Classical crossover broadly encompasses both classical music that has become popularized and a wide variety of popular music forms performed in a classical manner or by classical artists. It can also refer to collaborations between classical and popular performers, as well as music that blends elements of classical music (including operatic and symphonic) with popular music (including pop, rock, middle of the road, and Latin, among other types). Pop vocalists and musicians, opera singers, classical instrumentalists, and occasionally rock groups primarily perform classical crossover. Although long a common phenomenon in the music world, the name "classical crossover" was coined by record companies in the 1980s. It has gained in popularity since the 1990s and has acquired its own Billboard chart.
So today we feature Luciano Pavarotti, Sting, Freddie Mercury, 10cc, Sarah Brightman, Andrzej Lampert, Andrea Bocelli, Rebecca Newman and Susan Boyle.
Today, we dedicate this programme to the memory of Rod Temperton, most known for R & B compositions. So we may not listen so much to classical music as we would to Rhythm & Blues. So if you are just tuned to radio and are expecting Bach and Beethoven, we have nothing of the sort but pure Rod Temperton.
