The Music Pages | April 2008


	Cat. No.: 530 7654 Barcode: 0600753076545 Label: Universal CD Release Date: 26 April			ANDRÉ RIEU & MIRUSIA \| Waltzing Matilda ARTISTS André Rieu Mirusia - soprano Johann Strauss Orchestra TRACK LISTING 1. Wiener Melange 2. Scarborough Fair - featuring Mirusia 3. Waltzing Matilda (instrumental version) 4. Treasure Waltz 5. La Vergine degli angeli ( from La forza del destino) - featuring Mirusia 6. Wine, Women and Song 7. Botany Bay - featuring Mirusia 8. Du und du (You and You: Waltz) 9. Thorn Birds: theme 10. I still call Australia home - featuring Mirusia 11. Viennese Citizen 12. Benedictus (Saint Cecilia Mass) - featuring Mirusia 13. Charmaine 14. Wishing you were somehow here again - featuring Mirusia 15. Fledermaus Quadrille 16. Tie me kangaroo down - featuring Mirusia 17. Home among the Gumtrees -featuring Mirusia 18. Waltzing Matilda - featuring Mirusia André Rieu achieved record status when he was declared the best-selling Universal artist in any genre in 2007. Hot on the heels of his enormous success and in the lead up to the much-anticipated World Stadium Tour in November/December this year, where he will perform in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, comes his most anticipated recording and his gift to all Australians. Together with Brisbane soprano Mirusia, who now lives in Holland and is part of André’s entourage, his next release is an album called Waltzing Matilda. Given his deep and abiding love for Australia coupled with the fact that he is the undisputed modern “King of the Waltz”, this is a perfect offering. The album includes half a dozen Australian songs, sumptuously arranged for voice (Mirusia), solo violin (André), orchestra and choir – Botany Bay, Waltzing Matilda, I Still Call Australia Home, The Gum Tree, Tie Me Kangaroo Down…. André will be including these tracks on not only the Australian leg of his tour but also in concerts he is giving worldwide and they will form part of a DVD to be released in time with the tour. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 174 9051 Barcode: 0602517490512 Label: UCJ CD Release Date: 12 April			MIKE OLDFIELD \| Music of the Spheres ARTISTS Mike Oldfield TRACK LISTING 1 Harbinger 2 Animus 3 Silhouette 4 Shabda 5 The Tempest 6 Harbinger reprise 7 On My Heart 8 Aurora 9 Prophecy 10 On My Heart reprise 11 Harmonia Mundi 12 The Other Side 13 Empyrean 14 Musica Universalis Mike Oldfield has always been famed for his unconventional approach to music. Throughout his career he has consistently broken musical boundaries, and with Music of the Spheres he continues to do so. Taking influences from Holst and Rachmaninov as much as Steve Reich or William Orbit, this piece is classical in nature, but yet is also immediately identifiable as classic Mike Oldfield. Using a full concert orchestra and choir, and with solo parts from Mike himself on guitar, legendary soprano Hayley Westenra and renowned pianist Lang Lang, this is a work with huge emotional and musical scope. And whilst the piece was entirely conceived, produced and written by Mike, in order to translate his ideas into traditional classical notation arranged for musicians to play, he turned to popular modern classical composer Karl Jenkins. The title of the piece is a reference to something that Mike feels strongly: that all music should aim to represent the spiritual, or otherworldly elements of life: something beyond the mundane and everyday. In this he has clearly succeeded. Music of the Spheres is by turns epic, tender, mournful and triumphant. It is the work of a composer who above all can make beautiful and substantial music, regardless of genre or instrumentation. