Mattia Battistini - 'Fin Ch'han dal Vino' from 'Don Giovanni' (1901)

This is the oldest recording I have in my collection, although this is a repressing from Japan made in 1930s. Italian baritone Mattia Battistini sings the famous aria from Mozart's Don Giovanni. Recorded for G&T on November 17th, 1901, in Warsaw, Poland.

This recording is very interesting as the 'audiences' who were present when this recording was made, makes 'applause' during the session. I wonder if there's any other example like this except one of Alessandro Moreschi's record (Tosti's Ideale, as far as I remember.)

Played on my HMV 102 machine. I firstly tried to play this on the modern equipment, but since the surface noise was terrible, I made an alternate transfer by using HMV 102. But it eventually blasts. But what do you expect from a primitive 108-year-old recording?

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Mattia
• Battistini
• Fin
• Ch'han
• dal
• Vino
• Don
• Giovanni
• Mozart
• 1901
• G&T
• Phonograph
• Gramophone
• 78rpm

[RemzofFrance]

c'est un "live", et le public demande un bis ! Comme quoi le goût évolue, une telle interprétation serait sifflée de nos jours. Sûrement une voix splendide mais l'enregistrement n'en a pas conservé beaucoup...

[sopogoshadze]

very funny

[abracadabranque]

Pinponpinponpinponpin....

Monstrueux; vainqueur du mauvais goût et de la bêtise musicale:Une troisième peut-être?..

[meltzerboy]

Unorthodox Mozart singing based on modern taste; but I'm not sure modern taste is always the best guide. And, anyway, who cares when the singer is the great Battistini! Thanks so much for sharing this with me.

[MrCafiero]

He was great.

[hobo1975]

he might have worked with people who knew mozart,or students of people who knew mozart.

[saltburner2]

@merrihew

...especially if it was a very short aria!

Victor Maurel manages to sing 'Quand' ero paggio' from Falstaff three times on one of his recordings.

[Amicofritz889]

ESILARANTE!

[AllanKohrman]

This is an important recording first because nobody sings Mozart like this anymore, and second because of the "bis, bis" person.

[NedRorem]

Il ritmo è fantastico. Sembra samba! Mi domando se questo genere di libertà ritmica fosse veramente la prassi o se semplicemente non avesse studiato il pezzo abbastanza.