Two Hearts (Jackie Evancho album)

Two Hearts
Two Hearts album cover photo showing Evancho in black dress with colored clouds behind.
Studio album by
Jackie Evancho
ReleasedMarch 31, 2017 (2017-03-31)
GenreClassical crossover
Length61:20
LabelPortrait
Jackie Evancho chronology
Someday at Christmas
(2016) 		Two Hearts
(2017) 		The Debut
(2019)

Two Hearts is a two-disc studio album by Jackie Evancho, consisting of a classical crossover disc with 10 tracks and a pop music EP with 5 tracks, including four songs on which Evancho has a songwriting credit. The album was released on March 31, 2017, on Sony Masterworks' Portrait Records imprint.[1][2] Evancho included several songs from the album in her concerts in 2016 and 2017, and she gave ten performances at Café Carlyle in New York City that included songs from the album.[3] She was the youngest artist ever to perform at this venue.[4]

The tracks on Disc 1 include the ballad "Caruso" by Lucio Dalla; "Attesa", arranged from the instrumental Intermezzo in the opera Cavalleria rusticana by Pietro Mascagni; and "How Great Thou Art", an 1885 hymn with words by Carl Boberg, translated by Stuart K. Hine. It also includes the song "Mama" from Il Divo's eponymous 2004 album. Five of the last six songs on the disc are from film soundtracks. The first two of these are "May It Be" from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring and "The Way We Were", from the 1973 film of the same name. Next is the 2014 song "Have You Ever Been in Love" by Jimmie Linville, followed by two songs that Evancho released as singles in 2016: "Safe & Sound", from The Hunger Games, and "Writing's on the Wall" from Spectre. The disc concludes with "A Thousand Years" from The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 1, sung live as a duet between Evancho and tenor Fernando Varela on his 2017 PBS special.[5] Walmart is offering a special edition that includes three additional songs on Disc 1.[6] Disc 2 consists of five original songs, on four of which Evancho has a writing credit. Evancho released the fifth song, "Apocalypse", by Peter Zizzo and others, as a single in April 2016.[5]

The album debuted at No. 100 on the Billboard 200,[7] and No. 1 on the Billboard Classical Albums chart, Evancho's seventh consecutive release to reach the top of that chart.[8][9] The album remained on the Billboard Classical Albums chart for 36 weeks.[10]

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  8. ^ Caulfield, Keith. "Billboard 200 Chart Moves: Jackie Evancho Arrives with Awakening", Prometheus Global Media, October 3, 2014
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  10. ^ "Jackie Evancho", Billboard.biz, accessed May 23, 2019