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Music : A Collector's Sondheim (Musical Compilation) |
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0078635548020
Format: Cast Recording, Soundtrack, Box set
Label: RCA Victor Broadway
Manufacturer: RCA Victor Broadway
Number Of Discs: 3
Publisher: RCA Victor Broadway
Release Date: October 25, 1990
Studio: RCA Victor Broadway
Sales Rank: 179309
MPN: 35480
Disc 1:- Comedy Tonight/Love Is in the Air
- Pretty Little Picture
- The House of Marcus Lycus
- There's Something About a War
- So Many People
- Pour le Sport
- What More Do I Need?
- Invocation and Instructions to the Audience
- Evening Primrose: I Remember - David Kernan
- There Won't Be Trumpets
- With So Little to Be Sure Of
- Marry Me a Little
- Happily Ever After
- Being Alive
- Beautiful Girls/Ah, Paree! /Buddy's Blues
- Losing My Mind
- All Things Bright and Beautiful
- Uptown Downtown
- Too Many Mornings
Disc 2:- You're Gonna Love Tomorrow/Love Will See Us Through
- I'm Still Here
- Who Could Be Blue?/Little White House
- It Wasn't Meant to Happen
- Can That Boy Foxtrot!
- Broadway Baby
- Could I Leave You?
- Theme from Stavisky
- Auto Show
- Salon at the Claridge
- Overture and Night Waltz
- Two Fairy Tales
- The Glamorous Life
- The Glamorous Life
- Bang
- In Praise of Women
- A Weekend in the Country
- Liaisons
- The Miller's Son
Disc 3:- Night Waltz II/The Sun Sits Low
- Send in the Clowns
- Fear No More
- Someone in a Tree
- Please Hello
- I Never Do Anything Twice
- Pretty Women
- Epiphany
- A Little Priest
- Disco: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd
- Not a Day Goes By
- It's a Hit!
- Our Time
- Children and Art
- Move On
- Old Friends
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This three-CD set offers a generous overview of the career of Stephen Sondheim, Broadway's most important composer of the last quarter of the 20th century. It's compiled by Thomas Z. Shepard, the producer instrumental to many of Sondheim's most important cast recordings for RCA. The set's ambitious reach covers music Sondheim composed for theater, film, and television back to 1954 (but not including shows for which he is only credited with lyrics, most notably West Side Story and Gypsy), and since much of the older material was recorded for other labels or not recorded at all, RCA fills the gaps by plucking tracks from some excellent revues, then from the original cast recordings beginning with 1976's Pacific Overtures. Rarities include the alternate version of "The Glamorous Life" recorded for the 1978 film, and the 1979 disco rendition of "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd." The major shortcoming of this 1985 set is that it ends with 1984's Sunday in the Park with George. Surely an updated retrospective is in order? --David Horiuchi
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"A Collector's Sondheim" is a good introductory to the man who kept us singing show tunes for years. Three CDs include 54 songs, about 3.5 hours from Sondheim's work prior to 1984:
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Saturday Night
The Last Resorts
Evening Primrose
Anyone Can Whistle
Company
Follies
Stravinsky
A Little Night Music
The Frogs
Pacific Overture
Merrily We Roll Along
The Seven Percent Solution ... Read More
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Just wanted to add that this is one of my favorite Sondheim collections. The liner notes are well written by someone who obviously loves Sondheim. Plus just have to mention Pacific Overtures "Someone in a Tree". Took me awhile but once I listened closely a few times and followed the lyrics (included with CD, a must since his lyrics are so important) I just fell in love with the song. It is one of the best examples of great musical theater.
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This is the collection that first introduced me to Sondheim. This set includes excerpts from Sondheim's works starting with Forum but unfortunately ending just before Into the Woods, Assassins, Passion, and Dick Tracy. This cd includes a disco version of Sweeny Todd which always makes me giggle like a school girl and songs from several compliation cds and shows such as "Marry Me A Little" and "Side by Side by Sondheim" not to mention others. This cd has wonderful tracks and is a great way to introduce ... Read More
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A Collector's Sondheim is a mixed bag, containing a few surprising and effective pieces but, for the most part, consisting of material drawn from one or two revues that contained less than definitive performances. The best surprise is the previously unreleased track of Lee Remick's "There Won't Be Trumpets." She does a wonderful job with this number. Too bad she didn't have an opportunity to do it on Broadway. Her performance on the original cast album of "Anyone Can Whistle" is a delight, often ... Read More
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This recording is one of the better ones. The only bad thing is that some of the ter tracks, mainly on the third disc, are taken from the origianl boradway cast recording. Otherwise, the other songs are great. There is an added bonus on the last track of the third disc with Sondheim himself singing "Old Friends" with Angela Landsbury.
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