BEAUTIFUL VOICES CLASSIC 002 (SARAH BRIGHTMAN SP.)

MDB - BEAUTIFUL VOICES CLASSIC 002 (SARAH BRIGHTMAN SPECIAL EDITION) (79:29)







Classical Vocals And Pop-Inspired Downtempo Mix

TRACKLIST:
1. La Lune
2. Island
3. Scéne d'Amour
4. This Love
5. So Many Things
6. Who Wants To Live Forever
7. Beautiful
8. Scarborough Fair
9. First Of May
10. Gloomy Sunday
11. Bilitis-Generique
12. Tu Quieres Volver
13. Only An Ocean Away
14. Once In A Lifetime (Ballad version)
15. Dive (Interlude)
16. Captain Nemo
17. La Mer
18. The Second Element II
19. Naturaleza Muerta
20. Eden
21. The Smile (feat. Schiller)
22. The War Is Over (feat. Kadim Al Sahir)
*Compiled, mixed & edited by MDB


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About Sarah Brightman:

Sarah Brightman, (born August 14, 1960) is an English classical crossover soprano, actress and dancer.

Brightman debuted as a dancer in troupes such as Hot Gossip and later released a string of disco singles. She achieved greater fame as a musical theatre performer and partner of theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, originating several roles, including Christine Daaé in The Phantom of the Opera.

Her 1984 marriage to Lloyd Webber attracted active tabloid coverage. The couple divorced in 1990, effectively ending her musical theatre career.

After her divorce, Brightman established a position as a crossover artist with former Enigma producer Frank Peterson. Her style, a blend of classical vocals and pop-inspired instrumentation and arrangement, earned her further success.

To date, Brightman has received over 150 Gold and Platinum awards in 34 countries and is the only artist to hold #1 spots on the Billboard Classical and Dance charts simultaneously.

Sarah Brightman was born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England to Paula and Grenville Brightman. She was the eldest of six children. Her ambition to be an artist was apparent from an early age; she took ballet lessons starting from age three. At age eleven she attended a boarding school for theatre, where she remained despite her displeasure with the institution. Brightman auditioned for London's Royal Ballet some time later, but was rejected.

At age sixteen, in 1976, Brightman joined the dance group Pan's People. After some time, she moved on and led Hot Gossip, a mixed dance act who appeared regularly on The Kenny Everett Video Show. The group, which was noticeably more provocative than Pan's People, had a chart-topping disco hit in 1978 with "I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper", a space-themed track which sold half a million copies and reached number six on the UK charts. The group released a follow-up single, "Adventures of the Love Crusader", six months later, but it was less successful, failing to chart on the UK's top 50.Brightman, now solo, released several more disco singles in subsequent years under Whisper Records; these included "Not Having That" and a cover of the song "My Boyfriend's Back". However, none of these became as prominent as "I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper".

1981–1989: Stage career

In 1981, Brightman auditioned for a role in the new musical Cats and received the role of Jemima. It was there that she met her future husband, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber; the two married in 1984. Brightman starred in several of his musicals, including Song and Dance and the mass Requiem, the latter expressly written for her voice. With Requiem she earned her first Grammy nomination.

Brightman achieved greater success with her starring role as Christine Daaé in Lloyd Webber's adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera. The role of Christine, like Requiem before it, was specifically written for her. Lloyd Webber refused to open The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway unless Brightman originated the role of Christine. Initially, the American Actors' Equity Association balked, due to their policy of hiring only Americans. Lloyd Webber had to agree to cast an American in a leading role in his next West End musical before the Equity would allow Brightman to appear (a promise he kept later in the casting for Aspects of Love).

After leaving Phantom, Brightman pursued several projects. Immediately after her departure, she performed in a tour of Lloyd Webber's music throughout England, Canada, and the United States, and performed Requiem in the Soviet Union. She also released some studio recordings. These releases included the single "Anything But Lonely" from Aspects of Love and two solo albums: the 1988 album The Trees They Grow So High, a compilation of traditional folk songs accompanied by piano, and the 1989 album The Songs That Got Away, a musical theatre compilation of songs which were cut from shows by composers such as Irving Berlin and Stephen Sondheim. By 1990, Brightman and Lloyd Webber separated. After the official divorce, Brightman was given a lead role in Lloyd Webber's Aspects in London opposite Michael Praed, before transferring to Broadway. It would be her last theatre role.

Her stage career curtailed, Brightman pursued solo recording in Los Angeles. She was inspired by the German band Enigma and requested to work with one of its members. Her request was answered and in 1991 she traveled to Germany to meet her future producer, Frank Peterson. Their first collaboration on a major label release (with A&M Records) was Dive (1993), a loosely water-themed pop album that featured the hit "Captain Nemo" (a cover of a song by the Swedish electronica band Dive).

