Cat. No.: 476 3808
Barcode: 0028947638087
Label: ABC Classics 4CD
Release Date: March

Various Artists | Songs That Won The War

ARTISTS

Various including Dame Vera Lynn, The Andrews Sisters, George Formby, Gracie Fields, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, Deanna Durbin and many more.

TRACK LISTING

Vol. I CD1
Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye 
Ac-cent-tchu-ate The Positive      
The White Cliffs Of Dover    
Comin’ In On A Wing And A Prayer 
There’ll Always Be An England    
Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree   
When The Lights Go On Again   
Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major    
The Trolley Song      
Somewhere In France With You    
Chattanooga Choo Choo      
When A Boy From Alabama Meets A Girl From Gundagai
People Will Say We’re In Love   
Blue Skies Are Round The Corner   
Home        
I Left My Heart At The Stage Door Canteen
It’s A Pair Of Wings For Me  
Blues In The Night     
When That Man Is Dead And Gone  
FDR Jones       
Beneath The Lights Of Home    
Oh Buddy! I’m In Love    
Take The ‘A’ Train     
Elmer’s Tune       
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square   

Vol. 1 CD2
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy           
Wings Over The Navy           
A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening        
I’m Nobody’s Baby            
On The Sunny Side Of The Street        
Paper Doll             
Sing As We Go           
Beer Barrel Polka (Roll Out The Barrel / Knees Up Mother Brown / Little Brown Jug / There’s A Tavern In The Town)
Our Sergeant Major            
All Alone In Vienna           
Moonlight Serenade              
Down Forget-Me-Not Lane            
You Are My Sunshine           
Ma, I Miss Your Apple Pie         
The Nearness Of You           
Here’s To The Next Time          
My Devotion             
Frenesi              
Yes, My Darling Daughter            
Moonlight Becomes You            
You’d Be So Nice To Come Home To       
All Over The Place           
String Of Pearls            
We Must All Stick Together          
Bless ’Em All    

Vol. II CD1
We’ll Meet Again              
They Can’t Black-Out The Moon           
Kiss The Boys Goodbye            
As Time Goes By            
Why Don’t You Do Right?           
Run Rabbit Run             
This Is The Army, Mister Jones          
I’ll Never Smile Again            
He Wears A Pair Of Silver Wings         
Somebody Else Is Taking My Place          
A Brown Slouch Hat            
In The Mood             
I’m Sending My Blessings            
Long Ago And Far Away           
Till The Lights Of London Shine Again          
The Biggest Aspidistra In The World          
I Fell In Love With An Airman         
Amapola               
Saturday Night              
I’ll Walk Alone             
Time On My Hands            
Jingle, Jangle, Jingle             
I’ve Heard That Song Before           
I’ve Got Sixpence             
Songs the Tommies Sing (Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty / Put Me Among the Girls / It’s A Long Way To Tipperary)

Vol. II CD2
(We’re Gonna Hang Out) The Washing On The Siegfried Line
Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition  
Heart Of Gold      
My Prayer       
The Very Thought Of You    
Kalamazoo        
Lili Marlene       
This Is Worth Fighting For    
Pistol Packin’ Mama      
If You Were The Only Girl In The World
Is ’E An Aussie, Lizzie, Is ’E?  
Adolf        
Der Fuehrer’s Face      
It Had To Be You    
It’s A Lovely Day Tomorrow    
It’s Foolish, But It’s Fun    
Juke Box Saturday Night     
Oh, Johnny, Oh      
Stardust        
Ev’ry Night About This Time    
I Don’t Want To Walk Without You  
I’ll Get By       
Dear Mom       
The Last Time I Saw Paris   
Wishing Will Make It So    

This 4CD box set brings together one hundred of the most popular and most enduring numbers from the dark years of World War II.

Some are rousing and uplifting, even defiant, such as Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye and Sing As We Go. Some are hand-on-heart patriotic (There’ll Always Be An England); some, like Beneath The Lights Of Home, are achingly nostalgic, and there’s more than a passing mention of Australia (When a Boy from Alabama Meets a Girl from Gundagai).

There are dance tunes (Chattanooga Choo Choo, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Frenesi) and cool jazz (Blues In The Night); there’s fun and sometimes cheeky humour (Kiss Me Goodnight Sergeant Major and The Trolley Song).

There’s a willingness to find something to smile about even in the deprivations of wartime living (FDR Jones) and an unquenchable optimism (Bless ’Em All, On The Sunny Side Of The Street). There’s plenty of romance – lovers together (A Lovely Way To Spend An Evening, A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square) and lovers separated (Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree).

But most importantly, there is the hope that defined an era, expressed in those immortal words ‘There’ll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover tomorrow, just you wait and see…’

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Cat. No.: 532 2950
Barcode: 0600753229507
Label: Decca 2CD
Release Date: March

