Verdi: Shakespeare OperasShakespeare provided lifelong inspiration for the towering operatic genius that was Giuseppe Verdi, but just three of the Bard's plays ever emerged fully fledged from the composer's pen. This trio of landmark productions, featuring a veritable constellation of singers, conductors and directors, are united here under the banner of Verdi's Shakepeare Operas: MacBeth, which lifted the young composer out of his hard working 'galley years', propelling him

cry when it comes to saying goodnight

Bluebird and RCA labels during these years

whose hitherto-unreleased-in-any-format 'I Don't Want To Lose Him' was recorded with visiting American producer Teddy Randazzo

Los Lobos and the Hans Zimmer Orchestra as well as historical sound documents by Johnny Weissmuller and Marlon Brando and recordings by European Hollywood stars like Gina Lollobrigida or Sophia Loren round off this homage to Hollywood music

it is important to break new ground to bring the music of Buenos Aires into the 21st century

It was the standard issue infantry rifle of WWII and it was a masterwork of genius and simplicity

The album sees Alan pull his wide-ranging sounds together into one

but presented here in an orchestrated version by one of our finest conductors

Öde ('Fate' or 'Deserted') incorporates recordings by the legendary Swedish opera singers Birgit Nilsson and Jussi Björling in an electronic part which interacts with the orchestra

In the summer of the same year he composed his String Quintet in C major

The debut album by Terence Etc

With the present release