Treasure (Hayley Westenra album)


Treasure is the third internationally released album by Christchurch, New Zealand soprano Hayley Westenra, released in 2007. The album celebrates Westenra's Irish roots by covering Irish songs like "Danny Boy" and religious classics like "Whispering Hope", "The Heart Worships", while also including three new songs which Hayley has co-written.
Treasure became Westenra's fourth album to hit #1 on the New Zealand music charts, and her third album to debut at #1 on the New Zealand music charts, making her the most successful female album artist in the history of the Official New Zealand Music Charts. The album spent five weeks in the number 1 position on the New Zealand charts.
Treasure became Westenra's second album to chart in the US and peaked within the Top 10 in the UK.
Celtic Treasure is a very personal collection of classical arias, Irish and Maori folk songs. Celtic Treasure is a rich musical heritage celebration of Hayley's family roots, and her great-great-grandparent's journey across the World on the first boat that left Ireland for New Zealand in the 1880s.
Westenra's first recordings of her own songs bring together all those musical influences. Celtic treasure include her compositions "Let Me Lie" and "Summer Rain" plus her lyrics to a haunting lute song by the Elizabethan English composer John Dowland, called simply "Melancholy Interlude".
A special edition of the album released in Westenra's native New Zealand includes that country's national anthem God Defend New Zealand.

Track listing

US, Australia, New Zealand and Canadian version

  1. Let Me Lie
  2. Scarborough Fair
  3. Shenandoah
  4. Summer Fly
  5. Whispering Hope
  6. Danny Boy
  7. Summer Rain
  8. The Last Rose of Summer
  9. One Fine Day
  10. Sonny
  11. The Water Is Wide
  12. Melancholy Interlude
  13. Abide with Me

    UK and International version

  14. Let Me Lie
  15. Le Notte De Silenzio – featuring Humphrey Berney, tenor
  16. Santa Lucia
  17. Whispering Hope
  18. Summer Rain
  19. Danny Boy
  20. One Fine Day
  21. Shenandoah
  22. The Heart Worships
  23. E Pari Ra
  24. Sonny
  25. Summer Fly
  26. Melancholy Interlude
  27. Bist Du Bei Mir
  28. Abide with Me

    United Kingdom iTunes version

  29. Let Me Lie
  30. Le Notte De Silenzio
  31. Shenandoah
  32. Whispering Hope
  33. Summer Rain
  34. Danny Boy
  35. One Fine Day
  36. Santa Lucia
  37. The Heart Worships
  38. E Pari Ra
  39. Sonny
  40. Summer Fly
  41. Melancholy Interlude
  42. Bist Du Bei Mir
  43. Abide With Me
  44. Jekyll theme song
  45. The Last Rose of Summer

    New Zealand special edition

  46. Let Me Lie
  47. Scarborough Fair
  48. Shenandoah
  49. Summer Fly
  50. Whispering Hope
  51. Danny Boy
  52. Summer Rain
  53. The Last Rose Of Summer
  54. One Fine Day
  55. Sonny
  56. The Water is Wide
  57. Melancholy Interlude
  58. Abide With Me
  59. Le Notte De Silenzio
  60. E Pari Ra
  61. Bist Du Bei Mir
  62. The Heart Worships
  63. Santa Lucia
  64. God Defend New Zealand

    Charts

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