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core and focus and point and squillo and aquillo. For me, great spinto-
dramatic tenor singing like this ended in about 1975, with Tucker and
Corelli. Listen especially to the high B natural at the conclusion.
What a sound!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF9OCkevzUU
Ed
stefano
wrote:
Great singing, full of owillo. In fact, the best I ever heard him
sing. As I recall, recordings from the forties have much more
vibrato.
Frank A.
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Yes, by the 40's, and even later 30's, his voice seemed to "dry up" a
bit, and lose qualtiy, though not squillo or awillo or any illo, maybe
even Millo!!
Listen to this Questa o quella from 1915. He was great, and possbily
under apprciated.
Click here and hear Martinelli in 1915. Almost as good as Caruso!! He
was a truly great tenor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14ixy7i0IXc
Ed
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No question under appreciated. My grandfather told me that his
recordings did not due him justice . Had to hear him in the house to
really appreciate how great he was.
stefano
wrote:
The tempo is the slowest I ever heard for this aria (what was the
conductor thinking?), but the voice is indeed amazing -- bright and
clear as a bell. On the wall, I am looking at a program from May
14,1938 with his signature, as well as those of Bruna Castagna and
Richard Bonelli. It was from a concert performance of Carmen, at the
University of Michigan. My father was in the chorus. During those
years, many of the top opera singers would come to Michigan for such
concerts. For college students, such as my father, is was such a
thrill to rehearse and perform with them! From the stories he would
tell of those years, Marinelli and Pinza were the top ass pinchers,
surrounded by so many pretty young women. Guess they sang well, too.
Frank A.