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Sarah Brightman: Encore

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Artist: Sarah Brightman
Title: Encore
Released: 2002.04.06
Label: The Really Useful Group
Time: 51:20
Producer(s): Andrew Lloyd Webber, Nigel Wright
Appears with:
Category: Classical
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2002.07.08
Price in €: 13,99
Web address: www.sarah-brightman.com

 S o n g s ,   T r a c k s


[1] Whistle Down The Wind [Whistle Down The Wind] (A.L.Webber/J.Steinman) - 3:28 *
[2] Away From You [Rex] (R.Rodgers/S.Harnick) - 3:29
[3] Guardami [With One Look - Italian Version] [Sunset Boulevard] (A.L.Webber/D.Black) - 3:38
[4] Think Of Me [The Phantom Of The Opera] (A.L.Webber/Ch.Hart) - 3:15 *
[5] One More Walk Around The Garden [Carmelina] (B.Lane/A.J.Lerner) - 3:18 *
[6] Surrender [Sunset Boulevard] (A.L.Webber/D.Black/Ch.Hampton) - 3:06
[7] If I Ever Fall In Love Again [The Crooked Mile] (P.Greenwell/P.Wildeblood) - 3:59
[8] Half A Moment [Jeeves] (A.L.Webber/A.Ayckbourn) - 3:59
[9] Piano [Memory - Italian Version] [Cats] (A.L.Webber/T.Nunn) - 5:07
[10] What More Do I Need [Saturday Night] (S.Sondheim) - 3:04 *
[11] There Is More To Love [Apects Of Love] (A.L.Webber/D.Black/Ch.Hart) - 2:34
[12] The Last Man In My Life [Song And Dance] (A.L.Webber/D.Black) - 3:10
[13] In The Mandarin's Orchid Garden [East Is West] (G.Gershwin/I.Gershwin) - 3:17 *
[14] Nothing Like You've Ever Known [Tell Me On A Sunday & Song And Dance] (A.L.Webber/D.Black) - 3:11
[15] Chil Il Bel Sogno Di Doretta [La Rondine] (G.Puccini/G.Adami) - 2:45

* - prviously unrelased material.  

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SARAH BRIGHTMAN - Voclas

STEVE BARTON - Vocal
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER - Orchestration, Piano Accompainment
DAVID CULLEN - Orchestration
MICHAEL REED - Musical Dircetor
HARRY RABINOWITZ - Conductor

MARTIN LEVAN - Engineer
ROBIN SELLARS - Engineer
DAVE HUNT - Engineer
SIMON RHODES - Engineer
NOEL HARRIS - Assistant Engineer
LEE MCCUTCHEON - Assistant Engineer
TOBY WOODS - Assistant Engineer
DEWYNTERS - Album Design
SIMON FLOWER - Photography

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2002 CD Decca Classics 589 050-2



This collection CD, released in April 2002 by Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group Ltd., contains songs from musicals, taken from Sarah Brightman's CDs The songs that got away (1989) and Surrender, The unexpected songs (1995) plus four tracks previously unreleased by Sarah. Sarah Brightman: Encore is a collection of unforgettable performances of popular hits from famous Broadway shows including The Phantom Of The Opera (Sarah Brightman created the role of Christine in the original production), Cats, Sunset Boulevard, Evita, Song And Dance, Aspects Of Love and Whistle Down The Wind. The album has been produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber and many of the tracks are from his musicals — songs which have made Sarah Brightman famous throughout the world. Encore also contains four tracks never released before (see tracklisting for more details) and is an essential purchase for all fans of Sarah Brightman, Lloyd Webber

DeccaClassics.com



In a career that's veered from '70s pop chanteuse to Broadway star and neo-operatic diva, Sarah Brightman has brought a critics-be-damned sense of dramatic scale to nearly every project she's tackled. As the title suggests, the tracks here are largely culled from her Songs That Got Away and Surrender song anthologies, although they do include four previously unreleased outtakes from those collections. Her 1998 recording of the title song from ex-husband Andrew Lloyd Webber's Whistle Down the Wind succeeds by emphasizing its melodic grace with a deft, airy touch, while the remainder rescue worthy songs from obscure or failed musicals. From Lerner and Lane's 1959 Carmelina comes the lovely "One More Walk Around the Garden." Stephen Sondheim's youthful 1954 debut, Saturday Night, yields a sprightly take on "What More Do I Need," while an operatic reading of "In the Mandarin's Orchid Garden," from the Gershwins' unproduced 1929 East Is West, is also included. If the selection leans a little too heavily on the Lloyd Webber connection elsewhere (including Italian versions of "Guardami (With One Look)" from Sunset Boulevard and "Piano (Memory)" from Cats delivered in her patently restraint-free soprano), they're only reminders that shrewdness has hardly been the least of Brightman's talents.

