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Classic Diamonds is the ninth studio album of the singer of Heavy Metal and Hard Rock German Doro Pesch, published in 2004.

The album has new acoustic and symphonic arrangements for Doro’s repertoire songs, as well as new compositions.

Music is mainly played by the Classic Night Orchestra , a set of young classic musicians who accompanies Doro during the next European tour ^{[ 6 ]} .

Doro Pesch had already experienced the mixture of his powerful Hard Rock songs with a symphonic orchestra in 2001 during a concert in Düsseldorf and, later, in 2003, for a charity concert in Bochum whose extracts from these two shows are included in the DVD Forever (in) (2003).

The result of these two performances and the reaction of fans encourage the German singer to plan a more organic approach to the symphonic facets of her songs, programming an album and a tour with an orchestra ^{[ 7 ]} .

Doro, looking for classic young, open and multi-ethnic musicians, chooses the Classic Night Orchestra , a set reaching the 30 elements ^{[ 7 ]} .

With the help of Oliver Palotai, one of the members of the group, and the Torsten Sickert producer, Doro organizes old titles and new compositions for the orchestra and records them in Cologne. The album takes almost eight months to be finalized and is the most expensive recording produced by Doro ^{[ 7 ]} .

In addition to the eleven songs played with the orchestra, the album contains two songs recorded in live And acoustically in the studio by the Doro group and two other titles played by Torsten Sickert with an emulator granted to the classic instruments.

Outside of Classic Night Orchestra , the group’s musicians as well as The Midnight Orchestra (on titles I’m in Love with You And She’s Like Thunder ) accompany Doro ^{[ 6 ]} In its covers, part of the time it was part of the Warlock group.

The album is published at the time of the European tour, during which many elements of Classic Night Orchestra play together, in live , with the Doro group in most cities crossed. At the Wacken Open Air festival (in Germany) August 6, 2004 , the Classic Night Orchestra is complete, on stage, for the show.

Throughout the tour, extracts from the show Classic Diamonds are filmed and later broadcast on Classic Diamonds – The DVD  (in) ^{[ 8 ]} .

The album culminated at the 33 ^{It is} Position of the German classification Longplay ^{[Ref. necessary]} .

Contents and editions [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

Classic Diamonds appears on the AFM Records label and in different formats, with and without bonus and, also, in a limited edition ” Deluxe “of 2 cd including, on a bonus disc, the EP Let Love Rain on Me ^{[ 9 ]} .

The version Enhanced (improved) of the album includes a video of Let Love Rain on Me ^{[ 6 ]} .

The version Digibook , in limited edition, includes 2 additional tracks ^{[ 6 ]} .

Breaking the Law is a cover of the eponymous song of the British Heavy Metal group Judas Priest , recorded for their album British Steel in 1980.

The Classic Night Orchestra [ modifier | Modifier and code ] Direction d’Orchestre – Arnt Böhme Premiers Violons – Hye-Sin TJO, Ardan Saguner, Nonna Parfenov, Elda Teqja, Marco Stankovic, Ingrid Illguth Seconds Violons-Carolin Kosa, Arhan Saguner, Emma Fridman, Jee-Eun Lee, Alexander Schneider Altos – Wiebke Corsen, Urs Beckers, Ernst Hesse, Kristina Iczque, Manuela Crespi Violeonceseles – Lev Gordin (Solo), Martin Hnnths, Jens Peter Temand, Ludise Contrebasse – Milivoj Plavsic Trumpets – Daniel Edleloff, Jeugg brown Seconds trumpet – Wolfgang Mundt, Carsten Gronwald Trombones – Andreas Roth, Peter Schatlo Trombone Basse – Jan Böhme Acoustic guitar – Klaus ‘Major’ Heuser Battery – Wolf Simon Percussion – Mario Arrangonda

Additional musicians [ modifier | Modifier and code ] Udo Dirkschneider – lead vocals (Title 3) Oliver Palotai – Piano Oliver Best, Thomas Nathan, Klaus Vanscheidt – Choirs Johnny that – battery (titles 10 and 14) Nick Douglas – basse (titles 10 and 14) Claus Fischer – Basse (Title 4) Kai Hansen – guitars, bass (Title 13) , acoustic guitar, choirs Dirk Schoppen – Basse (Title 4) , choirs Joe Taylor – Acoustic guitar (titles 10 and 14) Martin Wagmen – Trumpets Solo

Technical and production teams [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

• Production: Chris Lietz
• Production (additional): Torsten Sickert for the Midnight Orchestra (titles 9 and 13)
• Orchestra arrangements: Arnt Böhme (titles 1, 2, 5) , Torsten Sickert (titles 3, 4, 8, 9, 11, 13, 15) , Oliver Palace (titles 6, 7, 12, 15) , Wieland Reißmann (Title 9)
• Ingénierie, Mixage: Thorsten Rentsch
• Ingnournie: Obachaus rise over
• Mastering: Mika Jussila