So enjoyable thank you

@michaelmcgrailengland

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening Barbara, glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you, dear Michael! Such a nice selection!

@michaelmcgrailengland

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening Elena, I'm glad that you like the selection. Unfortunately, the previous one that I uploaded was blocked in Russia by Sony.

@elenajha4357

7 ай бұрын

@@michaelmcgrailengland such a pity (... I do hope all those restrictions will be over soon.

Hermann Jadlowker and Titta Ruffo are first to me. I am happy to know new tenors. Thank you Michael!! This Stefano's voice is youngest and most flexible, beautiful I have ever heard. And I always enjoy precious pictures.

@michaelmcgrailengland

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening Chang, I'm glad that you enjoyed the video. I can't pin the comment with the details in because KZread have taken away that facility from me. They call it an advanced feature and, for some reason they say that my channel is not good enough to have it. I could get it back by sending a photo of my passport or a 30 second video of myself through my mobile phone but I don't use it for the internet. See you.

@MountainwalkwithMusic

7 ай бұрын

@@michaelmcgrailengland Michael! Don't you have a smartphone with Internet connection? Maybe KZread is asking you to send a certificate to your phone to verify your identity. These days, phones are being used as a means of proving an individual's identity. This may be because KZread does not know your identity exactly with a laptop or computer.

@michaelmcgrailengland

7 ай бұрын

@@MountainwalkwithMusic Yes you are right Chang. It only happened the other day, I contacted the chat line and they said they couldn't help. It had to be done through a phone. I do have a smart phone but I just use it to make calls. I expect I'll have to connect to the internet and do what they ask.

@MountainwalkwithMusic

7 ай бұрын

@@michaelmcgrailengland Connecting your phone to the Internet or Wi-Fi is simple. If you go to the phone store in your town and apply, they will solve it right away. Of course, it costs money, but it's something you have to do if you want to do KZread. Good luck. Michael!

@michaelmcgrailengland

7 ай бұрын

Hello Chang, that was a misty day for a walk in your latest video but I'm sure that you would enjoy it anyway. That's a very unusual and attractive tree at about 1:01 I noticed everybody was trying to get a photo of it. The music is very nice but, of course, not something I am familiar with. Good night Chang.

Di Stefano from 1950 ......never forgettable this aria sung by him though other tenors had more ( vocal) success with this part, f ex Gedda or Kraus , but Pippo dwells in the ears with this salut demeure chaste et pure......

@michaelmcgrailengland

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening. Yes the Di Stefano is a great recording.

Caruso e Callas os melhores❤🇵🇹🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

@michaelmcgrailengland

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening and for your comment Maria.

0:00 Enrico Caruso : Senza nisciuno (De Curtis) Rec 1919 2:55 Maria Callas : Casta Diva (Norma) (Bellini) Rec 1949 11:47 Hermann Jadlowker : Ecco Ridente In Cielo (The Barber of Seville) (Rosinni) Rec 1912 15:53 Giuseppe Di Stefano : Salut, demeure chaste et pure.(Faust).(Gounod).Rec "Live" San Francisco 1950 22:10 Beniamino Gigli : Sebben, crudele (La costanza in amor vince l'inganno) (Caldara) Rec 1950 25:50 Titta Ruffo : Finch'han dal vino (Don Giovanni) (Mozart) Rec 1914

Maria e Pippo sono di un altro pianeta! Bravi anche gli altri!

@michaelmcgrailengland

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening and for your comment Giuseppe, glad you like the selection.

Anche in questo gruppo la stupenda voce del grande Di Stefano ne esce vincente!

@michaelmcgrailengland

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening and for your comment Giuseppe.

La stupenda voce di Di Stefano, primeggia anche fra i grandi del passato!

@michaelmcgrailengland

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening again Giuseppe.

This is literally my favourite video of all. I'd even dare to say they are 6 of my top 10 opera singers.

@michaelmcgrailengland

5 ай бұрын

That's wonderful what a happy coincidence, I'm so pleased that you like them all. The recordings that I have been restoring and uploading for this series are mostly my own favourites but I also include recordings that others have mentioned and also, occasionally, more up-to-date singers in the hope that they will attract younger listeners who might then also listen to (and enjoy) the great singers of the past. I don't suppose that you'll find another of my videos that's made up of all your favourites but, hopefully, they might come close. Thanks for listening.

