Voice of an Angel
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Voice of an Angel is the title of the debut music recording
Recording
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/album
Album
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 featuring the voice of 12-year-old soprano
Soprano
A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

 Charlotte Church
Charlotte Church
Charlotte Maria Church is a Welsh singer-songwriter, actress and television presenter. She rose to fame in childhood as a classical singer before branching into pop music in 2005. By 2007, she had sold more than 10 million records worldwide including over 5 million in the United States...

, released in 1998.

Track listing

  1. "Pie Jesu
    Pie Jesu
    Pie Jesu is a motet derived from the final couplet of the Dies irae and often included in musical settings of the Requiem Mass. The settings of the Requiem Mass by Luigi Cherubini, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Duruflé, John Rutter, Karl Jenkins and Fredrik Sixten include a Pie Jesu as an independent...

    " (Lloyd
    Andrew Lloyd Webber
    Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber is an English composer of musical theatre.Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 musicals, a song cycle, a set of...

    )
  2. "Panis Angelicus
    Panis Angelicus
    Panis angelicus is the penultimate strophe of the hymn Sacris solemniis written by Saint Thomas Aquinas for the Feast of Corpus Christi as part of a complete liturgy of the Feast including prayers for the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours....

    " (Franck
    César Franck
    César-Auguste-Jean-Guillaume-Hubert Franck was a composer, pianist, organist, and music teacher who worked in Paris during his adult life....

    )
  3. "In Trutina" (Orff
    Carl Orff
    Carl Orff was a 20th-century German composer, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana . In addition to his career as a composer, Orff developed an influential method of music education for children.-Early life:...

    )
  4. "The Lord's Prayer" (Malotte
    Albert Hay Malotte
    Albert Hay Malotte was an American pianist, organist, composer and educator.-Biography and career:...

    )
  5. "Jerusalem
    And did those feet in ancient time
    "And did those feet in ancient time" is a short poem by William Blake from the preface to his epic Milton a Poem, one of a collection of writings known as the Prophetic Books. The date on the title page of 1804 for Milton is probably when the plates were begun, but the poem was printed c. 1808...

    " (Parry
    Hubert Parry
    Sir Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, 1st Baronet was an English composer, teacher and historian of music.Parry's first major works appeared in 1880. As a composer he is best known for the choral song "Jerusalem", the coronation anthem "I was glad" and the hymn tune "Repton", which sets the words...

    )
  6. "Ave Maria" (Caccini
    Giulio Caccini
    Giulio Caccini , also known as Giulio Romano, was an Italian composer, teacher, singer, instrumentalist and writer of the very late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. He was one of the founders of the genre of opera, and one of the single most influential creators of the new Baroque style...

    )
  7. "Psalm 23
    Psalm 23
    In the 23rd Psalm in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, the writer describes God as his Shepherd. The text, beloved by Jews and Christians alike, is often alluded to in popular media and has been set to music....

    " (Mawby
    Colin Mawby
    Colin Mawby is an English organist, choral conductor and composer.-Career:Mawby received his earliest musical education at Westminster Cathedral choir school, where he acted as assistant to George Malcolm at the organ from the age of 12. The boys performed 14 or 15 services a week and had 10 hours...

    )
  8. "I Vow to Thee, My Country
    I Vow to Thee, My Country
    I Vow to Thee, My Country is a British patriotic song created in 1921 when a poem by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice was set to music by Gustav Holst.-History:...

    " (Holst
    Gustav Holst
    Gustav Theodore Holst was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets....

    )
  9. "Danny Boy
    Danny Boy
    -Background:The words to "Danny Boy" were written by English lawyer and lyricist Frederic Weatherly in 1910. Although the lyrics were originally written for a different tune, Weatherly modified them to fit the "Londonderry Air" in 1913, after his sister-in-law in the U.S. sent him a copy. Ernestine...

    "
  10. "My Lagan Love
    My Lagan Love
    "My Lagan Love" is a song to a traditional Irish air collected in 1903 in northern Donegal.The English lyrics have been credited to Joseph Campbell . Campbell was a Belfast man whose grand-parents came from the Irish-speaking area of Flurrybridge, South Armagh. He started collecting songs in County...

    "
  11. "Suo Gân
    Suo Gan
    Suo Gân is a traditional Welsh lullaby written by an anonymous composer.It was first recorded in print around 1800. The lyrics were notably captured by the Welsh folklorist Robert Bryan . The song's title simply means lullaby...

    "
  12. "Lullaby
    Lullaby
    A lullaby is a soothing song, usually sung to young children before they go to sleep, with the intention of speeding that process. As a result they are often simple and repetitive. Lullabies can be found in every culture and since the ancient period....

    " (Harty
    Hamilton Harty
    Sir Hamilton Harty was an Irish and British composer, conductor, pianist and organist. In his capacity as a conductor, he was particularly noted as an interpreter of the music of Berlioz and he was much respected as a piano accompanist of exceptional prowess...

    )
  13. "Amazing Grace
    Amazing Grace
    "Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton , published in 1779. With a message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of the sins people commit and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God,...

    "
  14. "Y Gylfinir" (Elwyn-Edwards
    Dilys Elwyn-Edwards
    Dilys Elwyn-Edwards [nee Roberts]. Contemporary composer, lecturer and accompanist, born in Dolgellau, Gwynedd, Wales, United Kingdom.- Biography :...

    )
  15. "Tylluanod" (Elwyn-Edwards)
  16. "Mae Hiraeth Yn y Môr" (Elwyn-Edwards)
  17. "When at Night I Go to Sleep" (Humperdinck)

Release history

Country Release date
United Kingdom 9 November 1998
United States 16 March 1999

Certifications

Country Certification
Great Britain 2x Platinum
America 2x Platinum
Canada Platinum
Australia Platinum
New Zealand Gold
Hong Kong Platinum
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