"Agnus Dei" by Georges Bizet sung by Enrico Caruso

Awsome! The YouTube community comes through! eblackadder3 gets a big thank you for listing all the songs on my Caruso cassette. Enjoy this rarely played song by the great Tenor Caruso!

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Music

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• Enrico
• Caruso
• Georges
• Bizet
• Agnus
• Dei
• Classical

[missgreeneyes56]

This is the only thing I've heard that shows off Caruso's voice. Fabulous! He sings with so much feeling and power. Note that the accompianist is completely with him.

He was a superstar then;just imagine him with modern recordings. The best *of bel canto, that it,(

[Amiduffer]

@missgreeneyes56 According to a biographer, he would wear out accompianists because of his perfectionism. He was fabulous.

[DJ2entertain]

Cassette or not,thank you so much for the effort. I still enjoiy it.

Wish we had then the recording tecnology we have today.

Maybe some comments would be different and more positive.

Caruso will always be dear to me, along with the rest of our great tenors, sopranos etc.

Viva la musica. Viva il bel canto.

[Amiduffer]

@DJ2entertain Yes, we can't imagine how many wonderful voices we've missed because Mr. Edison didn't perfect his recording machine. Caruso and the record seems to have been a match in heaven.

[eblackadder3]

That is "Agnus Dei" by Bizet.

[UptownRed]

Agnus Dei - Bizet

[Amiduffer]

Thanks for the confirmation. It is indeed an old cassette, bought for 50 cents at a thrift store. No telling how shoddy the dubbing.

[GermanOperaSinger]

No, the reason this is bad is because the cassette is bad, and so is the video. I have the original transfer on both LP and CD and he sounds perfectly in tune singing this. This was recorded on 24 Feb. 1913; he also recorded 'parmi veder' from Rigoletto and 'donna non vidi mai' from Manon Lescaut on that day. He was in perfectly good voice. The quality of the video is poor, and the cassette is probably old and worn out. This is why he sounds bad here. The original transfer of this is excellent.

[bsdml]

Comment perusers will discover below a debate on whether Caruso sang this song in tune. What "tat" has failed to take into account, is that small cassette tape players tend to have less than perfect speed consistency, so if there is a note or two that come off as less than pure of pitch, it could very easily be the medium it's being played on, rather than the singer. Also, tat doesn't particularly care for the later Caruso in general.

[tat1685]

Yeah, Shakespeare, I'll do that.

[madisonelectronic]

@tat1685  Go back to playing the skinflute.Thank you!

[Amiduffer]

I posted it so as to get help with the titles on the cassette. If others enjoy it, well, thats good too. Can't complain if folks like to hear him, despite the poor quality of the medium. He's great to listen to. Having sung a little, one can appreciate his artistry and longetivity.