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Track Listings
| 1. One Fine Day (Un Bel Di From Madame Butterfly) |
| 2. Sempre Ricordo (Piano Concerto in A minor) |
| 3. There's A Place (From The New World Symphony) |
| 4. Beyond Imagination (From A Midsummer Nights Dream) |
| 5. O Fortuna (From Carmina Burana) |
| 6. Lakmé H2O (Flower Duet) |
| 7. Ebben?..Ne Andro Lontano (from La Wally) |
| 8. You Live On In My Heart (Cinema Paradiso) |
| 9. Chanson Bohème (From Carmen) |
| 10. Remember Me |
| 11. Stranger In Paradise (From Kismet) |
| 12. Ode II Joy (From Symphony No. 9) |
| 13. 1001 Nights (From The Nutcracker Suite) |
| 14. Barcarolle (From The Tales Of Hoffman) |
| 15. Lakmé (VibeTribe Mix) |
| 16. Ave Maria |
| 17. Vittoria! (Aida 2002) |
On this CD:
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Madama Butterfly (Madame Butterfly), opera Un Bel Di
Composed by Giacomo Puccini
Performed by Millennia Strings
with Karen England, KODO, Rebecca Knight
Conducted by Cliff Masterson
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Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 Excerpt
Composed by Edvard Grieg
Performed by London Session Orchestra
with Karen England, Rebecca Knight
Conducted by Paul Wynne Griffiths
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Symphony No. 9 in E minor ("From the New World"), B. 178 (Op. 95) (first published as No. 5) Excerpt
Composed by Antonin Dvorak
Performed by London Session Orchestra
with Karen England, Rebecca Knight, Luis Jardim, Jon Cohen
Conducted by Nick Ingman
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A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, Op. 61 Excerpt
Composed by Felix Mendelssohn
Performed by London Session Orchestra
with Karen England, Ivor Goldberg, Rebecca Knight, Peter Hajioff, Jon Cohen
Conducted by Nick Ingman
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Carmina Burana, scenic cantata for soloists, choruses & orchestra O Fortuna
Composed by Carl Orff
with Karen England, Rebecca Knight
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Lakmé, opera Flower Duet "Lakmé H20"
Composed by Leo Delibes
with Karen England, Rebecca Knight
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La Wally, opera (dramma musicale) in 4 acts Ebben?... ne andrò lontana
Composed by Alfredo Catalani
Performed by London Session Orchestra
with Karen England, Rebecca Knight
Conducted by Paul Wynne Griffiths
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Cinema Paradiso, film score You Live On In My Heart
Composed by Ennio Morricone
Performed by London Session Orchestra
with Karen England, Ivor Goldberg, Mitchell Dalton, Rebecca Knight, David Hartley
Conducted by Nick Ingman
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Carmen, opéra-comique in 4 acts Chanson Bohème
Composed by Georges Bizet
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra
with Karen England, Rebecca Knight, Juan Martin, Paul Clarvis
Conducted by Nick Ingman
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Remember Me
Composed by Phil Coulter
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra
with Wayne Wilkins, Karen England, Rebecca Knight, Laurence Lottle, John Parricelli, Richard Cottle, Paul Clarvis
Conducted by Nick Ingman
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Kismet, musical (after works by Alexander Borodin) Stranger in Paradise
Composed by George Forrest, Robert Wright
with Karen England, Rebecca Knight
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Symphony No. 9 in D minor ("Choral"), Op. 125 Ode to Joy
Composed by Ludwig van Beethoven
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra
with Karen England, John Parricelli, Rebecca Knight, Richard Cottle
Conducted by Nick Ingman
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Nutcracker, suite from the ballet, Op. 71a 1001 Nights
Composed by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
with Karen England, Rebecca Knight, Frank Ricotti
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Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts Barcarolle
Composed by Jacques Offenbach
Performed by London Symphony Orchestra
with Karen England, Rebecca Knight
Conducted by Nick Ingman
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Lakmé, opera Flower Duet "VibeTribe Mix"
Composed by Leo Delibes
Performed by City Strings Orchestra
with Karen England, Rebecca Knight
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Ellens Gesang III ("Ave Maria"), song for voice & piano, D. 839 (Op. 52/6)
Composed by Franz Schubert
with Karen England, Rebecca Knight
Conducted by Nick Ingman
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Aida, opera Triumphal March
Composed by Giuseppe Verdi
with Karen England, Rebecca Knight, Jon Cohen, Jeff Bova
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Plucked from a wet afternoon of busking Bizet and Puccini to passersby on the Piazza in Covent Garden in the spring of 2001, soprano Rebecca Knight and mezzo Karen England soon found themselves singing in slightly larger venues: the FA Cup and Champions League soccer finals. That the management company doing the plucking had recently performed a similar Cinderella crossover act for Russell Watson offered portent, and indeed the Babes--the moniker began as a joke--were soon on their way to this recording debut. The marketing shtick and its soccer connections may offend purists, but it's the football hooligans that the Babes are trying to win over here; can Borodin soothe the savage Manchester United fan? Their classically trained voices mesh gloriously, with England's warm mezzo showing particular character in her solo turns.
Plucked from a wet afternoon of busking Bizet and Puccini to passersby on the Piazza in Covent Garden in the spring of 2001, soprano Rebecca Knight and mezzo Karen England soon found themselves singing in slightly larger venues: the FA Cup and Champions League soccer finals. That the management company doing the plucking had recently performed a similar Cinderella crossover act for Russell Watson offered portent, and indeed the Babes--the moniker began as a joke--were soon on their way to this recording debut. The marketing shtick and its soccer connections may offend purists, but it's the football hooligans that the Babes are trying to win over here; can Borodin soothe the savage Manchester United fan? Their classically trained voices mesh gloriously, with England's warm mezzo showing particular character in her solo turns.
The repertoire choices here cover material that may already be familiar to fans of Charlotte Church (i.e., Delibes "Flower Duet") and other crossover acts, but they do include some pleasant surprises, like Offenbach's Barcarolle from The Tales of Hoffmann and "You Live On in My Heart," a reworking of Ennio Morricone's enchanting Cinema Paradiso theme with lyrics by Knight. But in a rush toward the musical middle of the road, it's the productions themselves that sometimes overwhelm the Babes with bathos ("Ave Maria"), hollow thunder ("Aida 2002"), and electro club kitsch (the 'Vibe Tribe' mix of "Flower Duet"). Former Art of Noise mainstay Anne Dudley's tastefully restrained coloring of Tchaikovsky's "1001 Nights" is one of the notable exceptions. They're babes, they sing opera--with fair promise--for the masses, and if they turn one in a hundred from football hooliganism to a well-mannered appreciation of Grieg and Dvorák, won't it all have been worth it? --Jerry McCulley
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