Mario Lanza: Don't Forget Me

Luigi Denza (Composer), Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Evans (Composer), Salvatore Cardillo (Composer), Sigmund Romberg (Composer), Gioachino Rossini (Composer), Donald Kahn (Composer), Pietro Mascagni (Composer), Noel Coward (Composer), Italian Traditional (Composer), Lew [Composer] Pollack (Composer), E.A. Mario (Composer), Rudolf Friml (Composer), Giacomo Meyerbeer (Composer), Cesare Andrea Bixio (Composer), Ernesto de Curtis (Composer), Giuseppe Cioffi (Composer), Jerome Kern (Composer), Richard Rodgers (Composer), Ray Sinatra (Conductor) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Conductor: Ray Sinatra
• Composer: Luigi Denza, Giuseppe Verdi, Evans, Salvatore Cardillo, Sigmund Romberg, et al.
• Audio CD (June 8, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: RCA
• ASIN: B000003FCY
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #255,277 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Funiculi, Funicula

2. From: Rigoletto: Parmi veder le lagrime

3. If

4. Core 'ngrato ('Ungrateful Heart')

5. From: The Student Prince: Serenade

6. La danza

7. Your Eyes Have Told Me So

8. From: Cavalleria Rusticana: Addio alla madre ('Goodbye Mother')

9. Someday I'll Find You

10. Santa Lucia

11. Diane

12. Santa Lucia luntana ('Santa Lucia Far Away')

13. From: The Firefly: Donkey Serenade

14. From: L'africana: O paradiso! ('Oh Paradise')

15. Tell Me That You Love Me Tonight

16. From: La forza del destino: O tu che in seno agli angeli ('O You Who Are In The Care Of The Angels')

17. From: The Student Prince: Deep In My Heart, Dear

18. Canta pe' me ('Sing For Me')

19. From: Rigoletto: La donna è mobile

20. 'Na sera è maggio ('One Evening In May')

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Great Mario, August 15, 1999

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Lindsay Perigo (Wellington New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mario Lanza: Don't Forget Me (Audio CD)

Barbara Eisner Bayer's review is pretentious nonsense. "No middle" for these songs & arias? Mario had a seamless transition from bottom to middle to top register, shown off to great advantage in these selections. Ms Bayer should have her hearing checked for mid-range frequencies. Lanza's performance of Addio Alla Madre on this CD is second to none.One could almost say the same for his 'Forza' recording. And was there ever singing more lush than Mario's Your Eyes Have Told Me So or Some Day I'll Find You? A problem with "descending" Ms Bayer? Listen to the conclusion to the latter, where Mario both descends & ascends with a facility & passion that reveal the moderns - the Three Tenors included - for the dead boring poseurs that they are. Thank goodness Mario Lanza is enjoying the renaissance that he is, so that we may be reminded of what glorious singing is really about, & once was.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars More Lanza Bonanza, August 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Mario Lanza: Don't Forget Me (Audio CD)

The lady is right you will need a cordiologist, but not for the reasons she says. This is Mario Lanza in top flight, every track is a gem. Included on this Cd is a selection from the full Lanza repertoire, opera, operetta, musical comedy and popular songs of the day all sung to perfection as only Mario could sing them. For anyone who is a Lanza fan or for anyone who has only just heard of the Mario Lanza name, this is the Cd for you, but beware once you listen to this you will want them all.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't Forget Me? How could we Mario?, June 3, 2000

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Ron Stevens (Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mario Lanza: Don't Forget Me (Audio CD)

Lyndsay Perigo is spot on. This is the finest compact disc of Lanza's to date. The finest sound quality yet and boy what singing. Try if you dare, not to find "You Are Love" spine tingling and what about the sheer sensational neapolitan beauties. Let's not forget the wonderful arias on the albumn. Lanza had no vocal equal and probably never will. Listen to the disc, just once maybe and you will feel the same as many other fans of the greatest tenor voice EVER.