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Sarah Brightman: Symphony - Live in Vienna

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Label: Manhattan Records
Released: 2009.03.01
Time:
 73:54
Category: Classical
Producer(s): Frank Peterson
Rating: *****..... (5/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.sarahbrightman.com
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Purchase date: 2013
Price in €: 1,00





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[1] Pie Jesu - 3:56
[2] Fleurs du Mal - 4:46
[3] Symphony - 5:00
[4] Sanvean - 4:03
[5] Canto della Terra [feat. Alessandro Safina] - 4:21
[6] Sarai Qui [feat. Alessandro Safina] - 4:10
[7] Attesa - 4:41
[8] I Will Be with You [feat. Chris Thompson] - 4:49
[9] Storia d'Amore - 4:20
[10] Pasión [feat. Fernando Lima] - 5:33
[11] Running - 6:20
[12] Let It Rain - 4:36
[13] Phantom of the Opera [feat. Chris Thompson] - 4:36
[14] Time to Say Goodbye - 4:35
[15] Ave Maria - 3:34

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Sarah Brightman - Vocals

Jan Eric Kohrs - Musical Direction, Organ, Piano
Mark Awounou - Guitar, Guitars, Background Vocals
Amelia Brightman - Keyboards, Background Vocals
Gunther Laudahn - Guitar, Guitars, Background Vocals
Jörg Sander - Guitar, Guitars, Background Vocals
Alex Grube - Bass
Reiner Hubert - Drums
Roland Peil - Percussion
Tim Warburton - Leader, Violin

Fernando Lima - Vocals
Alessandro Safina - Vocals
Chris Thompson - Vocals

Ambassade Orchestra Vienna - Orchestra

Frank Peterson - Arranger, Audio Production, Mixing, Producer
Dennis Preiss - Assistant Engineer, Audio Engineer, Mixing
Colin Boland - Mixing
Stefan Glaumann - Mixing
Carsten Heusmann - Audio Production, Editing
Tara Chiari - Product Manager
Tara Leigh Chiari - Product Manager
Simon Fowler - Photography
Clemens Kois - Photography
Budiono Nguyen - Photography

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The CD and the CD/DVD package were released on 10 March 2009. The DVD includes a picture gallery with pictures from the concert, two interviews with Brightman, as well as an interview about the cathedral with Father Anthony Faber and historian Elisabeth Lloyd-Jones. The CD in the CD/DVD package includes a bonus studio recording of Brightman performing "Vide Cor Meum" by Patrick Cassidy.



This is billed as a live recording of Sarah Brightman, and at some level no doubt it is one. There are photos of Brightman under the footlights, and an accompanying DVD contains more details about the elaborate production that goes into a show of this kind. The final product, however, is nearly as much a result of studio work as with any of Brightman's studio releases. The end of each track captures a segment of audience applause, enthusiastic enough, and it is instructive that toward the end Brightman thanks the audience for its patience. Plainly not all was spontaneous. The live situation barely affects the features of Brightman's voice that have made her so successful, so distinctive, and so reviled in certain quarters. Indeed, she comes through in its full strangeness here, where there are limits on the subtlety of the instrumental accompaniment, which tends to alternate between hushed tones and full-on bombast. Like Brightman or not, her singing is far from monotonous. She's something like the female vocalists from ABBA, but with the advantage of vocal training, and if you step back from her voice and listen to it objectively, unimpeded by either fandom or animus, what you hear are weird sounds that just about nobody else could make. Listen to the opening track, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Pie Jesu, noting the almost crowing sound Brightman makes in her upper register on the lines beginning with "Qui tollis," and then again at the final little flourish. It's not a sound that would be pleasant on its own, but in the electronic environment within which Brightman works, even in a live situation, it stands out in the listener's mind. Brightman's choice of material is canny. It's noteworthy here for its pan-European base-covering - Brightman sings in several languages, often within the course of the same number - and its corresponding lack of influence from American pop. Brightman had a hand in several numbers, and her producer Frank Peterson shaped several others. This is Europop at its splashiest and most elaborate, inflected in a classical direction, and few people do that better or more distinctively than Sarah Brightman, "live" or not.

James Manheim - AllMusic
 

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