Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/È scherzo od è follia

È scherzo od è follia[edit]

Enrico Caruso, Frieda Hempel, Maria Duchêne, Andrés de Segurola, and Léon Rothier perform "È scherzo od è follia" from Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera (1859), in this 1915 Victor Recording.

This is a high quality recording of this work, which was recorded by some very famous operatic vocalists of the period (such as Caruso) and was written by Verdi, a well-known composer. This sound file appears in:

Therefore, due to its encyclopedic value and its high recording quality, I believe this would make a perfect featured sound.

Nominate and support. Dendodge Talk^Contribs 21:46, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose (conditional on replacing the file) There's a strange buzzing and vibrating sound on this (which I'm not hearing elsewhere, so I don't think this is just my equipment and not an artifact of the original either). (I've just listened to it on www.mtraks.com and their version is fine.) The recording itself is important, and worth putting on the singers biographies (if we can get a clean clip). However please resist the temptation to spam your new discovery on multiple pages. It doesn't belong on Giuseppe Verdi and Un ballo in maschera where it is unrepresentative, if not actually offputting, for readers new to opera. --Klein zach 03:16, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
- Kleinzach, kindly do not bite the relative newbies to the process, thank you. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 09:25, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
  - Shoemaker's Holiday: The issue here is the background noise, please don't resort to silly diversions. (Relative newbies, indeed!) --Klein zach 11:08, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
    - And was the comments about spam, claims that it's offputting, and the like necessary? Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 12:59, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Shoemaker's Holiday: I am indeed still hopeful that you will come to understand that the value of these files depends on where they are put. --Klein zach 06:27, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

- - - - I'm sorry - I can't quite hear the buzz (but I am on a laptop, so that might affect it). Is it persistent or does it occur only at certain points? If it's only the loud bits, it might have been a problem with the .ogg compression and reducing the gain might fix it, at the expense of reducing the volume. Dendodge Talk^Contribs 15:57, 16 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        It's persistent and amplified by the louder passages - but I'm now hearing it on other WP files as well (like the two immediately following this) - which presumably means the problem is not this particular file. Has there been any change to the way WP handles these files recently? Does anyone know? I'm not getting the buzz on non-WP sound files, so it seems to be something specific to WP. --Klein zach 05:35, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
        Here is a short example on www.mtraks.com (it starts at 00:30 here) for comparison. Their version is slightly better, but both recordings are almost identical in my opinion. The sound quality isn't decisive element in this case. --Vejvančický (talk) 08:24, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support - I don't hear the noise, and it appears to be a phantom artefact. Shoemaker's Holiday (talk) 14:41, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support I don't hear that noise either. Perhaps try a re-review on a different computer, Kleinzach? High ev and sounds excellent for a 1915 recording. Perhaps someone will persuade an opera company to copyleft it's performances, but until that happens this is likely the best we can get. Durova^Charge! 23:16, 26 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted Caruso et al - È scherzo od è follia.ogg --X clamation point 04:58, 29 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]