''Let Love Rain on Me'' is an EP by German

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, released in 2004 through

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containing both musical tracks and a live video. The title track is present in three versions sung in English, Spanish and French. "Let Love Rain on Me", the

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song "I Rule the Ruins" were played acoustically with a full orchestra and are featured in the following album ''

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'' in slightly different versions. The EP reached position No. 65 in the German Singles chart and position No. 7 in the Spanish Singles chart.

Track listing

Personnel

– vocals

The Classic Night Orchestra on tracks 1-5

*Arnt Böhme – conductor, orchestral arrangements *Hye-sin Tjo, Ardan Saguner, Nonna Parfenov, Elda Teqja, Marco Stankovic, Ingrid Illguth – first

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s *Carolin Kosa, Arhan Saguner, Emma Fridman, Jee-eun Lee, Alexander Schneider – second violins *Wiebke Corssen, Urs Beckers, Kristina Iczque, Manuela Crespi –

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Lev Gordin (soloist)
Martin Henneken, Jens Peter Jandausch, Luise Schroeter –

violoncello The violoncello ( , ), commonly abbreviated as cello ( ), is a middle pitched bowed (sometimes plucked and occasionally hit) string instrument of the violin family. Its four strings are usually tuned in perfect fifths: from low to high, C ...

s *Milivoj Plavsic –

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*Daniel Edelhoff, Jörg Brohm – first

trumpet The trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz musical ensemble, ensembles. The trumpet group ranges from the piccolo trumpet—with the highest Register (music), register in the brass family—to the bass trumpet, pitche ...

s *Wolfgang Mundt, Carsten Gronwald – second trumpets *Andreas Roth, Peter Schatlo –

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s *Jan Böhme –

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*Klaus 'Major' Heuser – acoustic guitars *Wolf Simon – drums *Mario Arrangonda – percussion

Additional musicians on track 6

*Joe Taylor – acoustic guitar *

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– bass *

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– drums

Charts

References

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