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Third album and first international release from 16 year old New Zealand singer. Her wonderfully clear, strong voice has won praise from both the classical and pop worlds, and herrepertoire features reworkings of classical pieces, crossover pop and traditional Maori song. The album also includes a cover of Kate Bush's notorious 'Wuthering Heights', which she handles with aplomb.
Comparisons with Charlotte Church are inevitable, yet Westenra has her own distinctive sound. She has impeccably clear diction coupled with a gorgeous voice with a very wide range: her high notes in “Wuthering Heights" are especially striking, and like Bush she is also a dancer, having performed with the Royal New Zealand Ballet. If there's a problem, it's that Pure doesn't have a focus to match Westenra's talent, the tracks spanning everything from "Amazing Grace" to a Maori lullaby ("Hine e Hine") to hybrid pieces adapted from Ravel ("Never Say Goodbye") and Vivaldi's Four Seasons ("River of Dreams"). Pure magic.
Track listing:
1. Pokarekare Ana
2. Never Say Goodbye (Adapted from "Pavane")
3. Who Painted The Moon Black
4. River of Dreams (adapted from "Winter")
5. Beat of Your Heart
6. Hine E Hine (Maiden, O Maiden)(Maori Lullabye)
7. Dark Waltz
8. Amazing Grace
9. "In trutina"
10. Beat Of Your Heart
11. Heaven (Waiting There for Me)
12. Wuthering Heights
13. Hine E Hine (Maiden, O Maiden) (Full Version)
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