Amelita Galli-Curci & Enrico Caruso - Rigoletto : Quartet - Bella Figlia Dell' Amore (Verdi)

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Classic recording of the "Rigoletto Quartet" featuring Galli-Curci, Caruso, Flora Perini and Giuseppe De Luca. Photograph taken outside the main entrance to building no. 2 (the executive office building and recording studios) of the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey on January 25, 1917 at the sessions for this recording and the Sextet from "Lucia di Lammermoor". Left to Right: De Luca, Galli-Curci, Caruso, Perini, Angelo Bada and Minnie Egener. Marcel Journet is absent from the photo.

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@HermanLabuschagne 10 лет назад

I must have been about 14 years old on a cold winter's night, when I placed this same recording on the turntable. The needle bit the groove and when the scratching started, it produced a star-filled galaxy of voices such as even the angels would pause to listen to. I knew that night that I would treasure this record above all others. 78 rpm records can scarcely be played these days, vinyl became history, cassettes came and went, and now we're going beyond the CD age. I made sure, however, to keep that record and the record player so that for the rest of my life, I could pick a moment when I could play this song and be forever 14 again. A treasure of great price was deposited in the cultural vault of the world the year that this recording was made, and I own part of it. It is great to feel 14 again, on a cold winter's night, just the way it was in 1987.

@jhb134 10 лет назад

Herman - Yes, it's a STOUT-looking group, in the photograph of Caruso ... as we listen-to one of GREAT recordings of this most-memorable part of Verdi's Rigoletto. There are other, great versions with Bjorling, Gigli, de Luca and others, but THIS one has the essence of great voices, a remarkable MELDING of the soprano/tenor/baritone parts, and an endurability that will never lessen.

@HermanLabuschagne 10 лет назад

Hello John. I agree. I've listened to other fine recordings one after the other, yet I always return to this one. It seems to contain an element of magic that none of the others have. Sometimes in music there are special times when magic just makes itself. I think this was one of them.

@jhb134 10 лет назад

Thanks, Herman! .. and please excuse a late reply. Some of present-day listeners might think that Caruso is, a bit ... too "bullish" ... but we DO remember that Enrico and many others recorded-into those, old ACOUSTIC horns and engineerings, of the earliest, sonic days of great recordings. Naturally, Enrico and others felt, a bit-compelled, to maybe COMPENSATE for the recording deficiencies of a former time ... but we ARE very happy to have these, extraordinary examples of what passionate/precise singing, of a Golden Age, could LEAVE to us listeners, even now.

@HermanLabuschagne 10 лет назад

That is frequently said about Caruso, yes. And yet, often when I listen to him, I find him still imminently enjoyable to listen to, and I ask myself why I don't listen to him more often. To me he still manages to capture the sweet nuances of songs. He just had a naturally powerful voice and I think he was blessed in that it remained rich and melodious in stead of harsh and overbearing. Perhaps the recording technology had something to do with it as well. I never thought about that. Whenever critics become very critical, though, I always remind myself of the ultimate measure: the response of the public. Caruso charmed the masses. They loved him. In the end that is what really matters.

@jhb134 10 лет назад

*****- You mentioned that "recording technology had something to do with it", insofar as the POWER of Caruso's voice. And, yes, that's ONE of the points - in the days of acoustic recordings, singers, choruses, orchestras, et. al., were required to focus the ENTIRE ensemble, into the old, petal-shaped HORNS of the day, in order to transcribe the recordings onto the recording elements of the time ... and this was-BEFORE electrical recordings. We're fortunate to still have MANY of the 78 RPM recordings of this time, preserved in different ways and means.

@MrPlattsmouth 6 лет назад

My mother gave me life and gave me opera to make life worth while. Caruso was her idol.

@QED_ 9 месяцев назад

Props.

@drbob117 2 месяца назад

I feel the same as you do. My mother's favorite tenor was Richard Tucker. Mine is Luciano Pavarotti.

@MrJimky 11 лет назад

Galli-Curci---what a voice.

@zsuzsamold 4 месяца назад

My favorite for ever since I was a child! ❤

@Huaimek861 6 лет назад

Magnificent singing !!! One of the most beautiful quartets in any opera !

@margaretjiantonio939 Год назад

I can tell Caruso's powerful voice anywhere. He was really one of a kind.

