Author: Carreras, Jose

Format: Import

PartNumber: 12596-2

Release Date: 23-04-1996

Details: Amazon.ca The Catalan tenor José Carreras himself provided the idea behind this concept album. He hired mostly English lyricists, including Don Black and Jeremy Sams, to turn a number of much-loved orchestral melodies into songs. The result is not entirely a success. Black chooses to set the last movement of Dvorák's New World Symphony to the words "There is a brave new world that's eager to rise; we are the brave new world--we must get it right". Sams meanwhile attempts to make a love song out of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto, but his lyric "Searching in the night, I found the light, I found the key" evokes the image of someone locked out. Flanders and Swann they ain't. The disc also includes Liszt's Liebestraum No. 3, Chopin's Etude, Op. 10 No. 3 Tristesse, Albinoni's Adagio, the third movement of Brahms's Third Symphony, Beethoven's Pathétique Sonata and the intermezzo from Mascagni's Cavellaria Rusticana in song form. Their only benefit is that a lyric can make a melody memorable. Carreras sings with heroic tone but enunciates in that Spanish waiter English which sends housewives into paroxysms. --Rick Jones

UPC: 706301259627

EAN: 0706301259627

Model: 12596-2

Languages: English

Binding: audioCD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood