HeatSurge
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So I watched Liberal Arts today (pretty nice movie btw), and one of the songs on the sountrack intrigued me, so I looked it up:
Zefiro torna (Monteverdi) - Rial & Jaroussky - YouTube
Unsurprisingly, it's by Monteverdi, which I think is pretty much the height of Renaissance music, which I rather enjoy, along with the Romantic period... but anyway, I continued to look up the performers and cross-references to other Monteverdi songs etc. etc., kind of went on a "Renaissance spree" on youtube, and I found out that...
one of the singers on that piece is a guy.
That's right, a guy with, presumably a ball sack and a dick, hair on the face and all that. Here's a wiki page on him:
Philippe Jaroussky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here's the same piece, recorded in a "live" setting, check this out:
C.Monteverdi - Zefiro Torna , oh di soavi accenti (N.Rial - P.Jaroussky) (L'arpeggiata Ensemble) - YouTube
So yeah, I discovered what a "sopranist countertenor" is today. Pretty interesting because I knew that there are men who sing with "high pitched" voices, especially performing Renaissance period pieces when that sort of thing was popular (I've been told that they used to have "Castrati" or little boys singing them due to high pitch, yes it's as bad as it sounds, look it up), but I've never thought someone would have an entire career from it today...
Overall, lulz!
Zefiro torna (Monteverdi) - Rial & Jaroussky - YouTube
Unsurprisingly, it's by Monteverdi, which I think is pretty much the height of Renaissance music, which I rather enjoy, along with the Romantic period... but anyway, I continued to look up the performers and cross-references to other Monteverdi songs etc. etc., kind of went on a "Renaissance spree" on youtube, and I found out that...
one of the singers on that piece is a guy.
That's right, a guy with, presumably a ball sack and a dick, hair on the face and all that. Here's a wiki page on him:
Philippe Jaroussky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here's the same piece, recorded in a "live" setting, check this out:
C.Monteverdi - Zefiro Torna , oh di soavi accenti (N.Rial - P.Jaroussky) (L'arpeggiata Ensemble) - YouTube
So yeah, I discovered what a "sopranist countertenor" is today. Pretty interesting because I knew that there are men who sing with "high pitched" voices, especially performing Renaissance period pieces when that sort of thing was popular (I've been told that they used to have "Castrati" or little boys singing them due to high pitch, yes it's as bad as it sounds, look it up), but I've never thought someone would have an entire career from it today...
Overall, lulz!