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What would happen if members of Savatage decided to write some Christmas songs? Easy: Trans-Siberian Orchestra. This "supergroup" is the brainchild of Jon Oliva and Paul O'Neill (respectively the leader-keyboardist and the producer of Savatage). They hired Al Pitrelli (Asia, ...

Andrea Bocelli was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Joe Amoruso (melodica, piano, synthesizer, keyboards, programming); Guido Corti (French horn); Mauro Malavasi (piano, keyboards, synthesizer, programming); Maurizio Abeni (piano); Luca Bignardi (keyboards). Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli is one ...

Josh Groban's meteoric rise to stardom began when hit producer David Foster selected him as a last-minute replacement at the dress rehearsal for the 1999 Grammy Awards, where the then-17-year-old singer stood in for Andrea Bocelli in a duet with ...

The 1952 NBC series Victory at Sea was one of the earliest network documentary series to capture the public's imagination in a serious way, and one of the more enduring offshoots was the music by Richard Rodgers, which was recorded ...

BEETHOVEN'S LAST NIGHT is a rock opera conceived by Paul O'Neill. The Trans-Siberian Orchestra's first non-holiday-themed album, Beethoven's Last Night, incorporates some of the composer's most noted pieces with original ones that peer into Beethoven's psyche. Pieces like "What Is Eternal," ...

CHRISTMAS COLLECTION is also available with a bonus disc in the limited edition IL DIVO GIFT PACK. Audio Mixer: Ren Swan. Recording information: Rokstone Studios, London, England (2004); Whitfield Street Studios, London, England (2004). Photographer: Walter Chin.

in London, England, and Alexander Digital Suite in Miami, Florida. Sarah Brightman is an example of the kind of artist that Duke Ellington would have described as "beyond category." Coming from a theatrical musical background, she combines the traditions of Broadway ...

Andrea Bocelli was nominated for the 1999 Grammy Award for Best New Artist. Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli is one of those rare artists who is equally comfortable on both sides of the pop/classical fence. Discovered by Italian pop sensation Zucchero, Bocelli, ...

Track Listing: Overture: A Partial History of Black Music; Comfort Ye My People; Every Valley Shall Be Exalted; And the Glory of the Lord; But Who May Abide the Day of His Coming?; And He Shall Purify; Behold, A Virgin ...

Music composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Lyrics by Charles Hart. It's a testament to Andrew Lloyd Webber's crowd-pleasing compositional skills that the original cast recording of THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA went on to become the biggest-selling cast album ever. So ...

In an era when the definition of religious music has expanded to include everything from Christian death-metal to gospel rap, it's nice to know one can still find an album of traditional prayerful tunes. MORE THAN 50 MOST LOVED HYMNS ...

Drabik, Shoshana Frishberg, Julia George, Jack Gibson, Nina Gottlieb, Erick Hernandez, Michelle Repella, Anton Spivack. Trans-Siberian Orchestra's second album, Christmas Attic, may not be as focused or serious as Christmas Eve, but it is just as enjoyable and maybe even more ...

The soundtrack to director Chris Columbus' 1990 monster hit Home Alone features the composing work of the legendary John Williams and continues the Christmas theme of the film with numerous yuletide carols. Williams' main title theme, known as "Somewhere in ...

GLADIATOR was nominated for the 2001 Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. Original score composed by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard. Hans Zimmer & Lisa Gerrard Personnel: Lisa Gerrard (vocals); Heitor Teixeira Pereira ...

Fiedler and The Boston Pops are in good form on this holiday album. ~ David A. Milberg

Il Divo were the first of many experimental Simon Cowell-created bands that found success on the global radio waves in the 2000s era. Their success was immediate and explosive: a pop-opera group of four attractive young men covering such hits ...

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This double CD lives up to its title. Although the span of Western classical music encompasses a wide variety of techniques and compositional styles, there is nothing more glorious than the slow and ruminative movements from these works by the ...

"The Prayer" was nominated 2000 Grammy Award for Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals. "Sogno" was nominated for the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance. There seems to be no end to the market for Latin tenors who inhabit ...

The people of Wales love their singing and their singers, so much so that when one of their own--be it Tom Jones, Gwyneth Jones or Bryn Terfel--makes good they are treated as national heroes. The Welsh also like to sing ...

2cds-London Philharmonic Orch. Recorded at CBS Recording Studios, London, England and at United Western Studios, Los Angeles, California. Includes liner notes by B.R. Hearn.

Andrea Bocelli is one of a handful of artists able to perform both popular and classical music with great success and distinction. ARIA-THE OPERA ALBUM features his thoughtful and heartfelt renditions of some of the most popular Romantic tenor arias. ...

With EDEN, Broadway diva Sarah Brightman ("Requiem," "Cats") stretches beyond the constraints of what's considered show music. Here, she sings an assortment of classical adaptations, rock, and sleek modern pop songs. The entrancing opener, "In Paradisum" combines pre-recorded nature sounds, atmospheric ...

Composed by Dario Marianelli and performed by pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, the score for director Joe Wright's 2005 film version of Jane Austen's PRIDE & PREJUDICE is filled with appropriately lush arrangements. The nuanced playing of Thibaudet is augmented by the ...