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| | Sorted magAZine, Albums, Tito Schipa - Schipa In Neapolitan Song (Nimbus Records) |
 | | Ah, Tito Schipa, the ideal that most modern opera performers aspire to has been dead since 1965. |
 | | He sang schmaltz without being schmaltzy, sang big, pompous songs with such tenderness and off-key frailty that made the songs everyone's, and not just the classics-loving rich and powerful. |
 | | This CD covers most of his best, from Tosti's lively 'A vucchella' (Give me a little kiss, a whole chain of them/then steal one for yourself) to De Curtis's poignant love song 'Tu, can nun chiagne!' (You who don't cry, are making me cry/but all the same, it's you I want). |
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