Disco de Neil Diamond: «As Time Goes By: The Movie Album»
Disco de Neil Diamond: «As Time Goes By: The Movie Album»
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- Título:As Time Goes By: The Movie Album
- Fecha de publicación:1998-10-27
- Tipo:Audio CD
- Sello discográfico:Sony
- UPC:074646954027
- 1 - 1As Time Goes By (From "Casablanca")
- 1 - 2Secret Love (From "Calamity Jane")
- 1 - 3Unchained Melody - From "Unchained" And "Ghost"
- 1 - 4Can You Feel The Love Tonight (From "The Lion King")
- 1 - 5The Way You Look Tonight (From Swing Time)
- 1 - 6Love With The Proper Stranger (From "Love With The Proper Stranger")
- 1 - 7Puttin' On The Ritz (From Pattin' On The Ritz)
- 1 - 8When You Wish Upon A Star (From "Pinocchio")
- 1 - 9The Windmills Of Your Mind (From The Thomas Crown Affair)
- 1 - 10Ebb Tide (From "Sweet Bird Of Youth")
- 2 - 1True Love (From "High Society")
- 2 - 2My Heart Will Go On (From "Titanic")
- 2 - 3The Look Of Love (From Casino Royale)
- 2 - 4In the Still of the Night - (from "Rosalie")
- 2 - 5Moon River (From Breakfast At Tiffany)
- 2 - 6Ruby (From "Ruby Gentry")
- 2 - 7Suite Sinatra: I've Got You Under My Skin (From Born To Dance)/One For My Baby (From Sky's The...
- 2 - 8And I Love Her (From Hard Day's Night)
- 2 - 9Can't Help Falling In Love (From Blue Hawauu
- 2 - 10 As Time Goes By (Reprise)img 0:46
I am a Neil Diamond freak. I've bought his records and gone to his concerts ever since 1972.
This CD compilation promised much. Great songs, Great conductor, Great singer.
Regrettably the sum of the parts is less than it should be.
The orchestra and arrangements are utterly sumptuous. Rich doesn't describe the sensual nature of the music that Bernstein coaxes from this ad-hoc orchestra.
It took me some time to work out what was wrong (at least for me). What should be a tour-de-force simply failed to excite me. And the principal reason was the extremely ponderous, leaden and slow pace of Diamond's interpretations. His performance on this CD does not display the vocal skills and excitement that have kept him at the top for 35 years.
The pace of the delivery is simply too slow. It gives time for all the flaws in Diamond's voice to come to the fore. I felt that I wanted to wind him up a bit. It is as though the batteries that power him have run flat. In fact the very best part of this album, for me, is the orchestral link between Unchained Melody and Can You Feel The Love Tonight. For some reason it brings me out in goosebumps!
Ironically, the slow delivery gives the orchestra all the time in the world to display its skills.
So, I was disappointed, but like any Diamond freak, I just had to add this CD set to my collection.
I listened to portions of the songs ahead of time, thought I would like the CD. Don't listen to the CD while driving, it will put you to sleep. I guess I should listen to it at bedtime since I am stuck with it.
It is a nightmare come true. If you have to listen to this in the dentist's office, you're going to wish for louder drilling. You haven't suffered until you've heard him do As Time Goes By or My Heart Will Go On. Shame on Columbia for making this guy so wealthy. Shame on you if you've bought this.
Thirty four years ago Neil brings us "Solitarie man","Shilo" and an interminable list of great tunes.Now he takes a great risk recording an album with a collection of movie's favourites that perhaps makes some people shake their heads in disaproval.But he's still a powerfull singer and his voice preserves all its bright and tenderness,specially in themes like "Ebb tide","The windmills...","Moon river" and "Can't help fallin' in love".Diamond is a great showman and he takes his audience (specialy the femenine ones)to a very particular "nirvana".The Bernstein arranges are,in most of the cases,very pleasent ones.
His voice is as gorgeous as always, but the tempo drags on nearly every song. Some things should just be left to Sinatra ...