Sarah Brightman
, who enjoyed a European hit with
"Time to Say Goodbye,"
her duet with
Andrea Bocelli
, constructed an album beginning with that recording and continuing in kind. The characteristics of the hit -- a lush, melodramatic, mock-operatic arrangement complete with a crescendo out of
Ravel
's
"Bolero"
and soaring voices singing in English and Italian -- are repeated here, whether the material is drawn from
Puccini
,
the Gipsy Kings
, or
Queen
. ~ William Ruhlmann