Listening to ythe boycsoprano Aksel Rykkvin has become an addiction for me. The beauty of his voice his deep musicality and his love and joy of music reflected in his singing are such a consolation in grim realities. Miriam Manaster Jerusalem Israel
In my country, we call him the general.Without a doubt he is a take charge treble that knows his way around the material he is presenting. a veritable genius of the genre,
So long as YT is existing.... In the meantime I am already beginning to download with the Downloadhelper of Firefox interesting videos. By the way: Today I recommended you and your orchestra on the FB-account of the Elbphilharmonie. But I think that the "Elbphi" is fully occupied in the next six months.
Aksel Rykkvin fratri gratias tibi et familiae plurimum ob haec pulcherrima Deo placet exercere sic Deus tecum et diriget viam tuam musicam. Dominus autem benedixit te frater voluerit Tobiæ dominio deveniret.
AKSEL é um encantador de anjos. Eu ao ouvi-lo me sinto em frente aos portais celestiais. Uma voz doce, suave e angelical. Muito bonito. A orquestra também é sensacional. Obrigado. SÃO PAULO - BRASIL.
Bravo! Aksel. I have spent another wonderful evening listening and watching you, this time from England... NOT from Bangkok!!!! It is so far but you bring the best of Western culture to me by your beautiful voice and amazing technique, and me feel less unhappy to be so far away ...
Hi Aksel! I am writing to you from a country named Guatemala. I have seen all your videos and I must say that I admire all your work ,all your fans are particularly amazed because you have a great voice and an excellent technique.I hope you can continue singing for a long time. You have a great talent,you really sing wonderfully,is good to know that actually there are great talents like yours,my parents too likes your music,they are so happy listening it. The true since I can remember I like classical music,classical music is the best there is.It's my favorite kind of music i hear it every day too at school at the recess.The world would be much better if everyone could enjoy music like this.Fortunately some of my friends likes classical music , they are curious about your songs. God bless you and your parents!!!
Saludos desde México, aun que sigas creciendo sigues viviendo en nuestras memorias y corazones,visitando tus vídeos del 2017 en e 2020, eres un talento nato mis mejores deseos Aksel
Matthias Monzel, Bonn, Germany Dear Aksel Rykkvin, your voice is for me, the voice of the heaven. You are for me a gift of the heaven. Be grateful for your wonderful vice.
Listening to your exceptional voice every day...as you probably know by know! I will follow your brilliant career in the future, particularly in the near future when you will have your 14 th birthday, maybe a year for you to reflect on your future. But I hope and believe that you will become a great tenor in a few years , but don't rush , you have time. Good luck Aksel.
Bravissimo carissimO Aksel. I send you all the very best wishes in the world. You bring happiness and the best of European musical culture to the world. Take a good rest this Summer because since the11th April you are 14 y old and you will have to believe more than ever in your talent and love of barrock music. Good luck and I will always follow your career. Thilo von Watzdorf
There's an incredible musical intelligence in this young singing, trilling brain. And, they're milking it, of course, for every divine note they can get out of it before that voice, all too soon, breaks. Has it done so already? Please! Not Yet!
facebook.com/akselmusic/posts/1765940820143863 but the good news i recorded another treble album before my voice changed ua-cam.com/video/ycofMWG1JTE/v-deo.html
At your concert in NRK Store Studio I thought this was your best new piece. It's great to see a recording of you perform it again, you do it so well :)
Brilliantly executed! Oh, to have been there myself! Bravo, young man! Like everyone else here, I am stunned and humbled in the face of such formidable talent. You have a rare and exceptional gift. God bless you (then again, clearly He already has, so let it continue!) :D
@@AkselRykkvin Oh yes! I should have mentioned the baroque musicians in my first comment. They were indeed exceptional, a rare treat to experience for both soloist and audience! Truly a memorable performance!
Were world leaders intelligently in harmony, albeit some disagreements, we could 'escape' the infectious TECHNOLOGY that keeps us 'IN-BROAD' rather than ABROAD. Talent and genius like Mister Aksel Rykkvin is magnetic and ought to draw devotees of ART to other shores. Way to GO!
Aksel eres un artista de verdad. Gracias por legarnos tan magníficas intrepretaciones con el el espíritu conque fueron compuestas. Me encantaría tus nuevos aportes como joven barítono que también será dechados de arte interpretativo porque más que lucimiento personal, has buscado la exelencia de comunicar lo que las composiciones tuvieron en su origen: trasmitir emociones y recrear hoy el espíritu del ayer. Nada que ver con otros intérpretes que buscan adulació por sus personas. GRACIAS POR TU ARTE.
Dear Thilo there is the possibility to erase some comments which one has done before but turn out to be false. Um seine vorigen Kommentare zu löschen, die sich als falsch herausgestellt haben, klickt man auf die drei Pünktchen rechts neben Ihrem Kommentar und wählt "löschen", oder (Englisch "erase" "delete"...)
Wow, what a wonderful performance - thank you for posting this! I note the clever video stitching between the professional and amateur recording. For what it's worth, I like your father's recording much better.
