Celtic Woman DVD

Starring: David Downes, Chloe Agnew


Encoding: All Regions


Format: Color, Dolby


Rated: NR


DVD Release Date: March 1, 2005
Run Time: 117


DVD Features:
Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
1. Last Rose of Summer/Walking In The Air


2. Danny Boy


3. The Butterfly


4. Siuil A Run - (Walk My Love)


5. Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring


6. May It Be


7. Isle of Inis Free


8. Ave Maria


9. Si Do Mhaimeo i - (The Wealthy Widow)


10. My Lagan Love - Somewhere


11. The Soft Goodbye


12. She Moved Thru' The Fair


13. Send Me A Song


14. Someday


15. I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls


16. Orinoco Flow


17. The Ashoken Farewell - The Contradiction


18. Harry's Game


19. Nella Fantasia


20. One World


21. You Raise Me Up


Bonus interview footage with Chloe, Meav, Lisa, Orla, Mairead, and David Downes

Celtic Woman is perfect PBS fare, sort of a Riverdance 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 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" (The Snowman) and "Someday" (Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame) to Lisa Kelly's "May It Be" (the Enya song from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the King) 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 The Civil War). Occasionally the singers join together, as in Enya's "Orinoco Flow," an a cappella rendition of West Side Story's "Somewhere," music director David Downes's composition "One World," and a stately version of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring." Celtic Woman was created by Downes (like many of the other performers, a Riverdance veteran)... --David Horiuchi