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Post by FairyGodmother on Mar 18, 2022 14:52:15 GMT
I’ve just spent twenty minutes looking for my ‘Notre Dame de Paris’ CD, fancying an hour of overwrought balladry whilst I drive my lad back to uni. I shall enjoy it thoroughly. Will he?  |
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Post by theatremiss on Mar 18, 2022 15:17:20 GMT
The Original Spanish Cast Recording of A Chorus Line has been released today. The score sounds better than ever. Would totally reccomend. found.ee/AChorusLineESMy friend saw this and said it was so worth a visit. Sadly I don’t live in Spain |
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Post by theatremiss on Mar 18, 2022 15:21:18 GMT
I am currently listening to Memphis, a show I really miss on the West End
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Post by danb on Mar 18, 2022 16:53:40 GMT
I’ve just spent twenty minutes looking for my ‘Notre Dame de Paris’ CD, fancying an hour of overwrought balladry whilst I drive my lad back to uni. I shall enjoy it thoroughly. Will he? He is always ‘interested’ to hear new things, but decides very quickly if he likes it or not. I skipped most of it anyway. It only got us to Michaelwood services. 😬 |
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Post by SuttonPeron on Mar 18, 2022 18:27:40 GMT
The Original Spanish Cast Recording of A Chorus Line has been released today. The score sounds better than ever. Would totally reccomend. found.ee/AChorusLineESMy friend saw this and said it was so worth a visit. Sadly I don’t live in Spain It is. I´ve seen it twice, and it´s an impeccable production. At least there´s a CD, which doesn´t always happen in Spanish productions. |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Mar 19, 2022 15:08:35 GMT
There's a lovely bonus track of Banderas singing What I Did For Love with Nine co-star Laura Benanti
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Post by alece10 on Mar 20, 2022 10:33:19 GMT
I know this is on Spotify, but can't seem to find it on Apple Music. Anyone know if it is currently/or is going to be on there? ASSASSINS is one of my favourite Sondheim's. Apple Music seems to always be late with cast recordings, I remember the same with the new Caroline, or Change recording and I think Flying Over Sunset as well. Check back later today or tomorrow and it'll probably have updated. Assassins now on Apple Music. Listening to it now. |
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Post by couldileaveyou on Mar 20, 2022 19:52:12 GMT
I quite liked the new Assassins. I doubt it will become my to-go recording of the show, but there is a lot to enjoy. The orchestra sounds a bit thin but compensates for it by giving the score a raunchier sound. The cast is very solid too, I particularly like Steven Pasquale as Booth and the ensemble numbers. Will Swenson is a bit of a weird choice for Guiteau, which I've always considered more of a character role rather than a part for more traditional leading men (or dilfs) like Swenson. I didn't fully buy his characterisation, pity because it's probably my favourite song – and also pity they didn't include the final musical bit in which he dances after having been hanged. It's also too bad the glorious Judy Kuhn has so little to sing, but that's the role. Overall, it's a fine addition to the Sondheim discography and I'm glad it was preserved. Such a shame they didn't record the wonderful Menier cast!
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Post by FairyGodmother on Mar 26, 2022 14:59:51 GMT
The 1999 Broadway recording of Annie Get Your Gun.
I've enjoyed it, I sometimes think Bernadette Peters sounds a bit sugary, but she didn't in this. I liked the choice of songs too.
I don't like what they did with My Defences Are Down at all though. I don't think it needed jazzing up, and I missed the close harmony sections.
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Post by deej4life on Mar 26, 2022 19:34:46 GMT
Have recently started listening to cast recordings again on Spotify and I'm currently switching between Mean Girls and Anastasia.
I'd love to see both of these shows on the West End some day!
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Post by FairyGodmother on Apr 16, 2022 20:27:32 GMT
Seasonally appropriate today — Easter Parade.
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Post by Someone in a tree on Aug 25, 2022 8:56:12 GMT
Jay records huge collection is now on Spotify. My favourites are Candide, Threepenny Opera and Anyone can whistle
Lots of classics - Yay.
Lots of shows with complete dialogue - I really don't get this but fab to have them anyway.
