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List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $10.04
Your Save: $ 8.94 ( 47% )
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Manufacturer: Philips
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0028946260029
Label: Philips
Manufacturer: Philips
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Philips
Release Date: 1999-11-09
Studio: Philips
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Summary: SACRED ARIAS - does not give that Christmas music feeling
Comment: Looking for Holiday Music for a dinner party I went to Amazon and typed in Christmas CD. This CD came up as a Christmas choice. It doesn't sound very much like Christmas music to me. The value and shipping were very inexpensive so the sound of it was my only disappointment.
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Summary: Bocelli Christmas
Comment: Could listen to Andrea Bocelli for hours, and I did while wrapping a mound of Christmas presents. Great holiday CD.
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Summary: the most hauntingy beautiful solace....
Comment: from start to finish a wonderfuly dismal and solemn collection of religious arias. Best suited at a funeral or during a serious session of misanthropy and introflection. A definate must have for serious opera fans!!!!!
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Summary: Wonderful music
Comment: What a wonderful CD! This is music I will listen to over and over - his voice is amazing!
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Summary: Can't beat Andrea
Comment: Better than most of the tenors that have "bigger names" - but he has a pure and clear sound.
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Editorial Reviews:
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When he was growing up, Andrea Bocelli recalls finding inspiration in a favorite recording of sacred music performed by tenor legend Franco Corelli. Bocelli--who in the meantime has come to inspire millions of fiercely loyal fans himself--returns to the genre as the guiding theme of Sacred Arias, the release of which coincides with the first English-language biography of the singer. These performances are filled with the singer's phenomenally well-known vocal signature: his flair for long, sweetly floating high notes and the gentle sense of cadence he brings to a melody. It's a mistake to compartmentalize Bocelli into a singer of "operatic" versus "popular" styles: in truth his approach is at heart the same. Lack of color and control in his phrasing remains a drawback, but the emotional empathy Bocelli evokes is never in doubt. The arias collected here sample some of the most famous devotional pieces: Schubert's "Ave Maria" and Mozart's transporting "Ave Verum," as well as an arrangement of "Silent Night" in which Bocelli tries out his English. There's also a decidedly odd choice of bedfellows for a program of "sacred" music, such as a song from Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder (whose "angel" is the object of an overpoweringly erotic attraction) and Handel's figurative ode to a tree, "Ombra mai fu." Still, Bocelli sings with an unfeigned directness that is sure to expand his already enormous following even further. --Thomas May
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