Phantasia
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Performer: Julian Lloyd WebberComposer: Geoffrey Alexander
Composer: Andrew Lloyd Webber
Conductor: Simon Lee
Orchestra: London Orchestra
Performer: Sarah Chang
Edition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2005-07-19
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
- Phantasia, for violin, cello & orchestra (after Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera)
- The Woman in White Suite, for orchestra (arr. Laurence Roman)
Music reviews of Phantasia
Music Review: Phantastic!
Rating: 5 Stars
Phantasia is a large scale(35 minutes)Double Concerto for violin and cello based on Phantom of the Opera. Anyone who thinks this is merely a play-through of the tunes from the musical is in for a shock because this is a really well worked-through composition in its own right. Although Sarah Chang's playing lacks the vulnerability needed to portray Christine (she produces her usual 'steam-roller' performance), Julian Lloyd Webber once again shows true sensitivity towards his brother's music - revealing it in a touching new light.
Description of Phantasia
The arrangers of these Andrew Lloyd Webber works aspire to carry on the operatic tradition of Mozart, Verdi, and Wagner by transforming his vocal compositions into independent instrumental pieces. But the music's origin in theater and film is unmistakable, and the transitions between the tunes and sections are pretty bumpy. Phantasia combines material from both the stage and movie versions of The Phantom of the Opera in a double concerto which showcases a virtuoso violinist and cellist with brilliant cadenzas, runs, and soaring stratospheric flights. It also casts them as the play's protagonists in ardently passionate love duets. Although the cello part was written for the composer's brother, who plays it very well, Sarah Chang easily steals the show, especially in this technically and tonally stunning, all-out performance. The two soloists play with and off each other, projecting an infectious sense of sheer exuberant enjoyment. The Woman in White Suite conveys the spooky as well as the pastoral and passionate elements of Collins's gothic mystery story and features dances in various styles: straight and parodistic waltzes and tangos and jazzy rhythms. The composer's orchestrations are lush, veering between whispers and crashes, so keep a finger on the volume control. --Edith EislerGeneral CDs
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