Gregory Kunde - A tanto duol / Ascolta, O padre (Studio Quality)

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Not a studio recording, but best quality of all the other performances floating on youtube.
Hope you enjoy it :)
This particular aria was written for Rubini, but did you know there's another version for Giovanni David that has 3 written high F's and one high G??!!

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• vincenzo
• bellini
• bianca
• fernando
• giovanni
• battista
• rubini
• gregory
• kunde
• hautecontre
• contraltino
• altino
• tenor
• high
• bel
• canto
• coloratura

[angalafan]

Bellini composed "Bianca e Gernando"in 1826 for the theatre San Carlo in Naples with Gian Battista Rubini in Gernando. The male title role was originaly called Fernando but transformed to Gernando not to offend the king Ferdinando of two Sicilies ( Italy was not still unified) who was reigning in Naples. This was the second opera by Bellini, and it's touching to note how beautiful was already his music with this excquisite melody "O tanto duol" and her noble introduction.

[primohomme]

@angalafan

Oh and the original I think was written for a different (even higher) tenor, Giovanni David...whose range went all the way up to soprano high B-flat!

[mitegive]

Besonders schön. Gregory Bravo.

[Bhavatam]

Magnificent

[Vanchy58]

Santo Dios este hombre es un verdadero semidios para dar tan altisimos agudos. Dificilmente el mismo Pavarotti pudo cantar esta aria en su vida (que yo sepa). Es estremadamente difícil aun para el magnífico Juan Diego Florez dar ese "sobreagudo mortal" de esta cabaletta. Waooooooo , Bravo Kunde dejas con la boca abierta a cualquiera!!!

[angalafan]

@primohomme It's true that David did the role of Fernando, but it was two years later (1828) in Genova when Bellini did a new version of the opera. You know that hight notes were generally written on request by such tenors like David or Rubini who used technique able to give them possibility to reach top notes up to high F ( with mixte voice or falsetto ). Probably the last reminiscence of castrati who were on the point to be forbidden.Bellini hated this bad tradition that broke his intention.

[ditantipalpiti]

Grande grande grande grandissimo KUNDE!!!!!!!!!!!! Favoloso nel cantabile e stratosferico nel FA sovracuto!!!!

[WestVoice]

This is INSANEEEEEEEEEEEE!! I LOVE IT!!

[gcarlos03]

Quest'aria è di una musicalità unica!! Gregory Kunde è eccezionale nel cantarla.

[WMP777]

Mr Kunde's voice and technique is of the highest quality. He conquered the passagio and controls beautifuly. He is the closest type of voice in the Alfredo Kraus mold.