Gli Ugonotti: Qui sotto it ciel

About this film

The Cylinder Archive [ www.cylinder.de ] release for September 2013: This is one of the three commerican recordings by Enrico Caruso on phonograph cylinder, taken by the Anglo-Italian Commerce Company in Milan, Italy. It was just before he signed an exclusive contract with the Victor Company and these recordings were the only ever issued Enrico Caruso recordings on phonograph cylinder in his lifetime. To not be confused with the quite faint sound quality, especially for a voice like Caruso, it is not owed to the condition of the cylinder. The record itself is quite good shape. This thin but somewhat shrill sound originates from the manufacturing process by the French Pathé Frères Company, where each recording was first made on an oversized master cylinder and later patographically copied onto the final master, from which the final cylinders were then derived. However, mechanical duplication does have several limitations and the result is a thin, somewhat harsh sound with reduced dynamics. Thanks to these lower dynamics, these cylinder will usually not distort to easily as the high-peak Edison cylinders. What you here is the actual sound of this Caruso cylinder with only modest filt…

Directors & creators

Enrico Caruso

Subjects

cylinder record; caruso; opera; hugenotti; hugenots; hugenotten; meyerbeer; aria; grand opera; italian; tenor; belcanto

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