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Ruggero Leoncavallo, Ray Sinatra, Mario Lanza
Original Album Classics (Box)
Genres: Pop, Classical

Track Listings (15) - Disc #1
1. Orchestral Intro (from "The Student Prince")
2. Serenade (from "The Student Prince")
3. Golden Days (from "The Student Prince")
4. Drink, Drink, Drink (from "The Student Prince")
5. Summertime in Heidelberg (from "The Student Prince")
6. Beloved (from "The Student Prince")
7. Gaudeamus Igitur (from "The Student Prince")
8. Deep In My Heart, Dear (from "The Student Prince")
9. I'll Walk With God (from "The Student Prince")
10. Yours Is My Heart Alone (from "The Land of Smiles")
11. Romance (from "Cameo Kirby")
12. I'll See You Again (from "Bitter Sweet")
13. If I Loved You (from "Carousel")
14. I'll Be Seeing You (from "The Royal Palm Revue")
15. One Night of Love (from "One Night of Love")
Track Listings (14) - Disc #2
1. The Touch Of Your Hand (from "Roberta")
2. The Song Is You (from "Music in the Air")
3. Oh, Nights Of Splendor (Neapolitan Nights)
4. Someday I'll Find You
5. Your Eyes Have Told Me So
6. Strange Music (from Grieg's "Wedding Day in Troldhaugen")
7. The Desert Song (from "The Desert Song")
8. You Are Love (from "Show Boat")
9. Day In, Day Out
10. Love Is The Sweetest Thing
11. I'm Falling In Love With Someone (from "Naughty Marietta")
12. Look For The Silver Lining (from "Sally")
13. I've Got You Under My Skin (from the MGM film "Born To Dance")
14. The Hills Of Home
Track Listings (13) - Disc #3
1. Seven Hills Of Rome
2. There's Gonna Be A Party Tonight (Italian Calypso)
3. Lolita
4. Questa o quella (from "Rigoletto")
5. Arrivederci Roma
6. Imitation Sequece: Temptation; Jezebel; Memories Are Made Of This; When The Saints Go Marching
7. Come Dance With Me
8. Never Till Now (from "Raintree County")
9. Do You Wonder
10. Earthbound
11. Serenade (from "Serenade")
12. My Destiny (from "Serenade")
13. Love In A Home (from "Li'l Abner")
Track Listings (14) - Disc #4
1. I'll Walk With God (from "The Student Prince")
2. The Virgin's Slumber Song
3. The Lord's Prayer
4. O Holy Night
5. Guardian
6. Ave Maria
7. Somebody Bigger Than You And I
8. Because
9. The Trembling Of A Leaf
10. None But The Lonely Heart
11. Through The Years
12. I Love Thee
13. Trees
14. Addio alla madre (from "Cavalleria Rusticana")
Track Listings (12) - Disc #5
1. La donna è mobile (from "Rigoletto")
2. Celeste Aida (from "Aida")
3. Recondita armonia (from "Tosca")
4. Testa adorata (from "La Bohème")
5. Come un bel dì di maggio (from "Andrea Chénier")
6. Una furtiva lagrima (from "L'Elisir d'Amore")
7. Questa o quella (from "Rigoletto")
8. Un tal gioco (from "Pagliacci")
9. E lucevan le stelle (from "Tosca")
10. Un dì all'azzurro spazio (from "Andrea Chénier")
11. Che gelida manina (from "La Bohème")
12. Cielo e mar (from "La Gioconda")

CD Details

All Artists: Ruggero Leoncavallo, Ray Sinatra, Mario Lanza
Title: Original Album Classics (Box)
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: RCA
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 11/10/2009
Album Type: Box set
Genres: Pop, Classical
Styles: Vocal Pop, Opera & Classical Vocal
Number of Discs: 5
SwapaCD Credits: 5
UPC: 886975921829

CD Reviews

The Greatest Voice of All Time

Emilio Iodice | 12/19/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"For those who love the greatest and grandest of voices, Mario Lanza was the benchmark. He was the standard by which all tenors and singers should measure themselves. His versatility and ability to cross over from opera to popular music, and his ability to bring classical opera to the common person through his movies. The emotion and passion that he transmitted is incomparable. This collection represents him well and is an investment for those who want to know the best and brightest of stars in the world of music."

Magnificent.The greatest voice of all time.

William Quirk | Watsonia,Australia | 12/22/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Listening to this man sing is what singing is all about.Nothing like this today.Would have to be the greatest voice of all time,beautifully placed and he sings everything,opera and song,right from the heart.

"

ARRIVEDERCI LANZA

Barry McCanna | Normandy, France | 01/24/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This reissue comprises the contents of five RCA Victor LPs (four of them Red Seal) which first came out in 1954 (The Student Prince), 1955 (The Touch of Your Hand), 1958 (Seven Hills of Rome), and posthumously in 1962 (I'll Walk with God), and 1967 (His Favourite Arias). Sony have respected that format by producing five CDs, each housed in a smaller card facsimile of the original record sleeve, thereby maintaining the integrity of the originals.

The first CD presents the score of Sigmund Romberg's operetta as heard in the MGM film, for which Lanza dubbed the songs to Edmund Purdom's screen presence. He's joined in the two duets by soprano Elisabeth Doubleday, and the CD is completed by six songs from other light musicals, all accompanied by Constantine Callinicos.

In "The Touch of Your Hand" Lanza is accompanied by the orchestra of Ray Sinatra in a varied programme which includes popular songs from films and shows, and romantic ballads. I have a slight reservation that his voice is too powerful to convey the tenderness inherent in such lyrics as "Love is the Sweetest Thing".

The original film soundtrack from "Seven Hills of Rome" is rounded out by half-a-dozen popular songs, three accompanied by Henri René, and two by Ray Heindorf.

"I'll Walk with God" is subtitled Songs of Devotion and Love; orchestral accompaniments are provided in the main by Constantine Collinicos, plus four by Ray Sinatra, and the presence of Harpo Marx is noted in "Guardian Angels".

The twelve tracks for "His Favourite Arias" were taken from tapes of his 1951 and 1952 appearances on radio's "Coca Cola Hour", but the accompaniment is unspecified.

Mario Lanza was a huge star with a thrilling voice, which is beautifully recaptured in these performances. I cannot praise this release too highly, it is truly magnificent."