Greatest Notes from the Greatest Tenors

[pianoandpipes]

I think #16 is the best because it is actually in real head voice, not reinforced falsetto as even only a few mere mortals can even sing D5s.

Gedda was super human.

[dziady1]

how stupid this all is ....

degrads the art to a shouting level

You may delete this as "mean"

but nevertheless it is stupid and

shows what air heads many

many opera fans are.

[CREQUIE]

Pour des ténors cités comme GEDDA et DOMINGO,la voix de LANZA était la référence absolue. PAVAROTTI pour sa part a commenté : depuis que LANZA est mort, CARUSO n' a plus de successeur, il n'a que des disciples. Guy CREQUIE

Para tenores citados como GEDDA y DOMINGO, la voz de LANZA era la referencia absoluta. PAVAROTTI por su parte comentó: desde que LANZA se murió, CARUSO no tiene más de sucesor, sólo tiene discípulos. Guy CREQUIE

[CREQUIE]

mon commentaire précédent n' a pas été publié : pourquoi ? Il faudrait comparer sur le même aria, avec les mêmes techniques d'enregistrement.GC

my preceding comment was not published: why? It would be necessary to compare on the same aria, with the same techniques of enregistrement.GC

[CREQUIE]

How to compare on airs different, for Placido DOMINGO and Nicolai GEDDA, often quoted, the voice of LANZA was most beautiful. Compare all the tenors with LANZA in Because or the Bohemian one. Quite front they, of the experts as Maria FIXED or maestrio TOSANINI indicated THAT the VOICE of LANZA was most beautiful. Even BERGONZI admired it by collecting its posters, and PAVAROTTI declared: since LANZA died, CARUSO does not have any more a successor, it has only disciples. Guy CREQUIE

[Davidzz17]

Muy buena compilación :O

[TICKTOCKJOCK]

I like the idea here, but it's only one third finished. Who/what is name of tenor? And please to know what is the name of the piece of music sung? 1/3 + 2/3 =1

[OettingerCroat]

it's ALL on the right in the Video Info, and it's been there since the first day.

[gabrielxv]

Me gustaron todos pero sin lugar a dudas... ese Eb5 de el maestro Alfredo Krauss me parece que simplemente superó todo. Hermoso e Impresionante.

[frederikkko]

Thank you very much for posting this, very interesting and enjoyable. So much talent!

[55patri]

Me encantan todos peroy Domingo más que ninguno

[mannullll]

que tiene de estraordinario el LA de placido en la tabernera?

[andyroma72]

es hermoso potente perfecto

[gabrielxv]

Alfredo Krauss = Perfect placed high notes.

Bravo Maestro!

[TouretteTenor]

Who knows the name of the song that is done at 2:05 and 2:15?

[OettingerCroat]

all the information is available in the "Video Info" at the right...

[kirrinchas]

buena eleccion de agudos y sobre agudos, ya que son las mejores interpretaciones de los tenores presentados

[cmhmuscle]

what a fun guilty pleasure. We know we shouldn't be THIS shallow, but we just KILL for this shit!!! LOL

[xxZA0xx]

I absolutely hate how effortless Pavarotti sings.

I want his voice. =(

[Joncooke11]

It's Gedda for me, marvellous!

[aaronsande]

Excellent compilation...I'm glad to see you appreciate Domingo. So many on here seem to want to pick him apart. Not that he's my favorite, Bjoerling is, but he's up there!

[ElPiconeroalCognac]

Bocelli as one of the greatest tenors? That's it. I can't listen. :)

[OettingerCroat]

No one asked you to.

Piss off.

[ydracomagusy]

@ElPiconeroalCognac - Bocelli has made some great recordings of tenor arias. While his style definitely wouldn't fly in a house, and he doesn't have all that much power or cut, he sings them well. To brush him off because he's not a real operatic tenor is just elitism.

[Repulsion100]

Jussi Björling for me! When he sings She gelida..........everything stops!!!!

