The tenor Noah Baetge received the award for a singer embarking on a Wagnerian career for "Walther's Preislied" from "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg," which showed off his clarion timbre, excellent breath control and convincing narrative flair.
read all, this is an excellent starting point for introduction into the timbre literature Handel, S. (1995) "Timbre Perception and Auditory Object Recognition" In B.C.J. Moore (Ed)., Hearing.
Richard Paul Fink's excellent bass-baritone added to the rich if shadowy timbres of the piece.
The familiar repetitive structures in the 12-strong ensemble, the excellent MTW Ensemble conducted by Michael Rafferty, are spare and restrained, the timbres notably mellow – the small forces include bass clarinet, cor anglais, bass trombone and marimba.
Yet, despite excellent performances, Bryars's suite felt less than the sum of its parts, and the ensemble's timbres seemed overly muted.
"Timbre," corrects Boyle immediately.
And what is vocal timbre?
Extremely nasal timbre thus stresses different overtones than mellow timbre.
The five excellent actors — Rob Campbell, Lisa Joyce, Merritt Janson, Christina Rouner, and Michael Rudko — don't "play" Franzen so much as they bring different emotional and vocal timbres to his text, which, taking turns, they read in its entirety — not once, but several times.
Listen to the timbre of my voice!
Timbre is radically simple by comparison.
