Sondheim Recordings
Sondheim Recordings
#0Sondheim Recordings
Posted: 1/22/05 at 2:18pm
I call myself a Sondheim-atic but in truth i've only heard a couple of his shows. So, if you will just assist me by telling me your favorite recordings for the following Sondheim show.
Pacific Overtures
Sweeny Todd
A Little nights Music
Follies
Candide
thank you!
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#1re: Sondheim Recordings
Posted: 1/22/05 at 2:25pm
The OBC for A Little Night Music is amaaazing and far superior to all other recordings, in my opinion.
And Candide is not Sondheim.
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
#2re: Sondheim Recordings
Posted: 1/22/05 at 2:27pmyes but it has some sondheim in it, plus it has a trillion different recordings
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#3re: Sondheim Recordings
Posted: 1/22/05 at 4:30pm
All versions of "Follies" are excellent, but stick to the original. I've never made it through Dorothy Collins doing "Losing My Mind" without breaking down. Too bad the above average 2001 revival was never recording. Blythe was quite good.
The current revival of "Pacific Overtures" will mostly likely be recorded and out soon, before the Tonys. I've yet to see it, but will be seeing the closing matinee a week from tomorrow.
Sondheim contributed to the 1997 revival of "Candide", and his stuff was used in the brilliant production recently shown on PBS. My advice is to buy every version you can get of it. Ditto, all versions of "Sweeney Todd".
It's not on your list, but buy both the NY and London recordings of "Passion". Donna Murphy, Jere Shea, and Marin Mazzie tear it up on the Broadway album, and Michael Ball and Maria Friedman are phenomenal in London.
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#4re: Sondheim Recordings
Posted: 1/22/05 at 4:30pm
Into the Woods
Assassins
the aforementioned Sweeney Todd
Saturday Night(the one with the two dancing on the cover is really good)
Passion
"The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long"-Edgar in King Lear
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