Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schonberg - Les Miserables - The Original French Concept Album
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Artist: Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel SchonbergEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1991-07-01
Music Label: Relativity
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Journ?e Est Finie
- 'Air de la Mis?re
- Beaux Cheveux Que Voil?
- J'Avais R?v? d'une Autre Vie
- Dites-Moi Ce Qui Se Passe
- Fantine et Monsieur Madeleine
- Mon Prince Est en Chemin
- Mam'zelle Crapaud
- Devise du Cabaretier
- Valjean Chez les Th?nardier
- Valse de la Fourberie
- Donnez, Donnez
- Rouge et Noir
- Amis de l'ABC
- Volont? du Peuple
- Cosette: Dans la Vie
- Marius: Dans la Vie
- Voil? le Soir Qui Tombe
- Coeur au Bonheur (Cosette et Marius)
- 'Un Vers l'Autre
- Faute ? Voltaire
- Nuit de l'Angoisse
- Demain
- Ce N'Est Rien
- 'Aube du 6 Juin
- Noir ou Blanc
- Mort de Gavroche
- Marius et Monsieur Gillenormand
- Mariage, "Soyez Heureux"
- 'Aveu de Jean Valjean
- Marchandage et R?v?lation
- Epilogue: La Lumi?re
Music reviews of Les Miserables - The Original French Concept Album
Music Review: The "real" Les Miz.
Rating: 5 Stars
Les Miserables the Original French Concept Album is a wonder to hear. For all of those people who love the English version of the musical play (really more pop-opera than anything else), this will be both a revelation and a disappointment. On the plus side, hearing Les Miz in French is to put it back in its proper language. It is, however, more than that:the words sound right in French, and that really increases ones sense of the emotions and action. Then there is the matter of the English translation that we are so familiar with. It is a great adaptation but it is still an adaptation. For example, what is lost in the English of "The Song of Angry Men" (A La Volonte du Peuple [For the Will of the People]) is the revolutionary language of Rousseau and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen which bring home the political nature of the text in a way that the English cannot.
On the minus side, there are some well-known numbers such as "Bring Him Home" which were added to the now standard English version that are missing here. It is a loss but one that is outweighed by the gains.
As one should expect the performances are all first rate. When I want to listen to Les Miz, this is the version I go to first.
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