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12-11-2006
Dear Sir,
I happened upon your website last night when I was researching
the highest note ever sung (boy was I disappointed to hear that
the top 3 titles went to two pop singers and a guy!). Anyway,
I was listening to Marian Andersons "Der Tod und das Madchen"
and was listening for her G#. The lowest note I heard was a c#
below middle c just above 110 hz. Can you tell me where in the
her low G# is?
Thank you,
April Blau
Dear April Blau,
I cannot be more specific then I already wrote:
" ... Marian Anderson sings as last line " ... sollst
sanft in meinen Armen schlafen ... " During schlafen she
sings a G# (103hz) (Great octave)..."
No thanks,
Joop Lindeijer
24-10-2006
dear joop lindeijer,
I hope you can help me.my english is not good enough,but this
is not the real problem.i am looking for people,who are interrestet
in a rare autogramm from richard tauber on a silver cigarette-etui
from 1927.please let me explain in german- ich,thomas schumann,suche
seriöse liebhaber von richard tauber oder auch robert nästlberger,die
an solchen original-autogrammen,eingeritzt in ein silbernes zigaretten-etui,interessiert
sind.dieses etui dürfte es so nicht ein zweites mal geben.auch
der bekannte schauspieler gustav jahrbeck hat neben weiteren
stars der damaligen zeit(die berühmten 20iger jahre)sein
autogramm eingeritzt.das etui war ein weihnachtsgeschenk von
der künstlerin lisa rada (oper-theater-film) an einen verehrten
regisseur im jahr 1927,so die gravur im etui.lieber joop lindeijer,können
sie mir einen tip geben ,in welchem forum im internet,außer
ebay oder ähnlichen auktionshäusern,ich dieses seltene
zigaretten-etui, mit so berühmten unterschriften,anbieten
kann.oder kennen sie vielleicht opernliebhaber,die an so etwas
intereresse hätten?
in der hoffnung auf eine antwort verbleibe ich mit freundlichen
grüßen,
thomas schumann 24.10.06 dresden
Hernn Schumann,
Ich werde es in Deutsch versuchen, nicht mein stärkste Seite.
Wie sie schon schrieben, glaube ich auch, das E-bay das Beste
ist. Aber ich glaube nicht das es viel wert ist, zehn Euro oder
so es was. Schwierig der richtige Liebhaber zu finden.
herzliche Grüsse,
Joop Lindeijer
07-10-2006
Dear Joop
First of all I would like to express my warmest congratualations
for the great work you have done building up this web site and
puting together all these interesting pieces of sound/music/voice
material. I had really good time going through it last week-end.
It is by accident I discovered your work as I was looking for
information regarding our French colorature soprano Mado Robin.
Preparing a technical article about masking release thanks to
multichannel recording, I started to learn about how musicians,
conductors, singers are coping with this phenomenon. Then going
from piece of information to another one, I found interesting
document on opera singers and then found Mado Robin with her
extraordinary voice.
As I wanted to find in which role she could reach this contre-contre
Ré I went on your web site. Many thanks for the 2 excerpts.
But as I am not musician I am lost with the differents notations.
So I would like to know what is the exact notes that Mado Robin
is reaching in the 2 excerpts you have selected using the French
notation. Is this b3/high B corresponding to our French Si 5
knowing that in private or during rehearsal she could sing as
high as Ré 6.
Do you have a document that gives the correspondace betwenn our
French notation, the high "capital letter" notation,
and low letter notation.
With kind regards,
Jayjay
Dear Jean-José,
I don't have a document to compare the European notation with
the French notation. However, when you have a piano or keyboard,
that will be helpful. My old piano reaches from A2 (27hz) to
a4( 3520hz).
On the left side of the keyboard I have a white key (A2), then
a black key, two white keys and then the first complete group
of three black keys.
On the right side I have - from right to left! - a white key
(a4), then a complete group of three black keys.
So, my piano - an old one - reaches from A2 to a4, that is about
7 octaves: (A2, B2), (C1-B1), (C-B), (c-b), (c1-b1), (c2-b2),
(c3-b3), (c4-a4). The first group contains only two keys, the
last group misses the b4. To be exact: 7 octaves plus one key.
