Another comment from me about Moll.....he's absolutely having the most fun a human being can have singing this, and it's this joy of his that comes out and just smacks us all in the face! The last time Moll sang Osmin at the MET, the people went CRAZY for him...he got the most huge ovation, and well-deserved, too! High notes, low notes, trills, and every other note in between....killin'em, Kurt Baby!
It is the joy that sets him apart ... there is a video here where a close up catches him almost forgetting not to smile as the Commendatore ... but his eyes just sparkled before he hit the highest true note in that ENTIRE scene like, you know, "Hey tenors -- if you need a night off, I've got high notes covered!" ... knowing all the time that in two minutes he just as easily will be busting out that same low D we hear here ... just two octaves and a bit more of sheer mastery, done with so much joy the character ALMOST cannot contain him. There are some audio-only videos of him singing lieder, and you can FEEL him smiling ... you can HEAR it in his voice ... and there is at least one video of him teaching ... and he passes all that love and light on to his student, who you can hear becoming a better singer minute by minute, drawn to the light!
In modern tuning, this aria is unbelievably difficult for a low bass. Every phrase crosses the passaggio, and demands a lot of movement in that tricky register. In mozart's tuning this is more reasonable, but that doesn't help us now! This is one of the best renditions on CZcams - Moll absolutely crushes the piece. Bravo!
This is definitely the hardest piece a low bass can sing. The d4 to d2 is killer and how much middle voice it uses. Don't forget the incredibly hard trill and arpeggios at the end. Moll is such an amazing singer, and it's no wonder he's considered one of the greatest bassos of all time.
That is the BEST fricking evil laugh in the history of ever. Epic! And then seeing a somewhat overweight man in a huge black beard and a nightgown *bounching* around the stage, acting and singing out his joy at seeing someone strangled, is just beyond hilarious. And Moll does all that while singing one of the most demanding bass arias there is, and makes it all look and sound so easy. I have seen and heard many good Osmins but no-one even comes close to Moll's performance in my opinion.
+ladylaeriel You are absolutely correct. I like Kurt Moll as the Commendatore in Mozart's Don Giovanni also. The final scene in that opera where the Commendatore comes to dine with Giovanni and asks him to repent of all the evil he has done and Giovanni refuses and descends into perdition is one of the greatest scenes in opera.
I love the audience just cracking up when Moll laughs at the beginning. X'D ...Listening to basses singing is kind of like listening to a tuba player playing. Such a deep and rich sound.
Both his singing voice and speaking voice are equally amazing. Smooth and dark, great balance throughout his range and one of the few basses who trills well.
Omg was für eine fantastische Interpretation dieser Arie. Kurt Moll unnachahmlich, gesanglich und schauspielerisch. Der pure Genius und Genuss. Vielen Dank für dieses Upload einer kulturellen Kostbarkeit.
Oh, this is fantastic. Kurt Moll was one of the greatest bass singers. I liked him when he played The Commendatore in Mozart's Don Giovanni, he was great in that last scene.
Watching again! THIS is a clip to come back to time after time! After a fantastically comedic performance, who could NOT love this man! God, he was wonderful!
Moll was the best basso profondo since Emanuel List and Alexander Kipnis emerged in the 1920's. He even did the triplets cleanly and without slowing down, produced fine trills, and was fabulous all the way down.
C'est tout simplement prodigieux! La voix invraisemblable, le charisme, l'interprétation, l'énergie, l'humour, l'équilibre avec l'orchestre... IMMENSE Kurt Moll! ❤
I suspect some 'purists' might complain of the tempo, but I love it! All to often we don't make tweaks to performances to make a classic piece more relevant to the ears of our modern audiences. For me, I'd love to sing it at this piece -- if I had the bottom register Herr Moll possessed -- as it adds so very much to the dramatic delivery of this awesome aria. Solti was a genius to afford us this rendering.
What I love about this is just the joy one can often feel from Herr Moll when he is singing ... that laugh at the beginning that just cracked up the entire audience is what you get when a joyful master of his craft takes a stereotype already worn out and just sends it all the way up to something lovely and expressive. And then there's also the speed here ... REALLY fast, but Herr Moll's attitude seems to be "All right! I can skip, I can dance, AND SO CAN MY HUGE VOICE, and I get to be a grown man and paid to play in public! Ah, another fantastic opportunity!" One forgets Osmin is a villain ... Herr Moll swamps his character's sadism with his joy and love!
