Francesco Tamagno sings Un di all'azzuro spazio

From Andrea Chenier, "Un di all'azzuro spazio" sung by Francesco Tamagno in 1904. I employed the Audio Cleaning Lab to reduce noise and add a spatial dimension to the acoustic recording.

[@synysterrock3982]

I just can't believe my great uncle francesco has this many fans! Thank u all so much for all the support xx

[@jeichacker]

For four decades I have had great respect and affection for Signor Francesco Tamagno. It is my pleasure to have posted some of his recordings.

[@GermanOperaSinger]

"Little rough around the edges?" To my 20th century ears, his voice is vibrant and powerful. God, it just shows how low our standards have gone over the past 100 years. And 95% of opera 'fans' nowadays have even lower standards than myself.

[@unpodimusica1]

An amazing recording, and a superb cleaning job, well done! This truly brings the golden era back to us. G.B.Shaw called Tamagno's singing "magnificent screaming" - but he does anything but. Magnificent he is, but also one of the most effortless tenors ever, I find. Even taking into account that he was no longer a healthy man when he made his recordings. Bravo!!!

[@MrBacolino]

Che potenza vocale !Peccato che a quei tempi, le registrazioni non erano fedeli come adesso.Che spettacolo d'audizione sarebbe ascoltarle oggi.

[@hiyadroogs]

More than past his prime, Steve! He was 54 & dying of angina pectoris, having only a year to live. In 1900, critics noted that after 30 years of singing the heaviest operas in the repertoire, his voice was no longer fresh & was sounding a little rough around the edges. No doubt due to his angina. This recording is 1904. Yet he still sounds 20 years old to me! What would his critics have made of his modern throaty contemporaries even in their prime??

[@lucianozanella5833]

Un tenore dalla travolgente potenza vocale . Forse è stato a quei tempi il più grande tenore lirico drammatico spinto dalla inaudita potenza , anche se un po' gigione .

[@rubenh1091]

Extraordinario tenor. Una fuerza interpretativa maravillosa ! Gracias por subir estas grabaciones históricas.

[@Allzumenschliches44]

Grandissimo, indimenticabile!!!

[@roberthowes7827]

Tamagno was as famous in the 1800's as Caruso. Thanks for the cleaning job.

[@josefernandezcarbonell5264]

Maravilloso. Puro. Sin colorantes ni aditivos ni ayudas. Así se cantaba antes.

[@giuseppecuscani4409]

grande tamagno!

[@dinovalle1]

UNA DIZZIONE STRAORDINARIA BRAVO FRANCESCO

[@kgeorg1979]

Amazing, thanks for posting. The noise reduction is quite incredible. I find it funny that I can understand his diction better than a lot of more modern recordings! And what singing! They say he was past his prime...

[@giocodispecchi]

Da brividi ! I'm thunderstruck....Thanks for sharing and the good cleaning job.

[@thomasrexdale3706]

Bravo Maestro di canto!!! Excellent restoration--thanks so much for posting!! I LOVE HIS ENDING!! Even many later singers Caruso included didnt go for this last high note!!

[@phantom4087]

He was, but imagine how he would have sounded live! Just incredible. I have listened to a great many singers in my time (however short) and Caruso and Tamagno are my two favorites.

[@highcking]

Second only to Caruso, he was my grandfather's favorite tenor. And he heard all the greats of that time.

[@charleswebb8230]

My goodness he must have been electric in the theatre in his prime! Henry Webb

[@cronista1979]

Oh, my friend, thank you very much! It´s an historical document. Congratulations. Es una verdadera sorpresa, yo había buscado grabaciones de Tamagno, pero había encontrado referencias que indicaban que no existían registros vocales de él, estos archivos se escuchan mejor que los de Caruso inclusive en calidad de grabación, incluso paracen más recientes, como de los años 20´s. Son muy valiosos. Es sorprendente que datan de la primera década del S. XX

[@SlavKulikov]

шикарная техника! шикарно! поёт как говорит! шикарно!

[@jeichacker]

You are welcome. Tamagno is my favorite. Busqué hace muchos anos para Tamagno' las grabaciones de s y podían encontrar solamente presionar italiano del vinilo de Odeon. Muchas tomas inéditas han salido a luz desde entonces. Ahora las tengo en el CD. Adios.

[@dariobussolino1384]

Se ben ricordo,Tamagno dovrebbe essere stato il primo OTELLO e sarebbe interessante conoscere le impressioni di VERDI all'ascolto di una simile possente voce!

[@abracadabranque]

Quelle puissance!!!

[@АннаПорфирьева-п9м]

Восхитительно!!!

[@MultiGargiulo]

Ai cantanti del remoto passato che avessero cantato con dizione incomprensibile (come accade ormai da decenni) avrebbero tirato uova marce

[@andysnashall6140]

I have some re-mastered recordings of your Great Uncles's recordings done by Welsh firm Nimbus records- a truly wonderful and historically important voice. " Un di al' azzuro spazio" wonderful.

