A few things about TIME TO SAY GOODBYE...
This album was originaly called TIMELESS in Europe. However, Angel Records decided to rename it TIME TO SAY GOODBYE before releasing it in North America, no doubt to cash in on the enormous popularity of the duet by Miss Sarah and Andrea Bocceli.
The story has it that Miss Sarah heard the song, done by Bocceli alone, in a restaurant one evening and asked the staff at the restaurant if they knew what the song was called or who the singer was. Miss Sarah had been asked to sing at the farewell fight of the German world lightweight champion, Henry Maske, and she felt this song, CON TE PARTIRO, would be perfect.
She had already sung A QUESTION OF HONOUR a few years before at one of Maske's fights and she was asked to sing again at his farewell match. She track down Bocceli and they both recorded the song with the London Symphony Orchestra and the rest is musical history. They both performed the duet live in the arena before the fight and soon after that, the song quickly became the no. 1 selling single in German history. As I mentionned in the opening page, it even made the GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS.
TIME TO SAY GOODBYE, to talk numbers, remained on top of the Billboard Classical Crossover chart in the U.S. for a 35 weeks, it sold over five million copies worldwide and went gold or platinum in 21 countries. Like Mr. Bocceli, Miss Sarah also recorded a solo version of the song for their German cd single, and that was later released internationaly on the album CLASSICS. And in both A NIGHT IN EDEN and the LA LUNA TOUR, Miss Sarah has ended her concert by singing it, and it always brings down the house.
The music for NO ONE LIKE YOU comes from the soundtrack of the 1995 film POWDER. The lyrics were written after the movie was made and they parallel the story, about a boy being hit by lightning and becoming a genius. Oh, and the music is by the popular motion picture composer Jerry Goldsmith.
JUST SHOW ME HOW TO LOVE YOU is a duet with José Cura, as is THERE FOR ME. Miss Sarah did the song THERE FOR ME on her LA LUNA tour with Josh Groban. Although Mr. Cura sings it in Spanish, the song was done in English for the concert tour.
TU QUIERES VOLVER is a song from the group Gipsy Kings. It can be found on their 1988 self-titled album, GIPSY KINGS.
A version of IN PACE was also used as the theme for the 1996 Kenneth Brannagh film HAMLET.The song is done by Placido Domingo for the movie soundtrack. The music for the film, by frequent Kenneth Brannagh collaborator Patrick Doyle earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Dramatic Score of 1996. He had also earned a nomination the previous year for his work on the music for the film SENSE AND SENSIBILITY, directed by Ang Lee and adapted by Emma Thompson from the Jane Austin novel.
BILITIS is of course the famous piece by Francis Lai from the 1977 David Hamilton film of the same name. An interesting sidetrack, the film's star, Patti D'Arbanville, inspired the famous Cat Stevens song LADY D'ARBANVILLE. Frank Peterson, Miss Sarah's producer, has done a cover version of this track for his group GREGORIAN: MASTERS OF CHANT's second album. Another piece from BILITIS, SCENE D'AMOUR, appears on the album EDEN. On Francis Lai's web site, it says that the soundtrack to BILITIS sold in excess of 7.000.000 copies since 1977, a million copies more than his soundtrack to the 1970 film LOVE STORY, which earned Lai an Oscar for Best Original Score that year.
WHO WANTS TO LIVE FOREVER is the Queen song that has also become the title track to the HIGHLANDERS movies and tv series. Frank Peterson has also made a cover version of this song for the group GREGORIAN: MASTERS OF CHANT. For the last movie in the HIGHLANDERS series, the 2000 film HIGHLANDERS: ENDGAME, which features Christopher Lambert and the tv series's star Adrian Paul, a song called BONNIE PORTMORE by Loreena McKennitt can be heard on the soundtrack album. This too has been redone by Frank Peterson for GREGORIAN: MASTERS OF CHANT and it appears on their second album, entitled CHAPTER II.
LA WALLY is actually the name of the opera by Catalani that this aria is taken from. The piece is called EBBEN ?... NE ANDRO LONTANA. This opera is not performed often on account of the very expensive special effects being required in the story, just about every kind of cataclysms (avalanches, snow storms and falling glaciers) known to man. LA WALLY was also used as a starting point for the song A QUESTION OF HONOUR, from the album FLY.
NATURALEZA MUERTA is by J.M. Cano, of the popular Mexicain group Mecano. The song was taken from their 1991 album entitled AIDALAI. Another song from this album, a piece called TU, was done by Miss Sarah and appears on the EDEN cd. And they too have recorded a version of HIJO DE LA LUNA for their 1984 album ENTRE EL CIELO Y EL SUELO. Miss Sarah's version is, of course, on the LA LUNA cd.
Andrea Bocceli has also recorded EN ARANJUEZ CON TU AMOR for his 2002 album SENTIMENTO. Like Mr. Bocceli, the song's author, the Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo, was blind, from the age of three. After his death in 1999 at the age of 97, the Spanish Culture Minister Mariano Rajoy called Mr. Rodrigo "one of the most relevant figures in Spanish music". He had been granted the royal title of Marquis of the Aranjuez Gardens by King Juan Carlos in 1991 in recognition for the popularity of his concerto CONCIERTO DE ARANJUEZ, which he wrote in 1939. The concert hall in that city was named after him.
IN TRUTINA, by Carl Orff, is from his opera CARMINA BURANA (literaly meaning 'songs of Beuren'). It was also sung by Charlotte Church on her 1999 debut album VOICE OF AN ANGEL. Pieces from CARMINA BURANA have appeared, of all places, in a television commercial for Nescafe instant coffee ('O Fortuna', the opening movement). And in a British Old Spice commercial. And in a somewhat more dignified manner in movies like 'Excalibur' and Oliver Stone's 'The Doors'. The opera itself is based on a series of poems contained in an early 13th-century German manuscript that was found in 1803 at the Benedictine abbey of Benediktbeuern, south of Munich in the Bavarian region.
O MIO BABBINO CARO is better known now as the title song for the 1986 Merchant/Ivory film A ROOM WITH A VIEW, based on the novel by E.M. Forster. The aria is from the Giacomo Puccini opera GIANNI SCHICCHI and was performed for the film by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra. This version by miss Sarah was recorded live, as is the following track, ALLELUJA. An interesting sidetrack, another aria by Puccini that Miss Sarah has done can be heard on the motion picture soundtrack. The song, CHI IL BEL SOGNO DI DORETTA, is from the opera LA RONDINE and it can be found on the albums THE SONGS THAT GOT AWAY and ENCORE. Charlotte Church has also done the song for her second self-titled album in 1999.
ALLELUJA is the third part of Mozart's motet EXSULTATE JUBILATE and it was originally written to be sung by a castrato singer. Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Kathleen Battle are just two of the many artists who have recorded this piece. As in the case of O MIO BABBINO CARO, the version by Miss Sarah was recorded live in concert.
As always, just click on the red arrow beside a song title for its lyrics and a short musical clip in RealAudio format.
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Time To Say Goodbye track listing
Time To Say GoodbyeX
No One Like YouX
Just Show Me How To Love YouX
Tu Quieres VolverX
In PaceX
There For MeX
Bilitis - GénériqueX
Who Wants To Live ForeverX
La WallyX
Naturaleza MuertaX
En Aranjuez Con Tu AmorX
In TrutinaX
O Mio Babbino CaroX
AllelujaX
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