SIX GREAT RECORDINGS : SIX GREAT SONGS AND ARIAS (11) : 2023 RESTORATIONS : COLOUR PHOTOS
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- The singers on this video are;
Jussi Bjorling 1911 to 1960, Georges Thill 1897 to1984, Kathleen Ferrier 1912 to 1953, Richard Tauber 1891 to 1948, John McCormack 1884 to 1945, Lawrence Tibbett 1896 to 1960.
I've created a playlist of the "Great Recordings" videos that I hope to steadily add to and if you wanted to listen to them all the link to the playlist is
• Great Recordings
The recordings on this video are as follows;
0:00 Jussi Bjorling : Die Ehre Gottes aus der Natur (The glory of God in
nature)(Beethoven Rec 1959
2:53 Georges Thill : Che gelida manina from La Boheme (Puccini) Rec 1930
7:25 Kathleen Ferrier : Down by the Salley Gardens (Yeats/Trad) Rec 1952
10:28 Richard Tauber : Der Doppelganger (Schubert) Rec 1932
13:23 John McCormack : O sleep why dost thou leave me ? from Semele
(Handel) Rec 1920
16:38 Lawrence Tibbett : O du mein holder Abendstern from Tannhauser
(Wagner) Rec 1934
Just to give the effect of a "live" performance I've added applause at the beginning and end of the video.
The word "salley" in Down by the Salley Gardens comes from the Irish word "saileach" which means "willow". Areas of land (gardens) were planted with willow which was used in thatching of rooves. The original title given to the poem by Yeats was "An old song re=sung" because he based it on a few lines he remembered of an Irish song that he had heard an old lady in Ballysodare, County Sligo sing. The song was probably one called "The Rambling boys of pleasure" because the first verse of the song is very similar to that of Down by the Salley Gardens. The song verse is;
"Down by yon flowery garden my love and I we first did meet.
I took her in my arms and to her gave kisses sweet
She bade me take life easy just as the leaves fall from the tree.
But I being young and foolish, with my darling did not agree."
In 1909 Herbert Hughes set the poem to the music of another old Irish song called "The Maids of Mourne Shore".
Wonderful selection; helpful in passing time in hospital. Many tks Michael...Terry In Dublin
Hi Terry, it's my pleasure, thank you for listening, I'm glad that you like the selection. and that it's helping to pass the time in hospital, I've had that problem a few times myself.
You probably guessed from my name that I have Irish roots but I'm in Yorkshire, England. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Listened again while cutting the grass, a right chore helped along especially by Georges Thill, what a lovely sweet tone and works well with the French translation. 👏🙏
Thanks for listening again Sheila. Yes, I like Georges Thill and I hadn't listened to him before I started my UA-cam channel about 8 years ago..
Que buena selección. Y como siempre Jussi Bjorling estremece con su voz tan perfecta.
Thanks for listening Leonardo, very pleased that you enjoyed the selection.
A wonderful selection Michael. Great work and superb sound. ❤
Thanks for listening and for your kind words Lawrence, glad you like the selection.
First we have the voices .....and then this accompaniment : the photos.......thanks again for both
It's my pleasure, thank you for listening, I'm really pleased that you enjoyed it.
Bravo! Jussi Bjorling.
And Che gelida.... in French is very good fit with Puccini's melody.
Lawrence Tibbett is first time to me. Thanks....
Congratulations 10th "Great Recording" Michael!!
Thanks for listening Chang, I'm glad that you like the video.
Lawrence Tibbett accidentally stabbed one of the other singers in a fight scene in an opera and the singer died later in the day although apparently it was the result of a heart attack.
See you.
@@michaelmcgrailengland Thank you for information I didn't know.
Have a good afternoon Michael.
When I worked in radio, Tibbets wife (Widow) she would call the station on occasion asking for Larry's records to be played. Tibbett was the baritone Robert Merrill first heard as a young man, that he was so inspired by. Tibbett of course was older (1897) and came before Leonard Warren ( Warren born in 1911) Warren the great Baritone, probably America's greatest Verdi Baritone. @@michaelmcgrailengland
Some birthdates of Tibbett mention his birth as 1896, in any case he was from Calif. and had a long career. RIP.
@@shicoff1398 I hadn't really listened to Lawrence Tibbett but recently a French gentleman asked me to try to restore a live recording of Tannhauser. I couldn't do it, the noise and distortion were so bad but I was very impressed with Tibbett and so included him in this video singing this very nice aria from Tannhauser.
Another wonderful compilation, Michael - and thanks for giving the Irish derivation of 'salley' in Salley gardens. The original Latin for 'willow' is 'Salix' from which we get Aspirin, also known as acetylsalicylic acid, first extracted from willow bark. And in the Italian version of Otello, Desdemona sings Salce, Salce (willow, willow). Shakespeare has: "The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree, Sing all a green willow: Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee, Sing willow, willow, willow" but he changes 'willow' to 'sycamore' for the sake of the scansion.
Thanks for listening and for the extra information Dan. I thought you might like this one with it having Richard Tauber and John McCormack on it!
Great job. Welcome again. Beautiful melodies. Congratulations and applause.
Thanks for listening Rosa, I'm glad that you enjoyed this selection.
@@michaelmcgrailengland ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Warm regards dear friend.
This selection slipped under the radar and l’ve just spotted it -how pleased l am that l did-what a wonderful mix . Thank you for all the effort you put into each video-as for the nit pickers-well nit pickers got to pick l suppose -generally I’m too busy listening to the music , often l confess with my eyes closed -l hear better that way😊
Thanks for listening Marian, I'm glad that you like the selection.
