Album Notes: Personnel: Sarah Brightman (vocals); Gunther Laudahn (vocals, guitar, bouzouki, harp, lute, sitar, keyboards); Markus Birkle (guitars); Markus Koessler (keyboards, bass instrument); Jan-Eric Kohrs (keyboards); Flo Dauner (drums); Roland Peil, Ronnie Barak (percussion). Recording information: MGM Grand, Las Vegas, Nevada. Considering her lengthy career in musicals and her onetime role as wife and muse of Broadway's golden boy Andrew Lloyd Webber, it's surprising that it took until 2004 for Sarah Brightman to release a live record. THE HAREM WORLD TOUR: LIVE FROM LAS VEGAS is the recorded version of a popular PBS special that presents a performance of one of Brightman's most elaborate tours in one of the most lavish cities on the planet. The tour came on the heels of her 12th record, HAREM, a Middle Eastern-flavored affair. Brightman's always been one to experiment, as evidenced by the incredible variety in the song selection. Of course, she does a powerful rendition of a medley of songs from Webber's THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA, in which she starred. However, she also adds her own touch to everything from compositions by Dvorak to such rock classics as Kansas's "Dust in the Wind" and Procol Harum's "A Whiter Shade of Pale." Predictably, the atmosphere is charged with the overwhelming energy of a performer who has lived on stage for most of her life, and THE HAREM WORLD TOUR marks her long overdue live debut on CD.
Titles on disc 1
1.: Kama Sutra
2.: Harem Overture (Cancao Do Mar)
3.: It's A Beautiful Day
4.: Dust In The Wind
5.: Who Wants To Live Forever
6.: Anytime Anywhere
7.: La Luna
8.: Nessun Dorma
9.: War Is Over
10.: Free
11.: Whiter Shade Of Pale
12.: Phantom Of The Opera (suite)
13.: Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
14.: Time To Say Goodbye
15.: Question Of Honour
16.: Snow On The Sahara (studio recording/bonus track)
Advantages: Sarah's voice is enchanting, is itself the eden Disadvantages: You may feel trasported up to the eden by her voice
...I think there couldn't be enough words to write about the beautiful voice of Sarah and the emotions she evokes by her songs. I think SarahBrightman may be considered as the first real european singer, as she really carries, inside her songs, all the colours of european cultures. But especially I'd like to praise Sarah for her last work, Harem. I think this is an absolute unique masterpiece of music, a fine miscellaneous of arabian sonorities and an incredible magnificent voice.
I like to travel and learn about other cultures: recently I've been in Tunisia and I was fascineted by the melodies and rythms of arabian songs and music. I must say that I've found in the last Sarah's songs a gift of what I met and left in the atmosphere of the arabian songs I learnt in Tunisia. I think last Sarah songs are absolutely unique and deep in rythms...
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Advantages: Shrewd selection of songs, intelligently sequenced and tastefully executed Disadvantages: Her voice may not be to everyone's taste, prejudiced public perception may count against its chances
...SarahBrightman - La Luna (EastWest)
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
(16. Moon River)
The intention of this album, quite clearly, is to bring the former Mrs Andrew Lloyd-Webber back into what could tenuously be considered the "mainstream". La Luna has major label backing (the mighty Warner Brothers' European division EastWest), and a shrewdly selected collection of material that mixes the modern (emerging artist Dido's Here With Me), the vintage (Procul Harum's 1969 No.1 A Whiter Shade Of Pale, Simon & Garfunkel's delicately exquisite Scarborough Fair) with a clutch of familiar standards...
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Advantages: Good Songs, Fantastic Lyrics Disadvantages: A Few Weaker Tracks
...'s Bedroom Wall as she went through her rebellious teenage years, the face on the Poster watching her every move.
"Marlene watches from the wall, her mocking smile says it all, as she records the rise and fall, of every man who's been here."
This track was released as a Single and reached number 83 in the UK Charts. It was later re-released the following year in 1986 when it reached number 23.
Small Blue Thing was released as the second track from this Album reaching number 66 in the UK Charts. Here we find quite a lyrically deep Song in which Suzanne imagines herself as various strange objects, imaging what it must be like to observe the World as such things like a Marble. This may Sound a little bit bizarre but the raw emotion in her voice carries the track off and it works. Here we realise for the first time that Vega is a true Poet...
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