Welsh baritone Cai Thomas (15) sings Purcell’s Music for a While | live
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- Cai Thomas sings Purcell’s Music for a while, first recorded performance as an emerging baritone.
Recorded live in St Christopher’s Church, Haslemere. July 2022.
Rob Lewis on piano
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his voice is growing to become even more beautiful. so charming
Your voice has become so incredibly mature, you are a very great singer. 🥰
Cai! I think you were very worried. When you come to the path that must be taken no matter what, changing from a boy to a young man. But listening to your songs, I can see that your feelings about music haven't changed. Cai, music will always be with you. And I am rooting for you.
I‘m very happy about that comment that you gave Cai.
That will get to someone’s heart. Thank you .
Dear Cai, you were gifted with an extraordinary voice, whether as a treble, or as a baritone…I *know* that is a big, intimidating shift. You have magnificent poise; breath control; and precision. Now let go of the fear of a breaking voice, and be as *EXPRESSIVE* as you want to be, soooooooo very obviously. Do that, and your career will be, well, STELLAR! We are ALL proud of, supporting, and rooting for your success. Thank you, btw, for sharing these transitional pieces with us!
You have become a wonderful baritone. Thank you for sharing your voice and your music with us, mortals.
Such a sublime and beautiful performance! Cai is a beautiful boy, with a beautiful voice! He is a sincere pleasure to listen to and watch with his dedication to the beauty of the voice.
No-one to touch him ! I hope I'm still around to see Cai's development as the very beautiful singer he is and to follow his career!😀⚘️🙏🍰
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My first view of you since your voice changed. Congratulations from a long-subscribed fan in California.
Hauntingly beautiful music! Beautiful voice. A pure delight to listen to.
ALL the best to this young, well singing man, in his life and music world!!
You have a voice of an angel. Well done. All the best as a baritone
Love your voice Cai. You’re beautiful and precious 🥰🤩🦋💚🦋🤩🥰
My dear Cai, it's always a great pleasure to see you and listen to your music, you have an absolutely wonderful voice. Many thanks for sharing!
Beautiful voice, beautiful boy!
This is beautifully done, and so heartfully felt. Thanks you for posting this. Your baritone voice is quite beautiful.
Please keep singing and posting. Such a promising baritone voice and musicality!
So crazy seeing how much this talented young man’s voice has changed over the years!
I was thinking the same thing.
Wieso verrückt, ? Es ist ein Wunder
Why is it crazy? It's normal in puberty
Whilst it is a voice that will continue to develop over the next few years, this is an absolutely lovely performance of a splendid piece. (There's far too little Purcell performed and he is underated, but I'm digressing). I love the light, lyrical style which is so suited to this style of music, and whilst there is definitely a place for the rich, powerful bass/baritone voice, it is refreshing to hear such a sympathetic performance
Beautiful!! Greetings from Norway
A joy to listen to the beautiful voice of the boy grow towards the full voice of a man. I hope you enjoy singing as much as we embrace hearing you.
I just had this piece for my GCSE music exam last week - my favourite on the syllabus. Your voice is gorgeous Cai! Diolch yn fawr!
Glad to see you are looking well and singing wonderfully, Cai. Thanks for sharing this with us. Cheers from Brazil.
With him and Aksel we will have two excellent baritones for our future enjoyment
Can't wait to hear him as he approaches 30 perfect voice for Handel
He's got Baroque going well
so beautiful.what a voice.thanks.
Your voice is going to be full and bold. Stay relaxed in the meantime. It’s a journey you have just begun. Very musical as usual. Wonderful work.
Wow Cai, your voice is so pure. I listened to your soprano performances as well, which was ... soul inspiring... and now this... Your voice takes me to places I can only dream of... Would love to hear what you would sound like as your voice reaches maturity. Keep on singing, take us on your journey... Keeping a lookout for big performances coming up.... ;)
A very nice performance indeed. Nice to see you have made the transition well like Aksel: another superb treble turned baritone.
