Jussi Bjoerling -- Nessun Dorma (Live at Carnegie Hall)
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- čas přidán 19. 07. 2008
- This is a fabulous rendition, done by command performance, no less -- listen closely at 00:09 thru 00:11 secs as a patron screams out for ND! "The Juice" then pulls the sheet music from a folder, and waives it in the air like a banner, to the audience's evident delight, and then belts out this formidable rendition.
- Hudba
Bjorling is the greatest tenor who ever lived
A finer tenor never lived! He was a perfectionist technically, the expression and voice control superb. He was the master of his craft!
Totally agree. But the whole thing is, that he never understood how talented he was. Yes, he got the gigs and he worked around the world. There are very few talents that I am going to experience during my lifetime.
När jag ska öva in en ny opera så lyssnar jag först på hur Jussi Björling gjorde den. Han röst var unik, och det är hans väg jag vill vandra. Jag skulle mer än något annat önska att människor jämförde mig med Jussi Björling. Det är så jag strävar efter att sjunga. -Luciano Pavarotti
An unparalleled talent. No one comes close in tone, warmth, power and control in pianissimo, expression or technique.
@@ulfwiback8911 Yes, many of us are familiar with Pavarotti‘s appreciation of Jussi's abilities.
That audience member who shouted out his request for this aria probably always told the story of how Bjoerling heard him and graciously granted his request! Why not! But he usually sang this as one of his final encodes in recitals during this later part of his career.
Bravo maestro bgiorling ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
The greatest tenor ever. He will never be eclipsed
The best
A commanding performance. Bravo Jussi👏👏👏
Brilliant
Magnificent voice. One of, if not the greatest ever.
The greatest tenor ever lived!
Yes I agree with you. His voice is so refined, such versatility. He could use powerful vocals and sweetness in his scintillating voice.🇸🇪..
Caruso. Enrico Caruso was The Best. Compare the two.
As far as Tenors go he was The G.O.A.T.
What a glorious voice!
Bravo, no tenor today can equal this glorious voice
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Well, there are people paying money to see Paul Potts sing opera today. Doesn’t that make you cringe?
Wow. Thought he would run out of steam with that phrasing, but nope. Fuck yeah
One of the best performance of this aria. Unbelievable breath control.
Abbassata di mezzo tono...
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
In questa tonalità la cantavano anche i baritoni degli anni 50 ...
No comment
and Mario Filippeschi ?
@@user-ff1cp5lt9n I stand corrected. His performance is amazing too. His is more epic, grand and soul stirring. Will change my comment to "one of the best." Never heard of him but thanks for letting me know about him.
@@user-ff1cp5lt9n Good.
Today, February 2, we celebrate his 100th birthday. He was truly a singer of a century.
Actually it's February the 5th officially Paul
Just discovered this...what a magnificent voice. This was perfect and most beautiful
There never was any tenor with his timbre , Jussis voice was the must beautiful one , A diamond shining for ever.
Tenor voices are as unique as fingerprints and Bjorling's voice was certainly in a category with beautiful tenor voices along with Lanza Di Stefano, Wunderlich,Gigli, Pavarotti, De Muro Lomanto, Tagliavini, Caruso, Cortis, Aragall and perhaps young Carreras
@@sugarbist Corelli?
Lanza and Di Stefano are fake tenors
@@leonardodavinci2218 Why is Lanza and Di Stefano fake tenors?
@@leonardodavinci2218 Leonardo DaVinci would have had an answer already. Maybe you should change your name to “ I Don’t Know” I Have No Idea” Dr. Fauci, or I'm a '' FAKE POSTER''
Such a beautiful placed voice. Such economy of tone..no growling…pure sound with clean harmonics.
How well put. It is something extra.
I hear a true hero singing!!!!!
Puts enemies to tremble.
Bjorling the greatest!!!
There was only 1 Jussi and there will never be another.
What to say! I am so proud to be a swed...
I am a big fan of Jussi Björling!!!
🎶¡¡¡The best!!!🎶
That’s the best version of this aria I’ve ever heard and it’s Live ! 😂 Bravo Love evermore to you !
Absolutely fabulous, with a brilliantly animated Jussi singing with the usual thrill -- how I love to listen to his recordings, watch his movie and TV appearances on video. (notice the Black first violinist just behind him? That's liberal Sweden even in those days-- all best musicians accepted to the orchestra, disregarding creed and color, not like segregated 1950s America, even in the arts, back then!)
Bjorling is my favorite Calaf of all time.
Yes I think you mean the aria and complete recording he made of the opera with Nilsson, but live in the opera house he never sang the role, that role live was a great fit for Corelli but his was a different kind of voice, less lyric and more Spinto and dramatic a voice compared to the more Lyric beauty and perfection of Jussi, his voice and singing, which was of a very high artistic level.
