Andrea Bocelli - Incanto
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Free Music Review: Absolutely Wonderful
Hit: 5 Stars
Powerful, warm, rich and heart-melting. Magnificent manipulation of the vocal cords which results in a masterful delivery.Free Music Review: ANOTHER GREAT CD BY THE BEST!
Hit: 5 Stars
ANDREA'S VOICE AND THE SONGS WILL TOUCH EVERYONES HEARTS AND EMOTIONS. IT WILL NOT MATTER IS YOU ARE ITALIAN OR AN ANDREA BOCELLI NUT LIKE SO MANY OF US ARE, YOU WILL FIND YOURSELVES SINGING ALONG WITH MOST OF THE SONGS. THIS CD BRINGS BACK MANY HAPPY MEMORIES AND IS TRULY A JOY TO LISTEN TO, OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
ENJOY EVERYONE!
Free Music Review: Amazingly Excellent!
Hit: 5 Stars
Get this album. I don't care if you don't like Opera.
I disliked Opera until I heard this album. Just stumbled upon it looking for classical music, and fell in love. As to another review, I do not think the lyrics are important, as I don't know the language, and the vocals are absolutely beautiful still. Could be singing about walking through the park for all I know.
Get this album. You will be stunned!
Free Music Review: Another memorable performance
Hit: 5 Stars
Incanto shows Bocelli at his maximum splendor in terms of voice and power. He delivers these songs with his heart; it is clear that this music has a special meaning for him. The music selection is mostly about classic Italian songs that have been performed by many of Andrea's favorites in the past. Unless you never heard Italian music before, you will recognize at the very least "Funiculi Funicula", "Voglio Vivere Cosi", and "O Surdato "Nnamurato". These are all very nice songs, and are however, the weakest point of this album, because of their predictability. Andrea makes use of his "opera" voice during most of the songs. While this adds to the overall greatness of the CD, it resents the wonderful emotional "rollercoasters" that he can create with his voice in other popular songs (like "Mi Manchi", "Domani", "L'Abitudine", and so many others). Overall, this is a great CD, extremely enjoyable, although it will probably not become everybody's favorite.Free Music Review: Andrea has something for everybody, but there are only LOVE songs.
Hit: 4 Stars
Andrea has just turned 50 last september.
To celebrate the date, Andrea has released a new CD with only "love" songs.
The album is a mix of Italian/Spanish and Neapolitan popular love songs.
His latest record is called "Incanto", which means "enchantment" in Italian but has a suggestion, too, of "cantare", meaning to sing, and "bel canto" ("beautiful singing"), the lyrical singing tradition in which, on this album, Bocelli locates himself.
The choice of songs gives us a chance to see what Andrea can do - and he does it well. Although I am not crazy about this material , the versatility of Andrea Bocelli's voice is obvious. There are a duet on the CD on the track "Era Di Maggio (in Italian for "It Was May") with Anna Bonitatibus, and also Andrea's partner, Veronica Berti, makes a cameo appearance on the opening track, "Un Amore Cosi Grande" (in Italian for "Such a Great Love"). Veronica Berti, even makes a cameo appearance on the opening track, "Un Amore Cosi Grande".
"This is a record that originates from my earliest childhood", he says. "That was the time I really found a passion for opera, but above all I was passionate about the great voices. It was through my passion for voices that I discovered my passion for opera, not the other way around".
By "great voices", he explains, he means the world-famous tenors produced by Italy in the early- to mid-20th century: Caruso, Beniamino Gigli, Franco Corelli and the like. "All these great tenors of the last century had an extraordinary passion for songs," he continues, "and in particular for songs derived from opera, known as 'la piccola lirica' or 'little opera'."
"These are the hoary old favourites with which Bocelli has filled Incanto: "Funicul? Funicul?", "Un Amore Cos? Grande", "Mamma", the old Neapolitan favourites "'O Surdato 'Nnamurato"and "Torna a Surriento ( a huhe hit by Elvis Presley with the title "Surrender"). And recorded with the sort of old-fashioned brassy arrangements.
The result is an album that will no doubt be dismissed by snobs as Bocelli once again "warbling his way through the Shmaltzmeister's Songbook" - as a recent critic described him, less "bel canto" than "can belt out".
Yet it is an album in which, after all the dalliances and collaborations of his past albums, Bocelli declares his true love.
It is an uncompromising work, and as such it will be interesting to see whether it repeats the success of what he has done to date.
Because operatic bellowing giving way suddenly to husky intimacy has always been part of the Bocelli-Cola formula. And now he wants none of that. "When you sing using a microphone, the mic is like an ear". "It's like singing in a baby's ear. It's a completely different way of expressing oneself. In this way there is no 'arte del canto', no 'art of song'. And it's a pity to lose it."- Peter Pophan
His voice, phrasing, and control are all superb. The orchestrations are good and the Milano Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi does a fine job.
"Incanto" is a good place to start if you are thinking about adding Andrea Bocelli's music to your collection.
This album has something for everybody.
Its range is wide indeed, from Neapolitan love song to pop ballad.
This is very much a well-trodden path, nothing startlingly new, and plenty more of the tried-and-tested formula. Bocelli's beautiful voice is complemented by swooning strings, lush orchestration and gloriously cheery tempi, conjuring the Mediterranean Sea, lemon trees and a large dollop of "la dolce vita" and italian design (check the Vespa in the back ground of the front-cover and..I bet you he wears an Armani suit) straight into your living room.
The album may be a little obvious, and certainly it is not his best, but it shows that he has a grand set of lungs, vocal agility, a sense of direction, a sense of purpose and confidence and, most of all, a great sense of 'Italian Style'.
Highlights: "Mamma", "Because", "Un Amore Cosi' Grande" and "Funicul? Funicul?".
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