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 478 0029 Barcode: 0028947800293 Label: Decca CD Release Date: 5 April			CHRIS BOTTI \| Italia ARTISTS Chris Botti, trumpet TRACK LISTING Italia (with Andrea Bocelli) Estate Venice I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face (with Dean Martin) Caruso The Very Thought of You (Paula Cole) The Way You Look Tonight It Never Entered My Mind Gabriel’s Oboe (The Mission) Ave Maria Debra’s Theme (Once Upon A Time In America) Nessun Dorma (Turandot) The trumpet phenomenon Chris Botti bridges musical genres in this beautiful album inspired by the romance of Italy, luxuriating in melody and mood, and including a specially written duet with star tenor Andrea Bocelli. A musical phenomenon in the United States, Botti has demonstrated his ability to transcend the jazz world and reach out to a much wider adult audience. His solo recordings have sold over 2 million copies in the US alone, and have consistently appeared within the top 50 of the Billboard charts. His new album, Italia, is a collection of songs and music inspired by the beauty and romance of Italy, drawing on sources from classical opera to the lush soundtracks of Ennio Morricone. The album includes the title track ‘Italia’, a passionate duet with Andrea Bocelli, written by 14-time Grammy Award winner producer/songwriter David Foster. Botti accompanies Dean Martin on a performance originally recorded in 1957, ‘I’ve Grown Accustomed To Her Face’. Botti recorded this track at Capitol Studios in the same room as Dean Martin recorded his vocals. There is also a duet with Paula Cole ‘The Very Thought Of You’. ‘Ave Maria’ includes a 60-piece choir. Finally, on ‘Nessun Dorma’ classical elements take over from the jazz, demonstrating the diversity of styles and textures Botti so cleverly utilises. ‘Italia is a more powerful work than its individual cuts allow: each song affects the next, creating a meditative symphony.’ The Boston Globe ‘It was Botti’s virtuosic trumpet work, his inventive melody-making, his engaging onstage presence... that ruled the evening.’ Los Angeles Times ‘No instrumental artist with jazz roots, Wynton Marsalis included, is hotter than Botti.’ Boston Herald ‘His playing carries all the hallmarks of a great tenor – a lightness of tone in the middle register, easy power on the high notes and rich warmth in the lower register.’ The Globe and Mail, Canada RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 476 6469 Barcode: 0028947664697 Label: ABC Classics 5CD Release Date: 5 April			VARIOUS ARTISTS \| The Classic 100 – The Ultimate Top 10 Collection ARTISTS Various TRACK LISTING Classic 100: MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A major – Allegro VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending (excerpt) BEETHOVEN: Ode to Joy, from Symphony No. 9 ‘Choral’ BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5 ‘Emperor’ – Rondo allegro BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto – Larghetto BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’ – Allegretto BIZET: The Pearl Fishers – Au fond du temple saint (In the Depths of the Temple) HANDEL: Messiah – Hallelujah ALLEGRI: Miserere (excerpt) R. STRAUSS: Four Last Songs – Frühling (Spring) Classic 100 Piano: BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor ‘Moonlight’ – Adagio sostenuto J.S. BACH: Goldberg Variations – Aria DEBUSSY: Clair de lune SATIE: Gymnopédie No. 1 BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor ‘Pathétique’ – Adagio cantabile SCHUBERT: Impromptu in G-flat major, D899 No. 3 ALLEN: The Celebrated Chop Waltz, ‘Chopsticks' J.S. BACH: The Well-Tempered Clavier – Prelude in C major, BWV846 SCHUBERT: Piano Sonata No. 21 in B-flat major, D960 – Allegro, ma