Les Miserables soundtrack album for release on 12/24/12

According to --

http://filmmusicreporter.com/2012/11/16/republic-records-to-release-les-miserables-soundtrack/

It is a one-disc album and will most likely include only the songs and key recitatives, not the complete libretto and score?

If you want more info or want to pre-order, please click on the link to Amazon found on the press release.

Wow. That sucks. I was really looking forward to a full, 2-disc cast recording in addition to a highlights CD, like Dreamgirls did.

You never know... we could have a 2-disc later on... wasn't the deluxe DREAMGIRLS soundtrack released after the film? I don't remember.

So weird to see "Les Miserables" and "soundtrack" together without feeling the need to say "it's a cast recording!"

Updated On: 11/16/12 at 07:00 PM

At the moment, from what I've seen of film, and to be fair I've only seen the trailers and other footage available, I can't say I'm that excited about listening to the soundtrack. It seems the way the film has been made that the songs may well work in action (vocals recorded live, some speak-singy, not all the classics belted or as 'strong' as we've come to know them, songs more 'character-driven') but taken out of that context and simply listened to, would they really stand up alone?

I really enjoy the movie of Sweeney Todd (is that something to be embarrassed about?!) but I've listened to the soundtrack maybe once, because as we know, some of the vocals and arrangements are questionable - but they work better in situ - but not as simply a recording.

Hopefully I'll be proved wrong, after all, wasn't it Cameron Macintosh that said he wanted the film to be definitive? Maybe the soundtrack will also be?

Updated On: 11/17/12 at 11:06 AM

Seems like the release date has been pushed back again to 12/26, the day after the film is being released.

Anyone else realize the irony of this and One Day More?

The soundtrack to Evita was first released as a highlights album and a 2 disc set was released some weeks later.

The film, from the previews have shown me, has cut a lot (if not all) of the musical dialogue moments. Instead, they've retained the songs that work more like an aside, soliloquy, etc. There may only be one CD's worth of music in the film.

In all honesty I think the "full" score for the film would be like this:
Prologue: Work Song ("Look Down")
Prologue: Jean Valjean's Soliloquy (What Have I Done?)
At the End of the Day
I Dreamed a Dream
Lovely Ladies
Who Am I
The Confrontation
The new song for Jean Valjean... my guess is it goes here?
Castle on a Cloud
Master of the House
Look Down (MAYBE)
Stars
Red and Black
Do You Hear the People Sing
In My Life
A Heart Full of Love
One Day More
On My Own
Little People (But the uber short version, if at all)
A Little Fall of Rain
Drink With Me
Bring Him Home
Dog Eat's Dog
Javert's Soliloquy
[I have a feeling Turning will be cut as you don't NEED it in the film]
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
Wedding Chorale/Beggars at the Feast
Valjean's Death/Do You Hear the People Sing? (Reprise)

When you condense the score down to just those songs, they'd easily fit on one disc.

Finally a recording of this show! My bootleg is worn out!

BUT THE PREVIEWS SHOWED HIM

http://www.amazon.com/Les-Mis%C3%A9rables-Highlights-Picture-Soundtrack/dp/B00A80SHFM/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=3HP9MR1PZP3KO&coliid=I277XN1702I6ZN

they put up the official album art. i like it. and this pretty much confirms that there will be a full cd later, as i says "highlights" on the cover......

I don't think you need Turning (unless they do a truncated version), Castle on Cloud will most likely be truncated, they can cut Grantaire's solo from Drink With Me, Little People (agree it can be cut down to a few seconds), Lovely Ladies will probably be truncated, Beggars at the Feast can be shortened, I could do without Javert's Soliloquy but it's Russell Crowe so they will keep that in the film. You didn't mention The Waltz of Treachery -- they are going to want to keep that number in so they can highlight HBC and SBC.