Candide Overture

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 11/18/07 at 7:36pm

Which do you think was the best recorded version?

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 11/18/07 at 8:48pm

I still think the original Broadway cast album is the best -- maybe because that's the one I grew up with. It's one of the greatest overtures ever.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 11/19/07 at 5:38am

Absolutely the original. Overseen by Bernstein a the height of his powers. WHAT a great opening. What fantastic performance. And as overtures go, nothing starts a show off more rousingly, except perhaps Gypsy but they're apples and oranges.

[Smaxie]

Posted: 11/19/07 at 7:27am

The Overture on the original is great, but the Scottish Opera version is just as good. And that recording goes on to contain a few of the more interesting alternate Candide songs like "Ringaroundarosy," "We Are Women," "Words, Words, Words," "Nothing More Than This," and the original "Venice Gavotte".