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Theater star Michael Ball released MUSIC in 2005. The album features Ball performing pop and rock hits including "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Life on Mars," and "Desperado," among others.
Michael Ball, Britain's leading musical star and multi-platinum recording artist, releases his new twelve track album, which takes its title from John Miles' seminal mega hit of 1976. Features some of Michael's favorite pop songs from the last thirty years. David Bowie's `Life On Mars', for instance, is a key number in Michael's solo shows. `Fields Of Gold' is a double homage: in part to Sting, one of Michael's favorite artists and to Eva Cassidy whom Michael feels recorded the definitive version of this beautiful song. Simon & Garfunkel are represented by the classic `Bridge Over Troubled Water' which benefits from a simple, contemporary arrangement and vocal treatment; and the powerhouse `The Show Must Go On', one of Michael's all-time favorite songs and a smash hit with his live concert audience is also a poignant nod to the memory of the great Freddie Mercury. Ever keen to expand his musical repertoire and to challenge his voice, Michael has diversified on this album with the bossa nova-tinged `And I Love You So' which features a stripped down arrangement and some cool piano. Michael co-wrote a new song, `I Am Loved' which appears as the penultimate track on the album before he gives full rein to his superb voice on a magnificent rendering of the title track. Music Songs | 1. | Music (Prelude) |
| 2. | Show Must Go On |
| 3. | Fields of Gold |
| 4. | You Raise Me Up |
| 5. | Everlasting Love |
| 6. | Bridge Over Troubled Water |
| 7. | And I Love You So |
| 8. | Desperado |
| 9. | Life on Mars |
| 10. | I Am Loved |
| 11. | Sometimes When We Touch |
| 12. | Music (Full Version) |
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Purchase Music CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Michael Ball Christmas CDs (2000)
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 $7.85   
Recorded at Skratch Studios, Surrey, England and Whitfield Street Studios, London, England.
Adapters: Nigel Wright; Dave Arch.
Personnel: Elaine Paige, Brian Kennedy (vocals); Lee McCutcheon (programming).
Recording information: Skratch Studios, Surrey, England; Whitfield Street Studios, London, England.
Arrangers: Nigel Wright; Dave Arch.
Personnel includes: Michael Ball, Elaine Paige, Brian Kennedy (vocals); Lee McCutcheon (programming).
| | Polar Express CD (2004) Original Soundtrack
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$9.75 
The Christmas season is a perennial juxtaposition of the old and the new. Accordingly, the blockbuster Robert Zemeckis film THE POLAR EXPRESS blends a children's book by Chris Van Allsburg, the classic recordings of Bing Crosby's day, and state-of-the art computer animation into a seamless, organic whole. On the soundtrack, new compositions by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri coexist with such timeless classics as "White Christmas" and "Winter Wonderland". Here the former tunes become instant classics by association, as the latter gain up-to-date relevance in a new context. Frank Sinatra and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler are seldom heard on the same album, yet here they both are, united by the spirit of Christmas. While some Christmas recordings can be bland and overly familiar, this album is anything but that. THE POLAR EXPRESS is the perfect accompaniment to the blockbuster movie, but it also works as a great collection of Christmas songs, from the timeless to the contemporary. Reflecting a child's sense of wonder, excitement, and adventure, it may well become a holiday classic itself.
The soundtrack to Robert Zemeckis' groundbreaking film adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg's popular children's book The Polar Express celebrates the season with both classic and contemporary holiday flair. Composers Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri provide the latter, relying on swelling choral arrangements, tender ballads, and polarizing yuletide offerings from Stephen Tyler and Josh Groban. Tyler struts his stuff on the amiable but derivative "Rockin' on Top of the World," a three-chord rave-up that finds the Aerosmith mouthpiece channeling a pack of howler monkeys, but it's Groban's syrupy, future American Idol favorite "Believe" that serves as the soundtrack's commercial centerpiece. Tom Hanks does his best Gene Wilder on the whimsical and strangely unnerving title track, a wonderfully unhinged performance that will have Willy Wonka fans clamoring for more, and the winsome vocals of pre
| | Chris De Burgh Live In Dortmund CDs (2005)
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$17.35
Depending on who you ask, Chris de Burgh either specializes in pretentious, bombastic art rock disguised as pop or is a master of penning soaring and majestic compositions. Either way, both camps will remain stuck to their beliefs after listening to de Burgh's 2005 double-disc live set, Live in Dortmund. Although he seemingly fell from sight in the U.S. -- after scoring the early MTV hits "Don't Pay the Ferryman" and the ballad "The Lady in Red" (the latter used to great effect in the grisly movie American Psycho) -- de Burgh retains a large cult following in other areas of the world. Dortmund, Germany, must be one such place where de Burgh still rules supreme, as evidenced by all the applause and singalongs he receives throughout this set. His two aforementioned hits remain his best songs (in fact, with a few added power chords, "Don't Pay the Ferryman" would be a perfect track for the Darkness to cover), but other de Burgh favorites are featured as well -- "Sailing Away," "Where Peaceful Waters Flow," "Tender Hands," etc. Newcomers should stick with one of de Burgh's many "best-of" compilations (2004's 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection is a solid and affordable intro), but the already converted looking for a sampling of some live de Burgh won't be let down. ~ Greg Prato
"Live In Dortmund" is a double CD solo album released in celebration of his 2004 sold out ‘The Road To Freedom’ European Tour. It was recorded at the Westfalenhalle, Dortmund to an audience of 7000. This is De Burgh’s favourite venue in Germany and the concert coincided with the 20th anniversary of Chris’s first headline show at this venue. The album includes all his best known hits and solo versions of songs from “The Road To Freedom” album.
