Caruso 2000
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Composer: Friedrich von FlotowComposer: Fromental Halevy
Composer: Ruggero Leoncavallo
Composer: Jules Massenet
Composer: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Enrico Caruso
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-02-08
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Rigoletto: La Donna E Mobile
- Aida: Se Quel Quel Guerrier Io Fossi... Celeste Aida
- Macbeth: O Figli, O Figli Miei... Ah, La Paterna Mano
- Il Trovatore: Ah, Si Ben Mio
- Il Trovatore: Di Quella Pira
- Un Ballo in Maschera: Forse La Soglia Attinse
- La Juive: Rachel, Quand Du Seigneur
- L'Africaine: Mi Batte Il Cor... O Paradiso!
- Manon: Je Suis Seul... Ah, Fuuyez, Douce Image
- Le Cid: Ah! Tout Est Bien Fini!
- Martha: M'Appari Tutt' Amor
- La Gioconda: Cielo E Mar
- I Pagliacci: Recitar!... Vesti La Giubba
- TOSCA: Recondita Armonia
- Petite Messe solennelle: Domine Deus
- La Danza: Taratella Neopolitana
- I Pagliacci: Comparison Track - Orig. Version: Recitar... Vesti La giubba
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Free Music Review: Caruso soars over orchestra
Hit: 5 Stars
The biggest problem with hearing Caruso on 78s is not the surface noise. It's the feeble orchestras that, due to engineering constraints, were the best that could be used. Because Caruso's voice was big and golden and soared over the orchestra in the cavernous Met. And this miraculous recording allows you to hear that! Yes, the voice sounds like it's in a box at times. But when the orchestra is playing along, it is surreal. Caruso singing with the organ in Manon! The strings in Le Cid! And other heavenly moments.
Probably the most extraordinary moment of all is hearing the original Pagliacci at the end. However it is a tad misleading. CDs exaggerate the stratchiness and feebleness. On a Victrola, the orchestra didn't sound that feeble. You heard the voice in the foreground, the orchestra (such as it was) in the background, and balance and tone were more or less accurate. Didn't Enrico Caruso, Jr., say, "I don't listen to the CDs. When I hear the 78s -- that's Pap?."
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The idea behind Caruso 2000 is actually not new. In the early '30s, RCA rerecorded some of the legendary tenor's acoustic recordings with newly added orchestral accompaniments, to rather crude results. With today's computer know-how, one can carry out this concept with infinitely more finesse and musicality, as the present release proves. What we have are some of Caruso's most famous and memorable sides, with the voice's overtones pretty much intact, minus the shellac surface noise. Likewise, the blatty orchestras are virtually rubbed out, replaced here in new performances by the Vienna Radio Symphony. It's amazing how accurately conductor Gottfried Rabl pinpoints accompaniments around Caruso's very personalized rubatos. In fact, Rabl sometimes anticipates the singer's special effects rather than reacts to them. The basic problem is that you don't get a tangible sense of Caruso's projection. Compare, for instance, the 1907 "Vesti la Giubba" from I Pagliacci (track 17) to its reconstituted counterpart (track 13). The unadulterated recording reveals the voice in proportion to the blatty orchestra in a finite space, with no dial twiddling or body miking to beef things up. In the new version, voice and orchestra are miraculously matched, yet don't blend. A vocalist will normally adjust his or her voice to the environment, but singers can't do such things when they're dead. Still, a release like this will surely instigate Caruso awareness among budding opera fans, just as Ted Turner's colorized films make classic movies palatable to viewers allergic to black and white. --Jed DistlerClassical Music CDs
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