I saw this at the MET in 05(ish?) And Moll was AMAZING! They had to stop for a few minutes cuz people kept clapping so he did this funny look-at-the-audience-and-sort-of-bow-backwards thing. It was FANTASTIC. He's amazing...old, but amazing :)
For me Moll is the best Osmin ever even compared to Frick and others. I hope I'll get this DVD soon, because in this performance Moll shows everybody how to combine great technique, perfect voice and extraordinary acting.
Moll is a profundo in the italian tradition, meaning a bass with large sound and with a large range, often ranging C2-F4. This is a slightly different voice type than the Russian profundo, which is a singer often with a raw timbre and approximated range of G1-C4. Let me just shoot in here that the notion of there only being three russian profundi is a misunderstanding. I could mention at least ten active today.
(Warning bad english , am swedish) I will join in the praising choir. Lord Kurt Moll IS unbeatable when it comes to this aria! Artisticly, bassowise PERIOD! He preforms it musicly to the note and as everybody says he preforms it like it was nothing. My uncle who was a basso said he used to get an anxeity attack when he was asked to sing this. This is NOT a simple song to sing and I morn that so far i haven´t seen a new genartion basso how peforms it as good as Moll did.
Better than Frick, Moll is THE Mozart bass. THE Osmin, THE Sarastro, THE Commendatore! Frick may have him beat at Wagner, but Moll has that great vocal flexibility that he so exercises here. Long live the Molllll!
I have a soft spot for Finnish opera singers - my favorite Osmin is Martti Talvela, while Sarastro is Hannu Forsberg (actually bass-baritone). The Magic Flute was my first ever opera and Forsberg played the role back then, so he left quite an impression on me. Same reason why Tom Nyman is my favorite tenor (he was Tamino in that production).
Oh, yessssssssssss . . . that WAS magnificent! Moll was in a class by himself. However . . . I have a CD from a 1949 (yes, nineteen forty-nine) studio recording conducted by Ferenc Fricsay with the RIAS symphony and chorus in which Osmin is sung by Josef Greindl, a fine German bass of an earlier generation. The CD is on the MYTO label; Sari Barabas, Anton Dermota, Helmut Krebs and Rita Streich appear in the other roles. It's worth looking for.
@@brunegilda2453 I bumped into it at a used CD shop and snapped it up, not knowing what a treat lay ahead! There's also a clip from "Don Carlo" on YT of Greindl as Philip II and Marti Talvela as the Grand Inquisitor; it's positively chilling! Talvela's appearance will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up!
Don't get me wrong, I do love the work of the late,great Solti. However, I think he may have needed to run to the bathroom-- THE TEMPO WAS BLISTERINGLY FAST ! I have sung this role 8 times now, and NEVER at such a breakneck speed. Still enjoyable though.
What does Tim Storms have to do with singing low notes? We're talking about real singers here, and not fryers, aren't we? It is one thing to vocalize, and quite another to SING.
Kurt Moll was always excellent when I listened to the MET broadcasts, but my favourite for the triumph aria is Frick in 1956 his first recording. His voice wasn't so good second time around. Henry Webb
Is there anything better than seeing a basso profundo magnifico jumping and prancing around and singing the crap out of a VERY difficult aria? NOOOOOOO
Another comment from me about Moll.....he's absolutely having the most fun a human being can have singing this, and it's this joy of his that comes out and just smacks us all in the face! The last time Moll sang Osmin at the MET, the people went CRAZY for him...he got the most huge ovation, and well-deserved, too! High notes, low notes, trills, and every other note in between....killin'em, Kurt Baby!