Very, very talented and hope to hear more songs from you.
Your voice is still clean and well kept, so nice to hear you.
I was and am a great admirer of Cai. His treble-period was great, no doubt. But almost all the comments here regarding the young bariton-voice are coloured by the treble-past ánd his good looks, but there is new horizon now. Please, be patient and give Cai the time. TIME, TIME and TIME again to grow into his "new" instrument. He needs to get accustomed to it. From the enormous hights (which he was used to and in full control), he is now (logically) by far not comfortable yet in this new field with enormous depths. Therefore, be reluctant with the overreacted comments, as it might only discomfort him. A comment like "you are on the right way" is enough. I know too many similar former trebles who you could not judge until they were 25-27. They must become confident and get to know what their voice can do. It takes time before you are in control and much more before you are in full control. He is a wonderful guy and the repertoire he chooses now is wise, but don't overwhelm him. Every voiceteacher would say the same. And many now professional singers agree. Simply excellent comments (often not real) don't help . Cai was too much of a pop-star like treble-idol, but now he must grow into a professional bariton. I wonder, by the way, if bariton is his end-station. Several parts are certainly too low, I would not be surprised if he is somewhere between tenor and bariton, but not bass/bariton. Cai, don't let the overdone reactions influence you, go your own way, assisted by those who have experience in voice-guiding. I hope you will feel more comfortable with your "new" instrument every year. You can manage, but take your time. Many singers study in silence , remember that! Best regards from the Netherlands.
When the voice break is finished it will be a great bariton! Keep singing!
Wow! I love listening to your singing. You sing one of my favourite song so beautiful. I also like your changed voice because you are a very great singer!
Hello Cai, this is wonderful. thanks for the sharing. please more! 👍👍🎹
Fantastic!
Such warm, rich tones. Lovely, as always, young man. I remember your soprano performances and I enjoy these just as much. I appreciate the care you take with each note and phrase. You show great respect for the music. To your sound man and cameraman, please feature the soloist* more prominently, if possible. Thank you.
*no disrespect to the pianist
Wonderful timbre. Simply enchanting version. Exciting to witness your development after your voice change!
Amazing voice 😊🙌🏼
Wow !
Wunderschön!!! Bravissimo!
An angel handsome and so beautiful voice.
absolutely magnificent!
When you sang treble, I was most charmed by the precision of your phrasing coming from such a young boy. Now that you are making the switch, I worried how you would handle your new range and tone, and if it would hurt your musicality. Well, your voice is coming right along; with every new video, there's a little more maturity. But the best part is that the technical accuracy is with you for the ride. You are miles ahead of the American men who often have no opportunity to begin studies until high school. You have a great set of tools, Cai. Enjoy working with them. We're all checking YT for your next performance. 😊 Cheers!
Thank you young man a joy to listen to
Very good sung, a grear Voice
Mesmerizing
Simply beautiful. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Thank you 😊
Just exquisite. Beautiful voice! 💖
The warmness of Kai's voice is incredible. Agreed on comments about piano being too loud. I would like to have just the voice recording being released, if possible?
It seems Cai stays nearly 1.5 meters away from the microphone. Probably that is too far and therefore, his voice in the record is so quiet.
It’s quite often true that recordings in such situations, rather than sound studios, are in rectory sound balanced. The ruination of many good voices
AWESOME111111 THANK YOU 1
Heavenly. I enjoyed that thoroughly.
Beautiful music
Grand !
At first I looked at the title and the video length and thought "huh, less than 5 minutes, I wouldn't call that a while." It's the song name, I get it now.
By Purcell. It's a well known choral work. You Tube has a fine version by a treble named Archie White you might check out.
Que hermoso cantas Cai 🥹🥹🥹☺️
🫵You are perfection. You know 😀 I think that you keep getting better & also taller too 😂👍
Just awesome
Really great!
Boa noite do amigo Luiz Gonzaga de São Pedro-sp Brasil obrigado
Very beautiful.
