Product Description

Living A Dream is the follow-up to Katherine’s award winning Second Nature album. Here she performs 16 vocal songs from the more popular end such as "Ti Amero Per Sempre (I Will Always Love You)" and "Over The Rainbow", with more traditional opera standards such as "Nessun Dorma" and "Canto Della terra".

Track Listing

1. Ti Amero Per Sempre (I Will Always Love You)
2. I Vow To Thee My Country
3. One Fine Day (Un Bel Di)
4. Canto Della terra
5. Music Of The Night
6. Nessun Dorma
7. Cinema Paradiso (Se)
8. Ebben? Ne Andro Lontana
9. Amazing Grace
10. David Of The White Rock
11. All Things Bright And Beautiful
12. Mon Coeur s'ouvre A Ta Voix
13. Over The Rainbow
14. Torna A Surriento
15. Don't Stand At My Grave And Weep
16. We'll Meet Again

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1037 in Music
• Released on: 2005-10-31
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .23 pounds
• Running time: 61 minutes

CD Description
Third album inside eighteen months from new classical crossover sensation Jenkins follows 2004's 'Second Nature'. Acting for the first time as co-producer, here she tackles a similar mix of fare as before. There are opera arias, including some usually sung by men; classic easy listening and show tunes; Welsh folk and a "classicized" version of Dolly Parton's 'I Will Always Love You', translated into Italian.

Customer Reviews

An Album of Variety
Living a dream is a very fine album from this now well established singer; a good balance of traditional, and re shaped classics. I particularly enjoyed "Music of the Night" and her new version of the Dolly Parton and Whitney Houston hit I will always love you which sounds beautiful in Italian. I was surprised to see Nessun Dorma on her disk, however her performance is unique and brings a different quality - in my personal opinion having heard so many versions out there already, Katherine's would rank in the top 3 behind Pavarotti and the new talent of Jon Christos on whose album sings this fantastically.

My only slight nag about this album is compared to Second Nature and Premiere, her voice doesn't quite sound as clear which occasionally blurs her diction; I'm no expert but this mainly happens at the top end of the voice. I realise they are different singers but this does not happen to either Keedie, or Hayley Westenra whose voice always sound so effortless throughout her range. I only hope this isn't a sign of a fabulous singer overstretching herself, doing too much too soon. Despite this, Living a Dream is a very good album indeed with songs of different colour, style, emotion - an album to take you on a journey and one I would recommend to anyone.

Breathtakingly Brilliant!
Having recently caught Katherine performing live I was treated to some of the fabulous tracks from her new album - which by the sound of it will be breathtakingly brilliant. Following on from her previous albums Katherine has picked a fantastic choice of songs, all of which suit her style beautifully. 'Nessun Dorma' whilst familiar to millions, sounds fresh and richly enthralling. A simple yet effective version of 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow' shows yet again what a great song this is, but the most interesting version of an old song on 'Living A Dream' has to be 'Ti Amero Per Sempre (I Will Always Love You)' - a track which was originally written by Dolly Parton and subsequently made famous by Whitney Houston. Katherine gives this song a whole new feel - sung in Italian this beautiful, soaring melody already feels like an old classic, with Katherine's untouchable voice used to its full effect. 'We'll Meet Again' and 'Amazing Grace' both sounded really impressive live and seem to fit in perfectly to the overall feel of the album.

After the enormous success of Premiere and Second Nature it is perhaps hard to believe, but it seems that Katherine Jenkins has surpassed her previous efforts and created her greatest album yet.

A Beautiful Voice
Speaking as someone who doesn't normally like nor listen to this kind of music, I find Katherine Jenkin's voice enchanting and the songs she sings very moving.

I'm no expert on what is considered good in this genre, but I know what moves me when listening to music, and a number of tracks on this album did just that.

Theres nothing more I can say on the matter really.