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Not to be outdone by Naxos' box set Enrico Caruso: The Complete Recordings, RCA Red Seal, the successor company to Victor, has repackaged its The Complete Caruso at a bargain price. This may come as a disappointment to those who purchased the 1990 edition of The Complete Caruso, but to others who decided to wait it out, this is a real bargain; its content is exactly the same as the earlier, significantly more expensive set. The Complete Caruso contains everything extant that Enrico Caruso recorded from 1902 to 1920. It comes with a 56-page booklet in three languages that includes scant notes, but a couple of useful indices, one relating Caruso's operatic roles to his recordings, and the other a cumulative list of the artists who recorded with Caruso. Each of the 12 discs comes in a separate cardboard sleeve. There are no recorded "extras," not surprising, as the years have not brought any more Caruso. There are some of Caruso's self-caricatures gracing the booklet, and one of these images has never before been seen.
The transfers date from the 1970s and 1980s, made with the "Soundstream" process developed by the late Thomas Stockham, an early type of digital recording. Curiously, there is no mention of Stockham's technical contribution in this set, whereas in previous packages the "Stockham Soundstream" banner was quite prominently featured. The technique puts Caruso's voice front and center, with little or no regard to the instruments behind him, and a high amount of the surface noise is removed. While Naxos' set makes no pretensions toward representing Caruso's recordings as being anything other than what they are sonically, there are plenty of listeners who will prefer the RCA Red Seal version simply because it is less noisy. Also, while priced one dollar above the Naxos set, with RCA's ready availability in retail, sale pricing can take the cost even below the competition. The incomparable recorded treasures of Enrico Caruso have never been so inexpensive to obtain as now, and no matter which complete Caruso set one decides to obtain, there is room for both.
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Enrico Caruso, Main Artist, Tenor - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Thomas G. Stockham - André Gauthier - Anthony Salvatore - Francesco Maria Piave, Librettist
(P) 1904 Sony Music Entertainment
Enrico Caruso, Main Artist, Tenor - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Thomas G. Stockham - André Gauthier - Anthony Salvatore - Francesco Maria Piave, Librettist
(P) 1904 Sony Music Entertainment
Enrico Caruso, Main Artist, Tenor - Gaetano Donizetti, Composer - Felice Romani, Librettist - Philippe Gille, Librettist - André Gauthier - William R. Moran - Anthony Salvatore
Originally Recorded 1904. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Enrico Caruso, Main Artist, Tenor - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Antonio Ghislanzoni, Librettist - André Gauthier - William R. Moran - Anthony Salvatore
(P) 1990 Sony Music Entertainment
Enrico Caruso, Main Artist, Tenor - Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Luigi Illica, Librettist - Giuseppe Giacosa, Librettist - André Gauthier - William R. Moran - Anthony Salvatore
Originally Recorded 1904. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Enrico Caruso, Main Artist, Tenor - Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Luigi Illica, Librettist - Giuseppe Giacosa, Librettist - André Gauthier - William R. Moran - Anthony Salvatore
Originally Recorded 1904. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Enrico Caruso, Main Artist, Tenor - Pietro Mascagni, Composer - William R. Moran - André Gauthier - Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, Librettist - Anthony Salvatore - G. Tenasci, Librettist
Originally Recorded 1904. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Enrico Caruso, Main Artist, Tenor - Ruggero Leoncavallo, Composer, Librettist - André Gauthier - William R. Moran - Anthony Salvatore
Originally Recorded 1904. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Enrico Caruso, Main Artist, Tenor - Jules Massenet, Composer - Henri Meilhac, Librettist - André Gauthier, Producer - William R. Moran, Producer - Anthony Salvatore, Producer
Originally Recorded 1904. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Enrico Caruso, Main Artist, Tenor - Gaetano Donizetti, Composer, Librettist - Giovanni Ruffini, Librettist - André Gauthier - William R. Moran - Anthony Salvatore
