Jussi Bjorling : Six songs/arias for 1952 Stockholm Radio Concert
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- I've restored/remastered quite a few of Jussi's wonderful recordings either separately or as part of compilation videos and if you want to listen to them all the link to the playlist is
• Jussi Bjorling : Four ...
The songs/arias on this video were broadcast as a concert on Stockholm radio and were recorded by Jussi Bjorling on 3rd October 1952.The orchestra is conducted by Sten Frykberg.
Wagner : Lohengrin
0:00 In fernem land (sung in Swedish)
Sibelius : Three songs
5:11 Var det en drom? (Was it a dream?)
7:31 Svarta rosor (Black roses)
9:43 Sav, sav, susa (Sigh, sedges, sigh)
Donizetti : L'elisir d'amore
11:50 Una furtiva lagrima
Mascagni : Cavalleria rusticana
15:41 Addio alla madre
I've tried to get the best out of the audio but there is some sort of resonance that refuses to go away. Just for effect I've added applause at the beginning and end.
I'll put links to translations later. - เพลง
0:00 In fernem land (sung in Swedish) 5:11 Var det en drom? (Was it a dream?)
7:31 Svarta rosor (Black roses) 9:43 Sav, sav, susa (Sigh, sedges, sigh)
11:50 Una furtiva lagrima 15:41 Addio alla madre
Thank you for sharing this adorable selection. Beautiful to tears. Lovely art work. Congratulations. Applause and warm regards.😊🌹
@@Rosangela161 Thank you for listening, I'm really pleased that you like it so much,I was lucky to find it recently .I uploaded a Jussi Bjorling video with 6 stereo recordings and a lady said that she would die to have them on her music system rather than just on her I pad so I had a look on the internet to see if the CD was still available. It wasn't so I had a look on eBay. It wasn't there but when I was looking I came across another old, used CD that I had never seen before with this Stockholm concert and a great Hollywood Bowl concert from 1949. I don't know whether you've seen the Hollywood Bowl concert but, if not, the link to it is
th-cam.com/video/uxnpjCV4ajw/w-d-xo.html
Warm regards from a cold, miserable Yorkshire.
Jussi.Legendary fame Voice.I lowe this.The best of all tenors.
Thanks for listening, I'm glad that you enjoyed it.
Mix of honey and gold from heaven. J.B. was tenor of such beauty of voice and individual sensitivity, that compering him with anybody is completely unnecessary.
Thank you Michael once more!!!
It warmed my heart in cold Chicago night. Il grandioso!!!
It's a pleasure as always Bozidar, thank you for listening, I'm very pleased that you enjoyed the video.
Best regards from Yorkshire, England.
Greetings to Chicago from Sweden ! JB and Maria Callas is sitting there on a photo from Chicago- there must be a recording somewhere from this event ? !
Just liquid beautiful gold.
Thanks for listening Virginia, I'm glad that you enjoyed it.
@@michaelmcgrailengland great pictures in color of JB with family and others, many I have for many years, but not in color, they where not available in color, very good job.
@@shicoff1398 Thanks for listening, I'm glad that you like the video. I'm pretty new to colourizing the old black and white photos and a lot of it, like the colour of clothing etc, is guesswork but I think it really brings them to life. The music's the most important thing, of course, but quite a few people have said how much they like the photos.I did about 300 for the Caruso centenary video that I did last August.
@@michaelmcgrailengland Fantastic job, you are terrific at it and sound, BTW, "RIP" for Anders Bjoerling, very nice fellow I met at his home in 2001 for the JBS meet in Minn. where he lived , his lovely wife Janet was alive then, just before she became sick and was a great hostess, as he was a host, in the last few years they had a meeting, but in Utah that one of Richard Tucker's sons ( a retired Doctor ) attended, the two men, son's of great tenors met there and exchanged friendly stories about their famous fathers, two of the non Italian greats in Italian opera, sure enough they where among the greatest tenors of all, BTW Jim Drake who wrote the Tucker Biography and Andrew Farkas who wrote the Jussi book, a fantastic book about Bjoerling, attended, and as I have mentioned James Drake wrote two books also about his late friend soprano Rosa Ponselle.
@@shicoff1398 Thanks for your kind words and the information,particularly about the death of Anders.