Yes the nit pickers are a bit of a nuisance but, that's life. I sometimes think that they are not really there for the music but rather to find something that allows them to show off their knowledge.
@@michaelmcgrailengland spot on .
Just what I thought too… 😉👍
Thank you again Michael
My pleasure as always John, thank you for listening.
Another great compilation, Michael! Great singers and wonderful music, be it a hymn, an aria, a song… I guess I even found a (secret) favourite - or two… or more… ✨✨✨
And never mind the autocorrect… there are more important things in life and in music!!! I‘m sure you know what I mean… 😉 A little praise and appreciation, and a heartfelt THANK YOU ♥️ make a more adequate comment in my understanding…
So: Thank you! Again!
Warm regards and have a good time! 🍀☘️🍀☘️🍀☘️🍀
It's my pleasure as always Harriet, thank you for listening and for your wise words, I'm glad that you like this selection.
I hope that you had an enjoyable Christmas but I must admit I like things to get back to normal.
Have a few stars and shamrocks to brighten the rest of the day⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐☘☘☘☘
@@michaelmcgrailengland
Thanks a lot, Michael! The stars and shamrocks arrived today and I really needed something to brighten my day!!!
After Telekom ruined our internet they finally sent a technician today, but the guy was not only unwilling and annoyed from the start, but also incompetent and, to top it all, rude… blaming us for Telekom‘s failure and even calling us liars (though not with plain words) when we said that we hadn‘t done anything at all to cut the WLAN. Well, it‘s a long story… When I told him to not treat us the way he did he packed up after practically no service at all - but we still have to pay the bill. Guess what, I‘m still steaming… Another technician gave a valuable hint (on the phone) and we succeeded to reconnect our computers to the rooter. What an episode!
Sometimes I‘m so fed up with humankind and technical stuff alike!
Please excuse my whining… I just had to let it out!
Warm regards, all the best and a very Happy New Year! 🍀☘️🍀☘️🍀☘️🍀☘️🍀
I find the French version very interesting, Thill he sings it with a slow Tempo, it sure comes off better then the English version that Richard Tucker sang in a well known 1952 Met. radio Brdcst. of Boheme with Robert Merrill and Nadine Conner, even though the principal singers where native Americans, it's better in the original Italian than English of course. Tauber really sounds terrific here, did you work on the sound?
Yes I like Georges Thill's recording and songs/arias sung in in French always seem to have a special appeal to me. I like to hear Caruso singing in French.
I did work on the audio on all of them but I was particularly pleased with how Tauber's came out I'm glad that you noticed.
But, you know after all the work I did on the video all that one person could say in their comment was that I had put an apostrophe that shouldn't be there in the word "its" in the Jussi Bjorling translation Well, I suppose you can't please everybody!
@@michaelmcgrailengland Oh my God! I do that all the time! Its seems some people are never are able to respond without pushing themselves up, by trying to show off how smart they are, when they do it with some singers, and just over one aria, live or studio, it could be not a good role for the singer or live just a bad day, or it wasn't bad at all, they push a singer down, to build another singer up (usually not named ) they don't usually name the singer they like, but still lose all credibility and usually never saw the singer in the opera house anyhow , just a waste of time with those folks.
@@shicoff1398I won't go on about this but a similar thing happened a couple of weeks ago in that an Italian man said that I had deliberately made the recording of Jussi on the video sound worse so that I could, as he put it, " make believe current young singers are sounding better", exactly the opposite of what I try to do.
On the same theme, when I posted two videos of Jussi live at the Met I used a photo of the inside of the current Met with Jussi's picture superimposed on it. The reason I used the photo of the current Met was because it was in colour and it would have taken hours to colourize a black and white photo of the old Met with audience. I thought nobody would notice, however I was wrong. I got a comment from a man in New York with no mention of the music, simply pointing out that I had used the wrong photo. That's life. (I hope that apostrophe is in the right place).
WOW! it only goes to prove that some folks imagine what they want with no reason, if anything the Jussi Oh' Holy Night (and Lund concert) has him sounding larger and otherwise basically much the same as the original recordings, that is exactly what they do today with modern studio records. I saw JB as you know in the Chicago opera house, though his voice was not as large as on Recordings (like O Holy night) and some others, I'd say that was his same basic sound , so I'd love to know what young singer he likes today? None are as good as what we had then IMO, and I've seen several of them a few years ago when I attended opera, well why bother with him, let him then listen to his favorite old recordings.
The number#1 top lyric tenor today is Michael Fabiano and he has been around for several years, he is fine, but I suggest you listen to him and decide for yourself, I'll say no more!. @@michaelmcgrailengland
Anything Mc Cormack sings in English is a good lesson in "Diction", none better, that is so often missed with some singers in any language!
Dear Shicoff, You are right about my beloved John McOrphiccormack
Yes, he did have wonderful diction and also, perhaps because of the Irish accent, a pleasant
sound to his pronunciation of the words.
@@michaelmcgrailengland ☝️🙏👍
Yes I agree, a combination of the accent and the voice being Lyric came across with the great, really amazing diction in English. st
Its course in the text without an apostrophe. Annoying auto-correct is incorrect!
Thank you for listening and for your comment, I do hope that my error with the word "its" didn't spoil your enjoyment of the video as a whole. I can't blame auto-correct as I use an old computer with Vista and the old version of Windows Movie Maker which doesn't seem to have auto correct. The laptop that I'm using at the moment does have it and I think that you are being a littel unfare has, pursunily, hive ad know probblums whith itt wotsohever.