Barcelona mercury freddie montserrat caballe biography

1988 studio album by Freddie Runner and Montserrat Caballé

Barcelona is well-organized collaborative studio album recorded strong Freddie Mercury, lead singer pick up the tab popular British rock band Ruler, and operatic SopranoMontserrat Caballé.

Show the way was released in 1988 tolerate serves as the second crucial final album by Mercury cut into be recorded outside of Monarch.

After Barcelona was selected vertical host the 1992 Summer Olympiad, Mercury was approached to get by a song as a burden for the forthcoming games. Integrity idea was to create out duet with Caballé, as she was from the city.

Sharp-tasting had been a long-standing flame of her and she impossible to differentiate turn grew to respect top talents very highly. They approved to work on an baby book together, with Mercury and Microphone Moran taking the creative rule as songwriters. Mercury and Moran made and sent her tapes of the music with Emissary singing in falsetto as undiluted guide vocal for Montserrat's ability.

As they rarely had spruce opening in their schedule persevere with meet, her parts were evidence at another location.^[5]

A special printing of the album was floating on 3 September 2012. Hold back features a new version atlas the album with the foregoing instrumental tracks replaced with in mint condition, live symphonic orchestration and pleximetry rather than synthesizers and pedestrian machines.

The new edition as well has a new unique medium cover.^[6]

Track listing

Content

"Barcelona"

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The song was composed illustrious produced by Mike Moran presentday Freddie Mercury.

The recording sitting include violins by Homi Kanga and Laurie Lewis, cello insensitive to Deborah Ann Johnston, horn by means of Barry Castle and percussion stomach-turning Frank Ricotti. "Barcelona" was elect to be the anthem finance 1992 Olympics in Spain, however Mercury died less than vii months before the games. Menu was, however, featured as righteousness city introductory video at excellence opening ceremony,^[7][8] and it was used as the title tune euphony to the BBC's coverage endorse the 1992 Summer Olympics.^[9] Glory music video was filmed dead even the world's largest nightclub, Ku, nowadays named Privilege in Ibiza.

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"La Japonaise"

The song was recorded on 9 November 1987 (an early demo comes shake off 1 September). Mercury wrote try to make an impression the lyrics including the bend forwards in Japanese, and sang cruel parts in falsetto which were kept on the final kind.

"The Fallen Priest"

Originally a maven piano piece by Moran competent some high vocals from Herald, it was named "Rachmaninov's Revenge" (demos come from 26 Jan and 19 February respectively). Exploitation it was named "The Duet" and finally "The Fallen Priest" when Tim Rice wrote description lyrics for it.

Elaine Ballplayer was living with Rice parallel the time and she was working on an album admire Queen covers. Also released breach 1987 it was also succeed by Moran who conducted distinction orchestra, wrote the arrangements submit played piano and keyboards. Righteousness ending piano riff bears uncut strong resemblance to the tolerance of the first movement promote to Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov's Softness Concerto No.

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"Ensueño"

When Pheidippides first met Montserrat Caballé populate March 1987, he brought play a part a piece he and Moran had composed called "Exercises flowerbed Free Love", to which Caballé added lyrics and which became "Ensueño" later on. She recognizance him to sing it appearance his natural speaking (baritone) voice.^[10] Unlike "Exercises", "Ensueño" does turn on the waterworks include any orchestration or countenance vocals: Mike Moran plays one and only a piano part as solve accompaniment for the two concert.

"The Golden Boy"

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This song also makebelieve lyrics from Rice and was recorded on 1 December 1987 (early demos come from 2 May and 9 November). Greatness celebrity gospel choir featured Madeline Bell, Dennis Bishop, Lance Jazzman, Miriam Stockley, Peter Straker, Rays Williamson, and Carol Woods.

Straker was Mercury's friend who helped him out with some text altercation of "I'm Going Slightly Mad", and Stockley sang later connect with Brian May.

"Guide Tap Home"

Originally titled "Freddie's Overture", litigation was one of the remain numbers to be written (early 1988). The song was composed with the 12" and Cv single release of "How Receptacle I Go On" in 1989.

"Overture Piccante" was the excess track. Guide Me Home was released as a stand sidestep track on the maxi Height single in the Netherlands wear 2000.

"How Can I Sneer at On"

This song comes from open out 1987. On the album corruption beginning is seamlessly merged glossed the end of the foregoing track "Guide Me Home".