The green groups are complete, the two red ones are incomplete.
The central key is c1, that's the white key left from two black
keys.
On the high C page you see a graphics that reaches from C to
b3, within the square. This covers 5 octaves: (C-B), (c-b), (c1-b1),
(c2-b2), (c3-b3).
I hope this will be helpful.
warm regards,
Joop Lindeijer
10-09-2006
I was on the Georgia Brown website (the new ENGLISH one) and
there is a demonstration of her hitting a G10. I just wanted
to know whether you have heard it and if it is in fact a G10
that she is hitting. I was under the impression that a G10 was
out of human hearing range but i heard it quite clearly actually.
Here is the link to the new site if you haven't checked it out
yet.
http://www.georgiabrownmusic.com.br/
Thanx and keep up the good work,
G.P
L.S.
I was amazed that anybody could hear a G10, that is about 25khz.
Listening the the samples, those with the keyboard: G7 was okay,
G8 nothing to hear, G9 the same and G10 I could hear clearly.
But not G10, I measured f#8. Perhaps something doesn't go well
with the creation of the samples?
Joop Lindeijer
08-09-2006
I have been seeking a record or CD of Richard Tauber singing
"Eine Kleine Liebelei"...I have been looking for song
for many years. I remember hearing it as a child over 70 years
ago on a 78 RPM rcord. I think it was Odeom...?? Please help
if you can. My mother was from Vienna. Robert Schcik, M.D.
69 Kristin Lane
Hauppauge, NY 11788
USA
L.S.
I found Eine kleine Liebelei only as 78-rpm record: TAUBER RICHARD,
Mary/Eine kleine Liebelei, Od O4923 . Available at www.lotz-verlag.de
yours sincerely,
Joop Lindeijer
05-08-2006
Dear Joop.
Does anyone know if singer tenor Richard Tauber ever performed
in a city called Breslau in Germany in the year 1933 0r 1934
.I understand that he percormed " Faust' at 48 hrs notice
in Breslau? what year was that? Did he perform in Breslau at
any other years? Did he ever go back to Germany to perform after
he left to go to England.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely Rena Jackson.
Richard Tauber fan.
Dear Rena,
I don't know by head or he sang in 1933/34 in Breslau and I don't
also know the year of the Faust performance. I have several biographies
of him - see the page sources - and perhaps this information
is written some where there.
As far as I know he never returned to Germany after the war.
Read the book : "Gern hab' ich die Frauen geküsst",
biography Richard Tauber, by Michael Jürgs, List Verlag,
München 2000
The best book ever written about Tauber.
best regards,
Joop Lindeijer
Tauber fan for many years --- see the page prologue
15-07-2006
Dear Mr. Lindeijer,
Hello. I was hoping you could help me. Are you aware of any
recordings of Coenraad van Bos in solo piano, chamber, or concerto
repertoire, either commercially recorded or private - even radio
broadcasts that might survive.
I know he recorded as an accompanist on numerous 78s of Hugo
Wolf songs, but I wondered if his artistry as a solo pianist
is anywhere preserved.
Thanks for any information you can offer.
Best wishes,Joe Moore
Barcelona, Spain
Dear Mr. Moore,
For as far as I know, Coenraad Bos didn't
make solo recordings. In his book 'The well tempered accompanist'
he only mentioned a number of Lieder recordings. Pity, because
What I read about him - written by others, among them Frieda
Hempel and Gerald Moore (family?) - he was a marvelous pianist
and extemporizer. He could play Rachmaninoff (style) compositions
of which the composer has never heard! And in Berlin he played
for years in a chamber ensemble.
So you have to do it with his many Lieder recordings.
regards,
Joop Lindeijer
09-07-2006
This is to inform you that yesterday the Dutch tenor ANTON
DE RIDDER died. He just had married a young Hungarian wife
and planned to move to Hungary later this month.
Regards
Harald Kral, Hilden/Germany
Thank you very much for the information Harald.
