2015 studio album by Andrea Bocelli
Cinema is the fifteenth studio album by Italian classical tenor recording artist Andrea Bocelli. The album, featuring renditions of classic film soundtracks and scores,[3] was released on 23 October 2015 through Sugar Music and Universal Music Group.[4] A Spanish-language version of the album was also released and has been nominated Album of the Year at the 17th Annual Latin Grammy Awards.[5] Cinema received a nomination for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards held in February 2017.[6]
The album was produced by David Foster, Humberto Gatica, and Tony Renis who also worked together on Bocelli's Amore in 2006.[7]
Bocelli said of Cinema: "With the album Cinema, I'm fulfilling a wish that I've harboured for decades. I've never made a secret of my dream of bringing to life a recording project associated with soundtracks, as I truly believe that it's an exceptional artistic treasure trove."[8]
Cinema entered the Official UK Albums Chart at No. 3, behind 5 Seconds of Summer's Sounds Good Feels Good and Bryan Adams's Get Up!.[9] The tally was Bocelli's highest UK chart position in over a decade, since 2001's Cieli di Toscana, and his tenth Top 10 album on the UK album chart, a record for a classical music artist.[9][10]
The album also debuted at No. 10 on the Billboard 200, with 30,000 units sold, marking his eighth Top 10 effort.[11] In addition, the album topped the Classical Crossover Albums chart, making Cinema Bocelli's 11th No. 1, and extending his record for the most chart-topping albums among all artists on that chart.[11]
Cinema was also made into a PBS special, filmed on 18 September 2015 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.[12]
The program began airing on THIRTEEN's Great Performances series on 27 November 2015 on PBS stations nationwide, featuring Bocelli and Foster with additional guests including Nicole Scherzinger, as well as film stars John Travolta, Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal and Andy García.[12][13] The Blu-ray was released on 29 April 2016.[14]
"E Più Ti Penso", a song written by Italian composer Ennio Morricone from the film Once Upon a Time in America, was re-recorded as a duet between Bocelli and American singer Ariana Grande.[15] The song debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Digital Songs chart.[16] A music video for the song was released on 13 October 2015.[17]
Standard version[18]Title | Lyrics | Music |
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1. | "Maria" (from West Side Story) | Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim | Bernstein | 3:13 |
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2. | "La chanson de Lara" (from Doctor Zhivago) | Paul Francis Webster, Ithier Hubert | Maurice Jarre | 3:15 |
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3. | "Moon River" (from Breakfast at Tiffany's) | Johnny Mercer | Henry Mancini | 3:49 |
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4. | "E più ti penso" (duet with Ariana Grande) (from Once Upon a Time in America and Malèna) | Mogol, Tony Renis | Ennio Morricone | 4:28 |
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5. | "Be My Love" (from The Toast of New Orleans) | Sammy Cahn | Nicholas Brodszky | 2:54 |
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6. | "The Music of the Night" (from The Phantom of the Opera) | Charles Hart, Richard Stilgoe | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 3:57 |
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7. | "Por una cabeza" (from Scent of a Woman) | Alfredo Le Pera | Carlos Gardel | 3:22 |
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8. | "Sorridi amore vai" (from Life Is Beautiful) | Noa, Gil Dor, Roberto Benigni | Nicola Piovani | 3:22 |
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9. | "Mi mancherai" (from Il Postino) | Marco Marinangeli | Luis Bacalov, Riccardo del Turco, Paolo Margheri | 5:06 |
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10. | "Cheek to Cheek" (duet with Veronica Berti) (from Top Hat) | Irving Berlin | Berlin | 2:56 |
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11. | "Brucia la Terra" (from The Godfather) | Giuseppe Rinaldi | Giovanni Rota | 4:16 |
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12. | "No Llores Por Mi Argentina" (duet with Nicole Scherzinger) (from Evita) | Webber, Tim Rice, J. Carreras, I. Artime Granda, J. Azpilicuieta Perez | Webber, Tim Rice | 4:24 |
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13. | "Nelle tue mani (Now We Are Free)" (from Gladiator) | Matteo Curallo | Lisa Gerrard, Klaus Badelt, Hans Zimmer | 4:21 |
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Ennio Morricone
4:28 | 5. | "Be My Love" (from The Toast of New Orleans) | Sammy Cahn | Nicholas Brodszky | 2:54 |
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6. | "The Music of the Night" (from The Phantom of the Opera) | Charles Hart, Richard Stilgoe | Andrew Lloyd Webber | 3:57 |
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7. | "Brucia la Terra" (from The Godfather) | Giuseppe Rinaldi | Giovanni Rota | 4:16 |
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8. | "Por una cabeza" (from Scent of a Woman) | Alfredo Le Pera | Carlos Gardel | 3:22 |
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9. | "No Llores Por Mi Argentina" (duet with Nicole Scherzinger) (from Evita) | Webber, Tim Rice, J. Carreras, I. Artime Granda, J. Azpilicuieta Perez | Webber, Tim Rice | 4:24 |
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10. | "L'amore è una cosa meravigliosa" (from Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing) | Paul Francis Webster, Alberto Curci | Sammy Fain | 3:24 |
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11. | "Mi mancherai" (from Il Postino) | Marco Marinangeli | Luis Bacalov, Riccardo del Turco, Paolo Margheri | 5:06 |
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12. | "Cheek to Cheek" (duet with Veronica Berti) (from Top Hat) | Irving Berlin | Berlin | 2:56 |
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13. | "Sorridi amore vai" (from La vita è bella) | Noa, Gil Dor, Roberto Benigni | Nicola Piovani | 3:22 |
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14. | "Historia de Amor" (from Love Story) | Francis Lai, Andy Williams | Lai | 4:29 |
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15. | "Ol' Man River" (from Show Boat) | Oscar Hammerstein II | Jerome Kern | 4:07 |
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16. | "Nelle tue mani (Now We Are Free)" (from Gladiator) | Matteo Curallo | Lisa Gerrard, Klaus Badelt, Hans Zimmer | 4:21 |
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