Caruso Restored: Arias (2022)

Описание: Caruso Restored: Famous Arias

1. Flotow: M' apparí tutt' amor -Martha (0:08)
February 11, 1906

2. Leoncavallo: Vesti la giubba -I Pagliacci (3:39)
March 17, 1907

3. Verdi: La donna é mobile -Rigoletto (6:43)
March 16, 1908

4. Verdi: Celeste Aida -Aida (9:09)
December 27, 1911

5. Mascagni: O Lola (Siciliana) -Cavalleria Rusticana (14:03)
December 28, 1910

6. Donizetti: Chi mi frena in tal momento? (Sextet) Lucia di Lammermoor (16:50)
January 25, 1917
Amelita Galli-Cursi-soprano, Minnie Egener-mezzo soprano, Angelo Bada-tenor,
Giuseppe de Luca-baritone, Marcel Journet-bass

7. Puccini: E lucevan le stelle -Tosca (20:54)
November 6, 1909

8. Donizetti: Una furtiva lagrima -L'elisir d'amore (23:52)
November 26, 1911

9. Bizet: Je crois entendre encore -Les pêcheurs de perles (28:16)
December 7, 1916

All recordings were made at the Victor Studio in Camden, N.J. The banging we hear is because it was located in an industrial area. Although this may not have registered on machines a century ago, it certainly does on modern equipment.

Caruso never sang into a microphone or made any mono recordings. The selections here have been restored to their original acoustics to reproduce the way they were originally intended on acoustic equipment.

All selections are over a century old, and taken from matrices made in an age before the ability to copy or transcribe recordings. They sound they way they do because they were used as the sources for millions of record pressings before 1932.

The sound is not consistent because the tracks were recorded at different times, and subjected to different wear. Some surface noise could not be removed in order to preserve the sound.

Field Acoustic Restoration (2022): Paul Howard

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