Fly (1995), a pop/rock album and her second collaboration with Peterson, propelled Sarah Brightman to fame in Europe with the hit "A Question of Honour". The song, introduced at the World Boxing Championship match between Germany's Henry Maske and Graciano Rocchigiani, featured a mix of electronic dance music, rock elements, classical strings, and excerpts from the aria "Ebben? ... Ne andrò lontana" from Alfredo Catalani's opera La Wally.

"Time to Say Goodbye" ("Con te partirò") was the second Brightman song debuted for Maske, this time at his retirement match. This duet with tenor Andrea Bocelli sold more than 3 million copies in Germany alone, became Germany's highest-selling single, and was a bestseller in numerous other countries. The album eventually sold over 5 million copies worldwide. Due to the song's success, a 1996 re-issue of Fly featured "Time to Say Goodbye" as the first track.

Timeless (released in 1997, with the title Time to Say Goodbye in the United States) contained "Time to Say Goodbye" and other classical-inspired tracks such as "Just Show Me How to Love You", a duet with José Cura (originally sung by Dario Baldambembo with the title "Tu Cosa Fai Stasera?"), a cover of the Queen hit "Who Wants to Live Forever", and "Tu Quieres Volver", (originally recorded by the Gipsy Kings).

The album was a smash-hit worldwide and is possibly Brightman's most successful solo release. Her mainstream exposure in the United States also began around this time, starting with an appearance on Bocelli's December 1997 PBS television special, duetting "Time to Say Goodbye"; later, in March 1998, her own PBS special, Sarah Brightman in Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, marked the key point when she crossed from Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart to the Billboard 200 chart, with Time to Say Goodbye. Despite this, however, attempts to market songs from the album to U.S. Top 40 and heritage radio formats were mostly unsuccessful.

Subsequent albums included Eden (1998) (the title track of which was a cover of a song by Belgian band Hooverphonic), and La Luna (2000). Both of these albums took the crossover beginnings she had originally introduced on Time to Say Goodbye and made them her own. Reviews, however, were mixed - LAUNCHcast deemed Eden "deliriously sappy", while All Music Guide called Eden "a winning combination"and La Luna "a solid, stirring collection".

Chart performance for both albums was more uniformly positive. Eden reached #65 on the Billboard 200 charts (certified Gold for selling over 500,000 copies), and La Luna peaked at #17. In addition, both albums reached #1 on Billboard's Classical Crossover charts. At the end of 2001, Billboard magazine noted Brightman as one of four classical crossover artists from the UK (the others being Charlotte Church, Russell Watson, and Bond) with albums on both the Classical Crossover and Billboard 200 charts, a phenomenon which, it said, contributed to a resurgence of UK music in the U.S. after "a historic low" in 1999.

In 2001, Brightman released Classics, an album comprised of operatic arias and other classical pieces, including a solo version of "Time to Say Goodbye". Many of the songs on this album originally appeared on her previous albums. Reviews were somewhat better: Entertainment Weekly, although calling Brightman a "stronger song stylist than a singer", gave the album a grade of B-.

Her 2003 album Harem represented another departure: a Middle Eastern-themed album influenced by dance music. On Harem, Brightman collaborated with artists such as Ofra Haza and Iraqi singer Kazem al-Saher. Nigel Kennedy contributed violin tracks to the songs "Free" and "The War Is Over", and Jaz Coleman contributed arrangements.

The album peaked at #29 on the Billboard 200 charts (with sales tracked by Nielsen SoundScan figuring at approximately 333,000, or about one-third the total sales of La Luna),[19] #1 on the Billboard Classical Crossover chart, and yielded a #1 dance/club single with the remix of the title track. Some time later, another single from the album (the ballad "Free", cowritten with Sophie B. Hawkins) became a second Top-10 hit on this chart. Nevertheless, radio airplay for the album's singles, at least in the U.S., was almost nonexistent.

The albums Eden, La Luna, and Harem were accompanied by live tours which incorporated the theatricality of her stage origins. Brightman acknowledged this in an interview, saying, "They're incredibly complicated...[but also] natural. I know what works, what doesn't work, all the old tricks."In both 2000 and 2001, Brightman was among the top 10 most popular British performers in the U.S., with concert sales grossing $7.2 million from 34 shows in 2000 and over $5 million from 21 shows in 2001.

Most recently, the Harem tour grossed over $60 million and sold over 700,000 tickets, $15 million and 225,000 sales of which came from the North American leg; though with ticket prices raised 30% from previous tours, average sales per venue were up 65%.[19] In North America, Harem tour promoters Clear Channel Entertainment (now Live Nation) took the unusual step of advertising to theatre subscribers, in an effort to reach fans of Brightman's Broadway performances, and also sold VIP tickets (at $750 each) that included on-stage seating during the concert and a backstage pass.[19]

Tour reviews have been mixed: one critic from the New York Times called the La Luna tour "not so much divine but post-human" and "unintentionally disturbing: a beautiful argument of emptiness." In contrast, a reviewer from the Boston Globe deemed the Harem tour "unique, compelling" and "charmingly effective."

Television specials on PBS were produced for every Brightman album in the U.S.; a director of marketing has credited these as her number-one source of exposure in the country.

