I don't understand a word of Russian, but this performance is so moving and memorable. The tragedy and tenderness comes through vividly. I've never heard it equaled by anyone.
EVEN for someone who doesn t know russian...CAN NOT RESIST having tears jst with the TIMBRE of his voice and singing...the way ALL singers should SOUND...TO PIERCE the Human Heart...doesn t matter WHAT they are singing about...IT S SOMETHING HUMAN!! like OBRAZTSOVA...GHIAUROV...TEBALDI..PONSELLE...FLAGSTAD...TRUE GREAT SINGERS
Невозможно выразить словами и передать сколь уникален и проникновенен этот голос!!! Никто не перенял (увы) этой классической манеры исполнения старой школы. Каррузо, Собинов, Лемешев, Пищаев... эти гении не "кричали в зал" (при всем моем уважении к великим современникам), но исполняли музыку будто бы лелеяли каждый звук и это потрясающе ласкало слух любого слушателя! Волшебник!!!!!
Потрясающе, никто не превзошел и вряд ли превзойдет, да, и красавец какой, одним словом все сплелось в одном человеке, чтобы произвести несравненный, неподражаемый шедевр.
Our modern tenors cant do pianissimo or cover such a vast tonal/dynamic palette like this. There is so much more beauty revealed in this music when interpreted by a past master like Yemeshev.
This singer has a beautiful and impressive dynamic range. But others can do the aria full justice today. Listen to Pavol Breslik, Benjamin Bernheim, Bogdan Volkov.
Such elegance and ease of the voice and absolute outstanding squillo for days!!! This is an extraordinary example of great singing, and with not unnecessary pressure or forcing of the voice.
Thank you for uploading this video. I've never heard anything like it in fifty years of listening to opera. Nobody but nobody can sing like this today. The placement of the voice, the timbre, legato, portamento, diminuendos, and the fabulous squillo. The true art of bel canto. And all put to the service of Tchaikovsky's genius. I am stunned.
If you like Lemeshev, you'd probably enjoy his rendition of Duke in Rigoletto. IMO the best ever not only vocally,but in general ,the portraying of the character. In this video it's sung in Russian. ua-cam.com/video/TbuHuhiXVZA/v-deo.html
There is a 1956 recording of the full opera from the Bolshoi with Boris Khaikin conducting, and an older 1936 recording from the Bolshoi with Vasiliy Nebolsin conducting.
В роли ленского с лемешевым никто не может сравниться но я благодарна тому кто подобрал целый конуерт геннадия михайловича пищаева за 24 каприс паганини также благлдарю
The greatest Russian tenor of all time, or perhaps second only to Leonid Sobinov. I discovered him a few years ago, after my teacher mentioned him to me. Thank you for this video. Greetings from Greece.
"La voce del grande tenore russo è di una sobrietà invidiabile , dagli squilli argentei, i pianissimi generosamente profusi è semplicemente da brividi .Lo squillo argenteo , le filature e i rubati non si contano, e soprattutto sono sempre utilizzati in funzione espressiva. la mezzavoce, è semplicemente meravigliosa.
Extraordinary technique and musicality. The clinical precision of a trained machine and a furnace of emotion. The musician's life... And the paradox of artistry
What stunning beauty, elegance and grace by Sergei Lemeshev. Amazing breath control. I wonder aloud who was Tchaikovsky's first Lensky? Anyone know? My favorite tenor, Jussi Bjoerling did this aria too, but he flubbed it big time by singing it in Swedish? Why in heaven's name?? Jussi was so precise about details and about his going's on's, diction etc and so versatile. Surely he could've sung the Russian version? Be that as it may, anyway, he sang it very nicely in Swedish (a difficult language for starters as is the Cerelic language of Russian). Bjoerling sang Lensky's Aria with his normal brilliant Bjoerling silvery sheen. Spanish tenor Placido Domingo did it nicely too and in excellent sounding Russian and beautifully executed too. Much thanks for posting this clip GregNichols1953.
You're quite welcome! I'm a big Bjoerling fan too, but Lemeshev's Lensky is ravishing. From the Wikipedia page: Tchaikovsky worried whether the public would accept Eugene Onegin, which lacked traditional scene changes. He believed that its performance required maximum simplicity and sincerity. With this in mind, he entrusted the first production to the students of the Moscow Conservatory. The premiere took place on 29 March (17 March O.S.) 1879 at the Maly Theatre, Moscow, conducted by Nikolai Rubinstein, with set designs by Karl Valts (Waltz). The first Lensky tenor was one Mikhail Medvedyev, of whom very little is known. Not to be confused with the Russian actor of the same name.
