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Tonight, tonight - listen to this tonight! CD recordings of musicals can be a tricky thing. More often than not you get a recording of the stage show, but all the energy of a packed house cant change the fact that you are missing a key part of the experience by not being able to see the sets, or the acting. But so many studio recordings of musicals are equally lacking, and it seems you have to give up a good portion of the shows energy and insatiable rhythm when you walk in to a recording studio. With this wonderful new Super Audio CD, Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony may have cracked this most Sphinxian of riddles. This recording is a live recording of the first-ever concert performance of the complete Broadway score, and much like the famous concert version of Les Miserables captures all the energy of a live performance without sacrificing the visual elements - because there arent really any visual elements to sacrifice! Instead we have a strong, passionate cast giving their all, led by two veterans of both stage and screen in Cheyenne Jackson (30 Rock, Glee, Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida) as Tony, and Alexandra Silber (Carousel, The Woman in White, Master Class) as Maria. This is the first-ever SACD recording of West Side Story and sounds phenomenal, and the accompanying100-page, hard-bound full colour book featuring a major essay, notes by Jaime Bernstein and Rita Moreno, interviews, a historical timeline, archival photographs, complete lyrics, and extensive rehearsal and performance photos will greatly increase your understanding and enjoyment of both this production and West Side Story more broadly. “So much of what Michael Tilson Thomas and his San Francisco Symphony Orchestra achieve here hits the spot; nowhere is casting wrong-headed...[Jackson] is idiomatic and engaged...Silber is lovely, too, with more vocal colour than the average show (soubrette) soprano...pretty damn good, and the first serious challenger to the...Broadway original.” Gramophone, June 2014 fishfinemusic.au/products/SFS0059
Posted on: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 00:00:36 +0000

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