Viaggio Italiano
Viaggio Italiano is the first classic album of the Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli. The content of the album is primarily with titles from the Italian speaking area, Neapolitan songs are also available under such as O Sole million It was clear to many national charts place near the top, although it comprises almost exclusively classical music.
The album was published in 1995 at the national level, other publications in other countries mainly took place in 1996, such as in Germany in November. In some countries, the album only in 1998 took place in the charts, for example, in the United States, where it first appeared towards the end of March 1998 in the Billboard charts. in the catalog album it even appeared only on 30 June 2001 and has established itself there at No. 19.
Viaggio Italiano was initially released only in Italy and could be there to sell nearly 300,000 times. After it appeared on the international markets, it was sold to date approximately two million times.
It was awarded in 1997 with the ECHO Classical Music.
Content
The album opened with the world-famous aria Nessun Dorma from the opera Turandot by Giacomo Puccini. Shortly thereafter, it is also possible title Giuseppe Verdi find the Bocelli in 2000 even dedicated an album entitled Verdi.
In addition to Italian titles, which appear at first, can also find Latin texts, so Bocelli sang about the Hail Mary on the version of Franz Schubert.
This was followed by Neapolitan songs that have an international reputation, especially is the song O Sole Mio to name. In the album Bocelli himself wrote ironically [m ] i scusco di tutti i coure con napoletani per il mio accento ( I apologize wholeheartedly for all Neapolitans for my accent ), since he himself is not from Naples but further north from Tuscany. However, he promised hereafter to want to improve his pronunciation.
Bocelli was accompanied during the recordings from the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Ivanovich Fedosseyev. Chorale Bocelli received support from The Academy of Choir Art of Russia, which was led by Victor Popov. The Neapolitan songs, however, arose instrumental by the Neapolitan Orchestra under the baton of Renato Serios.
The last song Adeste Fideles is a live recording from a concert Bocelli. He was picked up by Media Sound on 16 December 1994. In the recording, which is called the title Massaggio Bocelli or partly Message Bocelli, he announces in advance that you can now Adeste Fideles will hear and shall inform the listeners that he had had the honor to present this version before the Pope.
Thanks and Dedication
As in the album Bocelli which was published in 1995, Bocelli thanked, among others, with Franco Corelli, whom he regards as his teacher. According to the list of the thanked Bocelli added to that, he wanted to ai miei genitori, a mia moglie mio figlio Enrico ea ( with my parents, my wife Enrica and my son ) to thank.
Bocelli had intended the album Viaggio Italiano devote of Italian emigration, which took place in the 19th century, especially in the United States, which explains the title of the album ( Italian Journey ).
Reception
Sarah Bryan Miller wrote, after the album was released on 1 October 1997, Bocelli is truly suited to sing these arias ( [t ] he best contender so far is Andrea Bocelli ), but admitted that with the recordings of the young Luciano Pavarotti would be better served ( [ a] nyone with a real interest in tenor arias would be much better advised to check out recordings by the young Luciano Pavarotti ). To his voice Miller noticed almost only negative, they opened this chapter, although with the praise, Bocelli's voice sounded genuine (real voice), he even sometimes really give the ability a thrilling tenor voice of himself (a really exciting tenor sound), but generally criticized Miller that Bocelli was qualitatively weak, it appeared as though not Bocelli the more accurate sense of the words that he understood Singe or give the listener, even though he was Italian.
For Moscow Orchestra Miller noted that it did cumbersome ( stogily ).