Enchantment

Enchantment

Enchantment
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Composer: Charlotte Church
Composer: Leonard Bernstein
Composer: Irish Traditional
Composer: Georges Bizet
Composer: Richard Rodgers
Composer: Michel Legrand
Composer: Leo Delibes
Composer: American Traditional
Composer: Erik Satie
Composer: British Isles Traditional
Conductor: Jerome Kern
Performer: Johann II Strauss
Performer: Lucy Simon
Performer: David Foster
Performer: Sian Edwards
Performer: John Clark
Performer: Eric Rigler
Performer: Frank Ricotti
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-10-09
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Tonight
  2. Carrickfergus
  3. Habanera
  4. Bali Ha'i
  5. Papa Can You Hear Me?
  6. The Flower Duet
  7. The Little Horses
  8. From My First Moment
  9. The Water Is Wide
  10. Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
  11. The Laughing Song
  12. If I Loved You
  13. A Bit Of Earth
  14. Somewhere
  15. The Prayer

Music reviews of Enchantment

Music Review: The most beautiful album of the year...
Rating: 5 Stars

This is one of the most absolutely beautiful things I've ever heard in my life...
People like to rat on Charl' for not being a pure opera singer...
And you what, she's NOT. She's special, different...magical...
This cd is a wonderful blend of everything that much classical/opera music special but without the things that makes it dry and boring...
She has the passion of a pop/soul diva like Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey or Aretha Franklin...yet she has a different poise from an older time...

She is one in a million.
Since this cd is so special to me, I feel as though it's only right to give each track a mini-review.
Tonight (from West Side Story): Charlotte makes this song shine. It's big, beautiful and magnificent. Her voice absolutely soars on this one.
Carrickfergus (which is a town in Ireland, by the way): A lovely, lush Celtic tune. This is the direction that Charl' should focus on in her next song. Everytime I hear it, I hope that dad will buy me a seat on this tour of the UK this summer that I've been hoping to go on. You get all these lovely pictures in your head of the beautiful, green Irish country side...truly beautiful.
Hañabera (Carmen): An opera song...but done so warmly and with such passion...
You really have to be obsessed with classical "perfection" not to enjoy this...Her French is lovely as well. Very well sung...
She actually is learning French in school and it shows. For those of you unfamiliar with Carmen, it actually is a Spanish influenced opera and although the words are French, the music is pure latin. The guitar on this song is truly an experience. Jesse Cook arranged it. Superb.
Bali Ha'i (of course, South Pacific): It's songs like this that give the title of this album meaning. Truly magical...I've heard many version of this song, but none sung better than Charlotte's version. Once again, very lush. You can picture the deep, clear, blue ocean and the white sands in your mind as you let the music flow over you...

Papa, Can You Hear Me? (Yentl): I have to plead ignorance about Yentl. All I know is that Barbra Streisand originally sung this song. I really don't enjoy Barbra, so I've never ventured to hear the original. I do love Charlotte's version though. Her age is actually perfect for the feel of this song...It's about a young girl venturing out in the world alone...probably for the first time, perfect for a young woman such as herself.
The Flower Duet (Lakmé): One of the more classical songs on this album, very lovely none the less. She sings both parts. It's in French.
The Little Horses: A British lullaby, done in a Spanish style, once again with guitars by Jesse Cook. Absolutely lovely, lush and peaceful.
From My First Moment (Gymnopédie No. 1): Also a classical song, lovely, lush and sweet.
The Water is Wide: Another Celtic song! This is truly a gem. Once again, the word lush comes to mind, as do imagines of the Emerald Isle.
Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man (Showboat): Not her usual sort of thing, but interesting. I like it. At first I thought it was a bit strange for her, but it grew on me. One of my favorites now.
The Laughing Song (Die Fledermaus): Very classical, a bit haughty, but that makes it funny and that's how it's supposed to be. Quite high.
If I Loved You (Carousel): I absolutely LOVE this track. So pure, beautiful, yearning...there aren't words for how good this is. You have to hear it to believe it.
A Bit Of Earth (Secret Garden): I didn't even know that there was a musical to the Secret Garden...but this is a beautiful, sweet song.
Somewhere (Westside Story): Possibly the best song on this cd. So lovely...so perfect...
I can't imagine anyone doing a better job on this song. It's so appropriate too, with all of the horrible things happening in the world now...
The word hopeful comes to mind when I hear it...
The Prayer: Charl' shares vocal duties with a fabulous young singer, Josh Groban. He has one of the most amazing male voices I've ever heard...seriously...if God sings, he sounds like this. His voice is so rich and wonderful. I recommend checking out his cd as well. This song is hopeful like "Somewhere", another stand out track.
Now that's it for the American version...if you happen to get the Japanese version, you can consider yourself truly blest. It includes "Tra Bo Dau", another lush, lovely tune...but the very best Charl' song ever..."Bridge Over Troubled Water." This should have been on the US album. Heck, this should have been on ALL of the versions of Enchantment. It's one of the most beautiful songs of all time...and her version is truly the best.

All and all...a great album, beautiful, lush and heartfelt.

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Description of Enchantment

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, film ballads, and even a couple of high-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 savor, for instance, in "The Water Is Wide" and "Carrickfergus." It all adds up to a widely varied course, demonstrating the continued growth of a singularly gifted young artist. --Sarah Chin

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