Freddie De Tommaso: Passione
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Freddie De Tommaso: Passione
Freddie De Tommaso (tenor) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Renato Balsadonna
[ Decca Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 16 April 2021
Decca Classics is thrilled to add Freddie De Tommaso to their history of illustrious tenors on the label: Del Monaco, Bergonzi, Di Stefano, Pavarotti, Calleja. The most exciting lyrico spinto tenor to emerge in over a decade. Marking 2021 as the 'Year of the Tenor', with four milestone centenaries: the births of Mario Lanza (31 January), Franco Corelli (8 April), Giuseppe Di Stefano (24 July) and of the death of the father of all modern tenors, Enrico Caruso (2 August). 'Passione' celebrates the songs they made famous and explores the musical landscape of his father's family from Italy's deep south.
"Of Italian and English parents, De Tommaso, who grew up in Tunbridge Wells, combines the outgoing Italian manner with a touch of more modest English musicianship. His voice is not the brightest Italianate tenor, but it has colour, the right style and a quality of its own" Financial Times
"This young Brit, brought up in Tunbridge Wells by an Italian father and English mother, displays limitless promise in this debut recital of songs made popular by Italian tenors...He has ideal support from Balsadonna, who brings italianità to the London Phil" Sunday Times
"Listen to Freddie De Tommaso at full throttle and you'll need to lie down in a darkened room. Passione is singing in the tradition of De Tommaso's hero Franco Corelli: stylish and heartfelt, spinning gold out of the simplest of popular Italian songs...He has an unerring instinct for drama and for when to lead and when to lean into the melody." BBC Music Magazine Awards 2022 Shortlisted - Newcomer
Tracks:
Innocenzi: Addio, sogni di Gloria (Arr. Mancini)
Tosti: Marechiare (Arr. Chiaramello)
Tosti: L'alba sepàra dalla luce l'ombra (Transcr. Hazell)
Buzzi-Peccia: Lolita (Arr. Milner)
Eduardo Di Capua, Alfredo Mazzucchi: I' te vurria vasà (Orch. Negri)
Falvo: Dicitencello vuie! (Orch. Negri)
Nicola Valente, Ernesto Tagliaferri: Passione (Orch. Negri)
Bellini: Fenesta che lucive (Arr. Balsadonna)
Puccini: Sole e amore (Orch. Quagliarini)
Puccini: Mentìa l'avviso (Orch. Quagliarini)
Respighi: Nebbie (Orch. Respighi / Di Vittorio)
Tosti: Ideale (Arr. Mercurio)
Leoncavallo: Mattinata (Orch. Luck)
Tulio Trapani, Lee Lange: Cara mia (Arr. Mantovani)
Cardillo: Core 'ngrato (Arr. Milner)
Gastaldon: Musica proibita (Arr. Milner)
