Je Crois Entendre Encore Richard Tucker

The great Richard Tucker sings this haunting aria from Les Pecheurs des Perles. Recorded in 1947. Thank you to halavey/perlmuth3 for the following information:
The LP is Columbia #4248

I was able to further discover that this LP was recorded at the MET under Fausto Cleva or Emil Cooper, and the Columbia Opera Orchestra under Wilfred Pelletier.

More from halavey/perlmuth3: this particular recording was at the MET under Emil Cooper. Thanks again my friend!

I have rarely heard his huge spinto voice sounding so lyric...I heard this on a 4-cd set I received recently, and had to post it. It's not anywhere on youtube as far as I can tell!

The 4-cd set is pretty awesome. It is called "Quadromania Great Voices of the Century" and this is the edition with 16 tenors, "The Greatest Arias"

Some of the recordings are pedestrian, but some are truly special like this one. And it was only $13 on Amazon! The tenors are:
Enrico Caruso
Beniamino Gigli
Francesco Tamagno
Tito Schipa
Fernando de Lucia
Giacomo Lauri-Volpi
Lauritz Melchior
Richard Tauber
Giuseppe di Stefano (also singing this aria)
Jussi Bjoerling
John McCormack
Julius Patzak
Richard Tucker
Max Lorenz
Georges Thill
and Giovanni Martinelli

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[tenorschofield]

Amazing how a so robust and big voice can manage to sing so gently and sweet this sad heartened aria.Tucker was sure one of the "best of the best" of all times!!!

Thanks for sharing this "proactive masterclass" for all us .looking for the scence of lyrical singing!!!! BRAVOOOO!!!!

[aaronsande]

@tenorschofield Glad you enjoyed it! I was surprised myself, when I found this recording!

[mgdoom]

I like him very much...it may be stupid to say it....but to me he sounds as a "spinto" version of Di Stefano...he sounds natural and effortless singing....but his voice is very powerful

[aaronsande]

@mgdoom He was a magnificent singer...did you know his funeral was on the stage of the MET? =D

Hmm, I would say Corelli, whom you clearly know, is more the spinto version of Di Stefano because they both had those gorgeous diminuendi.

Tucker didn't sound this lyrical for long...he gained much more volume over time.

[tuadolcefanciulla]

This is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful!

[Lovelytenor1]

Masterful!

[mgdoom]

@aaronsande I agree...Corelli and Di Stefano were the kings of diminuendi....but sometimes Tucker reminds me of a "spinto Di Stefano"....don't know why, it may be the timbre! I am not an expert, though ;)

[aaronsande]

@carlogic1953 Agreed =D Thank you for the comment.

[carlogic1953]

@aaronsande There are many more, for that matter (I am answering to MaestroAmduscias the Supercilious castigamatti) from the happy lot of tenori lirici leggeri and lirici puri. But I think Richard Tucker did a terrific work. Many thanks for posting!