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Viaggio Italiano

 
Album Review: Viaggio Italiano

  • Artist: Andrea Bocelli
  • Rating: StarStarStar
  • Release Date: 1996
  • Total Time: 61:23
  • Genre: Classical

Review

Andrea Bocelli's hugely popular album Romanza showed him at his best -- passionately singing songs that had the kind of pop-vocal arrangements that made the most of his emotive, if not entirely rich, voice. Immensely popular around the world more because of the romantic aura that surrounds him than his vocal ability, Bocelli manages to seduce the listener into thinking that he or she is listening to a great opera singer, even if his performances taken by themselves prove otherwise. That is why Viaggio Italiano is not a great album, and also why it doesn't matter. Bocelli begins the album with such iconic opera arias that most of the people who buy his records will focus on the beauty of the songs themselves, rather than his execution of them. By the time he gets to the second half of the album, where he sings the Italian folk songs that are a little more in his league, the listener has already been hooked. Throughout the album, the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra provides subdued accompaniment that draws little attention to itself, allowing Bocelli, and the legend that surrounds him, to shine. ~ Stacia Proefrock, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track TitleComposersPerformersTime
Turandot: Nessun Dorma Giacomo Puccini Andrea Bocelli (3:14)
L 'Arlesiana: Lamento di Federico Andrea Bocelli (4:40)
Macbeth: Ah, la Paterna Mano Giuseppe Verdi Andrea Bocelli (3:20)
Rigoletto: La Donna è Mobile Giuseppe Verdi Andrea Bocelli (2:18)
Elisir d'Amore: Una Furtiva Lagrima Gaetano Donizetti Andrea Bocelli (4:14)
Panis Angelicus César Franck Andrea Bocelli (3:57)
Ave Maria (Lyrics) Franz Schubert Andrea Bocelli (4:26)
O Sole Mio Eduardo DeCapua Andrea Bocelli (4:39)
Core N'Grato Andrea Bocelli (4:45)
Santa Lucia Luntana Andrea Bocelli (5:09)
I' Te Vurria Vasà Andrea Bocelli (5:41)
Tu, 'Ca Nun Chiagne! Libero Bovio Andrea Bocelli (3:36)
Marinarello Andrea Bocelli (3:59)
Piscatore 'e Pusilleco Enrico Tagliaferri Andrea Bocelli (4:17)
Messaggio Bocelli [Message from Bocelli] Andrea Bocelli (:16)
Adeste Fideles [*] Traditional Andrea Bocelli (3:24)

Credits

Antonio Baglio (Editing), Andrea Bocelli (Spoken Word), Alberto Zedda (Music Editor), Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Michele Torpedine (Personal Manager), F. Uzbekova (Mixing Engineer), Andrea Bocelli (Vocals), Peter Iversen (Engineer), Renato Serio (Art Coordinator), Victor Sergeivitch Popov (Choir Master), Andrea Fabris (Graphic Design), Marcus Herzog (Mixing), Renato Serio (Direction), Vadim Ivanov (Engineer), Tim Wood (Audio Technician), Marcus Herzog (Engineer), Renato Serio (Arranger)
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Viaggio Italiano
Studio album by Andrea Bocelli
Released 1995
Recorded 1994
Genre Classical
Length 68min
Label Polygram International
Professional reviews
Andrea Bocelli chronology
Bocelli
(1995)
''Viaggio Italiano
(1995)
Romanza
(1997)

Viaggio Italiano is Andrea Bocelli's third album and first classical album featuring some of the most popular opera arias and Neapolitan songs of all time, such as Nessun Dorma, O Sole Mio and la Donna è Mobile. Although released only in Italy in 1995, it sold close to 300,000 copies.[1] Bocelli later received the ECHO Klassik "Best seller of the year" award for the album, after its international release, in 1997.[2] The album eventually sold over 2 million copies worldwide.

Track listing

  1. "Nessun dorma"
  2. "Lamento di Federico"
  3. "Ah, la paterna mano"
  4. "la Donna è Mobile"
  5. "Una furtiva lagrima"
  6. "Panis angelicus"
  7. "Ave Maria"
  8. "O Sole Mio"
  9. "Core 'ngrato"
  10. "Santa Lucia Luntana"
  11. "I te vurria vasa"
  12. "Tu, ca nun Chiagne"
  13. "Marenarello"
  14. "Piscatore 'e pusilleco"
  15. "Messaggio Bocelli"
  16. "Adeste fideles"

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