Customer Ratings & Reviews

Blackmore's Night is a lively fusion of rock and roll and classical. Ritchie Blackmore's arrangements of beloved Renaissance songs and dances such as Greensleeves, are unconventional and stirring. Candice Night's angelic voice, with just the tiniest bit of a Gothic edge, is a sheer delight. I particularly enjoy the song "Renaissance Faire," which starts out with the lively tune of an actual Renaissance dance - the Coranto - and then gracefully leaps to Blackmore's original song, which still maintains the flavor of the 1500's and 1600's. The lyrics encourage lords and ladies to come with Night to the Renaissance Faire and point out that, at the Renaissance Faire, there are minstrels with special songs "for me and for you." I have never heard Blackmore's Night live, and am looking forward to doing so in the future, but this album is like carrying just a little bit of the Renaissance Faire in your music system! The only negative thing I could say about this album is that they keep having the love song "Wish you were here" on practically every album they produce. Because the lyrics seem so standard and mundane, this song puts a slight damper on my listening pleasure, and it would be much better for that song to appear on only one Blackmore's Night album. One line is: "I still have feelings for you - do you still feel the same?". It would have been much more refreshing for Blackmore's Night to, instead, have taken some actual Renaissance love songs, by Shakespeare and 1500's and 1600's bards Edmund Spenser and John Donne. I wish they would do so on a future album. Nevertheless, it is a lovely blend of classical and rock and roll!