The Ultimate Collection | 
| Artist: Katherine Jenkins
Label: Decca
Category: Music
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Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 883
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 69 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
UPC: 602527098821
EAN: 0602527098821
ASIN: B002FWYL5G
Release Date: November 2, 2009
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| Tracks:
| • | Time To Say Goodbye | | • | Hallelujah | | • | L'Amore Sei Tu (I Will Always Love You) | | • | I Vow To Thee, My Country | | • | Quello che farò (sarà per te) | | • | Nella Fantasia | | • | Hymn to the Fallen | | • | The Flower Duet | | • | Pie Jesu - Katherine Jenkins, Steffan Hughes | | • | Calon Lan | | • | Caruso | | • | Vide cor meum | | • | O Mio Babbino Caro | | • | Music Of The Night | | • | I Could Have Danced All Night | | • | I've Dreamed Of You (Questo e per te) | | • | Don't Cry For Me Argentina |
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 35
 A great place to start November 25, 2009
Mr. David Halliday (Ilkeston Derbyshire United Kingdom)
45 out of 46 found this review helpful
While just about everyone has heard of Katherine Jenkins not everyone will have bothered to find out what she sounds like to any great extent. My only experience before this album had been 'Time to say goodbye' being played at a funeral! I thought it was OK but preferred Sarah Brightman singing it with Andrea Boccelli. I thought at first glance that this best of looked to be a pretty worn out collection of old standards that had been pretty much done to death. However it has been a pleasant surprise to discover just how excellent so many of these tracks are. You would think that 'Hallelujah' had just about been flogged to pieces but this version is somehow purer and Jenkins haunting vocal style alongside a rather beautiful orchestral accompaniment means there was still life to be found in Cohen's much covered track. This really pretty much sums up what makes this such a winner. Jenkins really does have a beautiful voice that avoids artifice and cleverness but rather simply portrays a clear and yet powerful projection. She is constantly supported superbly but orchestration that is both moving and highly enjoyable. Such well worn classical tracks as 'O mio babbino Caro' & the flower duet from Lakme sound fresh and bright. Corny stage barnstormers such as 'Music of the night' & 'Don't cry for me Argentina' again sound new and well worth listening to. Even an Italian rendering of the Dolly Parton/ Whitney Houston 'I will always love you' is touching & beautifully finished. The only track I would happily live without is 'I could have danced all night' but in fairness I already hate it and this does little to change my mind.
Otherwise this is a very enjoyable collection, with a generous track listing and well recorded at a great price. Not sure what else needs to be said other than to give this a try if you've not taken much notice of Kathrine Jenkins before. It really is a very good album and she has a lovely voice.
A great selection of Katherine's music for Decca November 2, 2009
Peter Durward Harris (Leicester England)
46 out of 49 found this review helpful
Although Katherine Jenkins recorded six albums for Decca, this collection draws heavily on just three of them, these being Second Nature, Living A Dream and Serenade. It would be fair to say that these were the albums that really established Katherine's reputation following her promising debut album, which isn't represented here at all.
It's possible to argue what should have been included. The compilers had a hard job in selecting seventeen tracks that represent the best of Katherine's Decca music. No doubt the selection was influenced by the need to ensure that the album qualified for inclusion in the classical music charts, as all but one of her earlier albums did. This may explain the absence of Katherine's exquisite covers of We'll meet again, You'll never walk alone and Amazing grace, to name but three popular songs that I would like to have seen included. But I am pleased that Decca chose to include Don't cry for me Argentina. This was not included on Living A Dream , but it was included in a deluxe edition of the same album. I decided not to pay the premium price for just that track and one other. There's also a deluxe edition of this collection, Katherine Jenkins: The Ultimate Collection / Special Edition, containing a second CD featuring eight live tracks, but again I opted for the standard edition.
Whether this truly is the ultimate collection of her music, this compilation certainly provides a great introduction to the music of Katherine Jenkins.
The Ultimate Collection January 15, 2010
Derek Vernon-morris (Greater Manchester UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The Title says it all. A lovely album with some beautifull duets. One surprise, very pleasant,is the low register in which she sings "I could have Danced all Night", as a contrast to the higher register of most of the other songs. Particularly interesting is the version of "I will always love you" to which she fully applies her wonderfull operatic skills.
katherine at her best January 13, 2010
Gibbos review (uk)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
every song on this cd was katherine at her best, couldn,t fault it, absolutley brilliant.
Katherine Jenkins Collection November 27, 2009
Mr. Allan B. Pike (Glasgow Scotland UK)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This an excellent collection of songs from Katherine it is a "BEST OF" and shows of her great talent.
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