For me this compilation is great for an introduction to Lucio Battisti musical world. That is a magical world. My answer to the question if Lucio Battisti is a Prog artist is simple. Lucio Battisti is not a Prog artist but at the same time is the first Italian Prog Artist. Battisti's compositions are a sort of POP/ Beat Prog songs as the fact that the rhythmic section isn't POP cause complexity and the rest of melody is not made by guitars, orchestra or keyboards but from vocals, cause the intricate figure of various instruments that not have true rhythmic riffs. Ok, the final result is a melody but because the stratification of the various instruments is an explosion of melody. I see various scores and I struggled quite a little to understand something. Not because the use of complex times signature is in Battisti's music... Normal Rock in 4/4 is normal but the complexity of arrangements and of single musical figures is the norm. In this sense The Nice is a good band that this concept has evolved, rather than The Moody Blues or Procol Harum. The final result is not Prog but it is more that symphonic POP.

This compilation presnt 16 composition by Lucio Battisti (music) and Mogol (lyrics) from 1968, 1969, 1970 and 1971, all Battisti's evergreen and for this motive great for a good introduction in Battisti's musical world. A world that a progsters should definitely know to understand the origins of his preferred music.

As a correct view I think that this compilation, for the songs that contain, deserve five stars.