[24yotenor]

no kidding! It is indeed as perfect a high c as I've ever heard

[hiyadroogs]

My goodness Corelli & Bjorling stand out like orchids among the daisies here. Although to be fair, Pavarotti sounded way past his superb prime in these examples

[chibichan1701]

Gedda in my opinion has the most richness at the extreme high end, many of the others sound a bit pinched.

[CanadaPisces]

A very interesting comparison of some great tenors. TY.

[SorinFromRomania]

pavarotti have must powerful voice ......

[brunobrandy]

Sorin..It was the recording here and no, he

didn't...Corelli and DelMonaco could

knock it off the back walls in the old

Met.

[musclemaggg]

jussi vas the best

[rootbeer7281]

I agree.

[mayflash67]

Thanks for posting! Incredible!

[marinmusiker]

I do not know whitch aria he is singing, but I know that Jussi was unable to sing out of tune! There is interference between the high woodwinds in the final chord. I think this is what disturbes the ear!

[marinmusiker]

Jag undrar också vilken aria Jussi sjunger. Att Jussi sjöng falskt är ju helt befängt! Däremot så finns det interferens i det höga träet och mellan dem och solisten, vilket är naturligt i detta läge!

[sadi0019]

Witch aria is Bjorling singing?

Tnx.

[OettingerCroat]

Che gelida manina

[DPONet]

why does björling seem to be slightly off key at the onset of that note?

[shantibel]

Thank you. absolutely thrilling.

[39514923]

DAMN

[operaclassicc]

bravo Domingo ,Corelli,Pavarotti

[bodiloto]

Oggi, grazie ai technici di suono ,cantanti di musica leggera,diventano IDOLI !Accanto di BJORLING,CORELLI,KRAUS,PAVAROT­TI ....sentiamo la voce di MARIO LANZA , e la voce di ANDREA BOCELLI tutti i due cantanti di musuca leggera ! QUESTO E IL MONDO MODERNO.....

[thomassmile]

2 min 09 the most incredible note I've ever haerd thanks for this !!!! rip those tenors

[julesv307]

Thanks for posting this marvelous set of high notes! Love the #5 Pavarotti, the #7 Kraus and #16 Gedda -- that Gedda note was really something. Of them all, I prefer Corelli -- the clarity and power are amazing - but also seem so controlled. But now I'm having doubts -- the Pavarotti was dazzling (the Bb) and the Bjorling too. To me, the Bocellli sound is controlled, but not very exciting.

[pampiliong]

Sport, but Nikolai Gedda is victory.

[Dronosti]

JUSSI BJÖRLING IS BEST.

[Chemicaldiver]

Corelli is best.

[MusicCndctr]

YES YES YES!!!!! I love this. Great work!

[TheEternaut]

Just one thing: I have heard recently that Gedda was Russian, not Swedish, as you say at the end of the video. In fact, I also heard his real last name was Ustinov, and he was a relative of the famous actor. Can you confirm that?

[OettingerCroat]

first of all, he is still around, so it's "IS" and not "was"...

second of all, his adoptive father was named Ustinoff, who was a distant relative of Peter Ustinov. Gedda himself is not related to the actor at all, and is more Swedish than anything else.

[TheEternaut]

Thanks for the data my friend. Hours before your reply I had received some info similar to yours, which means my first source was mistaken -and that TV documentaries are not always reliable. Your knowledge seems to be vast... therefore I might bother you soon with more doubts. Thanks again for your quick answer.

[ahmad123987]

I loved Bocelli's high C, it was amazing, and I think, if u ears r working, u should think the same, no matter wat u think of him as an opera singer!

[eyestrained07]

MY GOD!! ! I LOVE THIS VIDEO!!! Those high notes from Corelli, Pavarotti, Florez and Kraus were sublime!!!

[arsenico777]

JDF, the best Tenor of all times!!!

[TheEternaut]

I heard this video five minutes ago... and I am still shivering!! Wonderful edition, marvelous selection of singers, a monument to human voice by itself... what can I say except Thank You so, so much Oettinger!! Down to My Favourites inmediately!!

