Amelita Galli-Curci & Enrico Caruso - Lucia di Lammermoor : Chi Mi Frena In Tal Momento? (Sextet )
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- Classic recording of the famous sextet from "Lucia di Lammermoor" by Gaetano Donizetti, featuring Galli-Curci, Caruso, Minnie Egener, Giuseppe De Luca, Angelo Bada and Marcel Journet. Photograph taken outside the main entrance to building no. 2 (the executive office building and recording studios) of the Victor Talking Machine Company in Camden, New Jersey on January 25, 1917 at the sessions for this recording and the Rigoletto Quartet. Left to Right: De Luca, Galli-Curci, Caruso, Perini, Angelo Bada and Minnie Egener. Marcel Journet is absent from the photo.
- Hudba
I still have a collection of my dad's 78 speed records, featuring all these wonderful voices. It's my pride and joy. Im 68 now and some of his albums are dated and signed by him in 1949.
Imagine this masterpiece being recorded with today's technology...I only wish I could have heard the great one in person.
You are not worthy. None of us are worthy.
Heard this the first time in 1970. It's magic, I don't have words. Such beautiful music. May they be in heaven, these great artists.
Caruso, Bjoerling, Hvorostovsky, Nilsson, Siepi, Bergonzi, and so on, they are in heaven or they'd better be.
Perfection.
This recording is still so beautiful! The voices blend so wonderfully
Spellbindingly beautiful ---
I love the way Galli-Curci gives Caruso a run for the spotlight! Wonderful!
Nadie puede superar a esta dupla Caruso y Amelita Galli Curci…. Maravilla. Sin duda el mejor sexteto de la historia de la Ópera….
Here, Galli Curci was in her toptime. She is here wonderfull. Its the best Lucia-sextett I ever had heard. Caruso also, we never could hear this sextett so wonderfull
like this. Also G. de Luca. Its pure harmony of the best voices together. What was this for a golden time in operas !!
I have this exact same recording. It is a record that holds real significance for it was this one, above all others, that first sent me cartwheeling into the sparkling galaxy that is opera. On a scratchy old farm gramophone I would play it in my room long after everybody had gone to bed - again and again and again and again. The world was different for as long as that record played. I still play it occasionally - on that same old gramophone - and while it lasts, I'm a breathless 12 year old again - on the brink of a life-changing discovery - lost in space where time does not exist.
I had a similar experience as a child with this recording on a 78rpm that had belonged to my grandmother. With the quartet from Rigoletto on the other side. I knew when I heard those voices, that music, that there was something sublime in the world that gave it meaning and the deepest beauty. For me too it was the beginning of my love of opera, my love of classical music. How lucky we were!
Yes Barbara. We didn't find the music. The music found us!
***** Herman, you are so right. The music found us. I am forever grateful.
That's beautiful!
Barbara Richards - Victor started issuing their catalogue on so-called "double-faced" records in the '20s; I have a copy of this coupling myself, after the music "found me" as a child through my pediatrician, of all people. I told her I liked old records, and on my next visit, a pile of them, including "from 'The Best of Caruso'", were eaiting for me. I was 8 years old, but not too young to be knocked out by whay I heard, only too young to have any preconceived notions!
My perennial favourite recording! Discovered it on an old 78 rpm. Never tire of it. Mme Galli-Curci is a so pure wonderful soprano.
I play this wonderful recording on my Victor Phonograph - what an amazing recording of music masters!
Breathtaking
I was in the room where this was recorded. No one would know that now. But it is one of the few rooms in which victor made recordings that still exist. It was on the top floor of Bld #2 in Camden. That large room was also used for some early acoustic orchestral recordings as well, till a church in Camden was purchased in which many great recordings were made. Including the last batches of Caruso's recordings in Sept. 1920
Thank you for sharing this historical piece of information Jack.
For a moment I thought you meant that you were in the room *when* it was recorded! That's amazing! :)
to think this recording is over 100 years old and still one of the best recordings of the piece, it I think has been equalled once or twice but never bettered. I might say I am not the biggest Caruso fan but in this he is superb, now back to playing it agtain. cheers.
There is a verion of this song is even better (to me) with Caruso from 1908 !!! And it's motion pics look for it it's here on youtube ,you'll love that one too iam shure !
Ceers
Majestuosa e única versión.
I grew up with this recording on LP. It still brings tears to my eyes, just like the first time I heard it.
I too listened to this on my family's phonograph and was affected for life by it. This on one side of an old 78 rpm and the Quartet from Rigoletto on the other. I was truly blessed.
I don't usually go in for generalizations, but in many ways, standards of excellence have declined of late.
Here we can mine the past for its gems.
It is all here for us to sample.
What a great good fortune !
God, what beautiful voices, what phrasing, what class .... can you find something like this nowadays, apart from a CORRECT EXECUTION? .... Where is THE Art ???? Thank you so much for sharing!
It makes me cry. So beautiful. The music is top notch too.
