Unlimited Streaming
Listen to this album in high quality now on our apps
Start my trial period and start listening to this albumEnjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription
SubscribeEnjoy this album on Qobuz apps with your subscription
Digital Download
Purchase and download this album in a wide variety of formats depending on your needs.
A virtual unknown two years earlier, soprano Camilla Kerslake has since performed several times in front of the Queen, landed the role of Cosette in the 30th Anniversary production of Les Miserables, and achieved a gold-selling album with her self-titled debut. While her first offering's combination of traditional standards, hymns, and contemporary pop songs was an accomplished affair, it didn't really offer anything that you couldn't find on a Katherine Jenkins album. However, taking everyone by surprise, her follow-up Moments is one of the most inventive classical pop releases in recent years. There are still the occasional ubiquitous song choices such as Queen's "Who Wants to Live Forever," recently covered by popera stars Jonathan Ansell, Rhydian, and Jenkins herself, and the Les Miserables number "Bring Him Home," but even they are given a twist with the former adding a twinkling music-box production to the rock classic, and the latter offering a rare female take on the Jean Valjean-sung solo. But elsewhere, Kerslake adheres to the kind of cut-and-paste approach usually favored by genre-hopping dance producers with a series of songs based on an intriguing array of samples, such as the opening title track, which borrows the enchanting synth intro from Art of Noise's 1987 single "Moments of Love" and fuses it with some R&B-style finger-clicking, spacey synths and Clannad-esque chanting. Starting as it means to go on, it's followed by the haunting "El Corazon," whose skittering trip-hop rhythms, sultry breathy vocals and inspired use of the choral piece "O Euchari," famously used on The Beloved's "The Sun Is Rising," sounds like a mash-up between Massive Attack and Enya. Elsewhere, "Restless Warrior" is a beautifully lilting orchestral number which places new lyrics by Alisha's Attic Shelly Poole over a faithful arrangement of Einaudi's "Le Onde;" "Surfing In The Air" sets the words of the iconic theme to Raymond Briggs' The Snowman to a blend of tribal rhythms and an anthemic string section which echoes the riff from The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony;" while Kerslake's delicately emotive vocals take centre stage on Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work" and The Kinks' "I Go To Sleep," not two of the most obvious song choices for a vocalist of her stature. The four completely original compositions suffer in comparison, but the likes of the harp-led "Let Go" and the soaring ballad "Snow On The Roses" would fit comfortably into most West End musicals, while "Sleepsong," penned by Brendan Graham, the man behind modern standard "You Raise Me Up," is a valiant attempt to recapture the aforementioned's inspirational qualities. In the same way that Lady Gaga raised the bar for female pop vocalists, Kerslake now appears to have done the same for her classical pop counterparts. It'll be very interesting to see where she goes next.
© Jon O'Brien /TiVo
You are currently listening to samples.
Listen to over 100 million songs with an unlimited streaming plan.
Listen to this playlist and more than 100 million songs with our unlimited streaming plans.
From £10.83/month
Trevor Horn, ComposerLyricist - Tom Bailey, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Olli Cunningham, Programmer, Unknown, Other - Shelly Poole, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Gary Langan, ComposerLyricist - Everton Nelson, Unknown, Other - Haydn Bendall, Producer, Mixer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Sally Herbert, Producer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Unknown, Other, AssociatedPerformer - Anne Dudley, ComposerLyricist - Ryan Carline, Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Mazen Murad, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Charlie Dore, ComposerLyricist - Jonathan Edward Jeczalik, ComposerLyricist - Paul Robert Morley, ComposerLyricist - Matthieu Clouard, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Camilla Kerslake, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Colin Rae, Unknown, Other - Bess Cavendish, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chantelle Duncan, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Mercury Records Limited
Shelly Poole, ComposerLyricist - Christian Wright, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Gisli Kristjansson, ComposerLyricist - Teitur Arnason, ComposerLyricist - Siggi Sigtryggsson, ComposerLyricist - Camilla Kerslake, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Goodbeating, Producer, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 2011 Mercury Records Limited
Tom Bailey, Recording Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Louisa Fuller, Unknown, Other - Olli Cunningham, Programmer, Unknown, Other - Shelly Poole, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Everton Nelson, Unknown, Other - Haydn Bendall, Producer, Mixer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Kate Bush, ComposerLyricist - Sally Herbert, Producer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Unknown, Other, AssociatedPerformer - Ryan Carline, Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Norman, Programmer - Mazen Murad, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Matthieu Clouard, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nick Nasmyth, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Camilla Kerslake, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Colin Rae, Unknown, Other - Bess Cavendish, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chantelle Duncan, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Mercury Records Limited
