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Charlotte Church, Leonard Bernstein, Irish Traditional, Georges Bizet, Richard Rodgers, Michel Legrand, Leo Delibes, American Traditional, Erik Satie, British Isles Traditional - Enchantment

Charlotte Church, Leonard Bernstein, Irish Traditional, Georges Bizet, Richard Rodgers, Michel Legrand, Leo Delibes, American Traditional, Erik Satie, British Isles Traditional - Enchantment

Band: Charlotte Church, Leonard Bernstein, Irish Traditional, Georges Bizet, Richard Rodgers, Michel Legrand, Leo Delibes, American Traditional, Erik Satie, British Isles Traditional Title: Enchantment Rating: Release Date: 09 October, 2001 Media: Audio CD Tracks: 1: Tonight 2: Carrickfergus 3: Habanera 4: Bali Ha'i 5: Papa Can You Hear Me? 6: The Flower Duet 7: The Little Horses 8: From My First Moment 9: The Water Is Wide 10: Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man 11: The Laughing Song 12: If I Loved You 13: A Bit Of Earth 14: Somewhere 15: The Prayer

Editoral Review And yet, at 15 and now taking bolder steps into expanding her repertory on Enchantment, the soprano remains a marvel of a prodigy. 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. 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 had in mind for his Carmen, but fans will get double pleasure out of the singer's exquisite duet with herself on the haunting "Flower Duet" from Delibes's Lakmé. What's more, there's a greater freedom of expression and sense of how to shape a phrase in many of these tracks--notice how much there is to savor, for instance, in "The Water Is Wide" and "Carrickfergus. " It all adds up to a widely varied course, demonstrating the continued growth of a singularly gifted young artist. --Sarah Chin .. You can see a complete list of all Charlotte Church, Leonard Bernstein, Irish Traditional, Georges Bizet, Richard Rodgers, Michel Legrand, Leo Delibes, American Traditional, Erik Satie, British Isles Traditional discography, or go back to the Charlotte Church, Leonard Bernstein, Irish Traditional, Georges Bizet, Richard Rodgers, Michel Legrand, Leo Delibes, American Traditional, Erik Satie, British Isles Traditional tabs