Her connection with Andrew Lloyd Webber precludes her from ever being hip, but Sarah Brightman's new album has been such a success story to date that she probably couldn't care less. Already gold in the US, La Luna has made her a genuine transatlantic star. It's not hard to see why: the album mixes classical fare - Dvorak, Beethoven, Handel - with covers of folk and pop standards such as Scarborough Fair and A Whiter Shade Of Pale. Brightman's delivery is ethereal yet very precise, and for the most part it's effortlessly enjoyable stuff; a slightly fussy production is the only fly in the ointment.
