Unlimited Streaming
Listen to this album in high quality now on our apps
Start my trial period and start listening to this albumEnjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription
SubscribeEnjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription
Digital Download
Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.
Vittorio Grigolo follows his 2010 debut solo recital album for Sony of arias by Verdi, Puccini, and Donizetti with a broader mix of arias and a healthy selection of Romantic and post-Romantic Italian songs. It's an old-fashioned kind of program (with the addition of a few more recent songs in a similar style) that would have been characteristic of the repertoire of early- to mid-century Italian tenors like Beniamino Gigli and Tito Schipa. It perfectly reflects Grigolo's identification with the aesthetics of an earlier Golden Age of Italianate singing; his singing, like those of his heroes, is intensely emotional, earnest, suavely seductive, and passionate, and it comes with some of their mannerisms, like bending pitches and lingering on important notes slightly more than is standard for the early 21st century. His voice is light and doesn't have anything like the weight of Pavarotti's, but it's easy to see why he's being hailed as a bright new hope for Italian opera by fans of Pavarotti's popular style of vocalism. The lightness of his voice is especially well suited to the songs, such as classics by Leoncavallo and Ernesto de Curtis, and he is fully persuasive in putting them across. The results in the operatic arias are usually very fine, but somewhat less consistent. The forcing that marred some of the tracks on his first Sony recital is under better control, but when he does push the volume and intensity, as at the end of "M'appari" from Flotow's Martha, he tends to veer out of tune. This is an album likely to delight fans of old-fashioned bel canto singing. Pier Giorgio Morandi leads Coro and Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma in shapely, idiomatic performances. Sony's sound is beautifully balanced and natural.
© TiVo
You are currently listening to samples.
Listen to over 100 million songs with an unlimited streaming plan.
Listen to this playlist and more than 100 million songs with our unlimited streaming plans.
From $10.83/month
Caruso (Lucio Dalla)
Christopher Alder, Producer - Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Daniel Kemper, 2nd Engineer - Lucio Dalla, Composer - Lucio Dalla, Lyricist - Martino Faggiani, Chorus Master - Neil Hutchinson, Recording Engineer - Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer - Vittorio Grigolo, Tenor
(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
Torna a Surriento (Ernesto de Curtis)
Christopher Alder, Producer - Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Daniel Kemper, 2nd Engineer - Ernesto de Curtis, Composer - Gianbattista De Curtis, Lyricist - Martino Faggiani, Chorus Master - Neil Hutchinson, Recording Engineer - Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer - Vittorio Grigolo, Tenor
(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
Arrivederci Roma (Renato Rascel)
Christopher Alder, Producer - Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Daniel Kemper, 2nd Engineer - Martino Faggiani, Chorus Master - Neil Hutchinson, Recording Engineer - Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor - Pietro Garinei, Lyricist - Renato Rascel, Composer - Sandro Giovannini, Lyricist - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer - Vittorio Grigolo, Tenor
(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
Chitarra Romana (Eldo di Lazzaro)
Cherubini Bruno, Lyricist - Christopher Alder, Producer - Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Daniel Kemper, 2nd Engineer - Daniele Bornaviri, Guitar - Eldo Di Lazzaro, Composer - Martino Faggiani, Chorus Master - Neil Hutchinson, Recording Engineer - Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer - Vittorio Grigolo, Tenor
(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
Amor ti vieta (from Fedora) (Umberto Giordano)
Arturo Colautti, Lyricist - Christopher Alder, Producer - Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Daniel Kemper, 2nd Engineer - Martino Faggiani, Chorus Master - Neil Hutchinson, Recording Engineer - Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer - Umberto Giordano, Composer - Vittorio Grigolo, Tenor
(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
'O surdato 'nnamurato (Enrico Cannio)
Aniello Califano, Lyricist - Christopher Alder, Producer - Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Daniel Kemper, 2nd Engineer - Daniele Bornaviri, Mandolin - Enrico Cannio, Composer - Martino Faggiani, Chorus Master - Neil Hutchinson, Recording Engineer - Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer - Vittorio Grigolo, Tenor
(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
L'Arlesiana (Francesco Cilèa)
Christopher Alder, Producer - Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Daniel Kemper, 2nd Engineer - Francesco Cilea, Composer - Leopoldo Marenco, Lyricist - Martino Faggiani, Chorus Master - Neil Hutchinson, Recording Engineer - Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer - Vittorio Grigolo, Tenor
(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
Serenata musicale (Gioachino Rossini)
Carlo Pepoli, Lyricist - Christopher Alder, Producer - Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Daniel Kemper, 2nd Engineer - Gioacchino Rossini, Composer - Martino Faggiani, Chorus Master - Neil Hutchinson, Recording Engineer - Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer - Vittorio Grigolo, Tenor
(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
Ti voglio tanto bene (Ernesto de Curtis)
Christopher Alder, Producer - Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Daniel Kemper, 2nd Engineer - Domenico Furnò, Lyricist - Ernesto de Curtis, Composer - Martino Faggiani, Chorus Master - Neil Hutchinson, Recording Engineer - Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer - Vittorio Grigolo, Tenor
(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