Tom Bailey, Recording Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Louisa Fuller, Unknown, Other - Olli Cunningham, Programmer, Unknown, Other - Shelly Poole, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Everton Nelson, Unknown, Other - Haydn Bendall, Producer, Mixer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Sally Herbert, Producer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Unknown, Other, AssociatedPerformer - Brendan Graham, Author - Ryan Carline, Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Norman, Programmer - Mazen Murad, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Rolf Løvland, Composer - Matthieu Clouard, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Camilla Kerslake, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Colin Rae, Unknown, Other - Bess Cavendish, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chantelle Duncan, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Mercury Records Limited
Tom Bailey, Recording Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Olli Cunningham, Programmer, Unknown, Other - Shelly Poole, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Everton Nelson, Unknown, Other - Haydn Bendall, Producer, Mixer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Sally Herbert, Producer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Unknown, Other, AssociatedPerformer - Ryan Carline, Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Norman, Programmer - Mazen Murad, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Matthieu Clouard, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Camilla Kerslake, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Colin Rae, Unknown, Other - Molly Beanland, ComposerLyricist - Bess Cavendish, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chantelle Duncan, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Mercury Records Limited
Tom Bailey, Recording Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Olli Cunningham, Programmer, Unknown, Other - Shelly Poole, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Everton Nelson, Unknown, Other - Haydn Bendall, Producer, Mixer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Sally Herbert, Producer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Unknown, Other, AssociatedPerformer - Ryan Carline, Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Norman, Programmer - Mazen Murad, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ludovico Einaudi, ComposerLyricist - Matthieu Clouard, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nick Nasmyth, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Camilla Kerslake, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Colin Rae, Unknown, Other - Bess Cavendish, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chantelle Duncan, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Mercury Records Limited
Tom Bailey, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Louisa Fuller, Unknown, Other - Olli Cunningham, Programmer, Unknown, Other - Shelly Poole, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Everton Nelson, Unknown, Other - Haydn Bendall, Producer, Mixer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Sally Herbert, Producer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Unknown, Other, AssociatedPerformer - Ryan Carline, Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Norman, Programmer - Mazen Murad, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Matthieu Clouard, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Nick Nasmyth, Keyboards, AssociatedPerformer - Camilla Kerslake, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Colin Rae, Unknown, Other - Molly Beanland, ComposerLyricist - Bess Cavendish, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chantelle Duncan, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Mercury Records Limited
Tom Bailey, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Olli Cunningham, Programmer, Unknown, Other - Shelly Poole, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Pete Murray, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Ray Davies, ComposerLyricist - Everton Nelson, Unknown, Other - Haydn Bendall, Producer, Mixer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Sally Herbert, Producer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Unknown, Other, AssociatedPerformer - Ryan Carline, Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Norman, Programmer - Mazen Murad, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Matthieu Clouard, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Camilla Kerslake, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Colin Rae, Unknown, Other - Bess Cavendish, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chantelle Duncan, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Mercury Records Limited
Matteo Saggese, ComposerLyricist - Tom Bailey, Recording Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Olli Cunningham, Programmer, Unknown, Other - Shelly Poole, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Everton Nelson, Unknown, Other - Haydn Bendall, Producer, Mixer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Sally Herbert, Producer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Unknown, Other, AssociatedPerformer - Ryan Carline, Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Chuck Norman, Programmer - Mazen Murad, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Matthieu Clouard, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Camilla Kerslake, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Colin Rae, Unknown, Other - Molly Beanland, ComposerLyricist - Bess Cavendish, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chantelle Duncan, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Mercury Records Limited
Tom Bailey, Recording Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Olli Cunningham, Programmer, Unknown, Other - Shelly Poole, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Everton Nelson, Unknown, Other - Haydn Bendall, Producer, Mixer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Sally Herbert, Producer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Unknown, Other, AssociatedPerformer - Nikolaj Bloch, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ryan Carline, Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Howard Blake, ComposerLyricist - Chuck Norman, Programmer - Mazen Murad, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Erlend Fauske, ComposerLyricist - Matthieu Clouard, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Camilla Kerslake, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Kjetil Fluge, ComposerLyricist - Colin Rae, Unknown, Other - Atle N. Halstensen, ComposerLyricist - Bess Cavendish, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chantelle Duncan, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Mercury Records Limited
