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Beautiful, supportive accompaniment. An insensitive accompanist could (easily) ruin the performance, and Roxana Ionescu-Beck enhances it. 👏

Just happened across this, I dig it lol

As a baritone groupie, I hardly needed convincing............ But if I had... You'da done it!

Wonderful!

This is gold amazing, wow😂😂😂😂

Una voce bellissima. Bravo!

Hilarious! And beautiful sung and played! Bravi!!!

Love Sam barber. Thoroughly enjoyed your performance of this song. Grazie Mille!

Wonderful!

The finest Baritone that I’ve ever heard! (Closely followed by Robert Merrill and Bryn Terfel). Also, I am not familiar with this piece at all…

A gleam and focus in the tone and timbre of your voice found in very few singers. Birgit Nilsson and Jerome Hines come to mind…

I keep coming back to this performance- surely an example of musical perfection. Flawless vocal technique, wonderful interpretation, and an equally fine pianist.

TERIFFIC! From a 6-ft 64- year-old who is still a Tenor!

SUPERB

The finest performance of this famous piece that I’ve ever heard.

Magnificent!

You have a lovely voice 🥰 You did this difficult piece well.

Amazing tone

*Nessun dorma intensifies*

Great voice and diction, and consistent color throughout your range.

I've read the comments. Some are of a technical nature. This is (first and foremost) a beautiful song with somewhat mysterious lyrics. Agee leans heavily on alliteration; but you push that to the background and simply love the emotion conveyed. Mr. Owens does a terrific, terrific job with this rendition. There is a sense of "wonder" in his voice... which is appropriate given the song. I don't know enough to say whether Barber would have approved. I do know enough to say: Thank you! Thank you!

Glorious!

Damn!!! I don't know if I can memorize all those words, but this is a great comedic song, AND, I just found it online for FREE!!! Shea, you have a beautiful and expressive voice and I hope you continue to post here on CZcams!

Lovely

This is hilarious! Who wrote the song?

Amazing voice! Amazing performance! Amazing piano! Amazing...

As a Tenor, I must say... that was amazing! Hahahaha! Now I want to be a baritone!

Bravo!wo singen Sie?

The links to a place where to buy the sheet score are not working for me, is there any other way to obtain this score?

A 200k dollahs piano, wow. Very nice voice and performance, as always, you're great. What Opera repertoire are you usually singing?

Great performance btw

Didn't know this aria buffa, it's beautiful. Is there a way to find a free pdf online?

Great job! Very entertaining xD

Beautiful performance!!! Can anyone who can share the list of the songs in this medley? Thank you in advance ^^

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I'm pretty sure those 21k vues are the same few people watching it again and again. This voice is so wonderful it would even make some tenors want sing the song 😆

😂😅😂😅🎼🎶🎵👋👋👋

Such a beautiful Baritone voice!

Such a beautiful voice!

Absolutely stunning ! You're a true inspiration, man ; we wish you the best.

Gorgeous! This is the perfect baritone sound I love on this piece.

Lovely performance, Mr. Owens!

This is a wonderful baritone performance of one of Samuel Barber’s most lovely pieces set to James Agee’s poetry. I have never heard a recording of Barber, himself an accomplished singer, performing this song, but I imagine he would approve of this beautiful rendition. This song is often performed by sopranos and invariably the words are almost impossible to hear. But with the deeper, lower pitched voice of a baritone, the full power of the music and words are revealed. Bravo, sir!

That was very disconcerting. I was sitting here listening to this fine performance of an aria I've sung in a full production when suddenly a voice came out on my left headphone. I turned to see if someone had come into my locked condo, then almost immediately a second voice spoke briefly. Fortunately, they were friend who were probably doing a video of his performance while he sang. They stopped after that, or it would have completely ruined the recording, but it was fun to listen to Shea's performance. on a personal level, I've considered singing it again, but damn, it sits so high. Whatever, I enjoy his (or your) singing very much and have been learning "The Apple Orchard" and observing his interpretation very much.

Awesome! I want to sing this!

What a fantastic voice !

I used to love these kind of encores opera singers did at the end of recitals.

A beautiful song sung also beautifully . . . thanks for the inspriation.

Beautiful!!