Chess recordings - I HATE making choices
Chess recordings - I HATE making choices
#0Chess recordings - I HATE making choices
Posted: 7/23/05 at 2:22pm
Concept or the cast one?
Yes, I searched...-ish
Updated On: 7/23/05 at 02:22 PM
#1re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 2:24pmI've never heard the concept album, but I'm in love with the cast album. It remains one of my favorite recordings.
#2re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 2:26pm
London Concept (keeps playing on bww radio and I am enjoying it):
BWW Cast:
#3re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 2:32pmLondon concept
#4re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 3:02pmthere is a great recording (in english) of the Danish cast from a few years ago...it's the only entire recording of the show.
#5re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 3:33pmLondon Concept
#6re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 3:35pmI only own the London Concept, and it is ok. I am unsure of the other version.
RentBoy86
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/15/05
#7re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 3:42pmhavne't heard the London one, but i have the B'way one and I really like it. Its good music.
#8re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 4:02pmThe OBC has a more theatrical feel to it. Sounds more like a real show than the concept recording. Both are good though but I prefer the OBC with Judy Kuhn. Love her.
#9re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 4:03pmI shall now express my anger at the non-existence of a recording of the '03 benefit cast.
NCGuy
Broadway Star Joined: 4/8/04
#10re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 5:08pm
I've not heard the Danish recording, but if it's a choice between the OBC and the Concept, I'd go with the Concept album. The OBC has some great perfomances (esp. Judy Kuhn), but the London recording is absolutely thrilling (everything sounds so BIG...the orchestra, the voices) and Elaine Paige sings the hell out of Florence's songs (the part was written expressly for her).
Completely trivial sidenote: I remember reading an interview with Sarah Michelle Gellar back when Buffy the Vampire Slayer was still on the air, and the interviewer asked her for her five "Desert Island Discs"; she included the OBC recording of Chess on her list (not quite sure why I found that interesting, but I did).
#11re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 5:20pm
I 2nd that Emcee! I want Julia Murney!
I think I've decided though. I'm gonna go find the OBC recording. The London sounds so synthesized.
How are the arrangements on the OBC? I really loved how what I've heard from the benefit really brought out the rock in the score. Julia's "Nobody's Side." Thrilling.
JoMarch
Featured Actor Joined: 9/22/04
#12re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 5:33pm
I am always the odd one out whenever this question comes out. I detest the original concept because of Elaine Paige's performance. Screech, Shout, Screech, Shout. It's a wonder one man would want her Florence, let alone two. shudder. My votes goes for the OBC. You get a more desirable Florence and no other Anatoly can hold a candle to the divine David Carroll, may he and his beautiful voice R.I.P.
Updated On: 7/23/05 at 05:33 PM
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#13re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 5:38pm
I have listen to London, broadway, Danish, Swedish and concert recording.
Danish complete cast recording is difficult to find. There is a new version which lack 4 tracks.
If you have only two choice, then London. The Chess theme is good enough to superior to Broadway. And Tommy Korberg's Anatoly is the ultimate one.
#14re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 5:42pmAll of this is opinion, of course. It seems like we have diehards on both sides of the debate.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#15re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 5:44pmGet your hands on each and every one of them and make your own decision! They are all special in their own ways.
#18re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 5:56pmI prefer the performances on the OBC overall, though the version of One Night in Bangkok you hear on the radio all the time is from the concept album, so it tends to ring truer to me, perhaps because repetition has made it so familiar. In addition, the Arbiter song at the beginning ("from square one I'll be watching all 64...") is not on the OBC and I love it. I prefer David Caroll's Anatoly -- his "Anthem" is just about perfection. Hard choice, I know.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#20re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 7:25pmi have the beroadway one and its very good. the star, david carrol i believe, was best friends with my teacher, but sadly he passed away.
To Kill A Mockingbird
#21re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 7:34pmIt's all about the OBC..Judy Kuhn is leaps and bounds above that other woman.
#22re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 10:40pmThey are so very different that if you like the music you should own both.
#23re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/23/05 at 11:10pmI have four versions - London, Broadway, cocnert, Danish. I actually find myself listening to the Danish one most frequently, though it annoys me that the songs are in a weird order -- why is Pity the Child (one of my all time favorite songs) in the first act???
sanda
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/10/04
#24re: Chess recording
Posted: 7/24/05 at 11:36amThat is because Chess Danish is following the original London script closely. in original London version, Pity the Child is in the act1. This was changed later in broadway version.
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