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Discography

Many of my albums are released under slightly different covers or names, or with slightly different track listings, in different territories around the world. Rather than listing dozens of marginally varying versions for each of my albums, I've chosen to give you details of the best-selling versions here. There simply is not enough space to list all of them, so, if you have a special edition of one of my albums that is not listed here, then please accept my apologies for its absence from the discography below. I'm still delighted that you bought it – and I hope that you are still enjoying listening to it!

Albums

Walking in the Air

This is my very first album, and was produced by my family in 2000. It was never on general release to the public. I used it as a demo to get my record contract with Universal Music New Zealand.

Tracks

Con te Partiro

La Luna Che Non C'e

Il Mare Calmo della Sera

Another Suitcase in Another Hall

Unexpected Song

Memory

Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again

The Mists of Islay

Walking in the Air

Pie Jesu

How Deep Is Your Love?

Groovy Kind of Love

Eternal Flame

Hayley Westenra

Released by Universal Music, New Zealand in 2001, this is my first professional album. Recorded in around a week, it was the launch pad for everything that has followed for me.

Tracks

Walking in the Air

Ave Maria (J S Bach)

Memory

All I Ask of You

Somewhere

The Mists of Islay

Ave Maria (Schubert)

Bright Eyes

Pie Jesu

Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again

I Dreamed a Dream

Love Changes Everything

God Defend New Zealand

Amazing Grace (Live with the Royal Scots Dragoon
Guards)

My Gift to You

This is the follow-up album to my eponymous professional debut. It was released in New Zealand by Universal Music New Zealand in November 2002. As you can see, many of the tracks have a Christmas theme to them. It was the last album that I made for Universal Music New Zealand before I made my first international album for Decca. What was particularly exciting about this album was the fact that my sister Sophie joined me in a couple of the songs.

Tracks

All I Have to Give

You'll Never Walk Alone

Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire

Mary Did You Know?

The Peace Song

Do You Hear What I Hear?

Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Gabriel's Message

Pokarekare Ana

Through These Eyes

Morning Has Broken

Silent Night

Pure (UK original edition, Decca, 2003)

This is the album that really started it all for me. Released by Decca in 2003, it became the best-selling debut album in the history of the UK classical charts and the best-selling album of all time by a local artist in New Zealand chart history, going eighteen times platinum.

Tracks

Pokarekare Ana

Never Say Goodbye

Who Painted the Moon Black?

River of Dreams

Benedictus

Hine e Hine

Dark Waltz

Amazing Grace

In Trutina (from
Carmina Burana
)

Beat of Your Heart

Heaven

Wuthering Heights

Hine e Hine (Maori mix)

Bonus CD released in 2004

Tracks

Mary Did You Know?

Bridal Ballad (from the film
The Merchant of Venice
)

Pokarekare Ana (Vocalise)

My Heart and I (from the film
La Piovra)

Across the Universe of Time

Silent Night, Holy Night

Away in a Manger

Pokarekare Ana (video track)

Wuthering Heights

This 2004 mini-album was released only in Japan.

Tracks

Wuthering Heights (new version)

Pokarekare Ana (new version)

Hine e Hine (acoustic version)

Away in a Manger

Never Say Goodbye

Odyssey (original edition, Decca, 2005)

My second album for Decca sees me spreading my wings musically. I was still on my musical journey when I recorded this, hence the title. It includes the first track that I co-wrote for one of my albums, 'What You Never Know (Won't Hurt You)'.

Tracks

Prayer

Dell'amore Non Si Sa

Never Saw Blue

Ave Maria (Caccini)

What You Never Know (Won't Hurt You)

Quanta Qualia

Both Sides Now

May It Be

Bachianas Brasilieras No. 5 Aria

Bridal Ballad

The Mists of Islay

O Mio Babbino Caro

Laudate Dominum

Wiegenlied

She Moves Through the Fair

Dido's Lament

Odyssey (special edition, Decca, 2006)

Tracks

May It Be

The Water Is Wide

Dell'amore Non Si Sa (duet with Andrea Bocelli)

Lascia Ch'io Pianga

Prayer

Ave Maria (Caccini)

Scarborough Fair

Quanta Qualia

Mio Babbino Caro

What You Never Know (Won't Hurt You)

Both Sides Now

The Mists of Islay

Laudate Dominum

She Moves Through the Fair

Treasure (UK and international edition, Decca, 2007)

This is my third international album for Decca. Dedicated to my Nanna, this album has a mixture of songs from her repertoire as a singer around Timaru, when she was much younger. It also marks my debut as a proper songwriter. I'm particularly proud of my 'hippie chick' track 'Let Me Lie', the mistitled 'Le Notte del Silenzio' and 'Melancholy Interlude', the tune that I discovered when I couldn't sleep in a hotel room after a concert in Japan.