VARIOUS ARTISTS | Turn Back the Hands of Time

ARTISTS

Various

TRACK LISTING

CD 1

1 Elizabethan Serenade MANTOVANI

2 Wimoweh BERT KAEMPFERT

3 Sentimental Journey LES BROWN

4 The Man I Love JACKIE GLEASON

5 Strangers in the Night BERT KAEMPFERT

6 Smoke gets in your eyes FRANK CHACKSFIELD

7 All the things you are FRANK CHACKSFIELD

8 Love theme from ‘The Godfather’ RONNIE ALDRICH

9 A Walk in the Black Forest HORST JANOWSKI QUARTET

10 The Impossible Dream RONNIE ALDRICH

11 In a Monastery Garden ERIC ROGERS

12 In a Persian Market ERIC ROGERS

13 Emperor Waltz MANTOVANI

14 La Paloma EDMUNDO ROS

15 Tequila EDMUNDO ROS

16 A Swingin' Safari BERT KAEMPFERT

17 The Magnificent Seven AL CAIOLA

18 Moonlight Serenade GLENN MILLER

19 (I left my heart) in San Francisco ACKER BILK

20 Jamaican Rhumba PERCY FAITH

CD 2

1 Charmaine MANTOVANI

2 Moon River FRANK CHACKSFIELD

3 Killing me softly with his song RONNIE ALDRICH

4 Alone Together JACKIE GLEASON

5 Tuxedo Junction GLENN MILLER

6 I've got my love to keep me warm LES BROWN

7 That Happy Feeling BERT KAEMPFERT

8 Red roses for a blue lady BERT KAEMPFERT

9 Good morning Starshine EDMUNDO ROS

10 Limelight FRANK CHACKSFIELD

11 Theme from ‘Elvira Madigan’ RONNIE ALDRICH

12 Bonanza! AL CAIOLA

13 Afrikaan Beat BERT KAEMPFERT

14 Ebb Tide FRANK CHACKSFIELD

15 The Last time I saw Paris FRANK CHACKSFIELD

16 Tie a yellow ribbon round the old oak tree RONNIE ALDRICH

17 Theme from ‘A Summer Place’ PERCY FAITH

18 The Candy Man RONNIE ALDRICH

19 Raisins and Almonds STANLEY BLACK

The 1950s and 1960s was a time when the great studio orchestras flourished. Mantovani, Frank Chacksfield, Ronnie Aldrich, Eric Rogers, Stanley Black - they all recorded for DECCA, and Mantovani (together with Vera Lynn) was responsible for some of the company’s biggest sales in those decades. They played popular hits of the era, both new songs as well as lush arrangements of existing ones, and their influence was far-reaching – most notably, in our time, on André Rieu.

Turn Back The Hands Of Time celebrates this era and brings back these golden oldies in beautifully remastered versions.

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Cat. No.: 476 3828
Barcode: 0028947638285
Label: ABC Classics CD
Release Date: March

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra | Tapas: Tastes of the Baroque

ARTISTS

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
Paul Dyer

TRACK LISTING

1. KAPSBERGER: Arpeggiata from Primo libro d'intavolatura di chitarrone
2. FALCONIERI: Ciaconna from Il primo libro di canzoni
3. KAPSBERGER: Avrilla mia
4. KAPSBERGER: Bergamasca
5. KAPSBERGER: Canarios
6. CAZZATI: Passacaglia from Op.22, Trattenimento per camera d’arie, correnti, e balletti
7. MONTEVERDI: Chiome d’oro, from the Seventh Book of Madrigals
8. Spagnoletta – Improvisation
9. MONTEVERDI: Si dolce è il tormento
10. FALCONIERI: Folia (a 3) echa para mi Señora
11. Passacaglia Andaluz - Improvisation
12. FERRARI: Amanti, io vi sò dire
13. LAURENTI: Introduzione Dodicesima from Suonate per camera, Op.1
14. MERULA: Ciaccona from Canzoni Libro Terzo, Op.12
15. Tarantella, La Carpinese – Improvisation
16. after KAPSBERGER: Toccata - Improvisation
17. HIDALGO: Esperar, sentir, morir

A tasting plate of gorgeous music! Experience a spicy 17th-century mix from Southern Europe, inspired by songs and dances of love, fire, beauty and freedom. The 2009 ARIA Award winners bring earthy improvisations and an adventurous spirit to the Baroque in this brand new album.

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Cat. No.: 475 7646
Barcode: 0028947576464
Label: Decca 2CD
Release Date: March

Andrea Bocelli | BIZET: Carmen

ARTISTS

Don José: Andrea Bocelli
Carmen: Marina Domashenko
Micaela: Eva Mei
Escamillo: Bryn Terfel
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Myung-Whun Chung

TRACK LISTING

BIZET: Carmen

A spectacular new studio recording of Bizet's opera, Carmen.

Superstar tenor Andrea Bocelli sings Don José with acclaimed mezzo soprano Marina Domashenko as a steamy Carmen, “This singer stuns the audience...extremely seductive.” Prague Post

The magnificent Bryn Terfel´s Escamillo, the toreador who seduces Carmen away from Don José, and is a match for any bull – and for any other singer who has ever sung this role.

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Cat. No.: 478 2382
Barcode: 0028947823827
Label: Decca 2CD
Release Date: March

Andrea Bocelli | GIORDANO: Andrea Chenier

ARTISTS

Andrea Chénier: Andrea Bocelli
Maddalena: Violeta Urmana
Orchestra e Coro Sinfonica di Milano, Giuseppe Verdi
Marco Armiliato

TRACK LISTING

GIORDANO: Andrea Chenier

Andrea Bocelli stars in the title role of Giordano's romantic and passionate opera of life and death, set during the French Revolution.

Andrea Chénier, a historical figure and poet who lost his life to the French Revolution, gave Giordano and his librettist, Illica, inspiration for an opera of action, intrigue, and betrayal that touches and thrills.

The score and text beautifully underscore the triumph of love over death when Chénier and his beloved make their final exit to the guillotine. Accompanied by some of the most stirring music of the Italian repertoire, their closing duet is among opera's greatest moments.

This new recording partners Andrea Bocelli with the aristocratic soprano of Violeta Urmana, who has sung the role of Maddalena at the world's leading houses, including The Metropolitan Opera, New York.

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