Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Ezio Flagello, Martti Talvela Don Giovanni Finale: "Ah! Signor!"

[operalover67]

is this Ferenc Fricsay ?

[DeclanVB84]

@operalover67 - Karl Bohm conducted this performance.

[MrMicMan12]

Kurt Moll and Samuel Ramey just can't be beat.

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[reviewsvoiceontube]

Towering, overwhelmingly powerfull, with fervour yet warm expression, long sheer endless lines and notes sung in forte -seemingly effortless, excellent italian idiom, unmatched in commanding force. Martti Talvela.

[johan52312]

..die Stimme Talvela´s formt die Botschaft dieser Szene auf einer einizartigen Weise.

[reviewsvoiceontube]

@johan52312 ...auf eine unvergleichlich eindringliche Weise-mit einer angemessenen Dominanz und in jenseitiger Gewissheit ruhenden Kraft.

[zegermans750]

Aw Talvela didn't showboat the low D

[tones3d]

I disagree with those who dislike Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's Giovanni: I think he's superb in this role, and the blend of his and Flagello's voices is also excellent: each distinct and reconizable, butnever in conflict or competition.

[BorisGodunov]

FINALLY! I've been wanting to find a recording of Talvela as Il Commendatore, but never could. Thank you!

[LordoftheTrapdoors]

Talvela is magnificent. Dieskau is of the most refined singers of his generation, but Don Giovanni is not his role.

[SoulNotes1]

What a magnificent volume Martti had for a bass! Just sheet magnificence... he could roar a few lions out of a forest!

[tahileki]

@SoulNotes1 Yes - many lions out of a big forest! And yet I just read that when he was going to sing this at the Salzburg Festival in 1968 with Herbert von Karajan conducting, HvK wanted him to use a microphone... Martti was Not Pleased!! He 'thundered, "Karajan's arranging for me to sing with a microphone! He wants a metallic voice. He thinks I haven't got the volume. Brings me a microphone! God's sake!"' (roughly translated from Pekka Hako's biography) XD!!

[nnmakowska]

Don Giovanni sounds scared although he doesn't want to admit he is... I LOVE it!

[reviewsvoiceontube]

I have heard this scene in this specific recording probably hundred times-one of my favourite opera scenes in the opera of operas(E.T.A. Hofmann) so admirably described by Hesse in Steppenwolf and so outstanding a performance by the definitiv Commendatore Martti Talvela. Fervour, intnesity, beauty, drama... I am so glad I know this recording since my teenage years. Phantastic.

[tahileki]

OMG Martti is so handsome ... and That Voice, oh wow ... I go weak at the knees even when he's being scary!!!

[marcellny]

amazing scene. too bad dieskau is the d.g. with those awesome voices that are flagello's and talvelas. such virility, then dieskau's ever so tenoral voice... just doesn't fit in.

[brodsky96]

@marcellny Dieskau is certainly no Giovanni....

[keithtwa]

man Talvela is a beast....

[TheWisemonkey8]

Talvela! Nielsen is also wonderful in the performance!