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Post by AddisonMizner on Jun 30, 2024 11:40:11 GMT
I've been listening to the newly released SCHWARTZ SONGS this weekend. To be honest, I'm not a massive fan of most of the arrangements - they are a bit too 'pop-y' for my taste. I would have preferred more traditional readings of the material. That being said, I do like Samantha Barks' 'Colours of the Wind', John Owen-Jones' 'Let There Be', Jordan Luke Gage and Rob Houchen's 'On The Willows', 'Deliver Us' and Emma Kingston's 'Children of the Wind'. The fantastic music of Stephen Schwartz also shines through.
I've also listened to the whole THE GREAT GATSBY, after initially hearing the six pre-release tracks. The real strength in this piece lies in the solo ballads of the main leads, as well as their duets. They are absolutely ravishing! The rest of the material I can sort of take or leave, but they may work better in context. Based off of the recording though, I do not understand why this received such mixed reviews. It really does a fantastic job of selling the show.
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Post by blamerobots on Jun 30, 2024 14:56:19 GMT
Continuing my Willy Russell record binge...
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Post by matttom0901 on Jul 3, 2024 16:18:26 GMT
Taking a break from The Great Gatsby and currently listening to the Back to The Future recording. I’ve seen the show twice and loved it, but never managed to see it with Olly Dobson. Roger Bart was awesome though!
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Post by crabtree on Jul 3, 2024 22:22:46 GMT
The Scotsboro Boys and The visit for me today.
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Post by blamerobots on Jul 9, 2024 1:45:28 GMT
I put on Tell Me On A Sunday after being reminded of it on here; I think Nothing Like You've Ever Known is genuinely one of the most underrated and haunting songs ALW has ever written. Something about the piano intro and the incredibly ghost-like vocal Marti Webb uses on the original concept album.
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Post by barricadegirl on Jul 11, 2024 15:48:41 GMT
Since seeing Bonnie and Clyde a few months ago I'm back on a Frank Wildhorn kick that still shows no sign of waning. I'd love Dracula back on the stage as I haven't seen that one yet and the music is gorgeous.
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Post by sandeep on Jul 11, 2024 16:14:09 GMT
Currently listening to Then, Now, and Next. Hope it's gets another run!
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Post by blamerobots on Jul 19, 2024 23:28:13 GMT
I think everyone has to watch this video at some point in their life just to marvel at what went wrong.
Whatever happened in Buenos Aires, especially the person playing trumpet and person playing the samba piano, needs to be filed as a war crime.
5:36 in this video, with maybe the sourest note ever played in existence makes me want to leap off the balcony of the Casa Rosada...
And The Money Kept Rolling In in 4/4 is going to give me nightmares.
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Post by theatremiss on Jul 20, 2024 17:30:21 GMT
Standing at the Sky’s Edge
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Post by justfran on Jul 26, 2024 16:37:28 GMT
Some Like It Hot - original Broadway cast recording. Fab upbeat songs!
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Post by matty on Jul 26, 2024 17:00:17 GMT
Today I've been switching between the new Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York) recording and The Great Gatsby
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Post by blamerobots on Aug 13, 2024 1:17:55 GMT
Watched Mamma Mia on the plane home from France so I decided to listen to the OLC which I had never heard, as I usually listened to the film recording CD.
Wow, this cast recording is kinda amateurish. Sounds like karaoke tracks, pretty thin and tinny with fake-sounding late 90s synth piano and strings. Also, I wonder if they were having problems with vocals standing out in the mix because all the main vocals have a horrid vocal doubler effect with that signature karaoke delay effect. Many songs have the vocals simply too quiet so it becomes utterly indecipherable. Really icky stuff. Hop skip and a jump away from the awful LSOH UK cast recording.
Feels like the dynamics should've been compressed down in mastering. Get rid of the awful doubler effect, use some snappy vocal compression and saturation to kick those vocals up. Do what ABBA did!!
