Fantastic piece. Thank you for sharing this. I've heard many versions of Vocalise but this is the first male one. Blew my mind

Thank you for this incredible experience. I am overwhelmed. I continue to replay and now consider this version of the vocalise to be my favorite.

if somebody is in search of atmphsphere mystery and sensuality, then Moffo is the answer, but one dimension, if someone is in search of depth, strong emotions, goosebumbs and even moving moments, multi dimensioned interpretation, russian souled singing and a big journey after all, then Kozlovsky is what you want to hear. Personaly I love both, but if i had to choose only one, it would be Kozlovsly i think...

@gvrua2845

5 жыл бұрын

chopinopus28, Kozlovskiy was a Ukrainian singer. Rachmaninov was Russian, that's true. He had Moldavian routs, though, and spent most of his life out of Russia.

so beautifully sung and with the high C#

I absolutely agree with you.this is heavenly singing.Kozlovsky is already an example of the most exquisite and touching musicality.Thanks for posting,thanks for sharing!!

the ring on those top notes is just incredible!

Русское исполнение русского произведения. Это больше, чем вокальные данные и школа. Это понимание сути, понимание того, о чём написана музыка. Так никто не смог исполнить из всех, кого тут вспоминали и приводили в пример. И раньше и сегодня никто не смог подняться так высоко. Спасибо автору ролика, испанцу, от нас русских - это один экземпляр на YT.

мой любимый козловский и вокализ рахманинова!!!

Thank you for this. I don't know how I haven't come across this before! I am so thrilled to hear a vocalise, typically known for soprano or other instrument, done (so well) by a male voice! Thank you again for introducing me to him, truly a very emotive voice, stunning :)

Géant, superbe, je suis estomaqué, j'en ai des frissons ! Je réécoute en boucle !

In the beginning of this piece his mezza voce is prodigious..It seems really to come from heaven,directly from heaven!!

Where does one even begin? First, I am embarrassed to say that I know nothing of the voice or artistry of Kozlovsky. Of course, that is not entirely true. Listening to this one piece alone tells me almost everything I need to know about this great singer. He clearly has an amazing voice, an incredible technique and a stunning artistry. Truly inspiring.

@tobiolopainto

3 жыл бұрын

What you need to know about Kozlovsky is that he was one of two fantastic singers that were contemporaries. Lemeshev was the other. They sang the same rep and were both great singers. Lemeshev sings German lieder in Russian. He bears comparison with Lotte Lehmann, the best lieder singer of the west. Lemeshev's commitment to the words is miraculous. His voice is beautiful! Kozlovsky matches him in everything but Kozlovsky was a great actor as well. (I'm stunned at the long breath up to the high note and back. Amazing!) Kozlovsky sang the Idiot in Boris Godonov. His acting was so fantastic that he made that whole opera about his character. This suited the Soviets well enough, so they were supportive of him. There's a movie of Boris with Kozlovsky playing the Idiot. Haunting, sad and beautiful. At the Met they'd cast a comprimario as the Idiot, Paul Franke, if memory serves. He was good. But he wasn't the star tenor of the company. Kozlovsky brings intelligence, style and emotional penetration to everything he sings. He was a rare artist. Among the greatest singers of the C20. If you can find Bel Canto's "The Tenors of the 78 Era" in 5 volumes, there's a section devoted to Kozlowsky. I've seen it on utub.

I think that Kozlovsky's voice is maybe not so rich in color as Gigli's voice was. But Kozlovsky's upper register is out of doubt bigger, more "squillante", and his mezza voce more similiar to the full voice, I mean, more pure.

Amazing!!!!! I love this version!!!

Fascinating to hear Rachmaninoff's arrangement for Tenor voice! However, after being so conditioned to hearing the Soprano version, I'm somewhat equivocal about this arrangement. If only Jussi Bjorling and Giuseppe Di Stefano had recorded it!

Soy un admirador de Gigli. Su timbre vocal, en su mejor época, es único por su belleza en la era eléctrica, PERO no creo que hubiese podido cantar Vocalise . A cada cual lo suyo. Erial80

@Tkimba2

3 жыл бұрын

Of course he could not

I think this posting now has technical difficulties. For me, the picture flutters up and down and there is marked pitch instability in the recording, marring the sublime perfection of Kozlovsky's singing. I hope this can be corrected!

very often i say to my friends that Kozlovsky was the Beniamino Gigli of Russia . I will repeat it here ...............and will add also that as far as i know Kozlovsky was one of the very few Russian classical singers who could sing wonderfully the italian opera repertoire without the bad russian accent in the italian language that the Russian singers had and still have .....

