Original Studio Cast - Wuthering Heights [Original Studio Cast]
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Track List: Wuthering Heights [Original Studio Cast]
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- Prelude - Nic Raine
- Wuthering Heights - Nic Raine
- Cathy! - Nic Raine
- They Say He's A Gypsy - Nic Raine
- You Were My First Love - Nic Raine
- I See A Change In You - Nic Raine
- One Rules My Heart - Nic Raine
- I Have No Time For Them - Nic Raine
- He's Gone - Nic Raine
- Let Her Live/I Will Have Vengeance - Nic Raine
- The Gypsy Waltz - Nic Raine
- I Belong To The Earth - Nic Raine
- Coming Home To You - Nic Raine
- The Pleasure Of You Company - Nic Raine
- If Only - Nic Raine
- Heathcliff's Lament - Nic Raine
- Up Here With You - Nic Raine
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Album Details: Wuthering Heights [Original Studio Cast]
- Release Date:
- 07/08/2003
- Label:
- Silva America
- UPC:
- 738572351328
User Reviews: Wuthering Heights [Original Studio Cast]
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haunting music reaches great heights
, July 6, 2007Reviewer: Michael W - See all Michael W's reviews
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Pro Reviews: Wuthering Heights [Original Studio Cast]
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Mark Seaward, editor of Brontë Society Transactions, in his annotations to this album, notes that the novel ~Wuthering Heights has attracted a variety of adaptors who have transferred its story into plays, films, television shows, a ballet, and an opera. This version, presented as a studio-cast recording, Seaward claims, "marks the first time that the true spirit and drama of Emily Brontë's masterpiece has been captured in a musical." If so, you have to wonder whether ~Wuthering Heights is really a good subject for musical adaptation. It's hard to blame songwriter Bernard J. Taylor for trying. After all, he's just following on from Andrew Lloyd Webber, Claude-Michel Schönberg, and Frank Wildhorn in choosing a conveniently out-of-copyright 19th century novel and stringing together a series of sub-operatic Adult Contemporary ballads into a song score. That score, gamely sung by Dave Willetts as Heathcliff and Lesley Garrett as Cathy, with a few other characters having occasional numbers, is predictably pedestrian, both because there is little musical variety (it's just one overwrought belter after another) and because the lyrics are little more than a sequence of clichés. But even if it were better written and composed, would a musical version of ~Wuthering Heights work? The material is unremittingly bleak, as the protagonists' love is frustrated by little more than spite. On the page, Brontë is able to invest her story with atmosphere and internal conflict. But on record one is left with only the residue of that literary accomplishment, so that the musical is just a gloss, not an independent version. Seaward calls ~Wuthering Heights the book "an intensely dramatic work, charged with emotion," and he may be right, but if Taylor has really caught its "true spirit and drama" here, then he needn't have bothered with such a wasted effort. - William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide |
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One of the most popular performers in contemporary British opera, soprano Lesley Garrett was born in Yorkshire, England on April 10, 1955; after attending her first opera at age 15, she dedicated her life to singing, and was later awarded a scholarsh...Full Original Studio Cast Biography
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-- ©2008 All Media Guide, LLC
Pros: magnificent music
Cons: heathcliff should not be a tenor
This has one of the greatest scores ever written for the musical stage. It perfectly captures the mood, the characters and the atmosphere of the wind-swept moors of Emily Bronte's classic novel. There is a timeless beauty to songs like "I Belong to The Earth", "He's Gone" and other tracks. My only beef is that Heathcliff should not be a tenor role, although Dave willetts sings it well. I can see why this is the only stage adaptation endorsed by the Bronte Society.