Tom Bailey, Recording Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Olli Cunningham, Programmer, Unknown, Other - Everton Nelson, Unknown, Other - Haydn Bendall, Producer, Mixer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Herbert Kretzmer, Author - Sally Herbert, Producer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Unknown, Other, AssociatedPerformer - Ryan Carline, Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Alain Boublil, Author, Original Text Author - Claude-Michel Schonberg, Composer - Chuck Norman, Programmer - Mazen Murad, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jean-Marc Natel, Author, Original Text Author - Matthieu Clouard, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Camilla Kerslake, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Colin Rae, Unknown, Other - James Fenton, Contributor, Revision
℗ 2011 Mercury Records Limited
Tom Bailey, Recording Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Olli Cunningham, Programmer, Unknown, Other - Everton Nelson, Unknown, Other - Haydn Bendall, Producer, Mixer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Recording Engineer, AssociatedPerformer, StudioPersonnel - Sally Herbert, Producer, Co-Arranger, Co-Producer, Unknown, Other, AssociatedPerformer - Nikolaj Bloch, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Ryan Carline, Engineer, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Brian May, ComposerLyricist - Chuck Norman, Programmer - Mazen Murad, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Matthieu Clouard, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Camilla Kerslake, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Colin Rae, Unknown, Other - Bess Cavendish, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer - Chantelle Duncan, Background Vocalist, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 2011 Mercury Records Limited
Album review
A virtual unknown two years earlier, soprano Camilla Kerslake has since performed several times in front of the Queen, landed the role of Cosette in the 30th Anniversary production of Les Miserables, and achieved a gold-selling album with her self-titled debut. While her first offering's combination of traditional standards, hymns, and contemporary pop songs was an accomplished affair, it didn't really offer anything that you couldn't find on a Katherine Jenkins album. However, taking everyone by surprise, her follow-up Moments is one of the most inventive classical pop releases in recent years. There are still the occasional ubiquitous song choices such as Queen's "Who Wants to Live Forever," recently covered by popera stars Jonathan Ansell, Rhydian, and Jenkins herself, and the Les Miserables number "Bring Him Home," but even they are given a twist with the former adding a twinkling music-box production to the rock classic, and the latter offering a rare female take on the Jean Valjean-sung solo. But elsewhere, Kerslake adheres to the kind of cut-and-paste approach usually favored by genre-hopping dance producers with a series of songs based on an intriguing array of samples, such as the opening title track, which borrows the enchanting synth intro from Art of Noise's 1987 single "Moments of Love" and fuses it with some R&B-style finger-clicking, spacey synths and Clannad-esque chanting. Starting as it means to go on, it's followed by the haunting "El Corazon," whose skittering trip-hop rhythms, sultry breathy vocals and inspired use of the choral piece "O Euchari," famously used on The Beloved's "The Sun Is Rising," sounds like a mash-up between Massive Attack and Enya. Elsewhere, "Restless Warrior" is a beautifully lilting orchestral number which places new lyrics by Alisha's Attic Shelly Poole over a faithful arrangement of Einaudi's "Le Onde;" "Surfing In The Air" sets the words of the iconic theme to Raymond Briggs' The Snowman to a blend of tribal rhythms and an anthemic string section which echoes the riff from The Verve's "Bittersweet Symphony;" while Kerslake's delicately emotive vocals take centre stage on Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work" and The Kinks' "I Go To Sleep," not two of the most obvious song choices for a vocalist of her stature. The four completely original compositions suffer in comparison, but the likes of the harp-led "Let Go" and the soaring ballad "Snow On The Roses" would fit comfortably into most West End musicals, while "Sleepsong," penned by Brendan Graham, the man behind modern standard "You Raise Me Up," is a valiant attempt to recapture the aforementioned's inspirational qualities. In the same way that Lady Gaga raised the bar for female pop vocalists, Kerslake now appears to have done the same for her classical pop counterparts. It'll be very interesting to see where she goes next.
© Jon O'Brien /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:45:30
- Main artists: Camilla Kerslake
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: EMI
- Genre: Electronic Lounge
© 2011 Future Records Limited under exclusive licence to Mercury Records Limited ℗ 2011 Future Records Limited under exclusive licence to Mercury Records Limited
Improve album informationWhy buy on Qobuz...
-
Stream or download your music
Buy an album or an individual track. Or listen to our entire catalogue with our high-quality unlimited streaming subscriptions.
-
Zero DRM
The downloaded files belong to you, without any usage limit. You can download them as many times as you like.
-
Choose the format best suited for you
Download your purchases in a wide variety of formats (FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF...) depending on your needs.
-
Listen to your purchases on our apps
Download the Qobuz apps for smartphones, tablets and computers, and listen to your purchases wherever you go.