Wonderful talent and composure. Do you plan to follow Aled Jones and become a tenor or follow the counter-tenor route, as with Max Cencic? Or is too early for you to say?
Thank you! Many years too early to say, I think. Voice teachers tell me that it takes many years for the voice to stabilise, so it will probably take a long time before I know what is the road ahead for me.
Hi Aksel. La música barroca y renacentista son mis favoritas; Me gusta como cantas a los compositores barrocos y clásicos, como Mozart. Has cantado alguna obra de Tomás Luís de Victoria?? Toda su obra es sublime...! 🎵🎼🎼💜 Saludos desde Madrid! 😆
Mercedes, I agree that Victoria is well worth a listen. I'll probably get shot for this, but I think he's better than Palestrina! Do you know if he wrote any music for solo voice, rather than choir? My favourite Victoria recording is his Requiem, sung by Westminster Cathedral Choir.
Thank you Oliver for your advice. I always appreciate it . I still don't know how to respond to you directly....nor to Aksel who has sent me some replys via UA-cam. You know that he will turn 14 on 11april and I want to give him ( some friendly advice)! I hope that he will not lose control on his great future career by his enormous success now . Well deserved , but he must be strong to control his own destiny. I have not much enthusiasm for my own future, but can apply to others, specially to young very talented people. (All this I would have prefered to say privately !!!!!
I would love to hear you do the Pergolesi Stabat Mater Aksel. Do you know it? It is very beautiful. I have a recording with then treble (now a very fine baritone) Sebastian Hennig performing it. Also do you play any instruments?
I remember we have talked about doing that, I think it's wonderful, but it hasn't happened so far. I get weekly piano and music theory lessons at school, but I am concentrated on singing for now.
This is really very fine! Askel, I have followed your youtube output and enjoyed it all, esp, your development as an artist and singer. In this music, your fioriture seems to have even more definition and punch than before. It reminds me of Marilyn Horne, who sounded at times as precise as a sewing machine, though so much more artistic! Your voice also sounds bigger and darker and your breath control is great here, as you take all the phrases without a breath, as written. I look forward to hearing more! Keep up the great, great work!
Thank you, very kind of you! When I recorded this half a year later, last month, we added ornaments, so I think the upcoming CD version will be better :)
Aksel, I like all three recordings of 'Vien con nuova' that I've heard on YT, but this is my favourite. Ana Quintans' version is too fast, although her ornaments in the repeat section are amazing. Maria Keohane's is very good, but I prefer to hear it sung by a male voice. The only thing that I think you might have been able to do better is to have sung with a less bright and happy tone in the outer sections, where - unlike in most warlike arias from this period - the text presents a negative view of war: "Wicked fate, angry at me, insults me with another horrible war". Arsace is not jumping at the chance to beat up his enemies, but resentful that he has to leave his home and Statira to risk his life and those of his men in battle. Maybe this is one problem with a treble singing 'Vien con nuova'; they might not be physically capable of producing a suitably hard and bitter tone in the outer sections, or have not been taught to produce such a tone, as it is seldom required in the music that trebles usually sing. It would be interesting to hear the aria sung by a castrato (for which Albinoni composed it), as castrati reputedly did have that type of sound. That said, your voice is perfect for the middle section, where Arsace is thinking fondly of Statira. I am not criticising you here, but rather just making an observation. I know that a singer can only do so much with the voice that they have (and you can do far more with yours than most singers!) You were right to perform and record 'Vien con nuova', and please keep singing it. Did you sing it when you toured North Norway this month? I would love to hear a recording of it from then.
I heard you sing it in Sweden last month, and I thought your voice did sound 'harder' in the outer sections than it does here. Please, keep singing that awesome aria :-)
Why bother to put on UA-cam such a bad and blurry video ?! It is so unfair to Aksel, the greatest treble singer in the world today. Respect his talent. This is a strong message to UA-cam from one of the most passionate fan and admirer of this artist....
Thilo von Watzdorf - The video is very good and HQ. UA-cam may be very slow at times. The default Auto Quality mode can downgrade the picture down to 144p. You can adjust the quality from Auto to 720p or 1080p, but you may have to wait for buffering (white line progressing) Or you can download the video, up to 1980x1080, 149Mo, and watch it afterward. (and keep this gem!) Agreed with "greatest treble singer" of today, if not more...
@@influencer8757, indeed. I was a boy soprano with an inherent coloratura range that was passed down through my maternal grandmother. People praised me whenever I sang, but after puberty came, that voice suffered. Being a sopranist countertenor yielded mockery and pushback. I can still sing soprano falsetto; however, it's loud and shrill. There were no video tapes I could locate with my thirteenth year and earlier to compare, or, just to listen. I am literally unable to remember what those musical days were like at all. Disappointing.