Originally Recorded 1905. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Enrico Caruso, Main Artist, Tenor - Georges Bizet, Composer - Henri Meilhac, Librettist - Ludovic Halevy, Librettist
Originally Recorded 1905. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Enrico Caruso, Main Artist, Tenor - Giacomo Meyerbeer, Composer - Emile Deschamps, Librettist - Eugène Scribe, Librettist - André Gauthier - William R. Moran - Anthony Salvatore
Originally Recorded 1905. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Enrico Caruso, Main Artist, Tenor - Amilcare Ponchielli, Composer - Tobia Gorrio, Librettist - André Gauthier - William R. Moran - Anthony Salvatore
Originally Recorded 1905. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Enrico Caruso, Associated Performer, Main Artist - Pietro Mascagni, Composer - William R. Moran - André Gauthier - Anthony Salvatore - Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, Librettist - G. Tenasci, Librettist
Originally Recorded 1905. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Enrico Caruso, Main Artist, Tenor - Friedrich von Flotow, Composer - Thomas G. Stockham Jr. - André Gauthier - Anthony Salvatore - Riese, Librettist
Originally Recorded 1906. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Enrico Caruso, Main Artist, Tenor - Giacomo Puccini, Composer - Thomas G. Stockham Jr. - André Gauthier - Giuseppe Giacosa, Librettist - Anthony Salvatore - Luigi Illica, Librettist
Originally Recorded 1906. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Enrico Caruso, Main Artist, Tenor - Charles Gounod, Composer - Michel Carré, Librettist - Jules Barbier, Librettist - Thomas G. Stockham Jr. - André Gauthier - Anthony Salvatore
Originally Recorded 1906. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Enrico Caruso, Main Artist, Tenor - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Salvatore Cammarano, Librettist - L.E. Bardare, Librettist - Thomas G. Stockham Jr., Producer
Originally Recorded 1906. All rights reserved by BMG Music
Album review
Not to be outdone by Naxos' box set Enrico Caruso: The Complete Recordings, RCA Red Seal, the successor company to Victor, has repackaged its The Complete Caruso at a bargain price. This may come as a disappointment to those who purchased the 1990 edition of The Complete Caruso, but to others who decided to wait it out, this is a real bargain; its content is exactly the same as the earlier, significantly more expensive set. The Complete Caruso contains everything extant that Enrico Caruso recorded from 1902 to 1920. It comes with a 56-page booklet in three languages that includes scant notes, but a couple of useful indices, one relating Caruso's operatic roles to his recordings, and the other a cumulative list of the artists who recorded with Caruso. Each of the 12 discs comes in a separate cardboard sleeve. There are no recorded "extras," not surprising, as the years have not brought any more Caruso. There are some of Caruso's self-caricatures gracing the booklet, and one of these images has never before been seen.
The transfers date from the 1970s and 1980s, made with the "Soundstream" process developed by the late Thomas Stockham, an early type of digital recording. Curiously, there is no mention of Stockham's technical contribution in this set, whereas in previous packages the "Stockham Soundstream" banner was quite prominently featured. The technique puts Caruso's voice front and center, with little or no regard to the instruments behind him, and a high amount of the surface noise is removed. While Naxos' set makes no pretensions toward representing Caruso's recordings as being anything other than what they are sonically, there are plenty of listeners who will prefer the RCA Red Seal version simply because it is less noisy. Also, while priced one dollar above the Naxos set, with RCA's ready availability in retail, sale pricing can take the cost even below the competition. The incomparable recorded treasures of Enrico Caruso have never been so inexpensive to obtain as now, and no matter which complete Caruso set one decides to obtain, there is room for both.
© TiVo
About the album
- 12 disc(s) - 237 track(s)
- Total length: 13:51:59
- Main artists: Enrico Caruso
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: RCA Red Seal
- Genre: Classical
(P) 2004 BMG Music
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