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Richard Kerns, Alan Opie, Gaetano Donizetti
The Pavarotti Story: The Ultimate Tribute
Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Classical

Track Listings (19) - Disc #1
1. Donizetti: Ah! mes amis, quel jour de fête!...Que dire? Que faire? Pour mon âme 6.54
2. Richard Strauss: Di rigori armato il seno 3.08
3. Donizetti: Una furtiva lagrima 4.46
4. Verdi: La donna è mobile 2.22
5. Puccini: Nessun dorma! 2.58
6. Puccini: Che gelida manina 4.40
7. Bellini: A te, o cara 5.48
8. Puccini: Addio fiorito asil 3.13
9. Verdi: Di quella pira 3.21
10. Leoncavallo: Recitar!...Vesti la giubba 4.07
11. Puccini: Recondita armonia 2.59
12. Rossini: O muto asil 5.50
13. Verdi: Forse la soglia attinse...Ma se m'è forza perderti 5.33
14. Giordano: Come un bel dì di maggio 2.52
15. Mozart: Fuor del mar 5.21
16. Verdi: Se quel guerrier io fossi!...Celeste Aida 4.07
17. Verdi: Niun mi tema 4.35
18. Puccini: Donna non vidi mai 2.04
19. Verdi: La mia letizia infondere 2.39
Track Listings (17) - Disc #2
1. Verdi: Ingemisco 3.38
2. Rossini: Cujus animam 5.51
3. Bach/Gounod: Ave Maria (arr. Gamley) 2.58
4. Adam: O Holy Night 4.13
5. Tosti: Non t'amo più 5.25
6. Rossini: La danza (arr. Gamley) 3.07
7. Beethoven: In questa tomba oscura,WoO 133 3.27
8. Bellini: Vaga luna che inargenti (arr. Faris) 3.49
9. Di Capua: 'O sole mio 3.22
10. De Curtis: Torna a Surriento 4.24
11. De Curtis: Non ti scordar di me 2.55
12. Bixio: Vivere (arr. Mancini) 3.26
13. Mario: Santa Lucia luntana (arr. Chiaramello) 5.43
14. Cardillo: Core 'ngrato 4.53
15. Mascheroni: Fiorin fiorello 2.16
16. Modugno: Volare (Nel blu, dipinto di blu) 4.34
17. Centonze: Buongiorno a te 4.15
Track Listings (4) - Disc #3
1. Luciano Pavarotti, you have been a legend in your lifetime...11.44
2. The tremendous service that you have done...9.50
3. Coming to Verdi...8.33
4. You have devoted a great deal of time and energy to other people...6.50
Track Listings (11) - Disc #4
1. Puccini: Che gelida manina 4.41
2. Puccini: E lucevan le stelle 2.54
3. Verdi: Questa o quella 1.57
4. Verdi: La donna è mobile 2.13
5. Verdi:Parmi veder le lagrime 2.36
6. Bizet: Au fond du temple saint 6.34
7. Verdi: Inno delle nazioni (Hymn of the Nations) 13.36
8. Puccini: Nessun dorma! 3.07
9. Brian Eno, Paul Hewson, Adam Clayton, Dave Evans 6.19
10. Elton John: Live Like Horses (orch. Dudley; Taupin) 4.44
11. Claude François & Jacques Revaux: My Way 3.32

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All Artists: Richard Kerns, Alan Opie, Gaetano Donizetti, Richard [1] Strauss, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, Vincenzo Bellini, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Gioachino Rossini, Umberto Giordano, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Charles Gounod, Adolphe Adam, Paolo Tosti, Ludwig van Beethoven, Eduardo di Capua, Ernesto de Curtis, Cesare Andrea Bixio, E.A. Mario, Salvatore Cardillo
Title: The Pavarotti Story: The Ultimate Tribute
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Decca Records
Original Release Date: 4/22/2008
Release Date: 4/22/2008
Album Type: Collector's Edition, Deluxe Edition
Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Classical
Styles: Easy Listening, Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Early Music, Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
Number of Discs: 4
SwapaCD Credits: 4
UPC: 028947581772

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Album Description

This commemorative set documents Pavarotti's life story in both words and music. Presented in superb, high quality packaging including a 70 page illustrated booklet of Pavarotti's life story, a complete 82 page fullcolor illustrated Pavarotti discography and two principal CDs as well as two bonus CDs. James Jolly's essay A Tenor for our Times is presented alongside notes on each of the songs and arias, all in three languages (English, French,German). Of the CDs, containing many of his outstanding and most-loved recordings, the first is entitled The Operas, the second Sacred Arias and Neapolitan Songs, while the two bonus CDs contain "Pavarotti in conversation": The Great Tenor in his own words, and his original Debut EP recording from 1964 alongside six bonus tracks crossing from opera to duets with Bono, Elton John and Frank Sinatra.

CD Reviews

Exploitation on the Cheap

Richard L. Gordon | State College, PA USA | 05/24/2008

(2 out of 5 stars)

"I ordered despite seeing on line before purchase that most of the selections were in the massive, beautifully executed Pavarotti Edition. I hoped the extras would be worth the expense. Unfortunately, the execution was shoddy. The set in packaged in flimsy cardboard. The discography is limited to his Universal-labels sound recordings-no DVDS, no EMI, no RCA, and, of course, none of the many unauthorized issues of opera-house performance recordings. The biography is meagre, the booklet attains its length by providing multiple translations, and unlike the Edition, song texts and translations are absent. Pavarotti lovers should buy the Edition; at best the Story is for those unfamiliar with the great tenor."