San Remo 2015 - review part one.

I heard a truly nauseating audio. The vocals are too present, the effects are completely wrong. It sounds like they are singing with the microphones from Canta Tu. Disgraceful...

I love Lara Fabian and an audio check like that really does her no justice. I have heard her sing live several times and I have never heard her out of tune by a tenth of a tone. At San Remo, I heard a Fabian who was out of tune and who had many difficulties managing the microphone. Since I have never heard her make so many fa@@@ks at once, I doubt that there are also many fixes being made at the listening level. Tonight it seems a bit better... Perhaps by the end of the festival they will manage to tune the systems properly.

I haven't followed it, but I heard that Albano and Romina sang together again in an unreleased track... was it a comeback?

Here is the second evening :

Nina Zilli
Music: Straight from the '60s, without passing through the station... way past the deadline. 2nd Theme non-existent.
Arrangement: the piano intro is worthy of life imprisonment, the rest works better with good wind instrument treatment. Coherent.
Interpretation: the voice is there, but the whole thing is marred by too much vibrato and too many little squeaks that are otherwise not very in tune.
Score 3

Marco Masini
Music: recreating himself as he was 30 years ago. 1st theme boring and 2nd worse.
Arrangement: neither good nor bad, evanescent.
Interpretation: we know his voice, but here he does even worse by screaming as much as possible. He never sings softly.
Score 2

Anna Tatangelo
Music: The first theme promised well, in perfect Tatangelo style, then it degenerates into boredom.
Arrangement: the piano part is good and the orchestra results well-blended.
Interpretation: she knows how to sing and doesn't lack voice, but in the central section she goes overboard and screams.
Score 5.5

Raf
Music: boredom builds up after just 10 seconds, which is punctually confirmed in the 2nd theme, practically a clone of the 1st
Arrangement: aside from the drums in the style of Bocelli's "Con te partirò", the rest lacks substance.
Interpretation: out of tune and without the slightest dynamics. The orchestra increases in volume and he sings exactly the same.
Score 1

Il Volo
Music: 1st theme boring, the 2nd instead works much better with the expansion. Only flaw: too much Al Bano.
Arrangement: good, quite varied and excellent instrumental blend.
Interpretation: Voice ok, singing a bit less so. They are too busy showing that they have beautiful voices and forget about the

song by exaggerating in the central section.
Score 6

Irene Grandi
Music: good beginning but only that. 2nd theme copied from the first. Positive note: the expansion in the last three quarters of the song.
Arrangement: the good blends of the orchestration are irremediably ruined by the guitar glissandi.
Interpretation: neither good nor bad. She is a professional and it shows... too much.
Score 5

Bianca Atzei
Music: very beautiful piano and cello intro. 1st theme boring, 2nd better. The two themes are well-fitted and complementary in

their diversity.
Arrangement: well done, not too much but not too little either. Strings are very good.
Interpretation: very good dynamics, but she mimics Ferreri and is often out of tune.
Score 5

Moreno
Music: from the introduction it sounded like a song, but it immediately falls back into the limbo of non-music. 3 chords repeated

infinately in a deadly boredom. After a minute you can't wait for it to end.
Arrangement: useless waste of the orchestra. Everything is the same and monotonous.
Interpretation: Unclassifiable. He neither sings nor interprets anything.
Score 0

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YOUTH

Enrico Nigiotti
Music: boring with 2 bars repeated infinitely.
Arrangement: terrible, adds nothing to the song.
Interpretation: anonymous voice without dynamics and screams at the end.
Score 2

Chanti
Music: first theme non-existent, 2nd theme boring to death.
Arrangement: throwaway. The piano is monotonous and the rest of the orchestra acts as an extra.
Interpretation: non-existent dynamics and often from the throat. A pity because the talent is there.
special note: the stylist who chose the dress should be institutionalized.
Score 3

Lorenzo Fragola
Music: seems good from the start, but when he starts to sing/scream everything collapses. A pity because the 2nd theme was good.
Arrangement: good. The choir is ok and so is the orchestra.
Interpretation: non-existent voice. Everything is monotone without dynamics: either loud or soft.
Score 4

Biggio e Mandelli
Music: alternative, a bit comic in the style of Arbore. Actually it is written very well with three themes perfectly fitted together.
Arrangement: excellent use of brass, with the rest of the orchestra providing support.
interpretation: irreverent to the right degree, it hides Biggio's baritone voice which shows he is not lacking in vocal technique.
Score 7

I fully agree with the judgments and ratings you gave. Overall, however, I am not liking this Sanremo at all, apart from a few exceptions. I spent my time laughing when, during the introduction of the first evening, the singers spoke about the subject of their songs, and when Bianca Atzei said she was singing about love, I burst out laughing thinking "An innovative topic and above all never heard before in Italy!", obviously in an ironic tone.

