Enrico Caruso "Live" A Study

Caruso had the voice of a baritone or near baritone, that could hit the "high C". Now for the first time his voice is restored.

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[lincolncar1]

I agree. What I did with Caruso recordings was to carefully sound clean and noticed vibrations in the recordings that corresponded with the lower regions of his voice. I digitally changed the pitch of his lower voice till there was a match to the pitch of the vibrations. Spent the last 2 years trying to prove my research wrong but couldn't. Then I learned Caruso was a baritone or near baritone and concluded my research must be at worst really close to how he sounded.

[lincolncar1]

"The Complete Caruso." does have some record noise. The thing I like least about those recordings is the fact that they are so compressed.

[lincolncar1]

If you listen carefully, to a highly compressed and a carefully "noise cleaned" recording. Harmonics, partials & overtone were recorded on to those old disks. It's important to equalize the recordings properly first, which is a very big job.

[lincolncar1]

I've been working on this Caruso restoration research since 1964. I dedicate this work to my Dad in heaven, who was an opera trained tenor, himself.

[lincolncar1]

Stefan Zucker never heard Caruso restored.

[lincolncar1]

Stefan Zucker:

''What I deplore is not Caruso's voice, which was sonically opulent,'' he said, ''but that he had relatively little musical nuance and variety of dynamics. In short, Caruso lacked musical imagination.''

''We must ask why Caruso was booed when singing 'L'Elisir d'Amore' at Naples in 1901,'' Mr. Zucker said. ''It was because the audience thought he had forsaken nuance and delicacy. And they were right.''

[fbsv]

The pitch of this recording has been lowered several tones from the original, this is way it's much more baritone-like. This is not to say that he couldn't sing with a baritone color. He was a tenor through and through and like all great voices could sing in various ranges and colorations.

[seektheforce]

@lincolncar1 booed off the stage? Caruso was absolutely a tenor, but a dramatic tenor. Like Del Monaco, which is where the confusion lies.

[NatashaGordienkoFan]

Здорово спасибо

[Ankhsnammon]

I only judge beauty.And this is pure beauty.PURE BEAUTY!

By he way,mt grandparents,whom lsitened t him in lots of opportubities,used to say he could sing in the three tessiture,,,....so,nthing new under the sun

[valdengo1]

...anytime I can hear the great man, in a more tonally accurate voice, it is a rare gift..perhaps a hundred years from now, technology can make his voice sound like it is alive today.....

[jcab2323]

THE ICON..

[CD122344]

Caruso was booed because he didn't pass out free tickets to those who thought that they were suppose to get them!

[kingcorelli]

@lincolncar1 Stefan who ? What the hell would he know about Voice, the most confused vocal timbre I have ever heard...and thats spoken voice.......what because he did some interviews....wow. Stefan wash your mouth with soap before you speak about Caruso. Grazie lincolncar1 ....I really enjoyed this...remastering...the sound is seducingly natural...you can hear his particular colonna sonora equalised within a common place among all vowels..very special. Still the king of kings!!!

[Nello7]

@Nello7 Thanks for your response. I am not certain if you can accurately make the argument about smoking being a contributing factor to the darkening in his voice. I would love to see any scientific evidence that supports that. He smoked clean tobacco which did not have the same impact on health as today's. I think that technique and age were significant factors in his darker qualities. In terms of recording quality, it was subpar, but Caruso's technique was unhindered as witnessed here!

[seektheforce]

@lincolncar1 I don't know if you've heard Caruso's recording's of Una Furtiva Lagrima, but those recording's make Zucker out to be a liar if I've ever heard one in this instance.

[seektheforce]

@Nello7 I'm disputing that there is question on whether Caruso was a tenor or not. Caruso smoked regularly which surely contributed to his "darkening" sound. In addition, recording technology was atrocious back then. I feel that he was a great tenor nonetheless, regardless of what fach he was classified as.

[Nello7]

@seektheforce

I'm not certain if you are disputing if he was booed off of the stage at San Carlo, but he indeed was. Caruso never again returned to Napule to sing after that.

It's unclear about the fach of Caruso, IMO. We can hear at the beginning a sweet lyric- full lyric tenor, that is certain. As he matured and his technique developed he found access to a darker sound (which was natural to begin with.) I don't think that Caruso though of himself as anything but a Tenor.