@zsuzsamold 4 месяца назад

Caruso's voice like flowing melted gold!❤

@edwardmitro8516 5 месяцев назад

I have an original record of this amazing gathering of greats!

@giovannipagliarulo2053 11 лет назад

Ruffo, Caruso, Galli Curci, Homer: i migliori di sempre in questo quartetto

@1psoas9 9 лет назад

They are ALL wonderful. Both ladies are beyond imagining beautiful! Both gentlemen -- I love the way Caruso starts out with an easy flow, no pushing, and only starts to pile it on as he gets worked up. Galli-Curci's ease in singing is one of the greatest of gifts -- it really seems god-given, no work to it at all....

@marilynshively670 6 лет назад

you nailed it: easy flow, no pushing-- clean exquisite voices

@mimosaschneider9016 6 лет назад

You got it!

@monicageri5308 5 лет назад

Meravigliosi , anche il film ...o pianto

@ronnieince4568 4 года назад

And amazing sound quality for a century old recording -it might be equalled but never bettered .

@trudischleifer7245 2 года назад

Beautiful, beautiful, just...beautiful

@llynfach 12 лет назад

Caruso: never equalled.

@zsuzsamold 4 месяца назад

Indeed!❤️

@JoseAntonio-dt6zt 6 лет назад

Fantastic ! I've no words to describe the deep emotion of listening to these celestial voices !

@clivepapayanis3121 6 лет назад

As beautiful as an ensemble gets! Just sublime.

@fbbomber 5 лет назад

Una lezione di bel canto

@Baridan 13 лет назад

The summer of '49 a group of us 18'yr-olds worked in a lumber mill and lived in a house in the woods that had been unoccupied for several years. An old wind-up Victrola was there with a series of 78s that included this very recording. It was my intro to opera. What fond memories this brings to me. I'm very grateful for your posting.

@absdyna 6 лет назад

I came to this video to listen to Caruso singing the duca in the quartet, but I had my socks knocked off by Galli-Curci's flawless high D!

@johnduarte253 5 лет назад

Amelita Galli-Curci.

@BrianJosephMorgan 4 года назад

D-flat.

@alimusazaidi3756 3 года назад

U from pak??

@renb6133 2 года назад

Incredible, isn’t it? A true coloratura soprano & those high notes are effortless. I absolutely love this version of this quartet!

@Huaimek861 6 лет назад

This is one of the best recordings of Enrico Caruso singing , he has always been considered the greatest tenor of the 20th century , listening to him here I would agree . What a wonderful recording with 4 great singers !!!

@pointemeout 7 лет назад

I could never ever imagine hearing a more beautiful thing. Tears flow in the healthiest of ways during and after such splendor enters my ears. I can't even. At all.

@joaoaurelio1534 10 лет назад

This is pure adrenaline, all of them, and then how Caruso mantains his virility in that role, oh god!! this quartet never bores me. And they have great balance, those shiny stars, light that never fades out

@voynaimir3 10 лет назад

Here is where it all started for me many many years ago, listening to this quartet and the sextet from Lucia on the other side of a 78 record my mother had from her mother. I was 8 or so, and I played this record over and over and over, knowing there was something so great there, a world that beckoned me to discover it. And I did. And I am eternally grateful for its riches.

@joaoaurelio1534 10 лет назад

Barbara Richards so glad to hear that, i didnt really have that kind of experience in the way that no one listens music at home. I thank the world for the internet and people that share this things. These Caruso records and with Tetrazzini changed my life and a new world just appeared before me. I might be thanking internet piracy, but where i live it was the only way to know such things. There's something very authentic in this records, it's so old but the first time you hear a vinyl like this it's fresher than anything in 2014 =)

@voynaimir3 10 лет назад

Joao Aurelio Joao, thank you for your response. Though our experiences in coming to this great music were different,that doesn't matter a bit. I am so grateful to share a life-changing experience with another. And I agree with your statement about the authenticity of these old recordings, making them fresher than what we have so much of now. Contemporary singers often are in too much of a hurry to become famous and cover lots of ground to give the kind of loving attention to the nuances and details of vocal expression that the vanguard of old masters did. Not to mention that most listeners currently ignore their gorgeous voices. For that you have to listen through the old recording sound, but it is there for sure when one pays attention.

