Richard Jose (Strong Ultra-High Tenor)- Rose of My Life (1904).mp4 скачать в хорошем качестве

Richard Jose (Strong Ultra-High Tenor)- Rose of My Life (1904).mp4

Cornish-born Richard Jose (1862-1941), once allegedly described by Enrico Caruso as "the world's greatest balladeer", gained considerable fame in America around the turn of the 19th/20th Century as a popular ballad singer. Though often billed as a countertenor, he would never have sung much of the material usually associated with that voice, nor does his style bear any resemblance to most people's modern conception thereof. What Jose does have is a very strong tenor voice which seems to centre around a much higher tessiatura than most conventional tenors, with very little evidence of pure falsetto, even though he frequently rises above a C5. He entered the record industry rather late in his career and was not greatly served by his repetoire (most of which were already old hat when he recorded them), but after a career that had already spanned 20 years, his voice was in pretty good shape considering the extreme range he was singing in and he continued to sing and occasionally record right up until about 1930...Here is his 1904 recording of "Rose of My Life", a song typical of the sentimental ballads he was famous for, which I think gives a pretty good account of his voice.