Hayley Westenra: Pure
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CM0009
CD. Hayley Westenra's Pure. Featuring "Amazing Grace," played at Douglas's events.
Comparisons with Charlotte Church are inevitable, yet 16-year-old New Zealand singer Hayley Westenra has her own distinctive sound. She has impeccably clear diction coupled with a gorgeous voice with a very wide range: her high notes in the Kate Bush hit "Wuthering Heights" are especially striking, and like Bush she is also a dancer, having performed with the Royal New Zealand Ballet. If there's a problem, it's that Pure doesn't have a focus to match Westenra's talent, the tracks spanning everything from "Amazing Grace" to a Maori lullaby ("Hine e Hine") to hybrid pieces adapted from Ravel ("Never Say Goodbye") and Vivaldi's Four Seasons ("River of Dreams"). Ultimately what this set does demonstrate is that whatever direction Westenra finally settles on, she has the ability to go to the very top. For now she is a young artist finding her way, and for many listeners the result is Pure magic. -- Gary S Dalkin (Amazon.com review)
- Artist: Hayley Westenra
- Tracks: 1. Pokarekare Ana (Come Back To Me)
2. Never Say Goodbye
3. Who Painted The Moon Black?
4. River Of Dreams
5. Beat Of Your Heart
6. Amazing Grace (From 'The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace')
7. Benedictus
8. Hine E Hine (Maiden, O Maiden)
9. Across The Universe Of Time
10. Dark Waltz
11. In Trutina (From 'Carmina Burana')
12. Heaven
13. Wuthering Heights
- Sample Track 1. Pokarekare Ana (Come Back To Me)
6. Amazing Grace
13. Wuthering Heights
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