@Neldidellavittoria 6 лет назад

My first approach to opera was also as a child, through Gigli recordings.

@МихаилЗаозернов 3 года назад

Потрясающе! Я не могу наслушаться... Это вечное наслаждение. Какие нюансы прочтения партии выдает Карузо! Какая зачарованность мелодии, богатство интонации... Все соло слышны, сливаясь в гармонию целого.

@roxieleigh9881 6 лет назад

In the summer of 1977, I bought my first Caruso album, a 2 record RCA Victor Red Seal set called "The Best Of Caruso". This peerless recording of the quartet is on side 1. I have played this record at least once weekly for 41 years. Thank you very much for sharing it here.

@이종선-f9b 2 года назад

황금의목소리 비할데없이 아름다운 4중창

@abcnowcontrol 10 лет назад

Caruso was a miracle;Beautiful,great,terrific!Thank you!

@numetutelare 5 лет назад

Questo è l'Olimpo della lirica... immaginate se queste voci avessero inciso con le tecniche attuali. Oggi ci contentiamo delle zanzare...

@traiannita1201 7 лет назад

Acest minunat quartet a implinit in aceasta interpretare100 de ani. Talentul si maiestria tuturor interpretilor rezista con brio timpului, concurentei si gustului publicului. O capodopera ce si-a dovedit valoarea pentru care a fost inregistrata pe disc , spre nemurire.

@BrianJosephMorgan 2 года назад

Mezzo-soprano Flora Perini created the role of the Zia Principessa in “Suor Angelica,” and this was her only recording: Brava!

@peterschmitz8364 3 месяца назад

grandios gesungen.

@photo161 5 лет назад

Here Caruso's voice is darker and more powerful sounding(less lyrical) than in the 1912 recording The several high B flats, ie, 1:56, 3:12 are huge and imperious. A great voice no doubt and it must have sounded terrific in the house, but I still prefer the younger Caruso, up until about 1912.

@antoniociucciarelli7107 4 года назад

Fantastico quartetto ! Eh altra epoca, quando la lirica era presa sul serio !!!

@cide670 3 года назад

Magnifica interpretare,redescoperita spre binele unei generații noi,care contesta fara temei orice,oricui si oricand.

@rgraz1022 14 лет назад

I love the weight in his voice. The best rendition.

@hilarioecke515 9 лет назад

Es increíble la modernidad de la voz de Caruso. Fue realmente un creador. Todos los que vinieron después, tienen algo de él.

@Fredoin 13 лет назад

Awesome timing, balance, and added flourishes - producing a Bach-like appreciation of all parts. Thanks for posting.

@ciroalb3 8 месяцев назад

and nothing but acoustic technology!

@salvatorespinelli1328 7 лет назад

Caruso immenso e insuperabile.

@schlusnus3806 8 лет назад

Simply it's Caruso....beyond praise.

@somersetuk525 5 лет назад

I think Louise Homer sang in the quartet. ?

@vale86301 6 лет назад

Perfezione !!! Che voci,che gemme dell'opera !

@voynaimir3 13 лет назад

This recording on one side of a 78 rpm RCA Victor record with the sextet from Lucia on the reverse side had a world to do with the fact that I have loved opera from the time I was a child. My mother had the record from her mother, a musician who loved opera, but who had died before I was born. I played it over and over, haunted by it and knowing somehow in my unlearned state that this was truly something very great.

@gkopij 14 лет назад

Amazing voices, amazing recording. Thank you for posting.

@tradi2007 8 лет назад

Its good to listen opera in a saturday rainy night.

@eblackadder3 3 года назад

When I was a teenager, I spent many a rainy Saturday with a cozy fire in the fireplace and the radio on our large console stereo RCA Victrola tuned to the Metropolitan Opera broadcasts. This was in the 1970s, so I was listening to Domingo, Milnes, Price, Scotto, Macneil, Blegen, Verrett, etc., the great singers of that era. Sadly, we don't have singers like that today.

@paulolariu8437 10 лет назад

Splendide voci!

@albertodiaz8070 4 года назад

Caruso the best voice the best tenor the wold

@antonioschiavi6870 Год назад

E tutti i quartetti precisini e ben intonati vanno finalmente dove devono andare, perché i Re fanno l'Opera!

