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| Posted by: Chazwaza 11:18 pm EDT 10/21/24 | |
| In reply to: I don't always go for the Original Cast Recordings when I need to hear this score...Your picks? - BudApp935 09:58 am EDT 10/21/24 | |
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| -I love the OBC with that cast, but Nine has never sounded better than on the London concert album starring Jonathan Pryce, Elaine Paige, Ann Crumb, Montevecchi and more. The orchestra, the choral work, it's phenomenal, as are the performances. It's also a complete recording, which the OBC is not. However I prefer the highlights album of that recording. I'm glad to own the complete 2 disc album, but for pure listening enjoyment there's a lot of sections I do not need to hear on repeat, and the highlights edition cuts it down perfectly to the songs and big sequences. -I afore the OBC of Chicago, but because I first heard the score from getting the Revival album, and saw the revival soon thereafter, I always go to the revival first. -My Fair Lady ... there is no better recording than the OLC (the gold cover, rather than the white OBC edition). The orchestrations are better... the overture sounds sooo much better too. And of course the difference between Julie's performance is notable, and I can't tell you why. Her "I Could Have Danced All Night" is a great example. It's just so much more rich, full and exciting on the OLC. She's like a brilliant student on the broadway recording and a stunning professional on the London. Not to mention the far better ending of that song in london. Carousel... I will never not listen to the stunning 1994 broadway revival album. It is the gold standard for me. People can complain all they want about how inconsistent or weak the vocal performance of Michael Hayden, or even Sally Murphy, may have been from night to night live in the theater... but on the recording not only do they sound great, their acting is absolutely a master class. The entire cast is amazing. The orchestrations are heavenly. It's just so good. -for The King and I, I prefer the film soundtrack to the OBC. I like the performances, the orchestrations, the sound... and that stunning Main Title is there as the overture, which I also prefer even though intellectually I know it's just the March of the Siamese Children, and I like the overture as well. (the Julie Andrews studio album is also quite good) -Cabaret... I listen to the OBC often, but just as much or more i listen to the 1998 Revival. I don't love everything about that version, but most things. And I love having "Mein Herr", "The Money Song" and especially "I Don't Care Much"... but I cannot give up the OBC performances, orchestrations, or "Telephone Song" the original "money Song", or especially "Why Should I Wake Up". -Gypsy... I almost always go with the Lansbury revival album. Merman's OBC gets in the often but not as much. -Anything Goes -- I always listen to the LuPone revival album. You won't for a moment for the Sutton revival album playing in my home/car/phone, but I find the LuPone much more worthwhile than any I'd heard before. However I'm not an Anything Goes nerd so I admit I never gave the earlier recordings much time. -Candide is always the OBC, but my favorite full version of the score is recorded on the Bernstein conducted concert from the 80s. -Company... my favorite recording of it is by far the OBC, but because it doesn't have "Marry Me A Little" and because I first heard the score off the Donmar 1995 Album, I often play that one too. -Also, while I don't choose it OVER the OBC, the OLC of Into the Woods holds equal place for me, and only gets chosen less because it's sadly not on Spotify, and i wore my CD of it out years ago. -For what it's worth, of the 2 cast albums made of Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, made very close to each other and with much of the same cast... I always prefer the *original* off-broadway recording with Dave Malloy as Pierre and Phillipa Soo as Natasha (I think the show lost some magical things when it moved and was reinvented for broadway, though I loved it there too). And while I do like "Dust and Ashes" as a song addition, i also miss "Natasha Lost". -Also... a word on Rocky Horror. As much as I love the movie, and am sure every other album has its fans, I only ever listen to the Roxy recording. It is by far the best the score has sounded or been performed/captured in my opinion, and that includes Tim Curry and Meatloaf who both give, I think, better performances in their songs on the Roxy vs the movie, and with better arrangements. I only bring Rocky Horror up because I think in this case the Movie Soundtrack is the one defaulted to as "the original" for most. |
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