There's an interesting obituary and a video of the funeral (that I haven't yet watched) on the internet. There's probably nothing new on it for you but, just in case, the link is
www.saintpeterfuneralhome.com/obituary/anders-bjorling
Il più grande tenore mai esistito. Timbro meraviglioso, il più bello di tutti, fraseggio incredibile, tecnica vocale insuperata, fiato da balena, accenti drammatici perfetti, aderenza ai personaggi, omogeneità timbrica pazzesca.
Thanks for listening and for your comment Luigi.
Bjorlings voice is so powerful and dulcet! I was listening to him singing, che gelida manina. It was the best version I ever heard, like o Helga natt, this here by Michael macgrail is a gem. Bravo 🇨🇮👍👏👏👏...
Thanks for listening Isaiah, I'm glad that you enjoyed the video.
If you haven't already seen it I bet you would enjoy the Hollywood Bowl concert that I uploaded a while ago. The audio quality isn't great but it's a wonderful concert with Jussi at his best.
The link to it is th-cam.com/video/uxnpjCV4ajw/w-d-xo.html
Very beautiful and precious pictures I never seen before waouh !!!❤
Thanks for listening/watching Marc, I'm glad that you enjoyed the pictures (and the music, of course).
Precious post... Beauty music and views. Congratulations.
Jussi Björling unforgettable. Thank you.
It's my pleasure Rosa Angela, I'm really pleased that you like the video.
@@michaelmcgrailengland Necessary encore!!❤️ I love it.🌹😊
@@Rosangela161 Great! listen as many times as you like, you won't wear it out.
Just as the standard Italian verismo repertoire is the best material to showcase the greatness of such tenors as Gigli, Pavarroti, Corelli, Del Monaco, and DeStefano, these more lyrical arias and especially the arias in his native Sweedish enable Bjoering to sing with an easy, a comfortability with the top always free, large, and ringing and the phrasing intensely expressive ... in short when Bjoerling limits himself to the proper vocal fach, the beauty of his singing is in a class all his own...
Thanks for listening and for your comment.
His voice is always in a class of its own, no matter what language he sings in! There is no better lyric tenor, not then and definetly not now❤❤❤!
@@RamonaVanDerMerwe-ws4yb Thanks for listening and for your comment Ramona and I think that you could well be right!!
The question becomes whether or not you want to hear the heavier roles like Rhdames or Manrico, etc. sung by voices with the vocal and dramatic size and weight necessary to fulfill the composer's intentions, or if you are merely content to hear lovely singing for its own sake.
@@photo161 Thanks for your comment and I completely agree with you. I'm not an opera expert, nor am I an expert on the technical aspects of singing so the last part of your comment describes me perfectly!!
What a glorious start to the day- not only some lieder(?) I haven’t heard before but last aria is one of my absolute favourites-you really deserve your holiday. TY
Thanks for listening Marian, I'm really pleased that you enjoyed it.
HImmelen öppnas - En otrolig sångare utan dess like !
Thanks for this comment as well.
Oh ,Jussi could have been a mighty Lohengrin ! He was planning to make a try I beleeve when death catched him up in 1960. Terrible. Svarta rosor och Lohengrin !
Thanks for listening again and for your comment. I'm sure that you are right and I remember reading somewhere that he and Nils Grevillius were planning to re-record some of the old mono recordings in stereo. They would all have been wonderful, his voice, to me, seemed to be as good, or perhaps better than ever in his last recordings.
Thank you so very much, Michael, for these fabulous remasterings. As a onetime professional horn player, I feel destined to have become among the many Bjorling idolators who have reveled in his supremacy in every technical and musical dimension of vocal art. It is unquestionable and sui generis.
I still look to Jussi as an ideal model and an inspiration for what we strive for, and rarely achieve, in the art of playing wind instruments. The picture album is an additional joy.
Marc S.
It's my pleasure Marc, thank you for listening/watching, I'm really pleased that you enjoyed the video. I've restored/remastered and uploaded quite a few of Jussi's wonderful recordings and there's a link to a playlist in this video description.
Thanks again for listening.
@@michaelmcgrailengland I'm fully subscribed and eagerly await your next production, Michael. Just as a "nudge," could I suggest tackling either or both of Jussi's live r
ecordings of the Sibelius favorite, "flickan kom ifrån sin älsklings möte"? One is from a live NY Phil concert (1956?) with Mitropoulos conducting; the other, a really late one is from a Sibelius tribute concert, possibly in Stockholm(?) c.1959.
