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专辑名称: All Angels | 专辑艺人: All Angels(天使四重唱) | 唱片公司: UCJ
音乐风格: Classical Crossover | 发行日期: 2006年11月13日 | 资源品质: FLAC/270MB
专辑曲目
 01.All Angels - Songbird
02.All Angels - The Flower Duet
03.All Angels - Salve Regina
04.All Angels - Steal Away
05.All Angels - The Windmills Of Your Mind
06.All Angels - Barcarolle
07.All Angels - Silent Night
08.All Angels - Hosanna
09.All Angels - Ave Verum Corpus
 10.All Angels - Angels
11.All Angels - Ave Maria
12.All Angels - Pokarekare Ana
13.All Angels - Agnus Dei
专辑简介
by Sharon Mawer
Released for the Christmas market, when the "once a year" brigade comes out and
buys a record, the debut album by the teenage quartet All Angels hit the Top Ten in
the last week of November 2006. However, the competition for classical crossover
albums was strong that year, All Angels competing with chart albums from the Fron
Male Voice Choir,Katherine Jenkins, Il Divo, and the very similar-sounding Angelis.
The momentum could not be sustained,and All Angels disappeared entirely from the
chart even before Christmas week. This album mixed arrangements of classical
repertoire, mainly the more popular and well-known end, with soft MOR pop songs.
It included Delibes' Flower Duet,Mascagni's Hosanna from Cavalleria Rusticana, and
-- almost inevitably for a group of angelic female singers -- Schubert's Ave Maria and
Barber's Agnus Dei. The pop repertoire included "The Windmills of Your Mind,"
Fleetwood Mac's "Songbird, " and also inevitably, Robbie Williams' "Angels." Those
who did not like the voice on the original "Angels" could at least focus on the guitar
solo, but even that was lacking on the All Angels version, as the track was watered
down to provide the ideal of a middle-of-the-road,easy listening song.Universal were
masters at promoting classical crossover music, and although a cynic might point to
the CD's initial high chart position and rapid descent as a sign of failure, the girls
were very talented singers and musically this was a very accomplished album.All the
tracks were obviously chosen for maximum effect and profit but lacked originality --
and ultimately All Angels was a nice easy listen but unsatisfying, the classical pieces
being superior to the pop choices.
艺人简介
Dubbed "the classical Spice Girls" in the pages of Britain's Guardian Unlimited, teen
vocal quartet All Angels emerged in 2006 with the fastest-selling classical debut in
U.K. chart history. All Angels was the brainchild of producer/manager Steve Abbott,
who previously scored with classical crossover acts the Choirboys and Nicola
Benedetti. After an extensive nationwide search, Abbott selected teens Melanie
Nakhla (an aspiring pilot), Charlotte Ritchie (an aspiring actress with a bit role in the
feature film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire to her credit), Laura Wright (at the
time the reigning BBC2 Young Chorister of the Year), and Daisy Chute (who at 15
recorded her own solo jazz LP).Abbott next negotiated a deal with Universal, which
reportedly spent in excess of ￡1 million promoting All Angels' self-titled debut LP.A
classical / pop hybrid spanning from Schubert's "Ave Maria" to Robbie Williams'
"Angels," the album sold 33,000 copies in its first week of release,entering the British
pop charts at number nine and eclipsing sales benchmarks established by the likes
of Luciano Pavarotti and Charlotte Church.
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