I heard that Stalin loves this one. Once someone asked him to sing a "revolutionary song" for Stalin, Stalin said: "Don't bother; just let him sing Eugene Onegin." It's from another age that would NEVER come back again. Sad... BTW, if he can do this with one lung, I wonder what he can do with 2.
He had two lungs here in 1936. His lung problems started during World War II on the "Eastern Front" - (from Wikipedia): "during one evacuation he caught a very bad cold which resulted in two attacks of pneumonia, complicated by pleurisy and tuberculosis of the right lung. He was treated with artificial pneumothorax, which induced the therapeutic collapse of one lung. Although singing was forbidden, he adapted by being more conscious and sensitive with regard to his technique, and continued to sing with one lung from 1942 to 1948, when the other lung was also artificially collapsed and re-inflated. During that period he recorded Lakme, The Snow Maiden, Les pêcheurs de perles, Mozart and Salieri and pieces from operas like The Barber of Seville and Rigoletto."
Я уверена, что сам П. И. Чайковский признал бы интерпритацию Лемешева партии Ленского самой совершенной! Клип, посвященный лучшему Ленскому: ua-cam.com/video/yzNEbyJORfw/v-deo.html
Gedda y Krauss también grabaron esta aria (supongo que ambos cantaron la ópera en vivo también). Casi se podría decir que fue una voz perfecta para interpretar a Rossini tal vez, Donizetti, algo de Verdi, ópera francesa tal vez no (se pierde mucho cuando se canta en ruso). Pero no para Puccini ni para roles dramáticos (ni pensar en un Manrico o un Otello). Voz más bien pequeña, bien timbrada, probablemente von buena proyección pero no para competir contra la orquesta.
I don't understand a word of Russian, but this performance is so moving and memorable. The tragedy and tenderness comes through vividly. I've never heard it equaled by anyone.
ай да Лемешев❤😢😢👏Сам Пушкин бы утер слезы)
EVEN for someone who doesn t know russian...CAN NOT RESIST having tears jst with the TIMBRE of his voice and singing...the way ALL singers should SOUND...TO PIERCE the Human Heart...doesn t matter WHAT they are singing about...IT S SOMETHING HUMAN!! like OBRAZTSOVA...GHIAUROV...TEBALDI..PONSELLE...FLAGSTAD...TRUE GREAT SINGERS
One of the greatest tenors of all time in my opinion
Шедевр! Очень жаль, что по телевизору (даже по каналу "культура") не показывают таких певцов советского прошлого.
Io non credo che possa esistere da allora un Lenski migliore de Lemeshev.👏👏👏💕💕💕
Невозможно выразить словами и передать сколь уникален и проникновенен этот голос!!! Никто не перенял (увы) этой классической манеры исполнения старой школы. Каррузо, Собинов, Лемешев, Пищаев... эти гении не "кричали в зал" (при всем моем уважении к великим современникам), но исполняли музыку будто бы лелеяли каждый звук и это потрясающе ласкало слух любого слушателя! Волшебник!!!!!
Bravo bravo bravo brilliance fantastic grandiose genial vocal super
Потрясающе, никто не превзошел и вряд ли превзойдет, да, и красавец какой, одним словом все сплелось в одном человеке, чтобы произвести несравненный, неподражаемый шедевр.
Our modern tenors cant do pianissimo or cover such a vast tonal/dynamic palette like this. There is so much more beauty revealed in this music when interpreted by a past master like Yemeshev.
Pourqoi est tu mort Piotr Tchaoivski tu nous laisse bien triste devant tant de beaute on souhaite presque mourir
So true Harry Mullany
This singer has a beautiful and impressive dynamic range. But others can do the aria full justice today. Listen to Pavol Breslik, Benjamin Bernheim, Bogdan Volkov.
What about Dmitry Korchak? The best tenor.@@dogstuff8337
Not just a fabulous and totally genuine bel canto but an exquisite stage presence. Probably my favourite single piece of singing.
