Serenade

Katherine Jenkins - Serenade

Serenade
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Artist: Katherine Jenkins
Performer: Katherine Jenkins
Composer: Georges Bizet
Composer: Nicholas Brodszky
Composer: Leo Delibes
Composer: Carole Bayer Foster David / Sager
Composer: Charles Gounod
Composer: Agustin Lara
Composer: Ennio Morricone
Composer: Giorgio Flavio Musumarra Roberto / Pintus
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2009-02-17
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
  1. Be My Love
  2. Quello Che Faro (Everything I Do) (Ft Bryan Adams)
  3. Flower Duet
  4. Granada
  5. Pachelbel's Canon
  6. O Mio Babbino Caro
  7. Lisa Lan
  8. Dear Lord & Father Of Mankind
  9. Nella Fantasia
  10. Jurassic Park
  11. Il Canto
  12. Prayer
  13. Green Green Grass Of Home

Music reviews of Serenade

Music Review: Katherine Jenkins Starter Kit
Rating: 5 Stars

This is a fine CD to select as a first purchase of Katherine Jenkins. My favorite song is Quello Che Faro. I've listened to it a hundred times and believe it represents the best work she has recorded to date (12/21/10). I also think the CD presents the best cover of this natural beauty. Her minders seem to be driving her "look" into a kind of Jane Mansfield direction, which is really unnecessary. For the discerning eye, an entertainer does not need to enter into the crowded field of bleached blonds. Katherine would be fetching even if she were bald. There is no doubt whatsoever that she is well-endowed and incredibly sexy, but this comes as a kind of bonus for people (men) who enjoy her voice. After watching a couple of her videos, I am convinced that Katherine is the real deal -- wholesome but not puritanical. Maybe she was an ugly duckling in grammar school? She doesn't seem to be fully aware of her awesome physical allure, and I hope she remains this way.

I believe her work is improving with time -- not that her voice is evolving but more along the lines that she is choosing her CD recorded songs more carefully. It's a case of apples and oranges to compare her to Sarah Brightman who first broke the barrier between classical music and pop. My recommendation to Katherine is that she not record or perform songs already released by Sarah Brightman. Why risk the comparisons? Katherine's rendition of "Time to Say Goodbye" with Andrea Bocelli (viewable on YouTube) is an embarrassment. Katherine herself should know the limits of her vocal capabilities. I cringed on her behalf. Alternatively, she can present a startling finer contrast in songs such as "The Prayer," previously recorded by Celtic Woman (and others). To be unique and original, Katherine must stay away from Andrew Lloyd Webber compositions. This is territory clearly owned by Sarah Brightman, so why go to bat against a performer who has been in the biz for decades? Why produce anything that has already been recorded with accolades?

I'm a big fan and will stick with her come what may. There is a growing list of "cross-over" artists. To stay ahead of the pack, Katherine must locate a comfortable niche. In my know-nothing opinion, I believe Katherine excels in more modern works such as Quello Che Faro. Come rain or shine, Katherine is well on her way to becoming a major league player -- a much deserved position. I think by the time she finishes her USA tour, she will cross that border into super-stardom. To Katherine I can only say keep grinding away. You have more fans in the United States than you probably realize. Bless you for training hard and perfecting a voice that can release so many listeners from their daily woes.
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Description of Serenade

Katherine Jenkins' fourth studio album Serenade became the number one album on the UK mainstream charts and sold more than 50,000 copies in its first week of release. This ensured it was the biggest seller for a classical CD in Britain ever. Serenade features one of Katherine's favorite songs of all time, her "classicalised" version of Bryan Adams' Everything I Do. "I like the idea of doing a classical version of a pop song. Bryan ended up coming into the studio and playing guitar on the track, which was a moment that was such a thrill."
Following on from the heady success of albums like Premiere, Second Nature, and Living a Dream, Welsh mezzo-soprano and sometime fashion model and music teacher Katherine Jenkins now presents her fourth collection of classically-rendered hymns, arias, and pop classics. Serenade seems an understated title for someone with such a soaring voice and dynamic range, yet fans will know Jenkins is more than capable of balancing her operatic cartwheels with moments of real tenderness. This is evidenced immediately on the album's opening track, an elegant version of Bryan Adams's "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You," sung in Italian with Adams himself featured on guitar. The same undulations of quietude and drama unfold throughout the rest of the LP as Jenkins recreates timeless classics such as "Dear Lord and Father," "Lisa Lan," "Chance in a Lifetime," and "O Mio Babbino Caro" with characteristic grace and aplomb. --Danny McKenna

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