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Barcelona |  | Artists: Freddie Mercury, Montserrat Caballé
Label: Hollywood
Category: Music
List Price: £14.99
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 13142
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 161366
UPC: 720616136626
EAN: 0720616136626
ASIN: B000000OC6
Release Date: July 14, 1992
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Tracks:
| • | Barcelona | | • | Japonaise | | • | Fallen Priest | | • | Ensueño | | • | Golden Boy | | • | Guide Me Home | | • | How Can I Go On? | | • | Overture Piccante |
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| Customer Reviews:
The pure brillinance of Fred's voice - it shines thru. February 10, 2001
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Fourteen years ago I was a teenager hunting any new Queen release (in the search of guitars rock!) which, for now very obvious reasons, were not happening. Then this CD/Album came along! Queen are renowned for their very different themes and styles throughout the years. To my mind Queen II, Innuendo and Barcelona prove the very best of Freddie Mercury's phonetic harmonic talent. Hence my recommendation that you entertain this fine recording. I also fully recommend the Solo collection boxed set. Before buying it, I knew full well that I had most of the material anyway - bringing it all together on one CD/DVD quality format(along with the book!) made it quite a buy!
A rare album indeed June 21, 2003
Hambletta-Maud (sunny ireland)
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
This IS a rare album indeed. Take one Freddy Mercury - an accomplished songwriter with a flair for the dramatic - and one Montserrat Caballé - La Superba of the operatic world. Add them together and you have what can surely be described as a happy mix of two disparate entities.
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br /Most will remember "Barcelona", the title-song of the '92 Barcelone olympics, with its combination of Mercury's kitsch Queen-esque close harmonies coupled with Caballé's running up and down of the scales. But "Barcelona" the album is more than that; it is a cohesive whole - with an almost through composed dramatic narrative (of Mercury and his co-lyricist Batt) concerning a doomed love affair between (if one reads between the lines) the rockstar idol played convincingly by Mercury and his starstruck fan/love interest played euphically by Caballé. The idea might sound ridiculous, but do give it a go. "Ensueño", a duet accompanied by Mercury alone at the piano, will break your heart. "Guide me home", arguably the CD's highlight point, will bring tears to your eyes. "How can I go on" cuts close to the bone, bearing in mind that at this time Mercury knew his end was drawing close as the AIDS virus took its grip.
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br /This album is best listened to with a strong drink in one hand and a hanky in the other [...]
QUE DUETO MAS GRANDIOSO!!! February 22, 2008
C. Bellegarrigue (El Salvador)
La mas perfecta combinacion de dos voces privilegiadas esta presente en este disco;una union casi matrimonial entre el POP y la OPERA, representados ambos ritmos por dos grandes de la musica: FREDDIE y MONTSERRAT; las canciones son una maravilla, desde la impactante BARCELONA (que orquestacion mas barbara), LA JAPONAISE (una de las mas brillantes), la electrizante THE FALLEN PRIEST, la preciosas ENSUEÑO y THE GOLDEN BOY, una gran pieza como GUIDE ME HOME, la bellisima HOW CAN I GO ON y para cerrar con un broche de oro tremendo, una rica combinacion de todas las piezas del disco en forma de obertura simplemente fantastica; una album que eriza todos los cabellos y nos hacen ver un talento sin precedentes como lo era el gran MR.MERCURY (que desgraciadamente ya no esta con nosotros) y una maravillosa diva como lo sigue siendo MRS.MONTSERRAT.
 Great tracks by 2 Divas September 5, 2009
Sally Wilton (Bournemouth UK)
We all know this one. A must have for any collector of opera or Queen.
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