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ARTISTS
Fionnuala Sherry, violin
Rolf Lovland, piano / composer
Russell Watson, vocals
Saoirse, vocals
Jan Werner, vocals
Asa Jinder, keyharp
Bian Liunian, erhu
Irish Film Orchestra
John Finucane

TRACKLISTING

1. Sometimes When It Rains
2. Fields of Fortune (featuring Asa Jinder [keyharp])
3. The Reel
4. Always There (featuring Russell Watson)
5. When Darkness Falls
6. Sleepsong (introducing Saoirse)
7. Lotus (featuring Bian Liunian [erhu])
8. Searching for the Past
9. Daughters of Erin
10. Half A World Away (featuring Jan Werner )
11. Grace (featuring Ole Edvard Antonsen [trumpet])
12. Raise Your Voices

Earthsongs is Secret Garden's fifth studio album. Two years in the making, the album was recorded in a variety of studios in Norway and Ireland.

The lead track Always There is another Lovland/Graham partnership. Featuring the vocals of Russell Watson, the song shows every sign of being a fitting follow-up to the anthemic You Raise Me Up.

The album embraces a wide and varied collection of Norwegian and Irish musicians. Each of them brings their own respective musical influences characterised in such tracks as Daughters of Erin, Sleepsong and Fields of Fortune. Many will remember Saoirse who simply stunned audiences with her presence, beauty and musicianship.

A departure from the traditional Celtic/Nordic approach is Lotus - a stunning track that delights in oriental harmonies and complements the ethos of Secret Garden. It features the renowned Chinese erhu player Bian Liunian.

The final mix of the album was done by Hans Zimmer's sound technician, Alan Mayerson who has worked on numerous Hollywood scores including Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean andThe Last Samurai.

Secret Garden is Fionnuala Sherry & Rolf Løvland. Formed in 1994, they have achieved worldwide sales of 3.5 million and have toured the world extensively, enjoying great success in many continents especially Scandinavia, Asia and Australia, where they toured to huge acclaim in 2004 and are set to tour again in May 2005.

Both from countries rich in musical tradition, Secret Garden fuse their traditional Celtic/Nordic roots with a modern edge. Renowned for their energy as well as their luscious melodies, they produce music that both calms and stimulates.

Composed mainly for the violin, their lyrical themes are very much their trademark with is why so many develop into songs. Heartstrings is still remembered as Barbra Streisand's declaration of love to her husband on their wedding day. The song became   A Love Like Ours . Not wanting to break with tradition, Sometimes When it Rains , the opening track on Earthsongs reappears as Half a World Away towards the end of the album.

Rolf's unforgettable composition, You Raise Me Up (with lyrics by Brendan Graham) became the must-record single since its inclusion on Secret Garden's previous album, Once in a Red Moon. It has now been recorded by 64 artists and is the subject of a new television documentary.

MARKETING PLANS
TV
SBS TV: 6 Weeks from 13 March
Other free-to-air TV advertising for Mother's Day campaign
Ovation: broadcast of 'A Night with Secret Garden' program (May); broadcast of Earthsongs EPK (May)
Satellite interviews - tbc by concert promoter
Live interviews - tbc by concert promoter

RADIO
Tour advertising in all cities of performance, tagging the CD
Albums of the Week on selected talkback stations
Serviced widely to radio stations
Interviews on ABC and talkback radio (live)
Norwegian & Irish community radio

PRESS
All major dailies, tagging CD
Program advertising

PRESS AND PROMOTION CAMPAIGN
Interviews (tbc by concert promoter)
Personal appearances in selected cities (tbc)
Post-concert signings

POINT OF SALE
Posters and flyers being produced
Display budgets available

ONLINE CAMPAIGN
State of the Arts (CD/ticket giveaways)
Mailout to Universal database with special offer for tickets + CD

RETAIL
Selected retail catalogues for Mother's Day
Bookmarks - advertising CD + tour dates
Price drop on back catalogue (tbc)

Tickets go on sale on Monday, 14 March.

