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  • fantastisk ingen over ingen ved siden

  • soberbio......

  • Przepiękny głos, utwór ten znam na pamięć, każdą nutkę i nikt do tej pory nie zaśpiewał lepiej niż Enrico Caruso. Wtedy było inne nagłośnienie inny sprzęt i cała technika nagrywania na bardzo niskim poziomie. Całe Jego życie było bardzo smutne mimo sukcesów estradowych. To wspaniały śpiewak.

  • Realmente maravilloso!!

  • J'adore... Une voix en or..

  • Recorded in February 1904 and never surpassed by anyone since. One hears the beauty of the aria and beauty of the soul of Enrico Caruso - despite the miserable recording technique.

    Maybe the most beautiful recording of a tenor voice ever made.

  • We never forget the signature and quality of a voice.Great

  • absolutely loving this old recordings where you can feel the voice so nearby

  • voce semplicemente divina

  • Voz linda conmovedora y verista, difícil de replicar hoy en día, muy poco transmiten los tenores de hoy.

  • Recordings like these are the reason I'm an avid fan of the growth in media preservation; I don't know if I would be as inspired as I am to continue my operatic path without recordings like this. Just the thought that after 90 years a legendary voice can still be heard!

    J'aime bien monsieur Caruso, il a le voix plus beaux de tout ce que j'avais ecoute!

  • I listen to this and just imagine the wonder of hearing him. He died 90 years ago today, August 2, 1921. Amazing to think of that. I knew so many who heard him, all are gone now. We have just the recordings to marvel at. Nothing was like him, and no one ever will be. He was a force of nature and perhaps as unique as the Grand canyon or the Amazon. I have known his voice since I was a boy, and even had the chance to chat with his son on the phone.. I listen here and learn all over again why I do

  • so lovely, no more 2 say.!

  • fantastico. igual so Mario Lanza. Top of Top

  • Fabuleux, extraordinaire...

    

  • La versione di Tito Schipa direi che è moooolto meglio!!!

  • It just freezes down my spine whenever he gets those shrills out... No other lyric singer could do that, just compare with any other...

    But when you do, compare it with Caruso's at max volume, I dare you.

  • Nunca me han gustado las comparaciones en el genero musical . Caruso implanto una Escuela brillante para todos los que le han sucedido .

    No entiendo como pueden haber personas que no les guste esta MONUMENTAL voz .Recuerde , amigo , que esta oyendo una grabacion de principios del siglo XX .

    Como se oiria ahora esa voz con la tecnica actual /? Creo que a mi me gusta mas asi al natural .!!!

  • @Hermenegildo1916 Caruso sigue poniendo los pelos de punta un siglo despues de haber gabado esa canción, la musica ha tenido grandes tenores, pero al menos para mi, ninguno me ha estremecido tanto como cuando escucho cantar a Enrico

  • Beautiful.

  • La suggestione del timbro vocale di Caruso rimarrà ineguagliabile per sempre. Non era un tenore, ma il tenore, la voce per eccellenza. Aveva tutto: forza, dolcezza, passione, tecnica, stile ed espressione. La sua voce era un universo di colori ed emozioni in grado di coprire l'intero spettro musicale.

  • This music MUST be saved for all generations - future as well as current.

  • Durante più di 100 anni Enrico Caruso è INEGUAGLIABILE!!!

  • El punto de fragilidad en la voz del gran divo es lo que más me gusta. Aparte de la asombrosa afinación natural.

  • I cannot stop obsessing on this recording. What a remarkable voice. Nothing else I've heard comes close. Amazing.

  • I cannot stop obsessing on this recording. What a remarkable voice. Nothing else I've heard comes close. Amazing.

  • BRAVO, SIMPLY BRILLIANT

  • This beautiful song with Caruso is background music in "Matchpoint", an interesting film by Woody Allen 'Woody Allen with a surprising end. Jonathan Rhys Meyers is the principal actor and the music is perfect. You must see it and listen to it.

    Untorrente

  • @untorrente Excelent film

  • :´)

  • Denna inspelning med Caruso spelas upprepade gånger i den spännande Woody Allen filmen Matchpoint med Jonathan Rhys Meyers (känd från TV-serien om Henrik VIII)

    Se den!

    Torrente

  • freneticomucosus

  • so beautiful

  • This for tone , line, dynamics and feeling leaves the second bests at the starting gate..

  • che musica ragazzi....

