Take Flight (2007 London Cast Recording)
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Composer: David ShireComposer: Richard Maltby Jr.
Performer: Sally Ann Triplett
Performer: Ian Bartholomew
Performer: Michael Jibson
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2008-01-08
Music Label: P.S. CLASSICS
Soundtracks:
- Take Flight
- Equilibrium
- Sky!
- Like You, Say
- Throw It to the Wind
- Solo/Sorry, Mr. Lindbergh
- Lady in That Aeroplane
- Lady Lindy
- What Are We Doing Here?
- Earthbound
- Before the Dawn
- Back of the Line
- Before the Dawn (reprise)
- The Funniest Thing
- (The Farther You Go) Around the World/Papua
- The Prize/The Landing
- Finale
Music reviews of Take Flight (2007 London Cast Recording)
Music Review: Very worthwhile
Rating: 4 Stars
Actually enjoyable, the previous reviewers had some valid points about this, It does sound a second cousin of "Assassins", and at times Malby's words land with a thud..really over-declamatory lyrics..Too often the characters sing exactly what they feel with no room then for any subtext (unlike Sondheim..)
The music has the construction of a film score - motifs, and does have plenty of soaring moments..appropriate to the stratospheric content. They manage to express the joy and exhilaration of flight, the majesty of earth meeting sky, and infinite horizons. I was reminded of Jerry Goldsmith's gorgeous flight-music for the movie -The Blue Max, not in tone but mood. And there is a lovely tint of Americana in the songs.
Amelia Earhart has one truly gorgeous extract to sing-
"One dream
Of my own heart's design.
Something truly mine
My own invention
I must ride this to the sun,
Do what no one's ever done
Before,
Take heart,
Take wing,
Take flight.."
Considering the levels the musical has sunk to lately,Mamma Mia, Hairspray et al.. this is superior stuff.
Description of Take Flight (2007 London Cast Recording)
TAKE FLIGHT, the new musical by award-winning songwriting duo Richard Maltby, Jr. and David Shire (Starting Here, Starting Now and Closer Than Ever) and librettist John Weidman (Pacific Overtures, Assassins), soared in its 2007 world premiere at London?s Menier Chocolate Factory. Now it receives a first-class introduction to the world at large in this stunning new recording. TAKE FLIGHT weaves fact and fiction to tell the funny, moving and inspirational stories of the pioneers of aviation: the Wright Brothers, Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. But this complex musical is not simply a history of flying; it also illuminates relationships, the cost of fame, and the human need to take risks. In TAKE FLIGHT, all-too-human aviators dare to dream the universal dream of soaring above it all. Listeners will, too, in this lush and melodic original cast recording.Movie Scores CDs
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