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Soon thereafter, in February 1988, he released Nada como el sol, a selection of five songs from Sun sung ( by Sting himself ) in Spanish and Portuguese.

He was also involved in two other recordings in the late 1980s, the first in 1987 with jazz arranger Gil Evans, who placed Sting in a big band setting for a live album of Sting's songs ( the CD was not released in the U. S .), and the second on Frank Zappa's 1988 Broadway the Hard Way album, where Sting performs an unusual arrangement of " Murder By Numbers ", set to the tune " Stolen Moments " by jazz composer Oliver Nelson, and " dedicated " to fundamentalist evangelist Jimmy Swaggart.

October 1988 saw the release of Igor Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale with the London Sinfonietta conducted by Kent Nagano.

It featured Vanessa Redgrave, Sir Ian McKellen and Sting in the role of the soldier.