@noshirm6285 11 месяцев назад

MAGNIFICO!!!!

@massimilianomoltedo6847 8 лет назад

Unico,bravo,the greatest Caruso.

@giovannipagliarulo2053 11 лет назад

un'esecuzione eterna

@MrGer2295 5 лет назад

Remembering Italian tenor ENRICO CARUSO was born on this day in 1873 in Naples, Italy 💟☺😊💜🎂🎂🎂

@rojocomolagrana 3 года назад

Exquisite! Maximum as I see it, despite all the excellent versions thereafter.

@giacomofoti264 4 года назад

da pelle d'oca

@hectorbravo6862 Год назад

En mi opinión el mejor cuarteto para Rigoletto.

@manolis.799 9 лет назад

So beautiful! Legendary singers!

@niezapominajka444 10 лет назад

Prawdziwa perełka muzyczna.Co za duet! Dziekuję, także w imieniu mojego Taty.

@johnfalstaff2270 6 лет назад

Nie zapominaj, ze to kwartet a nie duet.

@willemvanniekerk4312 6 лет назад

Thank you for publishing. I last heard this in 1966.

@itob.9231 8 лет назад

Sublime...Superlativo...Grandissimo

@candelariaalsinamartinez7288 8 лет назад

perfección absoluta , Bellisimo.

@smi7209 3 года назад

Amelita's last high c# "perfect magnificent."

@marlajames34 11 лет назад

Wonderful film... and to be able to hear Caruso, marvelous!

@Musica_Vita 3 года назад

Amazing!!!

@ronaldgoff7499 4 года назад

heard this at 12 one my fathers 78s great version with golden age cast

@MinushHoxha 10 лет назад

gjeniu i Verdit dhe gjeniu i kengtarit-magjia per degjuesit. Magjike vertete anise e kam degjuar me qindra here. Sikur vena:gjithnje më e bukur po më behet.

@jmj4879 11 лет назад

CET ENREGISTREMENT EST SPLENDIDE.Il respecte à peu près le tempo original , ce qui est très rare avec les 78 ou 80 tours. Merci pour la mise en ligne.

@kimsahl8555 5 лет назад

Great voices, great music

@mariarosaesergiomarycib2492 7 лет назад

bisogna solo ascoltare!!!!!

@zsuzsisnarey 11 лет назад

It was a wonderful film, could watch it again and again. It made me cry too!

@raulgarat5860 8 лет назад

realmente no hay palabras para expresar tanta maravilla !!!

@elizavettab9741 4 года назад

GRAN CARUSO!!!!!!! E tutti maravigliosi!!!

@MrGer2295 13 лет назад

wow! Amazing performance!!! Thank you for posting

@glaucodichio 11 лет назад

ma cosa sarà stata la voce di Caruso sentita dal vivo? anche in questa registrazione acustica di allora emergono la forza eruttiva e i colori. straordinario davvero

@pinotermini1868 5 лет назад

UNICO AL MONDO !

@robertwatson4840 8 лет назад

Damn! I was told to give this listen yesterday by a coach while working on the piece and it did not disappoint!

@gabrielregaladomuniz508 9 лет назад

Perfect¡ Bravo¡

@lucyluperu 11 лет назад

Grandi!!!!!!

@philipose66 6 лет назад

so i am reading a fav author of mine--James A Michener--"the world is my home"---his uncle brings a gift to his poor family by Philadelphia--JAM is a kid--the gift is a Victrola with a crank (and a governor so as to not play too fast or too slow changing the voices)--one of the 3 records is this piece--so i go to RU-vid and find it here---ya gotta love it!

@WolfgangAPalm-ju9er 5 лет назад

Phantastic 👍

@beawild 10 лет назад

Wonderful!! Thank you for posting it.

@user-ht9cp1xu7w 5 лет назад

Beautiful !

@markoaurelyo 11 лет назад

Oro puro, gracias.

@ImAyadRahim 11 лет назад

my goodness -- words...cannot....

@paulostroff99 13 лет назад

Awesome! Meltzerboy is correct in saying that Galli-Curci was much better here than on the recording with Gigli-though she was still better than most there as well.

@paulostroff99 14 лет назад

Awesome! TY for posting.