Stunning, David. I am quite overcome. ❤

Great poem and music.

Oh yeah. I wish I was exposed to these songs when I was a teen. Yes had to do until I met Matthew.

Brilliant performances.

Beautiful

Superb John !!!

It would be good to know what key he sings this in, as I find the tenor to high for me to sing. I love his vailed reference to Gurneys mental health issues, in singing outside what is clearly a psychiatric Hospital, a lovely touch and good performance I feel...

Here is Philadelphia Inquirer / Guardian / Gramophone critic David P. Stearns' article on our Dover Beach video: www.artsjournal.com/condemned/2020/06/dover-beach-on-video-when-scope-is-achieved-with-many-shades-of-gray/

Dear friends and colleagues The COVID-19 pandemic has taken lives and caused suffering for millions around the world. We grieve those who have gone before their time, and offer support and comfort to those who need it. Here is our contribution: a COVID-19 crisis edition of Samuel Barber’s Dover Beach, with Rafael Todes and his family quartet. During lock-down, Raffy, Helena and children Isabella and Max, began to give daily concerts in the garden of their west London home, until, as you may have read, the authorities asked them to stop, fearing the audience may have grown too large. As the world comes slowly out of lockdown, musicians, it seems, will remain unable to play to audiences for many months to come. Orchestras and other anchor organisations are under threat of failure, and many have closed their doors until the end of the year or longer. Singers and opera houses are particularly hard hit. Will they survive?

THANK YOU!

This is great !

Wow! Just Wow!

Thank you!

How wonderful! Thank you all so much for this meaningful Easter tribute.

A Perfect, Global Easter! Celebrating the Glorious Resurrection of our Lord! Thank you, thank you all so much! Merci!!!!

Je dois apprendre sa en cours en 3ème

Magnificent voice! Thank you for this!

I just heard The Tenors sing this and it occurred to me, fine job that they did, I’d prefer a baritone. Having heard this, that’s confirmed.

An astonishing performance. By far, one of the top benchmarks of this piece. For me, it embodies the entire range of passion, hope and loss that the libretto demands. Very well done sir. An inspiration indeed.

Gudd gesongen:)

Bravo!

A magnificent reading of this wonderful aria. David John Pike should go far!

Merry Christmas David!

Glorious

Very effective film David. I recognise the Gormley touch immediately, as there is an installation on the beach at Crosby, near Liverpool, where I was born

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Lovely, David. Very lovely.

Brilliant, David.

Beautiful perfomance...

This is a superb version of one of the greatest songs ever. I, too, am not altogether sure about the speed of it, but it is powerfully and beautifully sung. And the contrast in the speed of those wonderful descending lines - 'lone stands the house and the chimney stone is cold' (one of the most tragic lines in any song, I feel) makes a real emphasis as to which lines are the most important. A marvellous performance!

¡ BRAVO...! kdjf98q34rutjkf+++

Such a moving song. I'm so happy to found you and your voice on the internet. Wonderful instrument!

Very touching, David. Thank you

david is that you singing this?

la tua voce mi riempi di emozioni ! Bravo pour ta magistrale prestation vocale accompagnée des images d'une tragédie inattendue !

These are wonderful songs by Vaughan Williams, and any new recording of them, especially one so powerfully sung as this one, is welcome. But I maybe it's a bit hurried. The voice is beautiful though, and I'm sure this is the interpretation he wanted, and he gives an excellent account of the song from this emotional stand-point. Bravo.

Are you a lyric baritone or a dramatic baritone?

Proberbly the best Version of this Aria i have ever heard

Simplemente Genial David....Felicitaciones... un Maestro....,maravilloso cantando en el lenguaje de los Inkas !!!

Do you ever perform in Los Angeles (or its environs)?

I can't decide whether the voice or the interpretation is more magnificent!

Beautiful interpretation. And a beautiful voice!

David Pike acts and sings this brilliantly. It's all about control - of voice, actions etc. He is a very intelligent performer with a great voice.

.... I have memories of college where my boyfriend (a tenor) sang this song so deeply it would bring tears to my eyes... how I wish I had a recording of him singing this....

A magnificent set of songs, poignant and tragic, yet showing a real love of life. Housman's poetry continues to be timely and powerful today. It is too bad Butterworth never had the chance to write more.

Beautiful! I love this song, it's my favourite of VW's "Songs of Travel". And your performance was one of the best I've heard to date. BTW - where was it filmed?

Mee likee.

doing this song for my schools mens chorus

This is fabulous. This is one of my two favorite recordings of this song that I have heard, the other one being the recording of Thomas Allen singing with the BBC Symphony on the last night of the proms. I love singing these, and I have sung them before, but alas I am a Tenor, and while RVW tends to write his Baritone stuff high it still doesn't sound quite right unless it is a true Baritone singing them. It is kind of like a viola playing a cello part. Thank you for this moving performance!

è MAGNIFICA questa ragazza! BRAVA !