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Post by badlydrawnhamster on Aug 13, 2024 5:04:48 GMT
Oklahoma, the 2019 Broadway Cast (though I wish there was a London recording when Sam Palladio was part of the cast), Grindr The Opera (Discovered it by chance one bored Sunday afternoon and fell madly in love with it) and Groundhog Day (Broadway cast again). They were the three musicals I loved the most in 2023, and while I listen to a lot of other stuff, they're the three I've found myself returning to the most of late.
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Post by matttom0901 on Sept 10, 2024 6:33:24 GMT
Listening to the 2024 cast recording of Cake The Marie Antoinette Musical. Quite amazing I have to say!
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Post by capybara on Sept 11, 2024 14:32:11 GMT
Listening to the 2024 cast recording of Cake The Marie Antoinette Musical. Quite amazing I have to say! This. Can’t wait. |
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Post by dan on Sept 11, 2024 14:50:41 GMT
Currently;
NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812
Next to Normal
Something Rotten
Bonnie & Clyde
The Grinning Man
Jagged Little Pill
Next thing you know
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Post by alece10 on Sept 14, 2024 15:17:41 GMT
The new recording of Caroussel, John Wilson and the Symphonia of London.
With Nathaniel Hackmann, Julian Ovenden, Sierra Boggess.
Sounds glorious and perfect for when you are doing the ironing (which I'm currently doing).
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Post by juicy_but_terribly_drab on Sept 14, 2024 18:46:20 GMT
The new recording of Caroussel, John Wilson and the Symphonia of London. With Nathaniel Hackmann, Julian Ovenden, Sierra Boggess. Sounds glorious and perfect for when you are doing the ironing (which I'm currently doing). Yes I've been loving it and so glad to finally have a Carousel recording with all of the songs included. My go to was the 90s Broadway revival with Audra McDonald because it was close to complete as far as the main songs go (The Highest Judge of All is cut) but I really am not a fan of Michael Hayden's voice. With this new recording you get all the songs plus the interstitials and whatnot. The only real drawback, aside from a couple of places I wished the conducting was a little looser, is the god-awful line-reading of Francesca Chiejina (I assume she's normally an opera singer so doesn't have to do much straight acting?). Since the dialogue is the least of my concerns on a cast recording, that's a very minor problem and this has definitely shot up to be my definitive Carousel recording. |
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Post by FairyGodmother on Sept 26, 2024 20:37:52 GMT
The Evita concept album.
I had to go and read up on why Che had a whole song about insecticide!
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Post by BVM on Sept 26, 2024 21:25:50 GMT
The Evita concept album. I had to go and read up on why Che had a whole song about insecticide! I like the melody! Wish the film version had gone into the musical instead of Art Of The Possible. |
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Post by danb on Sept 26, 2024 21:36:04 GMT
Dogfight…my, that Derek Klena can sing!
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Post by FairyGodmother on Sept 30, 2024 16:21:37 GMT
The new recording of Caroussel, John Wilson and the Symphonia of London. With Nathaniel Hackmann, Julian Ovenden, Sierra Boggess. Sounds glorious and perfect for when you are doing the ironing (which I'm currently doing). Thank you for posting about this by the way, I'm enjoying it very much.  |
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Post by flouise on Sept 30, 2024 17:56:22 GMT
Listening to the 2024 cast recording of Cake The Marie Antoinette Musical. Quite amazing I have to say! I'm making an early prediction that this album is going to feature heavily in my Spotify Wrapped this year! Particularly Champagne Dreams |
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Post by blamerobots on Oct 1, 2024 20:43:24 GMT
I remember having this video on a VHS tape and wishing there was a proper Phantom proshot in this style. It's so wonderfully cheesy and 80's, and I love Sarah Brightman's dazed little stare.
This cast recording is great, even if truncated a lot.
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Post by Peter on Oct 18, 2024 17:39:41 GMT
The Witches Of Eastwick - excellent music to cook to! And my daughter has just described Dirty Laundry as ‘a bop’ which I’m going to assume is a good thing.
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