Meanwhile I'm also informed by his nephew.
regards,
Joop Lindeijer
01-07-2006
good morning,
maybe you are interested in hearing a male soprano that can reach
very very high tunes! In his webside it is written he can reach
the A9 (which is recorded) and even more..
and here I attach the file dowloaded from his website!
www.nicolasedda.com
best regards Giorgio Solinas
Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale!
Good afternoon Giorgio,
Yes, I'm interested in this male soprano.
I listened to the sound sample you send me and was really amazed.
What is the end? A little bit higher and we cannot hear anymore
the sounds they can produce.
best regards,
Joop Lindeijer
15-07-2006
I listened and measured the sound sample: Nicola Sedda - Vocal
Range Game (E1-A9) 07-07-2005.mp3 carefully and did some tests.
My conclusion, he can reach high, very high, but doesn't sings
an A9(a6, 14khz). First I was amazed that I still could hear
14khz - I'm 65 - but when I filtered the frequencies above 13khz,
I still heard the same sound as before. Remeasuring now results
in B8(b5, 8.1khz), but the measurement is not exact, the sample
is a mixture of many frequency peaks. Filtering those frequencies
from about 7khz to 13khz makes all quiet ...nothing to hear anymore.
[ ...... ].
J.L.
19-06-2006
Firstly I would like to thank you for a wonderful site! Especially
the one concerning the human vocal range. You mention Maria Callas
having sung a high F. Could it be this one? http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=A5497D9F6A15A278
It is an aria from Rossinis Armida - "Per me propizio il
fato", could you see if I have pitched it correctly? It
is rather hard to hear I guess... I hope it would not cause any
problems!
Yours sincerely
Martin Rafal
Martin, thanks for the compliments,
I checked the fragment, I never heard it before. At the end Maria
started the high note as an E3 (European notation) and reached
- not strong as the E3 - the F3.
Thanks very much for the tip,
warm regards,
Joop Lindeijer
16-05-2006
Firstly, I would like to congratulate Your fabulous site, especially
the part of it concerning the scale and range of the human voice.
There You mention Callas reaching an F in alt. Among others,
You might be reffering to her Armida. I send you the following
link from "yousendit" for download of the fragment
(it has to be done in seven days), asking for a kind confirmation
(as for the F in alt) if that would be the case. Also, Callas'
vocal abilities are shown well in Proch's aria "Deh, torna
mio bene". The sound is poor, but I think it is worth listening
to.
Armida: http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=8730647A53CE2FAD
Proch: http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=F3A15B566F58E984
Hope it works!
Regards, Marcin Rafal
Thanks for the information Marcin,
I did not refer to the Armida fragment. There she sang an D3.
The Proch variations, I never heard them before, where more interesting.
Not only the height - E3 - but also the duration and strength
of the notes. She was in exceptional good voice those days. About
the F3, I heard that she (Callas) has reached it several times,
but as far as I know there is no recording, no prove of it. The
Bell-fragment is the highest I ever heard.
regards,
Joop Lindeijer
1-05-2006
Hello, I originally sent you a clip of a Russian Choral work
that's on your page "The High C" on Dutch Divas. That
was not altogether appropriate as other basses were backing up
Wichniakov on the low C. This also causes more overtones to the
low note, making it harder to hear. I've found some other clips
that may be more appropriate. As far as opera goes, I have this
clip of Siepi hitting a low C in Meyerbeer's opera Les Hugenots.
http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/metaltabs/siepilowC.mp3
Here is russian singer Vladimir Miller hitting a low Bb in Chesnokov's
"Do Not Reject Me in Time of Old Age"
http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/metaltabs/millerbflat.mp3
And lastly, Vladimir Pasuikov singing a low Ab in this chant
from "Cherubic Hymn" by Chesnokov, Op. 27/5.
http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/metaltabs/pasuikovAb.mp3
The clips of Mado Robin or great, the High C page is very
interesting over all, I don't know of much other places that
have such as assortmant of interesting clips.
