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Symphony - Audio CD by Manhattan Records - 46078

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ASIN:	B000TSQCHS
Sales Rank:	101
Catalog:	Music
Binding:	Audio CD
Product Group:	Music
Product Type:	ABIS_MUSIC
Release Date:	2008-01-29
Artist:	Sarah Brightman
Manufacturer:	Manhattan Records
Part No:	46078
UPC:	094634607827
EAN:	0094634607827
Number Of Discs:	1

Songs List:

Gothica
Fleurs Du Mal
Symphony
Canto Della Terra (w/ Andrea Bocelli)
Sanvean
I Will Be With You (Where The Lost Ones Go) (w/ Paul Stanley)
Schwere Tr??ume
Sarai Qui (w/ Alessandro Safina)
Storia D'Amore
Let It Rain
Attesa
Pasi??n (w/ Fernando Lima)
Running

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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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A review for the Japanese edition
9/6/2008
There's not much that can be said about this album that someone hasn't said in some form before me. Personally, I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I did Harem. For those who enjoy her arias, the music on this CD is substantially inferior to Timeless. That being said, I haven't seen anyone address the song Forbidden Colours or the Japanese packaging. On the side of the packaging, there really isn't much to say. The booklet is essentially the same, with the added inclusion of the white sheet of lyrics in Japanese. The back of the digipak only lists 13 tracks. Only on the CD itself, which is black and looks virtually identical to the US version, is the 14 track listed. I will admit that the colors on the pictures inside the CD case do seem a bit more vivid and, as such, are slightly prettier, but it is only a slight enhancement.
It's a shame that Forbidden Colours is a Japan only bonus track. It's sadly one of the best songs on the CD. It's slow, methodical, and has something of an eastern feel (which is probably why it was given to Japan). The only negative thing I can say about it is that it feels misplaced on the album, but really, so do Fleurs du Mal and Where the Lost Ones Go, though maybe not so badly as this one because of it's eastern sound. If you like Sarah and want to pick up an extra great track by her, then get this disc. If you're looking for some ??ber-cool Sarah packaging to wave about in front of your Brightman-loving friends, this won't be the one. Maybe the song will be picked up as a bonus track on a later release in the US or Europe that's not so expensive. Also, if anyone was wondering, the Fleurs du Mal Reprise is included on the Japanese edition as well, but it's added to the end of Forbidden Colours instead of Running, to keep it consistent with being the last 'track' on the disc. I hope this helps people thinking about buying the Japanese version.

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9/3/2008
I am enjoying this CD alot and am happy to add it to my collection of Sarah Brightman CD'
Anyone who enjoys Sarah will love this CD.

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Yet another Brightman winner - wonderfully diverse collection!
9/2/2008
What a great selection of music! I love the way she mixes it up with rock at the beginning, classical numbers and guest duets. Even the melancholy songs come out beautifully. So much emotion in every song!

Thanks to Sarah for providing us with another creative album of music to enjoy.

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More originality please, Sarah & Frank!
8/31/2008
Having eagerly purchased this rather over-glossy CD - all silver and red - and as an ardent fan of Sara Brightman,I am totally disappointed. Just because the whole album is just a rehash of already existing music, both crossover and operatic classical.

Why does Sarah need to ape Emma Schapplin brand of cross over melodies and instrumentations (Fleurs Du Mal) or familiar Lloyd Webber resembling tunes (Symphony) or "Time to say Good Bye" type duets, once again with Bocelli? No doubt this particular duet "Canto Della Terra" is the saving grace, with the other 3 duets also helping the album from going under as a total disater.

But the blatant "lifting" of one of Richard Strauss's greatest works for soprano voices - replace "lock, stock and barrel" with melody, chords and style!- for "Schwere Traeume" and crediting the music composing to Peterson and Soltau is something shocking! Great reviewers should have pointed out this - but I have so far not found a single mention anywhere! This song is nothing but a new "avatar" of Strauss's 4th song in his cycle "FOUR LAST SONGS" and is titled "Beim Schlafengehen". Classical music lovers have been hearing this rendered by great voices - Kiri,Renee Fleming, Jessey Norman, Schwarzkopf etc.

Why had the production team to stoop down to something low like this? Sarah,as a soprano singer herself, should have pointed this out.

So,in all a disappointing album, in spite of all the hype!

Mohan Narayanan
Composer, Musicologist and Music Teacher
Chennai, India

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Grows on you...
8/31/2008
One of the things I really admire about Sarah Brightman is her willingness to experiment with new directions in her art. Every single project she undertakes is different from the last, and every album she releases is very carefully put together on a specific theme and/or to produce a particular mood. Because of this, it's best to listen to each new album without any preconceptions of what to expect. I've also found that I usually have to listen to her new albums a few times before I can decide whether I like them or not. The first listening is just to get an idea of what her latest sound is like.

SYMPHONY is basically the unexpected I've come to expect from Sarah. Once again, she has daringly put together something very different. This is perhaps her most personal album to date. It's not quite like anything else she's ever done; it reminds me most of a combination of FLY and TIMELESS, somehow (counterintuitive though that sounds). This one is darker, rawer, and more difficult than any of her previous albums. As others have noted, the songs don't flow together as seamlessly as they do on her other albums; I'm not sure if that is the point or if she had recorded a lot of material and wanted to release it some way. On first listen it was jarring, but the more I listen to it, the more sense it starts to make. There *is* a theme here, but it's more subtle than the others have been. The theme of SYMPHONY seems to be the range of human emotions - particularly the darker ones - like the range of themes in music.

This isn't, and will never be, my favourite Sarah Brightman album. The biggest problem with it, I think, is that the orchestration is too overdone. Other reviewers have noted this as well: Sarah has a delicate, ethereal voice, and on a lot of the tracks, her voice is totally overpowered by the music and hard to hear.

The other things that make it not my favourite are more a matter of personal taste: I prefer her soaring bel canto soprano to her pop voice, and she sings more in her pop voice here; she's much breathier than I like most of the time, and often when she's not breathy, she's belting. Also, though I enjoyed most of the duets on this album, I was left feeling like I hadn't heard as much of Sarah herself as I'd have wanted. However, I don't think that any of this makes it a bad album; it's just not so much my taste.

I had to listen to this three or four times before deciding whether I liked it or not - and in the end, it's started to grow on me. I like it better each time I listen to it. "Fleurs du Mal" is positively hypnotic; "Symphony" and "Let It Rain" are good in a very raw, soul-searching sort of way; "Running", which I didn't think I'd like, is surprisingly rewarding; and a lot of the duets are good. I particularly enjoyed "Pasion" and "Canto della Terra" (though in the latter Sarah does get drowned out a lot). Fernando Lima and Alessandro Safina were new and welcome discoveries for me.

Overall, I would say that the album *is* flawed, in terms of the overall sound quality, but ultimately it is worth it. It's not as approachable as some of her others, and requires some patience; and yes, most of it is not my favourite style. But if you get used to it, there's a lot of very rewarding stuff here. It may not be my favourite SB album (and yeah, I do hope the next one has less of her breathy pop-voice), but it's added to my respect for her as an artist. She's always experimenting with her craft.

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