This two-CD set, released to coincide with the 2001 Classical Brit Awards, features some of the year's biggest-selling classical artists: Bond, Charlotte Church, Vanessa Mae, Andrea Bocelli and Russell Watson to name but five. There is plenty of room for much else besides and the extracts from a huge variety of Brits nominees' albums make for a varied and generally pleasant listen. Bryn Terfel's ...
Moving On, the solo debut from Myleene Klass, finds the former Hearsay vocalist performing piano arrangements of contemporary pop and classical numbers. It includes the themes from Braveheart, Gladiator and The Piano plus her interpretation of the number one single by Daniel Bedingfield, "If You're Not the One".
Back in the Golden Age of the Hollywood epic, composer Miklós Rózsa lavished much scholarly research on his scores for Quo Vadis (1951), Ben-Hur (1959), El Cid (1961) and others, gracing those movies with music that had as its wellspring authentic (or at least authentic-sounding) melodies from the period. For Ridley Scott's revival of the Roman epic, Gladiator, Hans ...