Charlotte Church - Prelude: The Best Of (Ltd Ed) (Cd & Dvd)
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Track List: Prelude: The Best Of (Ltd Ed) (Cd & Dvd)
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- Pie Jesu
- My Lagan Love
- In Trutina
- Panis Angelicus
- Amazing Grace
- Just Wave Hello (Ford Global Anthem)
- La PastorellaDownload & Buy
- She Moved Through The Fair
- Ave Maria
- Dream A Dream (Elysium)
- The Flower Duet
- Habanera
- The Prayer
- All Love Can Be
- It's The Heart That Matters Most
- Tantum ErgoDownload & Buy
- Bridge Over Troubled WaterDownload & Buy
- Sancta Maria
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Album Details: Prelude: The Best Of (Ltd Ed) (Cd & Dvd)
- Release Date:
- 11/26/2002
- Label:
- Sony
- UPC:
- 696998699120
Pro Reviews: Prelude: The Best Of (Ltd Ed) (Cd & Dvd)
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Even in the youth-conscious era of the turn of the 21st century, there can't have been too many best-of compilations issued by 16-year-olds. But Charlotte Church has been recording regularly since she was 12, with a reported ten million albums sold worldwide (including one gold and three platinum certifications in the U.S.), which seems to justify this hour-long stock-taking effort, when you throw in "All That Love Can Be," from the soundtrack to A Beautiful Mind, and, inevitably, four new recordings. Talking sales may be crass when discussing a classical artist, but not a classical crossover artist, and Church (or her advisors) made the decision early that she was going to pursue a career in the popular market that would make use of her voice in public long before some opera company might have gotten around to featuring her. It's a compromised posture, of course, resulting in music that is classical-lite leaning toward adult contemporary, the musical niche carved out by Sarah Brightman. No surprise, then, that this set begins with Church's version of "Pie Jesu" by Brightman's old flame, Andrew Lloyd Webber. Opera excerpts, Celtic airs, spirituals, pop songs, and ersatz-classical numbers (e.g., the Josh Groban duet "The Prayer," penned by schlockmeister David Foster and translated into Italian, the better to pose as something classical) follow, and Church brings her even-handed, lovely but bland approach to each. Has there ever been a Carmen as calm as hers on "Habañera"? Ordinarily, one might say this is classical music for people who don't like classical music, but it is actually grownup-sounding music for children, sung, appropriately enough, by a child. Even at the usually turbulent age of 16, she still sings "Bridge Over Troubled Water," one of the new tracks, without much sense of what trouble Paul Simon might have had in mind. - William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide |
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Welsh soprano Charlotte Church became an overnight classical superstar in November 1998 with the release of her debut album Voice of an Angel, issued when she was just 12 years old. Born in Llandaff, Cardiff, she began performing in public at age thr...Full Charlotte Church Biography
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