Jerry McCulley, Amazon.com



Sarah Brightman reaffirms her status as a major musical theater star with this new compilation of songs -- some by her producer and former husband, Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber, and some not. Accordingly, most of these songs have appeared before, and some not. (Surrender -- The Unexpected Songs and The Songs That Got Away were the source for most of the album.) Brightman sings lesser-known tunes by Richard Rodgers, with the lyrical, light-footed "Away From You," and Peter Greenwell's measured, lovely melody "If I Ever Fall In Love Again." Among the never-before-released tracks on this collection are two pieces from early in distinguished songwriters' careers: "In the Mandarin's Orchid Garden," from George & Ira Gershwin's East Is West, and "What More Do I Need," from Stephen Sondheim's Saturday Night. (Another unreleased gem is the Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner tune "One More Walk Around the Garden," mounted in a pillowy orchestral arrangement.) Brightman lets her operatic side loose on "Chi Il Bel Sogno Di Doretta" from Puccini's La Rondine, as well as on two Webber songs translated into Italian: "Guardami" ("With One Look" from Sunset Boulevard) and "Piano" ("Memory" from Cats). Other pleasant Webber melodies include the fluttering, poignant ballad "Half a Moment" from By Jeeves and the pastoral, string-filled melody "Whistle Down the Wind," a previously-unreleased cut from the show of the same name. With this newest compilation, Sarah Brightman has turned in a strong Encore, but as two years have elapsed since her previous collection of original numbers, many in her audience must wonder what her next star vehicle will be.

Drew Wheeler - April 23, 2002
CDNOW Senior Editor, Vocal/Instrumental
Copyright © 1994-2002 CDnow Online, Inc. All rights reserved.



In a career that's veered from '70s pop chanteuse to Broadway star and neo-operatic diva, Sarah Brightman has brought a critics-be-damned sense of dramatic scale to nearly every project she's tackled. As the title suggests, the tracks here are largely culled from her Songs That Got Away and Surrender song anthologies, although they do include four previously unreleased outtakes from those collections. Her 1998 recording of the title song from ex-husband Andrew Lloyd Webber's Whistle Down the Wind succeeds by emphasizing its melodic grace with a deft, airy touch, while the remainder rescue worthy songs from obscure or failed musicals. From Lerner and Lane's 1959 Carmelina comes the lovely "One More Walk Around the Garden." Stephen Sondheim's youthful 1954 debut, Saturday Night, yields a sprightly take on "What More Do I Need," while an operatic reading of "In the Mandarin's Orchid Garden," from the Gershwins' unproduced 1929 East Is West, is also included. If the selection leans a little too heavily on the Lloyd Webber connection elsewhere (including Italian versions of "Guardami (With One Look)" from Sunset Boulevard and "Piano (Memory)" from Cats delivered in her patently restraint-free soprano), they're only reminders that shrewdness has hardly been the least of Brightman's talents.

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With four previously unreleased performances and two Italian versions of hit songs, Encores, Sarah Brightman’s new collection of theater tunes, has its share of rarities. While there are familiar takes on material from Phantom of the Opera (“Think of Me”), Sunset Boulevard (“Surrender”), Aspects of Love (“There Is More to Love”), By Jeeves (“Half a Moment”), and Song and Dance (“The Last Man in My Life”), Brightman also chimes in with renditions of songs from such lesser-known productions as Rex and The Crooked Mile. Unreleased material includes memorable performances drawn from Whistle Down the Wind, East Is East, Carmelina, Saturday Night, and La Rondine. Rendered in Italian are the signature songs “With One Look” ( Sunset Boulevard) and “Memory” (Cats). Brightman handles it all with the stylish aplomb, interpretive sensitivity, and larger-than-life verve that her fans have grown to cherish.

