Prelude: The Best of Charlotte Church

Prelude: the Best of Charlotte Church is a 'best of' collection spanning the four classical music album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

s of the 16-year-old soprano

Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

Charlotte Church

Charlotte Maria Church is a Welsh singer-songwriter, actress and television presenter. She rose to fame in childhood as a classical singer before branching into pop music in 2005. By 2007, she had sold more than 10 million records worldwide including over 5 million in the United States...

, released in 2002, and also available on DVD.

Prelude commemorates the end of Charlotte's classical career; her next album, Tissues and Issues
Tissues and Issues
-Notes:#When "Even God" was released as a single on 12 December 2005, the name was changed to "Even God Can't Change the Past".-Charts:-Release history:...

, her last album with Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment

Sony Music Entertainment ' is the second-largest global recorded music company of the "big four" record companies and is controlled by Sony Corporation of America, the United States subsidiary of Japan's Sony Corporation....

, would be a pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

album.

Track listing

"Pie Jesu"
"My Lagan Love"
"In Trutina"
"Panis Angelicus"
"Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace
"Amazing Grace" is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton , published in 1779. With a message that forgiveness and redemption are possible regardless of the sins people commit and that the soul can be delivered from despair through the mercy of God,...

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"Just Wave Hello"
"La Pastorella"
"She Moved Through the Fair"
"Ave Maria"
"Dream a Dream
Pavane (Fauré)
The Pavane in F-sharp minor, Op. 50, is a composition by the French composer Gabriel Fauré, written in 1887. It was originally a piano piece, but is better known in Fauré's version for orchestra and optional chorus...

(Feat. Billy Gilman)"
"The Flower Duet"
"Habañera"
"The Prayer (Feat. Josh Groban
Josh Groban
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"All Love Can Be"
"It's the Heart That Matters Most"
"Tantum Ergo"
"Bridge Over Troubled Water
Bridge over Troubled Water (song)
"Bridge Over Troubled Water" is the title song of Simon & Garfunkel's album of the same name. The single was released on January 26, 1970, though it also appears on the live album Live 1969, released in 2008. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on February 28, 1970, and stayed at...

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"Sancta Maria"

Release history

Country	Release date	Label
United Kingdom	25 November 2002
United States	26 November 2002	Columbia Records Columbia Records Columbia Records is an American record label, owned by Japan's Sony Music Entertainment, operating under the Columbia Music Group with Aware Records. It was founded in 1888, evolving from an earlier enterprise, the American Graphophone Company — successor to the Volta Graphophone Company...

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