@@jacobcarpenter3744 < I appreciate it very much to get to learn about your experiences and it is in fact very important, especially to me who is trying to doing research in all these theoretical matters concerning the boy's voice, and also what consists the defining criteria for a young artist and what would be the optimal as possible development measures to be taken for those who are all individuals and individualists. The human society needs them, and the relationship artistsociety is ever complicated. Please write to my email taiculture@gmx.net in case that you have some further interesting thoughts which do not necessarily belong into this public messenger. I AM INTERESTED ;-) (a rare chance for interview)
Thank you. Yes, I started taking singing lessons about six years ago. I get several singing lessons every week through the choirs and the classical music talent program I attend. Singing lessons are absolutely necessary if you want to sing classical music!
Hello Aksel. I would like to ask you if you are ever touring America? If not, please consider this. You have a god-given talent that many, including myself, would be delighted from listening to in person. Also, I'd love to get a photograph with you to send to my friend, as she feels you are quite nice on the eyes. Thank you, Aksel~ The Thavage
What is that instrument behind Aksel... I hate to call it a piano, I know it isn't. But I don't know what it is. The instrument to it's immediate left, is that part of it? Or is it also a separate instrument?
To think that Albinoni was famous for being an _opera_ composer in his lifetime. Can you believe it? Of course, it may have been very expensive to print an opera. But who threw away the manuscripts of most of Albinoni's operas? Why not deposit them in a library? I have always liked the oboe concertos by Albinoni, as a trumpet player myself I listened many times to Maurice Andre's rendition of the Opus 7 no. 3 in B flat major. It's the best. But to find out that Albinoni put his best effort in his operas! How could this heritage have been destroyed? What are we going to do next? Is somebody going to bomb the Parthenon? Yeykes. Leo Depuydt
Well Leo, we Brits got the Ottoman Turks to vandalise the Parthenon so that we could have the Elgin Marbles :-( From what I know of the Baroque period, opera was considered a short-lived, throwaway art form. Most operas ran for one season only, after which the composer would write a new opera for the next season and never re-stage earlier ones. You say you are a trumpet player. I would love to hear your opinion of Mark Bennett, the lead trumpeter in this video? He has a stellar reputation in Norway. Best wishes, John
I looked up Mark Bennett and listened to a couple more recordings. He has quite a career. Very strong playing. Good to hear that he is so successful in Norway. I myself stopped playing 30 years ago. I was never a professional but could once play all of Haydn's trumpet concerto on an E-flat trumpet by heart for a youth contest with Andre's cadenza. In retrospect, I could have studied diaphragm control much better and I kind of regret that. My Selmer B-flat trumpet is hopelessly oxydized. In the last year or so, however, I have placed my Bach 1.5 mouth piece on my desk and blow on it occasionally (does the trumpeter Alison Bolsom have a 1.25? It looks like it on UA-cam videos). It is around the time that I stopped that the natural trumpet became de rigueur in baroque playing. Edward Tarr played an important role. I am always curious whether baroque trumpet players had the little holes on natural trumpets to make for more stability. I need to do more research. Some trumpet players make a point of placing their hand on their hip to indicate that they are doing without the holes. Best, Leo
If you look at the portrait of Bach's trumpeter, Gottfried Reiche, you'll see the instrument is spun into a tight coil like a small horn. The intonation holes are a modern addition, since the overtone series the natural trumpet uses occasionally only slightly resembles modern tuning. I suspect this was to supress the "he's playing out of tune" complaints of the early HIP era.
Thanks for the clarification. I was a aware of the picture of Reiche (who died the morning after suffering great distress at a performance of I think maybe of the top of my head one of these weltliche Kantaten maybe BWV 215). There is a performance of Brandenburg II by Masaaki Suzuki at the Library of Congress and co. also on UA-cam and the trumpet is also coiled. But I am not sure the trumpeter is moving his fingers. I think so. A coiled one with holes? I do hear a couple of out of tune notes. Without the holes, some trumpeters were (and are?) adept at tensing the lips so that the tone is half higher or lower. But difficult to learn to play the natural trumpet both ways. But I did not know that the holes were to correct specifically the distortion. Leo Depuydt
Natural horns have the same characteristics of course, but the player can stuff his fist up the bell to change the intonation, althought that changes the timbre too. There's a video of the Bach Christmas cantata on UA-cam by Harnoncourt, where in Cantata 4 he has the horns play without changing the intonation, and you can hear the wolf tones growling occasionally!
It would be nice if Mr. Rykkvin could sing some arias by Pergolesi, the greatest composer of music ever (just my opinion), and by Leonardo Leo, the second greatest composer of music ever (just my opinion) before his voice breaks so that we have it for the record. The closer to the breaking the stronger the voice. Leo Depuydt
Aksel has just posted two videos that he recorded this month, and you can hear how much his voice has matured even from this video (recorded in January 2017).
Aksel has posted a recent video of 'Lascia ch'io pangia' on UA-cam, and there is a clip from his tour of North Norway on Facebook: facebook.com/akselmusic/videos/1488543871216894/ Enjoy, John
Ever since I stumbled on Aksel Rykkvin on youtube, watched and listened to his marvelous voice every day for more than a year. But I stopped watching him after I saw him in a Puccini (?) opera lounging around the stage in jeans and then smoking a cigarette leaning on a pillar! I hope his father Rikard Rykkvin will come across my remark and stop his son from taking part in such ghastly performances.