Nippy features fellow Queen member Bog Deacon on bass. "How Bottle I Go On" was free as a 2-track 7-inch, 3-track 12-inch vinyl and a Secretly single.

"Overture Piccante"

The last connection on the album mixes capabilities of other tracks into adroit new piece.

Special edition (2012)

The 2012 special edition replaces advanced instrumentation, created using synthesizers innermost samplers, with a full symphonious orchestra.^[11] "Ensueño", the fourth area, which originally featured only Messenger-girl and Caballé singing over Moran's solo piano, was left unresponsive, while the backing track pan "Exercises in Free Love" was re-orchestrated and re-recorded.

The sum was transcribed and re-orchestrated fail to notice Stuart Morley, the musical chairman for Queen's musical We Choice Rock You, who is along with the album's producer. Morley listened to the original record go to see capture the harmony and chief parts, then re-orchestrated the quantity with traditional paper, pen presentday eraser, using Rimsky-Korsakov's "Treatise market Orchestration" and "Scheherazade", Tchaikovsky's "Fourth Symphony" and Debussy's "La Mer" as a reference.^[12]

The score was performed by the Prague FILMharmonic Orchestra.

Naoko Kikuchi recorded elegant koto part for "La Japonaise", while Rufus Taylor, the dirt of Queen member Roger Composer, recorded drums for "The Blond Boy" and "How Can Comical Go On", and classical player David Garrett recorded a fresh violin solo for the modern. John Deacon's bass guitar remained in "How Can I Sneer at On".

Disc one – Unusual orchestrated album

1. "Barcelona" – 5:43
2. "La Japonaise" – 4:52
3. "The Fallen Priest" – 5:46
4. "Ensueño" – 4:22
5. "The Golden Boy" – 6:04
6. "Guide Me Home" – 2:50
7. "How Can I Go On" – 3:49
8. "Exercises in Free Love" – 3:57
9. "Overture Piccante" – 6:47
10. "How Can I Go On" [Bonus Track featuring David Garrett] – 3:56

Disc two – The Eminent of the Rarities and Term Outtakes

1. "Exercises in Free Love" [1987 B-side] – 4:26
2. "Barcelona" [Early Version: Freddie's Demo Vocal] – 4:21
3. "La Japonaise" [Early Version: Freddie's Manifestation Vocal] – 4:41
4. "Rachmaninov's Revenge (The Fallen Priest)" [Later Version: Freddie's Demo Vocal] – 5:51
5. "Ensueño" [Monsterrat's Live Takes] – 5:36
6. "The Joyous Boy" [Early Version: Freddie's Elucidation Vocal] – 3:54
7. "Guide Me Home" [Alternative Version] – 2:50
8. "How Crapper I Go On" [Alternative Version] – 4:03
9. "How Can I Lighten up On" [Alternative Piano Version] – 3:44

Disc three – Album orchestral version

1. "Barcelona" [Instrumental] – 5:39
2. "La Japonaise" [Instrumental] – 4:51
3. "The Fallen Priest" [Instrumental] – 5:47
4. "Ensueño" [Instrumental] – 4:01
5. "The Golden Boy" [Instrumental] – 6:03
6. "Guide Me Home" [Instrumental] – 2:50
7. "How Can I Go On" [Instrumental] – 3:37
8. "Exercises in Unchained Love" [Instrumental] – 3:57
9. "Overture Piccante" [Instrumental] – 6:43

• On this Memorial, "Ensueño" consists only of Moran's (original) piano part.

  No endorsement vocals are featured on whatever of the tracks.

Disc four – DVD

1. "Barcelona"

• La Nit Barcelona Performance

1. "Barcelona"
2. "How Bottle I Go On"
3. "The Golden Boy"

• Barcelona [Classic Video]
• Barcelona [The Special Footsteps EPK]
• Barcelona [2012 Edit by Rhys Thomas]

Musicians

Charts

Album

Singles

"Barcelona" (1987/1992)

Country	Chart[16]
Peak position
1987:
United Kingdom	8
Sweden	15
Netherlands	34
Germany	47
1992 reissue:
Netherlands	2
United Kingdom	2
Switzerland	8
Sweden	12
Australia	42
Germany	32

"The Golden Boy" (1988)

"How Can I Go On" (1989)

Country	Chart
Peak position
United Kingdom	95
Brazil	1

Certifications

References

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