Such elegance and ease of the voice and absolute outstanding squillo for days!!! This is an extraordinary example of great singing, and with not unnecessary pressure or forcing of the voice.
Сергей Яковлевич был моим кумиром в годы моей далёкой юности . Великолепное исполнение, незабываемое!!!!
Боже мой, он просто рожден для роли Ленского! И конечно, жить и радоваться жизни. Лучше Ленского нельзя и вообразить.
ua-cam.com/video/IEZGp-pJumM/v-deo.html Этот Ленский, мне нравится больше!!!
@@СчастливыйЧеловек-у1и вы сравниваете настоящего гения, тенора, с каким-то НЕдотенором, это смешно, удалите комментарий, и не позорьтесь...
@@МаксГригоренко-ъ4о как вы определяете, кто тенор, а кто недотенор?
Best Lensky's Aria interpretation hands down!!!
Dmitry Korchak is the same if it's not beter.
@@AndreaGluhakи рядом не валялся
An amazing singer! And the greatest Lensky of all. By a mile.
Unbelievably beautiful.
Лемешев гениально передает невероятный трагизм этой арии Без слез слушать невозможно!
Lemeshev is all what is right about singing, and the epitome of beauty. And this is probably the best example of his value.
What an aria and what a voice
Ich habe diese Arie noch nie so ergreifend gesungen gehört.
I am in tears and on my knees...this is magnificent........an was haben wir uns heute nur gewöhnt
Вот Плачидо вроде хорошо спел, но здесь такие тонкие звуки, душевные. Несравненный Лемешев!
Для меня лично - наилучший, непревзойденный тенор!!! какой-то волшебный тембр у него!!! А ведь здесь уже он очень немолод!!
Великолепный голос! Тембр!❤ Абсолютная дикция!
Thank you for uploading this video. I've never heard anything like it in fifty years of listening to opera. Nobody but nobody can sing like this today. The placement of the voice, the timbre, legato, portamento, diminuendos, and the fabulous squillo. The true art of bel canto. And all put to the service of Tchaikovsky's genius.
I am stunned.
If you like Lemeshev, you'd probably enjoy his rendition of Duke in Rigoletto. IMO the best ever not only vocally,but in general ,the portraying of the character. In this video it's sung in Russian. ua-cam.com/video/TbuHuhiXVZA/v-deo.html
I have listened to it. And you are absolutely correct, I love it!@@mariakihl2583
@@robertssje It's hard to believe that he sings having one lung. In the 40s, due to illness, he had a lung removed.
Seeing and hearing this together is extraordinary. I cannot believe how beautiful and powerful this is. Lemeshev is a wonder!!
Never heard of him, but this is probably one of the greatest pieces of singing ever
👍I absolutely agree💯 👍 🙆♂️ 👌perfect.🤍
This is one of the greatest tenors of the 20th century
I agree with you completely
I listened to many versions of Eugene Onegin, and find him to be perfect. Better than anyone. I wish there were a full version of the opera with him.
There isn't, for huge regret
There is a 1956 recording of the full opera from the Bolshoi with Boris Khaikin conducting, and an older 1936 recording from the Bolshoi with Vasiliy Nebolsin conducting.
Hey!
If you still need a recording of the opera where Lemeshev plays the role of Lensky, here it is:
ua-cam.com/video/zUlzt-klqBE/v-deo.html
Enjoy!
@@lyricist2201Thank you !!!❤
I agree with everyone else. The best Lensky
So finely delivered in perfection of expression of the song to Olga with magnificent emotional feeling throughout and expert
La profondeur et la beaute des voix russes.
Intemporelles et emouvantes.
В роли ленского с лемешевым никто не может сравниться но я благодарна тому кто подобрал целый конуерт геннадия михайловича пищаева за 24 каприс паганини также благлдарю
Un grand ténor à la voix claire et aux aigus puissants ! Bravo
His high notes are insanely resonant. Probably the most resonant high notes I’ve ever heard from a tenor.
Squillo!
Ah, what bliss to listen to this wonderful singer in this special aria.
Thank you so much for uploading this!
The best Lensky ever! ❤
Heritage eternel pour l' Humanite
Fabulous and Majestic 👏❤️
The greatest Russian tenor of all time, or perhaps second only to Leonid Sobinov. I discovered him a few years ago, after my teacher mentioned him to me.
Thank you for this video. Greetings from Greece.
