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Music : Italian Songs: The Digital Recordings
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Italian Songs: The Digital Recordings from: RCA |
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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0743218256929 Format: Original recording remastered Label: RCA Manufacturer: RCA Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: RCA Release Date: June 25, 2002 Studio: RCA Sales Rank: 81431 MPN: 82569 Disc 1:
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Editorial Review: Amazon.com: As a follow-up to its Caruso 2000 release, RCA here offers us a remastered, implemented selection of Neapolitan songs recorded by Enrico Caruso between 1906 and 1920. The gimmick is again that the old recordings have been digitally stripped of their oompah, blaring instruments. In their place, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra has provided modern accompaniment. It's still anachronistic--the voice remains in another acoustical era from the orchestra--but this time, the balance is a little better, and conductor Gottfried Rabl is amazingly sensitive to Caruso's style and phrasing. Moreover, of course, the pops and clicks of the old pre-electrical shellacs are gone. The voice retains its timbre and quality, thank goodness, and one can still marvel at the way the sound grew over the 14 years recorded here. It's always magnificent, but it became more baritonal and muscular with age, without losing any of its thrills. The "Ideale" from 1906 remains an exquisitely tender piece of singing; elsewhere, the sheer visceral excitement of the voice dazzles. Purists may not approve. Those unfamiliar with the Caruso phenomenon should hear him under any circumstances, and this is as good a chance as any. --Robert Levine Customer Reviews
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 Rating:  - A timeless wonder in a modern contextMy comments here are made about the contents of the three CDs so far issued in this series. Some reviewers have expressed reservations and disappointment (or worse) in the results obtained by encasing in new musical settings the marvellous Caruso voice taken from his acoustic recordings. One point that must be understood by potential buyers (of whom may there be many) is that the outcomes are by no means uniform in quality. Some of them might most kindly be called curiosities, and yet the best of them are excitingly fresh and give new pleasure from hearing. The original recordings range over almost 18 years, and we are told that the earliest of Caruso's records were made in a quite casual fashion (Fred Gaisberg the ... Read More: Rating:  - An interesting abomination.........This recording is a technical marvel...the producers have taken the acoustic recordings of the greatest tenor that ever lived, digitalized them, "cleaned them up", whatever that means, and added a modern orchestra for background. God help us. In Caruso's day, the performer sang into a large horn of the type shown in the old RCA ads, the microphone not being invented till 1925, four years after Caruso died. The sound was recorded on a wax disk, which was then used as a master. All of our attempts to listen to ancient records are, to some degree, artificial...I haven't seen a hand crank Victrola since I was a small child, well over 50 years ago. But this?!?.... I admit that this isn't like painting over an old master...the ... Read More: Rating:  - Caruso....re-emerged...or....re-submergedI have been listening to Caruso recordings, necessarily periodically, for close on sixty years, though I didn't learn anything about music until in my mid twenties. Whilst thrilling hysterically to those top notes one couldn't help being more than a little aware, even as a child, that the trumpet-like noises, as Caruso himself once described it on hearing someone playing one of his records, emanating from the playback equipment, hardly represented a human being. Thanks to the digital restorative efforts of Thomas G Stockham we can appreciate the real art that conceals art, as C again put it, on the twelve CD edition previously published by RCA; since much of the artificial peakiness [ distortions ] has been alleviated - a tribute to the success of ... Read More: Rating: - amazing technologyThe Italian songs of Caruso have been a longtime favorite of mine -to hear this amazing voice - backed with a wonderful modern orchestra is just something else -I believe it is bringing 90 -100 year old recordings back to life - the voice is always clear and strong with no distortions one would expext from vintage recordings .The Vienna orchestra is wonderfully sensitive providing a lush sound behing this wonderful voice - my partner came in to see what I was playing, she said the voice was moving her to tears ," with a voice like honey" and I guess this was what the great Caruso was doing in his day to sell so many records Rating: - An Unexpected PleasureI have been an avid fan of Enrico Caruso for over forty years. I have heard just about every gimmicky process that has ever been attempted to make his recordings more modern sounding (read "electrical"). Each has its own virtues and inadequacies. I had not planned on purchasing this disc because, quite frankly, Caruso 2000 had been a disappointment. Caruso's voice almost always seemed to have a lid on it. A certain fact has to be faced here. Caruso never made an electrical recording. No amount of filtering and doctoring can change that. The only way I can imagine that this barrier could ever be overcome is perhaps by computerized extrapolation of the frequencies his voice produced. A computer might some day be programmed to "figure ... Read More: |
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