WHEN the cascading strings pour themselves with silky ease into the first few bars of the song Charmaine, you know in an instant that you are listening to the magic of Mantovani, the orchestra leader ...

Mantovani was Britain’s most successful album artist before The Beatles – and now Decca Classics is releasing a new collection of remastered versions of his 1950s and ‘60s orchestral recordings. A new ...

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VISITNG Paul Barrett's opulent house in Canford Cliffs, Poole, you could be forgiven for imagining you had stumbled upon some kind of secret society. For there, midway through an apparently ordinary ...

The music of Annunzio Mantovani lived again last night as the cascading string sound that once set hearts a flutter was re-created in all its light orchestral splendour. Sixty years ago the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Pete Tong’s latest project is basically Mantovani for the rave generation. The British DJ has teamed up with ...

THEY said it would never succeed. That staging the music of light orchestral maestro Mantovani was a waste of time. Thankfully lifelong Mantovani fan Paul Barrett ignored the nay-sayers and last night ...

World Circuit Records will release the 30th Anniversary Edition of the Grammy-winning album ' Buena Vista Social Club,' which will be reissued on 'pearl sunrise' color double-LP. West End and Broadway ...

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