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Closer
(more) »rank: 211by: Josh Groban
:Album Description:Import pressing of the 2003 album from the American singing sensation features one bonus track, 'She's Out of My Life'. Produced by David Foster, this sophomore effort elaborates on the poppier side of his debut, smoothes out the edges and is a much stronger offering. Groban's vocals have grown, allowing him to add power and passion into his delivery without sounding forced or insincere. 14 tracks in all including 'My Confession', 'Caruso', 'Broken Vow' and 'Never Let Go', a collaboration with Deep Forest. Warner. :Thanks to a fortuitous intersection of talent and fate, 22-year-old Josh Groban hasn't finished his senior year in ...
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Josh Groban
(more) »rank: 330by: Josh Groban
: :No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: GROBAN,JOSHTitle: JOSH GROBANStreet Release Date: 11/20/2001DomesticGenre: ROCK/POP :There are worse things in life than making your acting debut on the much ballyhooed season finale of Ally McBeal, though teen operatic baritone Josh Groban doesn't seem destined to encounter them anytime soon. As the awkward high school student-client who asks the typically romance-jinxed Ally to his senior prom, Groban performed this debut album's 'You're Still You' (adapted from film-composing legend Ennio Morricone's Academy Award-nominated score for Malèna, with lyrics by Linda Thompson) as a heart-tugging, literal showstopper. The young phenom was just 17 when veteran ...
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Dreamgirls
(more) »rank: 2558from: Sony
: :The big question about this soundtrack is: how's she doing? No, not Beyoncé, silly--how's Jennifer Hudson doing? And more specifically, how's she doing by 'And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going'? To this reviewer's ears, she doesn't top the original Effie, Jennifer Holliday--or even Lillias White, from the 2001 Dreamgirls in Concert. On the other hand, Hudson isn't afraid to pullout all the stops, whipping herself up into a total diva frenzy as the song getscaught up in an unstoppable crescendo. As for Beyoncé, she adapts superbly to the 1960s- and 1970s–tinged material, though 'Listen'--a ballad that also appears on her own ...
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A Robert Shaw Christmas - Angels on High
(more) »rank: 2845from: Telarc
: :In this beautifully chosen program of mostly a cappella arrangements, Robert Shaw and the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers deliver the Christmas story in tones of gentle and moving splendor. The carols and sacred settings recorded here are all of an intimate sort, and the rapturous, gently expressive realizations Shaw and his singers give them prove unfailingly appealing. Particularly moving is the newest work on the disc, a setting of 'O magnum mysterium' by the American composer Morten Lauridsen. Franz Biebl's 'Ave Maria' is another gem, as is the arrangement by Healy Willan of the French carol 'What Is This Lovely Fragrance?' The offering ...
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Pride and Prejudice: The Original Soundtrack from the A&E Special Presentation
(more) »rank: 4167by: Carl Davis, Melvyn Tan, Nicholas Bucknall, Jonathan Barritt, Timothy Brown, Levine Andrade, Nicolas Busch, Joseph Frohlich, Martin Gatt, Rusen Gunes, Michael Harris, Keith Harvey, David Juritz, Peter Lale, Pauline Lowbury
: :In this beautifully chosen program of mostly a cappella arrangements, Robert Shaw and the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers deliver the Christmas story in tones of gentle and moving splendor. The carols and sacred settings recorded here are all of an intimate sort, and the rapturous, gently expressive realizations Shaw and his singers give them prove unfailingly appealing. Particularly moving is the newest work on the disc, a setting of 'O magnum mysterium' by the American composer Morten Lauridsen. Franz Biebl's 'Ave Maria' is another gem, as is the arrangement by Healy Willan of the French carol 'What Is This Lovely Fragrance?' The offering ...
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My Heart
(more) »rank: 6354by: Sissel, Fryderyk Chopin, Stephen / Hayes, Gemma Endelman, Brendan / Lovland, Rolf Graham, George Frideric Handel, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jon / Brown, Samantha Lord, Richard Marx, Richard / Copperfield, David Marx, Ennio Morricone, Astor Piazzolla, Giacomo Puccini, Camille Saint-Saens, Franz Schubert, Ettore Stratta, London Symphony Orchestra
: :There's no arguing with the power of Sissel's voice. The Norwegian soprano brought James Horner's Titanic to life and blew people away at the Lillehammer Olympics' opening ceremony. Positioned as a classical crossover performer, Sissel's talent and versatility gets her into trouble. The 12-song My Heart bounces back and forth from Andrew Lloyd Webber to Franz Schubert, from Astor Piazolla to Ennio Morricone. These different composers are reconciled into one album by her talent. She's less successful with a so-so version 'Ave Maria,' but does better with Puccini's tear-jerker aria 'O Mio Babbino Caro.' Things go aesthetically awry when the singer (who has ...
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Broadway, My Way
(more) »rank: 13079by: Linda Eder
:Album Description:On the eagerly awaited Broadway My Way, Atlantic recording artist and acclaimed Broadway sensation Linda Eder performs classics including 'On the Street Where You Live' (from My Fair Lady), 'Edelweiss' (from The Sound of Music), 'Don't Rain On My Parade' (from Funny Girl) and 10 other great broadway songs performed in a whole new voice. 2003. :The people who felt betrayed when Linda Eder covered several pop songs on 2002's Gold will be relieved that her follow-up, Broadway My Way, is a return to the Great White Way. As if to prove that she isn't limited to either the songs of Frank ...
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Prelude: The Best of Charlotte Church
(more) »rank: 9587by: Charlotte Church
: :Need more evidence of the record industry's obsession with youth? Consider that budding Welsh diva Charlotte Church was a ripe, old 16 when this, her first greatest-hits anthology was released. Spanning her first four releases, as well as some outside collaborations and unreleased material, this 18-track collection underscores the soprano's seemingly boundless potential--as well as some potential career obstacles ahead. Her crystalline, still-maturing voice is best showcased on classically oriented works like Andrew Lloyd Webber's 'Pie Jesu,' Franck's 'Panis Angelicus,' and her now-ubiquitous rendering of Delibes' 'Flower Duet.' She also excels on folk traditionals such as 'She Moved Through the Fair' and 'My ...
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The Songs That Got Away
(more) »rank: 39349from: Decca Broadway
: :For those Sarah Brightman fans who didn't spring for The Songs That Got Away when it was a pricey import, this domestic release will be a must-buy. Originally recorded in 1989 shortly after she achieved international fame in The Phantom of the Opera, the album spotlights obscure American and British musical theater songs that either were removed from shows or were 'lost' when the shows themselves slipped out of the repertoire. (Of course, some of the songs aren't nearly as obscure as they were in 1989--the opening track, Stephen Schwartz's soaring 'Meadowlark,' has since been claimed by Liz Callaway, Patti LuPone, and Betty ...
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Enchantment
(more) »rank: 37393by: Georges Bizet, Richard Rodgers, Michel Legrand, Leo Delibes, American Traditional, Erik Satie, British Isles Traditional, Jerome Kern, Johann II Strauss, Lucy Simon, David Foster, Sian Edwards, John Clark, Eric Rigler, Frank Ricotti, John Parricelli, Mark Hammond, Paul Keogh, Michael Thompson
: :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 ...