ARTISTS
Andrea Bocelli (Werther)
Julia Gertseva (Charlotte)
Natale de Carolis (Albert)
Magali Léger (Sophie)
Giorgio Giuseppini (le Bailli)
Orchestra e Coro do voci bianche del Teatro Comunale do Bologna
Yves Abel

TRACKLISTING
MASSENET : Werther

Following the success of La Bohème, Tosca and Il Trovatore, Andrea Bocelli stars in Massenet's great tragic opera.

A new studio recording of the complete opera Werther by Jules Massenet is always going to be special, but when Andrea Bocelli sings the title role of Werther, it is very special indeed. Bocelli has sung Werther on stage several times to great critical acclaim (including as his USA stage debut) He is joined by r ising mezzo-soprano star Julia Gertseva who sings the role of his beloved Charlotte.

First performed in 1892, Massenet's opera is based on the 18th-century novel by the German writer Goethe which tells of the doomed love between the young Romantic poet Werther and the faithful Charlotte, who promised her dying mother that she would marry another man. Massenet's great gift was for deeply felt melody, and Werther contains some of his most beautiful and deeply felt music.

The title role of Werther is one of the most intense and dramatic tenor roles in all opera and a superb showcase for Andrea Bocelli. Ranging from the heights of joy to the depths of suicidal despair, Werther is swept along on waves of Romantic emotion until the searing drama of the final scene and his dramatic suicide and death in the arms of his beloved Charlotte.

ARTISTS
Anne Sophie Von Otter, mezzo soprano
Jakob Lindberg, guitar & lute
Anders Ericson, theorbo
Jory Vinikour, harpsichord & organ

TRACKLISTING
FERRARI : Amanti io vo se dire
FRESCOBALDI : Se l'aura spira
DETTO ROMANO : Dovrè dunque morire
MONTEVERDI : Ecco di dolce raggi (Scherzi Musicali)
MONTEVERDI : Quel sguardo sdegnosetto - Madrigali, Canzonette e Scherzi musicali (Book X)
KAPSBERGER : La Capona
MONTEVERDI : Adagiati, Poppea - Oblivion soave (L'incoronazione di Poppea)
STROZZI : L'Eraclito amoroso (Cantate, Ariette e Duetti, Op.2)
STORACE : Ciaccone
PURCELL : Saraband with Division, Z 654
PURCELL : Sweeter than roses
PURCELL : 'Dear pretty youth'
PURCELL : Music for a While (Oedipus)
PURCELL : There's not a swain (Rule a Wife and Have a Wife)
PURCELL : An Evening Hymn, Z 193

A Baroque Recital with Anne Sofie von Otter.

Following on from the success of Lamenti, which she recorded in 1997 with Reinhard Goebel and his musicians, Anne Sofie von Otter now takes us back to the very beginnings of Baroque vocal music, combining Italian pieces with others by the English masters Dowland and Purcell.

Monteverdi is one of the figures to whom she has returned again and again. Her first recording for Deutsche Grammophon's Archiv label, 20 years ago, was as the Messenger in L'Orfeo under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner. Listeners will not be surprised, therefore, to find Arnalta's deeply affecting lullaby 'Adagiati, Poppea' from Poppea among the three Monteverdi pieces included here. 'Monteverdi has this unique flair for harmonization that I love,' says Anne Sofie. 'It's sometimes tricky to sing, but he's one of the greatest composers in the whole history of music.'

'Some months before the recording sessions, we performed this programme in concert, something that seems to me essential if we're to have the time to explore the texts and music and really inhabit them. Apart from Monteverdi and Purcell, a lot of this repertoire was new to me,' explains the singer.

