I'm not sure I agree with your inaccurate generalisations; it seems as if you're listening to the wrong English tenors. I don't think you can accuse any of the following gents of sounding less than natural - and all are more technically consistent than Ian Bostridge (a great interpreter, but very problematic technically):
Philip Langridge - Billy Budd: Prologue - YouTube
Robert Tear - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkSQLt8jTNQ
Stuart Burrows - 19. Il mio tesoro - Stuart Burrows (Don Giovanni ROH'88) - YouTube
Anthony Rolfe Johnson - Britten War Requiem Rostropovich Lacrymosa - YouTube
John Mark Ainsley - John Mark Ainsley sings Where'er You Walk - YouTube
Richard Berkeley-Steele - Die Walkure - YouTube
Alexander Young - Alexander Young - Mozart - La Clemenza di Tito (1953) - YouTube
Alberto Remedios - Alberto Remedios Adriana Lecouvreur - YouTube
Charles Craig - Di Quella Pira (Il trovatore) sung by British Tenor Charles Craig, Genova, Italy 1970's - YouTube
Walter Midgley - WALTER MIDGLEY " Dalla sua pace" Don Giovanni - YouTube
Barry Banks - Adina Credimi - Arizona Opera's The Elixir of Love - YouTube
Richard Crooks - The Holy City - Richard Crooks - YouTube
Webster Booth - "Beauty's eyes" (Paolo Tosti) WEBSTER BOOTH - YouTube
Paul Charles Clarke - Mercadante - Virginia: cabaletta "Al cor furente ed ebro" - Paul Charles Clarke. - YouTube
Toby Spence - Toby Spence sings Jacques Brel - La Valse a Mille Temps ( The thousand-beat waltz) - YouTube
Charles Daniels - dog star gazing by Timothy Roberts (1/3) - YouTube
Arthur Carron - A si ben mio.....Di quella pira Tenore ARTHUR CARRON - YouTube
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3 What do you think of his larynx going up? Is that because he is not really
singing, or is it part of the English tenor technique? I saw him in on stage
several times, but never looked at his larynx while he was singing.
(I do like his interpretation, he knows exactly what he is singing and is
quite convincing. Sometimes he sounds like he is off his voice, maybe too
closely miked. His voice is quite light, so that's a matter of taste but he
sounds much more natural than most English tenors.