"What from vengeance now restrains me?" 95 years cannot dilute the emotion, the voices. The mighty Caruso all but steals away from the intended soprano lead. Thank you for posting!
I listened to Caruso from age 5 and was mesmerized by his wonderful voice!,
Old and scratchy but somehow that golden voice comes through along with the glorious harmony!,
Me too!
What VOICES!!!
Just listen: the best of the best. No wonder you who listened to this recording years ago we're changed for life.
Happy hundredth anniversary! I hope these artists are indeed in heaven - and that in another hundred years listeners will marvel at this performance as we do.
Edward
My initiation into opera, 50 years ago...my dad had this performance on 78 rpm, with the Rigoletto quartet on Side B. Still the best!
This is simply unbelievable. One of the finest recordings ever. And Caruso, the greatest of all time in recorded music history.
Gracias .
Csodálatos ez a számomra és nem győzok visszatérni ide Kőszonom annak a lehetőségét hogy vissza vissza térhetnek lelki felüdülésert.Egyben azért a csodálatos élményért hogy a régmúlt időkből ilyen minőségi örök szépségben kaphstom.. Köszönöm !
I have checked out many modern recordings of this, all studio perfect and soundtrack unblemished but this is still the single most sublimely glorious I have ever heard. Perfection.
I have come back to this record many times in the nearly 60 years since I first heard it. Sadly Caruso was only 48 when he died.
As I said before, when I was a little girl, my father played this version, and I thought that the soprano sounded the way an angel would if one ever sang to us. Never found a recording I like as much as this one.
absolutly perfect! i love galli curci,im my opinion the best coloratura of all times!
To listen to Galli-Curci and Caruso is a joy. Thanks for posting,
If only i could find again the LP i had of this .....i knew it was special, but had no idea HOW special...true magic!!
You can get some of these old recordings on cds
Electrifying---moves me every time I play it--what voices.
Felt the same when I heard caruso and Co singing the goodnight quartet from Martha when I was a boy hooked ever since
wonderful!!
3 AMAZING artist in the same opera
heaven
Unbelieveably beautiful! First heard this recording about 60 years ago as kid. Loved it from the get-go. I don't think it has ever been surpassed.
Yes, why do I want to cry when this music started playing? Is it because it took me back to the Fifties and Sixties when I was still very very young, back in my parents home, safe and secured?
¡Gracias! ¡Muchísimas gracias! No sabe cuántos años me he pasado buscando esta interpretación, ¡POR FIN LO ENCONTRÉ GARCIAS A USTED QUE LO PUSO AQUÍ EN CZcams! ¡MI EMOCIÓN ES EN DEMASÍA! Sobretodo está Amelita Galli Curci y Enrico Caruso.
I am absolutely amazed at the sound quality of this recording! It must be in the vicinity of 90 years old. I'm always in awe of Caruso's voice. No matter what the role.
105 years old!
This was Golden Age... j'aimerais tellement que les musiciens aujourd'hui est le courage de faire la musique comme à l'époque, mais il faut du temps et nous faisons tout rapidement.
Of all my historic recordings that I have - this is my most treasured possession - amazing recording of talents the likes of which we may never see again!
Likewise! Sublime. The Ultimate.
AWESOME 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Thanks! I always dream of hearing Galli-Curci in her prime.
Da brividi! Che meraviglioso intreccio di colori e sfumature inimitabili!
heard this song on an old tape recorder belonging to my grandmother - heard it next in the movie the money pit and spent a long time after my mother died trying to find it - i for one love the old hissing and bad recording - makes it real somehow xxx caruso et al....D
No one can beat this! This is perfection on all levels. AGC and Caruso are just heaven.
Sorry Di Stefano and Callas, you are only no two here.
It doesn't get any better than this. I'm sorry there's only a "like" or "dislike" - there should be a "loved it!"
i don't normally like opera's but there is just something about this one that draws me to it i think its the power of their voices and how good they sound and that's actually how they sounded when singing they didnt have autotune and had to really be able to sing
O, was fur scene. Alle alte meistere wunschen uns gluck!
I am so Old that my Mother heard Caruso Person.
Un sestetto famosissimo,questo della Lucia,in cui le storiche voci si fondono in uno straordinario concerto e nello stesso momento si elevano al di sopra di tutto per catturarci nella loro singolarita'
This recording for its age is quite good.
First time I heard the sextet was in the Shirley temple movie captain January then in the movie the great Caruso with Mario Lanza n Dorothy Kirsten have loved it ever since
As other people have here stated in various languages ils chantent pour vrai, divine,striking in its beauty. Gives me chills. These voices are eternal!
Always gets to me...
non si puo' fare di piu'.....un miracolo!!!
Herman! I did too. I was 13. This is a great recording. They are all stars. Good balance.
The first music I remember, my mother sitting me in front of the record player in 1953 to listen to her mother's recordings of Galli-Curci.........wow, to hear it again.
Wow!! Gorgeous!!
Beautiful
An absolutely stunning performance!