Dear Stephen Chin, I am sorry to hear this. This Tosca production by the controversial director Calixto Bieito is maybe not for every one, but it has been well received by most here in Norway, especially by those who watch the whole performance tv.nrk.no/serie/hovedscenen-tv/mktv16013517/03-09-2017 Bieito re-imagined the Shepherd boy role in Tosca as "Eduardo", the young but already rough mafioso-like son of the main villain Scarpia. For this role a cigarette was an effective prop, but I can assure you this was stage smoke with no damaging substances, I would never allow anything else! Best wishes, Rikard Rykkvin
This very bad video quality, should not be shown on UA-cam. The people who manage Aksel should make sure that the quality on UA-cam is as good as this magnificent singer. I can not show it to many of my friends who love trebles and barrock music. Very disappointing! BUT maybe it is my bad connection to UA-cam! Normally I can receive Aksel's video very clearly.
The video is in HD and extremely high and professional quality video and technique. I don't like the high angle, as it takes away the ability for us to see Aksel's and the orchestra's emotions and playing, and an amateur video was cleverly stitched in so that we could at least get a better view of them. But, the quality of the youtube video is spectacular. I suspect it's your computer. It is most definitely not the video itself.
The recording this time was done with two amateur cameras from different angles. It is great when a professional tv team is there to do the filming, but of course that is an exception.
Listening to ythe boycsoprano Aksel Rykkvin has become an addiction for me. The beauty of his voice his deep musicality and his love and joy of music reflected in his singing are such a consolation in grim realities.
Miriam Manaster Jerusalem Israel
In my country, we call him the general.Without a doubt he is a take charge treble that knows his way around the material he is presenting. a veritable genius of the genre,
Hallo,Aksel ich habe großes Respekt Furr Dich .Danke .👍
This is the greatest coloratura performance by a boy treble that I have ever been privileged to hear: absolutely beyond any doubt.
Clarification: greatest coloratura performance, regardless of age, gender or vocal register.
Yes! Yes !! YES !!!!!!!
Superb
Удивительное создание - Аксель!) Полное единение с оркестром! Блестяще!
Wow, you are excellent!
Thank God for UA-cam. What a beautiful performance.
Wow! Period instruments. This was stunningly performed by both the soloist and the orchestra. When the quality is this high, it moves the soul.
Thank you! More to come with me and Barokkanerne :)
this is so good news, Aksel!
Hello Aksel, I repeat that we are missing a DVD (?).
Yes, a DVD would be nice, but it's too big a project. On my channel I have a complete UA-cam playlist, and I think this will be the closest thing.
So long as YT is existing.... In the meantime I am already beginning to download with the Downloadhelper of Firefox interesting videos. By the way: Today I recommended you and your orchestra on the FB-account of the Elbphilharmonie. But I think that the "Elbphi" is fully occupied in the next six months.
Maravilloso, sobranatural
OMG, that tone is so clear and damn beautiful.. Like it so much 😄😄
Lieve jongen. Ik huil om jouw hemelse engelenzang. Ik omhels je in liefde
fantastic - amazing talent and voice! Great ... Aksel ..
Великолепен оркестър и брилянтно ПЕЕНЕ...и интерпретация! Браво АКСЕЛ!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much!
Maravilloso, la voz de un querubín en la tierra!!!
Grazie!
Gracias a ti por permitirnos escuchar tan bellas obras con tu arte!!! Saludos de un panameño que vive en Argentina.
I stumbled upon this boy's videos quite by accident and I'm so glad I did! What a phenomenal talent. I am enthralled by everything he sings.
Felicidades de mi lindo Pais Mexico.
Una maravilla
Absolutamente excepcional. Son verdaderas obras de bravura. Admirable Aksel !!
Aksel bravissimo i miei più cari complimenti
This is so wonderful. Everyone is performing so well. I wish I could've been there. Aksel you are very special and handsome boy.
Einfach Wunder schön
Can t belive you are singing this.... Your voice is stunning....
Thanks! One of my favourite arias.
TOUJOURS UN ENCHANTEMENT.....BRAVO....
Fantastic!
beautiful
Victor Wieciech f(
Aksel Rykkvin fratri gratias tibi et familiae plurimum ob haec pulcherrima Deo placet exercere sic Deus tecum et diriget viam tuam musicam. Dominus autem benedixit te frater voluerit Tobiæ dominio deveniret.
AKSEL é um encantador de anjos. Eu ao ouvi-lo me sinto em frente aos portais celestiais. Uma voz doce, suave e angelical. Muito bonito. A orquestra também é sensacional. Obrigado. SÃO PAULO - BRASIL.
Bravo! Aksel. I have spent another wonderful evening listening and watching you, this time from England... NOT from Bangkok!!!! It is so far but you bring the best of Western culture to me by your beautiful voice and amazing technique, and me feel less unhappy to be so far away ...
Hi Aksel!
I am writing to you from a country named Guatemala.
I have seen all your videos and I must say that I admire all your work ,all your fans are particularly amazed because you have a great voice and an excellent technique.I hope you can continue singing for a long time.
