
ABOUT THE PICTURES They are a miscellaneous collection of Orfeana from here and there which I have assembled to accompany the music (as well as a photo of the singer that concludes the video.) Image credits are as follows: 1) Antonio Canova, sculptor (photographer unknown) 2) Pascal Adolphe Jean Dagnan-Bouveret 3) Jonathan Alibone 4) Thomas Crawford, sculptor (photographer unknown) 5) Richard Putz 6) Unknown Attic potter (photographer unknown) 7) Alexandre Séon 8) Roger Corbeau(?) 9) George Frederick Watts 10) Jean Delville 11) Shoshanna Vaynman 12) Enzie Shahmiri 13) Jean Bourgoin(?) 14) Photographer unknown ABOUT THE SINGER AND THE PERFORMANCE Starting as a largely self-taught teenager in the mid-1970s, and battling a Moscow musical culture that neither valued nor really understood countertenors at the time, Kazakh-born Erik Kurmangaliev persevered and blossomed into a remarkable musician. He was not widely known in the west, and he left us only a meager discography by which to remember him; but what we have shows a performer of wit and intelligence, with a flair for subtlety and thoughtful phrasing. The voice was not perfect: a certain shrillness tended to creep in when he sang high and loud; but his pianissimi were as finely crafted as any countertenor's, his access to the modal register enabled him to hit low notes with ease that would vex a pure falsettist, and he sang with an unguarded honesty which sets his performances apart from the somewhat drier, more <b>...</b>
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