Word: musicianship
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...heart of Charles? vocal achievement: "Sinatra, and Bing Crosby before him, had been a master of words. Ray Charles is a master of sounds. His records disclose an extraordinary assortment of slurs, glides, turns, shrieks, wails, breaks, shouts, screams and hollers, all wonderfully controlled, disciplined by inspired musicianship, and harnessed to ingenious subtleties of harmony, dynamics and rhythm... It is either the singing of a man whose vocabulary is inadequate to express what is in his heart and mind or of one whose feelings are too intense for satisfactory verbal or conventionally melodic articulation. He can?t tell...
...Another candidate-José Cura, a moodily good-looking Argentinian who is a Domingo protégé and Warner Music's great hope-may have taken himself out of contention. His is a warm, dramatic voice, but the New York Times castigated his "crude musicianship." Stunts like Cura's 1999 Royal Festival Hall recital, when he conducted his own arias, have led to a reputation for egotism and headlines like "the Ego Has Landed" (The Independent on his "posturing" London Otello). Cura now says he is "a serious artist, not interested in marketing clichés like who will...
...treated to the "Serenata" from Stravinsky's Suite Italienne (an arrangement of several movements from the ballet Pulcinella). Perhaps not quite recovered from the meandering romantic excess of the Busoni, Schulte played the simple sicilienne with too much expressiveness, and was at times out of tune. However, his brilliant musicianship still made this a memorable end to a long and demanding concert...
...words are clipped, some are stretched and played with, as only Jones can do. Some lines are almost whispered; others cried out - all beautifully set up by man who really understands what to do with lyrics. It's a pity that this is not a better recording, because the musicianship is also mighty tasty, with some pulsating pedal steel, a well-stroked fiddle and a finely fingered Fender. I would love to locate a better version...
...choir has a much larger repertoire than other choral groups as it sings new music every week. This leads to a different type of musicianship...