Stephen Sondheim - A Little Night Music (1973 Original Broadway Cast)
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Artist: Stephen SondheimBrand: SONDHEIM,STEPHEN
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 1998-11-10
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Overture And Night Waltz
- Now/Later/Soon
- The Glamorous Life
- Remember?
- You Must Meet My Wife
- Liaisons
- In Praise Of Women
- Every Day A Little Death
- A Weekend In The Country
- Night Waltz I-The Sun Won't Set
- Night Waltz ll-The Sun Sits Low
- It Would Have Been Wonderful
- Perpetual Anticipation
- Send In The Clowns
- The Miller's Son
- Finale
- The Glamorous Life
Music reviews of A Little Night Music (1973 Original Broadway Cast)
Music Review: Sparkling, sophisticated, beautiful... but not my favorite
Rating: 4 Stars
For some reason, this isn't my favorite Sondheim score. I don't know why; there isn't a single clinker in this great collection of songs. There isn't a clinker in Sondheim's scores for other shows, either, but usually at least one or two songs aren't quite as memorable or don't have as much impact as the others. That isn't the case here; from the amusing/powerful/lovely "Now/Later/Soon" opening, to the sprightly "The Glamorous Life" (And I include the lovely rewritten film version of this song, which can be found as a bonus track on this Broadway Masterworks reissue of the original cast album), to the delighfully wicked "Remember?" to the cute "You Must Meet My Wife" to the humorous "Liasons" to the gripping "In Praise of Women" to the haungtingly cynical "Every Day a Little Death" to the exuberant "A Weekend In the Country" to the ironic "It Would have Been Wonderful" to "Send In the Clowns" to the delightful "Miller's Son," there's an abundence of memorable material here. Heck, you can even sing along with the Quintet in the overture! The music is some of Sondheim's most beautiful, and with the orchestrations of Jonathan Tunick, espeically in the Night Wlatzes, it becomes intoxicating. The lyrics are probably the most Cole-Porter sly and sophisticated ones he's written. And this cast is exceptional. Yes, Sondheim had to get around the fact that Glynis Johns was not a singer by giving her one solo and not much else to sing, but she is a wonderful actress, which certainly comes through in her regretful, yet bitter and sarcastic recording of "Send In the CLowns." No wonder she won the Tony for her inimiatable Desiree. Len Cariou is in fine form as Frederik, which certainly is a very different role from his better-known performance as the maniacal murderer Sweeney Todd! Hermoine Gingold is, as always, charming and loveable as Desiree's grande dame of a mother. Laurence Guittard is in great voice as Carl-Magnus, and Patricia Elliot, while having a somewhat harsh singing voice, is also an obviously very good actress. (She also won the Tony for her Charlotte) I wonder why no one else on this page has mentioned Victoria Mallory's gorgeous, creamy vocalizing as Anne (You really do have to admit she's endearing) or Mark Lambert's pained henrik, or D. Jamin-Bartlett's sly Petra, but I guess it's hard to remember everybody. In any case, kudoes to them, too. THe Quintet also has great voices, and these classically trained singers do quite well in a Broadway setting with lyrics that are probably more fun to sing than anything else they ever sang in concert halls. So, as great as this score and this recording is, why is this not my favorite Sondheim score? I don't know... "Sweenet Todd" (My favorite), "Sunday In the Park With George," and "Follies" all have their "weak" songs, but... they're just more enjoyable and interesting and moving to me, and "Sweeney Todd" really seems to be just about perfect. I just like those scores more. Oh, well...
Description of A Little Night Music (1973 Original Broadway Cast)
No Description Available.Genre: Original Cast Recordings
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 10-NOV-1998
Perhaps best known for the hit "Send In the Clowns," Stephen Sondheim's glamorous 3/4 waltz-time musical recalls enchanted evenings, white kidskin elbow gloves, and romance of the green-eyed bittersweet and bed-hopping sort. The ruse is that these folks lead "ordinary lives": the father is widowed, remarries, and briefly rekindles a sack-side former flame; the son flirts with the maid; the child bride is cuckolded yet loves and is loved by the son; and the maid has a romp with the butler. Adapted from a mid-'50s Ingmar Bergman film, the play debuted in America in the early '70s and is set in Sweden's turn-of-the-century well-to-do society. Now remastered and heard at the dawn of the millennium, Night Music is a dated yet charmingly affected period piece, abundant in its sweeping theatricality. As an unhappily chaste newlywed, Len Cariou, Broadway's glistening middle-aged dandy, is smashing as Fredrick. Glynis Johns (who always sounds congested and quite cosmopolitan) steals focus as the delightful actress Desiree. Night Music is a foolishly fanciful, twinkly score swathed in plucky harp, sweeping strings, and coolly elegant conversational tunes. --Paige La Grone
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