Catalogue # 88697911342
Hailed by the Independent as "the most exciting young male talent in opera today", Vittorio Grigolo follows up his Sony debut album, The Italian Tenor, with a fresh and personal take on Italy's exceptional musical heritage - with his new album, Arrivederci.
While The Italian Tenor was devoted to a purely classical operatic repertoire, Vittorio's new album, Arrivederci, combines his selection of beautiful arias with songs from the past century that are steeped in the Italian tradition. Recorded with Pier Giorgio Morandi conducting the Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, the album is a deeply personal homage to the music with which the great tenors of the past have thrilled generations of music lovers.
The title has been chosen for a reason. As Vittorio explains, Arrivederci means 'see you again soon', it holds the promise of a time when our eyes will meet again", and it offers the opportunity to "revisit the values and colours of an Italian tradition which often get brushed aside by a faster pace of life." Taking his precedent from the musical culture of his country at the turn of the 20th-century, Vittorio's fashioning of arias together with songs gestures back to a time when opera and popular song were merging on both the opera stage and Italian streets.
Tracklisting:
1. Inosservato. penetrava.Angelo casto e bel - Gaetano
Donizetti
2. La donna mobile - Giuseppe Verdi
3. Un aura amorosa - Wolfgang A. Mozart
4. Libiamo ne'lieti calici - Giuseppe Verdi
5. Recondita Armonia - Giacomo Puccini
6. M'appari - Friedrich von Flotow
7. Lamento di Federico - Francesco Cilea
8. Amor ti vieta - Umberto Giordano
9. La Danza - Gioacchino Rossini
10. Torna a Surriento - Ernesto de Curtis
11. Mattinata - Ruggero Leoncavallo 12. Ti voglio tanto bene -
Ernesto de Curtis
13. O surdato 'nnamurato - Enrico Cannio
14. Non ti scordar di me - Ernesto de Curtis
15. O paese d'o sole - Vincenzo D'Annibale
16. Chitarra romana - Eldo di Lazzarro
17. Core n'grato - Salvatore Cardillo
18. Voglio vivere cosi - Giovanni d'Anzi
19. Arrivederci Roma - Renato Rascel
20. Caruso - Lucio Dalla