Young SERGEI LEMESHEV sings Lensky Aria 1937

[jpp0112]

tchaikovsky was sentimental only in the highest of order...that makes him equal to michaelanglo etal.

[ROZENGIL]

Thank you! this is absolutely stunning!

[ivrutkalendari]

великолепно. божественный голос.

[philipc67]

Superb, who can sing like that today? The perfect diction, clean attack, breath control, piani and diminuendi. pacing, elegant phrasing, expression, all is there. He is just right for this wronged, romantic, tragic character. This is great art. Moved me to tears.

[kocharova]

Какоесчастье, что его бесценный талант сохранился для слушателей. Огромное спасибо, тому кто дал возможность слушать этот божественный голос!

[pradamiju]

da prostjat menja drugie tenora,no v mire net lutsego ispolnenija arii lenskogo.

[AxmxZ]

The recording sounds a bit off somehow...

[MrSkylark1]

Oh for one note of such beauty from singers today. No one can sing like this anymore.

[gomongio]

Dear Lord, how much I miss the "old-school" times of tenorship... The best Lensky of all times, undoubtedly

[SuperLuckydream]

Brilliant!

[leoniemikele]

Best version. He's remarkable. I'm overwhelmed, so many times, when I listen to this singer.

[francesca7564]

Quelle grande classe, Monsieur Lemeshev, difficile de trouver mieux ...

Merci pour le post .

[RunovaO]

Nu chto zdes' mozhno kommentirovat'?Kogda nuzhno prosto prevrat'sia v ushi i naslazhdat'sia

[abracadabranque]

La voix du rôle et de surcroît une interprétation très sensible,se rapprochant de l'idéal.

[micky9321]

inoubliable !!!

[Alfruna]

This gave me goosebumps...so beautiful! Thanks for uploading!

[ditogam]

NO ONE sings this most BEAUTIFUL aria as GREAT LEMESHEV !!! Thank you!!!

[aswolf]

It's a pity he contracted TB

[solucan55]

VIVA LA SOVIETICO.............

[TemnyjSvet]

Vielleicht ist das die russische Seele die diesen wunderschönen Ausdruck und Gefühl in seine Stimme legen... sehnsucht...

[ekszentrikful]

@TemnyjSvet  Das ist die Wahrheit!

[murrietarss]

THE ULTIMATE LENSKY!

[fafner44]

You´ve just made a spanish fan. Incredible. So elegant.

[AriaLenskovo]

Absolutely sublime! A masterful and effortless Lensky. And so handsome... Kuda vy udalilis, dorogoi Lemeshev?

Thank you for sharing this.

[CharlotteinWeimar]

Very beautiful.

As to earlier Russian singers and their lyrical, unforced technique, do listen to Oda Slobodskaya's Tatiana. There is the same 'clarity with warmth', subtle inflection, poetic handling of the words and a youthful, impetuous characterisation of the young heroine unequalled these days.

Thank you so much for this.

[paulostroff99]

Astounding! One of the most beautifully sung arias in opera-period! Bravo!  TY.

[paulpv]

What a wonderful recording! Thank you so much for sharing it. I'm used to Lemeshev's later recordings, when his voice turned brigter and lighter. It's so good to hear him in his younger years, and the voice is smoother and a bit darker, very caressing. Wonderful tenor.

[LauritzMelchior]

Lemeshev y Kozlovsky son dioses olímpicos, gracias por haber existido y dejado testimonio fonográfico.

[rubi1944]

.....y Sobynov lo olvidamos?

[experimentalis]

many many many thanks

[GermanOperaSinger]

Wonderful. What ease of production, true singing not the shouting we have today.

[JorPove]

Lemeshew y Koslosky son dos fieles exponentes de una escuela de canto rusa que en los 20-50 lleno de fervor a ese pueblo y aunque los dos competian eran buenos amigos.El ruso se presta por razones culturales y linguisticas para crear una atmosfera de dulce misterio para las arias interpretadas por estos dos grandes tenores.

[caradeescusado]

i just became a younglemeshevist for life

[andreifan]

Most sensible and heart breaking interpretation ever... Thanks so much for posting this!!

[AbramCortinas]

sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooo beautiful...

[fabrizzzio48]

Certainly more powerful than his later years, I thought that it would have been otherwise, that he was lighter and then thickened his voice a bit. So it's a surprise to hear his strong and detached vibrato. How great that he did not trodden the usual path of many tenors to go heavier, on purpose, and loosing that wonderful light touch.

[stefakamelpash]

Almost certainly the greatest lyric tenor Russia ever produced, in spite of what Kozlovsky admirers say. The truly amazing thing is that Lemeshev had a brilliant ringing top, all the way to the high C, and it did not abandon him, even in his fifties, after all he endured during the Great Patriotic War. He is, simply put, one of the great tenors of all time. The more the world hears of this wonderful singer, the brighter and brighter his reputation will become outside Russia.

[CzarDodon]

Come on, a fight between the gods? Kozlovsky and Lemeshev represent a school of Russian singing that seems to have completely disappeared. I'd like to know what happened, did some great voice teachers get eliminated or did a heavier style come into fashion? Come to think of it, after Tito Schipa and Lauri-Volpi Italy didn't produce any more of these lighter flexible and sweet yet ringing voices.

[gomongio]

Unluckily, that is so true. I miss those old singing schools!! And Lemeshev and Kozlovsky were simply the best of Russian singers and they still are.

[spqrmor]

Thank you very very much for the warm comments about Sergey Lemishev.Russia will always be proud of his gorgeous tenor of all times

[margaretzier]

A beautiful voice but also listen to the great Fritz Wunderlich singinging this aria.

[petrof4056]

I have a recorded from 50's years but he hadn't this voice because he contracted tuberculose in 42. Here, we have the same style, so musician and no exageration. Moereover, It's the best recorded of lensky'aria and again Lemeshev ecrased allsingers. Thanks a lot younglemeshevist, I'm a younglemeshevist too. ;)