La Luna
Tuesday, August 29, 2000
Catalog: Music, Priced: 18, Sale:11 Used:3, 3rd Party Price:7, Hobbie Price: 18
Sales Rank:4085
UPC:724355696823; MPN:56968
Sales Rank:4085
Album Artists:
La Luna Tracks: 
A Whiter Shade of Pale Figlio Perduto Gloomy Sunday He Doesn't See Me Here With Me Hijo De La Luna How Fair This Place La Califfa La Luna La Lune Scarborough Fair Serenade Solo Con Te This Love Winter In July
Album Details:
Superstar crossover vocalist Sarah Brightman greets the new millennium with an even surer, bolder sense of her unique musical niche than that evident from 1999's Eden. Like Eden, La Luna is a concept album only in a vaguely free-associative sense. The selection of material here touches on images of the moon that reinforce its ambiguity as a force known to draw together "the lunatic, the lover, and the poet" (Brightman's photo shoots for the album do seem to suggest a sort of Titania-like figure out of a New Age Midsummer Night's Dream). And it's a stylistic as well as thematic voyage, coursing from such contemporary sounds as synth pop (on "This Love") through vintage jazz standards (Billie Holiday's atmospheric and haunting "Gloomy Sunday") to high opera for the title track (a version of the sublime "Song of the Moon" from Dvorák's fairy-tale opera Rusalka), and drawing elsewhere on the gorgeously sinuous melodies of Bach, Handel, and Rachmaninov--one song, "Figlio Perduto," even adapts the slow movement of Beethoven's Seventh Symphony. Throughout, producer Frank Peterson swathes Brightman's shiny small voice in luxuriant fabrics of sound. Detractors will lament the resulting sameness of tone--no matter what the style involved--but Brightman's focus on spinning an ethereal spell never gets eclipsed. This domestic release includes three tracks not available on the import version and has a special treat hidden in the final track as a bonus. --Thomas May
Taged as: Adult Contemporary, Classical Vocal Crossover, Neo-Classical, Pop, Pop Vocals, Popular Music, SarahBrightman.com, Sarah-Brightman.com
Sarah Brightman
Winter In July This Love Solo Con Te Serenade Scarborough Fair La Lune La Luna La Califfa How Fair This Place Hijo De La Luna Here With Me He Doesn't See Me Gloomy Sunday Figlio Perduto A Whiter Shade of Pale La Luna Music Lyrics, Music, Reviews and Ratings Angel Records
Adult Contemporary, Classical Vocal Crossover, Neo-Classical, Pop, Pop Vocals, Popular Music, SarahBrightman.com, Sarah-Brightman.com