Brightman released a DVD collection of her music videos on October 3, 2006 under the title of Diva: The Video Collection. Diva: The Singles Collection is the accompanying CD, released on the same date. The album marked the first time Brightman has released a greatest hits album in the United States; it reached #1 on the Billboard Classical Crossover chart. (Classics, from 2001, featured seven new recordings in addition to the previously-released material, and her other reflective offering, The Best of 1990-2000, was a European-only release.)

Brightman was one of the artists featured on the January 2007 series of the prime time BBC One Show Just the Two of Us, partnered with English cricketer Mark Butcher. The pair finished the competition in third place.

She is currently working on a new album that she describes as having a gothic metal feel to it.

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I have to say, this set is even better than nr 15. I've listened it few times and I'm thrilled. I love it!

Thank you,
I am happy to see that people who loves Sarah Brightmans songs too!

Pure Magic

Thank you.
Please choose your option for new BV 020 episode.

Amazing!!!

The mixes and the voice of Sarah make sensation at best!!!

Cesare

Thanks Cesare!

Wow! sarah brightman voice is awesome, and the music too. Love this Music! thanks for it!

So, your signature tells me that you are a trance fan!
I am so happy to see that you like Sarah Brightman too!

Congrat for your ear and... open mind!

Oh My God! This is not Sarah's voice, it's Kate Bush unbelievable! I love Sarah and Kate too, but Dude ... I'm sorry for that but IMHO this is big faux-pas and very bad mix.

??? Kate Bush??? where? maybe it's George W. Bush... but ...Kate Bush?

And if you don't like it, nop, there are hundreads of listeners who like this set so, it's up to you. Maybe you will like other of my mixes.

I hope that you are not registered here only for saving Kate Bush reputation.

And one more thing, please let me know what is the Kate Bush track in this mix? Just for fun...

The post of Isabelle is very ridiculous.

??? Kate Bush??? where? maybe it's George W. Bush... but ...Kate Bush?

And if you don't like it, nop, there are hundreads of listeners who like this set so, it's up to you. Maybe you will like other of my mixes.

I hope that you are not registered here only for saving Kate Bush reputation.

And one more thing, please let me know what is the Kate Bush track in this mix? Just for fun...

@Adrien_Aubrun: relax Make your life more funny.

@MDB: I truly believe that these mixes are attractive for many people. I am impressed of your musical skills. I wrote in the questbook what I think about yours mixes (at least some of them), and I do not have to repeat this, think so In Sarah Brightman case, I think that her voice became overabundant altered and that is so unlike her. The comparison to Kate is obviously proverbial and playful, but that was the first thought after listening e.g. especially Beautiful, This Love. Absolutely, it would be a great tactlessness to compare the talent of these two women. Kate sings more theatrically and emotionally and Sarah describes clean and even voice, she beautifully signs operetta but these high tones do not fit in to her, that is why I prefer the original decidedly.

You asked me about Kate's track - it is not about track, it's about voice, but just for funn I could tell e.g. Babooshka (my first love).

I know Babooshka but i cannot see any connection between that song and any of Sarah Brightman's song in this mix.

I know that not any of my mixes will fit with all listeners preferences, that's because i maded few different mixes, trying to cover all subgenres of downtempo music (from chill trance to new age).

I admit that i cannot made perfect transitions anytime, especially when i used some new age short songs.
Those mixes was not maded to have perfect beatmatching, i try to make some decent harmonic transitions... but because i still want to use some tracks that i liked so much, i have decided to sacrifice mixing for giving to audiance the pleasure to listen a really good and emotional song. So when i planned a new age mix i am 90% for the selection of songs (and the quality of those songs) and just 10% for mixing skills.

At least, BV mixes are not for dancefloors. i think that peoples listen my mixes when they are at work, or when they are driving or at home, and they don't care about mixing skils.

I can make an 80 min set much easy using only tracks analysed with softwares like "mixed in key" to have perfect transitions, but... to use a poor song only because the tempo will fit with the next song's tempo... no thanks! That's for clubbing not for chillout.
I don't care about any DJ skills, DJ contests or DJ lists! I care only about the MUSIC! The really good music! Of course i try to make decent transitions too, but when it works, that's OK, when not, that's it, "shoot me, f**k me, i don't care. For me, the music are most important than the transitions when i made my chill mixes.

Finnaly i want to thank you for signing in my guestbook, and i am glad to see that you like some BV mixes too!

Hi:
Sorry, this is a bit off topic. But, maybe my eyesite is getting worse with age & I missed it? Isn't there supposed to be a Password on the BEAUTIFUL VOICES CLASSIC 002 (SARAH BRIGHTMAN SP.) page to open the .RAR file? I checked the page closely and was unable to locate one. Any help would be appreciated.
I am just a newbie here who has only heard one Mix so far which was: Beautiful Voices Classics 001. MDB, I was very very impressed. Looking forward to hearing some more. And, I really like the musical direction that MDB is taking.

Thanks!