Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Va! laisse couler mes larmes

Va! laisse couler mes larmes[edit]

1892 – Werther: "Va! laisse couler mes larmes"

From Jules Massenet's Werther (1892); Sung by Jeanette Ekornaasvaag.

While it must be admitted that little firm information exists about this recording, the licensing is not in doubt, and it provides an excellent introduction to an opera for which few free recordings exist at this time. It is, admittedly, a piano reduction, but I think you'll understand that orchestras need paid, and very few recordings have modern sound quality, full orchestra, and a free licence.

Nominate and support. Shoemaker's Holiday ^{Over 200 FCs served} 00:32, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support—BTW, I thought nominators no longer formally added "Support". Pity no pianist's name, but I understand there was little info. Can you change the hyphens to en dashes for the year ranges? I'd have done it myself, but couldn't work out how to edit the page. Tony (talk) 00:41, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Sure! I'll sort it out. I agree about the pianist - I nearly skipped over FPC witht his one, but it is a very good recording. She also did a very nice Seguidilla from Carmen, same lack of info. I'll sort through her stuff and nominate one a day. Shoemaker's Holiday ^{Over 200 FCs served} 00:49, 23 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support but do change the title to "Va! laisse couler mes larmes". ReverendWayne (talk) 04:21, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Done. Sorry about that: The site I got it from had a typo in it. Shoemaker's Holiday ^{Over 200 FCs served} 12:33, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I don't want to rock the boat in an area where I have no contribution history, so this is not an official comment, but...I would support this as a Good Sound (if there was such a thing) but I wonder if it should be Featured, seeing as it is a piano reduction. Yes, it is difficult to get free high quality modern recordings with full orchestra. I understand that we would feature a historical recording with poor sound quality if it was a historically significant artist. Jeanette Ekornaasvaag, as far as I can tell on google search, is not a significant artist. I would say that if we got a free recording of a piano reduction by a significant artist (Renee Fleming, Maria Callas, etc) or if we had a really good quality recording by a lesser known singer with orchestra, it should be featured, but a piano reduction by a lesser known artist, it's not clear to me that this should be Featured. As I said, I'm new to this so will defer to more experienced editors, but, I wanted to raise the issue. Thatcher 16:07, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- It's a tough one, but I think that this being from a fairly rarely-performed opera does help push it over the top, by making it much more unlikely we'll find better. I also think that, for pragmatic reasons, it'd be a bad idea to say that piano reductions are automatically unfeaturable: We want to encourage people to contribute material to Wikipedia, and it's reasonable to expect Wikipedians to record with piano, but getting an orchestra good enough to feature really is difficult. So we'd probably be wise to let it pass for now. Shoemaker's Holiday ^{Over 200 FCs served} 12:33, 26 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Amazing quality. Staxringold _talk^contribs 23:49, 24 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File -- Jeanette_Ekornaasvaag - Jules Massenet - Werther - "Va!_laisse_couler_mes_larmes".ogg --Seddσn ^talk|^WikimediaUK 23:47, 13 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]