Nemico della Patria - Gino Bechi

A great rendition by Gino Bechi

Category:

Music

Tags:

• GINO
• BECHI
• NEMICO
• DELLA
• PATRIA
• ANDREA
• CHENIER

[stevevandien]

I LOVE Bechi. A true Italian dramatic baritone! What a huge,rich, vibrant tone, buttressed by plenty of temperament, PLUS those clarion high notes! NOBODY like him today, sad to say --

[DonPaolissimo]

First there was Ruffo, then Stracciari, then Bechi; then................ We have sadly lost this vero leone type of Italian baritone!!!

[MrCafiero]

Listen to Fuffo's he'd mind. It will give you allot of insight.

[slack1more]

@DonPaolissimo

... then Taddei, Bastianini, Protti, Gobbi... not to mention all those that came after, that I don't even know about!

Every era produces its own excellence, based on changing tastes. I bet if you looked, you could find some.

[robertwbecker]

Love the Squillo,, Great use of Language, Thanks for posting this video of this Great Singer, Truly one of a Kind, and never to be forgotten, thanks to your posts and youtube!

[abracadabranque]

Manque de finesse compensé par un matériel qu'on ne semble plus produire.Mais la fin,quel manque d'interiorité et de sensibilité!Une charrue!!!

[DonPaolissimo]

Mai piu un leone come quello!! Bravo un vero baritone Italiano!!!!

[operalament]

very impressive!

[Rigelcentauri58]

Squillo, brillante!!!

excelso magnifico!!!

[Lovelytenor1]

Yes, few (if any) baritones can produce such dramatic intesity using such warm, beatiful tone. It is almost a lost art.

[svjatazarov]

5!!!!!!!!!!!!! I admired him all my childhood...

[valcongarcia]

Tuve el honor y el grandísimo placer de conocer a este maravilloso barítono, pero nunca lo vi en directo, me parece una voz excelsa.

[iduefoscari]

Dattor this recording by Gino Bechi comes from the complete set from 1941 under the supervision of Giordano himself. This is the finest Chenier,as you say ever made with Gigli singing in his favourite role, Maria Caniglia in fine form and Gino Bechi as Gerard ,and a young Giulietta Siomionata Giuseppi Taddei playing three roles !!I challenge anybody to say that the final duet as Chenier and Maddalena go to the guilotine is not the most impassioned opera singing ever recorded!

[bellatrix58]

I am specchless. What a beautiful voice.

I wish modern barytones could sing like this.

Congratulations!

[dattor]

This is from the best Andrea Chenier ever recorded, an old RCA Treasury set featuring the greatest singers of the time, 1945. This aria precedes Gino Bechi's scene with Maria Caniglia, where he first exclaims his heretofore silent love for her, then relents and promises to help release her lover from imprisonment. Their work together here marked the very best in opera drama, I have ever been privileged to hear in all my eighty years. Thank you very much for this much at least.