Pavarotti - Che gelida manina 1964, Moscow

Recorded during his 1964 tour with La Scala.

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• Pavarotti
• che
• gelida
• manina
• boheme
• scala
• 1964
• recital

[corellipavarotti]

I will take a gentleman's bet that this is NOT 1964. His voice sounds very much "80's" here.

[Operafiend22]

@corellipavarotti my dear sir...you would lose that bet. This is a live recording from September 24, 1964 in which soloists from La Scala (Pavarotti, Margerita Gulelmi, Lynda Vaina, Gabriella Tucci, Nicola Zaccaria, Antonio Tonini - piano), performed at the Bolshoi. It is a commercial recording made on the Yedang label (Russian). It is available @ russiandvddotcom. I have posted Pavarotti's other selections from that night, along with Tucci and Zaccaria

[corellipavarotti]

@Operafiend22 I will take your word for it. Sounds heavier than he did in those days. Perhaps a cold or something. Certainly not in his usual voice, I would think, listening to it.

[Operafiend22]

@corellipavarotti I know what you mean, I have other earlier recordings of Pav. from '64-68 in which he does sound a bit lighter/thinner...who knows? Still a gorgeous sound in any case :)

[TraVoiBelle]

Ah! this C!

[MrGranfield]

I listen to Jussi Bjorling and forget all the rest.Including Pavarotti I'm afraid.

[mrluistena]

@colino72 I agree with your comment. THe middle register is actually the base of the whole lot. If the voice seats well there, then you should be ok. Thanks.

[PianoGodfather]

God bless the next person who tries to bring a voice like Pavarotti's back to the operatic world. RIP Maestro

[corellipavarotti]

@Nater389 Most certainly does not sound like it. Been listening to him all my life, thanks. Must have been an off day/cold. Not his best at any rate.

[Nater389]

@corellipavarotti You haven't listened to Pavarotti very much then. This is his young voice...before he even settled into what you know as the "sound of Pavarotti."

[MariaCaIIas]

@corellipavarotti a cold??? I wish I can catch this kind-a-cold all the time!! It is not too bad to lose a bet... sit back and relax about it...

[MrSammyscroll]

Absolutely the best voice in the '60's........masterful high notes, great power....

[SkipAscari]

the prettiest voice of my life time but i think corelli had a strong voice ?

[GermanOperaSinger]

@corellipavarotti Pavarotti's voice sounded heavier for most of the early 1960s - he polished his technique by the late 60s and actually lightened his voice. At least the recordings seem to suggest this. By the mid 70s it started to get heavier again, due to age probably?

[chaiter1]

Stop writing nonsense. It is the 1964 recording. That is how he sounded during early 60s. The amount of pseudoprofessional comments here is unbelievable...

The sound was already unbelievable. The voice fresh, the high notes ringing.

What can be said with certainty is that it is pre-hype times, without the PR that followed much later. And you can hear how cold the public is. It goes a long way to tell you how little general public understands and how they fail to recognise the great talent.

[aguacun]

This is the audio...good... the video is here at youtube

[colino72]

@Webarton There is no need to sing high C after high C when warming up. You shouldn't, because regardless of some of your comments here, there IS mechanical effort taking place. Warm up the middle voice well, do some messa di voce (crescendo/diminuendo) to get the folds stretching and relaxing, but there is no need to go busting you chops to warm up.

[VNThongNhat]

@corellipavarotti

I am no Opera expert but I think It was Pavarotti's intention to be more dramatic than usual, Notice that this version is quite slower and only have a piano playing.

I think no cold got to his voice in this, his high notes were so fine.

[bigus]

@Lovelytenor1 yes i agree the C here is still too open. open is good but the support to keep it heady wasnt there all the time like he himself said and i agree you can hear it here. good talking to you the other day my friend ill call again soon.

[bigus]

@GermanOperaSinger i couldn't agree more, im 33 and still trying to perfect the low and middle voice. i have high notes but only dabble in them till i can be sure of my technique, if i start singing arias when im 50 ill be fine as long as they are kept easy and within my voice =).

[luixander19]

@coscorrona so he lost his high C without a microphone but not with a mic? pavarotti a light lyric tenor? wow! just wow! whos miguel fleta ? lol omg this is is actualy funny

[steakopera]

Great live recording. I could hear the different side of him. Young and pure sound.

[JuliaDarling]

@GermanOperaSinger - I couldn't agree with you more. Everyone is too impatient. now. Sooo sad. :(

[GermanOperaSinger]

He was able to produce each of the five Italian vowel's in their purest form CORRECTLY. He was by no means the first tenor capable of this, but he was certainly one of the last. His registers were perfectly integrated and controlled by the muscles of the head voice. This is not something that happens in the course of a few days. This takes YEARS of proper exercises in training. Young tenors, stop singing operatic arias and get back to basic training! No wonder they all stink - too impatient!

[jwccc47]

His technique was as natural as walking.The correct placement just happened.

[acitipo]

Aqui Luciano canta en el tono original, la voz fresca en todo su esplendor.