A revelation - he makes time stand still, with such a heart-felt interpretation, such a voice, and such confident technique.
"La voce del grande tenore russo è di una sobrietà invidiabile , dagli squilli argentei, i pianissimi generosamente profusi è semplicemente da brividi .Lo squillo argenteo , le filature e i rubati non si contano, e soprattutto sono sempre utilizzati in funzione espressiva. la mezzavoce, è semplicemente meravigliosa.
Parole sante
Veramente.
Ed espressivita
Pochi sapevano che Lemeshev aveva un solo polmone...
Extraordinary technique and musicality. The clinical precision of a trained machine and a furnace of emotion. The musician's life... And the paradox of artistry
well said
Sans doute le plus grand des touts les temps Sergueï
wonderful....
siempre magnifico
Bellísima voz tipica de la escuela rusa...Ful sentimiento como sólo un ruso la siente !!
Magnifique ! (Merci Lionel Esparza)
This is the textbook version, no doubt!!! Finest.
Maravilloso!!! Esos pianísimos son deliciosos... y toda la interpretación es exquisita!!! Bravísimo!!!!
Always I return to this..... Sweet sorrow!
Потрясающе!
Thank you for this gem of passionate and 'full of soul' singing by Lemeshev. This is what it's all about. Smirnoff was great too.
The best Lensky Aria I ever heard ❤
Beautiful! Thank you 👍
Incredible voice!! Almost an Alto
ГЕНИЙ!!
Great singing, of course amazing art as always from Tchaikovsky
Wow!
Это шедеврально!!! Потрясающе!!!
Absolutely the greatest version and there have been some other great recordings sobinov and gedda to name 2
Shicoff
que voz tan hermosa y limpia me gusta muicho
Un tenore impareggiabile grandissimo attore.Tecnica trascendentale.
Meglio Sobinov.
Conoscitori italiani qui. Bravo. Lui canta con la vera pronuncia e gola russa, attualmente profanati da interpreti nuovi.
Bravo!
Przepiękny głos. Rewelacyjna interpretacja. Robi z głosem, co chce, bez wysiłku.
What stunning beauty, elegance and grace by Sergei Lemeshev. Amazing breath control. I wonder aloud who was Tchaikovsky's first Lensky? Anyone know?
My favorite tenor, Jussi Bjoerling did this aria too, but he flubbed it big time by singing it in Swedish? Why in heaven's name?? Jussi was so precise about details and about his going's on's, diction etc and so versatile. Surely he could've sung the Russian version? Be that as it may, anyway, he sang it very nicely in Swedish (a difficult language for starters as is the Cerelic language of Russian). Bjoerling sang Lensky's Aria with his normal brilliant Bjoerling silvery sheen. Spanish tenor Placido Domingo did it nicely too and in excellent sounding Russian and beautifully executed too.
Much thanks for posting this clip GregNichols1953.
You're quite welcome! I'm a big Bjoerling fan too, but Lemeshev's Lensky is ravishing.
From the Wikipedia page:
Tchaikovsky worried whether the public would accept Eugene Onegin, which lacked traditional scene changes. He believed that its performance required maximum simplicity and sincerity. With this in mind, he entrusted the first production to the students of the Moscow Conservatory. The premiere took place on 29 March (17 March O.S.) 1879 at the Maly Theatre, Moscow, conducted by Nikolai Rubinstein, with set designs by Karl Valts (Waltz).
The first Lensky tenor was one Mikhail Medvedyev, of whom very little is known. Not to be confused with the Russian actor of the same name.
this is just amazing. Thanks!!!
Génial! Merci encore!
MARAVILLOSO
Бриллиант ! Наше лучшее наследие!
Гений.
Lemeshev doubles the actor in the film. Magnificent.
На видео сам Сергей Яковлевич.
It's rather unusual, it is one semitone higher. Great, fresh singing
гениально
Eccellente !
spaiba dziekuje
Лучший Ленский всех времён и народов!
Лучший Ленский у Собинова, ведь именно Леонид Витальевич создал даже внешний облик персонажа согласно эпохе и описанию Пушкина.
@@Рысь-б8р обязательно послушаю
UNA DELICIA RECORDARLO
There are no artists like the Russians. They are the best in every aspect e.g. music, ballet, poetry, etc.
