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Summary: Charlotte Church -- Truly an Angel
Review: I've just watched this DVD, borrowed from a local library, on my 19" computer screen. My sound system is not the best but is quite respectable for its undistorted sound and frequency response. This review may not be couched in flowery language, but it is sincere and comes from the heart. Miss Church is everyone's darling -- a daughter, a sister, a schoolmate, a fellow performer -- and maybe in a few years, some very fortunate man's wife. She is professional in her presentations, yet she is the girl next door -- a well rounded, feisty, clean and lovely teenager with a well disciplined and self determined mind of her own. Her mother and the rest of the family are seemingly very nice people, musical and well educated. Every minute of this presentation was like a breath of fresh air. But most important is her voice. For a young operatic soprano she has an amazing resonant quality and very good breath and vocal control. It's true that at times she sounds just a bit pinched, but hopefully that will go away as her voice matures. Overall, she evokes mixed feelings, even tears. How can one so young and pure have such a powerful, clear and yet mellow voice? It is uncanny! Her facial expressions will not let you look away for a second. Her enchanting appeal comes on many levels. And her sacred numbers are worthy to truly glorify our Lord. The orchestra, director, choir, staging, her attire, the video and audio production on this disk are all superb. I am purchasing a copy here and now because this will stand as an inimitable benchmark in my DVD library, and I only wish everyone could enjoy this wonderful snapshot in time of Charlotte as I did. If you love music, quality sound and video, you'll be eager to obtain your own copy of this album. One last thing: I've been a sound engineer and designed audio equipment, recorded live performances, etc. I've believed all my life that sight and sound must go together to make a full A/V experience. Now, at the age of 65, I've seen this dream fulfilled. THIS IS THE WAY "AUDIO" ALBUMS SHOULD BE! I look forward to having many more deserving artists' perfomances preserved in the DVD medium. It has everything and eventually should be affordable to everyone. CDs have great sound but are only half the event; DVDs have it all.
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Summary: Charlotte Church -- Truly an Angel
Review: I've just watched this DVD, borrowed from a local library, on my 19" computer screen. My sound system is not the best but is quite respectable for its undistorted sound and frequency response. This review may not be couched in flowery language, but it is sincere and comes from the heart. Miss Church is everyone's darling -- a daughter, a sister, a schoolmate, a fellow performer -- and maybe in a few years, some very fortunate man's wife. She is professional in her presentations, yet she is the girl next door -- a well rounded, feisty, clean and lovely teenager with a well disciplined and self determined mind of her own. Her mother and the rest of the family are seemingly very nice people, musical and well educated. Every minute of this presentation was like a breath of fresh air. But most important is her voice. For a young operatic soprano she has an amazing resonant quality and very good breath and vocal control. It's true that at times she sounds just a bit pinched, but hopefully that will go away as her voice matures. Overall, she evokes mixed feelings, even tears. How can one so young and pure have such a powerful, clear and yet mellow voice? It is uncanny! Her facial expressions will not let you look away for a second. Her enchanting appeal comes on many levels. And her sacred numbers are worthy to truly glorify our Lord. The orchestra, director, choir, staging, her attire, the video and audio production on this disk are all superb. I am purchasing a copy here and now because this will stand as an inimitable benchmark in my DVD library, and I only wish everyone could enjoy this wonderful snapshot in time of Charlotte as I did. If you love music, quality sound and video, you'll be eager to obtain your own copy of this album. One last thing: I've been a sound engineer and designed audio equipment, recorded live performances, etc. I've believed all my life that sight and sound must go together to make a full A/V experience. Now, at the age of 65, I've seen this dream fulfilled. THIS IS THE WAY "AUDIO" ALBUMS SHOULD BE! I look forward to having many more deserving artists' perfomances preserved in the DVD medium. It has everything and eventually should be affordable to everyone. CDs have great sound but are only half the event; DVDs have it all.
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Summary: Charlotte Reigns !
Review: If I were booted to an island and could only take 5 DVD's, I'd take 5 copies of the Charlotte Church DVD, to ensure I'd never be without at least one copy. I got goosebunps the first time I saw/heard it,and 6 months later,it still knocks me out. Charlotte's command of her voice and her audience is something even seasoned pros would be smart to examine.To anyone with any sensitivity or love for music will go nuts over this feast for the eyes and ears.
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Summary: MISS CHARLOTTE CHURCH HAS IT ALL.
