Andrew Lloyd Webber - Choral Album

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Phantom Of The Opera - Crouch End Festival Chours
Music Of The Night - Crouch End Festival Chours
Wishing You Were Somehow Here - Crouch End Festival Chours
Think Of Me - Crouch End Festival Chours
All I Ask Of You - Crouch End Festival Chours
Don't Cry For Me Argentina - Crouch End Festival Chours
Another Suitcase In Another Hall - Crouch End Festival Chours
Memory - Crouch End Festival Chours
Close Every Door - Crouch End Festival Chours
Tell Me On A Sunday - Crouch End Festival Chours
I Don't Know How To Love Him - Crouch End Festival Chours
Pie Jesu - Crouch End Festival Chours
Love Changes Everything - Crouch End Festival Chours
Next Time You Fall In Love - Crouch End Festival Chours
With One Look - Crouch End Festival Chours

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Album Details: Choral Album

Release Date:: 09/23/2003
Label:: Silva America
UPC:: 738572603625

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This album is what it says it is, a collection of recordings of songs from Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicals (plus "Pie Jesu" from his classical work Requiem) played in their original orchestrations by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and sung in newly created choral arrangements by the Crouch End Festival Chorus. Many of Lloyd Webber's most popular songs have been included, starting with five from +Phantom of the Opera, and including selections from +Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, +Jesus Christ Superstar, +Evita, +Tell Me on a Sunday, +Cats, +Starlight Express, +Aspects of Love, and +Sunset Boulevard. Of course, as songs for the musical stage, these compositions were conceived for individual voices, and sometimes the massed voices singing them here lend the lyrics an odd tone. This is especially true, for example, of "Another Suitcase in Another Hall," the lament of a discarded mistress, which takes on a different coloration when dozens of women, rather than just one, are singing the main part. To get around this effect, soloists are included, drawn from both the musical theater and opera, with Lesley Garrett leading the way on "Wishing You Were Somehow Here," "Phantom of the Opera," and "Memory"; Sharon Campbell on "Don't Cry for Me Argentina"; Tito Beltrán on "Pie Jesu," and Mary Carewe on "With One Look." Now that Lloyd Webber is in the House of Lords, perhaps the time has come to begin treating him as more a lightclassical composer rather than merely a writer of popular show music, or so this album would have us believe. It certainly has managed to make his music sound formal, but the music still works better on the Broadway and West End stages.

- William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide

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Andrew Lloyd Webber (b. 1948) is the most successful composer of musicals of his generation and also a breaker of molds for the type. His predecessors were for the most part American: New York-based songwriters steeped in Broadway tradition. Lloyd We...Full Andrew Lloyd Webber Biography

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