William Pearl - Barnes & Noble
 

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WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND

Whistle down the wind
Let your voices carry
Drown out all the rain
Light a patch of darkness
Treacherous and scary

Howl at the stars
Whisper when you're sleeping
I'll be there to hold you
I'll be there to stop
The tears and all the weeping
Make it clear and strong
So the whole night long
Every signal that you send
Until the very end
I will not abandon you
My precious friend

So try and stem the tide
Then you'll raise a banner
Send a flare up in the sky
Try to burn a torch
And try to build a bonfire
Every signal that you send
Until the very end, I'm there
So whistle down the wind
For I have always been right there

Howl at the stars
Whisper when you're sleeping
I'll be there to hold you
I'll be there to stop
The chills and all the weeping
Make it clear and strong
So the whole night long
Every signal that you send
Until the very end
I will not abandon you
My precious friend

So whistle down the wind
Let your voices carry
Drown out all the rain
Light a patch of darkness
Treacherous and scary
Every signal that you send
Until the very end, I'm there

So whistle down the wind
For I have always been right there


AWAY FROM YOU

Away from you
There is no music,
There is no sunlight,
The world is gray.
Away from you
The clocks are frozen,
And time's a traveller
Who's lost his way.

The people I meet
Might as well be statues,
The words we exchange
Might as well be Greek.
The room that I'm in
May be bright and cheerful
But to me
It's dim and bleak.

I'm half alive
Until the moment
The door swings open
And you walk through.
Now my world starts to glow
Like a stained-glass window
And what was old and cold
Is warm and new.
And so you see
Why I can never be
Away from you.

Away from you
The world is lifeless
As though creation
Has gone awry.
The trees are bare,
There are no flowers,
The fields are thirsty,
The streams are dry.

We live, you and I,
For a breath of sunlight,
So brief an escape
From a world of gray.
Our moments of warmth
Have been touch and go, love,
But tonight, we'll touch
And stay.

The people I meet
Might as well be statues,
The words we exchange
Might as well be Greek.
The room that I'm in
May be bright and cheerful
But to me
It's dim and bleak.

I'm half alive
Until the moment
The door swings open
And you walk through.
Now my soul is afloat
On a wave of music
That I could feel such joy
I never knew.
And so you see
Why I can never be
Away from you.


GUARDAMI

Guardami
No andare via
Guardami
Non vorrai di più

Non lasciar che così sia
Con un si vedrai
Quello che vorrai

Guardami
Sono solo io
Quella che
Ti porterà via

La mia anima è con te
Non saprai di più

Mai più vedrai
La scena che faro
E non fingero
Di saper di più

Tu sai che io
È lì che finirò
Mentre guardo te
Di dirò cosa è

Guardami
Già non parlo più
Sento ormai
Che t'arrenderai

Piano piano tra di noi
È la musica che ti fa sognar

Guardami
Non ne posso più
Questa si è la vita mia

E nell'ombra
Troverai
Tutto quel che vuoi

Una dolce melodia
Che qualcuno a vrà
Cantato giù

Guardami
Una fiamma ormai
Come me non ci saranno mai
Sono ancora qui tra voi

Sento che adesso
Io rimarrò qui
Solo adesso
Sento che con te
Sono io
Guarda


THINK OF ME

Christine
Think of me
think of me fondly,
when we've said
goodbye.
Remember me
once in a while -
please promise me
you'll try.
 
When you find
that, once
again, you long
to take your heart back
and be free -
if you
ever find
a moment,
spare a thought
for me ...
 
We never said
our love
was evergreen,
or as unchanging
as the sea -
but if
you can still
remember,
stop and think
of me ...

Think of all the things
we've shared and seen -
don't think about the things
which might have been ...
 
Think of me,
think of me waking,
silent and
resigned.
 
Imagine me,
trying too hard
to put you
from my mind.
 
Recall those days,
look back
on all those times,
think of the things
we'll never do -
there will
never be
a day, when
I won't think
of you ...
 
Raoul
Can it be?
Can it be Christine?
 
What a change!
You're really
not a bit
the gawkish girl
that once you were ...
 

She may
not remember
me, but
I remember
her ...
 
Christine
We never said
our love
was evergreen,
or as unchanging
as the sea -
but please
promise me
that sometimes
you will think
ah-ah-ah-ah-aaah-of me!


ONE MORE WALK AROUND THE GARDEN

That old April yearning
Once more is returning
And I have a longing to wander.

The leaves may be falling,
But April is calling
And the prim roses beckon me yonder.

For one more walk around the garden
One more stroll along the shore.
One more memory I can dream upon
Until I dream no more.
For one more time perhaps the dawn will wait
And one more prayer it's not too late
To gather one more rose
Before I say goodbye and close the garden gate.