One more thing--in this recording of Marian Anderson http://www.dutchdivas.net/sound/ram-files/der_tod.ram,
you say she hits an F#, but when I match the last not against
the piano it is a C#. Is the F#
just a mistype, or am I hearing things?
Everett Wade
Dear Mr Wade,
Thanks for the links to the samples. I already
have download them and of course listened to. My first impression
... the Wichniakof sample is for me the most impressing. Of course
the singing of the other basses were of help for the overall
sound, but he sang the lowest notes. More isn't lower.
Concerning Marian Anderson, you are not the first to have doubts,
I once re-listen and stick to my first opinion, but I will check
it again. Not comparing with my old piano, he or she stands in
an other room. I let you know. But F# (93hz) it is not a mistype.
best regards,
Joop Lindeijer
24-04-2006
Hi,
I have been an admirer of the tenor Jan Handerson. Can you tell
me if there are any cd's or recordings he made. Once he send
me a tape but that has deteriorated over the years.
Kind regards from Australia, Erica.
Hi Erica,
I will forward your e-mail to his son, meanwhile a well known
baritone, singing in Germany. Perhaps he can help you.
regards,
Joop Lindeijer
14-03-2006
Mr. Lindeijer,
My name is Frank Byron Clark, I am a music producer/engineer
who lives in Southern California, USA. I have a request that
I hope you can help me with. I met Shirley Zwerus from Haarlem,
Holland, The Netherlands in 1970. In 1971 I produced a music
album on her while she resided her in California. She and I stayed
in touch for many years after that, however we eventually lost
contact with one another. Is it any way you can help me to locate
her?
Please let me know anything you can. It will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Frank Clark
Mr. Clark,
The only thing I know about Shirley, was that she lives - or
lived - in Spain. However, I will place your e-mail on the page
'reactions' and 'reacties'. Very often people react positive
to this well read part of my site. So, let's wait.
best regards,
Joop Lindeijer
27-02-2006
Hello to everybody.
I am a big fan of Maria Callas and would like to make a correction.
Somebody wrote that Maria Callas' highest note is "E6".
Her highest note is actually "F6" and it is recorded
in aria "Per me propizio il fato" from Armida in 1952.
Thank you very much,
Tair Leake
P.S. Thank you very much, Joop Lindeijer, for your wonderful
site. There are so many interesting and rare things that can
be found here.
Hi Tair Leake,
Somebody - Joop Lindeijer - wrote a firm e3-sharp
as Callas highest note on record. I have a recording of an Armida
recording - RAI- by Callas from 1952, but cannot hear a f3. By
the way, I'm also a big fan of her, have almost all her records
and read/have about 15 biographies of her.
She is not on my site because there is written enough about her.
regards,
Joop Lindeijer
Meanwhile (June), I received a recording of
another Armida aria: "Per me propizio il fato", with
a F3 sung by Callas. This aria will of course placed on the High
C page.
27-02-2006
Hi :)
My name is David Crowe Holmberg. I'm a classical singer from
Denmark. I'm very interested in finding any recordings with dutch
soprano Rina Cornelissens. So far I have had no luck and I hope
you might be able to help me.
Hpoe to hear from you,
Best regards, David.
Hi David,
I believe that's difficult to find any recording of her. For
so far I know, there are no recordings available today. In the
10 cd-box 'Het Puik van Zoete Kelen', she is represented by one
aria (1972) in Gounod's Faust - 'versez vos chagrins dans mon
ame' - and there exists a 3 LP set of Bach's St Matthew Passion.
Both releases not available any more. But why are you so interested
in this soprano? I know something about her, but don't have even
a photo of her. Therefore she is on the moment not present at
my site.
regards,
Joop Lindeijer
24-02-2006
Hi! I'm a big fan of your site, and wanted to ask you a question
about some information on the Kathleen Ferrier page.
You list in her discography a -complete- version of Gluck's
"Orfeo ed Euridice" she sang at Glyndebourne in England,
with the number "AKI 1656-62" attached to it. Can you
tell me what this number signifies --
I'm not familiar with the AKI label. I have an abbreviated version
of this performance, but have never seen the complete one. I
would very much like to hunt this recording down. Please reply
when you are able.
