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Cat. No.: 4800849
Barcode: 0028948008490
Label: Universal 6CD
Release Date: 22 March


André Rieu | The 100 Most Beautiful Melodies


ARTISTS

André Rieu

 

TRACK LISTING

CD 1

1 Second Waltz

2 On the Beautiful Blue Danube

3 Radetzky March

4 Flieger Marsch

5 Artist's Life
6 Thunder and Lightning

7 Village Swallows from Austria

8 Roses from the South

9 Emperor Waltz
10 Skaters' Waltz

11 Wine, Woman and Song

12 Fascination

13 Annen Polka

14 Blaze Away

 

CD 2

1 Boléro

2 Aquarium (Carnival of the Animals)

3 Adagio in G minor

4 Romance (The Gadfly)
5 The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)

6 Serenade

7 Andante (Piano Concerto No. 21 'Elvira Madigan'

8 Adagio (Clarinet Concerto in A major)

9 Concierto de Aranjuez

10 Tristesse (Étude in E major, Op. 10 No. 3)

11 Adagio (Violin Concerto No. 3)

12 Air (Suite No. 3)

13 Morning (Peer Gynt)

14 Winter (The Four Seasons)

15 Lullaby

 

CD 3

1 Barcarolle (The Tales of Hoffmann)

2 Méditation (Thaïs)

3 Habañera (Carmen)

4 O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)

5 Triumphal March (Aida)

6 Prelude – Act I (La Traviata)

7 Prelude – Act I (Carmen)

8 Granada

9 Overture (William Tell)

10 Mein Herr Marquis (Die Fledermaus)

11 Intermezzo Sinfonico (Cavalleria Rusticana)

12 One Fine Day (Madama Butterfly)

13 Lippen Schweigen (The Merry Widow)

14 The White Horse Inn

 

CD 4

1 Ave Maria

2 Auld Lang Syne

3 Greensleeves

4 The Last Rose of Summer

5 Cielito Linda

6 Kalinka

7 España Cani

8 Chianti-Lied

9 Entry of the Gladiators

10 Dark Eyes

11 Mañha de Carnaval

12 Spring Flowers 'Sakura'

13 Silent Night

14 Venez, enfants, approchez-vous – Il est né le divin enfant

15 O Tannenbaum – Little Drummer Boy – Lullaby

16 White Christmas & Jingle Bells

17 Sleigh Ride (Amazing Grace)

18 Oh Happy Day

19 Oh When the Saints: Medley

 

CD 5

1 My Heart Will Go On (Titanic)

2 The Godfather: Main Theme

3 Memory (Cats)

4 Over the Rainbow

5 Romance Anonym

6 Lara's Theme (Dr. Zhivago)

7 I Will Wait For You

8 Limelight: Main Theme

9 Romeo and Juliet: Love Theme (reprise)

10 Once Upon a Time in the West

11 The Third Man: Theme

12 Zorba's Dance

13 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Medley

14 Moon River

15 Don't Cry for me Argentina (Evita)

16 I Could Have Danced All Night (My Fair Lady)

17 I Will Follow Him (Sister Act)

 

CD 6

1 Aimer (Romeo and Juliet)

2 My Way

3 The Rose

4 Strangers in Paradise

5 The Windmills of your Mind

6 Mon Amant de Saint-Jean

7 La Vie en Rose – Padam Padam – Under the Bridges of Paris

8 Chanson D'Amour

9 Douce France

10 Under the Skies of Paris

11 Milord

12 Pour un Flirt

13 Butterfly

14 Moulin Rouge – Paris Canaille

15 Que Sera Sera

16 La Paloma

17 Funiculi Funicula

18 The André Sisters: Medley

19 Glenn Miller Melody (Medley)

Rieu is AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST-SELLING ARTIST and his showmanship and ability to go the core of people’s hearts have earned him a permanent place in the minds of Australians. For a one-stop box of his recorded catalogue, you can’t go past The 100 Most Beautiful Melodies, a 6-CD set complete with a ready-reference A-Z to help you locate your favourite André tracks in an instant.

This set is a one-stop shop for André Rieu’s CD catalogue – the perfect introduction to the man on CD, and as 2008 is our André Rieu Go All Out on CD year, there could be no better possible launch than this. Perfect to pop into the car for long drives too.

Please note that this is, for the moment a one-off LIMITED EDITION manufacture.