Liner Note Author: Chris de Burgh.
Recording information: Dortmund, Germany.
Photographers: Guido Karp; Brigitte Wagner.
Personnel: Chris de Burgh (vocals, guitar, piano); Chris de Burgh.
Audio Mixer: Chris Porter.
| | Michael Ball - Alone Together: Live At The Donmar DVD (2005)
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 $16.29 
Accomplished British singer/actor Michael Ball has produced an impressive resume of theater work, while also releasing some best-selling albums in his homeland. Here, Ball performs alone in London, with just a piano for accompaniment.
This widely acclaimed show represents a complete departure for Michael Ball. On a bare stage with just a piano, his dramatic and moving performance takes us on a tour of an artist’s life, his struggles and successes. A unique moment on the London stage that reveals anew side to Michael Ball.
| | Evita CD (2006)
Music album
$15.39
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist/librettist Tim Rice's musical Evita has gone through several permutations since premiering as a double-LP studio cast album in 1976, with successful stage productions in the West End (1978) and on Broadway (1979), and, eventually, a movie adaptation (1996). All of those versions produced albums, and so does the 2006 London revival, which arrived on June 21 -- twenty-eight years to the day after the first London opening. (It later announced a closing date of May 26, 2007, for a run of 11 months.) The original London cast LP, unlike the original studio cast recording, the original Broadway cast recording, and the original soundtrack, was a single-disc affair, and so is this one. Lloyd Webber, who runs his own label, Really Useful Records, tends to opt for full-length treatments of his shows on record, nearly every one sprawling across two CDs, the better to reflect his sung-through scores. Here, he has trimmed the music from the usual 100 minutes to 70 by eliminating minor songs, instrumental passages, and sound effects. That is an appropriate decision for a score that also sounds scaled down otherwise, with a smaller orchestra and cast. To address the downsizing, the composer has also revised his orchestrations and given them more of an Argentine flavor; the listener may think less often of Puccini and occasionally of Astor Piazzolla. If that gives a slightly more Argentine feel to a show set in Argentina, a major casting decision accentuates this change. In the title role is Argentine singer/actress Elena Roger. The appeal of casting an actual countrywoman of Eva Peron's to play her is undeniable, but it is equally undeniable that Roger sings in English with a heavy accent. Lloyd Webber and Rice may have felt that most of those attending the show would already know the lyrics so well that it wouldn't matter. But when Philip Quast, as Juan Peron sings to Roger's Eva in "I'd Be Surprisingly Good for You," "I can understand you
| | Casino Royale CD (2006) Original Soundtrack
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$9.99 
James Bond film soundtracks have a fairly weighty history that includes seminal work by James Barry, Bill Conti, and Monty Norman, not to mention the Burt Bacharach music from the original 1967 version of CASINO ROYALE. However, British composer David Arnold acquits himself respectably here, as he has done on previous Bond scores, by creating tense, dark, and always classy themes as befitting the Bond tradition.
Recording information: Air Lyndhurst, London, England.
Personnel: Derek Watkins (trumpet); Rob Playford (programming).
Audio Mixer: Geoff Foster.
| | Ashkenazy Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2, Études Tableux / Grimaud CD (2001)
Music music CDs
$13.55
Helene Grimaud,Philharmonic Orch./Vladimir Ashkenazy
| | Day's Splendor Choral Music From Americas Gala Del Día - Day's Splendor / Vuksic, Americas Ensemble CD (2002)
$10.75 | | Robert Whitney Alberto Ginastera CD (2003) Remastered
$10.59 | | Grigory Ginzburg Prokofiev:Live Recording Christmas 57 CD (2005)
$15.05 | | Andrey Borenko Selected Works CD (2006)
$15.39 | | Stubbs Monteverdi: Tempo La Cetra; Il Ballo Delle Ingrate; Tirsi E Clori; Etc. CD (2006)
$9.79 | | Choir Of Trinity College Melbourne Southern Star CD (2007)
Music songs
$33.75
Music of melting beauty for choir and harp. Britten's ceremony of carols is one of the best-loved choral works for the christmas season; here it's paired with a new and equally enchanting setting of poetry by michael leunig, 'southern star' - christmas seen through australian eyes. The choir of trinity college is one of australia's finest church choirs in the english cathedral tradition, and this album featuring master harpist marshall mcguire will be a welcome addition to the collection of any lover of sacred music.
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