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Track Listings
| 1. La Lune |
| 2. Winter In July |
| 3. Scarborough Fair |
| 4. Figlio Perduto |
| 5. A Whiter Shade of Pale |
| 6. He Doesn't See Me |
| 7. Serenade |
| 8. How Fair This Place |
| 9. Hijo De La Luna |
| 10. Here With Me |
| 11. La Califfa |
| 12. This Love |
| 13. Solo Con Te |
| 14. Gloomy Sunday |
| 15. La Luna |
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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
Product Description
SARAH BRIGHTMAN La Luna (Deleted 2000 Taiwanese issue limited edition 15-track CD album presented in a picture sleeve with a 16-page booklet plus an extra 32-page oversize Taiwanese / English lyric booklet complete with wrap-around case sized obi-strip!)
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5.0 out of 5 stars
As Good As EDEN & TIME TO SAY GOODBYE!!!,
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This review is from: La Luna (Audio CD)
~..which is saying a lot! These 3 Sarah B. albums are among the most timeless pop/classical albums ever recorded! Every song here on LA LUNA is worth the price, and there are some really incredible pieces! (1) The tune based on Beethoven's 7th Symphony Slow Movement, (2) Scarboro Fair, (3) Whiter Shade of Pale, and (4) most amazing of all the very strange and mysterious Gloomy Sunday, among the most haunting ballads ever, and here done to perfection! I've heard this song was banned in France for~~ its suicidal interpretation during WW II, much like Goethe's "Sorrows of Young Werther" over 200 years ago! Any Sarah CD is worth while, but this may be her best! . And for a nice final touch , MOON RIVER ,which is not even mentioned in the album notes! l~
4.0 out of 5 stars
La Luna,
By Leila Kirves (British Columbia, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: La Luna (Audio CD)
For music lovers in general, if you ever pick up this album you may notice that many of the songs will seem familiar, but re-written to Brightman-esque style.Favourites on this album are 'Scarborough Fair', I really like this version because their are other instruments used other than guitar! 'Figlio Perduto', a small section of a full symphony taken from Beethoven, and 'Hijo de la Luna', a spanish song that I simply adore. Other covers on the album are 'Here With Me' originally by Dido, and 'Gloomy Sunday' made famous by Billie Holiday.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Beautiful,
By DJ_Bitter (Somewhere) - See all my reviews
This review is from: La Luna (Audio CD)
I haven't got much to say about this album other than check out the track "He Doesn't See Me." Gorgeous!
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