@@shicoff1398 Thank you for your reply. I believe he was a light tenor, who sang but did not perform his characters.
@@bobbibaker4685 Well he did sing some roles that where heavier then the lighter Lyric ones, like Manrico in Trovatore which he sang often here and in Europe with success, his recording of Trovatore with Warren and Milanov from 1952 is excellent, as is the 1955 Aida recording with Milanov and the Turandot recording complete with Nilsson from 1959, his signature role in Boheme, recorded in 1956 with De Los Angeles is the standard greatest Boheme recording which all others are compared with and it also was his Met. opera debut in 1938. He died at age 49 in 1960.
Sooo beautiful... it hurts the soul and the heart and makes them fly. So exquisitely glorious.
What a voice!
what a voice!
None shall sleep while this is around
I SAW HIM SINGING IN SAN FRANCISCO.TERRIFIQUE
The great Jussi
It's impossible to sleep listening to Jussi. ❤❤❤
Absolutely incredible voice.
Absolute magic... Jussi Bjorling was in a class all his own...💙💛
Without a doubt Paul
The best ever!. Nothing can compare!
what a beautiful color of that voice
Amazing...only two years before he died! - James Aschmann
Absolutely masterful.
This is the most herotic version of all nessun dorma.
Piano solo collaboration -not orchestra- makes him fully express his herotic ability.
Additionally he is so temperate and refined.
Is it possible? herotic and temperate at the same time???
Who can sing this song like this???
It's a half tone down and It's not heroic at all. Bjorling was a lyric bel canto tenor and a beautiful singer, but JB was NOT a heroic tenor
Herotic? Is that a combination of heroic and erotic?
@@sugarbist Correct, he was . basically a Lyric tenor who had enough metal in his voice to sing some Spinto roles, (great low notes also) and he recorded very well, I saw him in the opera house in 1958 singing in Rigoletto, his voice carried well, it wasn't a large Spinto voice in the opera house and he was very smart in his choice of roles, a very great artist of perfection, he didn't sing Forza, Chenier, Don Jose, Luisa Miller etc. or Calaf of course, and had success in two good size larger roles, both Trovatore and Don Carlo, but also in Europe early (in Vienna, Hungary and Sweden) in Aida, he had some success with it, more so then his later singing of it in the big Chicago opera house in 1958', just a couple of years before he died. He loved concert work more then opera, as he once said "I'm a concert singer who sings opera also" but he hated rehearsals for opera, so he sang lots of concerts besides his opera's, he loved singing Ballo, Boheme, Lescaut, Rigoletto and Trovatore, but in concerts did some of his best work, he sang well in German, French, Italian and his English and Swedish songs where excellent. Live I felt he sang warmer then his sometimes cooler studio records, his voice had adequate volume in his roles and a good point, early he sang about 40 roles while still in Sweden, basically a Lyric tenor or later in his mid 40's a Lyric spinto, it did record well, he was for me at his greatest in concerts, singing so many kinds of music from Italian opera to German Lieder and Swedish and English songs. I like this live version of Nessun Dorma, sung the year I saw him later, in Nov. 1958 in Chicago, (as the Duke) not long after this concert.. RIP. Bjoerling 1911- 1960
@@shicoff1398 some nice information. ty
Those i knew who saw him live said the voice was not nearly as metallic in person as on records
amazing. absolutely amazing ending.
One of Sweden's best singer!
Cheers from Sweden! 🇸🇪
🤩💖💖💖👍
"En av de bästa" är väl ändå något av en underdrift...
Det beste❤
Beat that if you can. Vila i frid Jussi.
My God, the raw power with such clarity, crispness and mastery of control... And the purity of that vibrato...
Pavarotti's idol, he said he tried to sing like Jussi Björling, "but I'm only a man".
@@annicaesplund6613 Yes, Pav said he would listen to Bjorling when taking on a new role, but Pav's Idol and favorite tenor was ''Giuseppe Di Stefano''
@@sugarbist True he has said and told me that GDS was his favorite voice of them all, but I think the raves he does give Jussi where in fact the great technique and perfection of JB's voice and singing, but GDS was for voice alone his favorite voice.
Pavarotti said, im quoting; " a voice like mine comes every ten years, a voice like Jussis comes only every millenium"
Pavarotti was extremely diplomatic.
Pavarotti was extremely truthful.
Corelli must once in a million
@ANITA Ospedale Both Bjorling and Pavarotti had beautiful lyric voices. I try to avoid discussions on who was best because repertoire is a consideration.
Nonsense. And what an arrogant thing for LP to say anyway.
