The 1997 Academy Award winner for Best Dramatic Score, James Horner's Titanic was the first soundtrack to reach the No. 1 slot on the Billboard charts in two decades; it also seemed to rival the Big Mac in sales for the year. And what can we say about Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On"; would "ubiquitous" suffice? Horner's combination of synths, chorale, and orchestra perfectly ...
The title, Bryn Sings Popular Classics tells it all. Here is one popular classic after another--some folk or traditional, some operatic, some religious or inspirational, some pop. The result in the throat/mind/sensibility of any other singer might be soupy, sappy or simply uninteresting, but Bryn Terfel--he of the rolling bass-baritone voice who can smoothly deliver notes and phrases at any ...
The soprano Lesley Garrett joins her regular TV partners, the BBC Concert Orchestra for this razzle-dazzle collection of big hits from the golden age of Tinseltown. The 15 tracks, including a Gershwin medley, celebrate those would-be operatic sopranos who traded their art on screen instead of live on the stage. The well-researched booklet lists them, from Grace Moore to Deanna Durbin. The disc ...