Giuseppe Di Stefano - Una Furtiva Lagrima - r.1944

The first recordings of the great Sicilian born Italian tenor Giuseppe Di Stefano. This was recorded in Switzerland in 1944 with just a piano accompaniment. Enjoy the sheer beauty of the young Di Stefano's voice.

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[escotoeric]

Extremely sexy.

[bodiloto]

@jeanmolin55 bellissimo commento,le sue parole cito :Forse non é il miglior

tenore di tutti itempi...ma questa osservazione puo essere solo un gusto

personale e uno dei piu belli commenti per me sul YT.e ovvio che Di Stefano

aveva una voce sublime di tenore leggero e nel suo repertorio era un Grande

Artista,ma il giovane pubblico puo ascoltare se vuole Marconi,Caruso,Masini,Fleta,

Pertile,De Lucia ...questi Tenori hánno interpretato il repertorio di Di Stefano.

Con rispetto .

[sugarbist]

@Bjorlingmiracle It was not unusual for Pavarotti to make positive remarks about other artists as he did about Tucker,Bocelli,calling him"THE VOICE"if you can believe that.When Barioni came on the scene,Del Monaco stated that"it looks like we are all going to be looking for new jobs".Bjorling having a beautiful voice&line of singing, did have problems with interpretive skills& was cold more times than not.Bjorling was also criticized at times for his voice not being big enough in the theatre

[sugarbist]

There is no predecessor toCaruso.ECwas also the foundation for every tenor that FOLLOWED.Besides having a most beautiful quality of voice,EC is also in a category of vocal phenomenons withTamagno,Paoli,Zenatello,La­uriVolpe&Del Monaco.DiStefano&Gigli,were great tenors with beautiful qualities of voice&wonderful interpretative skills but both lacked the power of EC.Bjorling had a beautiful line of singing&great quality but was cold more times than not&also lacked the power of a Caruso.

[paulostroff99]

Superb! TY A for posting

[Honken]

@crapfacejoe

Succeeded! Successor! Finally, that was beginning to irritate me haha.

Their style is different due to the fact that Caruso died 10 years before Björling even started recording, not to mention that Björling had a more metallic quality than Caruso. However, the whole successor thing is meant in the terms of greatest tenor, not most similar (though I think this was the case for Gigli/Stefano).

[crapfacejoe]

@Honken How can that be when Caruso's style and voice is not even remotely similar to Bjorling. Forget about Dorothy Caruso, do you personally think Bjorling succeeded Caruso, or is Bjorling a tenor of his own breed.

[Honken]

@crapfacejoe

Oh, right! English is my third language so I tend to mix up words from time to time. What I meant was that the general consensus by literally every expert in the field (Kesting, Jones, Tagliavini, Pola, Stefan the Joke Zucker ect).

"You are the only one worthy to wear his mantle, bear Rico’s crown!", ~Dorothy Caruso talking to Jussi Björing.

[Bjorlingmiracle]

@Honken

Well Di Stefano was a great Tenor, but obviously not a great judge of other tenors...envy maybe?

Pavarotti on the other hand judged Jussi as all but divine, and refused to be compared to him, saying 'Please I'm only human!' As for objectivity in determining which Tenor is the greatest that is debatable. However on a number of occasions the foremost experts on opera have placed Jussi as n:o 1 of all Tenors so you just may be right in your assertion.

[crapfacejoe]

@Honken Predecessor means to precede so you got it the other way round. Bjorling has nothing in common with Caruso nor did Di Stefano with Gigli. Caruso and Gigli were just better than Bjorling, different styles or not.

[Honken]

@Bjorlingmiracle

According to this man Björling never had a voice to begin with, it should tell you a little something about his ability to know a great voice when he hears one.

Which tenor you like is subjective; which tenor is best (within reason) is objective.

[Honken]

@crapfacejoe

Björling is considered to be the rightful predecessor to Caruso, Di Stefano is considered to be the rightful predecessor to Gigli. These are two completely different approaches to singing and cannot (in my opinion) be compared technically as the distinction between them is huge.

I'm pretty sure the order of greatness is Caruso, Björling, Schipa, Lemeshev, Gigli.