Pavarotti & Friends

The Pavarotti and Friends Collection celebrates the internationally renowned charity concert series that brought together the world's greatest pop performers with the greatest international classical star, Luciano Pavarotti.

Luciano Pavarotti was blessed with one of the most individual, unmistakable and beautiful voices there has ever been. This album contains over 3 hours of music and includes all Pavarotti's opera hits - including Nessun Dorma, his signature aria used as the 1990 FIFA World Cup theme tune and the track that made him a household name as well as all his famous popular songs: O sole mio, Caruso, Santa Lucia, Volare and many more. Other highlights include great duet collaborations with superstar friends Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, Bono, Eric Clapton,Sting and Lionel Richie plus fellow tenors Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras in the live Three Tenors version of Nessun Dorma. Pavarotti The Greatest Hits is truly the definitive collection of the music of a true legend.

Bland, incurious and passionless, this documentary about the great tenor Luciano Pavarotti is like a promotional video licensed by a team of copyright lawyers – and about as challenging as a Three Tenors gig at Wembley stadium. Pavarotti’s glorious voice all but drowns in a 114-minute montage of obsequious syrup…

Pavarotti Forever prougly presents the ultimate collection from the world's favourite tenor. Specially selected from six of his landmark concerts (including The Three Tenors and his one-man spectaculars Hyde Park and Central Park), this DVD collection captures the unique warmth, personality and charisma of Luciano Pavarotti…

Moving in Blue is a double disc collection of works executed over a period of more than a decade. Originally a bid to reform the old BP, it features Roy Blumenfeld on several cuts but is not a reformed Blues Project. Whats it is is a raw and earthy set of 21 standards and 4 of Kalb's own. Please note that his fame grounds in guitar bravura, not the man's voice…though the same is said of Dylan, Cash, and others: they'd never qualify to step foot inside the opera house but would probably never want to, either. Danny's no different, and, when you lay an ear to his version of Hooker's Louise, it's plain this is a good thing. Pavarotti'd make nothing but a mess of such work. That historied guitar playing, though, is plentiful, well versed in the Chicago tradition, and brings back Kalb's and the Blues Project's heyday, the era when he was cheek to jowl with John Cippolina, Mike Bloomfield, Buddy Guy, Harvey Mandel, even Tom Rapp ('cause there's a decent slice of folk here as well, as in his own cleverly titled Mournin' at Midday), and a stellar array of down-lo bad boys that, to this hour, remain, as Howie Solomon averred, at the top of the lists.