WE ARE LOVE - SPECIAL EDITION by IL VOLO

WE ARE LOVE - SPECIAL EDITION
by IL VOLO

Deluxe edition includes five bonus holiday tracks. 2012 release from the trio of Italian operatic pop teenage tenors. The album was produced by Humberto Gatica and Tony Renis, Il Volo's first album debuted at #10 on the Billboard 200 and #1 on the Classical Albums, selling 23,000 copies in its first week. The album is also entered in the Top 10 in other countries, such as Belgium. France, and the Netherlands and top in Austria.

Track List:

1. We Are Love

2. Questo Amore [I Don't Want To Miss a Thing]

3. Angel

4. Little Things

5. Can You Feel the Love Tonight

6. Surrender [Torna a Surriento]

7. Il Canto

8. Historia De Un Amor

9. Maria

10. Beautiful Day

11. I Bring You To My Senses

12. Luna Nascosta [Love Theme From the Motion Picture Hidden Moon]

Product Details:
UPC: 602537392049

Artist: Il Volo (Italy)

Format: CD

Release Year: 2013

Record Label: Geffen

Genre: Easy Listening                 
Playing Time: 48 min.

Contributing Artists: Placido Domingo

Producers: Humberto Gatica, Tony Renis, Gretchen Anderson

Distributor: Universal Music

Recording Mode: Stereo             

Album Notes:

Audio Mixers: Cristi n Robles; Humberto Gatica.Recording information: Air Studios, London, England; Czech Television Studios, Prague; Forum Music Village Studios, Roma, Italy; Lion Share Studio, Los Angeles, CA.Photographer: Christian Lantry.Arrangers: Chris

Walden;

Jerome Leroy; Alterisio Paoletti; Mark

Portmann;

Paul Buckmaster; William

Ross;

Randy Kerber. Recorded in Los Angeles and Rome under the watch of Grammy-winning co-producer Humberto Gatica and Tony Renis, the second studio album from dreamy teenage tenors Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto, and Gianluca Ginoble, better known as Il Volo, begins appropriately with a sweeping rendition of the Dianne Warren/Aerosmith power ballad "Questo Amore [I Don't Want to Miss a Thing]," dutifully extending the already lengthy 21st-century bridge between commercial pop and classical. The trio, which first turned heads on the popular Italian talent show Ti Lascio

Una

Canzone, brings an excitable, youthful bravado to the 12-track We Are Love's more pop-oriented offerings like Warren's newly written "I Bring You to My Senses," U2's "Beautiful Day," and the Mark Portmann-penned title cut, the latter two of which are the only songs sung in English. The more traditional, operatic/classically minded pieces, while seamless, soaring, and impossibly pretty in all the right places, lack the gravitas to truly make the listener swoon, a notion that's lent further weight when the great Placido Domingo steps in halfway through "Il Canto" and effectively steals the show.
~ James Christopher Monger