The most beautifully controlled vibrato..
I'd say natural vibrato isn't something one controls, it simply IS.
It's only when people start trying to manufacture vibrato that ISN'T natural, or try to sing with none at all, that it starts to sound terrible or peculiar and of course can fall apart.
That was my experience, but then it's only an opinion of course.
Cheers
Ditto
@@steeltrap3800 I was a classical singer, and you're absolutely right.
@@steeltrap3800 Bla, bla, bla. To have a "true" talent, is not a fabrication or something that you can handle.
It is a monster for those who have it, because it is a slow suicide In the beginning it works, because you are not aware of it. At the end, you are reflecting about the reasons why you did not understand how it all began. And why you are in this situation now.
To write a lot of shit, you are just in desperat need of a keyboard connected to a computer.
@@milesdust3465 Ooh, so edgy and profound.
LOL. Have a cookie.
No tools to cheat available, this is how greatness sounds ladies and gentlemen. The best tenor to ever walk this earth.
Maybe caruso would not agree
I´m proud to be swedish !
But he sings a half note below the original score and his timbre is also, let's say, not really convincing...... no squillo.
Dear Qajjan, can't you enjoy a tenor voice without proclaiming a falsehood? What criteria are you using to qualify your statement, other than your personal opinion?
@@jenspflug7473 Fanatics don't care
The best 🎭👍
Well... that showed them !!!
Divino!!
F A N T A S T I Q UE !
MERCI !
Would have loved to have been there. What an amazing performance.
My mother, who at the tender age of about 21 or 22 left Sweden on a ship
and found work as a stenographer on lower Manhattan
(she used Melin's system - no coworkers could read her stenograms)
and after six months went on to Utah to visit friends
that had come to Örebro as Mormon missionaries
and remained dear friends until Mum died,
had tickets to the Metropolitan Opera to hear him sing,
but sadly never heard him live.
The performance was cancelled, and they said at the ticket box:
"Mr Björling does not take proper care of himself."
Je découvre ce chanteur c est trop beau
flawless, thx for posting
Good for half down .
He was lirico.tenor. Only F CORELLI. Is the GREATEST.for this great aria
wao....divine!!!!!!the best ever
simplemente, impecable! !!!!
I'm impressed.
😢😭🤭, This is so beautiful, beautiful voice color. 🤤🥰 My personal favorite is Mario del Monaco version and especially from 1953,but Björling even has more beautiful voice color, such a romantic voice.
Thank you this was towards the end of jussi life ,his 1942 🤔 recording is The definitive one for me .wonderful voice 🤗
Divino , assolutamente
Eglelory45
Mi dica per favore cosa di divino c’è in questa interpretazione quando l’aria è abbassata di mezzo tono?!...
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
il vecchio
@@bodiloto il tuo Caruso cantaba che gelida manina abasata di tono. No dico di chela mi creda dove cantava la natural. I no sibemol Ma di tuo idolo preferi silenzio.jaja
@@santisramos5832 You have no way of knowing if Caruso's Che Gelia Manina was a full tone down. You don't own the 78 record and the adjustable turn table to play the record on and a pitch pipe to test it.
@@sugarbist He was singing Sibemole? In speranza?
@@santisramos5832 Mezzo tono, B- Natural
No one compares!
Jaysus. Do the people in that long ago room know then that they were some of the luckiest people alive?
By the way they roared I believe they actually did. 🌹
Thanks for posting this.
My boy! None equal!
Great Oper singer.
Великолепный голос!
The best technique of all the times
Non è vero.
@@bodiloto there you are the facts sir.
Peter Lindroos
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Who has the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th best technique? You don't know, do you?
wow......
thankyou very much my friend
Nice quote!!
Magnificent! God singing!
Un tenor de tronío.
Oh.. my.. fucking... god.
The king!
Ulf Sawert
For half down was good.
And in nornal tone this is the best ever czcams.com/video/xT09SI0LAjg/video.html
I wouldn’t say Mr. Bjorling “belted it out.” I’d say he sang a beautiful rendition of the piece.
again. This is so, so good. I keep coming back to it.
Yes, agree! No one did a better ND!
No one ever will I fear .The Mighty Swede !!!!!!!!! Paul
지저분하지않고 너무나도 잘 정돈되어있는 비브라토..
About crabbing the the aria is lowered. Caruso complained to Puccini about the exposed high C in Che gelida manina. Puccini, no fool, showed him how to transform it down. If Bjorling asked him to lower Nessun Dorma, I bet he'd say yes in the blink of a eye.
Very few tenors have lowered the Nessun Dorma including Bjorling. This may be the only time he lowered this aria, but it's not a big deal. A tenor doesn't need a composer's permission to lower an aria and certainly not in concert. JB might have just felt more comfortable singing it down a half tone in a recital.
