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Symphony

Symphony

enlarge enlarge 		Artist: Sarah Brightman
Label: Manhattan Records
Category: Music

List Price: $18.98
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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 142 reviews

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

MPN: 46078
UPC: 094634607827
EAN: 0094634607827
ASIN: B000TSQCHS

Release Date: January 29, 2008
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Tracks:

  • Gothica
  • Fleurs Du Mal
  • Symphony
  • Canto Della Terra (w/ Andrea Bocelli)
  • Sanvean
  • I Will Be With You (Where The Lost Ones Go) (w/ Paul Stanley)
  • Schwere Traeume
  • Sarai Qui (w/ Alessandro Safina)
  • Storia D'Amore
  • Let It Rain
  • Attesa
  • Pasion (w/ Fernando Lima)
  • Running
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Editorial Reviews:

Album Description
Japanese pressing of the famed vocalist's 2008 featuring one bonus track: 'Forbidden Colours'. Symphony is Sarah Brightman's first studio album for five years. Recorded in Germany, Symphony features all new songs and is created with Sarah's long-time producer Frank Peterson. The repertoire ranges from beautiful ballads 'Symphony', 'Fleur du Mal' and epic power rock scores 'I Will Be With You' to interpretations of the work 'Jupiter' from Holst's The Planets on 'Running' to Faith Hill's 'There You'll Be' sung in Italian as 'Sarai Qui' and many more. On this album Sarah reunites with Andrea Bocelli to sing 'Canto Della Terra', as well as singing duets with Fernando Lima (Mexican tenor) on 'Passion' and Paul Stanley (Kiss) on 'I Will Be With You (Where The Lost Ones Go) '. The album showcases Sarah linguistic vocal skills by singing in Spanish, Italian, French and for the first time German. EMI.

Customer Reviews:   Read 137 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Sarah Brightman   July 4, 2008
Brigitte M. Emmert (Phoenix, Arizona)
Absolutely beautiful audio cd offered here in Phoenix, Arizona by our PBS television station in their fund drives. Naturally, the price here at Amazon is so much better.


1 out of 5 stars What we call in the United States "Phoning it in..."   July 3, 2008
Rocco Manitta (New York)
Tooling around at work on Youtube, I stumbled across a new Sarah Brightman video for Fleur du Mal. It's been a while since I popped in my Brightman CD's, and so I haven't been in touch with her recent work, so I was surprised and happy she had a new CD out.

I listened to the first track and between that and the cover graphic which I thought was dynamic and powerful, I was sold. I bought it last night and was expecting greatness.

Then I went past track 3. And I was sad.

This is just a real dissappointment. Let's start with Fleur Du Mal, which is obviously postured as the hair-raising, powerful cacophany of goodness. I heard it and was very impressed; I love that style of epic score, dark sounding anthem music. It had everything I like; the fiery violin arpeggios giving urgency and drama, the dark chorals and Sarah's ethereal voice giving the ambiance I love. After a couple listens, however, I realized it wasn't anything I hadn't heard before. For anyone out there that's willing to open their minds, you can find much better from Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish or their rogue vocalist Tarja Turunnen.

After that, it only gets worse. The rest of the CD is just the typical insipid, dewey-eyed love laments and unoriginal let's-make-love music for the wanna-be dilettantes that think they are basking in sophisticated and quality music. Except it's not. It's just average, rehashed and phoned-in. Nothing that makes you feel the loss of Con Te Partiro; no tenderness of Pie Jesu. Forget the dark looming power of Figlio Perduto or the sensuality of Harem. Even the passionate ethereal ambiance that she created with pop tunes like This Love or Here With Me is completely vacant from this piece.

I'll continue to look forward to her next work, but no MGM Grande Foxwood hundred dollar tickets for this New Yorker. Sorry, Sarah. Time to fire your manager/agent or whoever tells you to sing the songs you sing.


5 out of 5 stars Symphony   July 2, 2008
Patricia L. Wren (Bradenton, FL United States)
Sarah Brightman really scores with this collection. It runs the gamut from soft and relaxing tunes to passionate love songs. Her duets are to die for and conjure up romance like nothing else could. Emotion runs high and I could not find one song I did not love.


2 out of 5 stars What a disappointment.....   June 24, 2008
Medusa (Troy, MI)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

With the exception of the two duets with Fernando Lima and Andrea Bocelli, Brightman's symphony album is a total failure. Sarah's charming and alluring voice is still there, but the songs and music, she has chosen, are too predictable. Now that Sarah has transformed herself into a blonde skeleton, her focus on music has slipped away. Sarah Brightman's, greatest musical contributions are, for me, her past work. On a more positive note, at least she still looks good.... I guess there's a bright side to Brightman's last album.

It breaks my heart to say that about Sarah's work, but when I'm used to only perfection from her, I have no other choice...


5 out of 5 stars wonderful selection !! touching   June 20, 2008
C. K. Tai
I watched Sarah's concert in Vienna, which prompted me to buy this CD and her concert tickets for this coming Dec in San Jose, CA. i was and still am stunned buy this Angel of music and her brilliant performance in Vienna. Symphony is a wonderful album. Her voice is just exceptional, so mesmerizing and magnetic. you can feel every bit of your emotion flows through your body while listening her singing. for people who does not know Sarah, i would strongly recommend FLy and la luna. THrough different albums, you can tell Sarah has successfully put different emotional theme onto each CD. For Symphony, i feel the theme is about Longing for something and mixed with a bit of sweet sadness.


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