Enrico Caruso - Complete Recordings, Vol. 5

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Enrico Caruso - Complete Recordings, Vol. 5

Selected arias for tenor and voices by Gounod, Franchetti and more

Enrico Caruso (tenor), Marcel Journet (bass), Geraldine Farrar (soprano), Gabrielle Gilibert (mezzo-soprano), Garden Farara (soprano), Antonio Scotti (baritone), Louise Homer (mezzo-soprano), Francis Lapitino (harp)

The 1906 recording of 'M'apparì' from Martha comes first, and it introduces an aspect of Caruso's singing that rarely finds a place in the critical commentaries: his subtlety. Partly, it's rhythmic.
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Catalogue No: 8110720
Label: Naxos
Series: Historical, Great Singers
Length: 79 minutes

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Gounod: Faust, CG 4, Faust, Act I

Work length3:37

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Enrico Caruso, Marcel Journet
Recorded: 16 January 1910

O merveille!

Track length3:37

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Gounod: Faust, CG 4, Faust, Act III

Work length16:21

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Geraldine Farrar, Garden Farara, Gabrielle Gilibert, Enrico Caruso, Marcel Journet
Recorded: 16 January 1910

Seigneur Dieu, que vois-je?

Track length4:31

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Eh! Quoi! Toujours seule?

Track length4:02

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Il se fait tard

Track length4:05

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Eternelle? O nuit d'amour

Track length3:43

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Gounod: Faust, CG 4, Faust, Act IV

Work length3:29

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Enrico Caruso, Antonio Scotti, Marcel Journet
Recorded: 16 January 1910

Que voulez-vous, messieurs?

Track length3:29

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Gounod: Faust, CG 4, Faust, Act V

Work length10:04

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Geraldine Farrar, Enrico Caruso, Marcel Journet
Recorded: 16 January 1910

Mon coeur est penetre d'epouvante

Track length4:04

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Attends! Voici la rue

Track length3:11

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Alerte! Ou vous etes perdus!

Track length2:49

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Franchetti: Germania, Act I

Work length2:34

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Enrico Caruso
Recorded: 14 March 1910

Studenti! Udite!

Track length2:34

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Franchetti: Germania

Work length2:50

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Enrico Caruso
Recorded: 14 March 1910

No, non chiuder gli occhi vaghi

Track length2:50

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Puccini: Madama Butterfly, Act I

Work length3:31

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Enrico Caruso
Recorded: 14 March 1910

Amore o grillo

Track length3:31

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Puccini: Madama Butterfly, Act III

Work length3:49

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Enrico Caruso, Antonio Scotti
Recorded: 14 March 1910

Non ve l'avevo detto?

Track length3:49

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Ponchielli: La Gioconda, Op. 9, La Gioconda, Act II

Work length2:52

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Enrico Caruso
Recorded: 14 March 1910

Cielo e mar!

Track length2:52

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Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, Act II

Work length3:16

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Enrico Caruso
Recorded: 28 December 1910

No! Pagliaccio non son

Track length3:16

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Verdi: Otello, Act II

Work length2:20

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Enrico Caruso
Recorded: 28 December 1910

Ora e per sempre addio

Track length2:20

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Geehl: For You Alone

Work length2:15

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Enrico Caruso
Recorded: 28 December 1910

Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana, Siciliana

Work length2:43

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Enrico Caruso, Francis Lapitino
Recorded: 28 December 1910

O Lola

Track length2:43

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Verdi: Il trovatore, II Trovatore, Act II

Work length3:39

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Louise Homer, Enrico Caruso
Recorded: 29 December 1910

Mal reggendo

Track length3:39

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Verdi: Il trovatore, Act IV

Work length4:26

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Louise Homer, Enrico Caruso
Recorded: 29 December 1910

Se m'ami ancor; Ai nostri monti

Track length4:26

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Tosti: Good-Bye! (1880)

Work length4:25

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Enrico Caruso
Recorded: 29 December 1910

Addio

Track length4:25

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Verdi: Aida, Act IV

Work length7:05

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Louise Homer, Enrico Caruso
Recorded: 29 December 1910

Gia i sacerdoti adunansi

Track length3:37

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Misero appien mi festi

Track length3:28

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The 1906 recording of 'M'apparì' from Martha comes first, and it introduces an aspect of Caruso's singing that rarely finds a place in the critical commentaries: his subtlety. Partly, it's rhythmic.
The move–on and pull–back seems such an instinctive process that we hardly notice it (though no doubt a modern conductor would – and check it immediately). It makes all the difference to the emotional life of the piece, the feeling of involvement and spontaneous development.
Then there's the phrasing, marvellously achieved at the melody's reprise. The play of louder and softer tones, too, has every delicacy of fine graduation; and just as masterly is the more technical covering and (rare) opening of notes at the passaggio.
An edition of the score which brought out all these features of Caruso's singing would be a densely annotated document. It would, even so, be a simplification, for accompanying all this is the dramatic and musical feeling, which defies analysis – and, of course, the voice.
That voice! You may feel you know all these records and hardly need to play them, yet there's scarcely an occasion when the beauty of it doesn't thrill with a sensation both old and new (the first 'Ah!' is one of recognition, the second of fresh wonder). So it is with the items here: excepting the Eugene Onegin aria, which remains external, and the late L'Africaine recording, with its saddening evidence of deterioration. The transfers are excellent.

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