Ein schöner Tag (English: ''A beautiful day'') is the first single from the 2001

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gold album

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with vocals by German singer

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and spoken word passages by German actress and voice actress

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(* 6 May 1965), who became famous in the German-speaking countries as a narrator of countless documentaries and as the voice of FBI Special Agent

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from ''

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''. The song is titled internationally as "A Beautiful Day". The trance music single was officially released on 5 September 2000 in Germany and was peaking at number 40 on German Singles Chart in 2000 and at number 91 in Switzerland. The cover art work shows a graphic of the sun. The styles of the song and of the music video of Ein schöner Tag are very close to the previous single Ruhe. The vocals by Isgaard are a sample of the theme ''"

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"'' from the opera ''"

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"'' by Giacomo Puccini. The spoken words by Pigulla are: Translation from German: "A beautiful day - when it comes to an end, nothing is as it was." In 2003 English soprano

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released a cover version of ''"A Beautiful Day"'' on her album Harem as ''"It's a Beautiful Day"''. In 2014 Schiller released a new version of the song called ''Un Bel Di / Ein schöner Tag''. It features vocals by the Russian singer Eva Mali and the

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. The song will be included on Opus - White Album and had its premiere in the Schiller Lounge on German Klassik Radio.

Track listing

Maxi single

Vinyl

Credits and personnel

* Composed and produced by Christopher von Deylen and Mirko von Schlieffen * Vocals by Isgaard * Voice by Franziska Pigulla * Recorded and mixed at the Sleepingroom in Hamburg * Voice recorded by Stefan Knauthe at the Kokon Studio in Berlin

Music video

The official

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for "Ein schöner Tag" was produced by Blau Medien GmbH and was shot in 2000 by German director

Marcus Sternberg Marcus Sternberg (born 14 September 1965) is a German music video director and creative-producer. Biography Sternberg studied at the International Film School in London and has lived in Paris and Buenos Aires. Besides music videos he also direct ...

. The director of photography was Gero Steffen and the unit manager was Oliver Schertlein.Ein schöner Tag
at Crew United It has a length of 3:45 minutes. The video features some people of Asian origin in a Japanese garden and fighters in a forest. The video was aired and was shown for example on German music television channel

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in 2000.

Charts

Sarah Brightman version

English Soprano

released her cover of ''"A Beautiful Day"'' on her album

Harem Harem (Persian: حرمسرا ''haramsarā'', ar, حَرِيمٌ ''ḥarīm'', "a sacred inviolable place; harem; female members of the family") refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family. A hare ...

in 2003 with the title "It's a Beautiful Day". Credits: * Backing vocals by Frank Peterson * Narrator: Chiara Ferraú * Sitar by Peter Weihe * Tabla by Kuljid Bhamra

References

External links

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The single on Discogs
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ein schoner Tag Schiller (band) songs 2000 singles 2000 songs Songs written by Christopher von Deylen