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Post by FairyGodmother on Jan 14, 2023 21:31:10 GMT
Show Boat, the 1993 studio track recording of the 1946 revival version apparently.
Lovely orchestrations.
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Post by danb on Jan 14, 2023 22:00:08 GMT
Always a mixture of songs, but favouring weird bits of Chess and Mean Girls atm.
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Post by SuttonPeron on Jan 14, 2023 23:09:21 GMT
I´ve been listening to the Company Spanish cast album (with Antonio Banderas) a lot lately. They use the original orchestrations, but slightly refreshed, and it sounds divine.
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Post by Peter on Jan 14, 2023 23:11:41 GMT
Had a weird compulsion to dig out ‘The Fields of Ambrosia’ earlier this week, having not thought about the show at all in the past 20 years…
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Post by Fleance on Jan 15, 2023 0:28:19 GMT
Bashville (Denis King/Benny Green), a lovely old-fashioned British score for the first show I ever saw at the Open Air Theatre, Regents Park, 1983. Based on Shaw's The Admirable Bashville.
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Post by bobbievanhusen on Jan 15, 2023 3:51:43 GMT
Had a weird compulsion to dig out ‘The Fields of Ambrosia’ earlier this week, having not thought about the show at all in the past 20 years… The Fields of Ambrosia...Where everyone knows ya! I was talking about that show just the other day to someone. I was really surprised to find it on Spotify. There is some great music in there, inc. the VERY overwrought song 'Alone' Which was a very popular auduition piece back in the day and probably also the only number in a musical that comes from a charactern just after he's been raped in prison. ButI find Christine Andreas' voice hard to listen to. That vibrato... |
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Post by fiyerorocher on Jan 16, 2023 9:23:11 GMT
I discovered Stranger Sings! has an off-Broadway cast recording so that's the soundtrack to my travel on public transport for the next week sorted
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2023 10:40:15 GMT
Not a cast recording, but the new Sondheim CD from Liz Callaway, To Steve With Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim.
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Post by Mark on Jan 16, 2023 10:45:18 GMT
Between the Lines which has just been released. Wonderful score
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Post by anthony40 on Jan 18, 2023 14:49:16 GMT
There's a lovely bonus track of Banderas singing What I Did For Love with Nine co-star Laura Benanti It does sound lush and beautiful and nice to hear Benanti singing in Spanish. Shame I don't speak Spanish! |
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Post by anthony40 on Jan 18, 2023 14:51:56 GMT
The youtube algorithm offered me a documentary from the early eighties of Leonard Bernstein conducting West Side Story with Jose Carreras and Kiri Te Kanawa. It was fascinating to see the man himself directing the orchestra and the cast. Of course both leads were decades too old for it but oh my, Jose Carreras singing as Tony was stunning. Kiri was ok but apart from being too old actually sounded too old too, or maybe too ‘womanly’ for Maria. Then I went and listened to it again on Spotify. The album sold massively at the time apparently. I've seen this |
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Post by oxfordsimon on Jan 18, 2023 15:08:26 GMT
The youtube algorithm offered me a documentary from the early eighties of Leonard Bernstein conducting West Side Story with Jose Carreras and Kiri Te Kanawa. It was fascinating to see the man himself directing the orchestra and the cast. Of course both leads were decades too old for it but oh my, Jose Carreras singing as Tony was stunning. Kiri was ok but apart from being too old actually sounded too old too, or maybe too ‘womanly’ for Maria. Then I went and listened to it again on Spotify. The album sold massively at the time apparently. I remember that from when the BBC first broadcast it. It was telling to see how Bernstein had to work so hard with Careers who struggled with the lyrics over and over again. Tatiana Troyanos was a fantastic Anita. Kurt Ollman was great too. But Bernstein's conducting is sublime. It will never be surpassed. I bought the twin cassette set whilst on a school exchange trip to Germany and listened to it over and over and over. And the success of this meant that we also got the recording of Candide with Bernstein conducting which is still my favourite version of the score. |
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Post by anthony40 on Jan 18, 2023 16:04:37 GMT
For anyone interested, it can be seen here
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