Pundits always lecture young tenors like Di Stefano or Carreras not to push lest they damage their gift. Yet you will notice, young tenors continue to push. Why? Because that's how you grow your voice. Margison and Bonisolli started with small voices but kept pushing until they had very big voices indeed. All of these tenors added power and brilliance as they lost some vocal sweetness. Alas some tenors do lose their voices while trying to expand - but not Carreras. He just got sick.
Agree with you. Your last sentence describes it better than your first one: One thing is to look for "expansion" of the voice, but another thing is to PUSH the voice, which distorts it and shatters it's flexibility. Nowadays everybody is pushing and loosing their voices in a couple years, very sad scenario...
I have just listined to a recital by DiStefano in 1952 age 31. Already strain and harshness are evident and some here wirh Carreras here in a basically excellent performance. I think Gigli and Bjoerling are better models for vocal longevity.
@65attila People often compare Carreras with Di Stefano but they were not very similar. Di Stefano did indeed know how to cover but he chose not to and his over open top soon deteriorated - just as everyone at the time said it would. Th myth is that he was ignorant of vocal technique. Not so - he was willful not ignorant. In any case Carreras does cover and always has. He may or may not have had vocal problems other than leukemia but if so they weren't caused by him singing like Di Stefano.
He was one brilliant lyric tenor in his hey day; at his best I would dare say that no other tenor at the time was better. His voice was arresting and just had a natural instinct for singing, at the same time he was also very musical. Though he blasted the hell out of his voice in this concert in 1984 and the voice was in decline by the time he got diagnosed with cancer. I don't know but it just seemed like he attacked like a wild bull after 1979. He did love Mario Lanza after all haha.
Gran Maestro Carreras, que linea, que perfeccion en la expresion, y la voz siempre sul fiato, y bien colocada, maravilloso, oir a un gran cantante, para mi Jose Carreras es un gran señor del bel canto!!! Bravo Maestro!
This was recorded about five years after some critics began reporting that Carreras had "lost his voice." Yeah, right! True, he might have misplaced it from time to time, but he found it for this concert.
My absolute favorite of the "three tenors;" Pavarotti and Domingo never had this man's beauty of voice, class, or style. Too bad Carreras became ill and lost his voice by the time he did those concerts.
que gran voz me parece que sus agudos son mejores que el mejor placido domingo.. mas abierto mas generoso en los agudos lo que pasa es que placido cerraba su voz y ajustaba en el sia agudo pero carreras desfiguraba pero era mas abierto el sonido.ñ..
Well, I just have to put this one in my favorites! I love the gleam in his eye when he really cranks up the intensity and volume-you can tell he loves singing this way!
bravissimo Maestro!!!Super!!!Fantastic!!!
francotarika 1 month ago
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francotarika 1 month ago
Always moved by his exceptional ardour
chengducat 1 month ago
The best Version for all Time !!!!
mrpostmannidau 11 months ago
IL DIO!!!!!!GRAZIE MAESTRO !!!
dimofleto 11 months ago
Can`t imagine a human voice more beautiful and moving than that of young Carreras
Rospaint 1 year ago 5
@Rospaint AMEN to those words!
fabiantenor 1 year ago
@fabiantenor Thank you for this really wonderful tribute to Carreras!
Rospaint 1 year ago
Can`t imagine a human voice more beatiful and moving than that of young Carreras
Rospaint 1 year ago
il grande Carreras cantava veramente con il cuore!!!!! nella sua voce si coglie sempre una grandissima espressività!!!!!! emozionante!!!!
thefranzpippo 1 year ago
@HoHeave
But man that`s really niot true,how can you said that,that is just stupid!!
Huljic 2 years ago
Grande Maestro,Unico !!!!!!!
tukilala 2 years ago 10
Pundits always lecture young tenors like Di Stefano or Carreras not to push lest they damage their gift. Yet you will notice, young tenors continue to push. Why? Because that's how you grow your voice. Margison and Bonisolli started with small voices but kept pushing until they had very big voices indeed. All of these tenors added power and brilliance as they lost some vocal sweetness. Alas some tenors do lose their voices while trying to expand - but not Carreras. He just got sick.
Agorante 2 years ago 7
Agree with you. Your last sentence describes it better than your first one: One thing is to look for "expansion" of the voice, but another thing is to PUSH the voice, which distorts it and shatters it's flexibility. Nowadays everybody is pushing and loosing their voices in a couple years, very sad scenario...
fabiantenor 2 years ago
@Agorante
I have just listined to a recital by DiStefano in 1952 age 31. Already strain and harshness are evident and some here wirh Carreras here in a basically excellent performance. I think Gigli and Bjoerling are better models for vocal longevity.
65attila 1 year ago
@65attila People often compare Carreras with Di Stefano but they were not very similar. Di Stefano did indeed know how to cover but he chose not to and his over open top soon deteriorated - just as everyone at the time said it would. Th myth is that he was ignorant of vocal technique. Not so - he was willful not ignorant. In any case Carreras does cover and always has. He may or may not have had vocal problems other than leukemia but if so they weren't caused by him singing like Di Stefano.
Agorante 1 year ago
HoHeave: When you are truly going to burst on stage from over singing, you simply cannot go on.
Me thinks if any of us could accomplish what Carrears did and the emotion he put into his singing, we would have done exactly the same.
rovingdesertfox 2 years ago
He was one brilliant lyric tenor in his hey day; at his best I would dare say that no other tenor at the time was better. His voice was arresting and just had a natural instinct for singing, at the same time he was also very musical. Though he blasted the hell out of his voice in this concert in 1984 and the voice was in decline by the time he got diagnosed with cancer. I don't know but it just seemed like he attacked like a wild bull after 1979. He did love Mario Lanza after all haha.
romanazazel 2 years ago 3
Very good!!!
ShawDAMAN 3 years ago 5
Gran Maestro Carreras, que linea, que perfeccion en la expresion, y la voz siempre sul fiato, y bien colocada, maravilloso, oir a un gran cantante, para mi Jose Carreras es un gran señor del bel canto!!! Bravo Maestro!
Marinausbcn 3 years ago 3
This was recorded about five years after some critics began reporting that Carreras had "lost his voice." Yeah, right! True, he might have misplaced it from time to time, but he found it for this concert.
tenorsanyone 3 years ago 4
My absolute favorite of the "three tenors;" Pavarotti and Domingo never had this man's beauty of voice, class, or style. Too bad Carreras became ill and lost his voice by the time he did those concerts.
billyguns2 3 years ago 4
que gran voz me parece que sus agudos son mejores que el mejor placido domingo.. mas abierto mas generoso en los agudos lo que pasa es que placido cerraba su voz y ajustaba en el sia agudo pero carreras desfiguraba pero era mas abierto el sonido.ñ..
ivancin25 3 years ago
And after this some stupid critics are proving that Jose Carreras has a week upper register!
Just listen how strong, clear and ringing are his high notes!
Thank you very much fabiantenor for uploading this video!
sandrik100 3 years ago 12
Well, I just have to put this one in my favorites! I love the gleam in his eye when he really cranks up the intensity and volume-you can tell he loves singing this way!
novice1959 3 years ago 6