Mario Lanza - Mario! Lanza At His Best (2006)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:19:13 | 436 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: RCA Victor Living Stereo | Catalog: 71625
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:19:13 | 436 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: RCA Victor Living Stereo | Catalog: 71625
This is not exactly the Mario Lanza "best-of" album its title might imply; it consists of recordings made during the last 18 months of the great crossover tenor's life, when he was beginning to suffer serious effects from the health problems that killed him in the fall of 1959. Still, it's hard to hear much of an effect from those problems a diminution of sheer vocal power in the selections from Rudolf Friml's musical The Vagabond King that make up the second half of the disc, perhaps, but no loss of the singer's broad, generous lyric impulse.