Solo la ideologia puede ser causa de semejante barbaridad.
В живую жаль не был на той опере
I heard that Stalin loves this one. Once someone asked him to sing a "revolutionary song" for Stalin, Stalin said: "Don't bother; just let him sing Eugene Onegin." It's from another age that would NEVER come back again. Sad...
BTW, if he can do this with one lung, I wonder what he can do with 2.
He had two lungs here in 1936. His lung problems started during World War II on the "Eastern Front" - (from Wikipedia): "during one evacuation he caught a very bad cold which resulted in two attacks of pneumonia, complicated by pleurisy and tuberculosis of the right lung. He was treated with artificial pneumothorax, which induced the therapeutic collapse of one lung. Although singing was forbidden, he adapted by being more conscious and sensitive with regard to his technique, and continued to sing with one lung from 1942 to 1948, when the other lung was also artificially collapsed and re-inflated. During that period he recorded Lakme, The Snow Maiden, Les pêcheurs de perles, Mozart and Salieri and pieces from operas like The Barber of Seville and Rigoletto."
“Let him sing what he wants.” Stalin paused. “And I think he wants to sing Lensky’s aria from Onegin.”
@@GregNichols1953 This is not 1936,this is Onegin's post-war opera production!!! And yes,here he sings with one lung!!!!
Я уверена, что сам П. И. Чайковский признал бы интерпритацию Лемешева партии Ленского самой совершенной! Клип, посвященный лучшему Ленскому:
ua-cam.com/video/yzNEbyJORfw/v-deo.html
DISFRUTANDO UNA VEZ MAS
I was listening to Heart's "Barracuda" and suddenly "Kuda, Kuda" came to my mind.
how wonderful! thank you!
Meravigliosoooo❤❤❤❤
❤️
¡Qué bello!!
Kudà, kudà, kudà vi udalilis, vesni moyei zlatiye dni?
Shto dyen griadushki mnye gatovit?
Yevo moi vzor naprasna lovit: v glubokoi ts’me tayitsa on!
Nyet nyuzhde; prav sudbi zakon!
Paddu li ya, streloy pranzyonni, il mima proletitona,
vsyo blaga; bdieniya i sna prikhodit cias apredelyonni!
Blagaslovyen i dyen zabot, blagaslovyen i ts’mi prikhod!
Blesnyeot za-utra luch dennitsi
i zayigrayet yarki dyen,
a ya, bit mozhet, ya grobnitsi
saiduv tayinstvennuyu syen!
I pamyat yunovo poeta, poglatit myedlanneya Lyeta.
Zabudet mir menya ; no ti! ti!… Olga…
Skhazi, pridyosh li, dyeva krasoti,
slezu prolit nad rannei urnoi
i dumat: on menya lyubil!
On mnye yedinoi posyatil
rassvyet pecialni zhizni burnoi,
akh, Olga, ya tebya lyubil!
tebe yedinoi posyatil
rassvyet pecialni zhizni burnoi,
akh, Olga, ya tebya lyubil!
Serdyechni drug ,zhelanni drug,
pridì, pridì! zhelanni drug,
pridì, ya tvoi suprùg,
pridì, ya tvoi suprùg, pridì, pridì!
Ya zhdu tebya, zhelanni drug,
pridì, pridì; ya tvoi suprùg!
Kudà, kudà, kudà vi udalilis,
zlatye dni, zlatye dni moyey vesni?
grossartig
BEAUTIFUL.
Peace and love Russia and Ucraina
recordando una belleza
Sergueï s est la réfèrence le best gran gran
L
Absolutely amazing... almost like F. Wunderlich
❤❤❤
3:48 - 4:11 this is Mars distance in terms of voice control.
is the whole opera available on youtube somewhere? Love it!
bravo
😍😍😍
IMBATIBLE
Gedda y Krauss también grabaron esta aria (supongo que ambos cantaron la ópera en vivo también).
Casi se podría decir que fue una voz perfecta para interpretar a Rossini tal vez, Donizetti, algo de Verdi, ópera francesa tal vez no (se pierde mucho cuando se canta en ruso).
Pero no para Puccini ni para roles dramáticos (ni pensar en un Manrico o un Otello). Voz más bien pequeña, bien timbrada, probablemente von buena proyección pero no para competir contra la orquesta.
Who in God's name downvoted this?