ARTISTS
Engelbert Humperdinck, vocals

TRACKLISTING
Let There Be Love
Just The Two Of Us
It Had To Be You
When You Say Nothing At All
With You I'm Born Again
You Inspire Me
Stand By Me
Three Words Isn't Enough
We're All Alone
There's No Good In Goodbye
Dance With Me
Love Songs
Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman
My Confession

With a career spanning 45 years and over 130 million records sold to an adoring public and played in bedrooms around the world, Engelbert Humperdinck has without doubt earned the title 'the king of romance'. And his newest album - Let There Be Love - is all about romance.

When Engelbert Humperdinck sings Have You Ever Loved A Woman you know for sure he has - fiercely. You would never guess that this collection of songs are all new recordings, as it feels like they have all been written especially for him. Whether it's his elegant country style take on When You Say Nothing At All, or the sheer slinkiness of the standard It Had To Be You, it's all about love, love, love!

The new Decca recording features classics such as the title track (originally sung by Nat King Cole) to contemporary ballads first done by Ronan Keating and Bryan Adams. There are also three brand-new songs. he arrangements are jazzy, 'loungy' and in Engelbert's own words, 'If I hadn't recorded them before you almost can't believe why not!'

All of the songs, including another one of his personal favourites - Boz Scaggs' We're All Alone - sound as if you should be listening to them in a Vegas style theatre. They have elegance and understated passion that comes from a lifetime of loving to perform, loving romantic songs and loving women. It's a silkily seductive combination that takes its foundation in a life lived very much out loud, doing 140 concerts a year. 'Some artists might say it's exhausting. I say it's nothing, a spit in the ocean. Some of the tours I did were 81 nights in a row. I love my job, I love creating new arrangements, and I love the way this album has been arranged for me.'

Engelbert's music has transcended time and his honeyed mellow voice still continues to reach out to people now - serving to transport and inspire us, to embrace and uplift us, and to provoke feelings and emotion ... ingredients that are no doubt the essence of his long-lasting success.

ARTISTS
Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
David Stanhope

TRACKLISTING
TCHAIKOVSKY Andante cantabile, Op. 11
BACH Sinfonia from Christmas Oratorio, BWV248
MASSENET Le dernier sommeil de la Vierge from La Vierge
BERLIOZ Le Repos de la Sainte Famille from L'Enfance du Christ, Op. 25
WALTON/BACH Sheep may safely graze from The Wise Virgins
CHABRIER Idylle from Dix Pièces pittoresques
ELGAR Sospiri, Op. 70
RESPIGHI Italiana from Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 3
RESPIGHI Siciliana from Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 3
SIBELIUS Scenes with cranes, Op. 44 No. 2
CORELLI Pastorale (Largo) from Christmas Concerto, Op. 6 No. 8
KORNGOLD Intermezzo (Garden Scene) from Much Ado About Nothing
GRIEG The wounded heart from Two Elegaic Melodies, Op. 34
GRIEG Last spring from Two Elegaic Melodies, Op. 34
DELIUS Intermezzo from Hassan, RTI/9
DELIUS Serenade from Hassan, RTI/9
GERSHWIN Lullaby

Tranquillity 2 follows the phenomenal success of the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra's 2002 release Tranquillity - the classical music of calm.

Tranquillity 2 draws together another diverse collection of pieces from across the spectrum of orchestral music of the baroque, classical, romantic and 20th-century periods. As with the previous collection, the calming properties of this music can be found not only in the pieces that evoke restful contemplation and reflection but also in music that is infused with joyous exuberance and celebration.

The ability of these pieces to positively affect our state of mind comes from the attention this music draws from us and the journey it invites us to take. The listener can be transported to another plane, through the soaring lyricism or profound simplicity of the melody, or the atmospheric other-world created by the composer's use of harmony and orchestration. This escape from the cares and stresses of the everyday instils a state of calm and a renewed perspective with which to face the world.

Let Tranquillity 2 take you on a journey of freedom and renewal.

MRKETING PLANS:
* National TV promotion on ABC TV
* Extensive reviews and airplay
* Print advertising in Limelight magazine
* National radio promotion on ABC Classic FM