Pavarotti & Friends - For War Child

Tracks:

Holy Mother
Saint Teresa
I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
New York, New York
My Love
Run, Baby, Run
Certe Notti
Angel
Ave Maria
Spirito
Third Degree
La Ci Darem la mano
La Ragazze Fanno Grandi Sogni
Granada
Mediterranean SUndance
Gseu Bambino
Live Like Horses

Product Description

1. Holy Mother - (with Eric Clapton/East London Choir)
2. St. Teresa - (featuring Joan Osbourne)
3. I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues - (featuring Elton John)
4. New York, New York - (with Liza Minelli)
5. My Love
6. Run, Baby, Run - (featuring Sheryl Crow/Eric Clapton)
7. Certe Notti - (with Ligabue)
8. Angel - (featuring Jon Secada)
9. Ave Maria - (with The Kelly Family)
10. Spirito - (featuring Litfiba)
11. Third Degree - (featuring Eric Clapton)
12. La Ci Darem La Mano - (with Sheryl Crow)
13. Le Ragazze Fanno Grandi Sogni - (featuring Edoardo Bennato/Solis String Quartet)
14. Granada - (with Jon Secada)
15. Mediterranean Sundance - (featuring Guitar Trio: Paco De Lucia/Al DiMeola/John McLaughlin)
16. Gesu Bambino - (with Joan Osbourne/East London Gospel Choir)
17. Live Like Horses - (with Elton John/Ensemble)

Format: CD

Customer Reviews:

Content great, format too high-tech........2006-03-21

Although I thoroughly enjoy the music on Pavarotti & Friends For War Child, I could not play the CD as purchased on either of my CD players because it was in a 5.1 format. A friend copied it onto a disc I can play.
I feel that CD's purchased through your company should be in formats able to be used be the masses, instead of a select few that are able to have state-of-the-art machinery.
Other than that, I am extremely happy with your service (I was a first-time buyer), and with the CD as a whole. Thanks.

An all-star presentation of life and survival!.......1999-07-12

Pavarotti and Friends for War Child is the second but not the last, of Pavarotti's efforts to make visible that which we would prefer to ignore. From his opening prayer of Holy Mother, he pleads for compassion. Eric Clapton's blues-trained voice melds effortlessly and makes us also want redemption and grace. Interestingly placed on the same theme is Joan Osborne's St Teresa. Joan sings of looking from the depths of desolation to a possible savior. Euro-pop tunes featured are poignant studies in our humanity and most are worth our listening. Pavorotti's collection ends with Live Like Horses-- Elton John's tribute to the life of Versace. He asks that we kick down our fences and move on! to live free and noble as does our equine friend. Thank you Pavarotti. Your wisdom and far-reaching voice beacons and then gently educates us. Our lives-- as the War Child's, WILL continue and evolve.

Average customer rating:

A Bit of French Spirit Saves This Slight Story

The Holy Child
Starring: Lambert Wilson , Marthe Villalonga , Adrien Aumont , Agathe Teyssier , and François Morel
Director: Stéphane Clavier
Manufacturer: Picture This Home Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B0002YLCPQ
Release Date: 2006-07-11

Description

Marc (Lambert Wilson) is a 39-year-old Catholic priest, a model for his entire parish. Fully dedicated to his religious duties, he is one of the few enthusiastic advocates of priestly celibacy, having even written a book about it. Cherished by the media, he has become a star of sorts and is only too happy to serve God through his celebrity. But trouble comes knocking at his door one day, in the form of a smart-ass teen-ager who claims to be his son. Now Marc has a problem on his hands. He can't get rid of the little bastard, but he has no time for him either. To make matters worse, the kid smokes dope and the mother is in jail! So our good priest strikes a deal with his offspring: he will take care of him, but on condition of absolute secrecy. Inevitably the secret starts wearing thin! Moreover, Marc has trouble staying detached from his son and even more trouble not falling in love with the child's mother when she comes out of jail!

Customer Reviews:

A Bit of French Spirit Saves This Slight Story.......2005-07-25

Le Divin enfant (HOLY CHILD) is a French made for television little film, written by Jean-Luc Goossens and directed by Stéphane Clavier, that is part of a series of films collectively titled 'Tales from the Orphanage', a series which opens the door to both the randy rowdiness of young boy orphans as well as the tender, needy emotions of children who land in collectives for one reason or the other. The constant seems to be the need for discovery of each child's roots or at least a return to the family so desperately needed for a child's maturing. In that way this series is both entertaining and touching.

THE HOLY CHILD focuses on one boy Dimitri (Adrien Aumont) who while somewhat of a malcontent in his orphanage longs for a life outside. He sees a priest on the television Père Marc Aubrey (Lambert Wilson), a priest well know in the media for his celebration of the benefits of chastity before marriage, and immediately identifies him from a saved photograph of him with his mother Martine (Agathe Teyssier), now in prison. Dmitri leaves the orphanage and appears in the church where Père Marc is officiating in Mass. Dressed as an acolyte he confronts Père Marc with the fact that Dmitri is his son. Père Marc is chagrined: how will this affect his public image of a bastion for chastity? Dmitri pleads his homelessness and Père Marc takes him home where Pere Marc's mother Mamitta (Marthe Villalonga) immediately offers her heart. Père Marc at last confesses to Dmitri that on the day before he took his vows of chastity as a priest he slept with Martine and agrees that he is indeed Dmitri's father. The two agree to keep the fact a secret, Dmitri lives with Père Marc and Mamitta and gradually the parish takes Dmitri into its fold.

When Père Marc informs his bishop of his fatherhood, compounded by his rather recent indiscretion with Marie (Diane D'Assigny) with whom he sleeps after a confessional deal to keep Marie from spreading the truth about Père Marc, the situation comes to a climax - leave the priesthood or stay. That decision molds the ending of the film.

Yes, it is a slight story, and yes, it moves in directions obvious form the start, but the cast is good and Lambert Wilson has a fine sense of comic timing that keeps the story on course.
There is enough said about the current state of the Catholic Church's social and political stances to make it a palatable satire. It has its charms. Grady Harp, July 05

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