Thanks,
Will Chase
Dear Will,
I presume that the AKI label is one of the
lesser known labels. I also couldn't find it. But there are more
complete recordings of Orfeo with Ferrier, for instance a live-recording
from 1951 in Holland. But those live recording are not of the
same quality as the abbreviated version you mentioned. I also
have this version. For the complete live performance I found
this link:
http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/6731237/a/Collection+Les+Inoub
liables+-+Gluck:+Orfeo+ed+Euridice.htm
regards,
Joop Lindeijer
24-02-2006
The norm for me is to love opera sopranos but after hearing Minnie
Ripperton's diction in the song i've fallen in with her voice,
and wondering what you think. (after about 2 minutes 25 seconds
you here here sing with great diction "here we go")
Tho not very strong, diction makes up for it.
Also, why is Yma Sumac group with classical sopanos?
Yma Sumac is of the period of my father and
the only singer that could reach such notes those days. If you
like it or not isn't so important. Therefore ... one exception
for Yma Sumac.
I listened to Minnie Ripperton, but sorry ... not my cup of tea.
regards,
Joop Lindeijer
18-02-2006
Bonjour,
Je vous félicite pour la conception de ce site.
Je suis passionnée d'opéra, et ce site m'intéresse
beaucoup, mais j'ai un souci au niveau de l'ouverture.
La page du web dans Google indique:
Fernand Faniard - Belgisch heldentenorFernand Faniard, tenor,
biografie. ... Chef d'orchestre : Henri Kamm. Mise en scène
: Godefroy Landry. Lohengrin (Lohengrin) 1938. ...
www.dutchdivas.net/tenoren/fernand_faniard3.html - 42k - En cache
- Pages similaires
Je cherche avant tout des renseignements sur le metteur en
scène Godefroy LANDRY, cité dans l'annonce, mais
quand j'ouvre ce site, la page que je voudrais visualiser ne
dure qu'une seconde pour être affacer par la page des ténors.
Vous est-il possible d'y remédier ?
Sinon, pourriez-vous me fournir des renseignements sur ce Godefroy
LANDRY ? Pourrais-je aussi avoir des renseignements sur Andree
VALLY ? Pourriez-vous m'indiquer comment faire pour trouver des
renseignements sur les metteurs en scène et les artistes
lyriques de ces années-là ?
Je vous remercie d'avance pour votre réponse.
Bien sincèrement
Brigitte Godet
Bonjour Brigitte,
I studied French for five years, long, long ago. And it was not
the language I was quit familiar with. So I understand only a
little bit of your e-mail. However, I changed something in the
code of the webpage you mentioned: ..../fernand_faniard3.html.
When you now use Google and enter the same link you are redirected
to the page Belgische zangers en zangeressen. From there it's
easy to find the information you are looking for. Enjoy it.
regards,
Joop Lindeijer
16-02-2006
You obviously know a lot about music. I am an 18 yr old female
currently receiving voice training. Do you know how one can expand
one's vocal range to cover 5 octaves for example? If you know
the answer please would you e-mail me to let me know?
I have a regular voice, nothing spectacular like Mariah Carey
or Adam Lopez's voices but I would love to be able to sing in
the whistle register because then I could sing in my room to
MC's songs!!!
Looking forward to your reply.
Many thanks
Miss Jane Givney
Dear Miss Jane,
I feel very flattered by your thoughts about my knowledge, but
unfortunately I cannot help you with singing advises. I do know
that it's possible with proper singing lessons to widen ones
range, but there must be a certain base. And 5 octaves is much,
very much. It's more than a complete choir with the whole range
of basses, tenors and sopranos. Such a choir reaches about 4
octaves.
best regards,
Joop Lindeijer
15-02-2006
I am an amateur choir singer myself, and have about a year
ago quit singing tenor altogether because it was too much strain
on the voice, singing alto instead (that sounds crazy at first,
but the unfettered falsetto reaches much higher than extending
the chest voice with a "head voice"). Since stylistic
reasons don't permit my singing alto in modern pieces, I switch
between alto and low bass in my choir.
