Charlotte Church - Prelude: The Best of Charlotte Church
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Artist: Charlotte ChurchEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-11-26
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Pie Jesu from Requiem
- My Lagan Love
- In Trutina (from Carmina Burana)
- Panis Angelicus
- Amazing Grace
- Just Wave Hello
- La Pastorella (The Little Shepherdess)
- She Moved Through The Fair
- Ave Maria
- Dream A Dream (w/ Billy Gilman)
- The Flower Duet
- Habaqera
- The Prayer (w/ Josh Groban)
- All Love Can Be
- It's The Heart That Matters Most
- Tantum Ergo
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Sancta Maria
Music reviews of Prelude: The Best of Charlotte Church
Music Review: Pure Beauty
Rating: 5 Stars
Prelude: The best of Charlotte Church is a celebration of Charlotte's best selling albums.
There are four unreleased tracks. These are some of her most eloquent performances to date. Her voice is captivating and she is the youngest artist to ever have a #1 album on the UK Classical charts.
1. "Pie Jesu" (from Requiem by Andrew Lloyd Webber) is perhaps one of the most beautiful songs ever written. Charlotte adds her angelic voice to this spiritually uplifting and memorable song about everlasting peace and forgiveness.
She hits high notes that send shivers through your being. It is terribly beautiful. The first time I heard Charlotte sing this song I played it over and over again.
2. "My Lagan Love"
Where Lagan stream sings lullaby
There blows a lily fair:
The twilight gleam is in her eye
(A gorgeous song about love.)
3. "In Trutina" (from Carmina Burana by Carl Orff) is a song about being suspended between love and chastity. It is bittersweet and embodies sacrifice and longing.
4. Franck's "Panis Angelicus" is a deeply spiritual song about heavenly bread.
5. "Amazing Grace" from Charlotte's debut album Voice Of An Angel is deeply moving and again Charlotte's innocent voice is perfect for this song.
6. "Just Wave Hello" has an ethereal quality and instead of waving goodbye, she is waving hello to the future, to follow the sun. This is about a new day, about the sun rising or about dreams that inspire. This song really takes off.
7. "La Pastorella" (Gioacchino Rossini) is a song about a beautiful shepherdess who offers a basket of fresh fruit and flowers. She is mysterious as her inner thoughts will only be given to one.
8. The traditional Irish ballad "She Moved Through The Fair" is soothing and romantic.
9. "Ave Maria" (adapted to the 1st Prelude of Johann Sebastian Bach) instantly transports you to a place no other song can take you. It is a place of complete security and joy. And yet there is a note of sadness in the birth of joy.
10. "Dream A Dream - (Elysium)" (Charlotte's duet with Billy Gilman) was originally found on Dream A Dream.
Dream a dream
And see through angel's eyes
A place where we can fly away
(An escape in music filled with hope.)
11. "The Flower Duet" (composed by Leo Delibes with text by Edmond Gondinet and Phillipe Gille) is from Enchantment is one of my all-time favorites, an echo of ecstasy which can memorize you into a thoughtless existence. Before I even read the lyrics to this song, I imagined the voices were like two flowers growing up into the sky while winding around one another. Then I found the lyrics:
Under a dome of white jasmine
With the roses entwined together
On a river bank covered with flowers
laughing in the morning
12. (composed by Georges Bizet) speaks of Love as being a rebellious bird. There is nothing that can tame love. Subtle energy embraces you with sensuality and smooth seductive tones.
13. "The Prayer" (duet with Josh Groban, composed by David Foster and Carole Bayer Sager) is another classic. It speaks of a dream for a world where there is no more violence and suffering.
14. "All Love Can Be" was originally found on the movie soundtrack, A Beautiful Mind. It is about perhaps what true love can do. Maybe it is the type of love we all look for.
The Best of Charlotte Church are four new tracks:
15. "It's The Heart That Matters Most" speaks of magic in the air and about giving love because that is what matters most.
16. Gabriel Faure's "Tantum Ergo" worships the creator.
17. Paul Simon's "Bridge Over Troubled Water" takes on an entire new perspective.
18. Pietro Mascagni's "Sancta Maria" is a song about Mary, blessed amongst women.
Due to the spiritual nature of many of the selections, I can highly recommend this CD in particular for the Holiday Season.
Charlotte's voice has never sounded so lovely! If you have "Enchantment" you will want to add this to your collection.
Refreshingly innocent and inspirational. Beautiful music mingling with an equally exquisite voice. If you ever doubted this girl is an angel, this album will dissuade all doubt.
Rare.
~The Rebecca Review
Description of Prelude: The Best of Charlotte Church
Japanese edition of the Welsh classical superstar's 2002 compilation includes three bonus tracks, 'Barcarolle (Night Of Stars, & Night Of Love)', 'Summertime', & 'Quis Est Deus'. Sony.Need more evidence of the record industry's obsession with youth? Consider that budding Welsh diva Charlotte Church was a ripe, old 16 when this, her first greatest-hits anthology was released. Spanning her first four releases, as well as some outside collaborations and unreleased material, this 18-track collection underscores the soprano's seemingly boundless potential--as well as some potential career obstacles ahead. Her crystalline, still-maturing voice is best showcased on classically oriented works like Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Pie Jesu," Franck's "Panis Angelicus," and her now-ubiquitous rendering of Delibes' "Flower Duet." She also excels on folk traditionals such as "She Moved Through the Fair" and "My Langan Love." But overwrought productions like the already-dated "Dream a Dream" and "Habanera," a faux-flamenco take on Bizet, nearly get the best of her. Still, her promising duet with fellow young phenom Josh Groban on "The Prayer" and her mature, dreamy reading of A Beautiful Mind's "All Love Can Be," as well as strong performances on the previously unreleased "It's the Heart That Matters Most" and "Bridge over Troubled Waters," are ample evidence of her potential for rewarding pop crossover--if she doesn't retire by 21. --Jerry McCulley
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