  • La cancion mas hermosa del mundo

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  • nobody CAN EVER SING THIS SONG BETTER THAN HIM...NOT ANDREA , NOT LUCIANO NOBODY THATS THE END OF THE STORY

  • Second best only to Mario Lanza's coca cola live recording were he sings it like a possessed man.

  • Best recording I have heard of Caruso. What cd is this from? Perfect perfect technique

  • @raphaelhudson: try googling "enrico caruso prima voce" - some of the best "remasterings" (that is just needle noise removed) I''ve found.

  • @tomfroekjaer Thanks for the tip from my side :-)

  • Today's singers should kneel before the grave of Caruso and all the great singers of the past.

  • @TheVoicelesson

    hai ragione

  • Laat Martin Hurkens en de jury + zaal hier maar een keer naar luisteren!

    Schande over de Ned. opera smaak. Nederland ga je schamen!!!

    Henk de Wit

  • Мне больше нравятся исполнения Доминго и Паваротти. Каждый из них уникален по-своему.

  • Realmente, el mejor tenor que pisó la tierra; no existará otro como él.

  • Лучшее исполнение на мой вкус  - это Juan Diego Florez

  • Grande... grande.... legendary and wonderful voice... magnificent...;)

  • Dying of love is perfectly expressed here.

  • Chills along the spine...as always when i listen to this miracle of nature!!!

  • Absolutely unique, absolutely divine. Thanks for posting.

  • @OperaFanCantor - what a dizzying experience it had to have been to hear him sing live. thankfully, many great tenors have sung and continue to sing, however, these recordings suggest something very special and as you say - unique. ... bewitching!  bravo caruso!

  • immenso CARUSO

  • Simplesmente arrepiante!!!

  • Maravilloso.

  • You got to love the piano player- god bless him, he is really trying-

  • Isn't the tempo painfully slow? His voice sounds amazing, even in this old recording.

  • I agree - noone can be compared to Caruso in UFL.

  • Fabulous performance. Nobody, not even Pavarotti came close to the way that Caruso held out his phrases so very long, had so many different wonderful qualities in his voice. Mario Lanza, in my opinion came the closest, but even he was not in the same league.

  • Sublime ! Thanks for posting!

  • My grandmother when I was a child used to rave about this wonderful operatic singer, such feeling in his voice, and what a beautiful aria. 

  • Que voz tao linda. Ate a forma lenta de cantar empresta a cancao um sentimento de tristeza profunda.

    E pensar que foi gravdada em sistemas rascas, nos primeiros tempos da tecnologia. Apesar de todas as imperfeicoes tecnicas a VOZ de Caruso e tao divinal que nos sentimos elevados espiritualmente.

  • Grande Caruso!!!!

  • AWESOME!  TY.

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  • El grande de todos los tiempos, su musica es inmortal

  • Non credo di bestemmiare affermando che questa è la miglior interpretazione vocale della storia.

  • sorry but have U hard Mario Lanza do it? that is pure fantastic

  • Grande Caruso!!!!!!

  • Awesome

  • Awesome

  •  Y ese crujdo del disco nos transporta.

  • wow

  • This is one of Caruso's finest recordings. Damn the man was amazing!!! This one was made for him (Domingo for modern Tenors).

  • 3:50 gives chills to the very bone. I'm no opera fanatic, nor am I a connoisseur of tenor singers. I listen to Blink 182 ha. However, this performance so captivated me that my eyes are currently glued to the image of Caruso, wondering how any human could produce such docile tones.... Plus, I'm stoned.

  • This one seems to be so slow. So boring... It's like a funebre. Pavarotti's version is more divine, majestic and powerful. This one is more soulful but Pavarotti is King. Caruso is the Master but Pavarotti is the King.

  • Alguien sabe de qué año es esta grabación? Saludos!

  • @enriquedavidcesar

    mmm creo q es de 1911!!!

    bueno eso encontre en su biografía XD

  • Superb

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  • The suggestion of vocal Enrico Caruso will remain unique forever and for all. He was not a simple tenor or the tenor. It was the "voice" for excellence. Basso, baritono and tenore together. Had everything: power, sweetness, expressiveness, color, technique, style and agility. His voice was a universe of colors and emotions can cover the entire musical range.

  • sencillamente maravilloso, fabuloso, sensacional, sublime, insuperable, precioso, emocionante, hermoso...belleza hecha música

  • Una Vita abbiamo,........ Utilizziamola

  • o0o0o00oo BEATIFUL!!!

  • чудо Лучшее исполение

  • Amazing! The greatest voice ever despite the time and quality of recording, the beauty of the voice and the depth of emotion is still there. Gratitude and love for ever!

