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Sarah Brightman: La Luna

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Label: East-West Records
Released: 2000.04.25
Time:
 50:21
Category: Classical
Producer(s): Frank Peterson
Rating: ******.... (6/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.sarahbrightman.com
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Purchase date: 2013
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] This Love - 6:19
[2] Scarborough Fair - 4:12
[3] Figlio Perduto - 4:36
[4] La Califfa - 3:05
[5] Here with Me - 5:12
[6] Serenade - 0:51
[7] How Fair This Spot - 2:09
[8] Hijo de la Luna - 4:29
[9] She Doesn't See Him - 4:28
[10] Solo Con Te - 3:05
[11] Gloomy Sunday - 3:47
[12] La Luna - 5:01
[13] First of May (Live - Encore Track) - 3:03

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Sarah Brightman - Adaptation, Composer, Keyboards, Vocals, Background Vocals

Frank Peterson - Adaptation, Composer, Engineer, Keyboards, Mixing, Producer
Michael Soltau - Adaptation, Associate Producer, Composer, Engineer, Keyboards, Mixing
Günther Haas - Guitar
Carsten Heusmann - Keyboards
Jan Eric Kohrs - Keyboards
Peter Murray - Keyboards
Trevor Barry - Bass
Martin Frosty Beedle - Drums
Gillian McDonagh - Percussion

Princessa - Background Vocals
English National Choir - Choir/Chorus, Vocals
Matthew Scrivener - Lead
Internazionale Cameristico - Choir/Chorus
English National Orchestra - Orchestra
Sylvia Rhys-Thomas - Choir Director, Leader
Paul Bateman - Conductor, Orchestration

John Timperly - Engineer, Mixing
David Walter - Assistant Engineer
Colin Boland - Engineer
Anna Lena Strasse - Assistant Engineer
Bob Ludwig - Mastering
Peter Harenberg - Mastering
Simon Fowler - Photography
James Fitzpatrick - Contractor
Jimmy Fitzpatrick - Contractor
Rob McIntosh - Contractor

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La Luna (Italian and Spanish for "the moon") is the seventh album recorded by English soprano Sarah Brightman in 2000. It was released under license by Nemo Studios to Angel Records. The album combines pieces written by classical and modern composers. The classical pieces are "How Fair This Place" by Rachmaninov; "Figlio Perduto", which is based on Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 Op. 92, 2nd movement in A minor "Allegretto"; Solo Con Te (Handel); Aria "La Luna" from Opera Rusalka. With La Luna, Brightman combined elements of her traditional operatic background with her newer style of pop music. "Hijo de la Luna" (translating to "Son of the Moon" in Spanish) is a cover originally performed by the Spanish synthpop band Mecano. Written by Ennio Morricone, "La Califfa" is the title track of the 1970 Italian film with the same name. The underlying concept of the album is the moon. It is the 17th top-selling classical album of the 2000s in the US, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and is Brightman's second highest seller in the country after her 1997 release Timeless/Time to Say Goodbye. Aside from the US, the album experienced its strongest sales in Asia, where it received a quintuple platinum certification in Taiwan, earned Brightman's first Gold award in Japan and currently remains as the best-selling classical album of all-time in China by a non-Asian artist. It was certified Diamond by the Chinese Administration of Radio, Film, and Television.



Broadway star Sarah Brightman lends her ethereal, angelic vocals to another combination of classical and pop, resulting in a solid, stirring collection. This outing, the ex-Mrs. Andrew Lloyd Webber adapts Rachmaninov ("How Fare This Spot"), Beethoven ("Figlio Perduto"), and Handel ("Solo Con Te") alongside the brothers Gibb and Simon and Garfunkel. The uncanny thing is how canny Brightman is at bridging the contemporary with the classics so that they seem timeless. She brings touches of adult contemporary, rock, and even, surprisingly enough, techno to the mix; some of these songs, "Here With Me" in particular, are crying out to be remixed as dance songs. Her crystalline soprano leads you on a sentimental journey through "Scarborough Fair" then lilts through a playful "Hijo de la Luna" without missing a beat. Especially successful is the last track, "First of May," as it was recorded live in South Africa. It shows that Brightman's talent doesn't need the production so many contemporary vocalists need to sound phenomenal. There is something melancholy in her expressive voice and in the production of each song on this album, so that even if you don't understand the language of the lyrics, you're left feeling a bit nostalgic, and the effect is not that of much of the plastic A/C market but one of genuine emotion. She doesn't manipulate you into feeling; she actually moves you. Overall, this album achieves some beautiful highs without being over the top.

Bryan Buss - AllMusic.com
 

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