non troppo BEETHOVEN: Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor ‘Appassionata’ – Allegro assai SCHUMANN: Kinderszenen – Of Foreign Lands and People CHOPIN: Étude in A-flat minor, Op. 25 No. 1 RACHMANINOV: Prelude No. 1 in C-sharp minor, Op. 3 No. 2 LISZT: Liebestraum in A-flat major, S541 No. 3 NYMAN: The Heart Asks Pleasure First, from The Piano BRAHMS: Waltz in A-flat major, Op. 39 No. 15 BEETHOVEN: Für Elise SINDING: Frühlingsrauschen (Rustle of Spring) SCULTHORPE: Left Bank Waltz Classic 100 Opera: BIZET: The Pearl Fishers – Au fond du temple saint (In the Depths of the Temple) VERDI: Nabucco – Va, pensiero (Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves) DELIBES: Lakmé – Flower Duet MOZART: Così fan tutte – Soave sia il vento (Act I Trio) PURCELL: Dido and Aeneas – Thy hand, Belinda…When I am laid in earth (Dido's Lament) PUCCINI: Madama Butterfly – Un bel dì (One fine day) WAGNER: Tristan and Isolde – Liebestod (Love-Death) VERDI: Rigoletto – Un dì, se ben rammentomi...Bella figlia dell'amore (Act III Quartet) GLUCK: Orfeo ed Euridice – Che farò senza Euridice R. STRAUSS: Der Rosenkavalier – Marie Theres'...Ist ein Traum...Spür nur dich (Act III Trio) MOZART: The Magic Flute – O Isis und Osiris HANDEL: Rinaldo – Lascia ch'io pianga GODARD: Jocelyn – Oh! Ne t'éveille pas encore (Berceuse) MOZART: Don Giovanni – Deh vieni alla finestra (Serenade) MONTEVERDI: The Coronation of Poppea – Pur ti miro PUCCINI: Gianni Schicchi – O mio babbino caro Classic 100 Mozart: MOZART: Clarinet Concerto in A major – Adagio Ave verum Corpus Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major ‘Elvira Madigan’ – Andante Così fan tutte – Soave sia il vento Requiem – Lacrimosa Solemn Vespers of a Confessor – Laudate Dominum The Magic Flute – Der Hölle Rache (Queen of the Night Aria) Serenade in B-flat major ‘Gran partita’ – Adagio Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major – Adagio Exsultate, jubilate – Alleluja The Marriage of Figaro – Overture Piano Sonata in A major – Allegretto ‘Alla turca’ Symphony No. 40 in G minor – Molto allegro Requiem – Dies irae The Magic Flute – Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja (The Birdcatcher’s Song) Piano Sonata in A major – Theme: Andante grazioso The Magic Flute – Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen The Abduction from the Seraglio – O, wie will ich triumphieren Classic 100 Concertos: BEETHOVEN: Piano Concerto No. 5 ‘Emperor’ – Adagio un poco moto RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor – Moderato BEETHOVEN: Violin Concerto – Rondo BRUCH: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor – Finale ELGAR: Cello Concerto in E minor – Adagio – Moderato MOZART: Clarinet Concerto – Adagio RODRIGO: Concierto de Aranjuez – Adagio J.S.BACH: Concerto for two violins in D minor – Vivace TCHAIKOVSKY: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B-flatminor – Allegro non troppo e molto maestoso (excerpt) RACHMANINOV: Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor – Allegro ma non troppo ABC Classic FM’s annual Classic 100 survey of Australia’s favourite music has been a runaway success and the albums deriving from it have been bestsellers, their combination of superb performances and much-loved classics having proved appealing to both classical music experts and novices alike. Now in a stunning 5-CD package of the Top 10 choices from each series, you can own the crème-de-la-crème of the classical music repertoire, covering piano, opera, concerto, Mozart and the very first Classic 100. This is a must-have recording for anyone who has ever been moved by the power and beauty of classical music. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 480 0930 Barcode: 0028948009305 Label: ABC Classics CD Release Date: 12 April			VARIOUS ARTISTS \| Music and My Mum ARTISTS Various artists TRACK LISTING BIZET: Habanera (Carmen) GEMINIANI: Lady Ann Bothwel’s Lament PUCCINI: Che gelida manina (La bohème) PUCCINI: Mi chiamano Mimì (La bohème) LISZT: Ricordanza (Remembrance) (Transcendental Studies) J.S. BACH/GOUNOD: Ave Maria WILLIAMS: Ferry Me Across the Water MURRAY: I’ll Walk Beside You MOZART: Andantino (Flute and Harp Concerto) GODARD: Berceuse (Jocelyn) ALBÉNIZ: Tango (España) SONDHEIM: Goodbye for Now WELCH: Waratah and Wattle ISAACS: Heal Thyself O’BOYLE: Dolphin Dreams (Riversymphony) LEHÁR: Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (The Land of Smiles) LEHÁR: Vilia (The Merry Widow) SCULTHORPE: Left Bank Waltz To celebrate Mother’s Day 2008, ABC Classics invited its leading recording artists to nominate tracks that were in some way special to them and their mothers and to explain their reasons for the choice. What did soprano Yvonne Kenny choose for her Mum? Or tenor David Hobson? Or guitarist Karin Schaupp, or composer Peter Sculthorpe? Find out in Music and My Mum, and read the sometimes funny, often deeply moving descriptions of the irresistible bond between Australia’s leading musicians and their mums. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 476 6483 Barcode: 0028947664833 Label: ABC Classics CD Release Date: 19 April			ADAM LOPEZ \| Until the End of Time ARTISTS Adam Lopez, vocals TRACK LISTING Till the End of Time Careless Whisper Baila Baila Fantasy Ain’t That the Way Ven, devórame otra vez Amor anónimo Moliendo Café All I Know Gotta Get It A Day in the Life of a Fool O sole mio Bésame mucho Stay with Me Listed in the Guinness Book of Records for possessing the world’s biggest vocal range, Adam Lopez is a phenomenon. Add that incredible eight-octave span to fantastic Latin-style pop and you have Till the End of Time, a hit-filled album whose grooves will get you on your feet and whose high notes simply have to be heard to be believed. RETURN TO THE TOP

	Cat. No.: 476 6475 Barcode: 0028947664758 Label: ABC Classics 3CD Release Date: 19 April			JANE RUTTER \| Jane Rutter Collection ARTISTS Jane Rutter, flute TRACK LISTING Mozart's Flute MOZART: Flute Concerto No. 2 in D major, KV314 MOZART: Andante in C major for flute and orchestra, KV315 MOZART: Concerto for flute and harp in C major, KV299 (297c) Apasionada PESSARD: Bolero VILLA-LOBOS: Cantilena (Bachianas brasilieras No. 5) RAVEL: Bolero ANONYMOUS: Spanish Love Song FALLA: Three Popular Spanish Songs RAVEL: Pièce en forme de Habanera BIZET: Intermezzo BRUMBY: Two Exotic Dances IBERT: Entr'acte PESSARD: Andalouse FAURÉ: Pavane ALMEIDA: Choro and Batuque DELIBES: Flower Duet (Lakmé) LE BORNE: Fantasia Brillante on themes from Bizet's Carmen Preludes and Nocturnes CHOPIN: Nocturne, Op. 9 No. 1 & No. 2 CHOPIN: Nocturne, Op. 15 No. 2 CHOPIN: Nocturne, Op. 27 No. 2 CHOPIN: Nocturne, Op. 32 No. 1 CHOPIN: Prélude, Op. 28 No. 4 DEBUSSY: Prélude (Suite bergamasque) DEBUSSY: Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque) DEBUSSY: La fille aux cheveux de lin (Préludes Book I) DEBUSSY: Arabesque No. 1 DEBUSSY: The Little Shepherd (Children's Corner Suite) DEBUSSY: Bruyères (Préludes Book II) DEBUSSY: La plus que lente She pioneered the pop-classical crossover in Australia and now flautist Jane Rutter’s trail-blazing first three albums are available for the first time as a 3-CD boxed set. From Mozart conducted by Richard Bonynge to Chopin’s Nocturnes, hypnotic masterpieces by Debussy and on to steamy and sensual Spanish exotica, this is the irresistible flute music that propelled Jane Rutter to the top of the classical charts. RETURN TO THE TOP