@@sugarbist "doesnt need a permission", of course, who cares, even on a stages there are a bunch of dilettantes like pavarati mingo bareras. Who cares even now?
@@sugarbist Easy to say, when the great composer is dead. Then we can just do whatever the heck we want with his music, right?
@@organboi Puccini was not alive when Nessun Dorma was written.
He certainly was. The last notes he wrote were after the death of Liu.
Tenors may come and go.J.B. lives on. No need for further comment.
He did have something in his voice
Inimitable.
Heaven is falling down !
El más grande tenor de todos los tiempos y la mejor interpretación de esta hermosa aria.
💯❤😭
Disculpen mi ignorancia musical,pero este señor se hubiera apellidado italiano y hubiese vivido en la época actual sería considerado lo que es,UN GENIO
Nada que disculpar. En su dia Bjoerling era sumamente famoso, siendo el principal tenor del Metropolitan Opera (NYC) entre +/- 1935-1960. Es verdad que al dia de hoy (casi 65 años tras su inoportuna muerte) su figura no goza -- injustamente -- de la fama que su poderosa voz merezca, pero entre cierto publico sigue siendo una referencia del S.XX. Si no conoce su version de la Cancion de Noel (cantada en su lengua natal de Suecia, 'O Helga Nacht') encarecidamente le aconsejo buscarla en CZcams.
@@BillsCultureHour Le agradezco mucho su información, la acabo de escuchar y es una delicia. Sigo pensando que este señor es un auténtico prodigio musical.La primera vez que lo oí fue hace un par de años(sí, imperdonable), y mandé traer de Munich una colección suya de 10 cd's desde 1929 al 1959 porque ya intuía que era algo fuera de lo común, aunque para mi desgracia no tengo ninguna formación musical.Saludos
così si canta.
The piano performance is perfect
uh, if you're listing to it on youtube, it's not live. :)
Not at all (my regrets for having been 3 years tardy in replying to your kind note). Presently, I am scouring the web for another of my 'Holy Grails' -- Anna Moffo live rendition of Un Bel Di, as I recall sung for a benefit at the Met, and hosted by B. Sills, who was audibly stunned at the performance. Haven't found it yet but I'll keep looking.
-- Bill
Extra terreste...
Un Piano, Jussi Bjorling y el aria más maravillosa. La más bella y completa voz de Tenor entre todas las oídas hasta hoy. Siempre la nota exacta sin aullidos, sin amaneramientos ni fallas.
Anche nel 1958 c’era pubblico ignorante !
L’aria purtroppo è abbassata di mezzo tono , molto sorprendente per un tenore come Björling chi aveva un registro acuto Meraviglioso...
non mi piace questa interpretazione.
il vecchio
This guy is much less in size than Lanza! And you criticizing Lanza? Lanza hit drama easily, without perfomances on a stage, but Bjotling isnt suitable for drama, hard for him and also not so many lives
I skipped this concert, when I told a friend, in New York, not to buy tickets for it. In fact, I had already heard Bjoerling, live, 5 times, @ 3 different venues, including Carnegie Hall, & never failed to feel disappointed, by the lesser satisfaction his unamplified, smallish voice provided, in a large hall, compared to the much greater enjoyment experienced at home, when listening to his recordings, as witness the vastly greater pleasure
the lp release of the '54 Carnegie Hall recital, has always given me, vs. my memory of the same performance, live, that night, when I was in the audience. It's why I didn't want to do the '58 concert, @ the same venue, when according to reports, he projected a lot better. Indeed, the press, afterwards was ecstatic, & compared him to Caruso, I say, Bah, Humbug!
oh my godo in which cd is this iterpretation, please someone tell me
"The Very Best of Jussi Bjorling", an EMI recording.
Great!, But surprised he took it down a half step
Yes, later (as this was for Jussi at age 47 in 1958) in his live singing as in Boheme and also Trovatore, he sometimes did transpose down, as did many others, including greats like Pavarotti and Corelli.
I thought Pavarotti owned this song until now
Only your personal opinion owns it.
To Ed Rivera, thank you for suggesting this during the discussion of Aretha Franklin covering this in Pavarotti's absence, at the '98 Grammy Awards...
Some exaggerations in the comments below - he is great but there were some more phenomenal voices out there during / after his time , example: czcams.com/video/Eg-59NoES2o/video.html
aria abbassata da mezzo tono
What year was this recorded? I prefer his late 50s recordings just before he died. His voice was matured and had more timbre.
This was the late 1950's, live in 1958, this is not a studio recording, this was how he sounded that day, and excellent, not studio sound of course.