Here comes another great collection of fine arias (plus a hauntingly melancholical and gloomy Neapolitan song) and outstanding voices! And again I‘m grateful for finding some of my favourites among them! Although I‘m a tenor loving person (which doesn‘t mean that I do not love and appreciate other voices as well!) I find it particularly satisfying and enjoyable that you also included the lion among the Italian baritones and the primadonna assoluta among the sopranos - with one of her amazing renditions of „Casta diva“, an aria she performed in such a brilliant way that no one so far has been able to outshine her (with the aria or the role of Medea as a whole.) Excellent choices, magnificent recordings! ✨✨✨ Thank you very much for putting them together and sharing them, Michael! 🙏🍀

@michaelmcgrailengland

7 ай бұрын

It's my pleasure Harriet, thank again for listening. Yes, tenors are my main interest and I must say that since I started my KZread channel I've discovered some fine singers and music that I hadn't previously listened to. I'm sparing no expense with shamrocks today. Here, take four, you deserve them! ☘☘☘☘

@hrbooksmusic7878

7 ай бұрын

@@michaelmcgrailengland Michael, I feel so honoured by your generosity and kindness! Four shamrocks! It really must be Christmas time… 😉 Just like you, I discovered a lot of fine singers and recordings when I slammed into KZread - as a mere listener, depending on the work and dedication of others. You are one of these others, and you‘re certainly among the very few very best! There‘s something special about tenors… I don‘t know what it is. When they are great they are absolutely fascinating, when they are poor it hurts more than when a baritone or mezzo soprano have their flaws. Is it that we are less forgiving when it comes to tenors? Are their flaws more audible and therefore more disappointing? I‘m not sure… What do you think? Warm regards! Instead of shamrocks or the famous four-leaf good-luck clover it‘s Christmas trees and snowflakes I‘d like to send you today! 🎄❄️🎄❄️🎄❄️🎄

@michaelmcgrailengland

7 ай бұрын

@@hrbooksmusic7878 Thanks for your message Harriet, it's an interesting subject. You've probably got a saying similar to "one man's meat is another man's poison" and it seems to apply to music as much as anything. but I'm happy with my own favourites and forgive them their little flaws. But tenors have always been my favourites and Maria Callas was the only soprano and Paul Robeson the only bass baritone. Thanks for the lovely Christmas trees and snowflakes. Best regards, Michael.

@hrbooksmusic7878

7 ай бұрын

@@michaelmcgrailengland Just like you I‘m a very forgiving person when it comes to my favourites, Michael… After all, nobody is perfect, and we all are happy when others are kind enough to forgive our own little flaws… I‘m not sure if there‘s an exact equivalent to „one man‘s meat is another man‘s poison“, but „des einen Freund, des andern Leid“ (one person‘s joy, another‘s sorrow) at least comes close. And of course everyone has the right to their own taste, and that’s something I try to remember and respect… well, most of the time. Some tastes are so incredibly bad that I feel the urge to make a snarky remark. Say the word „rap“ and experience how I react! 😃 More snowflakes for you, this time embedded in shamrocks for lots of wintery luck… 🍀 ☘️❄️☘️❄️☘️❄️☘️ 🍀

@michaelmcgrailengland

7 ай бұрын

@@hrbooksmusic7878 You are right as usual Harriet, even I am not absolutely perfect!!

Wonderful Post!

@michaelmcgrailengland

7 ай бұрын

Thanks, very pleased that you like it.

@shicoff1398

7 ай бұрын

Made the morning, here in the Chicago area Great! @@michaelmcgrailengland

@shicoff1398

7 ай бұрын

I never heard the Jadlowker recording in better sound. Bravo!.@@michaelmcgrailengland

@michaelmcgrailengland

7 ай бұрын

@@shicoff1398 Brilliant, thanks.

@meisterwue

7 ай бұрын

@@shicoff1398 dear friend, this is a real exciting channel , hope we have some talk here

Jadlowker first, before opera was a Jewish Cantor, (as was American Jewish tenor Richard Tucker) and the Romanian born Jew, tenor Joseph Schmidt , but sadly there are no Cantorial records of Jadlowker available, as there are with both Schmidt and Tucker, but by all reviews of his Cantorial singing, Jadlowker's cantorial art was of high quality, and he moved his large voice with great trills and cadenza's and great flexibility, very easily. Jadlowker was born in 1977, he died in 1953. RIP.

@shicoff1398

7 ай бұрын

(CORRECTION ABOVE)JADLOWKER WAS BORN IN 1877!!!!

