Financial Times, October 7, 2016

by: Richard Fairman

Dolce Vita — review

The tenor’s singing smoulders with lustrous tone in this disc of Italian songs that includes many of the usual favourites In readiness for the Christmas market the world’s star German operatic tenor is heading for some winter sunshine. Jonas Kaufmann’s disc of Italian popular songs includes many of the usual favourites, like “Torna a Surriento” and “Volare”. Closely miked, his singing smoulders with lustrous tone and the arrangements of the (rather scrappy) Palermo orchestra conducted by Asher Fisch bring to mind feel-good Italian movies of the 1960s. The tenor’s admirers will have little cause for complaint. This really was prime territory for Luciano Pavarotti, though. His voice shone like the Italian sun.