The booklet contains a biography of André, as well as a ready-reference A-Z, track by track, crossed referenced with the CDs (in addition to the traditional track listing, CD by CD). So it’s an easy way for all his fans to instantly find which CD in the box set and on which track a particular title appears.

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Cat. No.: 175 5169
Barcode: 0602517551695
Label: UCJ CD
Release Date: 1 March


KATHERINE JENKINS | Rejoice            


ARTISTS

Katherine Jenkins

 

TRACK LISTING

Rejoice
I (Who Have Nothing)
Mascagni: Sancta Maria
Secret Love
Le Cose Che Sei Per Me (The Things You Are To Me)
How Do You Leave The One You Love?
Requiem for a Soldier
Somewhere
Shout In Silence
Be Still My Soul
Kiss From A Rose
I Will Pray For You
Viva Tonight

 

Katherine Jenkins has sold over a staggering 1.5 million records in the UK.
‘Rejoice’ entered the UK pop album charts at number three, beating Kylie Minogue, The Spice Girls and Girls Aloud.

In 2007 Katherine has simultaneously held the No. 1, No. 2 & No. 3 positions in the classical album charts, was the biggest selling classical artist in the UK in 2004, 2005, 2006 and again in 2007 and won the prestigious ‘Album of the Year’ award at the Classical Brits twice in a row in 2005 and 2006.

Katherine is a gold selling artist in Australia (Living A Dream - 2006)

 ‘Rejoice’ – the fifth album of Katherine’s short but phenomenally successful career – features a mixture of love songs and songs of inspiration. “According to letters I’ve had, many people have found that my albums helped them get through some difficult times in their lives and gave them strength when they have needed it,” she adds. “And I want to continue to do that.”

Most of the songs are written and produced especially for Katherine by writers with a string of hits to their name – Swedish duo Per and David (Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake), UK hit maker Steve Mac (Westlife, Toni Braxton), pop idol turned songwriter Gary Barlow (Take That, Blue) and Simon Franglen (Celine Dion, Bee Gees).

Some highlights of Katherine’s career so far have been performing for Her Majesty the Queen, Prince Philip, the Earl and Countess of Wessex and the Duke of Edinburgh at St James’ Palace.

Katherine has performed for the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq over the past 3 years and continues to support the troops abroad. In 2005, Katherine also opened the Tsunami Relief concert in Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium in front of 70,000 people with an emotional performance of Amazing Grace. She then went on to perform at Live 8 in Berlin and the G8 concert in Murrayfield.

Katherine is also the Brand Ambassador for Montblanc and will be launching the 'Power to Write' UNICEF and Montblanc campaign in the UK that supports children's literacy projects across the globe to help erase illiteracy. Katherine will be joining 149 international celebrities, who around the world have committed their time.

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Cat. No.: 480 0718
Barcode: 0028948007189
Label: UCJ 2CD Slimline
Release Date: 1 March


VARIOUS ARTISTS | The No. 1 Classical Album 2008 (SBS)


ARTISTS

Various

 

 

TRACK LISTING

CD1
FRITZ WUNDERLICH: Granada
ANDRE RIEU: The Second Waltz
KATHERINE JENKINS: Sancta Maria
LUCIANO PAVAROTTI: Nessun Dorma
ALL ANGELS: Sancte Deus (Nimrod)
LESLEY GARRETT: Where Do I Begin
MIKE OLDFIELD: On My Heart (feat. Hayley Westenra)
MIRUSIA / ANDRE RIEU: Solveig's Song
WILL MARTIN: Going Home
STING: Flow My Tears
HAYLEY WESTENRA: Shenandoah
RYANDAN: The Prayer
CHOIR OF HARD KNOCKS: Climb ev'ry Mountain / Somewhere
DARIO MARIANELLI: Briony (Atonement OST)
JUAN DIEGO FLÓREZ: Amapola
                 
CD2
ARTHUR FIEDLER: Bach Prelude
BLAKE: Hallelujah
THE FRON MALE VOICE CHOIR: Amazing Grace
HAYLEY WESTENRA & VITTORIO GRIGOLO: Tonight
JONAS KAUFMANN: Wagner Morgenlich…
ALL STARS: World in Union 2007
THE ROYAL SCOTS DRAGOON GUARDS: Sailing
ALED JONES: My Little Welsh Home
ELIN MANAHAN THOMAS: Eternal Source of Light Divine
KENNETH MCKELLAR: Where'er you walk
BRYN TERFEL: Toreador Song
JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER: Pie Jesu
THE SIXTEEN: Grieg: Ave Maris Stella
ANNA NETREBKO: Quando Men Vo
DAVID GARRETT: Flight of the Bumble Bee
KREMER: Piazzolla Fuga e misterio

An all-star classical action-packed thrilling 2CD set. SBS-TV advertised, these are the classical equivalent of SO FRESH. Includes all the big name classical and crossover artists.  André Rieu, Katherine Jenkins, Aled Jones, RyanDan and many more. The repertoire is all popular and many of the artists presented on this compilation will figure prominently in UMA’s 2008 schedule.

