Richard Tucker - Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (Yours is my heart alone) 1954 live!

[sprinter846]

Tucker's voice has a special expressive lyrical beauty here to a degree that I have never heard before. His singing is suffused with passion and deep ardor; the phrasing is finely nuanced and intensely romantic...a great performance!

[johndlabella]

A perfect legato, clear diction, instrumentally clean line, nice pointed phrasing, and none of the huffy-puffy esclamazione (sp?) that he added later on. Really, it's totally satisfying. O to be there live. Thanks to you for putting this on Youtube.

[SHICOFF1]

@ConnonTenor Actually he had a fine high C that he sang occasionally live and on recording. He did it live in Ballo and on recording both in the duet, as Calaf live and in Aida in 1966 complete on brdcst. with price but interpolated and in the Lascaut last act in 59 with tebaldi and even later in the 60's. In 1974 as Calaf 6 mos. before he died, live in Brooklyn another high C but this one here of course does not call for it. His High B's where fantastic.

[citrussorbet]

Wow! Thats why he was called The American Caruso

[halavey]

He sang in German also on occasion, lieder late in his career also but not this song. He even sang the Prize song in recital in the early 70's. Hard to believe this is 60 year old Tucker! sounds so young for 60!

[ElisabettaVS]

Wow. I only know this in german (I also think that it sounds better in german, but anyway), what a great singer! I didn't know him before and the English transcription of the song is not bad. It sounds very very nice!

[ciroalb3]

@ElisabettaVS Tauber used to encore it in several different languages

[halavey]

i have it on cassette from legato classics from lyric distribution it is mixed with early and later live arias and duets. T

[operabeauty]

This is truly gorgeous, Tucker sang this at a gala outdoor concert at the the Philadelphia Robin Hood Dell in late June of 1974, only 6 months before his passing. It was an encore, and he dedicated it to his wife, Sara.

[VinylToVideo]

Better than his studio recording. Yes, I believe I've seen a copy on someone's opera list of a radio recording of Tucker at the War Memorial Opera House with this on the program although am not 100% sure.

[halavey]

I heard tucker and corelli sing at the met in 73 cav and pag and have the tape recorded from the same seat, same machine, tucker was fantastic and older then franco and it was taped from the upper balcony . 6./ 73 corelli sang the cav.

[halavey]

My copy on cassette says Legato classics and that was from Ed so perhaps he will remember == Roslyn New York, he may have the place and it may have been on radio?

[ConnonTenor]

What, no randomly interpolated Bonisolli-esque C#'s? Thank God.

[GermanOperaSinger]

Indeed!

[56mikeo]

@ConnonTenor If he had had anything above a B, he might have thought of it.

[ShawDAMAN]

Great, and great ending. =)

[SchugOo]

Schöne Stimme, romantischer Klang!