Tosca (Giuseppe Verdi)
Christopher Alder, Producer - Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Daniel Kemper, 2nd Engineer - Giuseppe Giacosa, Lyricist - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Luigi Illica, Lyricist - Martino Faggiani, Chorus Master - Neil Hutchinson, Recording Engineer - Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer - Vittorio Grigolo, Tenor
(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
Mattinata (Ruggero Leoncavallo)
Christopher Alder, Producer - Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Daniel Kemper, 2nd Engineer - Martino Faggiani, Chorus Master - Neil Hutchinson, Recording Engineer - Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor - Ruggero Leoncavallo, Composer - Ruggero Leoncavallo, Lyricist - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer - Vittorio Grigolo, Tenor
(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
Rigoletto (Giuseppe Verdi)
Christopher Alder, Producer - Daniel Kemper, 2nd Engineer - Francesco Maria Piave, Lyricist - Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Neil Hutchinson, Recording Engineer - Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer - Vittorio Grigolo, Tenor
(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
'O paese d'o sole (Vincenzo D'Annibale)
Christopher Alder, Producer - Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Dan Thomas, Mandolin - Daniel Kemper, 2nd Engineer - Libero Bovio, Lyricist - Martino Faggiani, Chorus Master - Neil Hutchinson, Recording Engineer - Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer - Vincenzo D'Annibale, Composer - Vittorio Grigolo, Tenor
(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
Martha (Friedrich von Flotow)
Christopher Alder, Producer - Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Daniel Kemper, 2nd Engineer - Friedrich Wilhelm Riese (1805-1879), Lyricist - Friedrich von Flotow, Composer - Martino Faggiani, Chorus Master - Neil Hutchinson, Recording Engineer - Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer - Vittorio Grigolo, Tenor
(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
Voglio Vivere Cosi (Giovanni D'Anzi)
Christopher Alder, Producer - Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Daniel Kemper, 2nd Engineer - Giovanni D'Anzi, Composer - Martino Faggiani, Chorus Master - Neil Hutchinson, Recording Engineer - Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer - Tito Manlio, Lyricist - Vittorio Grigolo, Tenor
(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
Core n'grato (Salvatore Cardillo)
Christopher Alder, Producer - Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Daniel Kemper, 2nd Engineer - Martino Faggiani, Chorus Master - Neil Hutchinson, Recording Engineer - Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor - Riccardo Cordiferro, Lyricist - Salvatore Cardillo, Composer - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer - Vittorio Grigolo, Tenor
(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
Non ti scordar di me (Ernesto de Curtis)
Christopher Alder, Producer - Coro del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Daniel Kemper, 2nd Engineer - Domenico Furnò, Lyricist - Ernesto de Curtis, Composer - Martino Faggiani, Chorus Master - Neil Hutchinson, Recording Engineer - Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Performer - Pier Giorgio Morandi, Conductor - Stephan Flock, Recording Engineer - Vittorio Grigolo, Tenor
(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
Album review
Vittorio Grigolo follows his 2010 debut solo recital album for Sony of arias by Verdi, Puccini, and Donizetti with a broader mix of arias and a healthy selection of Romantic and post-Romantic Italian songs. It's an old-fashioned kind of program (with the addition of a few more recent songs in a similar style) that would have been characteristic of the repertoire of early- to mid-century Italian tenors like Beniamino Gigli and Tito Schipa. It perfectly reflects Grigolo's identification with the aesthetics of an earlier Golden Age of Italianate singing; his singing, like those of his heroes, is intensely emotional, earnest, suavely seductive, and passionate, and it comes with some of their mannerisms, like bending pitches and lingering on important notes slightly more than is standard for the early 21st century. His voice is light and doesn't have anything like the weight of Pavarotti's, but it's easy to see why he's being hailed as a bright new hope for Italian opera by fans of Pavarotti's popular style of vocalism. The lightness of his voice is especially well suited to the songs, such as classics by Leoncavallo and Ernesto de Curtis, and he is fully persuasive in putting them across. The results in the operatic arias are usually very fine, but somewhat less consistent. The forcing that marred some of the tracks on his first Sony recital is under better control, but when he does push the volume and intensity, as at the end of "M'appari" from Flotow's Martha, he tends to veer out of tune. This is an album likely to delight fans of old-fashioned bel canto singing. Pier Giorgio Morandi leads Coro and Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma in shapely, idiomatic performances. Sony's sound is beautifully balanced and natural.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 00:52:41
- Main artists: Vittorio Grigolo
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Sony Classical
- Genre: Classical
(P) 2011 Sony Music Entertainment
Improve album information
Why buy on Qobuz?
-
Stream or download your music
Buy an album or an individual track. Or listen to our entire catalog with our high-quality unlimited streaming subscriptions.
-
Zero DRM
The downloaded files belong to you, without any usage limit. You can download them as many times as you like.
-
Choose the format best suited for you
Download your purchases in a wide variety of formats (FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF...) depending on your needs.
-
Listen to your purchases on our apps
Download the Qobuz apps for smartphones, tablets, and computers, and listen to your purchases wherever you go.