★★★★★
With her delicate soprano voice, flowing hair, and classic good looks, Sara Brightman is the modern version of Stevie Nicks. The music here is slow and dreamy, heavy on the strings, and infused with lyrics that sound like hormonally induced teenage poetry. Her latest release opens with glacial chords and distant howling winds as your guardian angel explains her job and how much she loves you. It's a beautiful track, building to soaring crescendos and letting you know: this is important music...
- www.ink19.com
2013-05-29
★★★★★
Here is Sarah Brightman again, doing something different. Again! To say that she's "Going with the flow" would be an understatement. During the disco times in the '70's she lost her heart to a starship trooper (Disco tune on red vinyl). Then she married A. L. Weber, so she did musicals. Then she divorced and found that she's BIG in Mexico, so she did pseudopera/new age. And now that "Evanescence" tune with opera sparks! Does she have to hide behind something every time...
- www.music-news.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Sarah Brightman has sold eight million albums worldwide. In the US she is the top UK touring artist ahead of Sting, Eric Clapton and The Spice Girls. You can't argue with statistics like that mate! So what makes her mix of classical, opera, chill-out style ambience and contemporary pop so ruddy dull? Could it be the strut and bluster of the hugely overblown production? The vast swathes of strings, the rows and rows of choir singers, the layers of synths? The lyrics in a handful of languages...
- uk.launch.yahoo.com
2010-08-07
★★★★★
British soprano Sarah Brightman expanded upon and beyond classical music with her acclaimed albums Time To Say Goodbye, Eden and La Luna. She now indulges her admitted fascination with the desert by dabbling in Middle Eastern sound for her latest. In addition to Brightman's crystalline pipes, denizens of Harem include orchestral musicians and instrumentalists from the desert and elsewhere...
- www.globalrhythm.com
2009-06-12
★★★★★
L.GIFike her last album, Eden, Sarah Brightman's La Luna is a mix of covers and traditional classical interpretations with a few originals thrown in for good measure. Her voice, viewed by some as one of the best of our time, is the album's centerpiece and it rarely leaves the spotlight."Scarborough Fair," the British folk song made popular by Simon & Garfunkel, is updated delicately on La Luna...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
Track Listing: Gothica; Fleurs du Mal; Symphony; Canto della Terra; Sanvean; I Will Be With You (Where the Lost Ones Go); Schwere Traume; Sarai Qui; Storia d'Amore; Let it Rain; Attesa; Pasion; Running...
- www.allaboutjazz.com
2009-06-05
★★★★★
Despite a long history of pop and musical-theater success in England, Sarah Brightman was not well known in the U.S. until her 1997 album Time to Say Goodbye became a triumph, topping the Billboard classical crossover chart for most of 1998...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
During and after her marriage to Andrew Lloyd Webber, Sarah Brightman recorded for his company, Really Useful Records, on both cast recordings (The Phantom of the Opera) and solo albums (The Songs That Got Away, Surrender) under his supervision in the 1980s and early '90s. These recordings brought her some commercial success primarily in the U.K. But after departing Really Useful, she became an international classical crossover superstar, starting with 1997's Time to Say Goodbye...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Recorded with a large contingency of German musicians, British stage-diva Sarah Brightman's Dive is a loose concept album tied together by a common thread of nautical references. Opening with the short, spoken-word piece that is the title track, there are constant images of the sea throughout the lyrics. The material sounds like what you would expect from Brightman's ex-husband Andrew Lloyd Webber. It's all fairly pretentious power ballads, but there's no denying that they're melodic...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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