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2009 sees the 20th anniversay of the death of Carmen Cavallaro.

Features his million selling No.3 hit, Chopin`s `Polonaise`.

Unique compilation and extensive sleeve notes by Peter Dempsey.

Attractive packaging and housed in a high quality glossy slipcase.

All original recordings remastered

With a technique that married glittering, seamless, high-speed arpeggios with a disarming saccharine lyricism, Carmen Cavallaro’s ‘Poet of the Piano’ definition was apposite. A forerunner of the classical-pop ‘cross-over’ that reached its high tide with Liberace, Cavallaro began his musical career as a local solo attraction at plush nightclub venues and on radio.  Later, darling of the ivories, Carmen reached a global audience through recordings, film and TV appearances. This CD selection traverses Cavallaro’s many styles and moods –a reminder (if one were required) of the range that the giant Cavallaro could muster: the entire easy-listening piano gamut, from ‘cocktail’ to jazz, with many a sparkling byroad between.