Adelina Patti - Ave Maria

Ave Maria (Bach Gounod) sung by the great soprano, admired by Verdi and Tchaikovsky.

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• Adelina
• Patti
• Ave
• Maria

[andema83]

I don´t know... I´ve been listening to both Patti and Moreschi and these recordings don´t sound neither like Patti nor like Moreschi;-). Patti had a clear soprano voice, whereas the singer of this recording is clearly a mezzo-soprano. And Moreschis version of Ave Maria is really awful btw.

[Delifine]

@andema83 This is definitely Patti, I think she used different colors in different songs, here she sounds "chesty", like a mezzo soprano as you noticed. But even in other recordings one can hear that she had a distinguished use of chest resonator, that's why she was considered the greatest singer of her time.

[angelparsifal]

Wonderful singer! What a mystic experience!

[Delifine]

You are absolutely right! There's something mystical and mysterious in the fact that in spite of such a poor quality of recording you can hear how divine she was! Thank you for the comment.

[erial80]

Cara Delifina: Nunca le discutiría a una dama cosí bella, pero me PARECE que usted subió la versión de Alessandro Moreschi, el último castrato. La versión de Adelina Patti está INEDITA, salvo que usted tenga el viejo Lp IRCC. Erial80

[Delifine]

Sorry but you are wrong. It's the voice of Adelina Patti whose unique timbre i can easily recognise because it's my favorite female vocalist. Moreschi's version is absolutely different and, oh my god, his voice is impossible to listen to, he sings extremely badly!

[svjatazarov]

по технике и кантилене моно спутать с мореши иль другим выдающимся кастратом....

[SarahW4023]

beautiful :) amazing :) thank you for posting it 

[causabon99]

Simply put: this is Moreschi, not Patti. It could even be a constrained boy miked up...appropriately. (Mike denies it...) Since when do they descend on Patti Towers in Wales to record a peripheral ode in the canon as oppposed to the opera jewels? I've never come across this recording anywhere as ascribed to Patti. And it's just not her voice.

[CurzonRoad]

Agreed..... 100 percent! Thank you!

[meltzerboy]

Patti's voice is but a pale reflection of its former brilliant self and the recording is primitive. Nonetheless, there is a touch of the divine in the beauty of Patti's voice and her singing style. Melba also recorded a lovely version of the piece.

[angelparsifal]

Patti is a very, very good singer. Patti ´s voice, despite she is not in her prime, still conserves that style ( very sporanistic) which defined her. And in this case, her singing is so clamed that makes wiht the piano and violin music, an unique instrument. I give no importancy to the quality , when the singing is great, as Patti´s singing is.Very nice images of the virgin, specially the blue one. But I also like the Moreschi´s version :), despite the fact it pales with Patti´s.