Caruso: The Complete Recordings, Vol. 12
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Composer: Vincenzo CiampiComposer: Vincenzo De Crescenzo
Composer: Ernesto de Curtis
Composer: Carlos Gomes
Composer: C.A. Bracco
Composer: Salvatore Fucito
Composer: Antonio Secchi
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Composer: Guillermo Posadas
Composer: Fromental Halevy
Composer: Joseph Giuseppe Gioe
Composer: Stefano Donaudy
Composer: Giacomo Meyerbeer
Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
Composer: James Carroll Bartlett
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Composer: Enrico Caruso
Composer: Edwards
Composer: Alberto Franchetti
Conductor: Josef A. Pasternack
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-05-18
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
- Nina
- Premiere Caresse
- Senza Nisciuno
- Mia Piccirella
- Serenata
- Scordame
- Love Me Or Not
- Ombra Mai Fu
- Noche Feliz
- Rachel, Quand Du Seigneur
- I' M'Arricordo 'E Napule
- Vaghissima Sembianza
- Deh, Ch'io Rotorni
- Bois Epais
- A Dream
- Domine Deus
- Crucifixus
- Liberty Forever
- My Cousin Caruso
- Studenti, Udite
Music reviews of Caruso: The Complete Recordings, Vol. 12
Music Review: Caruso--All of the Legend in Great Sound
Rating: 5 Stars
I've been scratching my head over Caruso re-issues over the past 30 years, and frankly didn't understand why the world needed another complete set of the great tenor's recordings. But Naxos hired the great Ward Marsden to re-master this set, which now comes to a triumphant conclusion with Volume 12. The price is astoundingly good in the bargain, with excellent liner notes on each issue. All the CDs are generously filled.
Caruso's robust, but never out-sized singing is a revelation. The voice has range, color, depth, size, spin, and superbly conveys pathos, comedy, elegance, power, and intimacy. Beginning in 1904 up through 1920, we get sixteen years of great singing. The voice got darker, but it certainly never lost its ability to astonish and console. There simply is no decline of vocal powers throughout the set. Even singing "Vecchia zimarra," Colline's coat aria from Puccin's LA BOHEME, Caruso is a revelation. He sang this bass aria for a colleague in vocal distress one evening at the Metropolitan Opera. Nobody knew it until later. Caruso sings very convincingly in the bass range.
This entire sets belongs in the collection of any serious vocal lover. He was a people's tenor, but one with a lot of class. He had the common touch, which means he appealed to everyone. More than 80 years later, Caruso's singing never ceases to amaze and thrill listeners. Gigli and Pavarotti both enjoyed bestselling recording careers and Pavarotti certainly has enjoyed as big a career in the modern era, but Caruso was still a bigger star in his time. Deservedly so, as these great records, both classical and popular, will attest.
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