The big sleep
It’s time yet once again for a listening quiz, cher public, courtesy of Our Own armerjaquino.
The following sound file contains snippets of 16 performances of the classic Richard Strauss song “Beim Schlafengehen,” and your task will be to identify all 16 singers in the correct order. Make your guesses in the comments section below, and the first commenter to guess all 16 correctly, or, failing that, the commenter with the highest number of correct identifications as of midnight on Thursday, July 5 will win a coveted Amazon.com Gift Card
Here’s the clip, cher public, and off you go!
Here my final list:
1. Grümmer
2. Schwanewilms
3. Cotrubas
4. Isokoski
5. Steber
6. Röschmann
7. Arroyo
8. M. Price
9. Janowitz
10. Schwarzkopf
11. Stich-Randall?
12. Popp
13. Merbeth
14. Hendricks
15. Eaglen
16. Studer
with some I am certain like 1-4, 6, 9, 10, 14, 15 and some are guesses.
Looking at the list, 1-16, I am so impressed that you guys can identify a good number of the voices from such a short clip. I know or know of most of those singers, but haven’t heard enough of their work to even try to identify them and/or haven’t heard them in many years. Studer, Cotrubas, Isokowski, Röschmann, Hendricks, ,Janowitz are among those. Don’t know Merbeth at all. I have only seen five or six of them in person.
When do we get the correct answers Armer?
La Cieca has the answers, so I will of course leave it to her to announce them, and the winner.
As is clearly stated, the contest runs until midnight tonight (Thursday).
ok thanks
oh my mistake I thought it was midnight of the 4th going into the 5th.
I always wished that Lemnitz and Cebotari could have recorded them with their floating Strausian voices.
It would have been so much fun if the clips were all singers not associated with this cycle -- Marilyn Horne, Mirella Freni, Birgit Nilsson, Grace Bumbry, Montserrat Caballe