Be My Love: A Tribute to Mario Lanza

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Calleja is not a Mario Lanza: he's a gifted lyric tenor with a voice that is most comfortable in the head...there's a nice throb in the voice in Lara's Granada...and Tosti's 'A vucchella' would... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2012, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 3rd Sep 2012
Catalogue No: 4783531
Label: Decca
Length: 56 minutes

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Brodszky: Be My Love

Work length3:03

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Joseph Calleja (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Mercurio
Recorded: 2012-02-21
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

Lara: Granada

Work length3:59

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Joseph Calleja (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Mercurio
Recorded: 2012-02-21
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

Arrivederci Roma

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Joseph Calleja (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Mercurio
Recorded: 2012-02-21
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

Rosas: The Loveliest Night Of The Year

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Joseph Calleja (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Mercurio
Recorded: 2012-02-21
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

Rossini: Soirées musicales: La Danza

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Joseph Calleja (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Mercurio
Recorded: 2012-02-21
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

Romberg: Serenade

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Joseph Calleja (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Mercurio
Recorded: 2012-02-21
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Act 1

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Joseph Calleja (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Mercurio
Recorded: 2012-02-21
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

"Recitar!" - "Vesti la giubba"

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Excerpt, Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana

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Joseph Calleja (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Mercurio
Recorded: 2012-02-21
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

"Mamma, quel vino è generoso"

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Tosti: A Vuchella

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Joseph Calleja (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Mercurio
Recorded: 2012-02-21
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

Tosti: Marechiare

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Joseph Calleja (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Mercurio
Recorded: 2012-02-21
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

Bixio: Parlami d'amore Mariù

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Joseph Calleja (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Mercurio
Recorded: 2012-02-21
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

Ponchielli: La Gioconda / Act 2

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Joseph Calleja (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Mercurio
Recorded: 2012-02-21
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

"Cielo e mar!"

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Giordano, U: Fedora / Act 2

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Joseph Calleja (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Mercurio
Recorded: 2012-02-21
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

"Amor ti vieta"

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Brodszky: Because You're Mine

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Joseph Calleja (tenor)
New London Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Mercurio
Recorded: 2012-02-21
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

Bizet: Carmen / Act 2

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Joseph Calleja (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Mercurio
Recorded: 2012-02-21
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

"La fleur que tu m'avais jetée"

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Puccini: Turandot / Act 3

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Joseph Calleja (tenor)
New London Singers, BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Mercurio
Recorded: 2012-02-21
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

"Nessun dorma"

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Rodgers, R: Carousel

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Joseph Calleja (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Mercurio
Recorded: 2012-02-21
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

You'll Never Walk Alone

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Because

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Joseph Calleja (tenor)
BBC Concert Orchestra
Steven Mercurio
Recorded: 2012-02-21
Recording Venue: The Colosseum, Watford

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Blessed with “a golden-age voice” (The Sunday Times) that routinely inspires comparisons with legendary singers from earlier eras, Joseph Calleja will follow the success of The Maltese Tenor with a tribute to one of the most popular tenors of all time; the unique “crossover” star of the Hollywood musical – Mario Lanza.

This is an album that Joseph Calleja has always wanted to record. As a youth in Malta he saw Lanza in the cult film The Great Caruso and was so captivated that he gave up his predilection for Metallica and Iron Maiden and decided to become an opera singer

Reviews

December 2012

Calleja is not a Mario Lanza: he's a gifted lyric tenor with a voice that is most comfortable in the head...there's a nice throb in the voice in Lara's Granada...and Tosti's 'A vucchella' would seduce a slab of marble. But 'Vesti la giubba'. 'Cielo e mar' and 'Nessun dorma' all lack vocal drama.

December 2012

an imaginative display of Calleja's art and interpretative approach, clearly captured by Decca's recording team.

December 2012

Here is one of the most beautiful tenor voices now before the public, treated with musicality, style and feeling...but don’t expect the adrenalin kick that Mario Lanza was able to convey.

8th September 2012

It's an unashamedly populist collection, Calleja rolling the Rs of "Granada" and "Arrivederci, Roma" with obvious relish in arrangements replete with castanets and trilling mandolins, before building to the full football climax with spirited renditions of "Nessun Dorma" and a mighty "You'll Never Walk Alone".

8th September 2012

Calleja doesn’t suffer from...self-imposed comparisons: the voice is burnished and focused; the top notes whammy yet unforced; the legato tone garnished with saccharine slithers but not sloppy. Calleja doesn’t do final consonants; and sometimes you wish his conductor (Steven Mercurio) had encouraged more ebb and flow. But these throbbing ballads will delight Calleja’s fans.

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