Elaine Paige - Essential Musicals
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Artist: Elaine PaigeEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-10-30
Music Label: Ume Imports
Soundtracks:
- Where Is Love (From "Oliver")
- Edelweiss (From "The Sound Of Music")
- Hopelessly Devoted To You (From "Grease)
- You Must Love Me (From "Evita")
- Bring Him Home (From "Les Miserables")
- Something's Coming (From "West Side Story")
- If I Loved You (From "Carousel")
- All I Ask Of You (From "Phantom Of The Opera")
- Someone Else's Story (From "Chess")
- I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair (From "South Pacific")
- Aquarius (From "Hair")
- Surrender (From "Sunset Boulevard")
- Broadway Baby (From "Follies")
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Free Music Review: Thanks for the negative reviews!
Hit: 5 Stars
To all the obviously difficult to please folks who wrote the negative reviews on this site, I have to say a big thank you. I'm sure the negative comments helped sway buyers away from a pricey import (it did me for a while) and made this a less-then-big seller. Less popular releases go for lower prices in the Amazon marketplace and thanks to you guys I was able to get a great deal on this (on Amazon, of course). Now I get to enjoy this thoroughly awesome album without having to miss lunch for a couple of days. To the critics I respond that you are right about one thing - the recording quality of the voice is a bit variable and not always on top (mostly in the first three tracks) - but the voice itself and the performance always are. It may not always be Elaine at full lung power in every cut (but there is plenty here), but she still delivers masterful and highly enjoyable performances of these classic showtunes. And as for the unconventional arrangemens, I find them a big part of the album's creative charm. I'm listening to it now as I write and I haven't been bored with it yet. These tunes have all been done a lot of times, and in a lot of ways. Taking a new twist on the presentation is not necessarily a bad thing; I myself enjoy hearing familiar songs that are getting a bit worn taken in new directions. Bring Him Home as a quiet, guitar-strumming, wistful song instead of a bombastic eleven o'clock number; If I Loved You with just the slightest modern doo-wop feel; Edelweiss as an etheral electronic trance-inducing chorale - what's wrong with that? They all work, and beautifully. And, they are fun. I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out Of My Hair as a big-band sister act tune is a standout. Elaine finalizing her Evita performance by doing the one Evita song she never got to sing, "You Must Love Me," is traditionally arranged - and nothing less than exquisite. Something's Coming and Broadway Baby are also great fun (Can you be a true Elaine fan and resist that final belt?). Get this one where the deals are before more good reviews show up and the price goes up.
Essential Musicals Poster
2006 anthology of recording by the British singer/actress famous for her West End starring roles in "Evita" (originally portraying Eva Peron, the first to have a hit single with "Don't Cry For Me Argentina") , "Cats" (originally portraying Grizelda, the first to have a hit with "Memory"), "Chess" and more. This album provides a showcase of the 13 most popular songs from her discography as voted by the listeners to her Radio 2 Sunday show.Broadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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