Enrico Caruso - Last Recording 1920

Rossini: Petite Messe Solenelle: Crucifixus (...destiny?).
Recorded on the 16th of September 1920.
As far as I can establish this was the very last recording Caruso made. He was still singing at the met in December. - He died on the 2nd of August 1921.

More Caruso information on my website: http://www.enricocaruso.dk (English and Danish)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• enrico
• caruso
• rossini
• italian
• opera
• petite
• messe
• solenelle
• crucifixus

[victorio1940]

Cheers, tomfroekjaer. Insomma, as the Italians say, you cannot really define miracles. My father, a passable baritone, literally "subsisted" on Caruso. I grew up with Caruso's voice as familiar as any in my household. And now, my children love Caruso. How is this for a happy minor miracle? I suppose things of REAL value simply live on and on and on!...

[tomfroekjaer]

@victorio1940 Wonderful that your children also love Caruso. Yes, real value is practically unkillable.

The countless efforts to capture the nuances of his voices - still going on today - speak for themselves.

Cheers, Tom

[victorio1940]

What vocal range! He almost sounded like a basso cantante in this one!

[tomfroekjaer]

@victorio1940 Caruso's voice cannot really be classified. Was he a lyrical tenor, spinto, dramatic or baritone, basso/basso cantante?

Yes! All of them. Take just about any other tenor, Gigli, Björling, de Mario, Pavarotti, etc. and they fit beautifully into one of these - predefined - categories, but not Caruso - beyond classification, in my opinion.

[OscarLevant1]

Here is the art of singing in one song. Listen to him to learn what singing is.

[tomfroekjaer]

@OscarLevant1 Nice to hear it from someone who knows what he's talking about.

[jbeer82]

On this day, 79 years ago, we lost the greatest tenor the ever lived

[TheEricprince]

I am new to the internet, but not to singing. I found Caruso singing Musica Proibita. Now I can't stop listening to this piece of music. The colour and control of the voice is wonderful. Many thanks Tom for the recording.

[lisa1gas]

bellissima



[RatchaMan]

I'm 63 years old. As a child, I would visit my grandfather and he would usually have Italian opera on the radio or Caruso on his Victrola. I inherited all those 78s and am blessed to have them. Caruso remains the greatest of the tenors.

[gerardbedecarter]

Thanks for uploading!

[jbeer82]

Now 80 years. but 2 days ago

[richardpetty1000]

@jbeer82 still the greatest and maybe all way will be