Ernani: Da quel dì - Battistini/Corsi, Molinari/Arangi-Lombardi, Bastianini/Cerquetti, MacNeil/Price

Описание: Mattia Battistini & Emilia Corsi (1906) - 0:00
Enrico Molinari & Giannina Arangi-Lombardi (1930) - 4:13
Ettore Bastianini & Anita Cerquetti (1957) - 11:06
Cornell MacNeil & Leontyne Price (1962) - 15:11

Giuseppe Valdengo:
"One day before rehearsal, Toscanini said, 'You know, yesterday I was thinking, and I want to suggest to you something that [Mattia] Battistini always used to do to keep his voice fluid and his breath controlled. Every day, Battistini vocalized, repeating the phrase from Ernani: "Da quel dì che t'ho veduta bella come un primo amore." Remember, Valdengo, that this phrase is like a study of bel canto, maybe better, and when you succeed in singing it with ease, your voice will be so malleable that any phrase in the baritone repertoire will seem like nothing.' I implored the Maestro to explain to me how this could be: 'You see, this phrase is almost all written on the passaggio of the baritone voice, and to do it perfectly there needs to be no discernible break between the medium register and the high register. Battistini, who did not have a very dark voice, and in fact tended toward being a dramatic tenor, always performed this phrase as a voice exercise, singing only vowels in place of the words.'"

"I sang that difficult phrase every day for my whole career and I have to say that there is no better medicine for the baritone voice. If some young baritone reads this, sing this phrase and you will see the great benefits: unity of registers, smoothness, and great control of breath. The phrase in Rigoletto, 'Veglia o donna questo fior,' will no longer be difficult, after having studied and restudied that of Ernani. "The Maestro told me that he heard a recording of the baritone Enrico Molinari who, like Battistini, sang that divine page of music in a marvelous way." Toscanini: "If you hear that recording, you will have an irresistible urge to practice and do increasingly better.'" [That Molinari recording is at 7:24.]

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