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Enchantment
| Title:
Enchantment
(Taiwan version) |
| Release
date: 2001 |
| Formats:
CD |
| Description:
Of
course we couldn't expect time to freeze its relentless path
and forever preserve the Welsh sensation Charlotte Church in a
chrysalis of precocious youth. And yet, at 15 and now taking
bolder steps into expanding her repertory on Enchantment,
the soprano remains a marvel of a prodigy. Here she scours a
wider range of sources than on her previous albums; Church
moves with breathtaking ease from classic Broadway (West
Side Story, Show Boat, South Pacific) to
traditional Celtic music, film ballads and even a couple of
operatic numbers. Church's straightforward approach to the
melody of "La Habanera" may not exactly be what
Bizet had in mind for his Carmen, but fans will get double
pleasure out of the singer's exquisite duet with herself on
the haunting "Flower Duet" from Delibes's Lakmé.
What's more, there's a greater freedom of expression and sense
of how to shape a phrase in many of these tracks--notice how
much there is to savour, for instance, in "The Water is
Wide" or "Carrickfergus". It all adds up to a
widely varied course, demonstrating the continued growth of a
singularly gifted young artist. |
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Tracks
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1.
Tonight (from West Side Story)
2. Can't help loving dat man (from Porgy and Bess)
3. Habanera (from Bizet's Carmen)
4. Bali ha'l (from South Pacific)
5. A bit of earth (from Secret Garden)
6. Somewhere (from West Side Story)
7. The water is wide
8. The little horses
9. Gymnopedie No. 1 (arr. from Satie)
10. If I loved you (from Carousel)
11. The laughing song (from Die Fledermaus)
12. The flower duet (from Delibes' Lakme)
13. Papa can you hear me? (from Yentl)
14. Carrickfergus
15. The Prayer (With Josh Groban)
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