Les Miserables Original London Cast
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Performer: Victor SlaymarkPerformer: Brent Forbes
Performer: Paul Klegg
Performer: Peter Halling
Composer: Claude-Michel Schoenberg
Conductor: Martin Koch
Performer: Peter Boita
Performer: Christopher Lacey
Performer: Ian Laws
Performer: Brian Newman
Performer: Duncan Hollowood
Performer: Caroline Marwood
Performer: Tony McVey
Performer: Peter Washtell
Performer: David Hissey
Performer: Peter Wright
Performer: Roderick Tearle
Performer: Laurie Lewis
Performer: Norman Lederman
Performer: Richard Bureau
Edition: Music CD
Format: Cast Recording
CD Release Date: 2004-06-01
Music Label: Red Ink
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Prologue: Work Song
- Prologue: Valijean Arrested/Valijean Forgiven
- Prologue: What Have I Done?
- At The End Of The Day
- I Dreamed A Dream
- Lovely Ladies
- Who Am I?
- Fantine's Death: Come To Me
- Fantine's Death: Confrontation
- Castle On A Cloud
- Master Of The House
- Thenardier Waltz
- Stars
- Look Down
- Little People
- Red & Black
- Do You Hear The People Sing?
- Love Montage: I Saw Him Once/In My Life/A Heart Full Of Love
- Plumet Attack
- One Day More!
- On My Own
- The Attack
- A Little Fall Of Rain
- Drink With Me
- Bring Him Home
- Dog Eat Dog
- Soliloquy
- Turning
- Empty Chairs At Empty Tables
- Beggar At The Feast
- Finale
Music reviews of Les Miserables Original London Cast
Music Review: Comparison of Les Mis Soundtracks
Rating: 5 Stars
Before seeing Les Miserables in New York in June of 1987, I totally learned the pieces from the London soundtrack so I would be familiar with the music when I saw the play. Then I bought the Original Broadway Cast soundtrack at the theatre after I saw the play, so I am sentimental about both the recordings. However, I also have the 10th Anniversary DVD and it is so much better than either the London or the Broadway soundtracks. Of course, we have the visual to go along with the music but the orchestra is also much better than in either of the soundtracks. Even though all the scenery is not there, the actors are in costume and the audience gives the energy which the London and Broadway recordings do not have. I think both of those recordings were done in sound studios and of course they aren't going to be like the 10th Anniversary version. I have recently replaced my old Les Mis LP albums with CDs and I just love all three of the presentations. We really shouldn't compare the soundtracks with the 10th Anniversary concert. That should stand alone. Compare the two soundtracks only. Again, I love all three.
Description of Les Miserables Original London Cast
This recording captures the 1985 London cast that transformed an obscure French musical based on Victor Hugo's gargantuan novel of pre-Revolutionary France into a worldwide phenomenon throughout the late-'80s and '90s and became one of the best examples of the era's trend of blockbuster musical spectacles. Yes, Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schoenberg's score tends to recycle its themes, but the beautiful melodies and stirring anthems rarely fail to captivate and touch its audience. Colm Wilkinson is the heroic Valjean, Patti LuPone is the tragic Fantine, Michael Ball is the love-struck Marius, and Frances Ruffelle is the despondent Eponine, with Roger Allam (Javert), Alun Armstrong and Sue Jane Tanner (the Th?nardiers), Rebecca Caine (older Cosette), and David Burt (Enjolras) filling out the excellent cast. Fans will want to take note that this recording includes some material that was revised when the show crossed the pond to Broadway--"Little People" was lost altogether, while the "Love Montage" was significantly rewritten. Les Mis?rables sounds especially vivid in its 1998 remastering, and a synopsis and full lyrics are included. --David HoriuchiGeneral CDs
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