[liric01994]

da quando Alagna e' francese?

[OettingerCroat]

domandali cosa crede che è... nato in francia, ha vissuto in Francia tutta sua vita, figlio di padri siciliani.

[eutuve]

da sempre:

JURIS SOLIS !!!!

[bradybraidz]

Wow! Literally sat here with goosebumps the whole time! Great selection of notes from a great selection of tenors :)

[DrStrangefate]

cool man. I'm a bari

[Beathame88]

No tengo nada contra florez, me parece un gran tenor, pero desde luego este video es la prueba de que no le llegaba a la suela de los zapatos a Kraus. Muy sabio el ponerlo justo despues suya :)

[jrevoredoi]

Quizas tengas razón pero si es asi tampoco Krauss le llega a la suela del zapato a Bjoerling.. odiosas las comparaciones no??

[heizukowsky]

Jussi Björling's C exists in an even better rendition from 1951 or 1952 from an american radioshow.

And wich Tell-recording was the one with Kraus? Never heard it before.

[madbeetz11]

i hate that carreras c4. no offense, it just does not live up to everything else on this compilation.

[OettingerCroat]

I think it's splendid...

[hugorosaferreira]

totally agree. Great compilation, in any case, but Bjorling is even more impressive in Nessun Dorma: best performance ever. Try this, if you haven't already: compare them (Caruso, Gigli, Bjorling, Pavarotti et al.) in Recondita Armonia. There are lots of differences and for me it serves as confirmation that Pavarotti and Bjorling are slightly above everyone else.

[bradybraidz]

Yeah, Carreras' voice has never done it for me. I just think it sounds strained whenever he hits the big notes :S However, the Eb5s are just amazing! That is some serious vocal control!

[JesseTinsley]

Beautiful. Thank you for putting that together.

[kngiht84]

Did Carreras pronounce it "VinSero" and not "Vintschero" ? Spendid note nonetheless

[hotqueekboi]

After watching this again, I have to say that I actually think the nicest high singing is done by Pavarotti in his Rigoletto aria (number 14) where he gets up to the high D, which is truly amazing.

For the longest time, I thought he was incredbily overrated and that there are so much more greater tenors out there, but these days - I actually do find myself thinking that he truly is the greatest of our time.

Juan Diego Florez I find to have the 2nd nicest voice behind Pavarotti. Lovely!

[UnTicPiticMic]

Domingo rules

[FSebastiano]

Però ci manca Del Monaco :P

[OettingerCroat]

però l'ho messo nel mio secondo video :-)

[FSebastiano]

Non lo avevo visto il secondo visdeo :)

[OettingerCroat]

guardilo! :D

[uncjim]

GREAT JOB. BRAVO!

[hotqueekboi]

I have to say I thought the NICEST note of all these incredibly high notes was the one in Che Gelida Manina by Jussi Bjorling.

I think in all other settings, Lanza would blow a person away with his talent, but his note in here sounds the nastiest of the lot, but of course - look who he is compared to...? ;)

I'd also like to question whether that is a high C or not by Bocelli. Didn't think it came close to the others here either.

[ahmad123987]

he hits it live better then the recording so stop hating!

[marshall666666schila]

Italia - rullezz))))

[raigekimaru]

corelli owns all!

[mahsef]

You can't compare these voices by hearing a recording. When Corelli sang a high C the house was shaking. Björling then was regarded as having one of the smaller voices. However, he'd probably blow away Florez.. Even Mario Lanza would probably blow away Florez.. Bocelli??? You can't be serious.

[pacotacoman]

jose carreras B4 was rough at the start but ended nicely

[neronnenn]

Votes: Domingo 8, Alagna 7, Corelli 9, Pavarotti 9, Carreras 7, Bjorling 11, Bocelli and Lanza are not singers, Florez I love him but..6, Alfredo is the Professor, 10...

[joelombrdo]

I like all the voices but you'e wrong, 100% wrong. Lanza was a singer, matter of fact he was the singer. He had the best sound quality of any tenor I've ever heard. He may not have been an opera man but he still had the best voice.

