FREDDIE MERCURY & MONTSERRAT CABALLE - BARCELONA - SPECIAL EDITION DELUXE 3X CD + DVD BOX SET

2012 DELUXE SPECIAL EDITION

EXCELLENT  SECONDHAND CONDITION

CDs and DVD are excellent, Digibook case has minimal wear. 

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A special re-issue released 25 years after the original release, Barcelona – Freddie Mercury’s collaboration with Spanish operatic soprano Montserrat Caballé –  featuring an entirely newly orchestrated re-working.

The title was also a tribute to the home city of his beloved recording partner Montserrat Caballé with whom Freddie was captivated and had planned to perform the title song with at the opening of the 1992 Olympics opening ceremony. Sadly Mercury passed away eight months before this could happen.

However, the album did give Freddie Mercury a million selling record and posthumously, a chart topping single, when the song Barcelona was chosen by BBC TV as its title music to its coverage of the Olympics.

This  four-disc deluxe set includes a CD of early demos and a couple of alternative takes including Freddie’s original vocal performance of Exercises in Free Love which Montserrat heard in the garden of the Ritz and formed the seed of their collaboration.

Full symphonic orchestral score

Mercury recorded his original album almost entirely on keyboards. This 2012 special edition replaces his and co-writer and producer Mike Moran’s synthesised arrangements with a full symphonic orchestral score performed by the eighty piece FILMharmonic Orchestra, Prague, one of the most sought after recording orchestras in Central Europe, featuring leading members from Czech foremost orchestras (Czech Philharmonic, Prague Symphony).

In addition to the orchestral score performed other live instruments have been added for the first time. Naoko Kikuchi, one of the few koto players in the western world, flew especially to London to add the ancient oriental instrument to ‘La Japonaise’. Rufus Taylor, Queen band member Roger Taylor’s son, has replaced the drum machines on The Golden Boy and How Can Go On with live percussion. The latter song also boasts a new violin solo from classical violinist David Garrett joining Queen’s John Deacon’s original bass part.

 

Media: CD
Cat Number: 371 141 4
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