Archive for February 2009

Anthem

Posted by Deborah on 21 Feb, 2009 at 18:40 [ 1 comments ]
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This is one of my favourite songs for the male voice. There's something incredibly bittersweet and poignant in this song that makes it so powerful and uplifting. This is sung by the Russian chess player at the end of Act I to explain his defecti... » Read more

From:Chess (more details)
Music by:Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus
Words by:Tim Rice

Castle on a Cloud

Posted by Deborah on 15 Feb, 2009 at 04:45 [ 2 comments ]
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Another short, sad song. This is sung by Young Cosette as she reflects on the daily misery she has known all her life working for the money-grubbing Thénardier family. Her father abandoned her mother, Fantine, when he found out she was pregnant.... » Read more

From:Les Miserables (more details)
Music by:Claude-Michel Schönberg
Words by:Herbert Kretzmer

Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again

Posted by Deborah on 15 Feb, 2009 at 03:43 [ 1 comments ]
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This is a beautifully sad song, sung by the character Christine Daaé from "The Phantom of the Opera". Christine has been persuaded by her fiance, Raoul, to sing in the Phantom's opera as bait in Raoul's plan to stop the Phantom for once and for a... » Read more

From:The Phantom of the Opera (more details)
Music by:Andrew Lloyd Webber
Words by:Charles Hart, Richard Stilgoe