Romanza

Romanza is the first compilation album of the Italian crossover singer Andrea Bocelli, which was compiled in 1996 and was published in Germany in 1997. It includes the best-known and most successful songs to date, Bocelli, such as Time To Say Goodbye, which he sang with Sarah Brightman, as well as the German version of the duet Vivo Per Lei and Il Mare Calmo Della Sera, with the 1994 Bocelli successful in Sanremo Festival was begun in the category Nouve Proposte.

It turned for Bocelli as his most successful album out, it was awarded in many countries and sold to date approximately 19 million times.

Content

The album Romanza was preceded by two pop albums Bocelli, his debut album Il Mare Calmo Della Sera from 1994 and Bocelli, released the following year. From the classic album Viaggio Italiano no song was adopted.

The album contains the song Con te Partirò, Bocelli sang in 1995 in San Remo. In the years before, in 1994, he joined with Il Mare Calmo Della Sera, which was composed by Zucchero. With a participant of San Remo, Gerardina Trovato, Bocelli Vivere recorded for his album, which was also written, among others, Trovato.

Furthermore, interpreted Bocelli Romanza in the song Caruso, which was written in 1986 by Lucio Dalla and deals with the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso. Luciano Pavarotti also later sang this song on his pop album.

Another song, which appeared already in the album Bocelli in 1995, was Macchine da Guerra, an anti-war song. Vivo also Per Lei found on Romanza again, Bocelli had it with different singer from most Romansh-speaking countries, such as Marta Sánchez sung, but appeared in Romaanza the German - Italian version with Judy Weiss, who was also a successful single from the album on the charts, in Switzerland, it debuted at number one on the charts.

Romanza, the song after which the album is named, wrote Mauro Malavasi, who later wrote several songs for Bocelli, among other things, for the album Sogno by 1999.

Another song from Bocelli Voglio restare Così, the Bocelli himself had written.

A bonus song on the album was a live version of the song Miserere, was first to draw public attention to themselves by Bocelli. The version on the album was recorded in 1995 during the concert Night of the Proms. Bocelli sang it for the first time in 1992 with Zucchero, who had also composed alongside Bono himself. Because Zucchero had demanded a tenor voice, he should only sing with Pavarotti, who refused, however, so that ultimately allowed to sing Bocelli. On the album both sang it with John Miles.

Success with Romanza

For Bocelli it became the most successful album to date, succeeded in numerous national charts at number one, as in Italy or Switzerland and Austria. In the United States it could hold 91 weeks in the charts. Overall, it could be sold about 19 million copies.

Song list

Awards

Swell

• Supplement to the album Romanza, Polydor GmbH Hamburg, 1997.