Round 4. The Harmony of LaRaLe moved A Great Big World.
There was a shake-up in quartet membership in Round 4 (see the post published on March 1). Larale refers to the team of season 3, representing the first two letters of the names of three quartets La Poem, RabidAnce, and Letteamor.
A newly-made quartet named "ㄱ나니" (meaning "Do you remember?") consisted of countertenor Sunghoon Choi (La Poem), bass Paul Kim (Rabidance), tenor Minseok Kim and baritone Hyunsoo Park (Letteamor). Whether it was intentional or not, there were all possible vocal types in this quartet, raising a great expectation of their harmony.
Following a performance of Pain Killer (season 2), ㄱ나니 performed "You" composed and sung by Ian Axel of A Great Big World. Axel started to write this song when his wife was having his son Bowie. According to People, he was terrified and most excited at the same time. When the baby was finally born, Axel felt the presence of his son in his life every moment, being relieved with the idea that he didn't have to live without his son anymore. The magazine concludes with Axel's words "This song is for all the people out there who come into your life and change it forever."
ㄱ나니's performance was truly an artwork. The bridge Sunghoon and Paul (aka human cello) made with "Air on the G String" is particularly impressive. Following the bridge, I personally like the chorus part in which the voices of all singers, with Minseok and Hyunsoo having joined, were rising in a crescendo.
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ㄱ나니's performance received the most votes from the audience, defeating the other quartets representing seasons 1 and 2.
아름답군요. 노래 중간즈음에 아라아를 들려주는 분분의 카운터테너의 목소리는 우주를 공명하는듯한 선이 여겨지는듯 하군요.
ReplyDelete각 싱어들의 목소리와 화음이 아름답습니다.이분들의 프로듀싱 실력 또한 훌륭하군요.영상 감사합니디ㅡ
아름다운 노래를 선사한 가수들이 오히려 감사하죠.
DeleteHonestly speaking, this was actually one of my favourite quartet performances from All Stars. It's a pity that it was not La Poem, but still very impressive.
ReplyDeletePaul and Sunghoon's voices are mixed really well, as we already witnessed from their performance 'Becoming the wind'. Their own version of the 'Air on the G String' was breathtaking.
And yes, you are right! We are lucky to have Sunghoon in La Poem! ;)
I agree with your assessment. I find this performance immaculate. The execution was really great. Ironically, the highest and lowest vocal singers meshed really well.
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