Cheers,
Marc
@@hornshrink Hello Marc, thanks for subscribing, I'm glad that you like some of my videos.
I'm in the middle of a couple of other projects at the moment but will certainly have a go at the Sibelius recording that you mention, it's certainly a great performance from Jussi.
By the way, we almost have something else in common as well as a love of music in that I play the trumpet. However, unlike you, I'm a rank amateur playing mostly by ear for my own entertainment. I love Jazz and when I was a teenager I wanted to play like Louis Armstrong, but it didn't quite work out like that!!
Underbare Jussi ❤
Thanks for listening and for your comment Curthy.
Another splendid Björling performance of the Lohengrin narrative. First time that I have heard this one. A full recorded Lohengrin from Björling would certainly have been a possibility had he lived but the visual element in a live performance might not have been as welcome. Still hearing him in a complete recorded Lohengrin’s music would have probably been most rewarding. The Swedish songs included here are among the most memorable from his repertoire. I have most of the selections here on other recordings & many thanks for giving me the chance to experience these as well.
It's my pleasure Peter, thank you for listening and for your comment.
Aaaah, this is great! A wonderful selection, Michael, showing Jussi Björling‘s versatility - and, of course, his peerless singing! ⭐️⭐️⭐️
His „Swedish Lohengrin“ sounds a bit otherworldly, pure and almost celestial - but virile too... He was a man after all and Jussi conveys this ambiguity in a perfect manner...
Thank you very much for the excellent video! 🙏🍀
AND enjoy your well-deserved holiday!!! ☘️☘️☘️
Thanks for listening/watching Harriet, I'm glad that you enjoyed the video and thanks for the holiday wishes. The weather's not great at the moment but, hopefully, it will cheer up later.
@@michaelmcgrailengland
How about I try to send you some of the sunshine (too much already) and blue skies we have here, Michael? In case I fail, enjoy your stay anyway!!! 🍀☘️🍀
The video was my start into this Sunday; I chose it deliberately as such, because I knew I‘d love it!
@@hrbooksmusic7878 Yes, please send that sunshine Harriet!!
@@michaelmcgrailengland
Did it work? Part of it has vanished from here... ☀️
This is from a concert in Gothenburg with Göteborgs symfoniorkester but was broadcasted by the Swedish Radio which has its main office in Stockholm.
Thanks for listening.
I have heard that God made tenor separately after making men and women.
I agree with this statement.
This is because the tenor's tone and vocal range are not ordinary human.
As an ordinary person, I envy the tenors.
I know that you are a singer Chang, are you not a tenor?
You had good weather for your latest hike the views are glorious What is the town/city we see and I missed your frog, did you not take it with you this time?
@@michaelmcgrailengland I like to sing a song very much. As just amateur singer, I am fake tenor. Indeed my tone is tenor but range is baritone. And then I am teriton.
I have climbed same mountain twice. One is frogs the other is clear. I wanted to see clear scenery.
Forecast says typhoon come to Korea next week.
But you are a tenor yourself, Chang! Don‘t envy the person you already are...! 😉
And if it‘s true and you are a „teriton“, you are special! That sounds nice too...
@@hrbooksmusic7878 Thanks Harriet! But teriton is useless.
Du bist mein wahrer Freund. Vielen Dank.
@@MountainwalkwithMusic
Not everything must be useful, my dear friend! Sometimes things are precious just because they ARE... 😊😍🤩
❤👍💖💖💖😃
The MIGHTY Swede as my dad called Jussi.A few photos Ihadn't seen until now.The Cav. aria is the best and most excitingly sung version by anyone on the planet.Jussi beat the Italians by far including Corelli,who is often crude and of a poor diction quality.
Thanks for listening and for your comment Lynda.
Thank you very much!
It's a pleasure, thank you for listening, I'm really pleased that you enjoyed the video.
Especially A very fine Cav. here on the radio concert, which is a favorite of mine compared with JB'S many recordings of it.
Nice picture some of which Ive never seen before
Thanks for watching/listening Paul I'm glad that you like the pictures (as well as the music, of course). I'm fairly new to colourizing photos so they are not perfect but I will improve (I hope) as time passes.
@@michaelmcgrailengland and LONG LIVE JUSSI
I am on hiking. See you Michael!
I like your latest video Chang, Busan looks very grand. I like the shot with the flowers and the city in the distance. What is that area towards the end with many blue buildings.
Lovely music as well, Is it a Korean song, it's not familiar to me.
