L'allieva is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, released on 11 November 2005 by PDU. The albums pays homage to the songs of Frank Sinatra, by whom Mina has been greatly influenced. The album reached the fourth place in the Italian chart, and its sales exceeded the threshold of 130 thousand copies.[1]
| L'allieva | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 11 November 2005 | |||
| Recorded | 2005 | |||
| Studio | Studi GSU, Lugano | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 62:42 | |||
| Label | PDU | |||
| Producer | Massimiliano Pani | |||
| Mina studio albums chronology | ||||
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The first 11 songs are accompanied by a small combo of jazz musicians, ending appropriately with "My Way", while the last 3 recordings are a sort of added bonus tracks, with orchestral strings arrangements by Gianni Ferrio.
Critical reception
editThe Rockol reviewer Gianni Sibilla stated that this is a beautiful record, perfect for this autumn-winter period, with warm, beautifully arranged songs.[2] Claudio Milano of OndaRock praised the album, but noted that this record should be listened to without the desire to resort to comparisons with the originals, given the huge discrepancy in the basic interpretative intentions, as if these were songs recorded for the first time.[3] In 2018, Giorgio Moltisanti from Rolling Stone placed it on the 6th place in the list of Mina's most underrated albums. Moltisanti noted that the great feature of this CD, in addition to the indisputable value of the selected songs, is the gold of respect that shines through from the fourteen tracks included. Mina, in his opinion, interprets songs with measure and thrift, cleansing her style of excesses: Mina sometimes whispers, sighs, dreams, clearly reducing her ego by 4 octaves and 3 tones.[4]
Track listing
edit| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)" | 5:32 | |
| 2. | "The Nearness of You" | 3:28 | |
| 3. | "Once I Loved (O Amor em Paz)" | 6:17 | |
| 4. | "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" | 4:40 | |
| 5. | "Angel Eyes" | 6:20 | |
| 6. | "Blue Moon" | 6:19 | |
| 7. | "Strangers in the Night" | 4:04 | |
| 8. | "All the Way" | 4:42 | |
| 9. | "Goodbye" | Gordon Jenkins | 2:55 |
| 10. | "Dindi" |
| 4:53 |
| 11. | "My Way (Comme d’habitude)" |
| 2:39 |
| 12. | "Only the Lonely" |
| 4:32 |
| 13. | "April in Paris" | 2:41 | |
| 14. | "Laura" |
| 3:41 |
| Total length: | 62:46 | ||
Charts
editReferences
edit- ^ De Luigi, Mario. "Ricossa nazionale" (PDF). Musica e Dischi. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 May 2015. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
- ^ Sibilla, Gianni (6 December 2005). "√ Mina - L'allieva - la recensione". Rockol (in Italian). Retrieved 16 May 2024.
- ^ Milano, Claudio. "Mina - biografia, recensioni, streaming, discografia, foto". OndaRock (in Italian). Retrieved 16 May 2024.
- ^ Moltisanti, Giorgio (27 November 2018). "I 10 album dimenticati di Mina". Rolling Stone (in Italian). Retrieved 16 May 2024.
- ^ "Italiancharts.com – Mina – L'allieva". Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
- ^ "Classifica annuale 2005 (dal 03.01.2005 al 01.01.2006)" (in Italian). FIMI. Retrieved 16 May 2024.
External links
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