That old arc is saying
It's time to go straying
When no one but April can find me.

To try and recover
The heart of a lover
That I left lying somewhere behind me.

Just one more walk along the garden
One more stroll along the shore.
One more memory I can dream upon
Until I dream no more.
For one more time perhaps the dawn will wait
And one more prayer it's not too late
To gather one more rose
Before I say goodbye and close the garden gate.

One more rose before I close the garden gate.


SURRENDER

No more wars to fight
White flags fly tonight
You are out of danger now
Battle field is still
Wild poppies on the hill
Peace can only come when you surrender
Here the tracers fly
Lighting up the sky
But I'll fight unto the end
Let them send their armies
I will never bend
I won't see you now till I surrender
I'll see you again when I surrender

Battle field is still
Wild poppies on the hill
Peace can only come when you surrender
Here the tracers fly
Lighting up the sky
But I'll fight unto the end
Let them send their armies
I will never bend
I won't see you now till I surrender
I'll see you again when I surrender


IF I EVER FALL IN LOVE AGAIN

If I ever fall in love again,
It'll be with someone just like you.
I don't say that I'm in love again
But on the day you came my way, I knew.

If I ever fall in love again,
This is just the way it ought to be,
But if it's really love again,
I'll leave to fate, I'd rather wait and see.

How can I know
When my head is saying no
And my heart's telling me that it's real?
Can it be wrong
If I burst into song
At the wonder of feeling the way
That I suddenly feel?

If I ever fall in love again
I shall know exactly what to do.
And when I fall in love again
I know it must be someone just like you.

The way that I suddenly feel!

If I ever fall in love again
I shall know exactly what to do.
And when I fall in love again
I know it must be someone just like you.


HALF A MOMENT

Half a moment
We are together
I shall want no-one else
And nothing new.
Half a moment
I shall treasure,
Keep it locked away
For some future rainy day.

Should you leave me
With just this moment
In my mind
I shall capture it anew,
Like some picture
Taken in my childhood
Half a moment
Spent with you.

Half a moment
I shall treasure,
Keep it locked away
For some future rainy day.

Should you leave me
With just this moment
In my mind
I shall capture it anew,
Like some picture
Taken in my childhood
Half a moment
Spent with you.

Countless vivid memories
Spin before my view,
Like some toy kaleidoscope
Images of you.

Time looks kindly
On fleeting lovers
They can turn the briefest hour
Into a day
Turn a moment
To a lifetime
Making it to last
Blending future with the past.

We're together,
What else can matter?
Even though
Half a moment is too few
I shall save it
'Til I have another
Making one whole moment
Filled with you.


PIANO

Piano questi passi d'amore
Sulla strada del cuore
Che mi porta da te
Soffia il vento del tempo
Questa notte che va
Sempre qui ci troverà

Piano senza fare rumore
Gira il mondo le ore
Quanta fretta che ha
Un ricordo domani
Questa notte sarà
Sempre qui poi tornerà

Nasce il sole
Che cosi
Ci troverà abbracciati
La sua mano
Sulla porta piano
Spalanca il cielo al mattino

Giorno mentre arrival l'inverno
Un fedele ritorno
La sua neve cadrà
E la notte più chiara
Questa sera sarà
Quando il puio scenderà

Nasce il sole
Che cosi
Ci troverà abbracciati
La sua mano
Sulla porta piano
Spalanca il cielo al mattino

Forte e lo voglio gridare
Questo amore più forte
Questa notte sarà
Quante volte
Nel letto si è svegliato con me
Questo amore è per te


WHAT MORE DO I NEED?

Once I hated this city,
Now it can't get me down.
Slushy, humid and gritty,
What a pretty town.

What, thought I, could be duller,
More depressing, less gay.
Now my favourite colour Is grey.

A wall of rain as it turns to sleet,
The lack of sun on a one-way street,
I love the grime all the time.
And what more do I need?

My window pane has a lovely view,
An inch of sky and a fly or two.
Why, I can't see half a tree.
And what more do I need?

The dusk is thick and it's galling;
It simply can't be excused.
In winter even the falling snow looks Used.

My window pane may not give much light,
But I see you, so the view is bright.
If I can laugh you are paid the debt, no heap.
With your love, what more do I need?

Someone shouting for quiet,
Someone starting a brawl,
Down the block there's a riot,
And I'll buy it - all.

