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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0766481273745
Label: Warner Brothers
Manufacturer: Warner Brothers
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Warner Brothers
Release Date: November 14, 2006
Sales Rank: 2412
Studio: Warner Brothers
Disc 1:- All Souls Night
- Bonny Portmore - Loreena McKennitt, Traditional
- Between the Shadows (Persian Shadows)
- The Lady of Shalott
- Greensleeves - Loreena McKennitt, Traditional
- Tango to Evora
- Courtyard Lullaby
- The Old Ways
- Cymbeline
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential recording:
Mixing a variety of styles with a Celtic base, this was McKennitt's breakthrough album and remains one of her most musically interesting. 'All Souls Night' begins the album, with dance-like rhythms and McKennitt's wonderful voice singing about the Celtic New Year. Other features include a musical setting of Tennyson's 'Lady of Shalott', which, while not as sophisticated as Noyes' 'The Highwayman' on The Book of Secrets, is an enchanting listen. There's also an interesting rendition of 'Greensleeves' and the Spanish-flavored 'Tango to Evora', as well as the haunting 'Courtyard Lullaby' and the wistful 'The Old Ways'. A setting of words from Shakespeare's Cymbeline closes the album, which focuses thematically on life, death, and the borders between them. --Genevieve Williams
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating: - nothing better
It's very simply this: If there's such a place as heaven, and if in heaven
there are such things as Angels, and if these Angels sing, Loreena McKennett is what they sound like.
Rating: - Haunting yet mesmerizing as only Loreena can do!
I became a L.M. fan years ago. The first time I heard her haunting voice I was instantly hooked. This wasn't the first CD I bought of hers, but it has to be my very favorite. I never grow tired of it and while I listen, her calming voice and soothing music take me to a far off place...a relaxing place that is nowadays, so rare. She has the ability to lift my spirits instantly. I love all of Loreena's music and I will be a fan of hers for life.
Rating: - Portal to the Past
The music of Loreena McKennitt in the album "The Visit" continues her tradition of evoking the past through her distinctive voice and her use of ancient intrumentation."The Visit" draws upon Celtic Myth, the poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson and the words of William Shakespeare.The rich variety of lyric impulses transports the listener to another time and another place.Loreena McKennitt's music is always a journey to somewhere.
Rating:  - Haunting Celtic Maiden
Am a mad Tango fiend and track 6 of this CD is one of our favourite tracks to dance to. So I bought this CD for one track - but the rest of it proved both enticing and addictive. Loreena's haunting voices imparts a strong Celtic influence to the tracks BUT they all have an "International" appeal. Traditional Celtic songs are mixed with Sitar music and as mentioned earlier a Tango. This is a wonderful fusion of styles. A bit more like Eva Cassidy than Enya - Loreena uses her voice in clear long notes ... Read More
Rating: - Being Visited
This was the first of Loreena's albums that I ever heard, way back in 1992.It always played in a room at a bookstore that friends and I used to visit, and seemed to be 'calling' to us to that room; drawn by the mystica verve of the tunes.Finally, I bought it; and it opened a whole world to me; a realm of textured sound, sensuous thought, and aesthetic harmony--yet not "New Age."There are deep rhythms here, and a flow that makes the CD as a whole seem like one, unified, artistic creation; all of ... Read More
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