ADRIANO MONTEDURO & REALE ACCADEMIA DI MUSICA

This album has very little to do with the great debut of the band released two years prior to this work. The wording that James is using in his review are rather appropriate: it is an album from Adriano Monteduro backed with Reale Accademia. Only that from the original line-up, only two members survived (Federico Troiani and Roberto Senzasono). So, it is half of the band which is giving a hand to Adriano Monteduro.

The music one can discover here is more folkish than Italian symphonic IMO and it is quite misleading for the ones who thought of getting genuine and great music like we are used to with this genre.

Folk tunes like Buongiorno Nel Bosco are mixed with more straight forward rock (La Favola.). A bombastic feeling is provided thanks to some fine keyboards and when the whole cools down, I admit that the moving melody is superbly sung by Monteduro. It is probably the best and the most complex song from this album.

This work sounds definitely too folkish for me. Italian folk.not my cup of tea to be tell the truth (Le Figlie Dell'erba ). Pastoral atmosphere (Mezzogiorno, and Una Canzione, Suoni Di Umanitá) to close this quite album. Since I was expecting something totally different, I can't be really enthusiast about this recording. The rocking Le Montagne Nel Tramonto is still a good composition

Two stars. It is not because songs are sung in Italian that they do belong top the genre I praise so much: Italian symphonic. There is nothing (or very little) as such here.