EZIO PINZA (1959) Sings Italian Songs | World Music | Canzone Napoletana | | Folk | Full Album

Ezio Pinza was an Italian opera singer and actor, who released "Sings Italian Songs" with RCA Camden in 1958. The album features Pinza's renditions of traditional Italian songs such as "O Sole Mio," "Funiculi Funicula," and "Santa Lucia," among others.

Pinza is accompanied by an orchestra conducted by Renato Cellini on the album. "Sings Italian Songs" showcases Pinza's powerful bass-baritone voice and his skill at interpreting classic Italian melodies. The album was reissued in various formats over the years, and remains a popular example of Pinza's work.


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Publication date: 1959
Topics: Classical, Folk, World, & Country, Canzone Napoletana, Opera
Digitizing sponsor: Kahle-Austin Foundation
Contributor: Internet Archive
Language: English; Italian

Tracklist:
00:00 [01] Lungi dal caro bene
(Giuseppe Sarti)
03:15 [02] Pupille nere - from 'Camilla' (Giovanni Bononcini)
04:52 [03] Chi vuole innamorarsi - Canzonetta
(Alessandro Scarlatti)
07:38 [04] Che fiero costume - Arietta
(Giovanni Legrenzi)
09:30 [05] O bellissimi capelli - Villanella
(Andrea Falconieri)
11:16 [06] Tu lo sai - Arietta
(Giuseppe Torelli)
13:54 [07] Nel cor più non mi sento - from 'L'amor contrastato' (Giovanni Paisiello)
15:21 [08] Oblivion soave - from 'L'Incoronazione di Poppea' (Claudio Monteverdi)
18:15 [09] Donzelle fuggite - Canzone (Pietro Francesco Cavalli)
19:30 [10] Lasciatemi morire - from 'L'Arianna' (Claudio Monteverdi)
21:19 [11] Alma mia - Arietta from 'Floridante' (Georg Friedrich Händel)


Ezio Pinza (1892-1957) was an Italian opera singer and bass. He is best known for his performances in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi, and he became a prominent figure at the Metropolitan Opera in New York during the 1940s and 1950s.

Pinza also appeared in several films, including the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "South Pacific," in which he played the role of Emile de Becque. Pinza was known for his powerful and resonant voice, as well as his commanding stage presence. He received numerous awards and honors throughout his career, including several Grammy Awards and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Pinza passed away in 1957 at the age of 64.

Pinza recorded extensively for HMV/The Gramophone Company and the Victor Talking Machine Company/RCA Victor during his prime in the 1920s and 1930s.

These 78-rpm discs consist largely of individual operatic arias and some ensemble pieces (plus a complete Verdi Requiem conducted by Carlo Sabajno in 1927, and another with Tullio Serafin in 1939).

They are prized by music critics and general listeners alike for the exceptional beauty of voice and the fine musicianship that Pinza displays on them. Most of them were reissued on LP, and today they are available on many CD reissues.

Pinza was still making operatic recordings in the 1950s, although his voice was now in obvious decline. In the mid-1940s, he had recorded for Columbia Records. He occasionally recorded popular songs, and was featured on Columbia's best-selling original cast recording of South Pacific with Mary Martin.

Pinza returned to RCA Victor in the early 1950s and recorded several operatic arias and popular songs. Pinza can also be heard on the RCA Victor original cast album of Fanny, recorded in 1954.


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