As for my favorite song, at the current state, I feel more attracted to the idea of Grazie by Michele and Mauro Coruzzi, not so much from a musical point of view, but from the point of view of overall beauty given especially by the subject matter and how it is treated.

In my opinion, in any case, the worst were Moreno and Raf; the first is unable to put together a sensible sentence and above all sings like my dog—actually, my dog is an excellent performer (he listens to me while I play and sometimes even sings!), the second was too out of tune and in my opinion he limited himself only to shouting rather than singing. To convey intensity, you don't necessarily have to shout!

For the rest, nothing to say, there are the usual highs and lows, then all these are personal opinions

Dear Friends, aside from M° Ing. Renzi's justified disgust regarding the audio levels (with which I agree), there is little to be done about reviews (with respect, anyway, to those who made them). We know well that in Italy, Lyric Theaters and Orchestras are closing down. Now in Sanremo, at this very moment, I am watching a virtuoso guitarist who is merging rock with opera. Novelty is fine... even the Director of the Conservatory of Rome, imagine, where he studies, called him and complimented him. While he is on air, let it be known that a single evening of Sanremo could keep one of those orchestras alive for a year.... and included in this amount is the fee for Giovanni Allevi, who was on the selection committee!!!! My father's elementary school teacher once said to a lady: "Don't worry, a day will come when donkeys will understand each other"..... Perhaps we are there?

.......Now a group is singing for whom a microphone didn't work.... but it didn't make any difference anyway. Everything based on just two chords and a repeated 'oh'. They won the platinum record. If there had been four chords... perhaps even with a modulation... they would have won the Moon!!!! Carlo Conti, imagine, even asked them what they ate today!!!! Very interesting!!!!

In most cases, those who win prizes (even abroad) are only those who sell more records; Sanremo has only one concern, being interested in listenership (because they talk about nothing else), without taking into account that among the people following it (which is decreasing even further than what Rai considers its television "offering"), there are many who are not satisfied.

Agreed with pianoexpert, too much, too much money in the pockets of people who would benefit from going to break stones. The fees are excessively high given the nonsense regarding the presence of certain people (often guests); it is unacceptable as well as absurd, literally throwing away millions of euros when there are people who know how to play, who could contribute to bringing performances of a certain level to the stage, but who are not given the opportunity to work or whose contracts are not renewed.

Grignani, criticized for singing poorly yesterday, stated that he had technical problems and that tonight he would show what he's made of. What terrible luck... the same technical problems again tonight!

If a stranger sang like Moreno in a third-rate karaoke bar, they would drown him in spit. We are taking him to Sanremo.

Saint Francis spoke to dogs; San Remo even makes them sing.

A little repetition doesn't hurt

For me "singing" means exactly what this extraordinary girl does: making music with the voice. Listen to her because she is amazing. Far from those Sanremo shouters!

http://www.guardachevideo.it/video/3525/canta-un-famoso-brano-di-celine-dion-e-il-pianista-non-crede-alle-sue-orecchie.-sbalorditiva

For me, Platinette and Di Michele should seriously think about expatriating. In life, one must make choices, and you cannot go from being an opinion maker to a musician as if it were nothing without making yourself look ridiculous and pathetic. Doing what is not the result of study and preparation is shameful and offensive to the audience.

In my opinion they will win them

http://www.rai.tv/dl/RaiTV/programmi/media/ContentItem-39691f8c-05a2-4c3f-98e1-4b240e9fd067-sanremo15.html#p=

...and well ...

And it's not just them who think this way (I am talking about those who have a single interest: sales).

I received an email in 2003, I will publish it because it gives an idea of how and what certain bullies who approach the world of music (and not only) think about.

Maybe if I had written "they are not the only ones" it would have been better.