SENTIMENTO - CD

This selection is also available as a limited edition CD and on Super Audio CD format. This selection is a limited edition Enhanced CD that includes a bonus track, a video documenting the making of SENTIMENTO, Bocelli web links, and a downloadable Bocelli desktop icon for use on personal computers. This selection is also available in standard CD format, cassette format and Super Audio CD format. This selection is a Hybrid Multichannel Super Audio CD. The Stereo Hybrid SACD program can be played on any standard compact disc player. The DSD Surround and Stereo programs require an SACD player for playback. This selection is also available in standard CD format. Audio Mixer: Andrew Cornall. Recording information: Classic Sound Ltd; Emil Berliner Studios. Photographers: Decca; Andrew Southam; James McMillan ; Milano; Bill Bernstein. Translators: Peggy Cochrane ; Kenneth Chalmers. Though Andrea Bocelli kicks off SENTIMENTO with a 20th Century piece, the stately setting of Rodrigo's "En Aranjuez con tu amor," the balance of the album wisely focuses on one of the renowned vocalist's greatest strengths, the Romantic period, as Rodrigo quickly gives way to the more sprightly feel of Leoncavallo's "Mattinata." After moving arrestingly through similar fare, Bocelli bookends things nicely by closing with a pair of canzonas from Tosti; the passionate, poignant "'A vucchella" and the quietly elegant "Vorrei morire," followed immediately by Donaudy's "Vaghissima sembianza," which ends things on a fulsome, appropriately romantic (with a small "r") note. Throughout SENTIMENTO, the sympathetic accompaniment of the London Symphony Orchestra, masterfully conducted by Lorin Maazel, provides the perfect instrumental setting for Bocelli's evocative voice.