[@jeichacker]

Very well put.

[@dnehs1054]

Parlar cantando!

[@MrAzazaz93]

grande voce, interpretazione da dimenticare

[@thomasrexdale3706]

Charlie T i hope you get back to this site again soon. I would like to converse with you about your great uncle whose singing i love. Isnt this a great restoration of his magnificent voice to whom Verdi entrusted his monumental Otello!!

[@Inesydow88]

...Tamagno. Era una vera forza della natura. Konstantin S. Stanislavskij "La mia vita nell'arte" La casa Usher, Firenze 2009, pp. 53-56

[@millonety123]

@John Eichacker, Mis respetos para Tamagno siempre! Thanks for posting anyway!... Saludos!

[@alessandromancini334]

La classe non è acqua e quì di classe ce ne ho trovata tanta.basta sentirlo appena e capisci perchè era detto"il tenore cannona. alessandro mancini

[@wilhelmvongloeden]

Ill and on the verge of death? Then what did he sound like in his prime? No wonder he's remembered as the greatest "tenore di forza" of the 19th century... a tenor for the ages...

[@faucignymarcel9380]

Verdi a ecrit othelo pour la voix de Tamagno

[@thomasrexdale3706]

also he sang all these later recordings in the original keys. Even Caruso transposed the Di Quella pira down a half tone this guy was the real deal. Also remember these are early acuoustical recordings which leave most of the overtones to the ages they all sang into the horn. Even Carusos recordings were but a souvenir according to Maestro Enzo Dell Orefice who was his accompanist and coach from 1910 to 1913 andwhom i studied with from 1970 till 1974 when he passed away.

[@jeichacker]

You are correct and you are welcome.

[@jeichacker]

Il mio piacere.

[@AREJ82]

Pongan mas discografia de este gran tenor, y tambien de antonio paoli y de atantonio de aramburo

[@karifrid]

Bravo! I like that he does also a B flat in the end.(I do it to).Beautyful color,lot of power.(Bad recording...)

[@fortezimo]

It's so sad that many today's singers in their absolute prime sounds less fresh than this 54-year-old man.

[@thomasrexdale3706]

Oleg Rasputin below you never heard him some twenty years before he made this so how can you possibly make that remark. Compare the Led Zepplin singers voice now to what it was 30 years ago he still sings but is a shadow of his former self. As we get older we lose power and depth of tone it is inevitable with age. However T. still sings in the original keys and does not transpose down as most do when their best days are past them. True he made a terrific amount of cash doing this an offer he couldnt refuse im sure but it took a lot of courage to stand in front of that horn and hurl out those tones into eternity. As we know he was not well he had congestive heart failure but i feel he still gave his all. After all within a couple of years he joined the great heavenly choir Maybe we will be lucky enough to meet him one day along with Patti Caruso Ruffo and all the others who gave us such pleasure while here on this mortal coil.

[@paolobodoano3944]

terrificante

[@faucignymarcel9380]

le fameux verre de cristal c est lui qui le brisait .

[@olegvr5499]

He was not tenor di forza. He was tenor spinto! Not dramatic tenor, but lyric-dramatic tenor!!!...

[@millonety123]

@John Eichacker, Por supuesto! Yo agradezco este video que siempre es muy interesante, pero esta famosa aria no lo hace bien...es mi opinión! Grande Tamagno, y respeto su figura, sin embargo!

[@jeichacker]

I think we must agree to disagree

[@millonety123]

no me gusta como lo hace!...parece que recita mas que cantar! 3:02 y ss, nada de emocion ni lirismo!...

[@thomasrexdale3706]

oleg you mean well but you dont know what you re talking about. Sorry and no one less than Verdi would disagree with you. What you are hearing is a man over 50 with severe heart failure who was talked into doing doing this recordings for a tremendos purse while he could still do it.. Read the reviews of the critics when he was in his prime such as B. Shaw.

[@sergiopedini7020]

Esecuzione abominevole : intonazione approssimativa , (calante), interpretazione inaccettabile, gigionerie insopportabili, voce sempre spinta incapace a modulare le frasi.Povero Verdi ! Chissà che travasi di bile durante le prove di Otello ! Incredibili anche i commenti entusiastici riportati !

[@lucianozanella5833]

+sergio pedini Evidentemente manifesti , almeno , due carenze di conoscenza : le interpretazioni vocali in uso ai primi del 1900 ; in secondo luogo si dovrebbe non dimenticare che le tecnologie di riproduzione di allora erano lontane anni-luce da quelle attuali ( nelle quali-oggi- si riesce a magnificare/reimpostare/correggere/etc. ogni manchevolezza e/o insufficienza espressiva ) .