Encore

1	Whitsle Down the Wind From Whistle Down the Wind 3:28
2	Away from You From Rex 3:29
3	Guardami (With One Look) From Sunset Boulevard / Version 3:38
4	Think of Me From The Phantom of the Opera 3:15
5	One More Walk the Around the Garden From Carmelina 3:18
6	Surrender From Sunset Boulevard 3:06
7	If I Ever Fall in Love Again From The Crooked Mile 3:59
8	Half a Moment From Jeeves 3:59
9	Piano (Memory) From Cats / Version 5:07
10	What More Do I Need From Saturday Night Fever 3:04
11	There Is More to Love From Aspects of Love 2:34
12	The Last Man in My Life From Song and Dance 3:10
13	In the Mandarin's Orchid Garden From East Is West 3:17
14	Nothing Like You've Ever Known From Tell Me on a Sunday and Song ... 3:11
15	Chi il Bel Sogno Di Doretta From LA Rondine 2:45

Barnes & Noble

With four previously unreleased performances and two Italian versions of hit songs, Encores, Sarah Brightman’s new collection of theater tunes, has its share of rarities. While there are familiar takes on material from Phantom of the Opera (“Think of Me”), Sunset Boulevard (“Surrender”), Aspects of Love (“There Is More to Love”), By Jeeves (“Half a Moment”), and Song and Dance (“The Last Man in My Life”), Brightman also chimes in with renditions of songs from such lesser-known productions as Rex and The Crooked Mile. Unreleased material includes memorable performances drawn from Whistle Down the Wind, East Is East, Carmelina, Saturday Night, and La Rondine. Rendered in Italian are the signature songs “With One Look” ( Sunset Boulevard) and “Memory” (Cats). Brightman handles it all with the stylish aplomb, interpretive sensitivity, and larger-than-life verve that her fans have grown to cherish. William Pearl

All Music Guide

Ex-husband Andrew Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Records can be accused of scraping the bottom of the barrel in its second compilation of old Sarah Brightman tracks released to take advantage of the singer's international popularity due to her albums Time to Say Goodbye, Eden, and La Luna, all recorded for a different company. Happily, even the bottom of the barrel contains some excellent material, even after the cream was skimmed off with The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection. During and after her marriage to Lloyd Webber, Brightman performed on the Original London Cast recording of The Phantom of the Opera and recorded the albums The Songs That Got Away (1989) and Surrender (1995), and that's the material sampled here, that is, the remaining tracks that weren't used on The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection. There are four songs recorded for those album sessions that were not released -- Lloyd Webber's "Whistle Down the Wind," Burton Lane and Alan Jay Lerner's "One More Walk Around the Garden," Stephen Sondheim's "What More Do I Need," and George and Ira Gershwin's "In the Mandarin's Orchid Garden." The last three, fairly obscure songs by well-known show-music songwriters, are typical of the non-Lloyd Webber choices found on The Songs That Got Away and Surrender. Also typical are the Lloyd Webber oddities, such as Italian-language versions of "With One Look" from Sunset Boulevard and "Memory" from Cats. If the mixed bag of material works, it's because of the unflappable Brightman, who doesn't only gamely undertake the selections, but throws herself into them, making "Piano" (as "Memory" somehow comes out in Italian) sound like an opera selection. "What More Do I Need," a comic celebration of love in dirty old New York, is beyond her, but not much else is. William Ruhlmann