Italian Songs: The Digital Recordings
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Performer: Enrico CarusoPerformer: Rolando Villiaze
Composer: Marcello da Capua
Composer: Salvatore Cardillo
Composer: Guglielmo Cottrau
Composer: Teodoro Cottrau
Composer: Vincenzo De Crescenzo
Composer: Ernesto de Curtis
Composer: Stefano Donaudy
Composer: Stanislao Gastaldon
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-06-25
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
- Vieni sul mar
- 'O sole mio
- Tu can nun chiagne
- Santa Lucia
- Pecche?
- L'Alba separa dalla luce l'ombra
- Fenesta che lucive
- Mamma mia che vo' sape
- Musica proibita
- Core 'ngrato
- Luna d'estate
- Ideale
- 'A vucchella
- Vaghissima sembianza
- Tarantella sincera
- Senza nisciuno
- L'addio a Napoli
Free Music Notes for Italian Songs: The Digital Recordings
Free Music Review: A timeless wonder in a modern context
Hit: 5 Stars
My comments here are made about the contents of the three CDs so far issued in this series.
Some reviewers have expressed reservations and disappointment (or worse) in the results obtained by encasing in new musical settings the marvellous Caruso voice taken from his acoustic recordings. One point that must be understood by potential buyers (of whom may there be many) is that the outcomes are by no means uniform in quality. Some of them might most kindly be called curiosities, and yet the best of them are excitingly fresh and give new pleasure from hearing.
The original recordings range over almost 18 years, and we are told that the earliest of Caruso's records were made in a quite casual fashion (Fred Gaisberg the man who first recorded Caruso has told how quickly Caruso sang the selected items in a Milan hotel room in 1902), right through to Domine Deus, his second last recording made on 16th September, 1920.
Like the earlier attempts, made from 1927 to 1939, grafting the electrically recorded accompaniments around the voice, this series has sparked much discussion and much careful listening to the results. The controversy has been healthy and no actual physical violence seems to have happened.
Although I believe now that certain of the originals have not benefited from the process (Leoncavallo and Giordano, the composers who accompanied Caruso on two of the items may have been quite understandably peeved, to say the least, that their efforts were erased), overall this set has given many people a great deal of pleasure. I commend BMG and particularly the Austrian musicians who have so faithfully and, I feel, reverently tried to serve the great and loveable man's memory, and I most fervently hope that there may be further attempts, more successful ones again, to present Caruso's recorded legacy by the best possible means.
Italian Songs: The Digital Recordings Poster
As a follow-up to its Caruso 2000 release, RCA here offers us a remastered, implemented selection of Neapolitan songs recorded by Enrico Caruso between 1906 and 1920. The gimmick is again that the old recordings have been digitally stripped of their oompah, blaring instruments. In their place, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra has provided modern accompaniment. It's still anachronistic--the voice remains in another acoustical era from the orchestra--but this time, the balance is a little better, and conductor Gottfried Rabl is amazingly sensitive to Caruso's style and phrasing. Moreover, of course, the pops and clicks of the old pre-electrical shellacs are gone. The voice retains its timbre and quality, thank goodness, and one can still marvel at the way the sound grew over the 14 years recorded here. It's always magnificent, but it became more baritonal and muscular with age, without losing any of its thrills. The "Ideale" from 1906 remains an exquisitely tender piece of singing; elsewhere, the sheer visceral excitement of the voice dazzles. Purists may not approve. Those unfamiliar with the Caruso phenomenon should hear him under any circumstances, and this is as good a chance as any. --Robert LevineClassical Music CDs
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