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. L'Amore Sei Tu (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 ta voix
13. Over The Rainbow
14. Torna a Surriento
15. Don't Stand On My Grave And Weep
16. We'll Meet Again

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3879 in Music
• Released on: 2005-10-31
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 61 minutes

Customer Reviews

SIMPLEMENTE FANTASTICA
Una de las mas maravillosas voces que he escuchado en toda mi vida, este es uno de esos albumes que nunca se olvidan y le llegan a uno al fondo del corazon; Katherine le ha dado un nuevo lugar en el mundo a la musica clasica; temas magnificos como el NESSUM DORMA, grandes baladas como OVER THE RAINBOW, ALL THINGS ARE BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL o AMAZING GRACE, la tonada clasica italiana TORNA SURRIENTO (una excelente competidora de la version de Elvis Presley "Surrender"), en resumen, una preciosa coleccion de bellas melodias de ayer y hoy en una voz que pareciera venir de los ángeles; imprescindible para todo amante de lo clásico y las melodias romanticas.

Super Katherine
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Sounds good, Looks great

Living a Dream is the third CD release by Katherine Jenkins, sharing the same chart success as its predecessors by reaching No. 1 in the UK Classical Music charts and No 4 in the UK Album chart in 2005. It was also awarded Album of the Year at the Classical BRIT Awards in 2006, repeating the success of her previous album Second Nature which won the same award the previous year.

Firstly, I was pleased with the much-improved image which the singer has adopted for this album's cover and sleeve artwork. A new photo and design team has given her a much needed glamour boost to something approaching an opera Diva.

It's also good to see a bit more content, with a playing time of just over 60 minutes it's better value than the two previous releases of 45 and 53 minutes duration.

Choice of songs however I have mixed opinions about, for while some songs work others fall flat and to me sound incompatible with the singers style.

The opening track `I will Always Love You' is translated into Italian, with no lyrics shown on the sleeve booklet, and as a consequence loses much of the impact of the original 1973 Dolly Parton version, and when compared to the hugely successful 1992 Whitney Houston version I think it fares even worse. Katherine Jenkins sings it with technically perfect voice control, while Whitney belts it out with emotion, and wins hands down I think.

To the opposite extreme though is the beautifully sung `I Vow To Thee My Country', with an almost ethereal orchestral backing and choir. This is perfect Katherine Jenkins material.

`Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's opera Turandot is an interesting soprano rendition of the now-famous Three Tenors one, but I don't think it comes close to that of Sarah Brightman's on her 1998 album `Eden'.

`All Things Bright and Beautiful', `Amazing Grace' and `Over the Rainbow' will be popular with those wanting some relaxing listening, and although these are brilliantly sung, I'd rather hear them on Songs of Praise on a Sunday afternoon.

Generally though the songs are a well chosen section of classical, opera and traditional pieces with interesting inclusions such as Andrew Lloyd Webbers `Music of the Night' thrown in.

The album closes suitably with `We'll Meet Again', which Katherine Jenkins has adopted, from Dame Vera Lynn, as her `Forces Sweetheart' trademark song dedicating it to the soldiers in Iraq. I've seen her sing it to great effect live, where it's guaranteed to get some of the older generation reaching for their handkerchiefs.

Another winning album.