It is the joy that sets him apart ... there is a video here where a close up catches him almost forgetting not to smile as the Commendatore ... but his eyes just sparkled before he hit the highest true note in that ENTIRE scene like, you know, "Hey tenors -- if you need a night off, I've got high notes covered!" ... knowing all the time that in two minutes he just as easily will be busting out that same low D we hear here ... just two octaves and a bit more of sheer mastery, done with so much joy the character ALMOST cannot contain him. There are some audio-only videos of him singing lieder, and you can FEEL him smiling ... you can HEAR it in his voice ... and there is at least one video of him teaching ... and he passes all that love and light on to his student, who you can hear becoming a better singer minute by minute, drawn to the light!
not only a wonderful bass but also a great comic actor..I miss him...RIP Herr Kurt Moll.
In modern tuning, this aria is unbelievably difficult for a low bass. Every phrase crosses the passaggio, and demands a lot of movement in that tricky register. In mozart's tuning this is more reasonable, but that doesn't help us now! This is one of the best renditions on CZcams - Moll absolutely crushes the piece. Bravo!
This is definitely the hardest piece a low bass can sing. The d4 to d2 is killer and how much middle voice it uses. Don't forget the incredibly hard trill and arpeggios at the end. Moll is such an amazing singer, and it's no wonder he's considered one of the greatest bassos of all time.
And I still miss you, Herr Kurt Moll....not only a great singer, but also a great actor....
best Osmin's laugh ever! great performance!
That is the BEST fricking evil laugh in the history of ever. Epic! And then seeing a somewhat overweight man in a huge black beard and a nightgown *bounching* around the stage, acting and singing out his joy at seeing someone strangled, is just beyond hilarious. And Moll does all that while singing one of the most demanding bass arias there is, and makes it all look and sound so easy. I have seen and heard many good Osmins but no-one even comes close to Moll's performance in my opinion.
+ladylaeriel You are absolutely correct. I like Kurt Moll as the Commendatore in Mozart's Don Giovanni also. The
final scene in that opera where the Commendatore comes to dine with Giovanni and asks him to repent of all the evil he has done and Giovanni refuses and descends into perdition is one of the greatest scenes in opera.
couldnt agree more !
True. Moll is the best Osmin ever. Can't get enough of this. I first heard his Sarastro when I was few years old. He was a very nice, humble human.
I love the audience just cracking up when Moll laughs at the beginning. X'D
...Listening to basses singing is kind of like listening to a tuba player playing. Such a deep and rich sound.
Both his singing voice and speaking voice are equally amazing. Smooth and dark, great balance throughout his range and one of the few basses who trills well.
Omg was für eine fantastische Interpretation dieser Arie. Kurt Moll unnachahmlich, gesanglich und schauspielerisch. Der pure Genius und Genuss. Vielen Dank für dieses Upload einer kulturellen Kostbarkeit.
The laugh is hilarious and the aria is fantastic!
it doesnt get any better AND funnier than this !!!! What a voice ,what a sound
Oh, this is fantastic. Kurt Moll was one of the greatest bass singers. I liked him when he played The Commendatore in Mozart's Don Giovanni, he was great in that last scene.
I cannot remember any other basso profondo that can do colorature of this quality.
please do me a favor and listen moll singing hier im ird'schen Jammertal! one of the best coloratures i have ever heard
That's because there aren't any!
Josef Greindl
R.I.P Kurt Moll.
No-one could hit Osmin's D2 like he did.
I thought Josef Greindl did a pretty good job.
What about Gottlob Frick?
Thanks for your learned opinion.
" *worse* than Moll" That's such a clear opinion...
Martti Talvela!
Kurt Moll was the greatest opera bass singer ever. He was also great in Mozart's
opera Don Giovanni as The Commendatore.
William H. Burke, Jr. No he wasn't! Just listen to Franz Crass (IMHO much better)! Here the tempo Solti chose is by far too fast!
+MusikPiratCH i listened to Franz's version I did not like it
Marybeth Langendorf I love Franz Crass and especially his voice - more impressive than Kurt Moll! xD
+MusikPiratCH you are entitled to your opinion. Personally I like Kurt Moll better
+MusikPiratCH Moll is the greatest. Franz Crass? Never heard of him.
Watching again! THIS is a clip to come back to time after time! After a fantastically comedic performance, who could NOT love this man! God, he was wonderful!
OMG, that second trill.....INCREDIBLE! And he owns the stage!!!!
