Tibbett sings "Oh ! Du mein holder Abendstern"

[bedove77]

Best rendition of this aria. Here he is really great :here and in Verismo roles. I don't like him so much in Verdi.

[David45NV1]

Wonderful!!!

[Kievest]

Lawrence Tibbett was truly the Emperor of Baritones! He could make even the

most reluctant listener love Wagner! Thank you primobaritono for posting this

most divinely expressive performance and to paulostroff99 for kindly sharing!

Timeless, natural, unforced, unforgettable!

[jujufribb]

Wunderschön!!!

[ampdavolts]

I just made a little poem, thinking of L. T. and of ourselves...

The Evening Star

Now don't be afraid of me...

...You are sailboats on the pond.

See yourselves?

Am mere the breeze and light.

You gently keel and rudder.

[elainebmack]

Now I hear what people rave about in Lawrence Tibbett's voice. The more I Iisten to his recordings the more I love his sound.

[davidmoye]

beautiful sound. curious what it would do in a big hall with that same amount of touch. might not be enough.  of course all the greats sound effortless, im just suspicious of anything that sounds like that.

[stevevandien]

A mezza-voce to die for:).

[seektheforce]

Why did you put at the end of your description "...with great artistry." He sang everything with great artistry :)

[Rigelcentauri58]

Listen everyone: God is singing!!!!!!

[paulostroff99]

awesome!  TY.

[federricoilgrande]

commovente, grandissimo ::)) grazie!

[Cantormatis]

A performance for the ages!

[tschuermann1]

It is just perfect.

I don't understand why today such singers get ignored.

[saiserieht]

As good as it gets. Absolutely fantastic, I have known this recording for years and I am still deeply impressed when I hear it again. The simplicity, the artistry, the sincerity, MAGNIFICENT.

[dermotafan]

In this aria at least.

[dermotafan]

i just love it,and don't care if he is the best or not. He just is for me.

[paulostroff99]

Gorgeously sung! Bravo! TY.

[erne3BT]

listen a little before 3:00, what his vibrato does from a to i .. gorgeous!!

[bodiloto]

+100 !!!! sublime !immenso! immortale !

[charmingemily]

o this sounds gooood, from the very 1st second. damn it it's so easy to recognize genius.

[CanadaPisces]

Excellent voice placement.....warm rich tonal quality ......very expressive! TY!

[Bigman240]

The mixture and possibilities of this voice seem limitless...True pure beautiful singing!

[skakdosmer]

Few singers sing this beautiful. (Perhaps because they are too busy singing LOUD.) The danish tenor Aksel Schiøtz had much the same quality, but all his recordings run a little too fast, so the timbre is somewhat destorted.

[tkeyszzzz]

how about a translation of his lament?

[CAMELEONTS]

This is real singing with using body, not just producing "head voice". Its something that normal audience cannot hear...i refer to success of Paul Potts singing nessun dorma.

[796824]

Absolutely correct. The audience is manipulated by transparent management

[TommyHaegin]

This cannot be sung better, but only differently. I personally prefer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing it in the 1964 recording under Konwitschny (EMI Records). DFD's piano culture and legato singing in German is even more refined, I find. And his German is obviously a bit better still than Tibbett's.

[caribolas]

the only difference is that DFD is not an opera singer and Tibbet is.

[piasecznik]

DFD is not an opera singer? WTF? He's sung most operas with world-class ensembles, that should make him an opera singer. Unfortunately he also did Verdi, who absolutely didn't fit his voice, but whatever...

DFD excels in different repertoire than Tibbett, but that doesn't make him 'not an opera singer'. For 19th century Italian Opera I prefer Tibbett, for Mozart DFD.

[stybboon]

dfd sings opera like kunstlieder and this suxxx hard !!!!! dfd is the king of kunstlieder for sure, but he is a bad operasinger, its kind like corelli, corelli is a goregous opera singer and a bad lied singer ...

[egymagyar1111111]

now I know why he was loved, these tones showed to Eeberhardt Waechter something 50 years later... romantics to be lost in

[richstout]

It sounds like from the sound that it would have been sung a little differently onstage than in the radio studio. I'm sure both would be stunning in this man's case.

[paulostroff99]

Stunning!Thank you primobaritono!

[796824]

The lost Art of Singing. Bryn Terfel take heed. Your voice is swallowed and not centered while lacking brilliance. Listen to Tibbett and it will teach you more than any coach, because you do have an instrument.

[noappol]

Such a rich and sonorous, distinctive voice had this great artist, and also in very good quality sound indeed, for a 1934 recording. This should please many people. Thank you for making it possible to be heard here.

[energyglobal]

Beautiful ! Better than any German baritone I know.

Especially the piano-sung phrase "O du mein holder Abendstern". I heard this never sung more beautiful.

[canzonettasullaria]

herrlich! und man versteht jedes wort.

[MrCafiero]

I think he sings this better than anyone!

[stevevandien]

Gorgeous -- when was this recorded?

[primobaritono]

I believe it's from a 1934 Radio concert he did.