But too poor to study music in " free" america she sang mostly in recitals around the world and in Us...
His interpretation of "crucifixion" or "deep river" even rival anything else in Jazz and negro-spiritual by anyone...
His interpretation of any lieds is one of a kind ,beside any other european voice... Try her...
A underestimated genius ....
She was black...
The only voice rivaling Kathleen Ferrier or Billie Holiday in the same register...And i remind you that she can sing ANYTHING in any style...No other voice can do that...
Sibelius say after listening to her : "Mrs you are too great for my house"....
She can sing ANYTHING better that all others interprteters : jazz, spirituals, lieds, opera...
His version of Brahms is unrivaled by his powerful expression ...
Forget whatever else you’ve read on this blog post written by whoever...
Mahalia Jackson & Duke Ellington - "Come Sunday". Without a doubt the best Christian recording ever made in the history of the planet! Hands down. End of story.
"My World Needs You" By Kirk Franklin on his “Losing My Religion” album
Hell, the entire album gets this atheist in a quiet religious fervor. I first heard this song at an AME service in Bessemer, Alabama, and bought the download that day.
Oh Father high in heaven
Smile down upon your son, hey-hey
Who's busy with his money games, oh!
His women and his gun
Oh Jesus save me!
And the unsung Western hero
Killed an Indian or three, hey hey hey
And then he made his name in Hollywood, oh! To set the white man free
Oh Jesus save me!
[Bridge] If Jesus saves, well He'd better save Himself
From the gory glory seekers who use His name in death, ow!
Oh Jesus save me!
Well, I saw him in the city
And on the mountains of the moon, yeah
His cross was rather bloody, oh! And he could hardly roll His stone
Oh Jesus save me!
@artemus_5- yes, I'm sorry - it's something I use quite often that you don't seem to be familiar with. It's called humor. But that's kinda what I'd expect.
Yeah, how could I forget the Byrds' Turn Turn Turn? Their vocals never sounded more beautiful. McGuinn's 12 string guitar solo rings like church bells. It's one of those guitar solos that prompted me into taking up the guitar, oh so many years ago.
I'm also not a religious person. But I don't have a problem with religious music.
The Pärt "Te Deum" is probably my favorite piece of music from any genre from the past year or so. When it was new to me, I listened to it every day for weeks; now, a year later, I'm still listening to it at least once a week. The version on ECM is extremely well recorded, too, and well performed. It's about half an hour long. From his "Tintinabuli" period, so neo-medieval: the voices are accompanied by a digital recording of an Aeolian harp (!) and a prepared piano (!!).
But I forgot to mention Haydn's "Die Schöpfung" ("The Creation"), in the performance by Gardiner on Archiv. That is one of my "reference recordings": the orchestra, chorus and solo voices are brilliantly compelling in every way. There's a version of this composition in English, too, also performed on original instruments and conducted by Hogwood that is very fine. Haydn himself revised the score to work with the different cadences of English words. But the German in Gardiner's version will never be bettered.
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