Alessandro Moreschi - Alessandro Moreschi: The Last Castrato (Complete Vatican Recordings)

Alessandro Moreschi: The Last Castrato (Complete Vatican Recordings)

Alessandro Moreschi

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Alessandro Moreschi - Alessandro Moreschi: The Last Castrato (Complete Vatican Recordings)

Yes, these are the only remaining recordings of Alessandro Moreschi, known now as the last castrato. You can work out why he has the high voice, the whole practice of developing these singers and castrating them before puberty was outlawed by the last 19th Century. So actually hearing this type of singer is most unusual theses days, and I have to say the sound is totally unique and tragic.

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  1. Ave Maria
  2. Et Incarnatus Est / Cucifixus
  3. Ideale
  4. Ave Verum
  5. Tui Sunt Coeli
  6. Ave verum
  7. Crucifixus (Rome, 5th April 1902)
  8. Crucifixus (Rome, 11th April 1904)
  9. Leibach - Pie Jesu (Versetto from Dies Irae)
  10. Hostias Et Preces
  11. Preghiera ("Supplication")
  12. Domine Salvum Fac Potificem Nostrum Leonem
  13. Incipit Lamentatio (Gregorian Chant)
  14. Laudamas Te (from the Mass of Saint Bonaventura)
  15. Improperia
  16. Cruda Mia Nemica
  17. Ormus Pro Pontifice
  18. Ave Maria, the Voice of Pope Leo XIII