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Sarah Brightman, La Luna

Audio CD

Disk ID: 602569

Disk length: 54m 2s (14 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2000

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. La Lune 2:55
2. Winter in July 4:33
3. Scarborough Fair 4:13
4. Figlio Perduto 4:39
5. A White Shade of Pale 3:41
6. He Doesn't See Me 4:30
7. Serenade 1:18
8. How Fair This Place 2:12
9. Hijo de la Luna 4:29
10. Here With Me 5:26
11. La Califfa 2:49
12. This Love 6:13
13. Solo Con Te 3:08
14. Gloomy Sunday 3:47

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Review

Superstar crossover vocalist Sarah Brightman greets the new millennium with an even surer, bolder sense of her unique musical niche than that evident from 1999's Eden. Like Eden, La Luna is a concept album only in a vaguely free-associative sense. The selection of material here touches on images of the moon that reinforce its ambiguity as a force known to draw together "the lunatic, the lover, and the poet" (Brightman's photo shoots for the album do seem to suggest a sort of Titania-like figure out of a New Age Midsummer Night's Dream). And it's a stylistic as well as thematic voyage, coursing from such contemporary sounds as synth pop (on "This Love") through vintage jazz standards (Billie Holiday's atmospheric and haunting "Gloomy Sunday") to high opera for the title track (a version of the sublime "Song of the Moon" from Dvorák's fairy-tale opera Rusalka), and drawing elsewhere on the gorgeously sinuous melodies of Bach, Handel, and Rachmaninov--one song, "Figlio Perduto," even adapts the slow movement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. Throughout, producer Frank Peterson swathes Brightman's shiny small voice in luxuriant fabrics of sound. Detractors will lament the resulting sameness of tone--no matter what the style involved--but Brightman's focus on spinning an ethereal spell never gets eclipsed. This domestic release includes three tracks not available on the import version and has a special treat hidden in the final track as a bonus. --Thomas May

Other Versions

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La Luna

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