{"id":1299,"date":"2010-03-01T17:49:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T16:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2017-02-22T21:00:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T20:00:22","slug":"bbc-news-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/bbc-news-online\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC News online"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Some of the UK’s most popular classical music stars have gathered in London to record a charity song for the Disasters Emergency Committee.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Musicians including Julian Lloyd Webber, Aled Jones and Britain’s Got Talent stars Paul Potts and Faryl Smith went into a recording studio together.<\/p>\n

A total of 23 artists have contributed to the song The Prayer, made famous by Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion.<\/p>\n

Intended to help the Haiti aid effort, it will be released on 14 March.<\/p>\n

The recording session took place at Metropolis Studios, west London, on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The line-up included “popera” acts All Angels, Bond, Camilla Kerslake, Rhydian and The Priests, as well as ITV’s Pop Star To Opera Star winner Darius Campbell and Classical Brit winners Blake<\/p>\n

Blake singer Humphrey Berney said: “It’s the first time that a number of classical artists have come together, and it’s for an immensely important cause.<\/p>\n

“It’s pretty exceptional circumstances to go into the studio with other artists who have collectively sold millions of albums. You’d think it would be a very high pressured environment but there’s an extremely relaxed and very friendly atmosphere.”<\/p>\n

Each vocalist performed different lines before coming together for a group finale.<\/p>\n

“I know when people listen to it and remember why we’re singing it, it will be a very moving and powerful piece of music,” Berney said.<\/p>\n

Dame Evelyn Glennie, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and tenor Gardar Thor Cortes recorded their parts in advance.<\/p>\n

The project was masterminded by manager Nadia Raibin, who said it came together in “two frantic weeks”.<\/p>\n

‘Haunting’ track<\/p>\n

“I’ve pulled favours left, right and centre, I’ve begged and borrowed everything and everyone I could think of,” she said. “The artists have flown in from here, there and everywhere, all at their own expense.<\/p>\n

“Every single person that I have spoken to just said yes straight away. So everybody involved has given their time and enjoyed the day.”<\/p>\n

She described the song, written by David Foster, as an “iconic, haunting” piece of music.<\/p>\n

“It sounds so beautiful and the general public just need to back it so that we can raise the money that is so needed.”<\/p>\n

It would be “lovely” to stage a live performance, she added. “You never know, maybe the Classical Brits will invite us to do it.”<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a Haiti fundraising gig featuring rock acts such as Paul Weller, Seasick Steve and KT Tunstall at the London Roundhouse on Thursday raised <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of the UK’s most popular classical music stars have gathered in London to record a charity song for the Disasters Emergency Committee. Musicians including Julian Lloyd Webber, Aled Jones and Britain’s Got Talent stars Paul Potts and Faryl Smith went into a recording studio together. A total of 23 artists have contributed to the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[143,569,105,298,297,282],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blakeofficial.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}