Composer, arranger and producer Hughes de Courson’s albums Mozart in Egypt 1 & 2 are Virgin Classics all-time best sellers with over half a million copies sold worldwide.

Aside from the popular Mozart project, Hughes de Courson has explored the fusion of musical cultures in other ‘cross-over’ albums, the highlights of which are featured on this compilation: O’Stravaganza, an encounter between Vivaldi and Celtic music, Songs of Innocence, children’s folk songs from every corner of the world and Lux Obscura, a phantasmagorical journey through time that pulls chants of the Middle Ages into the 21st Century.

Artists

Abdelwahab Shihata (tenor), Ahmed Saad (tenor), Amin Shahin (instruments), Amr Hassan (tenor), Ibrahim Kawala (instruments), Mahmoud Sourour (violin, instruments), Mamdouh el Gebaly (lute, instruments), May (soprano), Ragab Sadek (instruments, cymbals, dulcimer), Yamen Abdel Meneim (instruments), Plovdiv`s Children`s Choir (lead vocals), Nollaig Casey (violin), Emer Mayock (flute), Robert Harris (bodhran), Dónal Siggins (bouzouki), Ronan Le Bars (bagpipes), Youenn Le Berre (whistle, oboe, flute), Peter Lockett (tabla, drums), Giorgy Petrov (rebec, lute), Brian Gulland (director), David White (director, keyboards, programmer), Gilles Chabenat (hurdy-gurdy), Hughes De Courson (director, keyboards, psaltery), Robin Jeffrey (theorbo), Mohsen el Ashry (instruments), El Lebrijano (performed by), Antonio Moya (guitarra, guitar), Abdou Dagher (violin), Ashrat Essam (tambourine), Maged Sourour (zither), Mario Angelov (piano), Mohammed Fouda (flute), Mostafa Abdel Naby (lute), Safwat Sourour (tabla), Dobri Hristov Choir from Sofia (lead vocals), Hassan el Megannawaty (vocals), Jim Cuomo (clarinet), Mohammed Mostafa (violin), Mostafa abd el Aziz (clarinet), Nabil Diab (tabla), Nasredine Dalil (flute), Les 202 chanteurs et musiciens, Theodossii Spassov (instruments, flute, kaval), Amira Selim (soprano), Borislav Iokav (clarinet), Theodosii Spassov (kaval), Rabah Dalil (djembe), Aly Helbany (vocals), George Kyrillos (lute), Groupe David (vocals), Maher El Helbany (vocals), Monica George (vocals), Sheik Mohammed El Helbany (vocals), Vanina Ivanova (vocals), Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra, Plovdiv's Children's Choir, Radiana Dimitrova, Vitchka Nikolova, "dobri Hristov" Choir From Sofia, Zoya Vidas, Alexander Kotchkov, Radio Sofia Sinfonic Orchestra, Le Orfanelle della Pietà, Orchestre Symphonique de Bulgarie, Children's Choir of Radio Sofia, Deyan Pavlov, Tomás Gubitsch, Milen Natchev