Follies in Concert (1985 Live Performance) + Stavisky Film Score
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Composer: Stephen SondheimConductor: Stephen Sondheim
Conductor: Jacques Mercier
Conductor: Paul Gemignani
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic
Performer: Adolph Green
Performer: Andr? Gregory
Performer: Arthur Rubin
Performer: Barbara Cook
Performer: Betty Comden
Performer: Carol Burnett
Performer: Daisy Prince
Performer: Elaine Stritch
Performer: Erie Mills
Performer: Frank Kopyc
Performer: George Hearn
Performer: Howard McGillin
Performer: Jim Walton
Performer: Lee Remick
Performer: Licia Albanese
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Cast Recording, Live
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: RCA Victor Broadway
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Overture - New York Philharmonic
- Beautiful Girls - Andre Gregory, New York Philharmonic
- Don't Look at Me - Barbara Cook, Howard McGillin
- Waiting for the Girls Upstairs - Liz Callaway, George Hearn, Howard McGillin, Daisy Prince, Lee Remick, Jim Walton
- Rain on the Roof - Betty Comden, Adolph Green
- Ah Paree - Liliane Montevecchi
- Broadway Baby - Elaine Stritch
- Road You Didn't Take - George Hearn
- In Buddy's Eyes - Barbara Cook
- Who's That Woman? - Betty Comden, Barbara Cook, Liliane Montevecchi, , Lee Remick, Elaine Stritch,
- I'm Still Here - Carol Burnett
- Too Many Mornings - Barbara Cook, George Hearn
- Right Girl - Mandy Patinkin
- One More Kiss - Licia Albanese, Elaine Stritch
- Could I Leave You? - Lee Remick
- Love Land - Cast
- You're Gonna Love Tomorrow/Love Will See Us Through - Howard McGillin, Daisy Prince
- Buddy's Blues
- Losing My Mind
- The Story of Lucy and Jessie
- Live, Laugh, Love
- Finale: Waiting for the Girls Upstairs and Beautiful Girls (reprises)
- Stavisky: Theme from "Stavisky"
- Salon at the Claridge #1
- Arlette by Day
- Auto Show
- Easy Life
- Secret of Night
- Erna
- Distant Past
- Arlette by Night
- Airport at Biarritz
- Trotsky at Saint-Palais
- Montalvo at Biarritz
- Operetta
- Arlette and Stavisky
- Recent Past
- Salon at the Claridge #2
- Suite at the Claridge
- Old House
- Goodbye Arlette
- Hideout at Chamonix
- Erna Remembered
- The Future
- Women and Death
- Theme from "Stavisky"
- Hideout at Chamonix - New York Philharmonic
- Erna Remembered - New York Philharmonic
- Future - New York Philharmonic
- Women and Death - New York Philharmonic
- Theme from Stavisky - New York Philharmonic
Free Music Notes for Follies in Concert (1985 Live Performance) + Stavisky Film Score
Free Music Review: When "genius" becomes an understatement.
Hit: 5 Stars
If I had to limit myself to only two recorded performances as proof of Stephen Sondheim's genius, this would be one of them, with the original cast album of "A Little Night Music" being the other.
And this is with the admission that every recording of each of these shows over the years has value and has added to our appreciation of America's greatest living composer for the Broadway stage, Stephen Sondheim. And it is also with the understanding that these two shows are but the best representation of Sondheim's art.
So, there you ares, the two best recordings, respectively, of the two shows which I feel best represent that seemingly bottomless well of creation Mr. Sondheim seems to draw upon.
The recording in question here is not only technically without peer, it effuses the joy so often missing from the recorded form. It is a live recording, almost always a plus. And even though we can't actually see the artists as they perform (the documentary video does give us glimpses - far to miserly for my taste) we can hear the joy of performing that virtually explodes out of their performances. It is impossible to not react.
This CD is beguiling, bewitching, and yes, electrifying. It is a snapshot which freezes forever a most amazing event in New York City that the whole world is allowed to share in forever.
Lucky us!
How very, very wonderful.
Follies in Concert (1985 Live Performance) + Stavisky Film Score Poster
Since the original Broadway cast recording of Stephen Sondheim's Follies was a truncated affair that turned out to be both a disappointment and a disservice to a brilliant show with a brilliant cast, this 1985 concert performance from New York's Avery Fisher Hall set out to record the whole score, a set of pastiches of old songs and songwriters as performed by a cast of faded stars and the visions of their younger selves. The result was a star-studded roster backed by the New York Philharmonic led by Paul Gemignani, with principals Barbara Cook, Mandy Patinkin, Lee Remick, and George Hearn, supported by the likes of Carol Burnett, Liliane Montevecchi, and Liz Callaway. Even these stars can't quite match the original cast, and the results are somewhat uneven--from Cook's yearning "Losing My Mind" to Patinkin's you-love-it-or-you-hate-it schizophrenia in "Buddy's Blues." Other highlights include Elaine Stritch's wry "Broadway Baby," the two young couples' interplay in "You're Gonna Love Tomorrow/Love Will See Us Through," and the electrifying audience reactions to "Beautiful Girls" and "Who's That Woman?" (A documentary video was released, but unfortunately, it did not contain the complete show.) As a bonus, this two-CD set includes 45 minutes of instrumental music Sondheim composed for the 1974 French film Stavisky, including two melodies that had been cut from the original production of Follies. --David HoriuchiBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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