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Andreas Scholl in New York
40 years of Pavarotti
The radiant voice of Barbara Bonney
Festival season once again!
Bond in the UK
Cinema Italiano
Wagner Ring on DVD Video
Andreas Scholl in New York
Andreas Scholl has recently been in New York recording his latest album. 'Wayfaring Stranger' is an album of folksongs and features the exquisite lute playing of Edin Karamazov who contributed to Andreas' previous album 'A Musicall Banquet'. Andreas has taken time out from his busy schedule to send us his diary which gives a fascinating insight in to the recording process, and comes complete with Andreas' personal photographic record of the sessions
See more at www.deccaclassics.com/andreasscholl.
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40 Years of Pavarotti
Pavarotti was back on stage in the UK recently, when he wowed the crowds in Hyde Park, London - performing to 70,000 people at an outdoor charity concert. Our celebration of Pavarotti's 40th anniversary of his performing career continues with the recent release of Amore: The Essential Romantic Collection and the imminent release of a comprehensive survey of Pavarotti’s finest recordings, available in a 10CD box set with additional items, the 1964 EP (the first Decca recordings, never before on CD) and an 80-page souvenir album of Pavarotti’s recording career in pictures. Starting this month, we're going to publish excerpts from the booklet notes by John Steane, beginning with the notes from the CD devoted to Bellini. Read the Bellini notes at Pavarotti's homepage
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The Radiant Voice of Barbara Bonney
Barbara Bonney has
recently hosted the annual Cardiff Singer of the Year in the UK, and
has also found time in her busy schedule to contribute 3 tracks to
the John Williams-composed soundtrack for Steven Speilberg's box
-office smash film AI (Artificial Intelligence). This month we also
release a sumptuous collection of Barbara Bonney's finest moments
which includes the previously unreleased track "Presentation of the
Rose"
For more about "The Radiant Voice of Barbara Bonney", click here
For more about Cardiff singer of the year see the BBC Wales website back to top
Festival season once again!
Summer is here and it's festival time for Decca and Philips. The Salzburg festival this year features performances from Alfred Brendel with Sir Simon Rattle, Valery Gergiev, and Cecilia Bartoli with Jean-Yves Thibaudet. For more details, got towww.salzburgfestival.com.
In London, the world-famous Proms get underway shortly. This year sees the Proms debut of Renée Fleming, performing Mozart and Strauss and Michel Camilio will also be debuting at the Proms with his piano concerto from his forthcoming new album. For more about the Proms, go to
BBC Proms website
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Bond in the UK
Bond return to tour the UK in the autumn, fresh from the success of their recent world tour and global album sales of 1 million. An exciting new live DVD is in the pipeline also - come back next month for more details. For more about the band and tour dates, go to www.bond-music.com
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Cinema Italiano
Cinema Italiano is an album of new recordings and arrangements of the greatest theme tunes from legendary Italian and Americano-Italian cinema, performed by some of today's leading vocal and instrumental artists. There will be a rare opportunity to see Cinema Italiano in concert in Reggio Emilia, Italy on 16 September: Organised by the project co-ordinator and flautist on the album, Andrea Griminelli, the event will feature Sting, Deborah Harry, Filippa Giordano, Lucio Dalla and Luis Bacalov conducting the Parma Orchestra.
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Wagner Ring on DVD
The great Bayreuth Centenary Ring Cycle under Boulez is now the first internationally available complete Ring Cycle on DVD in glorious stereo surround sound. The enormously well respected, ground-breaking production features an outstanding cast led by great Wagnerians Dame Gwyneth Jones as Brünnhilde and Donald McIntyre as Wotan.
The DVD release of this legendary Bayreuth production of Wagner’s Ring marks a notable first for Philips. Not only has Patrice Chéreau’s once-shocking production acquired the status of the most trenchant modern interpretation of the cycle, but this will be the first ever Ring to appear on DVD Video.
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