Gaudio Studio

"Watertown" is a later album by Frank Sinatra and tells a heartbreaking story in a series of soliloquies. It is the only album on which Sinatra sang over pre-recorded instrumental tracks. The songs were written by producer Bob Gaudio (of The Four Seasons) and Jake Holmes.

"Watertown" is a later album by Frank Sinatra and tells a heartbreaking story in a series of soliloquies. It is the only album on which Sinatra sang over pre-recorded instrumental tracks. The songs were written by producer Bob Gaudio (of The Four Seasons) and Jake Holmes.

"Watertown" is a later album by Frank Sinatra and tells a heartbreaking story in a series of soliloquies. It is the only album on which Sinatra sang over pre-recorded instrumental tracks. The songs were written by producer Bob Gaudio (of The Four Seasons) and Jake Holmes.

After 40 years of activities, more than 50 recordings and some 1000 concerts, the Ensemble Gilles Binchois still develop its inquiring generosity. Dominique Vellard and his musicians make all eras become contemporary. Indeed, if the core of its concerns is somewhere between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the Ensemble sang everything from Gregorian chant to the religious repertoire of the nineteenth century.

The Croatian region of Dalmatia has many musical treasures that have long been overlooked. Resting on the boundary of Roman Catholic and Byzantine worlds, the music here features rare pieces recovered from Latin manuscripts, and polyphonic Glagolitic chants. Dialogos performs these works, conducted by Katarina Livljanic.

Gaétan Jarry’s spectacular, intense gestures and steadfast commitment always imbues his musicians with real vitality.

Frankie Valli, one of the most iconic voices of a generation, will celebrate the holidays this year with 'Tis The Seasons, the first solo Christmas album of his legendary career. The collection finds Valli's putting his own unique spin on more than a dozen yuletide standards.

Victor Hugo’s 1830 stage drama Hernani won overwhelming admiration, and over a decade later Verdi’s attention was drawn to it as an operatic vehicle that would give him opportunities for full dramatic unity. Its subject is the nobleman-turned-brigand Ernani who loves Elvira, herself the object of two other men’s desires. Ernani’s success was immediate and it became Verdi’s most popular opera until he composed Il trovatore. This production won critical acclaim, as did conductor James Conlon for his ‘superb support of the singers and the flexible elasticity he brought to his tempi’

Neil Diamond's 1978 release "You Don't Bring Me Flowers" was triggered by the worldwide reception to the various homemade mashups of the title song, previously recorded individually by Diamond and then covered by Barbra Streisand. The two superstars teamed up to record an official version, sending this double platinum album into the top five in the US and the top 20 in the UK while the duet was an American number one smash hit. Diamond also scored another top 20 single with the song 'Forever In Blue Jeans'.

For the last half-century, Watertown has occupied a unique spot in Frank Sinatra's discography. Loathed by a loud swath of Sinatra purists, beloved by a devoted group of fans who live to evangelize the album's singular sensibility, and basically ignored by everyone else, the album has lingered as a curiosity that bridged the dominance of the Chairman's run through the '50s and '60s with the relegation to elder statesman that he was to embrace through the '70s and '80s.