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Irving Aaronson, Nicholas Brodszky, Eduardo di Capua
Mario Lanza: The Ultimate Collection
Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, Jazz, Pop, Classical, Broadway & Vocalists

Track Listings (24) - Disc #1
1. Be My Love
2. Drink, Drink, Drink
3. La Donna E Mobile
4. Danny Boy
5. Granada
6. Because You're Mine
7. Ave Maria
8. Valencia
9. Loveliest Night Of The Ye
10. Song Of India
11. Because
12. O Sole Mio
13. Donkey Serenade
14. Vesti La Giubba
15. Serenade
16. Funiculi, Funicula
17. Golden Days
18. Arrivederci Roma
19. You'll Never Walk Alone
20. Beloved
21. Come Prima
22. E Lucevan Le Stelle
23. Santa Lucia
24. I'll Walk With God

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All Artists: Irving Aaronson, Nicholas Brodszky, Eduardo di Capua, Luigi Denza, Rudolf Friml, Garinei, Charles Gounod, Guy d' Hardelot, Isadore de Lara, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Jose Padilla, Panzeri, Giacomo Puccini, Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-Korsakov, Richard Rodgers, Sigmund Romberg, Italian Traditional, Giuseppe Verdi, Frederick Edward Weatherly, Carlo Savina, Constantine Callinicos, Franco Ferraro, George Stoll, Henri Rene, Ray Sinatra, Mario Lanza, Eudice Shapiro, Luisa di Mio
Title: Mario Lanza: The Ultimate Collection
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 1
Label: Bmg Int'l
Original Release Date: 1/1/1995
Re-Release Date: 10/12/1995
Album Type: Import
Genres: Dance & Electronic, International Music, Jazz, Pop, Classical, Broadway & Vocalists
Styles: World Dance, Easy Listening, Oldies, Vocal Pop, Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century, Traditional Vocal Pop
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 743211857420, 0828766287622, 0828766288025

Member CD Reviews

RICHARD G. from MARIETTA, GA
Reviewed on 10/29/2009...

Great CD. Most of the songs are popular ones, rather than opera-type!

CD Reviews

Wonderful collection of Lanza music

D. MCGOVERN | 09/30/1998

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Memorable recordings from a young singer destined to become another Caruso before his untimely death. Had he survived, the current Three Tenors would have had to be Mario Lanza and The Other Three Tenors."

Good, but hardly "ultimate"!

D. MCGOVERN | New Zealand | 08/20/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"As a Lanza admirer of many years, I find this CD disappointing. True, there are magnificent recordings scattered throughout (Serenade, Beloved, E Lucevan Le Stelle, Drink! Drink! Drink!, etc) but there are too many weaker moments for the collection to deserve the accolade "Ultimate". The poorly reproduced Valencia, for example, suffers from pitch problems, and the ubiquitous Funiculi Funicula (oddly in mono here, for a change, with the singer pushed right back) does not represent Lanza at anywhere near his magnificent best. Ironically, this selection is the only below-par performance from his otherwise superb Neapolitan collection, Mario! Lanza At His Best.

The sound quality is inconsistent. Because You're Mine, for example, is reproduced here to dazzling effect with all the colors of Lanza's voice at their most gorgeous. Granada and O Sole Mio, on the other hand, suffer from even more distortion than usual, and the aforementioned Valencia has been inflicted with an echo chamber.

My other gripe is that inferior versions of several of the selections have been chosen. You'll Never Walk Alone is not Lanza at his best, and for a better performance seek out the alternate take on the CD of the same name. Vesti La Giubba and La Donna E Mobile, though good, are not in the same class as his later recordings of these arias.

Still, as introductions go, this release basically serves its purpose. And if there is one day an "Utimate Collection, Volume 2", may I suggest that BMG considers such gems as Lanza's 1949 Che Gelida Manina from "La Boheme", M'appari from "Martha", the Improvviso from Andrea Chenier and his unsurpassed Otello Monologue. Let's also not forget his thrilling Some Day (the 1951 Coke performance and *not* the illness-affected 1959 rendition, please note!), the gorgeous A Vucchella and Lanza's own favorite recording, the haunting Voce E Notte. Such a collection would offer a truer sampling of Lanza's versatility and vocal prowess."