(Enhanced!) Gioconda de Vito 78 RPM Beethoven Romance op. 50

[82224561]

The sound record is Amazing as well the interpretation!

Thank you for this astonished version!

[GeorgiosMICHALAKIS]

Not only did you take the time to clean up this marsterpiece, but to also make a great video with many interesting facts about this artist who was unknown to me till now. Many thanks and GOD BLESS YOU.

[dkurgano]

what an amazing sound! like hot embers from a fire! but yet so delicate. amazing bow control. just lovely...

[vanderbilt887]

Thanks for this gem otterhouse. Nothing like the good ol' LP.

Gioconda looks so much like my mother in her younger days on this picture,

Beautiful. Faved.

[ilcavalierriccardo]

questa suona col cuore.....

[nuovocentauro]

Marvelous. This performance is so sweet, it *almost* could be kitsch, and yet she stays away from that fine line with gentleness and a touching tastefulness. This makes it very precious.

I would love to hear said Brahms concerto.

[nuovocentauro]

No, seriously. I have never been so fond of Beethoven's Romance before as I am now. I keep coming back to this performance.

[CarlosFinch]

Very likely recorded on audio tape. Much better frequency response and dynamic range than earlier d-to-d recordings. We are fortunate to hear this artist so well recorded.

[saltburner2]

No, this is a direct disc recording. EMI did not go over to tape mastering until 1949.

And the earliest tape masters had more hiss and were more prone to pitch fluctuations than later direct disc masters.

Modern digital techniques can make 78 masters sound spectacular!

[beethomozart]

this romanza is to describe it in just one word "HEAVEN",and what a wonderful interpretation by this italian violinist, GOD touched Beethoven when he composed this ultrafamous piece of celestial and sublime music,long live ludwig van and thanks for posting" real music" towards infinity

[otterhouse]

I have opened a second channel called "europeanArchive". There I have gathered highlights from the European archive collection. 500+ Lp's from the Dutch public radio library. Those recordings can be downloaded for free if you live outside the USA (sorry for that, but it was the only way the library could operate). Search "europeanArchive" on youtube, and you can find it!

Greetings,

"otterhouse" Rolf

[NOSEhow2LIV]

Wonderful! The most natural passionate vibrato, yet with restraint and taste. Gioconda de Vito remains a magic name for me:She,with Amadeo Baldovini,cello,gave the first interpretation i heard(10"LP)of Brahms Double Concerto,with all the qualities you find here.A marvellous souvenir. Thank you so much.

[OriginalMoonbeam]

Oh wow..this is divine! She has a vibrato to die for.

[zakar67]

Molto brava! Stupenda esecuzione. Grazie

[LUVINMUSIQ]

absolutely beautiful...thats all i can say for my great grandmother!!! may you rest in peace with the devito's who passed..make sure my father is doing ok.

[maurice0773]

La più grande violinista italiana, insieme a Campoli hanno dominato la prima metà del novecento in Italia. Trovo questa interpretazione un pò lenta visto che Beethoven se non sbaglio ha segnato un tempo tagliato. Se possibile vorrei sapere da Rodda7 in che occasione ha sentito la De Vito e se oltre al vibrato di polso usava anche il braccio. Famoso era il suo attacco del concerto di Brahms in su.Grazie della condivisione

[patriciaoday]

Absolutely gorgeous!

[carlodevito]

She was a great singer I should know she was my great grand mother

[MilsteinRulez]

Um -- I would rather have expected someone by the name of Bicknell stating this. None of the available bios mention any kids. She married in 1949, which leaves us, at best, with all but sixty years for three generations. I'm not saying it's impossible, but you have to admit it's tight.

Maybe you mean she was your grandmother, or some kind of aunt? Gioconda de Vito was born in 1907, and my own grandmothers were of the same generation.

Puzzled

MilsteinRulez

[classact1011]

This is absolutely beautiful...I have never heard it played as well as this .......romance in the very meaning of the word ...Beethoven would have been proud

[Dannatio]

I had this music the day I got married.

Still shakes my hearth.....

[Shaxspar]

There is a multiple LP Italian set of de Vito in much of the concerto repertoire. Especially sublime is the Brahms Violin Concerto with Furtwangler. I am brand new to YouTube, so I will have to learn how to reciprocate such gifts as this. Thank you.

[rometube]

excelente, sorprendente! I really learn every day! I'm just so suprised. She was great. Congratulations otterhouse

[Thomakis]

splendid music.. great channel. I had to subscribe.

[AmyRoseXOXOXO]

I'm so excited to have found your channel! Thank you for the amazing music : ) XOXO

[lolmanerik]

wonderful. european tradition. forever

[egonsky]

fantastic! thank you for posting this!

[gerard311]

Never heard of her; very good!

[Esmeraldaviolin]

Marvelous! Are any of her cd's issued on cd?

[DienekeZaventem]

Another (I just heard the Gimpel Beethoven) amazing performance on your channel. Thank you!

[AlanDNZ]

No wonder we treasure these master performances of yesteryear - they are un-hurried music renderings that touch the soul reminding us how quality in human life may be in a more controlled acord - how a more balanced meaningfull living may be possible if we stop and listen..... listen with more sensitivity......

Thank you for processing this and reminding me.

[rodda7]

L'ho sentita dal vivo:mi impressionò la ricchezza del fraseggio e la limpidezza dell'arcata, che davano risalto alla grazia imponente della figura.

[stephgaynor]

Fabulous performance and amazing analogue to digital transfer. I love the pictures and the scrolling text about her career. Thanks!

[hardybee]

The audio enhanced sound is amazing - I congratulate you on the self-less out-of-copyright "service" which I just happened to come across now.