{"id":556,"date":"2013-12-17T09:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-16T22:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=556"},"modified":"2013-12-17T09:00:44","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T22:00:44","slug":"advent-calendar-day-17-rejoice-greatly-handel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2013\/12\/17\/advent-calendar-day-17-rejoice-greatly-handel\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 17: Rejoice Greatly (Handel)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know, I&#8217;m really milking this Rejoice business now, aren&#8217;t I?\u00a0 But you see, I went looking for a Magnificat, and then fell down an internet rabbit hole and found myself listening to Patricia Petibon singing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CodvdRTX8zo\">Der H\u00f6lle Rache<\/a>, as well as a whole lot of other entirely un-Adventy things, because she is an utterly addictive singer to watch, and then I remembered seeing a recording of a very young Patricia Petibon (with dark hair!) singing Rejoice Greatly, and *clearly* that had to be the next thing I posted here, because it&#8217;s gorgeous.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube=http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_EWsgdS-p4g&#038;w=420&#038;h=315]<\/p>\n<p>I love this aria, and I just adore the way Petibon sings it &#8211; she is so very expressive, with those huge eyes and wild hair, and I do find it hilarious when she goes all sopranolicious on those cadenzas.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t think that baroque ornaments normally went into the stratosphere like that, but that&#8217;s not going to stop her, and nor should it, because she sounds amazing.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, I can&#8217;t think of anything to add to this, except that you really should go and find more videos of Patricia Petibon singing.\u00a0 I love her CDs &#8211; her choice of music is superb and diverse &#8211; but really, watching her sing is something else again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know, I&#8217;m really milking this Rejoice business now, aren&#8217;t I?\u00a0 But you see, I went looking for a Magnificat, and then fell down an internet rabbit hole and found myself listening to Patricia Petibon singing Der H\u00f6lle Rache, as well as a whole lot of other entirely un-Adventy things, because she is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,263,566,604,696],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advent","tag-g-f-handel","tag-patricia-petibon","tag-rejoice-greatly","tag-the-messiah"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}