Both the boy and the singing, I mean.
Shabbat shalom.
Nice performance. Thank you.
A others have commented, the recording balance between singer and accompanist needs to be corrected. The young man's voice (as beautiful as his soprano a couple of years ago) is overwhelmed by the pianist.
Use speakers instead of headphones.
Absolutely wonderful. Reminds me of GCSE music though 😂
You will develop a beautiful, rich voice as you mature.
Such a beautiful voice!
Pure velvet. Congratulations for having such a talent and putting it to such good use! I hope your progress continues (If you wouldn't mind a technical suggestion regarding the audio, perhaps the next recording could be a bit better balanced ..the piano seemed to be a bit too loud at times, drowning out your great voice!)
I agree.
I agree. The audio person needs to keep this in mind with balance. Would you mind visiting my channel to see if my videos are balanced to your ears?
He grew up!
Trob!
더 주세요....앨범도 주세요.....
Beautiful voice ! But the piano ist too loud ! Best wishes from Russia.
Use speakers instead of headphones.
Esta perdona es menor que yo, que viejo estoy.
Congratulations, Cai! After having enchanted us with your soprano voice, you now captivate us with a baritone voice that is all the more impressive since you are only 15 years old.
At your age, I still had my soprano voice and I didn't become a tenor until I was 17.
Keep working on your voice so that one day we can hear you on the stages of the greatest opera houses or in the greatest cathedrals.
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you sound great with just piano! put out some records like this
Prydferth Cai.
Diolch 😁
Not sure what language it is. Maybe Italian. Beautiful.
It's English
What a wonderful way to start my day your voice is beautiful.
Your Grandparents are very proud of you
Stephanie Williams
Vancouver IslandCanada
Interesting! He appears to have changed the side he parts his hair from when he was a treble. (Easier said than done in my experience!)
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I enjoy your singing so much, and your dedication to traditional music. Maybe turn the gain down on the piano, though. Your pianist is wonderful, too, but on some of the runs when he gets the piano ringing, it dominates over your voice.
Use speakers instead of headphones.
great
Beautiful singing. I hope the next recordings are mic'ed and mixed for a better balance between Cai's voice and the accompaniment. The piano was far-too dominant in this one.
Your warm baritone voice cheer me up. I can feel your sincerity about your music in your singing. Thank you,Cai. I will continue to support you from Japan.
Charming. With coaching and application, in time it will be u t t e r l y charming. Understandably, for all its present charm, the tone is somewhat lukewarm but you clearly have all the skills to make the text come alive... in time.
Nice! Age?
Lord, when you watch such a handsome guy with a beautiful voice, you can believe in any religion, even if you are an atheist
Or, you can marvel at the millions of our ancestors, who sang by campfires, through the ages, and at weddings, and celebrations of all sorts, and generally found comfort in other human voices, and then lived long enough to reproduce. Thus the characteristics of having fine voices are concentrated and refined...that we can appreciate them today.
He’s 15. You need to Not refer to him as a handsome guy.
You are so right! This guy has a very beautiful voice and is very cultivated and beautiful! And as very often very well singing girls are praised for their beauty and then for their performance, it is totally ok. to commend the look of a male person, too. He just could wear an Angel costume and that would totally fit to the music and him. I guess the person below who criticised commending the look of the singer is a homophobic heteroman. Those heteromen themselves praise very often the beauty of girls or women but not their performance. But women want to get commended for their performance, too! But if a man commends the look of a boy or man, than those homophobic heteromen use the type of discrimination, that they connect this with child abuse directly or indirectly. But in reality the most child abuses happen in families by the (hetero)father. In those cases the child abuse functions as sexual arousal of power about someone or as substitute sex, if no decent sex is available enough. Anyways in Germany consentient love between 14 year olds and 14 + old individuals is legal and ok.