@michaelmcgrailengland

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the information. I do put the date of birth and death for each singer on the first phot of them in the video but I suppose most people miss it. I think the majority of people these days use iphones for the internet.

@shicoff1398

7 ай бұрын

Oh I wouldn't know about that, I live in the past with all this stuff. I missed your posting the date myself even though it's perfectly plain! Jan Peerce once told me he visited Jadlowker not long before Jadlowker died, where Jadlowker lived by then in Israel, Anyhow he was a fine Tenor in his day and as you probably know, he was the German Kaiser's favorite tenor!

@michaelmcgrailengland

7 ай бұрын

@@shicoff1398 No, I didn't know he was the Kaiser's favourite, I hadn't heard him until you mentioned him a while ago. I've been experimenting with the video narratives, somebody else said recently that they were just about unreadable.

@shicoff1398

7 ай бұрын

Yes, he was as he did sing the majority of his roles in German, and in fact I'll tell you what is interesting for me is that my grandfather knew him well, as they both where not only Neighbors growing up in Riga but YES DISTANT COUSINS , my Grandfather left Riga Latvia with his older brother in 1892 for Chicago (at age 12) to escape the Russian army, plus as in Latvia then, it was the situation for a long term. As far as Jadlowker my grandfather was a bigger fan of Caruso's voice and saw him twice as he did not sing in Chicago more than twice, and By The way according to local Chicago news at the time, Caruso was visited backstage by Al Capone the gangster who at the time ran corruption in Chicago, Caruso wanted nothing to do with him and brushed Capone off backstage, he also knew that though Alphonse Capone liked Oprea, that he knew little about it, he was (Capone) IMO a smart man, even if Corrupt and set up Soup kitchens in Chicago during the depression years, so he had quite a loyal following. My grandfather told me that Nobody had a greater voice of the spinto type that Caruso had and he saw them all from about 1902 on to the late 1960's, then with declining health and vision, he spoke some German, so was also a fan of Wagner opera's and was a Melchior fan, he liked the voice, He told me Tucker in his voice type and power, yes but not so much the sound d was the closest he ever saw to Caruso! and that Gigli was magnificent and had very good power as a Lyric tenor, but all in all Caruso in the house had these over tones missing in the recordings, at least that was what he told me , he had a personally autographed picture from Caruso because Caruso had my grandfathers nephew do some translation work for him and the young man (my dads older first cousin was well known in NYC literary circles and a friend of Caruso) I was supposed to get that picture signed with my last name of course from Caruso but a nasty older cousin of mine, (now dead) took it when my grandfather died and I was living then in Los Angeles, by the time I got to Chicago it was gone etc. So you see I did inherit tons of Caruso 78's my cousin didn't want. He wasn't even a big opera fan and that picture is worth signed by EC with my last name is worth a lot of money! Oh well that's family for you. Jadlowker was so popular in Germany even though a Jew that he was the favorite then, it was well before Hitler.!!!!und

Калас е незабравима.❤

@michaelmcgrailengland

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening and for your comment Lilia.

Early Pippo was amazing - such a shame he ruined his voice by over-singing.

@michaelmcgrailengland

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for listening and for your comment Dan.

@meisterwue

7 ай бұрын

@@michaelmcgrailengland saltburner is so right......Pippo is one of my very first singers in the field of the opera , together with MDM I will never forget my first hours with opera singing voices , f ex the famous Tosca 1953

@michaelmcgrailengland

7 ай бұрын

@@meisterwue Yes, he was wonderful, I've only really listened to him in recent years, I tended to stick to my old favourites, Caruso McCormack, Bjorling Schmidt and Tauber. By the way have you seen Saltburner's brilliant Tauber Chronology? If not, this is a link to it. richard-tauber.de/wp-content/pdf/TAUBER-CHRONOLOGY-SEPT-2022.PDF

@meisterwue

7 ай бұрын

@@michaelmcgrailengland thanks , because Tauber is an old beloved favourite, too. ....have still again my LPs from a time long ago.....and also my LPs Joseph Schmidt.....so sad the way of his career.....my favourite song sung by Schmidt is ano avdoh, a jewish prayer.

Merci pour toutes ces belles voix encore bravo 👏 👏 🎶🎶👍❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

@michaelmcgrailengland

7 ай бұрын

It's a great pleasure Marie-Jeanne, thank you for listening, I'm really pleased that you enjoyed the video.