Percy Faith - Delicado & Amour, Amor, Amore (1999)

The sequels-in spirit if not in name-to Percy Faith's earlier albums EXOTIC STRINGS, VIVA!, DELICADO and AMOUR, AMOR, AMORE continue the Toronto-born orchestra leader/arranger's exploration of Latin and southern European rhythms and styles. On DELICADO, Faith adds Brazilian sambas and Caribbean rhumbas to his repertoire, while the more sedate AMOUR, AMOR, AMORE finds Faith delving into French chanson and Italian romantic ballads alongside the Spanish and Portuguese styles he'd worked with before. All of the different styles work quite well with Faith's lush orchestral sense, and it's all very agreeable to those disposed to this sort of thing. Unlike some of the other two-fer CDs of Faith's albums, this 71-minute CD didn't require any songs to be excised from the original vinyl.