You have a great talent,you really sing wonderfully,is good to know that actually there are great talents like yours,my parents too likes your music,they are so happy listening it.
The true since I can remember I like classical music,classical music is the best there is.It's my favorite kind of music i hear it every day too at school at the recess.The world would be much better if everyone could enjoy music like this.Fortunately some of my friends likes classical music , they are curious about your songs.
God bless you and your parents!!!
Y yo lo escucho embelesada desde mi país, Uruguay en Sud America.
Welch majestätische Gesang lieber Aksel. Super schön 🙏🤗🎼
Wow
Saludos desde México, aun que sigas creciendo sigues viviendo en nuestras memorias y corazones,visitando tus vídeos del 2017 en e 2020, eres un talento nato mis mejores deseos Aksel
Matthias Monzel, Bonn, Germany
Dear Aksel Rykkvin,
your voice is for me, the voice of the heaven. You are for me a gift of the
heaven.
Be grateful for your wonderful vice.
Beautiful voice
So wonderful ... No words can express my emotions when I hear you singing !!!
Bravo Aksel, wonderful breath control and support. Your musicianship is splendid as always.
Thank you. We thought this would be too demanding for me when we first heard it, but it turned out fine. Very happy to have sung it!
And you've made so many other people happy as well.
Again , you are the 'best' and fantastic technique , devine voice and body langage when you sing......
Bravo!
Thank you, Aksel, for posting this. I am so glad you are making the most of your vocal talents. You obviously have a wonderful teacher, too!
Yes I do, thank you!
What a discipline and what a great brest this boy have, you have a very beautful voice Aksel, be very carefully on it
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
¡¡AMAZING!! ¡¡WONDERFUL!!
¡¡BRAVO!! ¡¡BRAVO!! ¡¡BRAVO!!
Greetings from Buenos Aires Argentina. 🇦🇷🇦🇷🇦🇷
Beautifully done! Thank you, Aksel.
Excelente!
Muito obrigada por está belíssima seleção!
Aksel en su linea, extraordinario.
Gosh, he's good!
Dank voor deze mooie muziek Aksel
Superb
Prachtige stem!Dank, Axel........;;;
Listening to your exceptional voice every day...as you probably know by know! I will follow your brilliant career in the future, particularly in the near future when you will have your 14 th birthday, maybe a year for you to reflect on your future. But I hope and believe that you will become a great tenor in a few years , but don't rush , you have time. Good luck Aksel.
Bravissimo Carissa of Aksel.
Bravissimo carissimO Aksel. I send you all the very best wishes in the world. You bring happiness and the best of European musical culture to the world. Take a good rest this Summer because since the11th April you are 14 y old and you will have to believe more than ever in your talent and love of barrock music. Good luck and I will always follow your career.
Thilo von Watzdorf
Absolutely stunning performance can’t add anything to that
Se você fechar os olhos e ficar ouvindo AKSEL, você viaja pelas dimensões do espírito e vê que algo mais existe. Lindo demais. BRASIL.
de toute beauté!
quand viens-tu nous faire profiter de ta belle voix, chez nous, en France?
par les festivals des Eurochestries, par exemple ...
All invitations from festivals are considered by my team. Nothing concrete planned in France yet, although I would very much like to go!
There's an incredible musical intelligence in this young singing, trilling brain. And, they're milking it, of course, for every divine note they can get out of it before that voice, all too soon, breaks. Has it done so already? Please! Not Yet!
facebook.com/akselmusic/posts/1765940820143863 but the good news i recorded another treble album before my voice changed ua-cam.com/video/ycofMWG1JTE/v-deo.html
wow!!! so amazing! I like this
Så utrolig flotte melismer :) Vakkert!!!!!
Takk!
Superb! Love it.
A nightingale.
oh, this was the Kongsberg church concert... That was a tight weekend!
Very well done, Aksel!
DESDE CHILE AL SUR DE AMERICA ,FELICITACIONES,JOVEN PRODIGIOSO,BELLO DON DE DIOS,ADEMAS PARECE UN ANGEL.
At your concert in NRK Store Studio I thought this was your best new piece. It's great to see a recording of you perform it again, you do it so well :)
I watched that concert online. Here's hoping Aksel or the NRK post 'Foreira la tromba' from it!
That would be nice, apart from Aksel I would like to see again the talk Mark gave about the baroque trumpet
Thank you! NRK has the footage and what I have heard is that they will edit it for tv. Don't know when, though!
Aksel Rykkvin a
Brilliantly executed! Oh, to have been there myself! Bravo, young man! Like everyone else here, I am stunned and humbled in the face of such formidable talent. You have a rare and exceptional gift. God bless you (then again, clearly He already has, so let it continue!) :D
Glad you enjoyed it! I think this was the best concert I did as a soprano, and with such brilliant baroque musicians, too.
@@AkselRykkvin Oh yes! I should have mentioned the baroque musicians in my first comment. They were indeed exceptional, a rare treat to experience for both soloist and audience! Truly a memorable performance!
Aksel, where are thé 45 videos ? I Walt them all !!!!
