Time: 35:33
Size: 81.4 MB
Styles: Piano jazz, Easy listening
Year: 2009
Art: Front
[0:31] 1. Prelude
[4:43] 2. A Hazy Shade Of Winter
[3:13] 3. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
[2:13] 4. The Wind
[4:20] 5. Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
[2:19] 6. Lonely People
[3:36] 7. Turn Turn Turn
[3:40] 8. All In Love Is Fair
[3:10] 9. Maybe I'm Amazed
[4:32] 10. Waiting In Vain
[3:10] 11. I Just Wasn't Made For These Times
Over the course of her colorful career, singer songwriter Susan Werner has cultivated a reputation as a daring and innovative songwriter with a killer live show. She boldly endeavors to weave old with new to create altogether new genres of music when existing ones do not suit her muse, and she regularly keeps audiences guessing and laughing simultaneously. Most of her work infuses traditional music styles and methods with her unmistakable contemporary worldview, constantly challenging listeners to experience music from a fresh and unexpected perspective. Susan Werner's Classics asks no less of her distinguished audience or herself.
With Classics, Werner delivers entirely new string arrangements of mainstream popular songs by top songwriters from a ''classical'' pop era - the sixties and seventies. Drawing on her unique training as a classical vocalist (she has a master's degree in music history and voice performance), and the diverse talents of esteemed Boston Symphony and Pops players, Classics sets a mood that highlights elegance and sophistication previously overlooked in the first lives of songs like Paul Simon's A Hazy Shade of Winter, Marvin Gaye's Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), Paul McCartney's Maybe I'm Amazed and America's Lonely People.
With Classics, Werner delivers entirely new string arrangements of mainstream popular songs by top songwriters from a ''classical'' pop era - the sixties and seventies. Drawing on her unique training as a classical vocalist (she has a master's degree in music history and voice performance), and the diverse talents of esteemed Boston Symphony and Pops players, Classics sets a mood that highlights elegance and sophistication previously overlooked in the first lives of songs like Paul Simon's A Hazy Shade of Winter, Marvin Gaye's Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), Paul McCartney's Maybe I'm Amazed and America's Lonely People.
Classics
Never been a fan of that kind of instrumentation, but, I don't know why, it works here. Perhaps because I'm a fan of covers and the songs here are OK with me, including two rarities in the cover sphere : Cat Stevens's The Wind + America's Lonely People. Merci.
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