I'm heading for bed so I'll read your reply in the morning, enjoy the rest of the day.
@@michaelmcgrailengland I hurried up the mountain again before the typhoon came.
However, the typhoon turned to Japan and did not come to Korea.
Instead, the heat wave continues to exceed 30 degrees every day.
The mountain I climbed this time has a good view, so it's currently under construction for the tram monorail.
So nature was being undermined.
The place where you can see blue buildings in the distance is also included in Busan.
The song is a Korean song and is played by vocalist Jo Su-mi.
@@MountainwalkwithMusic Hello Chang, I've just been watching your last two videos. The first with it's beautiful mountain scenery and rock formations is great and La Golondrina is a favourite of mine.
The second one looks familiar. Is it one of your old hikes with new music?
We have a heat wave here at the moment with temperatures just below and above 30C and set to continue over next week.
I love the sunshine but it's not the best weather for walking.
See you.
@@michaelmcgrailengland La Golondrina is also a famous song in Korea.
You're right. The mountains in the second video are the ones from before. Music is a song that has been inserted into a drama currently airing in Korea. I just made it just for fun.
30C is a very hot day. I think you should just stay at home.
Air-conditioner is best friend in this weather. With You Tube.
Thank You Michael
I seem to have missed your message when it first came in Curthy.
It's my pleasure, thank you for listening, I'm really pleased that you enjoyed the video.
LYSANDE ,many thanks, wonderful photos ! I can see Maria Callas and Jussi sitting together in one photo, could it be in Chikago?
It's my pleasure, thanks for listening/watching, I'm glad that you enjoyed the video.
Yes, the photo at 3:41 is Anna-Lisa, Jussi, Maria Callas, Rudolf Bing and Giuseppe Di Stefano, Chicago 1955.
Michael McGrail....would loved to have heard him live long enough, to have sung Otello, in the early 60s....although a lyric, he was a powerful lyric....Milanov or Tebaldi would have partnered him admirably, as his Desdemona in that era.
Thanks for also listening to this one Rob. Yes, it's a tragedy that he died when he was so young and still in wonderful voice. I read somewhere that he and the conductor Nils Grevillius had plans to re record, in stereo, some of his old mono recordings but, unfortunately, cruel fate put paid to that.
As usual sensational singing of perfection by JB, of course, but a comparison to Corelli live in the opera house , is really not a good one, as for very different voice types, impossible, they are so different, basically JB and FC one did excel more in verismo opera, the other far more in Lyric opera's FC avoided ( I saw Both men in house) FC was not a great musician and live had some really annoying habits for some folks , including me (his studio rec. are much better for lacking the bad habits ) but in the end he was a great, passionate , powerful tenor in verismo roles, a great voice, Corelli sang and excelled in some very different roles then JB did, but both great in their own ways, best to compare JB with Pav. Gigli, Di Stefano, Wunderlich or Movie tenor Lanza, who had a great voice in films and concerts, plus radio, TV and LP song and aria recordings. JB was one of the greats in opera and in the end it's all just opinion, no right or wrong, some folks push down a tenor to push another one up, I've seen even Jussi flamed by some fans of others, not at all necessary , anyhow I see Mr. Mc Grail thanking here all who post a comment . I don't mind the added applause he puts in, some people don't like it, OK whatever. He does a very good job improving the sound in many cases.
Thanks again for listening/watching. You mention the applause and some people hate it but others love it but whatever opinion I don't think it detracts from the music.
Thank you for your insightful comment! As always, you are outspoken without being a bigmouth or forcing your opinions on others, a character trait which has become rare in our day...
All the best! 🍀🍀🍀
@@michaelmcgrailengland Right, not at all, in some way I kind of like it, even if the recording is studio, because it kind of takes you back, when you could have seen some of these singers live, and now in my 65 years of attending opera in a few cities here and in Italy, I've seen some of these singers gone for over 60 years, in both the opera house and concert stage. Not many of us left, and when I see some posted comments by fans of a certain singer, putting down another singer, at times a rival singer, I think in some cases they see another singer as a threat, and it's a way of pushing their idol up and the other one down, sometimes I answer the negative comments, that it's in their own opinion, often no right or wrong and sometimes their comments are false, made up, no actual facts.
@@hrbooksmusic7878 Thank so much. Enjoy!
@@shicoff1398 You have great experience of music and I have the greatest respect for your opinion and I certainly agree with your comment here.