The Quartet Sessions

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The Quartet Sessions
The Quartet Sessions by Mark Vincent.jpg
Studio album by
Released18 October 2013
Genre Classical
Length39:58
Label Sony Music Australia
Mark Vincent chronology
Songs from the Heart
(2011)
The Quartet Sessions
(2013)
Best So Far
(2014)

The Quartet Sessions is the fifth studio album by Australian tenor, Mark Vincent. The album was released through Sony Music Australia on 18 October 2013 and peaked at number 16 on the ARIA Charts.

Contents

This album features interpretations of classical and pop favourites from Beyoncé, Christina Perri, Coldplay and Green Day

Vincent said; "I’ve recorded four albums so far with big orchestras, I wanted to do something different for my next album and I wanted to surprise my audience. At first I thought that a quartet record would be crazy to do, but it works. It's incredibly hard to make a record like this. When you sing with a string quartet you need to sing to perfection. There is no room for mistakes." On the selection of songs, Vincent said; "I'm an artist that listens to all kinds of music: pop, rock, any genre. A lot of my friends aren't into classical music. I wanted to open up the classical music genre to more young people, so I recorded these songs in a classical way. If you listen to ‘Burn For You’, ‘Halo’ and ‘Jar of Hearts’... no opera artist has recorded those kinds of songs before." [1]

Track listing

CD/DD
  1. "Halo" - 4:23
  2. "Runaway" (feat. Sally Cooper) - 3:52
  3. "Bésame Mucho" - 3:53
  4. "Suddenly" - 2:32
  5. "Viva la Vida" - 4:10
  6. "Jar of Hearts" - 4:26
  7. "Maria" - 2:44
  8. "Look Inside" - 3:38
  9. "Burn For You" - 4:08
  10. "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" - 2:35
  11. "Book of Love" (feat. 2Cellos) - 3:27

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (2013)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [2] 16
Australian Artist Album Chart [3] 4
Australian Classical Album Chart1

Year-end charts

Chart (2013)Position
ARIA Classic Albums Chart [4] 7

Release history

RegionDateFormatLabelCatalogue
Australia18 October 2013 Sony Music Australia 88765477702

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