Here is another extraordinary song by the tsar Ivan, from 1968. Ivan Rebroff (born in 1931, real name Hans-Rolf Rippert) is a German singer of Russian origin with an extraordinary vocal range of four and a half octaves. He sings in German, Russian, French, English, Afrikaans, Italian and Greek. This athlete (195 cm and 115 kgs) is famous for singing Russian folk songs but also performs opera, light classics and folk songs from many countries. His stage performances have stunned audiences with their gusto, and occasional consumption of a fine red wine. He has received in his career 49 golden records. Rebroff describes himself as international, the "connection between 'East and West'" and lives on the Sporade Island of Skopelos, Greece. Ivan has performed over 7 200 concerts in his career in front of 5,8 millions of spectators, including a two year 7 day a week stint at the French opera, singing, among other greats, "Fiddler on the Roof". Being well in his 70's, in a recent Australian tour, Ivan still performed 12 shows in 14 days! Enjoy!
Le chant du rossignol (1917) The symphonic poem "Le chant du rossignol" is an adaptation of music from the opera "Le rossignol" (The Nightingale) by Russian composer Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971). It is based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale about the Emperor of China and his love for the song of a certain nightingale. Later, when Japanies envoys give the Emperor a mechanical nightingale, which can also sing beautifully, the real nightingale flies away. The Emperor, pining after the song of the real bird, falls ill and is about to die, when the real nightingale appears in his window and convinces Death to spare the Emperor. This recording is from a December 1956 live performance in Carnegie Hall with Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic Orchestra.
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