Were world leaders intelligently in harmony, albeit some disagreements, we could 'escape' the infectious TECHNOLOGY that keeps us 'IN-BROAD' rather than ABROAD. Talent and genius like Mister Aksel Rykkvin is magnetic and ought to draw devotees of ART to other shores. Way to GO!
Aksel eres un artista de verdad. Gracias por legarnos tan magníficas intrepretaciones con el el espíritu conque fueron compuestas. Me encantaría tus nuevos aportes como joven barítono que también será dechados de arte interpretativo porque más que lucimiento personal, has buscado la exelencia de comunicar lo que las composiciones tuvieron en su origen: trasmitir emociones y recrear hoy el espíritu del ayer. Nada que ver con otros intérpretes que buscan adulació por sus personas. GRACIAS POR TU ARTE.
Thank you! Always thinking about transferring emotions to the listener when I am singing.
Bravissimo!!!
Well done!!
Superbe, merci de ce partage
c'est divin c'est La puissance de l'ange sur terre !
Sopranino de grande técnica vocal. Bella voce!
This time I saw on good quality UA-cam. In Thailand you never know if the Wifi is going to be good or not. But this time it was great
Dear Thilo
there is the possibility to erase some comments which one has done before
but turn out to be false.
Um seine vorigen Kommentare zu löschen, die sich als falsch herausgestellt haben, klickt man auf die drei Pünktchen rechts neben Ihrem Kommentar und wählt "löschen", oder
(Englisch "erase" "delete"...)
great
Que respinsabilidade parabens
Wow, what a wonderful performance - thank you for posting this! I note the clever video stitching between the professional and amateur recording. For what it's worth, I like your father's recording much better.
Thank you. Actually, both cameras are my father's. One stationary on the gallery, and the other one handheld from the back of the church.
Aksel Rykkvin génial!adorable!je souhaite à aksel dans le futur tout le bonheur qui resplendit sur son visage d'ange lorsqu'il chante aujourd'hui,
Wonderful talent and composure. Do you plan to follow Aled Jones and become a tenor or follow the counter-tenor route, as with Max Cencic? Or is too early for you to say?
Thank you! Many years too early to say, I think. Voice teachers tell me that it takes many years for the voice to stabilise, so it will probably take a long time before I know what is the road ahead for me.
Несравненно! Браво!
Minunat👏👏👏👏
Hi Aksel. La música barroca y renacentista son mis favoritas; Me gusta como cantas a los compositores barrocos y clásicos, como Mozart. Has cantado alguna obra de Tomás Luís de Victoria?? Toda su obra es sublime...! 🎵🎼🎼💜
Saludos desde Madrid! 😆
Thank you, I haven't heard of him, but I have added him to my list.
Mercedes, I agree that Victoria is well worth a listen. I'll probably get shot for this, but I think he's better than Palestrina! Do you know if he wrote any music for solo voice, rather than choir? My favourite Victoria recording is his Requiem, sung by Westminster Cathedral Choir.
woow, great ;)
MAGNIFICENT
Thank you Oliver for your advice. I always appreciate it . I still don't know how to respond to you directly....nor to Aksel who has sent me some replys via UA-cam.
You know that he will turn 14 on 11april and I want to give him ( some friendly advice)! I hope that he will not lose control on his great future career by his enormous success now . Well deserved , but he must be strong to control his own destiny.
I have not much enthusiasm for my own future, but can apply to others, specially to young very talented people. (All this I would have prefered to say privately !!!!!
Stupendo
hier zeigt sich die grosse frische der kindheit und jugend, seine stimme ist so bezaubernd ...
Glimrende ❤❤
I would love to hear you do the Pergolesi Stabat Mater Aksel. Do you know it? It is very beautiful. I have a recording with then treble (now a very fine baritone) Sebastian Hennig performing it. Also do you play any instruments?
I remember we have talked about doing that, I think it's wonderful, but it hasn't happened so far. I get weekly piano and music theory lessons at school, but I am concentrated on singing for now.
This is really very fine! Askel, I have followed your youtube output and enjoyed it all, esp, your development as an artist and singer. In this music, your fioriture seems to have even more definition and punch than before. It reminds me of Marilyn Horne, who sounded at times as precise as a sewing machine, though so much more artistic! Your voice also sounds bigger and darker and your breath control is great here, as you take all the phrases without a breath, as written. I look forward to hearing more! Keep up the great, great work!
Thank you, very kind of you! When I recorded this half a year later, last month, we added ornaments, so I think the upcoming CD version will be better :)
Aksel, I like all three recordings of 'Vien con nuova' that I've heard on YT, but this is my favourite. Ana Quintans' version is too fast, although her ornaments in the repeat section are amazing. Maria Keohane's is very good, but I prefer to hear it sung by a male voice.
The only thing that I think you might have been able to do better is to have sung with a less bright and happy tone in the outer sections, where - unlike in most warlike arias from this period - the text presents a negative view of war: "Wicked fate, angry at me, insults me with another horrible war". Arsace is not jumping at the chance to beat up his enemies, but resentful that he has to leave his home and Statira to risk his life and those of his men in battle. Maybe this is one problem with a treble singing 'Vien con nuova'; they might not be physically capable of producing a suitably hard and bitter tone in the outer sections, or have not been taught to produce such a tone, as it is seldom required in the music that trebles usually sing. It would be interesting to hear the aria sung by a castrato (for which Albinoni composed it), as castrati reputedly did have that type of sound.
