Sarah Brightman

Surrender, The unexpected songs

Note: The CD The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection from 1997 contains 11 of the songs from Surrender (2 of which are in English rather then the translated version) and 5 other songs. (See also the CD Sings the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber from 1992.)

Contents

1. SURRENDER
   show: Sunset boulevard, 1993.
2. UNEXPECTED SONG
   show: Song and dance, 1982.
3. CHANSON D'ENFANCE
   show: Aspects of love, 1989.
4. TELL ME ON A SUNDAY
   show: Tell me on a Sunday, 1979; Song and dance, 1982.
5. NOTHING LIKE YOU'VE EVER KNOWN
   show: Tell me on a Sunday, 1979; Song and dance, 1982.
6. MACAVITY: THE MYSTERY CAT
   show: Cats, 1981.
7. GUS: THE THEATRE CAT (with Sir John Gielgud)
   show: Cats, 1981.
8. PIANO (MEMORY - Italian version)      --   English lyrics
   show: Cats, 1981.
9. EVERYTHING'S ALRIGHT
   show: Jesus Christ superstar, 1970/71.
10. THE LAST MAN IN MY LIFE
    show: Song and dance, 1982.
11. PIE JESU (with Paul Miles-Kingston)
    show: Requiem, 1985.
12. AMIGOS PARA SIEMPRE (FRIENDS FOR LIFE) (with José Carreras)
    Official theme song for the Barcelona Games, 1992.
13. NO LLORES POR MI ARGENTINA (DON'T CRY FOR ME ARGENTINA - Spanish version)
    show: Evita, 1976/78.
14. GUARDAMI (WITH ONE LOOK - Italian version)
    show: Sunset boulevard, 1993.
15. THERE IS MORE TO LOVE
    show: Aspects of love, 1989.
16. WISHING YOU WERE SONEHOW HERE AGAIN
    show: The phantom of the opera, 1986.
17. THE MUSIC OF THE NIGHT
    show: The phantom of the opera, 1986.

Unfortunately the lyrics of the songs don't come with the CD. I received a lot of the lyrics from visitors of this page [many thanks!], found others on the Web or wrote them down myself. And I have also received (literal, rough) English translations of the non-English lyrics [many, many thanks!!]. If you have corrections and/or additions please let me know.

===> All lyrics on a single page (28.3 kb)
===> All lyrics and translations on a single page (33.0 kb)

Often there are two or more different versions of the lyrics of a song. For instance:

• of "Nothing like you've ever known" I got/found also a second version and a third version, both very different from the one on "Surrender".
  
• There are, it appears, different version of "The music of the night"; I have received the lyrics of a second version and a third version; the latter differs by only four lines.

 
JPEG version of cover (16 kb)       GIF version of cover (130 kb)
(The word 'surrender' on the CD cover is written in metallic letters, which does not show up nicely in these pictures.)

 
Note: The address of the Sarah Brightman Fan Club mentioned in the CD-booklet is wrong.

Comments

Begin November 1996 I bought this CD of Sarah and again I must conclude that Sarah can sing like only a few people can: all songs clearly show that Sarah's voice is more than great.
The songs on this CD are recorded especially fot this CD. Song 11 ("Pie Jesu"), however, is recorded some 10 year ago and Sarah's voice sounds very different from all other songs (which is a bit of a pity).

I think that song 9, "Everything's Alright", doesn't fit in with the rest of the CD because of the kind of song it is, though Sarah sings it well (maybe I don't like it so much because two men sing on it too).
Song 12, "Amigos Para Siempre", was the official theme of the Olympic games in Barcelona, 1992, and therefore somewhat more 'commercial', which makes it less wonderful, though Sarah's voice is again very good.

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created: 27 November 1996
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