Treasure (Hayley Westenra album)

Treasure
Studio album by Hayley Westenra
Released	26 February 2007 13 March 2007 13 May 2007 13 March 2007
Genre	Crossover, pop
Label	Decca Music Group
Hayley Westenra chronology
Odyssey (2005) Treasure (2007) Hayley sings Japanese Songs (2008)

Treasure (titled Celtic Treasure in some countries) 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.^[1] The album spent five weeks in the number 1 position on the New Zealand charts.^[2]

Treasure became Westenra's second album to chart in the US and peaked within the Top 10 in the UK (it was the second highest new entry its debut week).^[3]

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.^[4]

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".^[5]

"I come from a musical family, and one with a real sense of history. My forefathers, who came from Ireland, were on the Midlothian's maiden voyage from England to Christchurch, New Zealand in 1851..."^[6]

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

1. Let Me Lie
2. Le Notte De Silenzio – featuring Humphrey Berney, tenor
3. Santa Lucia
4. Whispering Hope
5. Summer Rain
6. Danny Boy
7. One Fine Day
8. Shenandoah
9. The Heart Worships
10. E Pari Ra
11. Sonny
12. Summer Fly
13. Melancholy Interlude
14. Bist Du Bei Mir
15. Abide with Me

United Kingdom iTunes version

1. Let Me Lie
2. Le Notte De Silenzio
3. Shenandoah
4. Whispering Hope
5. Summer Rain
6. Danny Boy
7. One Fine Day
8. Santa Lucia
9. The Heart Worships
10. E Pari Ra
11. Sonny
12. Summer Fly
13. Melancholy Interlude
14. Bist Du Bei Mir
15. Abide With Me
16. Jekyll theme song (digital bonus version only)
17. The Last Rose of Summer (iTunes bonus version only)

New Zealand special edition

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
14. Le Notte De Silenzio
15. E Pari Ra
16. Bist Du Bei Mir
17. The Heart Worships
18. Santa Lucia
19. God Defend New Zealand

Charts

Album

References