Sacred Arias (Audio CD)

oh dear Unfortunately, this album contains a cover of Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah', a song which about the pain of sexual love. Katherine turns it into an anodyne, passionless 'hymn', devoid of the heartache that made Jeff Buckley's cover so perfect. A tragic waste of her talents. Yet another example of how 'crossovers' don't work. Avoid. (It isn't even an aria!).

SIMPLEMENTE GRANDIOSA Y ENCANTADORA Katherine Jenkins es una de mis artistas preferidas en lo clasico, y con este album "La Diva" demuestra una vez mas su bellisima versatilidad con una serie de temas que son de corte religioso y muy inclinadas a la reflexion y la meditacion; su voz siempre impecable, dulce y deliciosa; muy hermosa la version de "HALLELUJAH" (me recuerda la de Shrek, tambien muy digna); melodias muy inspiradoras como PIE JESU (linda invitacion a la meditacion), ABIDE WITH ME (muy bella) y DOWN TO THE RIVER TO PRAY (recuerda mucho al "Gospel" de los 50's); me fascino el toque tan delicioso y contagioso de IN PARADISUM, la solemnidad mistica tan profunda de MISA CRIOLLA e incluso SILENT NIGHT, cuya magia me hace evocar la epoca navideña...Para mi, digan lo que digan, Katherine Jenkins sigue siendo mi cantante clasica favorita, y este album muy digno de una gran trayectoria artistica en el mundo clasico.

Yet Another Winner I have been eagerly looking forward to the release of this album, and I have not been disappointed. Contrary to the opinions of some previous reviewers, I think this is one of Katherine's best, if not THE best. I find it so inspirational and moving, so gentle and peaceful; whether or not you're religiously minded, the spellbinding voice of this beautiful girl cannot fail to uplift the heart. Never mind five out of five, if I could, I'd give this album a hundred out of a hundred; it is worthy of a place in anyone's collection; DO NOT miss it!

Only average, and disappointing from a very talented lady Eagerly awaited, but sadly not as good as her previous albums.And I`ve been a fan since "Premiere" . I also agree that the title is somewhat misleading ( as I listen to Silent Night with snow falling outside !! ).It`s a pleasant collection of well-produced mostly familiar material, but "Sacred Arias" is indeed inaccurate.For the real thing, try Mr Bocelli`s splendid album of that title.

As expected As the title says, as expected. We all expect a beautiful voice and wonderful execution of the classics and Katherine delivers every time. My only negative is that I personally loved the idea of Katherine going in another direction, away from the well worn (and frankly repetetively boring) track of covering the same songs as every other classical diva. Katherine has the popularity to step outside of that world now, she should be looking to help ceate new classics from new composers rather than retread the same steps as everyone else. It's no wonder that the wold at large sees classical as stuffy and bakwadlooking when some of it's biggest stars in the UK are releasing albums full of what are effectively cover version. Come on Katherine, there are plenty of composers out there who would love to write a track for you, take advantage of that and bring classical music into the 21st century next time around.