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July 2010 is a landmark month for classical music.
It marks the 20th anniversary of an event that changed the face of classical music forever: The Three Tenors’ concert in Rome. The 20th anniversary package consists of a CD and a DVD, and there’s an Australian exclusive too: The Three Tenors in Song: 50 songs from around the world sung by Pavarotti, Carreras and Domingo. Click here for TV ad
Our CDs of the month bring us a continuation of the Bach pilgrimage with Vladimir Ashkenazy performing the Six Partitas ABC Classics’ critically-acclaimed cycle of the complete Sibelius symphonies with Arvo Volmer and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra and Measha Brueggergossman performing Wagner’s sublime Wesendonck Lieder.
 One of the most sublime discoveries of recent times, gladly recovered from the Decca vaults, is of Mozart’s Piano Concertos 24 and 26 with Alicia de Larrocha and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe conducted by Sir Georg Solti. It was never released during the lifetime of either artist and is now made available for the first time, coupled with the Larrocha/Solti recordings of Concertos 25 and 27.
 One of the most-watched TV genres in the last dozen or so is costume dramas. The BBC does them beautifully and now, ABC Classics has put together favourite themes from these for a gorgeous 2CD collection. Whether it’s the joyous score of Pride and Prejudice with its historically-informed colours of Beethoven and Schubert, or the thrilling nobility of the music for Brideshead Revisited, you can have it all in this gorgeous 2CD album!
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 More music to swoon to comes from Mantovani. The Magic of Mantovani collects 40 of his greatest hits in a nifty 2CD package.
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 For a journey into classical rarities and surprises all with a calming effect, try Stillness: Music of Peace, Reflection and Hope
 It’s not just new year that is celebrated in Vienna. Each year now, the Vienna Philharmonic gets together for a concert at the famous Schönbrunn Palace. This year’s theme was cosmic – music of the heavens, the moon and the stars, including John Williams’s music for Star Wars.
 Following the success of Celtic Woman, we have an all-male band to present: Celtic Thunder. Five Celtic male vocalists from Ireland and Scotland team up to perform powerful ballads, popular hits, and heart-warming songs of love and loss from across the Celtic music spectrum – Irish, Scottish, traditional and contemporary. The show will be broadcast on Stvdio in August and both DVD and CD versions are released.
 Sting’s greatest hits are re-imagined for symphony orchestra in a new album called ‘Symphonicities’. Selections include fan-favourites such as 'Roxanne', 'Next To You', 'Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,' ‘Every Breath You Take’ to classic songs from Sting's solo career 'An Englishman in New York', ‘Fragile’, ‘Russians’, ‘If I Ever Lose My Faith in You’, ‘Fields of Gold’ and ‘Desert Rose’. A selection of these is released on the CD.
 The world’s best-selling tenor, Andrea Bocelli, has recorded the part of the lovelorn Don José in Carmen. Highlights from the opera are now released.
 New Zealand’s most famous opera star, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, retires from the stage this year. To mark her unparalleled career, Decca has issued a carefully-selected collection of Mozart and Strauss highlights from her sublime recordings.
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