Please...a female voice NEVER can convey the just emotion,the feeling the beauty!"!!This is EXCEPTIONAL!!!!!!!

Lovely singing! TY

@jojojo943 -I fully agree on the Moffo version being the best.

Marvelous voice,and incredible high notes.

Such a beautiful voice!

@ctafrance Gedda does a fine job with this piece. I prefer it to Ivan's performance. maybe you'll like it too. I'm a big Gedda fan, heard him live a few times. But I must say I like the Moffo performance the best of all I've heard.

In alto come in basso . Pazzesco.

Exceptional breathing control. Huge dynamic range, heard even in this imperfect recording. High C sharp is uncomparable. Rare combination of technical and artistic freedom in a foreign (for tenor voice) repertoire.

Awesome!

I can't disagree with you more. :P I think that Kozlovsky is the paradigm of what a tenor should sound like. His tone quality is shining and "squillante" as few others, and his mezza voce perfectly supported, nothing similar to that boyish style that you refered. That's only my opinion, of course. :D

@HammondDER

7 жыл бұрын

It is an acoustical issue. The voice is tiny and the whole emission is to give the singer an ability to sing mezzo voce and pianos like that. This is technique and it is inachieveable for big voices.

@klaudiusmarcelus

3 жыл бұрын

@@HammondDER Really and what about Corelli's piano . Was he's voice also tiny ?

@HammondDER

3 жыл бұрын

@@klaudiusmarcelus MDM and Corelli MET witness reported FC's voice at the beginning was 25% smaller than del Monaco's.

Нравиться не нравиться, но это - великий певец и большой художник. Что касается верхних нот, то Джильи такие и не снились

Well, it is one thing to say you like his style. It is quite another to hold it up as a paradigm. Did you not hear how he goes slightly flat in the ascension up to the final high notes? It is unmistakeable if you listen closely. I would love to hear what someone with a real manly voice, Domingo or Carrera, could do with a melody like this...

Kozlovsky, anyone who truly understands technique sees the Gigli, he is fantastic, definitely one of the top in history. Period. This recording is Such a GEM, i WISH I HAD IT. =X

Ух... Я замер..

Мы все это знаем.... И пора каждому на своём месте с этим не соглашаться активно.... Кстати, я нашёл ещё один ролик с этим исполнением Вокализа. Но этот всё равно первый :)

Великолепный!

Не так давно на первом была передача о Пахмутовой, точнее, документальный фильм с её участием. Так вот она назвала причину: образование для способных детей перестало быть доступно, и выход на публику для талантов закрыт, если они не могут этот выход оплатить, а это сегодня очень большие деньги. И раньше не всех сумели уберечь, а теперь это просто нереально.

Definitely a few moments of "improvisation" and "re-writing" Rachmaninoff's music in this rendition.

Well, I have listened to it again...six months later...on a little better sound system, and I must say I am not sure WHY I was so critical before. It may have been due to listening to it on my minicomputer which did not do justice to the sound at all. So, for the overall tone quality, I must say, I was just wrong---not that it matters to anyone. But, "canonical" or not, I don't like his passagio, for the reasons stated. Still, this is respectable and I am so happy to hear it sung by a tenor.

Tienes toda la razón. Para mí, a Gigli le faltaría la extensión y la habilidad para algunas regulaciones de intensidad.

Domingo or Carreras? Both unable to sing like this! Maybe Pavarotti or Bjorling, or other tenors before them. Few singers (maybe no other) have had Kozlovsky's easiness and fullness in the acute register. What you call "flat" is indeed the canonical way to make the "passaggio", something that singers like Domingo or Carreras had always ignored. All in my humble opinion, as usually.

Да

Поди-найди щас теноров такого уровня......все было:(Ну почему так?:(

К великому сожалению она ой как права((((((((

I hadn't liked Kozlovsky, up to the moment when some time ago I heard this record...

Очень по русски. Так никто кроме русского так не споёт. И никто кроме русского не поймет почему это так. А впрочем, я смогу выразить это в двух словах. Это надо петь не в театре, не в соборе. А в поле.

@gvrua2845

5 жыл бұрын

Igor Polk, Козловский был украинцем.

I was glad to find at last a tenor version of this lovely piece, but I do not share the applause here. The liberties Kozlovsky takes render this version mawkishly sentimental, as if sung by an adolescent boy or a barroom singer who's had one too many vodkas. His tone quality is thin as if imitating the soprano version, he often garbles the notes, and even goes flat (in the transition up to the final high notes). A tenor should sing this Vocalise like a man, or leave it to the sopranos.