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Cat. No.: 476 6291
Barcode: 0028947662914
Label: ABC Classics CD
Release Date: 1 March


Cello Diva | Bed of Roses


ARTISTS

Sally Maer, cello
Sinfonia Australis

 

TRACK LISTING

BAYER SAGER/FOSTER: The Prayer
SAINT-SAËNS: The Swan (The Carnival of the Animals)
STING: Fields of Gold
J.S. BACH: Arioso (Cantata BWV 156)
VILLA-LOBOS: Cantilena (Bachianas brasileiras No. 5)
SPEARS/STAMATELATOS: Everytime
PUCCINI: O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)
VIVALDI: Largo from Winter (The Four Seasons)
PARADIS: Sicilienne
BON JOVI: Bed of Roses
HANDEL: Lascia ch’io pianga (Rinaldo)
KELLY/STEINBERG: True Colors
MCLACHLAN: Angel
SONDHEIM: Goodbye for Now
ADAMS/VALLANCE: Heaven (remix)

 

Introducing Cello Diva, a brand new signing to ABC Classics. Sally Maer is an English born and trained cellist who has settled in Australia and over many years has become part of both the classical and musical television circuits. Having played in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and Sinfonia Australis and also with Anthony Callea and toured with Amici Forever, Sally has now released her debut album. This CD is a fantastic combination of great classical tunes as well as pop songs arranged for cello, played with the inimitable Cello Diva style that the world is about to discover.

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Cat. No.: 476 6450
Barcode: 0028947664505
Label: ABC Classics CD
Release Date: 1 March


VARIOUS ARTISTS | Arcadia – Visions of Pastoral Bliss


ARTISTS

Various

 

TRACK LISTING

BEETHOVEN: Allegretto (Symphony No. 6 ‘Pastoral’)
DELIBES: Flower Duet (Lakmé)
CHABRIER: Idylle (Suite Pastorale)
VIVALDI: Spring (Allegro – first movement) (The Four Seasons)
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV: Flight of the Bumble Bee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: The Lark Ascending (excerpt)
SAINT-SAËNS: The Swan (The Carnival of the Animals)
TRAD. MONGOLIAN: Pastoral Song
SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkäinen Suite)
RODRIGO: Pastoral (Allegretto) (Concierto madrigal)
TCHAIKOVSKY: Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutcracker)
GRAINGER: Beautiful Fresh Flower
RESPIGHI: The Nightingale (The Birds)
MUSSORGSKY: Dawn on the Moscow River (Khovanshchina)
JS BACH: Schafe können sicher weiden (Sheep may safely graze) (Cantata No. 208)
GRIEG: Morning Mood (Peer Gynt)

In our crowded age of technology and mass-production, the beauty of the natural world has the power to bring us back to ourselves. Composers across the centuries have been inspired by the simple pleasures of fresh air, clear water, sunshine and rain to create music of profound loveliness. Welcome to Arcadia, a musical haven where interest rates are unknown, petrol prices are irrelevant, and your time is blissfully your own!

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Cat. No.: 476 6418
Barcode: 0028947664185
Label: ABC Classics CD
Release Date: 1 March


ADELAIDE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | Just Classics


ARTISTS

Adelaide Symphony Orchestra
David Stanhope

 

 

TRACK LISTING

FAURÉ: Sicilienne (Pelléas and Mélisande, Op. 80)           
J.S. BACH: Come Sweetest Death, Come Blessed Rest, BWV478           
DELIUS: La Calinda (Koanga)           
BORODIN: Nocturne (String Quartet No. 2 in D)           
RAVEL: Menuet (Le tombeau de Couperin)           
ELGAR: Nimrod (Enigma Variations)
MENDELSSOHN: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 27           
FRANCK: The Garden of Eros (Psyché)           
STANHOPE: Droylsden Wakes (Folksong Suite No. 3)           
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: Elihu's Dance of Youth and Beauty | Pavane of the Sons of the Morning (Job)           
SIBELIUS: The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22)           
JARRE: Building the Barn (Witness)           
PACHELBEL: Canon in D           
J.S. BACH: Air (Orchestral Suite in D, BWV1068)

Classics now or classics to be: Damien Beaumont’s immensely popular program Just Classics on ABC Classic FM presents the music that can touch our lives and make any moment special. This collection, recorded specially for CD by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, features favourites by Bach, Elgar and Fauré as well as less familiar but equally glorious music by Delius, Vaughan Williams and Sibelius.

