Italia, Ti Amo

Plácido Domingo (Artist), Plácido Domingo Jr., Alfredo Mazzucchi, Ernesto Tagliaferri, Francesco Paolo Tosti, Eduardo Capua Cesare Andrea Bixio (Composer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Composer: Plácido Domingo Jr., Alfredo Mazzucchi, Ernesto Tagliaferri, Francesco Paolo Tosti, Eduardo Capua Cesare Andrea Bixio
• Audio CD (January 11, 2012)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: DG
• ASIN: B000E9X2VQ
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #125,427 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Italia Ti Amo by Plácido Domingo

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Italia,Ti Amo--Placido Domingo, August 13, 2006

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B. Hamilton - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Italia, Ti Amo (Audio CD)

As an avid Domingo fan I loved the CD. I prefer his opera performances but loved this music, it is a wonderful selection of Italian favorites. Relaxing, pleasant music from a master of song. After all he is the tenor of the century. B.Hamilton, below Savannah, Ga.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars He waited too long, June 21, 2006

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Louis Greto (Tampa, Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Italia, Ti Amo (Audio CD)

Unfortunately he waited too long to record these songs. If only he had sung these when he was in his youthful prime. Only compare his recording of "Non t'amo piu" to that of Pavarotti and you will realize the difference between good and great. He seems to be pushing throughout, and this effortfulness limits his ability to interpret these songs. I almost wish he had transposed these songs down a Major Second or minor Third, so that he could sing them with more ease. But being Domingo it is not a bad cd; it is only not as good as it could have been.

I can only hope that Juan Diego Flores does not make the same mistake.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great singing, but, May 11, 2006

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Nathaniel R. Brown (Edmonds, Washington) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Italia, Ti Amo (Audio CD)

I am a huge admirer of Domingo's. With this month's release of Parsifal, Edgar, and these songs, he moves into an area little short of miraculous: at 65, the voice is still magnificent, and what he can do with it...!

These are all good, simple songs, sung very well. Note the 40th wedding anniversary present to his father and mother by Placido Junior! Really, it's Caruso territory, and Domingo need fear no comparison vocally or musically. But one advantage Caruso (and Gigli) did have: arrangements that remembered that these are simple songs. The arrangers here have yet again over-blown the orchestration in the best (or worst) Hollywood style, and the effect is simply that of too much sugar (and too many cymbals).

Domingo, who emerges with honor regardless of such schlock, deserves better. He is a treasure.

If you can filter out the thousand-and-one strings effect - get this.