That said, your voice is perfect for the middle section, where Arsace is thinking fondly of Statira.
I am not criticising you here, but rather just making an observation. I know that a singer can only do so much with the voice that they have (and you can do far more with yours than most singers!) You were right to perform and record 'Vien con nuova', and please keep singing it. Did you sing it when you toured North Norway this month? I would love to hear a recording of it from then.
I think you are right! I will think of this the next time I sing it.
I heard you sing it in Sweden last month, and I thought your voice did sound 'harder' in the outer sections than it does here. Please, keep singing that awesome aria :-)
Why bother to put on UA-cam such a bad and blurry video ?! It is so unfair to Aksel, the greatest treble singer in the world today. Respect his talent. This is a strong message to UA-cam from one of the most passionate fan and admirer of this artist....
Thilo von Watzdorf - The video is very good and HQ. UA-cam may be very slow at times. The default Auto Quality mode can downgrade the picture down to 144p.
You can adjust the quality from Auto to 720p or 1080p, but you may have to wait for buffering (white line progressing)
Or you can download the video, up to 1980x1080, 149Mo, and watch it afterward. (and keep this gem!)
Agreed with "greatest treble singer" of today, if not more...
ANY record is better than NO record
@@influencer8757, indeed. I was a boy soprano with an inherent coloratura range that was passed down through my maternal grandmother. People praised me whenever I sang, but after puberty came, that voice suffered. Being a sopranist countertenor yielded mockery and pushback. I can still sing soprano falsetto; however, it's loud and shrill. There were no video tapes I could locate with my thirteenth year and earlier to compare, or, just to listen. I am literally unable to remember what those musical days were like at all. Disappointing.
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I appreciate it very much to get to learn about your experiences
and it is in fact very important, especially to me who is trying to doing research in all these theoretical matters concerning the boy's voice,
and also what consists the defining criteria for a young artist and what would be the optimal as possible development measures to be taken for those who are all individuals and individualists.
The human society needs them,
and the relationship artistsociety is ever complicated.
Please write to my email
taiculture@gmx.net in case that you have some further interesting thoughts which do not necessarily belong into this public messenger.
I AM INTERESTED ;-)
(a rare chance for interview)
Hi Aksel Your Voice İs Beautiful
Have you taken singing lessons before?
Bartu Ulusoy Yes, he does sound like he's had a lesson or two 😉
his sound like angel. and my sound like that
I've never had singing lessons before Should i take a singing lesson?
I've never had singing lessons myself, but if singing is what you want to do then I think you should try taking lessons. Good luck with it!
Bartu Ulusoy He's had several years of professional training.
Thank you. Yes, I started taking singing lessons about six years ago. I get several singing lessons every week through the choirs and the classical music talent program I attend. Singing lessons are absolutely necessary if you want to sing classical music!
Hello Aksel. I would like to ask you if you are ever touring America? If not, please consider this. You have a god-given talent that many, including myself, would be delighted from listening to in person. Also, I'd love to get a photograph with you to send to my friend, as she feels you are quite nice on the eyes. Thank you, Aksel~ The Thavage
Повезло, что он живет в XXI веке!
Тебе тоже: в средние века кастрировали слабоумных из-за высокой фертильности (размножаемости).
Aksel has certainly improved, but is best with calmer material.
Ааааааа, оооооооо.......!!!!
What is that instrument behind Aksel... I hate to call it a piano, I know it isn't. But I don't know what it is. The instrument to it's immediate left, is that part of it? Or is it also a separate instrument?
Possum That is a harpsichord, predecessor of the piano. Not sure what that other thing on the left is.
Maybe a positive organ (angled with the harpsichord), and unused here.
Yes, it's a portable organ, angled at 90 degrees to the harpsichord.
To think that Albinoni was famous for being an _opera_ composer in his lifetime. Can you believe it? Of course, it may have been very expensive to print an opera. But who threw away the manuscripts of most of Albinoni's operas? Why not deposit them in a library? I have always liked the oboe concertos by Albinoni, as a trumpet player myself I listened many times to Maurice Andre's rendition of the Opus 7 no. 3 in B flat major. It's the best. But to find out that Albinoni put his best effort in his operas! How could this heritage have been destroyed? What are we going to do next? Is somebody going to bomb the Parthenon? Yeykes. Leo Depuydt
Well Leo, we Brits got the Ottoman Turks to vandalise the Parthenon so that we could have the Elgin Marbles :-(
From what I know of the Baroque period, opera was considered a short-lived, throwaway art form. Most operas ran for one season only, after which the composer would write a new opera for the next season and never re-stage earlier ones.
You say you are a trumpet player. I would love to hear your opinion of Mark Bennett, the lead trumpeter in this video? He has a stellar reputation in Norway.
