Get the Music: Celine Dion — Miracle, Audio CD (paid link)
Miracle brings together Celine Dion’s recordings and Anne Geddes’s photography around parenthood and childhood. You can explore it as an album of interpretations, as a photography project, or through both. Begin by choosing the format you want, then use a few contrasting songs to hear how Dion shapes familiar material.
A recording and a visual collaboration
Dion’s official Miracle page dates the project to October 12, 2004. It describes a 180-page photography book packaged with the album and a documentary about making the book. Its track list credits songwriters alongside each selection, giving a useful starting point for exploring the material.
The connection between the two media offers an interesting listening question: does an image change the scene you imagine while hearing a song? If you own the book, first hear one selection with it closed. Write a few words about the voice, pace and mood. Open the book for another pass and notice which parts of your response change. Treat that as your interpretation of the pairing, while keeping the photographs and recording distinct works.
Choose the contents you actually want
| Your purpose | Look for | Confirm in the listing |
|---|---|---|
| Listen to the album | Standalone Audio CD or authorized digital album | Artist, track list and format. The CD linked above is a single-disc release. |
| Explore the photographs and music together | Anne Geddes and Celine Dion book package | Book language, condition and inclusion of the CD and DVD in that particular copy. |
| Watch the project documentary | The explicitly identified making-of DVD | Contents, region and video compatibility, plus whether the disc is included or sold separately. |
A marketplace title or cover photo may represent several variants. Read the selected format and seller’s description before choosing a copy. The Amazon link above is for the Audio CD; it does not promise the large photography book. For used bundles, a complete contents list is more informative than the word “deluxe.”
Four entry points into the album
“Miracle”: hear the delivery of a long phrase
Start with the title track, credited on the official album page to Steve Dorff and Linda Thompson. Follow a vocal line from its beginning to the final sound. Notice where the singer increases intensity and where the accompaniment leaves room. On a second pass, follow the supporting sounds instead of the lead.
“Brahms’ Lullaby”: attend to pacing
Use the familiar melody to focus on phrasing. Listen for where a line relaxes and where the next begins. Compare the duration of a sung phrase with the instrumental space after it. Familiar material makes it easier to hear the choices within a performance.
“What a Wonderful World”: trace the melodic line
The official credits name George Weiss and Robert Thiele. Choose one passage and listen first for the melody’s rise and fall, then for how the singer emphasizes words within it. Notice how the surrounding instruments support the line or answer it. Keep a timestamp so you can return to the same moment.
“Beautiful Boy”: follow a song into another recording
This selection provides a clear comparison with John Lennon’s “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)” on Double Fantasy. Hear Dion’s version once in the context of Miracle, then try the comparison below. The exercise is about how a song is interpreted across two recordings.
Compare “Beautiful Boy” with its album source
The official Double Fantasy page identifies Lennon’s recording on the 1980 John Lennon and Yoko Ono album. Its sleeve credits specifically name Robert Greenidge’s steel drums on “Beautiful Boy.” That gives you one documented instrumental part to follow.
- Identify the copies. Note the album and any remix, remaster or alternate-version label for each recording.
- Listen to each complete song. Keep the playback level comfortable and roughly comparable.
- Compare the opening. What establishes the setting before the vocal? How much movement surrounds it?
- Compare one corresponding phrase. Listen for timing, held sounds, vocal weight and the accompaniment after the line.
- Return to the album. Hear the track next to its neighbors. Describe how the surrounding sequence changes its effect.
Write one specific observation for each version and one question you would like to check in the credits. Musical interpretation becomes easier to discuss when it is attached to an identifiable moment. For another guide to comparing singers’ choices, continue with Carly Simon’s Moonlight Serenade.