Granada: Mario Lanza at His Best [Import]

Agustin Lara (Composer), Gaetano Donizetti (Composer), Luigi Denza (Composer), Paolo Tosti (Composer), Ethelbert Nevin (Composer), Antoni Perez Moya (Composer), Ruggero Leoncavallo (Composer), Sigmund Romberg (Composer), Emanuele Nutile (Composer), Ernesto de Curtis (Composer), Vincent Youmans (Composer), Eduardo di Capua (Composer), Charles Gounod (Composer), Guy d' Hardelot (Composer), Riccardo Drigo (Composer), Irving Aaronson (Composer), Victor Schertzinger (Composer), Edvard Grieg (Composer), Salvatore Cardillo (Composer), Giuseppe Verdi (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Agustin Lara, Gaetano Donizetti, Luigi Denza, Paolo Tosti, Ethelbert Nevin, et al.
• Audio CD (February 5, 1998)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Castle Pulse
• ASIN: B000008565
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #691,899 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Granada, for voice & orchestra (with chorus ad lib)

2. Una Furtiva Lagrima

3. Funiculì Funiculà, for voice & orchestra (& chorus ad lib)

4. A vucchella ("Arietta di Posilippo") for voice & piano (or orchestra)

5. The Rosary, for voice & piano

6. The Song of Songs

7. Vesti La Giubba

8. Serenade

9. Mamma mia, che vo' sapè, for voice & orchestra

10. Torna a Surriento, for voice & piano (or orchestra)

11. Mattinata ("L'aurora di bianco vestita"), song for voice & piano (or or

12. Without a Song, song

13. O sole mio, for voice & piano (or orchestra)

14. Ave Maria, for voice & piano (after Bach's Prelude No. 1 from the Well-

15. Parce que (Because), for voice & piano (or orchestra)

16. Serenade

17. The Loveliest Night of the Year (after J. Rosas "Sobre las olas")

18. Marcheta - A Love Song Of Old Mexico, song

19. Jeg elsker Dig (I Love but Thee), song for voice & piano, Op. 5/3

20. Core 'ngrato (Catari), for voice & orchestra

See all 25 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars At His Best-Granada, May 15, 2000

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[e-mail] (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Granada: Mario Lanza at His Best (Audio CD)

The fidelity on this CD did not do Mario Lanza's voice & talent justice. I was very disappointed at the "thinness" of the music quality, and also did not appreciate the applause after every number.

I also have his "Ultimate Collection" and give it 20 stars.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Anything but Lanza's best, August 25, 2006

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DJ McGovern "Derek McGovern" (Busan, South Korea) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Granada: Mario Lanza at His Best (Audio CD)

Buyer be warned: this CD is simply a motley collection of performances from some of Lanza's weekly radio shows of 1951-52. Even the canned applause is included! Many of the renditions included here (Granada, O Sole Mio, etc) were much better sung by Lanza on other occasions.

For an infinitely more enjoyable introduction to Lanza, I recommend the twofer CD Christmas Hymns and Carols: You Do Something To Me (available from Amazon).