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Awards
Classical BRITs to release single
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 10 May 2010
Organisers of the Classical BRIT Awards have announced they will release a charity single shortly after the awards show airs on ITV next week.
The single will be a recording of ‘Nessun Dorma’ by Blake, Camilla Kerslake and Howard Goodall’s Enchanted Voices, who will perform together at the classical awards ceremony on Thursday. The choice of song was presumably motivated by the upcoming World Cup – the aria from the final act of Giacomo Puccini’s opera ‘Turandot’ becoming linked with the football contest after the Three Tenors performance of it for the 1990 World Cup.
The boss of record label trade body and BRIT organisers the BPI, Geoff Taylor, told CMU: “This will be a memorable performance at the Classical BRIT Awards, and to have this track available in a World Cup year is perfect. If the nation takes the song, performed by this superb fresh classical talent, into their hearts for this year’s World Cup we can hope to reprise the success of the song 20 years on.”
The classical release in aid of the BRIT Trust follows the charity single that came out of the pop and rock BRIT Awards earlier this year, in which the Flo & The Machine and Dizzee Rascal mash-up performance was released as a download, selling 280,000 copies to date.
