Pavarotti: The Greatest Hits (2019)
performed by
Andrea Bocelli (tenor), Andrea Bocelli (vocals), Antonella Pepe (soprano), Barry White (vocals), Bono (vocals), Brian May (vocals), Brian May (guitar), Céline Dion (vocals), David Romano (baritone), Elton John (vocals), Eric Clapton (vocals)
composed by
Adolphe Adam, Agustín Lara, Amilcare Ponchielli, Barry White, Brian Eno, Brian May, César Franck, Cesare Andrea Bixio, Claude François, Domenico Modugno, Eduardo di Capua, Elton John, Ernesto de Curtis, Franz Schubert, Friedrich von Flotow, Georges Bizet
The 2019 documentary film Pavarotti, directed by Ron Howard, has spawned not only an official soundtrack but several new collections attempting to piggyback on the nostalgia. This is all to the good, for it's been a while since a new Pavarotti collection has appeared. Here, from Decca, you get three CDs worth of the "King of the High Cs," in chronological order and covering several aspects of his career. The collection comes with the imprimatur of the Luciano Pavarotti Foundation. The first CD is devoted to opera arias, and ...
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The 2019 documentary film Pavarotti, directed by Ron Howard, has spawned not only an official soundtrack but several new collections attempting to piggyback on the nostalgia. This is all to the good, for it's been a while since a new Pavarotti collection has appeared. Here, from Decca, you get three CDs worth of the "King of the High Cs," in chronological order and covering several aspects of his career. The collection comes with the imprimatur of the Luciano Pavarotti Foundation. The first CD is devoted to opera arias, and there's not much to complain of here; the first part of Pavarotti's career, when his voice had a physically startling immediacy, is given its due. Fans of pure opera might object to the overall balance in representing Pavarotti's career here. The second CD is devoted to Italian popular songs, like Funiculì, Funiculà (sample this), and sacred songs. The third covers duets, some operatic, others with the likes of Mariah Carey, Eric Clapton, and even Lou Reed. There's nothing wrong...
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- Turandot, opera: Nessun dorma
- La bohème, opera: Che Gelida Manina
- L'elisir d'amore, opera: Una Furtiva Lagrima
- La fille du régiment, opera: Pour mon âme quel destin
- Rigoletto, opera: La donna è mobile
- Il Trovatore, opera: Di quella pira
- Tosca, opera: E lucevan le stelle
- Pagliacci, opera: Vesti la giubba
- Manon Lescaut, opera: Donna non vidi mai
- La favorita, opera: Spirto gentil
- Carmen, opera: La fleur que tu m'avais jetée
- La bohème, opera: O soave fanciulla
- Tosca, opera: Recondita armonia
- Werther, lyric drama in 4 acts: Pourquoi me réveiller
- Martha, opera: M'appari
- La fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West), opera: Ch'ella mi creda
- Aida, opera: Celeste Aida
- Der Rosenkavalier, opera, Op. 59 (TrV 227): Di rigori armato il seno
- Andrea Chénier, opera: Come un bel di di maggio
- La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Cielo e mar!
- Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera: Addio, fiorito asil
- Fedora, opera: Amor ti vieta
- L' Africaine, grand opera in 5 acts: O Paradiso
- Rigoletto, opera: Questa o quella
- La Traviata, opera: Brindisi
- O sole mio, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
- Caruso, for voice & orchestra
- La danza. Tarantella Napolitana ("Già la luna è in mezzo al mare"), for voice & piano (Soirées musicales)
- Volare, for voice & orchestra (a.k.a. "Nel blu dipinto di blu")
- Torna a Surriento, for voice & piano (or orchestra)
- Ti adoro
- 'A vucchella ("Arietta di Posilippo") for voice & piano (or orchestra), C.S. 209
- Vivere for voice & orchestra
- La mia canzone al vento for voice & orchestra
- Non ti scordar di me, for voice & orchestra (& chorus ad lib)
- Ellens Gesang III ("Ave Maria"), song for voice & piano, D. 839 (Op. 52/6)
- Requiem Mass, for soloists, chorus & orchestra ("Manzoni Requiem"): Ingemisco
- Panis angelicus for tenor, organ, harp, cello & bass
- Cantique de Noël, for voice & orchestra ("Minuit, Chrétiens," "O Holy Night")
- Mamma, for voice & orchestra
- L'Ultima Canzone, for voice & piano or orchestra, C.S. 80
- Buongiorno a te
- Mattinata ("L'aurora di bianco vestita"), song for voice & piano (or orchestra)
- Core 'ngrato (Catari), for voice & orchestra
- Passione for voice & orchestra
- Santa Lucia
- Granada, for voice & orchestra (with chorus ad lib)
- Funiculì Funiculà, for voice & orchestra (& chorus ad lib)
- Les Pêcheurs de perles, opera in 3 acts: Au fond du temple saint (Pearl Fishers' Duet)
- Otello, opera: Sì, pel ciel marmoreo giuro!
- Beatrice di Tenda, opera: Angiol di pace
- Notte 'e piscatore
- Miserere
- Miss Sarajevo
- Live like horses
- I Hate You Then I Love You, song (after Manuel de Falla)
- Hero
- Holy Mother
- Magic of Love
- Too Much Love Will Kill You
- Peace wanted just to be free
- When We Dance
- You're the first, the last, my everything
- It's A Man's Man's Man's World
- A Perfect Day
- My Way, song
- Turandot, opera: Nessun dorma!
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