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Ultimate Collection | 
 enlarge | Artists: Irving Aaronson, Nicholas Brodszky, Eduardo Di Capua, Luigi Denza, Rudolf Friml, Garinei, Charles Gounod, Guy D' Hardelot, Isadore De Lara, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Jose Padilla, Panzeri, Giacomo Puccini, Nikolay Andreyevich Rimsky-korsakov, Richard Rodgers, Sigmund Romberg, Italian Traditional, Giuseppe Verdi, Frederick Edward Weatherly, Carlo Savina, Constantine Callinicos, Franco Ferraro, George Stoll, Henri Rene, Ray Sinatra, Mario Lanza, Eudice Shapiro
Label: Bmg Int'l
Category: Music
List Price: $46.49
Buy New: $8.17
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 303605
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 743211857420
EAN: 7432118574204
ASIN: B0000071HM
Release Date: October 12, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | Be My Love - Mario Lanza, Brodszky, Nicholas | | • | Drink, Drink, Drink - Mario Lanza, | | • | Act IV. La Donna e Mobile - Mario Lanza, | | • | Danny Boy - Mario Lanza, Weatherly, Frederic | | • | Granada - Mario Lanza, Dodd, Dorothy | | • | Because You're Mine - Mario Lanza, Brodszky, Nicholas | | • | Ave Maria - Mario Lanza, Schubert, Franz | | • | Valencia - Mario Lanza, Grey, Clifford | | • | The Loveliest Night of the Year - Mario Lanza, Aaronson, Irving | | • | Song of India - Mario Lanza, | | • | Because - Mario Lanza, DHardelot, Guy | | • | O Sole Mio - Mario Lanza, Capurro, Giovani | | • | The Donkey Serenade - Mario Lanza, Forrest, George | | • | Act I. Vesti La Giubba - Mario Lanza, | | • | Serenade - Mario Lanza, | | • | Funiculi, Funicula - Mario Lanza, Denza, Luigi | | • | Golden Days - Mario Lanza, | | • | Arrivederci Roma - Mario Lanza, Garinei | | • | You'll Never Walk Alone - Mario Lanza, Hammerstein, Oscar | | • | Beloved - Mario Lanza, Brodszky, Nicholas | | • | Come Prima - Mario Lanza, DiPaola, Vincenzo | | • | Act III. E Lucevan Le Stelle - Mario Lanza, | | • | Santa Lucia - Mario Lanza, Cottrau, Teodoro | | • | I'll Walk With God - Mario Lanza, Brodszky, Nikolaus |
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good, but hardly "ultimate"! August 20, 2001
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
As a Lanza admirer of many years, I find this CD disappointing. True, there are magnificent recordings scattered throughout (Serenade, Beloved, E Lucevan Le Stelle, Drink! Drink! Drink!, etc) but there are too many weaker moments for the collection to deserve the accolade "Ultimate". The poorly reproduced Valencia, for example, suffers from pitch problems, and the ubiquitous Funiculi Funicula (oddly in mono here, for a change, with the singer pushed right back) does not represent Lanza at anywhere near his magnificent best. Ironically, this selection is the only below-par performance from his otherwise superb Neapolitan collection, Mario! Lanza At His Best.
The sound quality is inconsistent. Because You're Mine, for example, is reproduced here to dazzling effect with all the colors of Lanza's voice at their most gorgeous. Granada and O Sole Mio, on the other hand, suffer from even more distortion than usual, and the aforementioned Valencia has been inflicted with an echo chamber.
My other gripe is that inferior versions of several of the selections have been chosen. You'll Never Walk Alone is not Lanza at his best, and for a better performance seek out the alternate take on the CD of the same name. Vesti La Giubba and La Donna E Mobile, though good, are not in the same class as his later recordings of these arias.
Still, as introductions go, this release basically serves its purpose. And if there is one day an "Utimate Collection, Volume 2", may I suggest that BMG considers such gems as Lanza's 1949 Che Gelida Manina from "La Boheme", M'appari from "Martha", the Improvviso from Andrea Chenier and his unsurpassed Otello Monologue. Let's also not forget his thrilling Some Day (the 1951 Coke performance and *not* the illness-affected 1959 rendition, please note!), the gorgeous A Vucchella and Lanza's own favorite recording, the haunting Voce E Notte. Such a collection would offer a truer sampling of Lanza's versatility and vocal prowess.
 the power and beauty of the longest note February 3, 2000
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
Within the first 20 seconds of Granada can be found the longest note that only Mario Lanza is capable of delivery. Power - beauty -timbre - awe,believe what you hear or explain it all that he had two extra lungs he never told anybody about
Wonderful collection of Lanza music September 30, 1998
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
Memorable recordings from a young singer destined to become another Caruso before his untimely death. Had he survived, the current Three Tenors would have had to be Mario Lanza and The Other Three Tenors.
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