamin Appl does. Lacking efficient support, variable intonation, shifting in and out of falsetto. Perhaps if you stood up when you sing that might help; then you could get a good healthy breath that would fill your back and chest to support what you would like to sing. Sorry if I'm harsh but try listening to some of the great singers I mention in my comment before you respond and perhaps you'll learn something interesting. btw.. you have a sweet voice.
@@jonathanvalk726 I shall say nothing further about your singing and I apologize. And, yes I do know beyond basic voice types there are many divisions for each. I've been listening and going to live classical vocal performances for nearly 60 of my 70 years and I'm a very fortunate person because I have heard in my life many of the greatest singers from the 1960s forward in all voice catgories. I have also counted a few world famous singer in my own friend group with whom I've discussed classical singing and who have been generous in explaining the mysteries of how singing of a high caliber occurs. I do not think Mr. Appl is a low baritone. I think in another age he might have been well employed as a handsome operetta star in Vienna. Among the finest I was lucky to have heard in both opera and song were Fischer Dieskau, Herman Prey, Walter Berry, Thomas Hampson, Tito Gobbi, Gabriel Baquier, Gerraint Evans, Robert Merrill, Piero Capucilli, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sherrill Milnes, Peter Mattei and one of the finest lower Baritones who specialized in song was Thomas Quastoff. Here he is teaching a masterclass. If you're interested in fine singing watch it! I learned quite a bit from him in this video. And I hope you'll listen to others of him singing to fully understand his great vocal and musical gifts. ua-cam.com/video/SJLw2IFsxbQ/v-deo.html
Dankeschön:)🥰👍💐☀️ wunderwunderschön:) 🥰💐
I liked it very much!! warm voice and technically correct!! I also work on this Lied, but at different tone (I think this interpretation is a bit lower than the original Lied) I loved it, go on Benjamin!!! 👌👌👌
Haven’t sung this in 60 years. I might have been eight years old and singing in English but it was probably just about as good as this particular effort
Tempo of the introductory accompaniment (sorry, duo in Schubert…..) and sung part different, although l have not seen the score. I am a string player (but love singing) and for that reason l enjoy listening to him. I like his parlando style. He never ‘over sings’. However for some his style may be too purely suggestive. I agree he is a slight oddball, but l do not mean that negatively.
Piano!!!
Schurbert?
It's a dessert.
This really pretty awful. Inconsistent tone, shifting into falsetto for notes he can't get at. Really not much of a voice and lacking fullness of a true classical singer.
Okay, he's musical and well prepared but let's face it folks; this is not a great voice! Compare Quastoff, Prey, Mattei, Kurt Moll, Walter Berry, and even Thomas Hampson is better than this. If he weren't so handsome would he even be considered?
And, I'm only comparing him to Baritones and basses....
Let's not let the likes of Ludwig, Baker, Ameling, Schwartkopf etc get into the comparisons.
"shifting into falsetto" ??? I don't hear that. Woe to the handsome man !
"Shifting into falsetto" is at about 1:30 at the end of the line "Lächelt Laura mir". I don't find it particularly disturbing, but I've heard it done rather better.
Agree completely
@@jonathanvalk726 I had not read you comment until today and I took time to listen to your videos.
Harsh is one way to explain my comments and you are correct there were 1000s of people who sang "as a bariton as Benjamin Appl can" and they were and should still be called Amatures: People who love what they do but are not professional and lack a true technical foundation.
Today the standards are lower and it seems the art of singing really well doesn't always apply.
I'm not sure what your reference to the days when there was no internet and cds is about. Before internet and CDs there were 78rpms, LPs, Cassettes, CDs and best of all there were many more live concerts of the great classical singers who specialized in song as well as opera. I know because I went often to hear the likes of the artists I mention in my comment.
I notice you sing much the way Benjamin Appl does. Lacking efficient support, variable intonation, shifting in and out of falsetto. Perhaps if you stood up when you sing that might help; then you could get a good healthy breath that would fill your back and chest to support what you would like to sing.
Sorry if I'm harsh but try listening to some of the great singers I mention in my comment before you respond and perhaps you'll learn something interesting.
btw.. you have a sweet voice.
@@jonathanvalk726 I shall say nothing further about your singing and I apologize.
And, yes I do know beyond basic voice types there are many divisions for each. I've been listening and going to live classical vocal performances for nearly 60 of my 70 years and I'm a very fortunate person because I have heard in my life many of the greatest singers from the 1960s forward in all voice catgories. I have also counted a few world famous singer in my own friend group with whom I've discussed classical singing and who have been generous in explaining the mysteries of how singing of a high caliber occurs.
I do not think Mr. Appl is a low baritone. I think in another age he might have been well employed as a handsome operetta star in Vienna.
Among the finest I was lucky to have heard in both opera and song were Fischer Dieskau, Herman Prey, Walter Berry, Thomas Hampson, Tito Gobbi, Gabriel Baquier, Gerraint Evans, Robert Merrill, Piero Capucilli, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Sherrill Milnes, Peter Mattei and one of the finest lower Baritones who specialized in song was Thomas Quastoff. Here he is teaching a masterclass. If you're interested in fine singing watch it!
I learned quite a bit from him in this video. And I hope you'll listen to others of him singing to fully understand his great vocal and musical gifts.
ua-cam.com/video/SJLw2IFsxbQ/v-deo.html