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Andrea Bocelli's career celebrated on new multi-disc set - The Classical Collection / uDiscover Music

The new box includes six discs of the star's greatest studio classical albums plus a new collection of rarities and unreleased outtakes. A new multi-disc collection is set to celebrate the career of transcendent tenor Andrea Bocelli. Released on 10 August by Sugar/Decca/UMe, the seven-disc The Classical Collection includes six discs of Bocelli's greatest studio classical albums plus a new collection of rarities and heretofore unreleased outtakes. The new collection offers all 7 albums each in its own digipak, presented in a deluxe matte black outer box featuring hot-foiled gold.

Kicking off The Classical Collection is Bocelli's first classical recording, 1997's Viaggio Italiano, undertaken with the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. Aria – The Opera Album came next in April 1998, featuring the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as directed by Gianandrea Noseda, with its contents spanning Bocelli's inherent mastery of material from Puccini to Schubert, and Verdi to Donizetti. On the cusp of the new millennium came Bocelli's November 1999 recording of Sacred Arias with the Orchestra and Choir of the National Academy of Saint Cecilia, as conducted by Myung-Whun Chung. Sacred Arias remains one of the tenor's most shining artistic productions – and it also has the distinction of being the best-selling classical album ever released by a solo artist, with over 5 million copies sold to date.

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