For You

Australian tenor Peter Brocklehurst continues his incredible journey with the release of his stunning new album "For You". This eclectic collection of classical tracks follows the amazing success of his debut CD, "Boots And All" which topped the ARIA Classical Chart earlier this year. Inundated by requests, the self-dubbed singing cobbler was moved to make an album of fan favourites with a contemporary classical feel.
"For You" was recorded over two months at Melbourne's Metropolis Audio Studios, a far cry from his debut effort, which was created in just four days. More than 180 musicians contributed to the project including some of the industry's most respected artists. Old friends and even family members played a role in what Brocklehurst describes as a fusion of new and exciting arrangements of wonderful love songs and operatic arias sung from the heart.
"For You" features brand new compositions written specially for Brocklehurst. Maestro and mentor Vladimir Vais returns with an enchanting piece entitled "The Winter Of Love" while songwriter Graeham Goble who penned his first single "Praise" contributes the beautiful "Stormy Surrender". Cheryl Beattie and John Grant provide the third and final original "If You Say" which features backing vocals by his teenage daughters, Lisa (16) and Cathy (19).
Brocklehurst shines on Puccini's "Nessun Dorma" with Academy Award winning composer David Hirschfelder reworking the orchestra to give the Pavarotti favourite a modern-day feel. Also reinvented is Cilea's "E'la Solita Storia Del Pastore".
Purists will relish versions of Donizetti's "Una Furtiva Lagrime" and "La Fleur Que Tu Ma Ve Jete'e" (the flower song from Carmen) whilst fans of the first album can hear the talented tenor add his incomparable style to Mario Lanza's "Yours Is My Heart Alone", "Tell Me Tonight" and one of the biggest selling classical song of all time "Be My Love". Exciting renditions of John Denver masterpieces "Perhaps Love" and the title track "For You" compliment the awe-inspiring duet with Bonnie Tyler on her 80s smash "Total Eclipse Of The Heart".
Melbourne-based busker Bernadette Conlon also appears on the LP. The visually impaired artist adds authenticity to both "Santa Lucia" and "Torna A Surriento" on the piano accordion whilst musician Michelle Moon provides the evocative sounds of the Uillean pipes to a breathtaking version of "Danny Boy". Soprano Margaret Orr also features heavily on the album including haunting vocals on the classic funeral song.