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Morricone: Paradiso / Hayley Westenra


Release Date: 10/04/2011 
Label:  Decca   Catalog #: 001599802  
Composer:  Ennio Morricone
Performer:  Hayley Westenra
Conductor:  Ennio Morricone
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Sinfonietta Di Roma
Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Stereo 
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Notes and Editorial Reviews

There’s something about Hayley Westenra’s voice. It’s not just a beautiful voice. It’s a voice that moves you, gets inside of you because you feel it’s coming from a woman who has felt everything – love, joy, anger, despair – the whole range and then some. It soars and swoops as much as it ever did on her first international Number 1 album Pure, released in 2003 when she was just 15. Now, New Zealand born Hayley is 23 and the pureness of her tone is edged with experience, confidence and power.

The catalyst for her staggering development was working on her latest album in Rome with legendary film composer Ennio Morricone and his orchestra. Speaking about the album Hayley enthuses, “With this album I feel I’ve grown a lot Read more musically and I had a lot more to put into it emotionally. But the bottom line is I was working with a musical genius whose arrangements are out of this world and I had the opportunity to put lyrics to his amazing melodies.”
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Works on This Recording

1.
The Mission: Gabriel's Oboe by Ennio Morricone
Performer:  Hayley Westenra (Voice)
Conductor:  Ennio Morricone
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Sinfonietta Di Roma
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1986; Italy 
2.
Cinema Paradiso: Profumo Di Limone by Ennio Morricone
Performer:  Hayley Westenra (Voice)
Conductor:  Ennio Morricone
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Sinfonietta Di Roma
3.
La Califfa by Ennio Morricone
Performer:  Hayley Westenra (Voice)
Conductor:  Ennio Morricone
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Sinfonietta Di Roma
Period: 20th Century 
4.
Once Upon a Time in the West: Main Theme by Ennio Morricone
Performer:  Hayley Westenra (Voice)
Conductor:  Ennio Morricone
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Sinfonietta Di Roma
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1968; Italy 
5.
Metti una sera a cena: Main theme by Ennio Morricone
Performer:  Hayley Westenra (Voice)
Conductor:  Ennio Morricone
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Sinfonietta Di Roma
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1969 
6.
Cinema Paradiso: Would He Even Know Me Now? by Ennio Morricone
Performer:  Hayley Westenra (Voice)
Conductor:  Ennio Morricone
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Sinfonietta Di Roma
7.
Per Natale by Ennio Morricone
Performer:  Hayley Westenra (Voice)
Conductor:  Ennio Morricone
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Sinfonietta Di Roma
8.
Once Upon a Time in America: Poverty "Deborah's Theme" by Ennio Morricone
Performer:  Hayley Westenra (Voice)
Conductor:  Ennio Morricone
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Sinfonietta Di Roma
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1984 
9.
Lezione Di Musica by Ennio Morricone
Performer:  Hayley Westenra (Voice)
Conductor:  Ennio Morricone
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Sinfonietta Di Roma
10.
Da Quel Sorriso Che Non Ride Piu by Ennio Morricone
Performer:  Hayley Westenra (Voice)
Conductor:  Ennio Morricone
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Sinfonietta Di Roma
11.
The Edge Of Love by Ennio Morricone
Performer:  Hayley Westenra (Voice)
Conductor:  Ennio Morricone
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Sinfonietta Di Roma
Period: Contemporary 
Written: 2011 
12.
Amália Por Amor by Ennio Morricone
Performer:  Hayley Westenra (Voice)
Conductor:  Ennio Morricone
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Sinfonietta Di Roma
13.
Sacco e Vanzetti: Here's to You by Ennio Morricone
Performer:  Hayley Westenra (Voice)
Conductor:  Ennio Morricone
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Sinfonietta Di Roma
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1971 
14.
Malena by Ennio Morricone
Performer:  Hayley Westenra (Voice)
Conductor:  Ennio Morricone
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Sinfonietta Di Roma
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 2000 

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