[barryoderfer]

Agree with you 100% joelombrdo.

[gauss2005]

Bjorling.

[maxhansendk]

After 1.03 Jussi Bjorling kills all competition!!

[mariomandini87]

gedda the best

[pianist527]

That is fantastic! Never had heard such a compilation on youtube. Great notes in all aspects, Lanza's included. Truly wonderful to hear. Congratulations to you on this.

[APaivaM]

The No. 17, Alfredo Kraus, absolutely amazing note. I dont think that one sounds weird nor like "woman".

[hiyadroogs]

All the notes from 2:10 onwards from Pav through Kraus, Gedda & Florez, sounded like a cat being put through a mangle. If you can't sing the note, you're not fooling anyone by screaming it. Florez is going to lose his vibrato & his easy top if he keeps pushing his top voice that hard.

[tena2]

Yes, I agree with you point on Juan Diego Florez

[Matt54e]

The bjoerling sounds speeded up to me. Gedda's note is truly astonishing.

[ungedag]

there's only one that gives me gooseskin among all these: Juan Diego Florez C#5 in "Pour me rapprocher" from "La fille du régiment"!

[HellasItalia4]

CORELLI.PUNTO!

[goldwizard]

im sorry.. their are all AMAZING!!! but the voice loses a lot of emotion and interpretation beacause of the exausting tecnique that requires an opera singer....

BUT i Love it anyway!

[alvarogm86]

Domingo hiting a C!

[lpizzella]

kraus el mejor entre gedda y flores. Bjorling el mejor entre todos.

[jaimesguirola2]

im sorry, im really sorry, but a note above the high d, does not sound fine for me. i think the voice is like a woman, if the woman shows everything she has, the romanticism or the mistery is lost.

[Polytes1]

Great stuff!

[ahmad123987]

amazing!

[cyfieithydd]

I agree about the Gedda - I was introduced to this recording by Brian Davies the great accompanist from South Wales over twenty years ago.

[Hornyalex5]

Love Pavaratti, Dimingo, Corelli and Bocelli the most!

[highnote32]

The greatest Tenors have top register notes. Technically, you have to hit a G4 to be a Tenor. I can easily do that. I'm rich around G4 to C5 in chest. I can do C#5 and D5 also without the falsetto/head voice. I can hit the bottom register notes as well. I can sing as low as a G2. But... I'm no Baritone. I am highly rich in the Tenor range and my timbre is not strong enough to be a Baritone.

[GertrudeBD]

WIW, highnote32! I suppose all the major opera houses of the world are on their knees in front of you.

[malamutet]

Kraus, Corelli e Gedda i migliori

[MANHATTANBEEFMAN]

What I took away from this group was Pavarotti's position as clear, full headed B4....such complete power and full command. All the others pale in comparison!

[OettingerCroat]

he does have a splendid B4 :-)

[tokbela]

Did I miss Fritz Wunderlich? He was great!

[Huljic]

And gedda really impresive!!!

[Huljic]

Bocelli wow!!!

[chrisibzu]

Thank you!!! excellent video!

[giggs102]

Where'sBocelli

[ahmad123987]

Bocelli rocks, that is what I and most people who heared his voice believe, so i guess all of u r just gonna have to live with it cause its not changing any time soon, lol!

[KurtCobainof21]

Hey im having lot of difficulty telling if im a baritone or a tenor. My timber resembles baritone but my range is like a tenor. I cant hit a lot of low notes but I can some of these high notes. Ive posted a video of me singing. Please help me. I really wanna know. Check out my video in my channel if it helps

[highnote32]

What are your notes from bottom to top?

[JackOperaMan]

F#2 to D6

[OettingerCroat]

Jussi Björling.

all this info is available in the info panel on the right.

[maxhansendk]

The most "intense high not" was by Jussi Bjorling after 1.00 minutes. And it was mono!!

[muis63]

Juan Diego Florez is magnificent!

[ahmad123987]

Andrea is amazing see him hit a d flat live on youtube and listen to songs from verdi and aria the opera album every last note in there is amazing!