Tracks

Let Me Lie

Le Notte del Silenzio (featuring Humphrey Berney)

Santa Lucia

Shenandoah

Whispering Hope

Summer Rain

Danny Boy

One Fine Day

The Heart Worships

E Pari Ra

Sonny

Summer Fly

Melancholy Interlude

Bist Du Bei Mir

Abide with Me

Celtic Treasure (USA, Canada, Australia and
New Zealand edition, Decca, 2007)

Tracks

Let Me Lie

Scarborough Fair

Shenandoah

Summer Fly

Whispering Hope

Danny Boy

Summer Rain

The Last Rose of Summer

One Fine Day

Sonny

The Water Is Wide

Melancholy Interlude

Abide with Me

Singing the role of Maria on this brand-new recording to mark the fiftieth anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's musical was a fantastic honour for me. Vittorio Grigolo sings Tony, the lead male role. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Nick Ingman.

Singles

Amazing Grace (released only in Japan, 2003)

Tracks

Amazing Grace

Beat of Your Heart

Benedictus

Amazing Grace (Instrumental)

Wiegenlied (released only in Japan, 2005)

Tracks

Wiegenlied (slow version)

Wiegenlied (fast version)

Wiegenlied (Japanese version)

Soundtracks

Nussknacker und Mausekönig (released 2004 in Germany)

Peaches and Creamy World

Mulan II (released 2005)

Here Beside Me

The Merchant of Venice (released 2005)

Bridal Ballad

Lib and Stitch II (released 2006)

Always

The New World (released 2006)

Listen to the Wind

Guest appearances

I have the same management team as Aled Jones and the Choirboys and it was a real thrill for me to be able to sing on their albums. Aled is an old hand at making records and I made one of my first big appearances in front of the British critics and journalists when I sang with him at the Classical Brit Awards, so it was nice to be able to return the favour by appearing on his album. The Choirboys are a great group of young guys and I was really excited to be able to introduce them to my fans by singing on their debut release.

Singing 'Silent Night' with Aled Jones on
The Christmas Album
(UCJ, 2005)

Singing 'Do You Hear What I Hear?' with the Choirboys on
The Choirboys
(UCJ, 2005)

DVD

Hayley Westenra Live from New Zealand (Decca, 2005)

This DVD was recorded live at a specially staged concert at Wellington's St James Theatre in November 2004. It came after a long year of touring the world singing the songs from
Pure.
It was great to be able to come home to New Zealand and to perform them in front of the people who believed in me right from the start. The guests artists who appear on the DVD include the baritone Teddy Tahu Rhodes, my sister Sophie Westenra, the Musical Island Boys and the Wellington Cathedral Choir, accompanied by members of the Wellington Sinfonia. This concert was also broadcast as a special programme on the PBS network in the USA.

Songs

Pokarekare Ana

River of Dreams

In Trutina

Across the Universe of Time

May It Be

Beat of Your Heart

Aria

Who Painted the Moon Black?

How Many Stars?

Ave Maria

Down to the River

Amazing Grace

Benedictus

Mary Did You Know?

Both Sides Now

Never Say Goodbye

Wuthering Heights

Hine e Hine

Acknowledgements

I'm lucky to have been blessed with the most wonderful family on Earth. I would have achieved very little in my life without the love and support of my mum, Jill, and my dad, Gerald. As you have read, they have been with me every step of the way on my journey through life and on my journey through music. I couldn't have wished for two greater people to have had standing beside me. I love my sister Sophie and brother Isaac more than you can imagine. They are so patient and understanding about the demands that I've placed on their lives over the years. My Nanna,
Shirley Ireland, continues to be a huge inspiration to me in everything that I do. Basically, I couldn't survive without my family.

Good managers are hard to find and in Steve Abbott and Kathryn Nash at Bedlam Management I've found the best. Thank you both for your belief and hard work.

My record companies around the world have always given me an enormous amount of support and I'm proud to be part of the extended family of Decca Records, Universal Classics and Jazz UK and Universal Music around the globe. Particular thanks go to Bogdan Roscic, Peggy Schmidt, Fawzia Pirbhai, Judith Daniels, Mark Cavell and Jennifer Allen at Decca; to Dickon Stainer and Mark Wilkinson at UCJ; and to Adam Holt and Alister Cain in New Zealand.

Thank you to the whole team at Virgin Books who have patiently waited for me to complete this book, especially KT Forster, Carolyn Thorne and Gareth Fletcher.

Lastly, a massive thanks to Darren Henley. What a legend. It was such a pleasure writing this book with him. No one mentioned here is more deserving of the much-talked-about celebratory curry, to mark the end of working on this book.

Index

ABBA

Abbott, Steve

'Abide with Me'

'Across the Universe of Time'

Air Studios

Alice in Wonderland