Скачать или смотреть A vucchella (Tosti) : Eight great recordings 1919 to 2001 : New restorations : Colourized photos

From Wikipedia : 'A vucchella is a Neapolitan song composed by Paolo Tosti. The poet who wrote the words of this song was the 19th century lyric poet, Gabriele D'Annunzio. He was not from Naples, but from Pescara, a city in the region of Abruzzo. With the Neapolitan melodic song tradition being so popular worldwide, D'Annunzio wanted to prove himself able to write in the Neapolitan dialect, and managed to do so quite convincingly for this song.
The recordings on the video are as follows;
0:00 Mario Lanza : Rec 1951
2:59 Dmitri Hvorostovsky : Rec 2001
5:37 Luciano Pavarotti : Rec 1979
8:40 Franco Corelli : Rec 1963
11:33 Luigi Alva : Rec 1962
13:36 Tito Schipa : Rec 1927
16:13 Rosa Ponselle : Rec 1926
19:15 Enrico Caruso : Rec 1919
The recordings are in reverse chronological order apart from that of Mario Lanza which starts the selection because the announcer gives a brief description of the song.
The audio quality of the first and last three recordings is poor in comparison to the others as they were made in stereo. The Caruso recording was made 6 years before electrical equipment such as microphones was used in recording studios but is, nevertheless, wonderful to listen to.