Mario! - Lanza at His Best [Hybrid SACD]
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Composer: Luigi DenzaComposer: Rodolfo Falvo
Composer: Eduardo di Capua
Composer: Ernesto de Curtis
Composer: Giovanni Battista Califano
Composer: Salvatore Gambardella
Composer: E.A. Mario
Composer: Mariano Paolella
Composer: Giuseppe Cioffi
Composer: Ernesto Tagliaferri
Composer: Rudolf Friml
Conductor: Franco Ferrara
Conductor: Constantine Callinicos
Performer: Judith Raskin
Performer: Mario Lanza
Edition: Music CD
Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD
CD Release Date: 2006-02-07
Music Label: Be My Love
Soundtracks:
- Funiculì Funiculà, for voice & orchestra (& chorus ad lib)
- Dicitencello vuje, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
- Ah! Maria, Marí, song for voice & piano (or orchestra)
- Voce 'e notte! for voice & orchestra
- Canta pe'me, for voice & orchestra
- O Surdato Nnammurato
- Comme facette mammeta?
- Santa Lucia luntana, for voice & orchestra
- Fenesta che lucive
- Tu, ca nun chiagne!, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
- Na sera 'e maggio, for voice & orchestra
- Passione, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
- Drinking Song
- Someday
- Love Me Tonight
- Only a Rose
- Tomorrow
- Love for Sale
- Hunting
- Nocturne
- Instrumental Interlude & Nocturne (reprise)
- Huguette Waltz
- Song of the Vagabonds
- Finale
Music reviews of Mario! - Lanza at His Best [Hybrid SACD]
Music Review: The best reproduction of Lanza's finest album.
Rating: 5 Stars
This "hybrid" Super Audio CD (SACD) can be played on both conventional CD players and SACD systems. I've only heard it on the former, and was simply blown away by the beautiful reproduction of Lanza's singing on the 12 tracks that constitute the tenor's 1958 "Mario!" album of Neapolitan songs. For once, the balance between singer and orchestra is perfect, and with the exception of one track (the slightly muted Comme Facette Mammeta), I have never heard this album in better sound. Unlike the 1995 conventional CD version of this release, Lanza is no longer overly forward at the expense of Franco Ferrara's superbly conducted orchestra, and the sandy quality that marred many of the tracks on that earlier disc has all but disappeared. The sound is simultaneously richer and brighter.
(For a detailed review of Lanza's singing here, see my review of the conventional CD of the same name elsewhere on Amazon.)
As with the 1995 CD, the great Mario! album is coupled here with The Vagabond King, recorded in July, 1959 - seven months after the earlier album. Although not in the same class as the Mario! album - either vocally or soundwise - this is also the best I've ever heard this recording. The highlights (Drinking Song, Love Me Tonight, Nocturne, etc) belie Lanza's failing health, and offer overwhelming proof that just three months before his death, the old romantic magic was still intact. This CD also includes a previously unreleased reprise of the lovely Nocturne.
All in all, then, this is a magnificent release, and one that whets the appetite for further SACD Lanza couplings. Top on the list of deserving recordings would be a "twofer" of the 1958 For the First Time soundtrack coupled with the 1959 Mario Lanza Sings Caruso Favorites, both of which are Living Stereo releases sorely in need of decent sound reproduction. How about it, BMG/Sony?
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