Product Details
- Artist: Il Divo
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- Binding: Audio CD
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- EAN: 0827969396322
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- Label: Sony
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- Manufacturer: Sony
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- Number of Discs: 1
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- Product Group: Music
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- Publisher: Sony
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- Release Date: 2005-04-19
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- Studio: Sony
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- Title: Il Divo
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- UPC: 827969396322
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Avg Customer Rating: 
Product Description: While not exactly classical crossover's take on The Monkees, this international quartet of young male vocalists from America, France, Spain, and Switzerland shares a similar genesis. Assembled after a long talent search and audition process, they were teamed with pop producers Per Magnusson and David Krueger (Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys) and Steve Mac (Charlotte Church, Kelly Clarkson) and turned loose on a slate of classical-pop favorites, with a dramatic, dynamically nuanced read of Toni Braxton's signature "Unbreak My Heart" setting the standard. While the deceptive ease of their harmonies belie the group's disparate nationalities and talent search roots on the melodramatic "Hoy Que Ya No Estas Aqui," Morricone's glorious Mission theme, "Nella Fantasia" and the cascading "Passera," the album's pop-oriented material is a decidedly more mixed bag ."Everytime I Look at You" and "Feelings" (not Morris Albert's) soar gracefully, while "The Man You Love" seems more a throwback to the producers' boy band roots. The standard "My Way" and a lovely, bonus cut Italian version of "Unchained Melody" close the album out on a high note, even if their safe familiarity doesn't offer the promising quartet a sufficient musical challenge. --Jerry McCulley [NOTE: A DualDisc version including DVD is now available.] More Divine Crooners to Explore 
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Customer Reviews
Enjoyable, but not incredible
Do you like to listen to music on your Walkman as you take your daily stroll? Do you like background music during a nice dinner, or while you are reading? Do you enjoy lush harmonies? Then this recording is for you.
Do you want music you can analyze and categorize? Then pass this one up.
For me, the pluses of the disc: For the most part, the orchestrations support and complement the singers. The four part harmonies are delightful.
The minuses: It all sounds alike. Nothing on the recording reaches out and grabs your attention. "Unchained Melody" and "My Way" begin as if they are going to be different; then they quickly gravitate into the sameness.
Don't throw the recording away. Just listen to it under the right conditions, and enjoy it for what it is.
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Il Divo
My new favorite singers! They're so great, I get chill bumps listening to them. I hope to collect all their recorded music.
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hot
got these as gifts in 2006. very hot guys with hot voices to match. i have all of their cds now.
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My Way
When my day is going the wrong way, I simply put on my headset and turn on Il Divo and listen to this album because of the very last song, "My Way". That is how I get through back in control of the worst of the situations - my way. It puts everything back in perspective.
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Average
I was not as pleased with this cd as I hope to be, but it is an okay compilation. Perhaps other cds by this artist are better? The artists are talented but some of the songs are lacking.
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