1. JUAN DIEGO FLÓREZ - Ah'mez amis/Pour mon ami
Possibly the best tenor around right now. He hits high-Cs like he eats them for breakfast; there's six high-Cs in that piece, and he just throws them out effortlessly.

2. BRAD MEHLAU - Someone to Watch Over Me
An incredibly interesting pianist, I love his rendition of absolutely anything. He's original, he's intelligent and of course, he's skilled.

3. KING SINGERS - The Flight of the Bumblebee
These guys are lots of fun, the way they take originals and then kind of twist them a bit is just great; this number is done completely a capella by them.

4. JOSEÉ CURA - Pagliacci, vesti La Giubba
There's a real baritonal quality to the chocolate resonance of this guy's voice. So dark, basically just the complete anthesis of my first selection, Juan Diego Flórez!

5. LOS ANGELES GUITAR QUARTET - Pachelbel's Loose Cannon
So quirky; the way they approached this famous piece was just great. It started with a classical version, then moved to a flamenco version, a heavy metal version and so on

6. YURI BENAVENTURA - Ne me quitte pas
His upbeat, salsa version of this depressing, 'don't leave me' Jacques Brel number. It's so completely unexpected and, again such fun to listen to.

7. FRANK SINATRA - Everything Happens to Me
Well, you can't leave out Ol' Blue Eyes! This is a very early recording of his, it reminds me in a funny way of a few friends who are a bit disaster prone!

8. MICHAEL BUBLÉ - You Don't Know Me
Fantastic - another great voice. Though I also recently heard a young man called Peter Grant do a version of this; it was certainly something quite special.

9. NORAH JONES - The Nearness of You
I first fell in love with the Nat King cole version of this song, but since I first heard this version I have to say I've come to prefer it. What a voice.

10. QUEEN - The Show Must Go On
Freddy Mecury hit a note with me, not jsut with his interest in opera, but with his realisation that performing is so much more than people think it is.