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Free Music Notes for Jesus Christ Superstar (Original London Concept Recording)Free Music Review: Oh the memories... Hit: 4 StarsI bought this before I went to see the Broadway Musical, it was very good and brought back memories of my "younger" days listening to the Original Broadway Cast album. This is a great CD set but I like the Oringinal Brodway recording better but this is a good backup!
Free Music Review: A Simply Superlative Recording Hit: 5 StarsA shatteringly powerful audio recording, simply my favorite CD of all time. I listen to this at least once a year around Easter, and it never fails to move me. Ian Gillan, Murray Head and Yvonne Elliman are superb--telling the greatest story of all time with some of the most powerful music ever written and sung.
I'd give it 10 stars if I could.
Free Music Review: Buying it again Hit: 5 StarsThis album is part of my first coherent memory - hearing it broadcast on long-gone San Francisco station KKHI. I have owned it on Ampex reel-to-reel, LP, cassette and now CD. I still think this is the best thing Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice ever did, but maybe my early exposure to it made me biased. Ian Gillan's Jesus and Murray Head's Judas play off one another in most excellent fashion, while the incomparable Yvonne Elliman owns every song she sings. Beats the movie all hollow by my reckoning.
Free Music Review: Simply a great piece of music Hit: 5 StarsI first heard this shortly after it was first released in 1970, back when I was 7 years old, and it made a major impact on my life. I am now a music teacher with a Ph.D. in musicology, and I'm happy to say that this music still packs the same emotional punch it did 40 years ago. The recording is, IMO, much more emotionally resonant than the film soundtrack, partiularly due to the raw sound of the great backing band. The direct and simple recording of the band and vocals leaves the music free of dated technological artifacts (how much worse it could have sounded if had been produced in the '80s!). The music is also amazingly free of all the timeworn cliches that haunt (and for me, ruin) Andrew Lloyd Weber's later efforts. The original LPs sounded richer and punchier than the CD transfer, of course, but that's a small complaint. For those of you enjoy emotionally charged and dramatic music, this is one you'll want to become familiar with.
Free Music Review: The Music I Remember Hit: 5 StarsThis is the music I've remembered all these years and had to get this digital remaster. "Opinion" 101 reviews with 5-Stars; need more be said.
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