  • The best rendition I have heard is by Tito Schipa. He has a moderate top and bottom, but what a middle range! I heard it on the soundtrack from the film "Lorenzo's Oil".

  • M- Siempre te gusta la opera??? tenés el albúm viejo???eran 14 discos o lo reemplazaste por CDs? L

  • Beautiful , but Pavarotti sing this aria with a passion that I couldn't see anyone else do!!!

  • @opalaedu You have to remember, this recording is probably 100 years old, give or take 5 years, so there's no way that all the expression Caruso had, in any recording, would show up. I agree that Pavarotti sings the crap out of this aria, but Caruso is the master, hands down. He understands the text completely on so many levels, and never sings any 2 phrases with similarities. It's an amazing thing, the human voice, and Caruso used his so well, every time he performed/recorded.

  • sin duda el mejor

  • HERMOSO , QUE DIOS LES BENDIGA , TONY

  • He is for all time.

  • Ho i brividi.

  • Después de haber escuchado alguna de las mejores voces que ha habido, y aun existen, creo sinceramante que la de este MAESTRO es la mejor que yo he oído....Bajo mi punto de vista.

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  • Caruso was and is till today the greatest tenor we could hear. His voice is the top of operasung. I dont know, but I mean never a better tenor will come.

  • Grandioso, maestro..... Il mio commento è inutile e mi scuso umilmente per aver dato un giudizio che però esprime il mio amore per te !!!!

  • no one sings this better than caruso

  • incredibile

  • Truly, one of the greats!!!

  • Wow. that is smooth. Pavarotti stresses me out. Is anyone allowed to say they dislike Pavarotti? Does one look like a savage just by saying that? I think Caruso is much better.

  • @HerbicidalManiac :-P no one worth it would judge your tastes... Me, I like most of the "great tenors", each of them has their own personal style. Pavarotti transmits some raw passion while Carusso's singing shows affected virtuosism. Yet I refer Pavarotti. Just tastes.

  • Considering the slower tempo, Caruso's phrasing and breath control are amazing. His singing is clean. This recording is stunning!

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  • Bravo Bravo Maestro!

  • La mejor version icreible impactante pasional

  • SPLENDIDO, un modello per tutti i grandi tenori del '900.

  • The voice of Enrico Caruso is unparalled in the recorded history of tenors. He was lyrical, dramatic, spinto - even baritone. Not least: whatever he sang, he sang with a full heart. Nothing phony, no show, not being "interesting" or trying to impress, just singing to the fullest extent of his ability.

  • the sound of the gramophone makes it even more beautiful

  • ЛЮБЛЮ ТЕБЯ, ПРЕКРАСНАЯ ИТАЛИЯ!!!

  • nobody does this song better

  • agreed - when a singer of placicdo domingos quality says caruso is still the benchmark of perfection you have to agree!

  • @moveonupcb I don't like the concept of "perfection" in music. There's no such thing. This is beautiful, to be sure; but it's meaningless to say that it's perfect. If singing were nothing more than a matter of trying to achieve perfect intonation, we would say that computers are the best singers. And of course we don't.

  • Hate it as you do the word still exits and always will but when i listen to carusos ending of la donna mobile that is just about perfect compared to every other singer i've heard but i know what you mean. Beautiful is just another ambiguous word though as well. There is a beautifulness in ugliness as well! Maybe we are all using meaningless words!

  • I don't object to the word itself; I object to its use in evaluating music. There are other contexts (measurement, for example) where "perfection" is a useful concept. At any rate, it's clear that we both enjoy this performance, and that's the main point.

  • again Caruso wouldn't have stayed in Italy if some American students had seen he could break glasses- It makes me wonder in today's world with the trash that is I've got talent what Caruso would stand as ????

  • He did not stay in Italy , he went to America ! Unless you meant "he would have stayed in Italy if some American student hadn't seen him " etc..

    I don't believe he'd break glasses , Women's voice MAY do that , but even that is probably a myth . A great tenor , anyway .

  • and without the computers and the mixing Caruso still stands out like a delineation of a mountain tip with the last remnant's of winter's snow. Thats the threshold

  • I agree. He's perfect.

  • @thedukeofjazz luigi alva

  • Immortale !

  • @bodiloto 

  • magnifico

  • who wrote trhe music? quién escribió la música?

  • G.Donizetti

  • Gaetano Donizetti...it's from the Opera "The Elixir of Love"

  • donzeti!

  • Donizzetti, de su opera L'elizir d'amore

  • the tempo seems very slow comaring with alla others performers. Who is right?

