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| Enchantment | 
 enlarge | Artists: Georges Bizet, Richard Rodgers, Michel Legrand, Leo Delibes, American Traditional, Erik Satie, British Isles Traditional, Jerome Kern, Johann Ii Strauss, Lucy Simon, David Foster, Sian Edwards, John Clark, Eric Rigler, Frank Ricotti, John Parricelli, Mark Hammond, Paul Keogh, Michael Thompson
Creators: Charlotte Church, Leonard Bernstein, Irish Traditional
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  502 reviews
Sales Rank: 55970
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 89710
UPC: 696998971028
EAN: 0696998971028
ASIN: B00005OWEJ
Release Date: October 9, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | Tonight | | • | Carrickfergus | | • | Habanera | | • | Bali Ha'i | | • | Papa Can You Hear Me? | | • | The Flower Duet | | • | The Little Horses | | • | From My First Moment | | • | The Water Is Wide | | • | Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man | | • | The Laughing Song | | • | If I Loved You | | • | A Bit Of Earth | | • | Somewhere | | • | The Prayer |
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Of course, we couldn't expect time to freeze its relentless path and forever preserve the Welsh sensation Charlotte Church in a chrysalis of precocious youth. And yet, at 15 and now taking bolder steps into expanding her repertory on Enchantment, the soprano remains a marvel of a prodigy. Here, she scours a wider range of sources than on her previous albums. Church moves with breathtaking ease from classic Broadway (West Side Story, Show Boat, South Pacific) to traditional Celtic, film ballads, and even a couple of high-operatic numbers. Church's straightforward approach to the melody of "La Habanera" may not exactly be what Bizet had in mind for his Carmen, but fans will get double pleasure out of the singer's exquisite duet with herself on the haunting "Flower Duet" from Delibes's Lakmé. What's more, there's a greater freedom of expression and sense of how to shape a phrase in many of these tracks--notice how much there is to savor, for instance, in "The Water Is Wide" and "Carrickfergus." It all adds up to a widely varied course, demonstrating the continued growth of a singularly gifted young artist. --Sarah Chin
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| Customer Reviews: Read 497 more reviews...
 This is not music .. it's hype December 4, 2001
310 out of 342 found this review helpful
Please, wake up! If you want to hear a great voice on a "little" girl, go re-listen to Judy Garland. Maybe Andrea McArdle. (...) She has NO business singing most of the songs she's attempting here. There is no interpretation, no texture or substance to her voice. She rarely is on pitch. Don't be mad at me -- or her. She's just a kid trying to sing grownup songs. I'm just trying to point that out. She should stick to what she CAN do -- falsetto-like ditties that won't offend anyone who thinks she's a musician. She's a kid. (...)
Enough is Enough December 7, 2001
278 out of 317 found this review helpful
I'm very tired of the reviews saying "Oh, she's only 15, give her a break!" There is no "break" for real opera singers. Charlotte simply isn't an opera singer until she takes on a role on the opera stage. I don't care if you think she has a lovely voice or she makes opera accessible to the general populice--she's too young. Her voice, compared to real trained sopranos with mature voices, is pale and lackluster. It's flat and boring. It's not really that she has no business singing Adele's Laughing Song or the Habanera, it's that she shouldn't be making money for singing them. Sure, let her sing them, but as practice in her home, not as a classical crossover marketing attempt. Her slow tempo on the phrasing on some of these pieces is ridiculous... if someone did this at their voice lesson at university or in conservatory, they'd be gently but firmly spoken to and told to speed it up. Listen to the accurate versions of these pieces, and you'll agree. I hate that she's fifteen and has been famous since age twelve, and I hate it that people take her seriously. Please, buy a Kathleen Battle or Renée Fleming album instead.
 Songs that require maturity November 29, 2001
241 out of 258 found this review helpful
Ms. Church has included on this album some of the most stirring songs every written. However, the lack of expression on her part is disheartening, though understandable. Ms. Church has wonderful potential to be a great singer, but she is not such now, and the overuse of her young voice is only to her detriment. Although many of these pieces are vocally easier than those in her classical repertoire, she lacks the emotional maturity to really be expressive. Like so many young athletes, dancers, actors, etc...she is more a pretty face at the moment than a mature performer. I don't think this album is worth purchasing.
Where's the improvement? December 15, 2001
231 out of 239 found this review helpful
Charlotte Church still sounds the same... Cold and boring...
After 3 albums, I expect this album to be a lot better, but after listening to it, I find it (still) a disappointment... Where's the improvement?I think the main problem with this album is the choice of songs. I think Miss Church would do better singing songs specially written for her (like a pop star?). Most of the songs she sing in this album have better versions, sang by more mature singers with better interpretation and techniques. Her version of "Habanera" is especially weak. I would prefer it if she sings the original version of this famous aria... With notes and orchestral accompaniment exactly the same as the one Bizet had written. However, I don't think Miss Church would sound very good singing the original version either. Her voice is still of a boy-soprano quality which would not be strong and expressive enough for this aria which is demanding ---usually sang by more mature and established opera singers. She is trying to sound more mature here... But I think it wasn't that successful... Her version of "The Little Horses" is a bit too slow for me and the accompaniment seems too loud. I would like this track better if she did it a little faster. However, I still think that a singer which much lower and deeper voice would do this song better. :-) "The Laughing Song" is straining... Especially on those high notes!!! EEEEEKKKKKSSSS!!!! The more outstanding tracks (I think) are "Carrickfergus" and "Papa Can You Hear Me?"... Other than that, the other tracks just isn't too well sung to leave a deep impression.... I hope Miss Church's next album would be better....
Can I Rip out her vocal cords??? December 17, 2001
218 out of 235 found this review helpful
Man, i am tellin you, this hshould be rated a quarter out of five!! (...)She sounds like an elf when she sings. She can't even go up that high, and she always changes her chords. DEF. NOT A SINGER, and i wouldn't be surprised if she didn't have any other talents. If anyone buys this cd, it would be like buying a skunks head in a tuna fish sandwich, dipped in mallasas, squished underneath a 1000 pound elephant's foot, with tons of 100 year old gravy, and a rotten cherry on top. Cuz that's how much it STINKS!!!!
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