Mario Lanza: Don't Forget Me

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

Product Details

• Conductor: Constantine Callinicos
• Composer: Cesare Andrea Bixio, Salvatore Cardillo, Giuseppe Cioffi, Noel Coward, Ernesto de Curtis, et al.
• Audio CD (June 8, 1993)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• 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 (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #177,798 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com
You're gonna need a cardiologist after this tasty schmaltz attack on your senses by previously unreleased excerpts from the 1951-1966 Coca-Cola radio show. Mario Lanza's vibrant, satisfying tenor rings thrillingly, but lacks a necessary middle for many of these songs. Still, when the top opens, his sound is obsessively appealing as he scoops unabashedly to get your emotional adrenaline flowing. However, the descending line was not his friend. He's most successful with popular Italian songs and operetta excerpts. --Barbara Eisner Bayer

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	Lindsay Perigo (Wellington New Zealand) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

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

By A Customer

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.