  • For a voice this big, this powerful, to be able to sing the pianissimo, the soft, delicate, diminutive moments is just stunning. And yes, tomfroekjaer...I see your wonderful comments everywhere...for Caruso's voice to overcome the limitations of the medium is just stunning. Caruso had it all: power, emotion, delicacy, heart, color, character... what a gift he is.. .

  • Bravooo!!!!!!!! daría lo que sea para tener la opotunidad de escuchar lo en vivo.... lastima que no vivi inicios del siglo XX

  • Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaao!!! Wao wao wao, sin palabras. Cómo evolucionan las cosas. En tiempos de Caruso la ópera era diferente, pero la voz sigue sindo increíble, la parte final me dejó atónita.

  • Who are you anyway?

  • This is a necessary recording in the history of opera and vocal performance.

  • Not only the realm of opera singers consists of cults and loyalties. The entire society you are living in is a cult and your school, family and your friends create cults. You are obviously a member of the Shostakovich cult like I am a member of the Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Caruso cults. So what's your point ?

  • I wouldn't consider myself a member of any cult..rather true to good art instead of being partisan. I love Bruckner, but some of his symphonies are long, monotonous, and predictable at points...I love Mahler, however I feel M2 is way overblown and not efficient.

  • Who are you anyway?

  • Sweet, soft, comforting yet raptured... He sings this in both poised and lyrical manner. This is how I exactly want this aria to be sung.

  • In this aria nobody can even remotely be compared to Caruso - and we at best only hear half of what that golden voice sounded like live.

  • @tomfroekjaer You probably right..... he sing this aria like it was hi own. I'm curies if Donizetti would like it as well? Perhaps this is what he intended....i guess we'll never know.

  • ....che meraviglia........

  • que bueno!

  • What is amazing is his voice sound this excellent on such primitive recording equipment. Compare his recordings to others of the same time period...they don't even compare! I think is proof, right there, he is superior over many others.

  • The engineer doing these recordings for Victor was a real expert at making the most of the acoustic recording process. A lot of  recordings from this period are very poor, but these are much better.

  • Sin duda la voz de Caruso era de una gran belleza.

  • I'm pretty certain this is a 1911 recording, no?

  • No, this is for sure the 1904 recording when Caruso was more lyrical. The 1911 was used in Woody Allen's film Match Point, but sounds more spinto.

  • Recorded 1st February 1904 - at his first Victor session - in Carnegie Hall.

    The aria was spread over a 10" and an 12" side, both had the Mx. number 996.

  • That is totally correct, saltburner2.

  • noone will ever match Caruso

    He was one of a kind

  • en mi humilde opnion, creo que tanto caruso como Pavarotie son los dos mejores de la historia.

    In my humble opinion, i think both pavaroti and caruso are the best of the history.

  • aunque yo agregaría a beniamiano gigli

  • ...

  • Enrico Caruso = Greatest Singer of All Time.

  • Bravo!! Enrico Carusom sin duda el mejor tenor ligero que he oido en mi vida, la mejor voz masculina sin duda!

  • Caruso was and is till today the greatest Tenor of all we can hear. He is and was the top of man voices ! Also i in his voice the best actor is to hear.

  • Se ti piace CARUSO guarda ora I 30 TENORI nella mia playlist SUPER TENOR ARIAS ( con lanteprima mondiale per YOU TUBE di ARIA DEL CIRUJANO ) e dimmi qual'è il tuo video preferito !

  • Bravisimo..Maestro:

    Vida para siempre..

  • energia ..vibrazionale..sensibilita' .elevata,nell'ultimo acuto riesce a var vibrare .. l'essere che e' in Noi come le trombe sacre dei monaci Tibetani!!

    Grande Caruso!!

  • El Mejor tenor de todos los tiempos, luego estuvo quien lo sustituyo en Ottello. el costarricence Melico Salazar, despues an salido tenores muy buenos perpo muy cursis

  • Florez canta soltanto con una parte importante di Caruso' voce di s. E, sì ancora sentiamo che che cosa era quel Carsuo ha suonato come nelle registrazioni. Dimentichi che cosa Pavorotti ha detto nelle sue interviste o Domingo. Quella è la propaganda

  • Dios es bellisima su voz y su acento,

  • bellisimo

  • As perfect  as possible. Schipa loved the great voice. Has their been a tenor to doubt the maestro.

    Lago thank you.

  • Caruso mi fa piangere, ridere, vivere!

  • Enrico Caruso IL RE!!!