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Notes and Editorial Reviews
The best thing about the Caruso legend is that it's more than true. If you've never heard him, whatever you have heard about him can't do justice to how good he really was: the golden bigness of the voice, the dramatic genius and generosity of spirit that he projected. Fortunately, as the first vocal superstar of the Victrola age, he made hundreds of recordings that survive to give substance to the legend.
CARUSO IN LOVE combines favorite opera arias by Verdi, Puccini, and Donizetti with popular love songs of the period, including one by Ruggiero Leoncavallo, Caruso's friend and the composer of 'I Pagliacci.' The excellent transfers of these 78 rpm sides made for Victor between 1906 and 1920 are the result of the epic remastering project
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Works on This Recording
1.
Aida: Celeste Aida by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1871; Italy
Date of Recording: 03/29/2008
Length: 3 Minutes 25 Secs.
Language: Italian
2.
Your eyes have told me what I did not know by Geoffrey O'Hara
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: 20th Century
Date of Recording: 04/10/1913
Length: 2 Minutes 5 Secs.
Language: English
3.
Martha: Ach, so fromm by Friedrich von Flotow
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Conductor:
Josef Pasternack
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1847; Germany
Date of Recording: 04/15/1917
Length: 3 Minutes 45 Secs.
Language: Italian
4.
La Bohème: Che gelida manina by Giacomo Puccini
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1896; Italy
Date of Recording: 02/11/2006
Length: 4 Minutes 4 Secs.
Language: Italian
5.
La Bohème: O soave fanciulla by Giacomo Puccini
Performer:
Geraldine Farrar (Soprano),
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Conductor:
Walter Rogers
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1896; Italy
Date of Recording: 12/30/1912
Length: 3 Minutes 39 Secs.
Language: Italian
6.
Noche feliz by Guillermo Posadas
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Conductor:
Josef Pasternack
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Date of Recording: 09/14/1920
Length: 2 Minutes 23 Secs.
Language: Spanish
7.
Mia sposa sarà mia bandiera by Augusto Rotoli
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Conductor:
Walter Rogers
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: Italy
Date of Recording: 02/23/1916
Length: 4 Minutes 7 Secs.
Language: Italian
8.
Il Guarany: Sento una forza indomita by Antonio Carlos Gomes
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor),
Emmy Destinn (Soprano)
Conductor:
Walter Rogers
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1870; Italy
Date of Recording: 04/20/1914
Length: 4 Minutes 28 Secs.
Language: Spanish
9.
For you alone by Henry Ernest Geehl
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Date of Recording: 12/28/1910
Length: 2 Minutes 13 Secs.
Language: English
10.
La Favorita: Spirto gentil by Gaetano Donizetti
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Written: 1843
Date of Recording: 02/11/2006
Length: 3 Minutes 45 Secs.
Language: Italian
11.
Love is mine by Clarence G. Gartner
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Conductor:
Walter Rogers
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Date of Recording: 12/27/1911
Length: 2 Minutes 51 Secs.
Language: English
12.
L'Elisir d'Amore: Una furtiva lagrima by Gaetano Donizetti
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1832; Italy
Date of Recording: 11/26/1911
Length: 4 Minutes 15 Secs.
Language: Italian
13.
Carmen: La fleur que tu m'avais jetée "Flower song" by Georges Bizet
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Conductor:
Walter Rogers
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1873-1874; France
Date of Recording: 11/07/1909
Length: 3 Minutes 43 Secs.
Language: Italian
Notes: Composition written: France (1873 - 1874).
14.
Parted! by Francesco Paolo Tosti
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Conductor:
Walter Rogers
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Date of Recording: 03/09/1914
Length: 2 Minutes 45 Secs.
Language: English
15.
Première caresse by Vincenzo di Crescenzo
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Conductor:
Josef Pasternack
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Date of Recording: 09/09/1919
Length: 2 Minutes 58 Secs.
Language: French
16.
Tosca: E lucevan le stelle by Giacomo Puccini
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Conductor:
Walter Rogers
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1900; Italy
Date of Recording: 11/06/1909
Length: 2 Minutes 58 Secs.
Language: Italian
17.
Love me or not by Secchi,
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Conductor:
Josef Pasternack
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Date of Recording: 01/29/1920
Length: 4 Minutes 7 Secs.
Language: English
18.
Eternamente "For all eternity" by Angelo Mascheroni
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1891; Italy
Date of Recording: 11/19/1911
Length: 4 Minutes 30 Secs.
Language: Italian
19.
Rigoletto: Bella figlia dell' amore [Quartet] by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:
Giuseppe de Luca (Baritone),
Flora Perini (Mezzo Soprano),
Amelita Galli-Curci (Soprano),
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Conductor:
Josef Pasternack
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1851; Italy
Date of Recording: 01/25/1917
Length: 3 Minutes 56 Secs.
Language: Italian
20.
Because by Helen Guy
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1902; France
Date of Recording: 12/07/1912
Length: 2 Minutes 26 Secs.
21.
Lasciati amar by Ruggero Leoncavallo
Performer:
Enrico Caruso (Tenor)
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1913; Italy
Date of Recording: 04/10/1913
Length: 2 Minutes 56 Secs.
Language: Italian
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