Eccezionale Kurt Moll, grande cantante ed ottimo attore.Il migliore Osmino che abbia sentito.
That bit between 1:26 and 1:32, especially the very start - thats some unbeliavablly rich singing.
As soon as you mentioned rich singing I knew exactly what part you were talking about.
Je ne me tanne jamais de l'écouter, ce grand Kurt Moll.
Yes! That's the way to do it! And what a laugh as an entrance!
Kurt Moll is the man !
Meilleur Osmin de tous les temps...RIP Herr Moll!
Another legend is lost. RIP Kurt Moll
Moll was the best basso profondo since Emanuel List and Alexander Kipnis emerged in the 1920's. He even did the triplets cleanly and without slowing down, produced fine trills, and was fabulous all the way down.
R.I.P. Kurt Moll
Immer wieder denke ich: was für eine absolute Legende !!!!!
C'est tout simplement prodigieux! La voix invraisemblable, le charisme, l'interprétation, l'énergie, l'humour, l'équilibre avec l'orchestre... IMMENSE Kurt Moll! ❤
Really good performance! His low D's are the best I've heard so far.
#RIP :(( Danke f.Alles! Maerz 6 2017
I smile every time I watch this! It's just so funny and well done.
A freakin' trill, for Pete's sake! What other basso profundo can even think about doing that??? Moll RULES ALL!
Kurt Mole IS a god! Absolutely wonderful performance, I can't stop watching it.
I LOVE Kurt Moll !!! What a gorgeous bass voice ! And fine technique , too !
I suspect some 'purists' might complain of the tempo, but I love it! All to often we don't make tweaks to performances to make a classic piece more relevant to the ears of our modern audiences.
For me, I'd love to sing it at this piece -- if I had the bottom register Herr Moll possessed -- as it adds so very much to the dramatic delivery of this awesome aria.
Solti was a genius to afford us this rendering.
What I love about this is just the joy one can often feel from Herr Moll when he is singing ... that laugh at the beginning that just cracked up the entire audience is what you get when a joyful master of his craft takes a stereotype already worn out and just sends it all the way up to something lovely and expressive. And then there's also the speed here ... REALLY fast, but Herr Moll's attitude seems to be "All right! I can skip, I can dance, AND SO CAN MY HUGE VOICE, and I get to be a grown man and paid to play in public! Ah, another fantastic opportunity!" One forgets Osmin is a villain ... Herr Moll swamps his character's sadism with his joy and love!
El rapto en el serrallo, una de las óperas más lindas jamás compuesta
Bravo, braaaaavoooooo.........Kurt.
20 people hit dislike because they thought it means "dis I like"!
😂😂😂👍🏻
Wonderful stuff. I only wish that he was still performing. It's sad that in my youth I've been unable to see such a masterful singer live.
Will be missed.
Magnificent! Thanks
I saw this at the MET in 05(ish?) And Moll was AMAZING! They had to stop for a few minutes cuz people kept clapping so he did this funny look-at-the-audience-and-sort-of-bow-backwards thing. It was FANTASTIC. He's amazing...old, but amazing :)
Superb!!
What a great laugh! And a great low D!!
Wunderbar welch grandiose Stimme! Das ist Kunst❤️
He is - to me - the best singer for Osmin. From 2"18 to 2"50 is my favorite part, of course. Brilliant as an actor, too. Thanks for the upload.
Kurt Moll is one of my fav Basses of all time. IvanDavidLippens, you need to get your coat, partner... you are barking up the wrong tree.
For me Moll is the best Osmin ever even compared to Frick and others. I hope I'll get this DVD soon, because in this performance Moll shows everybody how to combine great technique, perfect voice and extraordinary acting.
Rest In Peace Kurt Moll , the best bass ever u.u
Moll is a profundo in the italian tradition, meaning a bass with large sound and with a large range, often ranging C2-F4.
This is a slightly different voice type than the Russian profundo, which is a singer often with a raw timbre and approximated range of G1-C4.
Let me just shoot in here that the notion of there only being three russian profundi is a misunderstanding. I could mention at least ten active today.
(Warning bad english , am swedish)
I will join in the praising choir. Lord Kurt Moll IS unbeatable when it comes to this aria!
