Lawrence Tibbett - Where'er You Walk

[SatchmoSings]

Some people post exquisitely made CD transfers that must've taken some time and effort to get down so painstakingly accurate and clear; you play crap on a wind-up, chewing up an irreplaceable record with a steel needle and two-ton tone arm and then photograph it all when you're not masturbating.

And for this, you get thanks!!!

Thank you. 

[flaze3]

@SatchmoSings why you being such a dick? He's just sharing his record music with youtube. Why not just be thankful for that?

[SatchmoSings]

@flaze3 Yes, this is the way he shares his record music on youtube; "primobaritone" doesn't do this; he makes painstakingly clear copies himself or he gets great transfers that others have made.

You're a very fine example of how it's become acceptable to view something like this as "a different way" (which also includes damaging an irreplaceable artifact) and thus acceptable.

Donald Trump fires people like you all the time.

[flaze3]

@SatchmoSings well it's his 'irreplaceable artifact' so he has the right to do whatever he sees fit with it.

Happily for me I'm not in 'Donald Trump''s service, nor have any particular desire to be associated with him... Good day.

[SatchmoSings]

@flaze3 02. When watching movies on demand, via a VHS machine first became feasible, many major old-time movie companies released old films on tape that were scratched up copies of 16mm TV prints, rather than striking something fresh from a mint 35mm negative in the vault or from a known collector.

Sounds like they had consumers like you in mind.

[stevevandien]

This isn't Tibbett at his most compelling; for that, we must hear his operatic recordings, especially the live ones before his 1940-1 vocal crisis. But this record still preservesTibbett's rich and beautiful tone, easy breath control and mastery of dynamics during his late prime --

[ifuliki]

Darn good AND I LOVED TIBBETT'S VOICE . But I have a slight preference for Jan Pierce singing this but that's what makes life interesting. I wonder what Händel would have said.

Aled

[preruminator]

Ja, wie merrihew schreibt, ab 1940 begann die Stimme nachzulassen. Ob es sein vulkanöses Singen oder sein Privatleben war, sei dahingestellt.

Wir haben uns hier für eine beeindruckend schöne Aufnahme zu bedanken.

[ciroalb3]

The long breath line was something a bravura performance for Tibbett. Listen to his "Myself when young did eagerly frequent". One wonders whether the artist or Victor chose the aria?

[merrihew]

Yes, Myself When Young is a marvel (it is posted). Tibbett was at the beginning of a decline by 1940 so Victor may have had control (unless he had a long term contract to choose his material).

[seektheforce]

Sir, do you have a recording or know where one is of a Bass Baritone singing this song? Thank you.

[merrihew]

According to W.E.R.M. only one other baritone recorded this during the 78 era. Conrad Thibault for Victor. I don't have the record.

[seektheforce]

My mistake, he is as bass-baritone lol.

[AulicExclusiva]

Yet Robert Merrill, for example, could sing very beautifully, even in the 60s.

I can't explain what's happened. There certainly are people with good voices: they just don't seem to have a heart!

By the way, your machine's reproduction of the piano in this disk is nothing short of amazing.

[AulicExclusiva]

He does not quite have McCormack's art and individuality, but simply one of the most beautiful lyric baritones, born to sing a piece like this.

WHO can sing like this today??

[merrihew]

Hard to believe that someone your age realizes this. It has been argued that WW2 democratized the world in such a way that standards were lowered so more people could achieve them. Modern audiences don't demand any more than they get.

[FABRIZIO82]

Am I DREAMING or is he NOT breathing before the coloratura on "ShAaAaAde"???!!!!

No, this is real,gracious me what an artist!

[Erloser22]

The singer doesn't need to take a breath, but he should NOT sing through the written rests... Hm, not good.

[lensorokin]

A musician can do what he or she likes!if you dont like it, thats another thing

[Chiliarches]

You made this comment a while ago...so my response isn't timely...but...do you really find this so impressive? I always do this on the repeat, myself, along with the requisite ornamentation. It's not a hard line to sing...

[Webarton]

lol he doesnt ornament it the second time at all...interesting.

[Amiduffer]

You're not supposed to repeat exactly like you did before.

[saltburner]

This is not really the kind of thing that Tibbett does best (his Ford in Falstaff and Iago in Otello were incredible!), and I confess to finding it boring. I have an early acoustic (ca. 1907) of Emilio de Gogorza singing this aria - much more satisfying! But McCormack - even an elderly McCormack - is in a class of his own.

[merrihew]

I've posted the McCormack

[kspm01]

Fantastic how he uses a more discreet mezzo voice to do this music all justice it deserves.

[transformingArt]

Oh...Splendid!!

[merrihew]

Who would you suggest as an alternative?

[jozefsterkens]

The elderly John McCormack

[zciweslab]

not a single trill or grace note. as boring as his white mezza voce.

[merrihew]

I must admit that I'm a bit surprised at the restraint shown by Tibbett in this recording. The sign of a great artist.

[primobaritono]

Yes indeed. I have sung this aria myself and it's difficult enough to sing it through forte, but to sing the whole thing in mezza voce (as Tibbett does) is something only a true master can do.

[primobaritono]

I am in complete awe ! Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful recording !!