Celtic Woman

Buy This Item Celtic Woman by EMI Distribution  Available from Amazon  $9.99  on 10-10-2008     Gorgeous to listen to and gorgeous to look at, <I>Celtic Woman</I> is perfect PBS fare, sort of a <I>Riverdance</I> without the dancing. Drawing on the same New Age-y sound and propulsive energy as that show's solo-voice and choral numbers, the live concert features four attractive young women in strapless evening gowns with soaring voices backed by an orchestra, an Anuna-like chorus, and a large percussion section. The more traditional fare includes Méav Ni Mhaolchatha's "Danny Boy" and "She Moved Through the Fair," and Chloë Agnew's "Ave Maria" (the Bach-Gounod version). Movie and TV selections range from Agnew's "Walking in the Air" (<I>The Snowman</I>) and "Someday" (Disney's <I>Hunchback of Notre Dame</I>) to Lisa Kelly's "May It Be" (the Enya song from <I>The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the King</I>) and Órla Fallon's voice and harp rendition of "Harry's Game." A fifth woman, Máiréad Nesbitt, adds some variety by fiddling "The Butterfly" and "Ashokan Farewell" (best known as the theme from Ken Burns's <I>The Civil War</I>). Occasionally the singers join together, as in Enya's "Orinoco Flow," an a cappella rendition of <I>West Side Story</I>'s "Somewhere," music director David Downes's composition "One World," and a stately version of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring." <I>Celtic Woman</I> was created by Downes (like many of the other performers, a <I>Riverdance</I> veteran) along with Sharon Browne and Dave Kavanagh of the Celtic Collections record label. <I>--David Horiuchi</I> Reader Reviews I am responding to D. Henderson. You are partially correct. Actually, this is common in many if not most "live" DVD concerts, that they have dubbed over sound and/or video. If they have the budget, this may encompass many performances over several dates. However, this was billed at one location. In that case, they may have done a song two or more times to get the shots they want. As for the audio, they will take the best performance of a song, and "sweeten" it, by doing in-studio overdubs or cutting in from the alternate live takes. The editor is then responsible for adjusting the lip sync to within an acceptable range. Some editors are better at this than others, and sometimes its the monitoring that can affect the outcome. In reality, it is rare that a performance is transfered to final video output "as is", regardless of the performer.

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