Vol. 2-in Concerto

Vol. 2-in Concerto
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 743217661120
EAN: 0743217661120
ASIN: B00007OTHW


Release Date: 2002-12-12

Vol. 2-in Concerto


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Tracks:

  1. Avventura A Durango
  2. Presentazione
  3. Sally
  4. Verranno A Chiederti Del Nostro Amore
  5. Rimini
  6. Via Del Campo
  7. Maria Nella Bottega Del Falegname
  8. Il Tesatmento Di Tito

Similar Items:

  1. Vol. 1-in Concerto

Album Description

Italian pressing of 1979 concert in Italy. 24 bit remastered gold disc/digipak. BGM. 2001.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Adding more weight to the 5-star reviews.......2005-06-11

Fabrizio De Andre. Enough said. Among the very few truly great popular artists of our time: Dylan, Veloso, Joan Manuel Serrat, Amalia Rodrigues, Amir Khan, Om Kholtoum, Abdul Halim Hafez, Elis Regina,...OK, I think you get the point. Whenever I listen to De Andre's recordings, the constant thought is, "This guy is TOO good." He is. It's that simple and this wonderful concert CD is further proof. And... I do not know one word of Italian.

5 out of 5 stars Don't listen to De Andre' if you are allergic to Art!.......2004-09-15

I generally don't like to be polemic with other reviewers, but I would recommend to kireviewer to limit is reviewing activity to products he has at least a minimum knowledge of. Fabrizio De Andre' is a great poet, one of the greatest Italian poets of the 20th century, who decided to put his lyrics in music. For this very reason, only a deep knowledge of the Italian language can allow one to fully appreciate the sheer beauty of his words. The very idea of seeing him "open[ing] his shirt to show the hair on his chest" cracks me down. It would be far easier to see Bush confessing that he didn't win the 2000 election.
This double album "In Concerto" is the live recording of a famous 1979 tour in which De Andre' played his classics from the '60s and the 70's in completely new arrangements made by the PFM (The original arrangements can be heard in the version of the same songs contained in some anthologies of his earlier works, as "Da Genova" or "Mi innamoravo di tutto"). Vol. 1 contains the best songs, while Vol. 2 has material qualitatively more discontinuous(though "Via del Campo" and "Sally" are two jewels). The quality of the recording is not excellent, especially regarding Fabrizio's voice, which is truly one of the best voices that I have ever heard. I would recommend interested people to listen to his masterworks, "Anime Salve", "Creuza de ma", and his last live "Fabrizio De Andre' In Concerto" from the 1998 tour. Sadly, his last gift to us.

4 out of 5 stars It's not progrock, but it's still good.......2004-05-28

The main reason I'm writing this review is that the statements made by the other reviewer exaggerate the degree to which this parts from PFM's other albums. The focus here is definitely on De Andre's songs, but PFM do make substantial contributions in the arrangements of them. I really don't think this is pop music akin to Tom Jones or Englebert Humperdink or whatever his name is, it's singer-songwriter stuff. De Andre doesn't have the best voice in the world, and not knowing Italian will reduce the amount of enjoyment you get out of the album, but it's still seriously good music. The overall feel is really not entirely dissimilar to PFM's Passpartu album- good melodic songs with occasionally complex instrumental embellishments.

1 out of 5 stars Don't buy this to hear PFM.......2003-09-05

This is not really a PFM album. PFM only plays accompaniment. They are in the background and never break out. It could be anyone backing this singer. Only Premoli, Mussida and diCiocci remain from the original PFM band.

The album is about 40 minutes long. The sound quality is OK, but there is a little too much audience noise. De Andre talks in between tracks, sometimes for over a minute.

This is from a concert tour in 1979, where PFM backed up Italian pop singer Fabrizio De Andre. He sings in as style similar to Enlgish pop stars like Tom Jones or Englebert Humperdink, only he is not as melodic. He almost speaks the words in some parts.

De Andre was an Italian protest/folk singer, similar to Bob Dylan. He also was influenced by jazz. But, none of that is apparent here. The music is basic smarmy pop. Since I don't understand Italian, the whole thing comes off as your basic pop concert, where the singer rips open his shirt to show the hair on his chest.

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