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Cat. No.: 478 0190
Barcode: 0028947801900
Label: Decca CD
Release Date: 22 March


VARIOUS ARTISTS | ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER – The Classical Tribute


VARIOUS ARTISTS including

Lesley Garrett | Kiri Te Kanawa | Renée Fleming, sopranos
Sissel | Katherine Jenkins,
mezzo sopranos
José Carreras,
tenor
Bryn Terfel,
baritone
Julian Lloyd Webber, cello
Richard Clayderman
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Barry Wordsworth

 

 

TRACK LISTING

LLOYD WEBBER: Don’t Cry For Me Argentina (Evita)
Memory (Cats)
All I Ask Of You (The Phantom Of The Opera)
Close Every Door To Me (Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
Pie Jesu (Requiem)
With One Look (Sunset Boulevard)
I Don't Know How To Love Him (Jesus Christ Superstar)
Love Changes Everything (Aspects Of Love)
The Music Of The Night (The Phantom Of The Opera)
The Phantom of the Opera (The Phantom Of The Opera)
Wishing you were somehow here again (The Phantom Of The Opera)
All The Love I Have (The Beautiful Game)
Variations 1-IV (Variations)
Another suitcase, another hall (Evita)
Starlight Express (Starlight Express)
The First Man You Remember (Aspects Of Love)
Tell me on a Sunday (Tell Me On A Sunday)

To mark Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber celebrating his 60th Birthday on March 22nd 2008, Decca releases this collection of ‘greatest hits’ from the composer’s many and much beloved musicals. Some of the best voices of today perform the songs, duets and other moments that have made Lloyd Webber a household name across the world. This is a magnificent tribute and something that not just musical fans will enjoy.    

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Cat. No.: 477 7224
Barcode: 0028947772248
Label: DG CD
Release Date: 15 March


ROLANDO VILLAZÓN | Cielo e Mar                        

 

Album Website:
www.deutschegrammophon.com/villazon-cieloemar

 

ARTISTS

Rolando Villaznó, tenor
Gianluca Alfano, baritone*

Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Daniele Callegari

 

 

TRACK LISTING

PONCHIELLI: Cielo e mar! (La Gioconda)
CILEA: La dolcissima effigie (Adriana Lecouvreur)
MERCADANTE: La Dea di tutti i cor! – Bella adorata incognita (Il Giuramento)
BOITO: Dai campi, dai prati (Mefistofele)
PIETRI: Il conosco il giardino (Maristella)
GOMES: Intenditi con Dio! (Fosca)
VERDI: O inferno! – Sento avvampar nell'anima (Simon Boccanegra)
DONIZETTI: Veleno è l'aura ch'io respiro! (Poliuto)
MERCADANTE: Compita è omai – Fu celeste (Il Giuramento)
CILEA: L'anima ho stanca (Adriana Lecouvreur)
PONCHIELLI: Il padre! – Tenda natal (Il Figliuol prodigo)
BOITO: Giunto sul passo estremo (Mefistofele)
VERDI: Oh! fede negar potessi – Quando le sere, al placido (Luisa Miller)
VERDI: L'ara, o l'avello apprestami* (Luisa Miller)

Exuberant and charismatic, Rolando Villazón is the tenor of today. Here he releases his first solo album on Deutsche Grammophon.

The soaring title track from Ponchielli’s La Gioconda inspired Villazón to become a singer. Here it is the starting point for an intriguing album which moves far beyond the usual ‘greatest tenor hits’. Less familiar masterpieces by Boito, Cilea and Verdi feature alongside little-known Donizetti arias and rarities by Gomes, Mercadante and Pietri.

The album is Villazón’s personal homage to his illustrious predecessors in the lyric-dramatic repertoire – great tenors such as Bergonzi, Caruso and Domingo.

Cielo e mar offers something special for connoisseurs of opera, Villazón’s many fans and mainstream listeners who will be gripped by the beauty of both his voice and the music.

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