Listen, now I am ecstatic,
Hold me close and be still.
Hear the lovely pneumatic Drill.

A subway train thunders through the Bronx,
A taxi horn on the corner honks.
But I adore every roar.
And what more do I need?

I hear a crane making street repairs,
A two-ton child running wild upstairs.
Steep my spine sirens climb.
And what more do I need?

The neighbours yell in the summer,
The landlord yells in the fall
So loud I can't hear the plumber
Pound the wall.

An aeroplane roars across the bay,
But I can hear you as clear as day:
You said you love me
Above the summer sea.

With your love -
What more do I need?


THERE IS MORE TO LOVE

There is more to love,
So much more,
Than simply making love --
That's easy.

Gazing into eyes,
Pretty eyes,
Which could be any eyes --
That's crazy.

Hands are just hands,
A face is just a face ...
They come and go --
They're easy to replace ...

There is more to love,
So much more,
Than moon-struck escapades --
That's nothing.

There is peace of mind,
So much peace,
In quiet company --
That's something.

Everyone but him
Seems wrong for me ...
Every time I feel
There has to be
More ...

If I could hear
The music I heard then,
I'd never let
It fade away again ...

There is more to love,
So much more,
Than simply making love --
That's easy.

Gazing into eyes,
Pretty eyes,
Which could be any eyes --
That's crazy.

Now each time
Love reaches out to me,
I can only feel
There has to be
So much more
To love ...


THE LAST MAN IN MY LIFE

I'm a lady when you kiss me,
I'm a child when you are leaving,
I'm a woman ev'ry time our bodies meet
complete.

Long lost feelings stir inside me,
used to think nights were for sleeping,
being wanted is a thrill I never knew
till you.

Now I'm alive, inside I'm glowing,
I'm how I want to be,
loving you I can be me,
just me.

It's the first time when you touch me,
now I long for rainy mornings,
I am certain you're the last man in my life.

I'm a woman ev'ry time our bodies meet
complete.

Long lost feelings stir inside me,
used to think nights were for sleeping,
being wanted is a thrill I never knew
till you.

Now I'm alive, inside I'm glowing,
I'm how I want to be,
loving you I can be me,
just me.

It's the first time when you touch me,
now I long for rainy mornings,
tell each other to find all we're looking for
and more.

Found the rainbow I was after,
no more dreams with one face missing,
I am certain you're the last man in my life.


IN THE MANDARIN'S ORCHID GARDEN

Somehow by fate misguided,
A buttercup resided
In the mandarin's orchid garden.

A buttercup that did not please
The lovely peace of such a place.
And so it simply [shined] above
And begged each orchids pardon,
The little buttercup in the orchid garden.

The bees keep passing daily
And kiss the orchids dearly,
In the mandarin's orchid garden.

A buttercup [side] longing leaf,
But love was not for such as she.
And so under the tree of love hanged I
Still begging pardon,
The lonely buttercup in the orchid garden.

I too have been misguided;
To long have I resided
In the mandarin's orchid garden.

And all for friendliness I am,
I do not know which way to talk.
Alone must I keep [praying God]
To beg each lady's pardon.

A lonely buttercup
In the orchid garden.


NOTHING LIKE YOU'VE EVER KNOWN

Nothing like you've ever known
That's the life I thought that I was gonna show you
Lonely girls believe such things
That's one happy ever after that I owe you
Married man always looking at
You watch
I wanted to spend more time than twelve till two
Loving you
And nothing like it should have been
Every time I think it's gonna be the last time
Each time I expect to much
Being wrong can get to be a painful pastime

Something new that is all it was
You know
But when you need someone any love will do
Sad but true
And nothing like we've ever known
That is how I thought all our tomorrows would be
I thought we were all we'd need
Goes to show you just how wrong two people could be


CHI IL BEL SOGNO DI DORETTA

Chi il bel sogno di Doretta
Potè indovinar?
Il suo mister come mai
Come mai fini

Ahimè! un giorno uno studente
In bocca la baciò
E fu quel bacio
Rivelazione:
Fu la passione!
Folle amore!
Folle ebbrezza!
Chi la sottil carezza
D'un bacio cosi ardente
Mai ridir potrà?

Ah! mio sogno!

Ah! mia vita!

Che importa la ricchezza
Se alfine è rifiorita
La felicità!
O sogno d'or
Poter amar così!
 

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