Sergei Lemeshev "Una furtiva lagrima" 1954 (live recording)
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2009
- The great Russian /Soviet tenor Sergei Lemeshev (1902 - 1977) sings "Una furtiva..." in Leningrad , i954. It's a live recording, which has never been published on LP or CD.
Of course Lemeshev was not at his prime in 1954 after all his troubles (tuberculosis), but I find this recording very expressive and interesting. - Hudba
So beautiful! So heart touching! Indeed, you have "una furtiva lagrima" by lstening this heavenly beautiful voice!
Wow! What a find! Thanks for posting. Listening to a great tenor on an off day is fascinating.
He also sang a couple of songs in Italian.
"Una furtiva" traditionally was sung in Italian in the USSR, because there were no good translation into Russian:)
Soviet singers started to learn roles in their original languages only in the 1960 - 70's.
Yes I have some other songs, I'll post them soon.
Thanks to younglemeshevist for this wonderful posting, and to vstasov for sending my way.
Thanks to younglemeshevist for this wonderful posting, and to vstasov for sending my way! Doug --
Многие исполняют эту арию, но никто, кроме Лемешева - так душевно.
Absolutely Wonderful!!! He sings it better than any italians singers!! Probably an enormous emotion to see him live. What a voice...
Thank you so much!
Excellent! Thank you for sharing this extremely rare piece. It is very very touching...
Tuberculosis or not it is one of the greatest lyric tenor voices ever even here in 1954. It's nice to hear him sing something in Italian once in a while, since most of his commercial recordings were recorded in Russian. If he could sing the Italian I wonder why he didn't do it more often. If this was a concert there must be other pieces also? Were they recorded?
i really wish i'll be a good tenor someday.
That coughing reminded me of La Dame aux camélias