Artisticly, bassowise PERIOD!
He preforms it musicly to the note and as everybody says he preforms it like it was nothing. My uncle who was a basso said he used to get an anxeity attack when he was asked to sing this.
This is NOT a simple song to sing and I morn that so far i haven´t seen a new genartion basso how peforms it as good as Moll did.
I almost cried over how true this statement is. Thank you so much for clarifying this. :)
Kurt Moll the best!! I saw him in this!
tout simplement grandiose...
Better than Frick, Moll is THE Mozart bass. THE Osmin, THE Sarastro, THE Commendatore! Frick may have him beat at Wagner, but Moll has that great vocal flexibility that he so exercises here. Long live the Molllll!
I have a soft spot for Finnish opera singers - my favorite Osmin is Martti Talvela, while Sarastro is Hannu Forsberg (actually bass-baritone).
The Magic Flute was my first ever opera and Forsberg played the role back then, so he left quite an impression on me. Same reason why Tom Nyman is my favorite tenor (he was Tamino in that production).
Это был великий бас!!!!!
That low D! So very sublime.
bravo Maestro!
Magnífico
so awesome...
Wunderbar!
Oh, yessssssssssss . . . that WAS magnificent! Moll was in a class by himself.
However . . . I have a CD from a 1949 (yes, nineteen forty-nine) studio recording conducted by Ferenc Fricsay with the RIAS symphony and chorus in which Osmin is sung by Josef Greindl, a fine German bass of an earlier generation. The CD is on the MYTO label; Sari Barabas, Anton Dermota, Helmut Krebs and Rita Streich appear in the other roles. It's worth looking for.
I've got that CD as well and you're right.
@@brunegilda2453 I bumped into it at a used CD shop and snapped it up, not knowing what a treat lay ahead! There's also a clip from "Don Carlo" on YT of Greindl as Philip II and Marti Talvela as the Grand Inquisitor; it's positively chilling! Talvela's appearance will make the hair on the back of your neck stand up!
Best laughter on youtube, that is.
Mozart went full derp with Si---------ngen, literally. I swear it. I've sung that one :D
What do you mean?
+jacob lahr The part is just extremely weird. Around 2:15 to 2:32.
+iamQuiliamQuil weird and extremely hard to sing
I have too. It's pretty weird, but who am I to question the master?
That part sounds and looks like Osmin has to go to the toilet, but someone else occupied it already. Moll just jumps so much. :D
Thank you.
Mr Mozart. Everything just 'fits ' at every phrase and how could it be possible?
Old Singers Project 2018 💜 #voiceit
RIP Kurt. you are missed.
you are the best
Yes! Part of what makes him unrivaled in this role is the great humor he brings to it....he is clearly having a ball!
Don't get me wrong, I do love the work of the late,great Solti. However, I think he may have needed to run to the bathroom-- THE TEMPO WAS BLISTERINGLY FAST ! I have sung this role 8 times now, and NEVER at such a breakneck speed. Still enjoyable though.
einer der Besten aller Zeiten...
Bravo!!!
bravoooo!!
RIP
GREAT!!!
woah he sings this well!!
Great !
master meets master
favoloso!!!!!
Grande... grande.....
Master!!!!
super...
bravo!!
What does Tim Storms have to do with singing low notes? We're talking about real singers here, and not fryers, aren't we?
It is one thing to vocalize, and quite another to SING.
,,,,,,FRIEDEN und FREIHEIT,,,,
Kurt Moll was always excellent when I listened to the MET broadcasts, but my favourite for the triumph aria is Frick in 1956 his first recording. His voice wasn't so good second time around. Henry Webb
good interpretation
Triumphiert!
GREAT OSMIN!!!!
that laugh at the beginning!!!
The best comment...
that laugh in the beginning is damn scary
Is there anything better than seeing a basso profundo magnifico jumping and prancing around and singing the crap out of a VERY difficult aria? NOOOOOOO
Toller Bart! :)
R.I.P kurt mool
yes
Hahahahahahaha, great nickname!
2:32 - 2:49 ... fu**ing amazing voice...
that's very true, my dad is a bass and even though he sings a lot of mozart (osmin, sarastro, etc.) his forte is wagner