We Are Love [Special Edition]

by Il Volo

Overview

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.

Product Details

Release Date:	05/28/2013
Label:	Geffen Records
UPC:	0602537392049
catalogNumber:	001848402
Rank:	51445

Tracks

1. We Are Love
2. Questo Amore
3. Angel
4. Little Things
5. Can You Feel the Love Tonight
6. Surrender
7. Il Canto
8. Historia De Un Amor
9. Maria
10. Beautiful Day
11. I Bring You To My Senses
12. Luna Nascosta

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Volo   Primary Artist
Chuck Berghofer   Bass
Tal Bergman   Drums
Humberto Gatica   Synthesizer Drums
Reggie Hamilton   Bass
Randy Kerber   Synthesizer,Piano,Synthesizer Bass,Drum Loop
Dean Parks   Acoustic Guitar
Kevin Ricard   Percussion
Gregg Field   Drums
Chris Walden   Piano,Synthesizer Bass
Cristián Robles   Synthesizer Drums
Ben Foster   Conductor
Tomer Adaddi   Synthesizer,Piano
Jan Kucera   Conductor
Michael Thompson   Acoustic Guitar,Electric Guitar
Tommy Larson   Background Vocals
Josh Page   Background Vocals
Czech Symphony   Performing Ensemble
Miriam Nemkova   Conductor

Technical Credits

Leonard Bernstein   Composer
Stephen Sondheim   Composer,Lyricist
Elton John   Composer
U2   Composer
Sarah McLachlan   Composer
Luis Bacalov   Composer
Tal Bergman   drum programming
Bono   Composer,Lyricist
Paul Buckmaster   Arranger
Ron Fair   Executive Producer
David Franco   Producer
Humberto Gatica   Composer,Lyricist,Producer,Engineer,Vocal Arrangements,rhythm arrangement
Randy Kerber   Arranger,rhythm arrangement,Orchestral Arrangements
Kenny O'Brien   Vocal Arrangements
Mark Portmann   Arranger,Composer,drum programming
Ramon Stagnaro   Guitar Arrangements
Diane Warren   Composer
Tim Rice   Composer,Lyricist
William Ross   Arranger
Luca Barbarossa   Composer,Lyricist
Steve Leber   Management
Michele Torpedine   Executive Producer,Management
Chris Walden   Arranger
Tony Renis   Composer,Lyricist,Producer,Vocal Arrangements,rhythm arrangement
Gretchen Anderson   Producer
Carlos Eleta Almarán   Composer
Edgar Cortazar   Composer
Romano Musumarra   Composer
Cristián Robles   Engineer
Davide Palmiotto   Engineer
Fiona Bevan   Composer
Irene Silva   Cover Art
Alterisio Paoletti   Arranger
Massimo Guantini   Composer,Lyricist
Jerome Leroy   Arranger
Tomer Adaddi   Rhythm Programming
G.B. (Giambattista) de Curtis   Composer,Lyricist
Ernesto de Curtis   Composer
Michael Thompson   drum programming
Yossi Shakked   Engineer
Christine Wolff   Publicity
Ed Sheeran   Composer
Justine Massa   Creative Coordinator
Lisa DiAngelo   Publicity
Milan Jakl   Engineer
Jordan Leber   Management
Howard Krant   Accounting
Roberta Natali   Accounting
Marco Mariangeli   Composer,Lyricist