[mcknighty11]

Okay, I just found a recording of Jose Carreras and Montserrate Caballe singing Sulla tomba che rinserra from Lucia di Lammermoor, and they hit a D4 (i think anyway, its definately higher than a C) I will try and get it on youtube, but I'm no profesional at video uploading lol

[OettingerCroat]

you can email me the song and I'll do it in your steed and make it look all nice and fancy, if you prefer?

[Mooorhe]

I think Carreras goes up to E flat on one of his Edgardo performances. It is of course a product of the recording studio. Carreras struggled to do Bs live. He'd never go to E flat live.

[randy567890]

Andrea Bocelli can sing higher actually.

trovatore (C# at the end): /watch?v=k8l4vj3RIF4

A te, o cara (C# at 2:00): /watch?v=5Kk-ePLnAO8

Possente amor (D at 2:40): /watch?v=HEYBl_mHqGc

[OettingerCroat]

nice copying ;-D

[randy567890]

thank you

[Huljic]

WOW!!!Bocelli really impressed ,me!!!

[dibeling]

That Gedda note is beyond amazing

[OettingerCroat]

i love how he sounds very eager and excited to jump on all his high notes! and he sounds so good!!!

[Etnalleb]

I do believe Gedda hits a High D and it is amazing!

[nyctophiliak]

AWESOME. Thanks for the cool video. Pavarotti will never sound old to these ears of mine.

[OperaLuvr4U]

High notes are nice, of course, but singing well is way more than showing off some high notes. Placido Domingo, for example, is one of the best singers who ever walked the face of the Earth, but high notes have never been one of his strengths.

I just wanted to keep things in perspective; thanks for posting.

[tweezy99]

But high notes are cool!

lol.

[ojojoj51]

Absolutely correct! He has a charming persona, and a beautiful sound. No doubt about it. He is justly an enormously popular singer.

[ojojoj51]

Bocelli's a nice quasi-pop/classical singer.

Let's not go overboard and put him up there with the great operatic voices exhibited here. yes, he did that one show with Michigan Opera, but there was trouble hearing him.

He's fine, but if he was normally sighted, and out there in the opera world competing, we'd have heard much less about him.

Not politically correct, perhaps, but the truth.

[OettingerCroat]

i just thought this C was nice. the man has a beautiful voice. he is not trained or anything.

[ojojoj51]

It sure is! he's rightly very popular, with great charm, amd a beautiful sound.

[GoblinInventor]

However, if he were normally sighted he would be at an advantage to his current position musically, so he may well have succeeded at the highest levels if he had full sight. But regardless, that was an amazing C5.

[JockamoGoon]

wow, boccelli really rang it out!

[jcmcpr]

uuu nice!!!

[hoffschauer]

Undoubtedly Alfredo Kraus and Franco Corelli were High notes' masters.

[tomzoricic]

Dragi moj Croat zaboravio si najveceg od svih - MDM. Hrvatski pozdrav . Bog!

[OettingerCroat]

hej živio!

pogledaj moj novi video... imam MDM-a barem četiri puta! :-)

ciao

[OettingerCroat]

ANNOUNCEMENT: My NEW Tenor Notes video is now on Youtube!

Check my channel to see it!

[musicalizar]

Ok, greetings

[OettingerCroat]

saludos!

[Annasopranna]

Nice but this is missing one of the best of the best, Mario del Monaco- Otello or Il Trovatore.

Check out his "Esultate."

[OettingerCroat]

yep, i put a bunch of Del Monaco clips into my new video!

check it out on my channel :-D

[musicalizar]

Congratulations on your work, but let me correct that Jose Carreras (or Josep in catalan) is Catalonia, but Catalonia is not a country, is a region of Spain. So in this video there are three Spanish tenors: Plácido Domingo, Alfredo Kraus and Jose Carreras.

[OettingerCroat]

oh i know, i was just having a little bit of fun :-D

thanks!!!