That means that I have to cover three octaves in a typical concert
(next weekend, see <URL:http://www.collegium-vocale-bochum.de>
for the program), from a bass E (Bruckner) to an alto e (Bach).
In contrast to the astonishing feats listed on your page, I have
to blend with a choir and have to keep the volume at audible
level as well as
controlled. When no carrying power is demanded and the volume
is your own choice, getting considerably lower is possible: listen
to <URL:http://home.arcor.de/david.kastrup/spancil.mp3>,
a folk song rendition I like doing sometimes, mostly for the
sake of frustrating "proper" basses. It goes to about
G1, quite above the C#1 you claim for the basso profundo on your
web page (I have problems hearing anything with a base tone lower
than G#1 in that passage, though). On the other end of the range,
I am currently being pestered in my lessons with "Che faro
senza Euridice" from Gluck's Orfeo, which ends with pretty
annoyingly sustained F5 notes. Quite taxing, basically mezzo
soprano stuff. So my show-off range, which already adds almost
an octave to the actually musically tenable range I employ in
the choir, is still short of the more than four octaves claimed
for Cristina Deutekom.
Maybe there is some confusion: I often (like in the above
example) sing passages that lie two octaves apart to indicate
different characters, so I can sing them in three different octaves
(of which I don't use the middle octave). Add to that that the
melody itself is also close to an octave in range, and you are
talking about four octaves. Unfortunately, just talking, not
singing. This sort of calculation ends up with one octave too
much, an easy mistake to make.
It sounds to me like Cristina Deutekom might have made this
sort of mistake when claiming more than four octaves: that's
more than an entire choir ever has to cover. You have to go off
the chart in your own gender _and_ invade the other gender considerably
to manage that feat.
All the best,
David
Dear David,
Thanks for your detailed e-mail. About Cristina's
range, there are two possibilities:
1) she cannot count or more likely
2) she meant that her voice goes from a (small octave range)
- to f3
(3-striped range), also covering 4 octave ranges. And that's
what you can
read on the page!
And, leaving the classical part of the page,
a few pop-singers - more competition there - do cover 5 octaves
or more. And that's a wider range then a choir with basses ....
sopranos, reaching from D to d3 in the graphics.
best regards,
Joop Lindeijer
06-01-2006
Dear Joop
Firstly I'd like to congratulate you about your website.It's
really intresting and there are many things that I didn't know.
As I have to make a project at my school I'd like to ask you
if you could send me some samples of whistle singers and especially
Georgia Brown becouse my subjcet is "whistle register".
Happy New Year 2006,
Alex
Dear Alex,
If you want to hear Georgia Brown, listen
to the samples on her own website.
http://escravosdegeo.sites.uol.com.br/index1.htm
The page is in Portuguese, but you probably
find your way.
best regards,
Joop Lindeijer
02-01-2006
Joop!
Hi!
I loved the picture mine that u put talking about me!
Well, my official homepage will be on web this month. Right
there will have a page talking about my records and there is
a piano that you can click on each key then you can hear each
note from G2 to G10, each octave will be available to hear it.
And really some guyz have reason when they say there is no
more note is frequency. Yes is a frequency. We got trouble to
record my voice singing this high notes cuz the machines that
were recording were going crazy and all we heared was noises!
It was hard! But we get it!
Sometimes, on my songs I record a note very high and after
when I see all I hear is the speakers playing ppsssssszzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!
God! It's funny!
On the book I got 2 records: World's Greatest Vocal Range
G2 to G10 (I reach 9 octaves and I have 8 octaves completed)
and Highest Note G10 on GUINNES WORLD RECORDS 2006 on page 172.
Some people have doubt about these records. So, they are questining
the credibility of a traditional book that has 50 years of existence?
I made these records to project myself as singer and to promote
my name worldwide.
This is not an olympiad, cuz is impossible put one note like
G10 in a music.
The notes until C9 the last key possible using an eletronic
instrument were measured and above G9 were measured through a
frequency analyser.
Thanks for all!
Georgia Brown
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