Old memories... When I first heard this classic as a child, I learned about the human voice pitches. I learned the different degree of highness and lowness of tone and how it is used to sing it with a musical melody. My basic introduction to the fascinating world of opera was initiated from this recording. Thanks for sharing this treasure.
Divine. Bravo! Brava! A great way to start the morning....
Avete in mente il concetto di sublime ? Ecco ,intendo proprio questo 💖
Awesome! TY.
Wonderful no other word for ir, also love Gigli's version.....perfect photo
Piękny utwór i wykonanie, radość dla ucha i serca. Obecnie można sobie słuchać do woli różne utwory, więc to robię, bo kiedyś tak nie było. A jest tyle perełek muzycznych! Oby moje wnuki je także kiedyś doceniły ,bo czasy się zmieniają i gusta też.
I have this recording with the quartet from Rigoletto on the revers side of an old 12" record with a white His Masters voice label. Supreme !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Magnificent!
bravi tutto...
That first solo high note sung by Galli-Curci is astonishing in its freedom, purity, and beauty. Probably the finest version of the quartet ever recorded, thanks largely to G-C and Caruso. Many thanks for posting, Doug.
+meltzerboy OOPS! I meant sextet, not quartet.
Absolutely correct. It is a total knock-out. Other-worldly. Simply sublime. Sends shivers down my spine every time. The greatest piece of recorded music I have ever heard. A barnstorming show-stopper by evryone.
Incredible!
Thank you!
Caruso steamrolls that mic. Still, it's magnificent and I'm not ashamed to say I heard it first on old Three Stooges shorts. The uncut ones. 😊
In this recording A.Galli-Curci is singing more loud than in the recording Tetrazinni. But only of this it isnt possible to compair the quality of this both voices. Both here are the top of sung, both are devine, one better than the other.
Adorabili!
FABULOSO.
Потрясающе!
Yes, even not at his best, he was a force of nature, to me,never duplicated. ALSO at that time the recording technology which yielded this was somehow blessed. I have listened to the sextette more than any other single piece of music in my life, to the Caruso versions. Galli Curci is marvellous here!
Like so many others I discovered this recording as a child in my parents' small record collection and immediately fell in love with it. What a thrill to discover it again and enjoy this recording as much as ever! Thanks so much for posting this!
Despite having several superstar singers, the voices here are well balanced with nobody really trying to outsing his/her rivals. In the 1927 Sextette with B. Gigli, he clearly was outdueling his fellow singers. Likewise, in the televised version of this with Roberta Peters, she was outsinging her partners.
Какая ПРЕЛЕСТЬ!!❤❤❤❤ИСТИНЫЕ - ДРУЗЬЯ !! 🎉🎉🎉
I wouldn't have gotten into Sextet from Lucia if it hadn't been for Looney Tunes and Three Stooges.
A few "real" classical musicians are brave enough to admit the exact same thing.
Good
Sextetten ur Lucia di Lammermoor är bland det vackraste som finns i operarepertoaren. Hörde just en färsk version på Metropolitan i New York. Den grep tag!
Nearly a hundred years old and still sounding fabulous! Did prima donnas spend all their fee money on clothes in those days? - John Austin, Australia
The photograph shown here shows the entrance to Bld. #2
Building no. 2 in Camden is still there, across the street from Building 17, the "Nipper Building". I've stood on the very steps where this photo was taken.
Was $7 when first recorded. That was a lot of money back then.
Actually, this record sold for $4 when it was first issued in 1917;
Caruso's earlier recordings of the Rigoletto Quartet and Lucia Sextet sold in 1908 for $6 and $7, respectively.
That's right. Guess I am getting old! I have a bunch of each as I started collecting in 1970. Back then a 5c would buy them at the thrift stores. Now if someone has a dinah shore 78 they want $3 for it. One of my prized 78's is an autographed Caruso: "Santa Lucia" I purchased it from the lady who obtained it in person. She never played it.
@@tedlawrence4189 I would like to see that one!
Marcel Journet is
not on the picture
Where is Marcel Journet? Where did he go? How could he be absent on this very historic photo?
The pearl fisher's I thank my late father In law Ronald Cooke for introducing me to it
Ho ascoltato il sestetto in tutte le grandi interpretazioni , tutte di altissimo livello ( es: Bergonzi-Moffo..etc...) .Ma il Fatto è un Altro:
CARUSO E' COME IL RE MIDA,TUTTO CIO' CHE TOCCA DIVENTA ORO.
Poi ci sono gli altri :tenori di grazia,leggeri ,lirici, spinti etc... Voci stupende e grandi interpreti.
Ma Caruso rimane la Alfa e La Omega della Opera lirica.
N.B: Io sono un profano assoluto e di scarso orecchio musicale. Ma Questo è il bello
della rete : Si possono dire stupidaggini in piena libertà, almeno fino a quando non si offende nessuno . Ma qui dovremmo passare da Verdi a Voltaire..Basta così.
Grazie della attenzione.
¿Porqué no da Enrico Caruso el agudo final ?
Because Donizetti didn't write it maybe?
Other performance is even better!