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Manufacturer: Manhattan Records
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0094634607827
Label: Manhattan Records
Manufacturer: Manhattan Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Manhattan Records
Release Date: 2008-01-29
Studio: Manhattan Records
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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.
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Summary: It's Different Each Time
Comment: The greatest attribute of Ms Brightman as an artist is her ability to always bring a new twist and create a new sound each time she comes out with an album or a concert. Time to Say Goodbye, Eden, La Luna, Harem, Symphony - each one is a coherent album but each one has a different style and character. If you have listened to a couple of her CDs and expect the same from the next one, you'd be disappointed - to appreciate Ms. Brightman, one needs to keep an open mind and let HER take you on a journey. One may or may not like each and every one of the journeys she takes her audience, but she never fails to be creative and refreshing each and every time - and that's the essence of being a true artist.
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Summary: Best Album Thus Far.
Comment: I have all of Sarah Brightman's albums. 5 years since her last CD. But definately worth the waiting for the fans. This is the best of her performance I have ever heard. Bravo! Hope the DVD of her concert in a Cathedral church in Vienna will be out on the market soon.
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Summary: Less is More
Comment: Disappointed sums up my feelings about Sarah's latest release. On first listen "Fleurs du Mal" grabbed me and I thought wow this is going to be an incredible album. Twice now I've listened to "Symphony" start to finish and each time I find myself wishing it were over midway through each song. Yesterday I tried once more to listen start to finish but failed.
From a technical perspective the mixes are clear and you hear everything but after track 3 my ears feel like they are bleeding and I can't take it anymore. The pop songs are mediocre at best and the wall of sound surrounding Sarah and her guests on each track attempt to fool us into thinking these are great songs. Even the softer tracks seem overproduced and my head and ears are screaming "I can't take it anymore."
Let me qualify my remarks about the harsh sound. On my PC the sound quality seems fine but on my big stereos at home and in the car it sounds harsh and tiring to my ears. So the overproduction seems to carry well on the PC but not consistently through the album as a whole on a good sound system. Seems a shame that a multi-million dollar production has been compromised to an iPod quality world at the expense of the audiophile.
Sarah please don't make us wait another five years and please don't disappoint us next time. Ever hear the saying "less is more?"
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Summary: What's happened to Sarah's voice?
Comment: I own all CD's Sarah Brightman has produced by now, and was enthrilled when her newest Symphony came out. I was looking forward to listening particularly to another collaboration with Andrea Bocelli. Oh, my Gosh!! In Bocelli's amazing song Canto Della Terra (The earth song) Sarah can't sing her best, really. Instead of singing really high soprano, she goes whispering. That happens in many other songs, which would sound otherwise fantastically. I loved Sarah and her voice by now, but this CD is a fiasco. She sounds like she didn't train her voice for a long time. The songs themselves are otherwise very likeable.
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Summary: A Charming Return
Comment: As with any new release by Sarah Brightman, I just about ran to my car after having paid for "Symphony." I was fortunate enough to have about an hour and a half of driving ahead, so it was with great enthusiasm that I listened to the album, tolerating two questionable singles. Her voice is as timeless as ever, but I don't understand why she would cover the Italian version of "There You'll Be." (The Hill version was horrific enough.) It is one of the most deflated and meaningless songs I've ever heard, which was obviously meant to pick up where "My Heart Will Go On" left off; fortunately, it didn't. And it won't, even with Brightman's pointless rendition.
Most songs are highlights, and as always, she takes risks. I was pleasantly surprised with her Paul Stanley duet. A solid listen, the album is a pivotal return to her reign in the classical genre, after "Harem" seemingly left it in limbo.
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