Love, sun and sea, these are the ingredients that remind Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli of Naples. Naples is the city that produced inspiring melodic classics such as Santa Lucia and Funiculì Funiculà and it was also the birthplace of the famous tenor Enrico Caruso. In the year that Bocelli passed the 50-year mark, he looked back to his past with the album Incanto. He remembered how Neapolitan
… classics were sung on radio and gramophone record by tenors such as Caruso, Beniamino Gigli, Mario del Monaco and Franco Corelli. They offered him comfort and guidance in difficult times. From that tradition it was now Bocelli's turn to sing about southern love in all its manifestations: love for the mother, for a woman, for a city or country. Incanto now also allows a young generation to get to know and enjoy Bocelli's lively and lyrical rendition of these nostalgic classics, accompanied by a Milanese string orchestra conducted by Steven Mercurio. (SvdP)more