[FlyingTiger5]

A work of art - gorgeous!! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

[distediste]

my love corelli

[kamikazekate]

Where is the fantastic D Flat recorded by Domingo in his 1973 aria from Giovanna d'Arco, Pondo e latal, martiro???

[OettingerCroat]

it's going in my next video :-D

[subway03]

Nada como Franco Corelli e Luciano Pavarotti.

[calcecini]

Great video, many thanks. The Pavarotti Possente Amore - is it a live recording? Do you have the date/place?

[OettingerCroat]

thanks for the compliments!

no, the Pavarotti Possente Amor is not live, it was recorded in 1982 for a film version of Rigoletto; note that he was 47 when it was recorded! a 6-second-long high D at age 47! quite amazing... :-)

[alceste66]

cosa ci fa Bocelli tra i tenori?

[OettingerCroat]

ascolta questo Do... è malo?

[alceste66]

il do non sarebbe male, ma non è un "do" da teatro...senza un microfono chi lo sente?

La lirica è una cosa seria, si studia tanto e si guadagna tanto.

Non è giusto che chi non studia come Bocelli guadagni più di un tenore d'opera.

[Tenor5274]

I love Jose Carreras but I would have preferred him in some of his 1970's Donizetti or Verdi work :)

[jsierra88]

Me juego el webo derexo a q este video lo a montado un catalán... :) ole q humildes sois tios. Mi preferido Placido Domingo y Juan Diego Flores.

[DalilaCarmen]

The best is Corelli-no doubt.You may go very high,but lose a quality of timber.I mean that it sounds like a voice of a different person.Corelli's sound is of a great quality .he has that masculine high notes which impress the listener very much.

[OettingerCroat]

about the notes, I totally agree... I don't think I have ever heard a more exciting, thrilling, and downright INTIMIDATING high C as Corelli's. Especially the 1967 studio recording of Di Quella Pira.

[albertogrilo]

Krauss and Florez with and high E flat. Very good...Bravi

[billyguns2]

Too much Domingo here; I have never liked his whiny, pinched sound in any case. Corelli, Bjoerling, Pavarotti, and Kraus are the winners for me here.

[OettingerCroat]

well up until Bb he was great, but I just put that C in there (of which I also have more) to prove he had a C. ;-)

if you ask me, my favorite notes come from Corelli.

[Bjoerrelli]

On recording maybe but live I´ve heard him struggling hard on Bb-flats. Up until -75 he sanged better on the high notes but after that you really can hear how he struggles almost every time.

[Mooorhe]

I agree, too much Domingo.

But I absolutely love the way this is put together and can't wait for the next one!

[OettingerCroat]

you gotta understand, he is my favorite living tenor... while I agree that as a vocal instrument, he is not on the same level as Pavarotti, Lanza, Björling, Corelli, etc. i just love him so much that I can't resist! :-P it's just a taste thing...

[Mooorhe]

I do understand =P, it is your video and of course your choice what to put in.

I'm currently assembling an 'Operas Greatest Moments' (and an 'Operas Worst Moments':P) Video. And i'm finding it hard to balance it out.

Either way, looking forward to #2 =).

[OettingerCroat]

thanks for the understanding ;-)

at least i readily admit he didn't have the best voice or technique :-D

cheers!

[csupor]

Too much Domingo, yes, but we love him. :-) He's not a singinig-macchine, but one of the greatest opera-performer ever... :-)

[OettingerCroat]

without a doubt!

[rgraz1022]

IMO, at this level it's just matter of taste, and I do not think that who hits the highest note becomes the best one. I think everyone's best is the one that makes you enjoy the moment, then is when you compare. This is my humble opinion.

[ddzz37]

i truly enjoy Mario Lanzas voice and his high c. he is my fave tenor. And by far the best.

[OettingerCroat]

high C SHARP ;-)

and yes, i love Lanza too!

[Yoni89]

i believe that recording was raised in pitch, the sound is not the right for mario in my opinion. The previous words in the phrase seem to be a half step above his usual also, which is why I'm pointing that out. I believe it was originally a C.