Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Elias (Elijah) Höre, Israel (Hear ye, Israel!) Eleanor Steber, soprano Columbia Symphony Orchestra Max Rudolf, conductor Columbia, 1951
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@michaelroberts68945 жыл бұрын
One of the clearest soprano voices I have ever heard. High notes are right on target! No one equals her today!
@MrSkylark18 жыл бұрын
THERE ARE NO SINGERS ON THE OPERATIC STAGE WHO CAN COME UP TO THIS LEVEL OF SINGING.
@hashatz8 жыл бұрын
This is vocal artistry on the highest level.
@Nacidodelmar5 жыл бұрын
I would say even that her voice makes this aria better.
@southernbiscuits12752 жыл бұрын
What a wonderful voice. And, a fantastic actress to boot.
@saidwithwords Жыл бұрын
Superb! Clear, crisp sound and intoxicating
@Homoclassicus4 жыл бұрын
Possibly the best rendition of this wonderful aria.
@johninmorocco43433 ай бұрын
I love to hear Be Not Afraid.
@scottgrunow52018 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest pieces of singing in the last century. The heart and the power are unparalleled
@robynlynnellebaker33784 жыл бұрын
Such an amazing aria. I sang it several years ago. I hope to sing it again sometime once my higher register returns.
@jlb93682 жыл бұрын
This sound is beyond amazing. I was wondering why no one performs this in recitals.
@CynthiaSingsClassical Жыл бұрын
It’s usually Hore; Hore Israel and therefore in German. So it’s much harder in the original form
@SilfredoSerrano26 күн бұрын
It's difficult.
@AulicExclusiva2 жыл бұрын
A real grand' scena, impeccably sung.
@raarnoldra4 жыл бұрын
Stunning!
@brandonburrell85175 жыл бұрын
Be not afraid! Amen!
@NCinNYC4 жыл бұрын
Gosh--I LOVE her voice. I wore out her recording of Barber's Knoxville Summer of 1915. But I do not know her other recordings well. She has both a beautiful bright trumpet-like and warm spinning sound at the same time. Plus she is consummately musical. Beautiful!
@xxsaruman82xx873 жыл бұрын
Definitely check out her recording of Berlioz’s Les nuit d’été, and her as Minnie in La fanciulla del West with Del Monaco, Guelfi and Mirtopoulos live from Florence in 1954. Best fanciulla ever.
@kristinanola899 жыл бұрын
Best version I've heard yet! Bravissima!
@shawngordon66264 жыл бұрын
Her voice is so clear 👏🇮🇱👏✡👏🕎👏thank you Holy GOD of Israel if I listen to this a few more times I learn the words that how clean it is
@brittanygraham30724 жыл бұрын
Christina Parnell I agree. So clear and spinning
@65attila7 жыл бұрын
Gorgeous
@doGreatartistsgrowontrees7 жыл бұрын
Superb. As with mostly anything she sang, soul (hers and the music's) pours out of every pore and notation.
@rupertchristiansen58268 жыл бұрын
fabulous
@juliustilghman86111 ай бұрын
Simply glorious!!
@alfredoloyola9217 жыл бұрын
i had this piece by the great american dramatic soprano helen traubel,who sounds very good!by is a semitone down i think miss steber is on tune with this peace!!great!!
@scottgrunow52017 жыл бұрын
Say, who art thou, that thou shouldst fear a man that should die? Take heart in these words in these times when evil has triumphed in America. We shall not fear, because God is the source of all life
@mattyd3079 Жыл бұрын
People have forgotten that we are spiritual beings having a physical experience. And that's part of the test, and the learning experience. I believe there are many places in the universe where we go for a physical experience, the earth is just one.
@raynardi2326 Жыл бұрын
Stupenda
@valeriadutra54734 жыл бұрын
Dislikes? For What? What a level. Perfect attack. Goddess.
@Tenortalker9 жыл бұрын
I don't believe it - not only is Steber definitive in R Strauss, Mozart, Berlioz and many more but this is a knock out version of Mendelssohn's Elijah . I would love to have heard her in the duet as The Grieving Mother with Elijah too Was there anything this lady couldn't sing and go straight to the heart of? .
@caruso799819 сағат бұрын
No. (Answer to your probably rhetorical question.)
@marlenehartley77429 жыл бұрын
Perfect!
@MrSkylark17 жыл бұрын
THERE IS NO ONE ON THE PROFESSIONAL (?) OPERATIC STAGE WHO CAN REACH THIS LEVEL OF SINGING.
@jemimamendizabal30259 күн бұрын
Hear ye, Israel, Hear what the Lord speaketh: Oh, hadst thou heeded my commandments' Who hath believed our report! To whom is the arm of the Lord revealed! Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, cnd His Holy One to him oppressed by tyrants, Thus saith the Lord: I am He that comforteth! Be not afraid, for I am thy God! I, the Lord (thy God, ) will strengthen thee! Say, who art thou, That thou art afraid of a man that shall die? and forgettest the Lord thy Maker, Who hath stretched forth the heavens, cnd laid the earth's foundations? Say, who art thou!' I am He that comforteth! Be not afraid, for I am thy God!
@AnnPetty-ct3fy4 ай бұрын
Marvelous!!!
@TheVaughan5 Жыл бұрын
Another Jewell from the golden age of singing. Since I began to listen and appreciate the art of singing (mid 1960’s) there seems to have been a gradual decline in quality with too few exceptions.
@fan2jnrc2 жыл бұрын
I really don't understand what people find so beautiful in this famous aria. There's no melody, that never begins really, it's more like a recitative, in a word that's just boring as hell.
@mmkvoe634223 күн бұрын
I wouldn't have loved it so much except that I am a pianist and learned the orchestral part first, and the combination of the melody with the accompaniment is where the masterpiece by Mendelssohn is. It's the same with other songs by Mendelssohn. Harmony lovers like me will learn and love the whole thing more than we love the particular melody.
@kedemberger87737 жыл бұрын
Soile Isokoski (On the Herreweghe recording) is eons more musical, has better line and much more in the early romantic style. She was perferction. Steber takes ages to prepare her A natural, totally out of style. Isokoski takes it naturally and beautifully, pianissimo even, as part of the line. Oh well.
@davidnewton94967 жыл бұрын
Sounds like someone is just a little jealous.
@notnek2024 жыл бұрын
Soile Who ? Hahahahaha get a life.
@agrebennikov4 жыл бұрын
absolutely ridiculous even to compare Steber and Isokoski . They are different planets, it will take Isokoski, with all due respect, too long to reach the prominence of Steber, and that will never happen
@kedemberger87734 жыл бұрын
@@agrebennikov to each his own. Steber is out of style imo
@xxsaruman82xx873 жыл бұрын
@@kedemberger8773 No, she’s not.
@camerong55133 жыл бұрын
Bloody ugly voice when played on a smartphone
@donaldlevine14206 ай бұрын
So don’t listen on a smartphone. Listen on something with decent sound.
@camerong55136 ай бұрын
@@donaldlevine1420 noone asked for your advice, Captain Obvious. Next!