Review: IF YOU DIDNT BUY THIS TAPE YET DO IT, VOICE OF AN ANGEL IN CONCERT IS GREAT. MISS CHARLOTTE CHURCH OUT DID HER SELF IN THIS. HER VOICE HAS GREATLY IMPROVED, OVER THE LAST YEAR OR SO. THIS 13 YEAR OLD HAS THE WORLD IN HER HAND. SEEING HER ON STAGE HEARING HER BEAUTIFUL VOICE, SEEING HER BEAUTIFUL FACE,AND SMILE,AS SHE SINGS. MISS CHURCH IS GOING TO BE AROUND FOR A LONG TIME. MY FAVOURITES ARE (IN TRUTINA) (DANNY BOY) CHARLOTTE CAN SING DANNY BOY SO BEAUITFUL, (PIE JESU) (MY LONGAN LOVE) AND LAST (SUO GAN)WITH THE IRISH BAND BEHIND HER THAT IS ALLSO SO BEAUTIFUL.
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Summary: AWWWWSOME
Review: Im a HEAVY METAL FAN...thought Id give my folks a gift...and I though of this coz I heard of her before...bought and tested the DVD...sound and video wise it was "AWESOME"...and the Charlotte too...sometimes I think she is lipsyncing when I watch her sing...but no way...she is so awesome!
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Summary: They would only let me give 5 stars.....
Review: Imagine the best live vocal performance you have ever seen and heard. Raise it at least two notches. And then imagine that this performance was given by a beautiful and sweet 13-year-old girl. If you do these things, you will come close to the reality of watching this video. I have been collecting and listening to music for over 30 years now. I have never seen anything that even compares to this. This special combination of voice, charm, and personality is simply overwhelming. Imagine a cynical and skeptical 44-year-old man blinking back tears because a child is singing Panis Angelicus......
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Summary: A night out with Charlotte Church
Review: It's fun to get to know Charlotte, hearing her cute accent, watching her sing or go to school, hanging out with her friends, seeing her family, and getting to know the cute characterisitics of Charlotte. At the same time, it's fun to see Charlotte perform in concert and sing your favorite songs. All of this is found on the video. One part of it has the concert and the other part talks about the making of the concert and meets Charlotte in person. The concert part has ten songs from the album and was also the debut of "Men of Harlech" from her knew album. It has many food musicians and some songs had new arrangements. I especially enjoyed "Suo Gan" because it was recorded with a Celtic band that included guitars, accordian, Celtic fiddle, and even uillean pipes(the irish bagpipe). The only problem the concert had was it's directing, because the lights were just too darn bright and sometimes the camera didn't focus on Charlotte very well. The second half of the video was also enjoyable, as it showed Charlotte in person. This is the best place for fans to learn about Charlotte, the person and the beautiful voice. More videos in the future please!
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Summary: A distant shadow of a beauty
Review: Ok folks, I thought I`d just be fair here: First, I simply can`t understand why there is so many people outthere that are so extremely fond of this signer. Her voice sound very mature for her age, and she looks pretty average, too - at 14 or so, she allready looked like a young woman. While she had a distant (she looked already ruther mature than) foretaste of a child prodigy at her very first debut on this album, she eventually grow out of this status few years later. What could, *could* make her a slight point of interest, was the fact that she allready at 12 attempted to sing professional arias and songs thus being a child prodigy, is now no more. She growed up, and being in her 17`s, she doesn`t look like a child anylonger. Her voice and especially her technique, however, seem to be unchanged and that is, in my opinion, one of her gratest disadvantages up to date. Without a slightest exaggeration, her voice have a great portion of terrible shrillness, often forced and nasal notes, that are mostly harsh and unpleasant to the ear. While it`s true that it have some sort of mysterious freshness and purety about it, though ruther distant, it is at the same time obvious that her technique seem incomplete, her style outdated and weard - her voice, with few and infrequent notes of beauty and melowness, is mostly violently penetrating and uneven. It`s enourmous luminosity and harshness is striking to the extreme - and it gives more pain to the ears, ruther than satisfaction. To summoraze it all, I want to conclude saying that while I find the voice of Charlotte Church to be ruther curious and beautiful, at the same time, I find her technique poor at best and terrible in general - if she doesn`t change her technique, she may never have a right to claim that she sings in a true classic style. No way. Cheers.
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Summary: music, Charlotte Church & DVD quality outstanding
Review: performance is spectacular, the audio portion very impressive with Welsh choir singing from front & rear speakers. Hopefully Charlotte Church will produce some more high quality DVDs, VHS and CD's in the near future.
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Summary: Little Charlotte
Review: The first time I ever heard Charlotte Church sing was in this performance on PBS. I was amazed that such a voice was coming out of such a young girl! But in and of itself, the music is delightfully uplifting. It is also relaxing. It is music that has been around for quite a while and stood the test of time (classical music), but with new life! Charlotte's personality is engaging. This is the music of her debut CD (plus one more song, which is on her self-titled follow-up CD), but it is so much better when she performs it live! This is especially true of the song "Danny Boy" here. These are the first steps of a star!
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