Sergei Lemeshev "Una furtiva lagrima" 1954 (live recording)

The great Russian /Soviet tenor Sergei Lemeshev (1902 - 1977) sings "Una furtiva..." in Leningrad , i954. It's a live recording, which has never been published on LP or CD.
Of course Lemeshev was not at his prime in 1954 after all his troubles (tuberculosis), but I find this recording very expressive and interesting.

[@and2720]

So beautiful! So heart touching! Indeed, you have "una furtiva lagrima" by lstening this heavenly beautiful voice!

[@petrof4056]

Absolutely Wonderful!!! He sings it better than any italians singers!! Probably an enormous emotion to see him live. What a voice... Thank you so much!

[@younglemeshevist]

He also sang a couple of songs in Italian. "Una furtiva" traditionally was sung in Italian in the USSR, because there were no good translation into Russian:) Soviet singers started to learn roles in their original languages only in the 1960 - 70's. Yes I have some other songs, I'll post them soon.

[@lemeshev]

Wow! What a find! Thanks for posting. Listening to a great tenor on an off day is fascinating.

[@Verlar13]

Многие исполняют эту арию, но никто, кроме Лемешева - так душевно.

[@CurzonRoad]

Thanks to younglemeshevist for this wonderful posting, and to vstasov for sending my way.

[@fairlytaleofnewyork]

Excellent! Thank you for sharing this extremely rare piece. It is very very touching...

[@CurzonRoad]

Thanks to younglemeshevist for this wonderful posting, and to vstasov for sending my way! Doug --

[@GermanOperaSinger]

Tuberculosis or not it is one of the greatest lyric tenor voices ever even here in 1954. It's nice to hear him sing something in Italian once in a while, since most of his commercial recordings were recorded in Russian. If he could sing the Italian I wonder why he didn't do it more often. If this was a concert there must be other pieces also? Were they recorded?

[@kaledutu]

i really wish i'll be a good tenor someday.

[@kaledutu]

That coughing reminded me of La Dame aux camélias