Product Description

The Classical Album 2005 includes music by Russell Watson, Hayley Westenra, Bryn Terfel, Katherine Jenkins, Andrea Bocelli, Aled Jones, Renee Fleming, Amici Forever, Ludovico Einaudi, Anna Netrebko and many more....

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Hayley Westenra - Never Say Goodbye
2. Russell Watson - Amore e Musica
3. Katherine Jenkins - Time To Say Goodbye
4. Bryn Terfel - Granada
5. Lesley Garrett - Song to the Moon
6. Nigel Kennedy - Unknown Soldier
7. Kiri Te Kanawa - Nuns' Chorus
8. Amici Forever - Prayer in the Night
9. Mario Lanza - Be My Love
10. Julian Lloyd Webber - Flight of the Bumble-Bee
11. Ludovico Einaudi - Una Mattina
12. Angela Gheorghiu - Ave Maria
13. John Williams - Harry Potter
14. The Sixteen - Crucifixus
15. Anna Netrebko - Quando men vo
16. Luciano Pavarotti - Ti Adoro
17. Sissel - In Paradisum
18. Juan Diego Florez - La donna e mobile
19. John Debney - The Passion of the Christ
20. Emma Johnson - The Entertainer
21. Aled Jones - O Come, O Come Emmanuel

Disc 2:

1. Andrea Bocelli - O sole mio
2. Vanessa Mae - Sabre Dance
3. Placido Domingo - Questo o quella
4. James Galway - Annie's Song
5. Libera - Vespera
6. Hayley Westenra - River of Dreams
7. John Williams - Cavatina
8. Bond - Explosive
9. Katherine Jenkins & Rhys Meirion - Vide cor meum
10. John Rutter - Distant Land
11. Bryn Terfel & Cecilia Bartoli - Pa-pa-pa-papagena
12. Renee Fleming - Lascia ch'io pianga
13. Era - The Mass
14. Kings College Choir - Panis Angelicus
15. Duel - Pachelbel: Canon
16. Howard Shore - Into the West
17. Myleene Klass - Now We Are Free
18. Magdalena Kozena - Voi che sapete
19. Kathleen Ferrier - Blow the Wind Southerly
20. Patrick Hawes - Quanto Qualia

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38699 in Music
• Released on: 2004-11-15
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Box set
• Running time: 152 minutes

Customer Reviews

Annual review of the light classical scene
This has become an annual release, though this year they have dropped the "No 1" from the middle of the title. As well as being a compilation of light classical music it acts as a showcase, or sampler, of albums currently available in the genre from the Universal and Sony/BMG labels.

This is not to say that all the tracks, or the artists spotlighted, are brand new; there is an enormous age range of both, from the burgeoning talent of Katherine Jones and Hayley Westenra, through the established greatness of Bryn Terfel and Kiri te Kanawa, to the archived voices of Mario Lanza and Kathleen Ferrier.

Just about all imaginable styles are covered, too - opera, film scores, virtuoso instrumentals, variations on themes, sacred music, and pop. In a nod to those of us who occasionally like to hear the world's most beautiful music given a good seeing-to there are four blatant pop/modern rhythm pieces scattered about. This is fine but, for example, Vanessa-Mae's scratch and sniff version of Sabre Dance sandwiched between Andrea Bocelli and Placido Domingo does sound a little extreme.

Despite these little aberrations, I think it is well compiled, and provides two and a half hours of highly pleasurable listening. If it encourages more people to investigate the releases and back-catalogue of any of the artists featured they will not be disappointed; after all, there is much more to James Galway than "Annie's Song".