Best wishes,
John
I looked up Mark Bennett and listened to a couple more recordings. He has quite a career. Very strong playing. Good to hear that he is so successful in Norway. I myself stopped playing 30 years ago. I was never a professional but could once play all of Haydn's trumpet concerto on an E-flat trumpet by heart for a youth contest with Andre's cadenza. In retrospect, I could have studied diaphragm control much better and I kind of regret that. My Selmer B-flat trumpet is hopelessly oxydized. In the last year or so, however, I have placed my Bach 1.5 mouth piece on my desk and blow on it occasionally (does the trumpeter Alison Bolsom have a 1.25? It looks like it on UA-cam videos). It is around the time that I stopped that the natural trumpet became de rigueur in baroque playing. Edward Tarr played an important role. I am always curious whether baroque trumpet players had the little holes on natural trumpets to make for more stability. I need to do more research. Some trumpet players make a point of placing their hand on their hip to indicate that they are doing without the holes. Best, Leo
If you look at the portrait of Bach's trumpeter, Gottfried Reiche, you'll see the instrument is spun into a tight coil like a small horn. The intonation holes are a modern addition, since the overtone series the natural trumpet uses occasionally only slightly resembles modern tuning. I suspect this was to supress the "he's playing out of tune" complaints of the early HIP era.
Thanks for the clarification. I was a aware of the picture of Reiche (who died the morning after suffering great distress at a performance of I think maybe of the top of my head one of these weltliche Kantaten maybe BWV 215). There is a performance of Brandenburg II by Masaaki Suzuki at the Library of Congress and co. also on UA-cam and the trumpet is also coiled. But I am not sure the trumpeter is moving his fingers. I think so. A coiled one with holes? I do hear a couple of out of tune notes. Without the holes, some trumpeters were (and are?) adept at tensing the lips so that the tone is half higher or lower. But difficult to learn to play the natural trumpet both ways. But I did not know that the holes were to correct specifically the distortion. Leo Depuydt
Natural horns have the same characteristics of course, but the player can stuff his fist up the bell to change the intonation, althought that changes the timbre too. There's a video of the Bach Christmas cantata on UA-cam by Harnoncourt, where in Cantata 4 he has the horns play without changing the intonation, and you can hear the wolf tones growling occasionally!
It would be nice if Mr. Rykkvin could sing some arias by Pergolesi, the greatest composer of music ever (just my opinion), and by Leonardo Leo, the second greatest composer of music ever (just my opinion) before his voice breaks so that we have it for the record. The closer to the breaking the stronger the voice. Leo Depuydt
Aksel has just posted two videos that he recorded this month, and you can hear how much his voice has matured even from this video (recorded in January 2017).
I need to find these videos. Thanks for the references. I do not really subscribe to channels so far. Best, Leo
Aksel has posted a recent video of 'Lascia ch'io pangia' on UA-cam, and there is a clip from his tour of North Norway on Facebook: facebook.com/akselmusic/videos/1488543871216894/
Enjoy, John
Thanks for the UA-cam reference. I will find that. But I am not on Facebook and I have no plans to. Leo Depuydt
Maria Keohane version is fantastic also
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Aksel, yes Cecilia Bertolucci has plenty of emotions, but she does not create the same emotions as you do when you, in most of your recitals.
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Ever since I stumbled on Aksel Rykkvin on youtube, watched and listened to his marvelous voice every day for more than a year. But I stopped watching him after I saw him in a Puccini (?) opera lounging around the stage in jeans and then smoking a cigarette leaning on a pillar!
I hope his father Rikard Rykkvin will come across my remark and stop his son from taking part in such ghastly performances.
Dear Stephen Chin, I am sorry to hear this. This Tosca production by the controversial director Calixto Bieito is maybe not for every one, but it has been well received by most here in Norway, especially by those who watch the whole performance tv.nrk.no/serie/hovedscenen-tv/mktv16013517/03-09-2017 Bieito re-imagined the Shepherd boy role in Tosca as "Eduardo", the young but already rough mafioso-like son of the main villain Scarpia. For this role a cigarette was an effective prop, but I can assure you this was stage smoke with no damaging substances, I would never allow anything else! Best wishes, Rikard Rykkvin
This very bad video quality, should not be shown on UA-cam. The people who manage Aksel should make sure that the quality on UA-cam is as good as this magnificent singer. I can not show it to many of my friends who love trebles and barrock music. Very disappointing! BUT maybe it is my bad connection to UA-cam! Normally I can receive Aksel's video very clearly.
Adjust your quality settings. Even at low settings, I am not having trouble, so your internet connection may be off today.
The video is in HD and extremely high and professional quality video and technique. I don't like the high angle, as it takes away the ability for us to see Aksel's and the orchestra's emotions and playing, and an amateur video was cleverly stitched in so that we could at least get a better view of them. But, the quality of the youtube video is spectacular. I suspect it's your computer. It is most definitely not the video itself.
same... I would urge the video people to take the recording from even level, if it is possible (not from above)!
The recording this time was done with two amateur cameras from different angles. It is great when a professional tv team is there to do the filming, but of course that is an exception.
Yes you are right, Aksel.
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