Speaking for myself, I can't listen to Domine Deus without being jealous of the Weber sisters. But people can have such queer ideas about what's singable: one composer said to me "There's a high g-flat, but I tried to make it easy for you [basso profondo] by approaching it gradually by half steps".No one alive wants to leap
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