@@Patrick3183 You are not the person ordering others whom the commend for their beauty or capabilities. Concluding from your negative comment you are seemingly a homophobic hetero man. Here you can read, what is true: This is my comment to the person you criticised: “You are so right! This guy has a very beautiful voice and is very cultivated and beautiful! And as very often very well singing girls are praised for their beauty and then for their performance, it is totally ok. to commend the look of a male person, too. He just could wear an Angel costume and that would totally fit to the music and him. I guess the person below who criticised commending the look of the singer is a homophobic heteroman. Those heteromen themselves praise very often the beauty of girls or women but not their performance. But women want to get commended for their performance, too! But if a man commends the look of a boy or man, than those homophobic heteromen use the type of discrimination, that they connect this with child abuse directly or indirectly. But in reality the most child abuses happen in families by the (hetero)father. In those cases the child abuse functions as sexual arousal of power about someone or as substitute sex, if no decent sex is available enough. Anyways in Germany consentient love between 14 year olds and 14+ old individuals is legal and ok.”
👏👏👏👏 BRAVO! Soothing the soul.
Well - WOW!
I sang as a 10 year old in elementary school, then in high school, then in university. So yes, I have a little bit of memory about what this transformation is like.
Your new voice is amazing!
Not just in the new range, which is truly surprising. The bigger surprise is in your remarkable control, nothing breaks or is even strained either high or low.
Please, continue to sing- I am your new fan.
Sincerely, David Woodworth
Lovely to hear you singing again. Every best wish for your f utu.😀re
Lovely voice,but I agree the piano is too loud on this recording.still a very enjoyable video
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Cai, you're literally amazing, your intonation sounds natural, unforced and just perfect! You're not at all infected by this sickening fashion of overkilling vibrato present in modern-day academic vocal circles. However, if you're now going to focus on secular solo repertoire, it would be just amazing to readjust the projection a bit deeper, since this way of projecting is optimal only for a choir or a religious ensemble piece, where it is obligatory that no one stands out too much and the resulting wall of sound is almost angelic. All the best wishes!
And so the development continues Cai. Keep going and the future is positive.
Great work Cai, sing on! 😀
Bravo Cai Thomas ! Hugs from Brazil to you, to All! Peace, Prosperity!
Such a beautiful voice from a beautiful teenager, If I was his age, I'd probably want to date him :)
What a disgusting comment
@@giovannibrunoro1055 What a homophobic comment on your part !
@@williamwells6089 Gay, straight or whatever, if you're over 18 you don't look at 15 year old kids that way.
Great song but just remeber there is more to life then singing I am 61 years old and with my online job I have three cats one is 30 lb and one is 24 years old two dogs one is chow lab mix and a Siberian husky high breed wolf and a six foot fox snake I sell german ww2 items and also a computer rewritghter I wrote the program for windows `11 to work on a dell latitudee E5570 and works like a charm with updates. Your new Vioce it great keep it up peace out from a US Wisconsin fan
Strange comment! :(
Agreed really out of context
What exactly was he talking about???!!! It's some kind of psychosis, reducing him to some kind of maniac!!! An unpleasant entry speaking in a different language - mewling, barking, hissing and other interests.... What's the point of this???!!!! and what about the topic??? 😇🥳🐒🐱🐕🐷🐏🐰🦆🪱🪖🩳📣✂🗡🏹⛏🧷
Excelente! Voz lindíssima. Sempre um grande prazer poder ouvir Cai Thomas e a beleza da música clássica. Abraço.
SÃO PAULO - BRASIL.
Beautiful altough I would suggest another sound engineer. The piano is to loud.
Right, the piano wasnt doing any good to that voice!
You are a 100% true. Unfortunately the sound engineering is mostly bad on this channel. And even worse: When you comment on this, they play insulted - instead of learning. It's a pity.
Exactly
Use speakers instead of headphones.
@@Alexander_Goosev I have no headphones :-)
A very small point, and really only provided for those interested in the church: The correct spelling is 'Haslemere.'