Ennio Morricone – Paradiso (Hayley Westenra) [2011]

01. Gabriels Oboe
02. Cinema Paradiso			play
03. La Califfa
04. Once Upon A Time In The West
05. Metti Una Sera A Cena
06. I Wonder Would
07. Per Natale
08. Deborah's Theme - I Knew I Loved
09. Lezione Di Musica
10. Da Quel Sorriso Che Non Ride Pi
11. The Edge Of Love		play
12. Amalia Por Amor
13. Here's To You
14. Malena

Hayley Westenra – soprano
Fausto Anzelmo - viola
Gilda Buttà - piano
Marco Serino - violin
Luca Pincini - cello
Orchestra Sinfonietta di Roma
Ennio Morricone - conductor

Paradiso, a 2011 release from Decca, is a warm and mellow collaboration between popular vocalist Hayley Westenra and legendary composer Ennio Morricone, and this album is the kind of sweetly sung and smoothly scored music that classical crossover and easy listening fans can expect to enjoy. The 14 songs, which are drawn largely from Morricone's prolific body of film music, are freshly arranged and orchestrated with Westenra's light soprano voice ideally situated in her middle range against a soothing backdrop of the strings, woodwinds, and percussion of the Orchestra Sinfonietta di Roma. The arrangements are quite lush and warm throughout the program, with a consistency that tends to make one song blend easily into the next with scarcely any differentiation of mood, except for the upbeat bossa nova of Metti una sera a cena, the festive Per Natale (L'esprit de Noël), and the bright solfège song, Lezione di Musica. Two memorable themes that display Morricone's extraordinary gift for lyrical melodies are Cinema Paradiso's "Would He Even Know Me Now?" and "I Knew I Loved You (Deborah's Theme)" from Once Upon a Time in America, and they are highlights of this collection.This CD is recommended as a gentle and relaxing vocal album that will appeal to Westenra's loyal fans. Decca's reproduction is luxuriant and rich, but rather homogenous in texture and dynamics. ---Blair Sanderson, Rovi

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