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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Choral Album
Release Date: 2003 09 23
Running Time: 56:47
Label: Silva America
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This album is what it says it is, a collection of recordings of songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicals (plus "Pie Jesu" from his classical work Requiem) played in their original orchestrations by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and sung in newly created choral arrangements by the Crouch End Festival Chorus. Many of Lloyd Webber's most popular songs have been included, starting with five from +Phantom of the Opera, and including selections from +Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, +Jesus Christ Superstar, +Evita, +Tell Me on a Sunday, +Cats, +Starlight Express, +Aspects of Love, and +Sunset Boulevard. Of course, as songs for the musical stage, these compositions were conceived for individual voices, and sometimes the massed voices singing them here lend the lyrics an odd tone. This is especially true, for example, of "Another Suitcase in Another Hall," the lament of a discarded mistress, which takes on a different coloration when dozens of women, rather than just one, are singing the main part. To get around this effect, soloists are included, drawn from both the musical theater and opera, with Lesley Garrett leading the way on "Wishing You Were Somehow Here," "Phantom of the Opera," and "Memory"; Sharon Campbell on "Don't Cry for Me Argentina"; Tito Beltrán on "Pie Jesu," and Mary Carewe on "With One Look." Now that Lloyd Webber is in the House of Lords, perhaps the time has come to begin treating him as more a light-classical composer rather than merely a writer of popular show music, or so this album would have us believe. It certainly has managed to make his music sound formal, but the music still works better on the Broadway and West End stages. William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

Tracks:
TitleComposerTime
1Phantom of the Opera, musical~Phantom of the Opera [From Phantom of theHart, Lloyd Webber3:31
2Phantom of the Opera, musical~Music of the Night [From Phantom of the OLloyd Webber, Hart5:28
3Phantom of the Opera, musical~Wishing You Were Somehow Here [From PhantLloyd Webber, Hart3:27
4Phantom of the Opera, musical~Think of Me [From Phantom of the Opera]Lloyd Webber, Hart3:33
5Phantom of the Opera, musical~All I Ask of You [From Phantom of the OpeLloyd Webber, Hart4:19
6Evita, musical~Don't Cry for Me Argentina [From Evita]Lloyd Webber, Rice5:16
7Evita, musical~Another Suitcase in Another Hall [From Evita]Rice, Lloyd Webber3:05
8Cats, musical~Memory [From Cats]Nunn, Elliot, Lloyd Webber4:04
9Joseph & His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, musical~Close Every Door [FRice, Lloyd Webber3:41
10Tell Me on a Sunday, musical (original version)~Tell Me on a Sunday [FrLloyd Webber, Black3:35
11Jesus Christ Superstar, musical~I Don't Know How to Love Him [From JesuLloyd Webber, Rice3:32
12Requiem for soloists, chorus & orchestra~Pie Jesu [From Requiem]Lloyd Webber2:44
13Aspects of Love, musical~Love Changes Everything [From Aspects of Love]Lloyd Webber, Hart, Black3:06
14Starlight Express, musical~Next Time You Fall in Love [From Starlight ELloyd Webber, Black3:40
15Sunset Boulevard, musical~With One Look [From Sunset Boulevard]Hampton, Black, Lloyd Webber, Powers3:46







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