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Music > Albums > Carla Bruni - No Promises (2007) Retail CD
added on April 30, 2007, at 08:16 by derek718

Auden and Yeats are among the finest English-language poets of the 19th and 20th centuries, endowed with rare insight and sensitivity. Now W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats and several others have taken on an unlikely new guise. Their poems -- along with those by two other Britons, Walter de la Mare and Christina Rossetti, and two Americans, Dorothy Parker and Emily Dickinson -- are likely to enter the Top Ten in Europe. Four years after her debut album after her first album, "Quelqu'un m'a dit" (Someone told me), which sold two million copies, Carla Bruni, the Italian former fashion supermodel offers a collection of music and poetry : 11 beautiful poems set to Carla Bruni's inspired melodies. She gives a real personal interpretation of these poems with romanticism, melancholy which form a feeling of loneliness. The album, "No Promises", has divided music critics between supporters hailing a new departure for Europop and detractors perplexed by haunting English verse half-sung and half-spoken in a sensual voice accompanied by folk guitars. Although the writers have been set to music before -- the composer Benjamin Britten collaborated with Auden, and the singer Joni Mitchell has drawn on Yeats's verse, for example -- Bruni's work is a novelty. In France , some newspapers wrote rave revues. I personally like it. It's different,it's delicate, it's elegant. Have your say !

front 953 x 953 px

back 1181 x 929 px