L'allieva

{{Infobox album

| name = L'allieva

| type = Studio

| artist = Mina

| cover = L'allieva.jpeg

| alt =

| released = {{start date|2005|11|11|df=y}}

| recorded = 2005

| venue =

| studio = Studi GSU, Lugano

| genre = Jazz

| length = 62:42

| label = PDU

| producer = Massimiliano Pani

| chronology = Mina studio albums

| prev_title = Bula Bula

| prev_year = 2005

| next_title = Bau

| next_year = 2006

}}

L'allieva is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, released on 11 November 2005 by PDU. The albums pays homage to the songs of Frank Sinatra, by whom Mina has been greatly influenced. The album reached the fourth place in the Italian chart, and its sales exceeded the threshold of 130 thousand copies.{{cite web|url= http://www.musicaedischi.it/mdonline/6937.pdf|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150526212820/http://www.musicaedischi.it/mdonline/6937.pdf|title=Ricossa nazionale|first=Mario|last=De Luigi|publisher=Musica e Dischi|page=10|url-status= dead|archive-date=26 May 2015|access-date=8 August 2020}}

The first 11 songs are accompanied by a small combo of jazz musicians, ending appropriately with "My Way", while the last 3 recordings are a sort of added bonus tracks, with orchestral strings arrangements by Gianni Ferrio.

Critical reception

The Rockol reviewer Gianni Sibilla stated that this is a beautiful record, perfect for this autumn-winter period, with warm, beautifully arranged songs.{{cite web|url=https://www.rockol.it/recensioni-musicali/album/3126/mina-l-allieva|title=√ Mina - L'allieva - la recensione|last=Sibilla|first=Gianni|date=6 December 2005|language=it|website=Rockol|access-date=16 May 2024}} Claudio Milano of {{ill|OndaRock|it}} praised the album, but noted that this record should be listened to without the desire to resort to comparisons with the originals, given the huge discrepancy in the basic interpretative intentions, as if these were songs recorded for the first time.{{cite web|first=Claudio|last=Milano|url=https://www.ondarock.it/italia/mina-mazzini.htm|title=Mina - biografia, recensioni, streaming, discografia, foto|language=it|website=OndaRock|access-date=16 May 2024}} In 2018, Giorgio Moltisanti from Rolling Stone placed it on the 6th place in the list of Mina's most underrated albums. Moltisanti noted that the great feature of this CD, in addition to the indisputable value of the selected songs, is the gold of respect that shines through from the fourteen tracks included. Mina, in his opinion, interprets songs with measure and thrift, cleansing her style of excesses: Mina sometimes whispers, sighs, dreams, clearly reducing her ego by 4 octaves and 3 tones.{{cite web|first=Giorgio|last=Moltisanti|url=https://www.rollingstone.it/classifiche/classifiche-musica/i-10-album-dimenticati-di-mina/436847/|title=I 10 album dimenticati di Mina|language=it|website=Rolling Stone|date=27 November 2018|access-date=16 May 2024}}

Track listing

{{Track listing

| total_length = 62:46

| title1 = These Foolish Things (Remind Me of You)

| writer1 = {{hlist|Eric Maschwitz|Jack Strachey}}

| length1 = 5:32

| title2 = The Nearness of You

| writer2 = {{hlist|Hoagy Carmichael|Ned Washington}}

| length2 = 3:28

| title3 = Once I Loved (O Amor em Paz)

| writer3 = {{hlist|Antônio Carlos Jobim|Vinícius de Moraes|Ray Gilbert}}

| length3 = 6:17

| title4 = One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)

| writer4 = {{hlist|Johnny Mercer|Harold Arlen}}

| length4 = 4:40

| title5 = Angel Eyes

| writer5 = {{hlist|Matt Dennis|Earl Brent}}

| length5 = 6:20

| title6 = Blue Moon

| writer6 = {{hlist|Richard Rodgers|Lorenz Hart}}

| length6 = 6:19

| title7 = Strangers in the Night

| writer7 = {{hlist|Eddie Snyder|Charlie Singleton|Bert Kaempfert}}

| length7 = 4:04

| title8 = All the Way

| writer8 = {{hlist|Jimmy Van Heusen|Sammy Cahn}}

| length8 = 4:42

| title9 = Goodbye

| writer9 = Gordon Jenkins

| length9 = 2:55

| title10 = Dindi

| writer10 = {{hlist|Jobim|Aloísio de Oliveira|Gilbert}}

| length10 = 4:53

| title11 = My Way (Comme d’habitude)

| writer11 = {{hlist|Gilles Thibault|Paul Anka|Claude François|Jacques Revaux}}

| length11 = 2:39

| title12 = Only the Lonely

| writer12 = {{hlist|Van Heusen|Cahn}}

| length12 = 4:32

| title13 = April in Paris

| writer13 = {{hlist|Vernon Duke|Yip Harburg}}

| length13 = 2:41

| title14 = Laura

| writer14 = {{hlist|Mercer|David Raksin}}

| length14 = 3:41

}}

Charts

=Weekly charts=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"

|+ Weekly chart performance for L'allieva

! scope="col" | Chart (2005)

! scope="col" | Peak
position

{{album chart|Italy|4|artist=Mina|album=L'allieva|rowheader=true|access-date=16 May 2024}}

=Year-end charts=

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center" \|+ Year-end chart performance for L'allieva ! scope="col" \| Chart (2005) ! scope="col" \| Position
scope="row" \| Italian Albums (FIMI){{cite web\|url=https://www.fimi.it/top-of-the-music/classifiche.kl#/charts/11/2005/0\|title=Classifica annuale 2005 (dal 03.01.2005 al 01.01.2006)\|language=it\|publisher=FIMI\|access-date=16 May 2024}} \| 38

class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:center"

|+ Year-end chart performance for L'allieva

! scope="col" | Chart (2005)

! scope="col" | Position

scope="row" | Italian Albums (FIMI){{cite web|url=https://www.fimi.it/top-of-the-music/classifiche.kl#/charts/11/2005/0|title=Classifica annuale 2005 (dal 03.01.2005 al 01.01.2006)|language=it|publisher=FIMI|access-date=16 May 2024}}

| 38

References

External links

{{Discogs master|421973|L'allieva|type=album}}

Category:2005 albums

Category:Mina (Italian singer) albums

Category:Frank Sinatra tribute albums

Category:Albums produced by Massimiliano Pani

Category:Jazz albums by Italian artists